{"id":16367,"date":"2009-12-08T22:59:02","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T05:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=16367"},"modified":"2009-12-08T22:59:02","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T05:59:02","slug":"gifts-good-and-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/08\/gifts-good-and-bad.html","title":{"rendered":"Gifts, good and bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

While hanging out at the hospital today, Margie and I did some serious plowing through catalogs for our annual Christmas shopping.<\/p>\n

There is much stuff that is so “meh,” and much stuff that is so beautiful.\u00a0 But some items of note (no links, alas, though I suspect you could track them down if you were so inclined):<\/p>\n

REALLY STUPID GIFTS:<\/p>\n

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  1. “Baster Tongs” — They’re tongs to use BBQing.\u00a0 One of them has some dangly bits of plastic on the back side of the tong blade, which ostensibly can be used as a basting brush.\u00a0 My take on it is that they will end up dripping baste everywhere as you use them as tongs.<\/li>\n
  2. “Pot Protectors” — Okay, so felt pads and the like between fine china to keep one item from scratching another sounds like a good idea.\u00a0 But special pads to keep pots and pans in your pots-and-pans cupboard from scratching each other when you stack them … sounds kind of anal.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    REALLY COOL GIFTS:<\/p>\n

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    1. “An Alarm Clock, Sir” — A very cool English decorative alarm clock, with either different versions for men or women or different decorative trim you can apply.\u00a0 The alarm consists of the voice of Stephen Fry, doing Jeeves, clearing his throat, expressing regret for awakening Sir or Madam (depending on the setting on the clock), and making some apologetic witty bon mot.\u00a0 With enough phrases to last for 6 months before repeating.\u00a0 Jeez — utterly impractical and quite expensive, but delightful in concept.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      While hanging out at the hospital today, Margie and I did some serious plowing through catalogs for our annual Christmas shopping. There is much stuff that is so “meh,” and much stuff that is so beautiful.\u00a0 But some items of note (no links, alas, though I suspect you could track them down if you were … Continue reading “Gifts, good and bad”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6573,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/17\/hammer_and_tong.html","url_meta":{"origin":16367,"position":0},"title":"Hammer and tongs","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 17-Aug-04 7:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"The siding people have moved onto both sides of the house, and toward the back, meaning that the whole family room\/breakfast room has a sort of submarine-under-depth-charge-attack ambience from all...","rel":"","context":"In "Home Improvement"","block_context":{"text":"Home Improvement","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/home-improvement"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129846,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/15\/the-barbecue-on-the-corner.html","url_meta":{"origin":16367,"position":1},"title":"The Barbecue on the Corner","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 15-Feb-16 1:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There's a large, vacant, triangular lot at the corner of Colorado and Dry Creek, that we drive by whenever we head over to the high school. 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