Top Ten Gift Ideas for the Wild Wacky Online Shopper

Things You Can't Find in Your Local Mall and Wouldn't Even Know to Look for

Lori Borys
This list a merely a sampling of what is available to you on the wonderfully wide world of the Internet. Why give the same old sweater when you can give one of these treats?

10. Shocking Lie Detector - Everyone knows the old adage look me in the eye and I'll know if you're telling the truth. For those of us who just don't know, no matter how hard we try, there's the Shocking Lie Detector. The home version of the lie detector test used on all of the top talk shows at a fraction of the cost. Because there are levels of lying there is a light display to help the novice reader through this complicated process. An out and out lie is punished immediately with a shock. Why go to expensive therapists and pay for treatments at a lab when you can start your own behavior modifications at home today?

9. Pimp My Cubicle Kit - You've seen all the shows, Overhaulin', Pimp My Ride, Monster House, Extreme Makeover, every part of your life has been remade except your drab gray office cubicle. When you spend 8 hours a day there shouldn't this be the focus of your renovations? Fret no longer the Pimp My Cubicle Kit is here! Personalize your workspace with the blinging mouse pad, gold dollar sign paperweight, gold plated pushpins, and of course, what kit would be complete without it, the leopard print fringe! You'll be styling and profiling in your new digs in no time. Be the first in your office to pimp your space.

8. Vincent Van Gogh Action Figure - Superman, Batman, The Hulk, in recent years they have all had movies and action figures released but they are so super natural it's difficult for kids to look up to them and base their aspirations and inspirations on them. Thankfully there is an alternative to these unrealistic super heroes. Enter the Vincent Van Gogh action figure! A real man with real problems still creating and earning a living. Van Gogh provides realistic inspiration for today's kids. Like all true super heroes who change appearance and clothing the Van Gogh action figure follows suit. Equipped with two heads your child can enjoy Vincent before the incident with the two-eared head and post incident minus one ear but with bandage! I can't wait for the movie…Go Vincent go! With a stroke of luck you will be able to get your Van Gogh action figure before they sell out.

7. Octodog - I've seen it at least a thousand times, kids refusing to eat their hot dogs because they just don't look like seafood. Thank God someone has finally come up with a solution, Octodog to the rescue! Load in your hot dog and this ingenious device will turn it into a simulated octopus! Can you believe it? You and I know there is nothing more appetizing than a pink octopus on your plate. How did we ever get along without Octodog? I have no idea.

6. Papa Berts Sippin' Seat - Have trouble getting your buzz on with the high price of beer at your local sporting event? Worry no longer Papa Berts Sippin' Seat is for you. With a bladder containing 3 cups of your choice beverage while you'll be one step ahead of those poor saps with solid foam seat cushions. Drink and sit in comfort. By the time the liquid is gone you are too, so it won't matter that there isn't much cushion left in your Sippin' Seat. Where do you get one? Why http://amazon.com of course.

5. Marshmallow Shooter or Blaster - If Nerf doesn't do it for you because you expend too much energy and have to stop for snack breaks interrupting the carnage, relax, there's help for you now. The Marshmallow Shooter and Marshmallow Blaster have your need for firepower and food consumption covered! That's right they shoot those soft white sugar treats, marshmallows, instead of the tasteless non-nutritional foam stuff Nerf guns use. Eat on the run, your ammo or your enemy's. The fun can last for hours without interruption now. All the mayhem plus the convenience of buying nutritious ammunition at the grocery store!

4. Zoltar The Fortune Teller - Remember the movie Big with Tom Hanks? He goes to the boardwalk and finds the Zoltar machine and it makes him big and in the end it turns him back into a kid? Well you too can have the 6-½ foot tall turban wearing handlebar mustached icon in your home at your disposal for fortunes anytime day or night. No more clandestine trips to the boardwalk. Who wouldn't want one? There are no guarantees it will make you grow up or bring back your lost youth but think of the fun you can have trying.

3. Hotseat Flightsim Gaming Chassis - Oh boy this is the ultimate 'I gotta have it' for those gaming men in our lives. Complete with chair, swing away game station table, surround sound, enhanced sub woofer sound, and LCD monitor support this is the way to play. Wives don't worry about where to keep it, like all that exercise equipment this lovely piece of techno excess folds up neatly for storage and TRANSPORT!!!!!! Move over poker there's a new game in town and it comes with it's own seat and swing out desk!

2. iPod Dock Toilet Paper Holder -
If you just can't bear to be separated from your music. If you think it would help things flow better if you had a sound track. This is for you. Multi purpose toilet paper and iPod holder! If only it had a built in air freshener that went off when you removed the iPod it would be a triple threat!

1. Kopi Luwak Coffee -
Every wonder how much the most expensive coffee in the world costs? About $160.00 a pound and it isn't available at Starbucks! Kopi Luwac is coffee (Kopi) from Indonesia that has been plucked at its absolute ripest and richest moment by a Luwac (a relative of the mongoose) and is "processed" as food with indigestible seeds would be. Yep that's right; corn, tomato seeds and if you're a Luwac coffee beans. I can't fathom who was out in the woods seeing this animal excrete a log of coffee beans and thought I'll pick that up and make a pot of coffee with it but someone did and now you can buy it on line! Aren't you totally excited? Log on to get yours today.

Published by Lori Borys

Married, mother of two boys with a BA in English Literature.  View profile

  • The home version of shock therapy exists.
  • Even the bathroom is becoming high tech these days.
  • Somewhere someone is drinking very expensive cat poop.
Kopi Luwak has a rich chocolate like flavor and no aftertaste due to being partially fermented by passing through the digestive system of a civet cat.

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  • Linda M. McCloud8/31/2007

    Definitely some different ideas. Thanks.

  • Chris Berry11/20/2006

    I bought one of those lie detector seats, ZZZZZAP! OUCH!, and it worked really good, ZZZZZZAPP! DAMMIT!, Then I hooked up one of those hot seats, BZZZZT! HEY!, to one of those drinking seats, FZZZZATT! BZZZT! VVVVT! YOW!, I use it to warm up my Kopi Luwak coffee, FRRZZT! ZZZAPP! YIE!, and I shoot marshmallows into the cup with my shooter, BZZZRRRAPP! FZZZT! FZZZT! AYE YAI YAI! Now I'm stuck in my cubicle eating Octi Dogs, BZZZILCH! ZAPPP! FRZZT! YIKES! I guess I should have consulted Voltar, (A Personal Friend of Mine), FUZZZAPP! BZZZERP! YOWEE! before I bought it. The Ipod paper really helps muffle the pain though, VZZITT! VZZITT! CUT IT OUT! I highly recommend all of these items to everyone, FZZZERPZZZ! BZZZT! VUZZZZZ! ZZZZAPPPP!, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart! ZZZZZZZAAAAAPPPP! OW! OW! OW!

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