Lounge List #55378008: Things from the past that Vince (the Sham-WOW guy) would have sold:

[SacredCow]

To get it started I submit:



The Presto Hot Dogger.

I don't know how we ended up with one of these things, but Mom made hot dogs with it once. If you like your hot dogs bent, crispy on the ends and cold in the middle, with a not-so-subtle hint of burned plastic and electrical smoke.... Then, this puppy is for YOU!!!!

[geardaddy]

1. The Rigiscan

http://www.indiana.edu/~rcapub/v20n2/25c.html

[SacredCow]

2. The script writes itself.....

:rofl:

[Lost in CT]

3. We had one to... I won it at my dads company picnic.

I made poor mom cook hot dogs for months in my big prize. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[SacredCow]

5. Months?

Yours must have been FAR better constructed than ours...

:rofl:

[Lost in CT]

6. I believe it had an "accident" similar to that of the lamp

in a Christmas Story

[SacredCow]

8. I'm fairly certain that ours self destructed during the first use...

I seem to recall dad (an electrical engineer) dismantling the thing and wondering who at the CSPC was driving a new Cadillac for passing it...

[SoxFan]

4. "You're gonna love my clap"

[SoxFan]

7. Vince's great-great-granddad

[Bertha Venation]

9. OMG We had one of those!!

:rofl:

But it beat my mother's boiled hot dogs hands down. I detest boiled hot dogs.

[SacredCow]

10. The color of boiled hot dogs is enough to repulse me....

Unless they're smothered in chili, I can't stomach them.

[Fire Walk With Me]

11. The Flowbee. It would partially explain his hair.

Actually, it might explain his hair. And the course of the rest of his life...

[SacredCow]

12. I have another likely candidate....

Ad excerpt: "Hey, good lookin!!! I'll be back to hock some other useless crap later!!!"

[HopeHoops]

13. The Ronco Bass-O-Matic

[SacredCow]

14. Wow! That's teriffic bass!!! n/t

[Rosie1223]

15. Sea Monkeys

apparently you can still buy them:

http://www.sea-monkeys.com/

[SacredCow]

16. Vince is in negotiations....

He doesn't want to be upstaged by the brine shrimp, understandably enough....

[SacredCow]

17. Surely, he'd be promoting K-Tel records, no?

[MrCoffee]

18. The Wankel rotary engine..."Watch my Wankel spin!"

[SacredCow]

19. The Chrysler Cordoba...

Because you KNOW the Corinthians make fine leather...

[geardaddy]

20. I thought only rich Corinthians

made fine leather. ;)

[ashling]

21. The egg scrambler .... I called it the egg jabber

you just jab this thing into the egg and it automatically scrambles your egg ... you followin me camera guy?

[SacredCow]

23. I remember those....

VERY useful item, as a fork and a bowl is just TOO labor-intensive....

:eyes:

[flvegan]

22. The Badazzler. "Why have a boring denim jacket?"

"Who doesn't want to dress like Bon Jovi?"

[SacredCow]

24. How about DELL computers?

As irritating as he is, he's no match for:

[Bertha Venation]

25. kicking because we need more

:kick:

[TreasonousBastard]

26. Same thing-- used it once, but...

although it made lousy hot dogs, silly kid that I was, I thought it might do better with Italian sweet sausages.

It didn't.

(But the firemen thought it was hilarious.)

[Lucian]

27. The Wunder Boner!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ79pCJBcJ8