QUESTIONABLE eBAY ITEM
Mr. Gene Weingarten sent in this unusual eBay item. I think it may be too tasteless to put on the blog, but before I make a final decision I thought I should check with you folks. If you do not wish to expose your eyeballs to a questionable eBay item, please do not click on the link. Thank you.
unfit for office? it's a friggin' potato chip!
Posted by: Andy | January 18, 2006 at 08:02 AM
tasteless? any comments i might make about "taste" right now, THAT would be "tasteless."
Posted by: rickh | January 18, 2006 at 08:04 AM
i'm probably going to hell for even thinking this, but disturbing as this auction is, at least there is no implication that this resembles any religious figures.
Posted by: crossgirl | January 18, 2006 at 08:05 AM
Well, I've been wanting to go on a diet and this helps eliminate chips.
Posted by: georgiagirl | January 18, 2006 at 08:16 AM
Lays?
Posted by: Blue Meanie | January 18, 2006 at 08:21 AM
This auction should be done in conjunction with the infamous Cheeto penis. Or is that penis Cheeto?
Posted by: Bumble | January 18, 2006 at 08:26 AM
Has anyone told goldenpalace.com yet? I'm sure they'll be willing to spend an obscene amount of money on this (which is what the seller is hoping I'm sure).
Posted by: KOW | January 18, 2006 at 08:28 AM
Does the Washington Post have no "Intenet Use" policy for their company computers, or is Gene exempt?
Posted by: Capt. Pike | January 18, 2006 at 08:29 AM
I think Gene should get it as a friend for his oosik.
Posted by: Reddsuss | January 18, 2006 at 08:35 AM
Dave, what was that goofy face you made on the today show this morning?
Posted by: joe | January 18, 2006 at 08:39 AM
No, definitely do NOT post this item.
Posted by: Bucket | January 18, 2006 at 08:45 AM
"Crunch" ...
(Betcha can't eat just one ...)
Posted by: U.O | January 18, 2006 at 08:45 AM
Only a man would notice that a potato chip looked like a woman's whoopsy-daisy.
Elizabeth
Posted by: elizabeth8 | January 18, 2006 at 08:54 AM
I think this guy has a better deal going. Plus, the CD includes a song called Boogerama.
Posted by: John | January 18, 2006 at 08:56 AM
Sometimes a potato chip is just a potato chip.
Posted by: [email protected] | January 18, 2006 at 08:57 AM
Dave, your potatoe chip post is no more tasteless that sucking up to Katie Couric in a desparate attempt to be as famous as Donald Trump. On a serious note, good luck with your new book!
Posted by: Mike | January 18, 2006 at 09:00 AM
John you forgot to turn off your bold.
Posted by: wolfie | January 18, 2006 at 09:03 AM
Dave, this item IS tasteless, below the usual low standards of this blog, surpassed in tastelessness only by Mike's comment regarding you "sucking" Katie.
OF COURSE it should be posted here! It's PERFECT for this blog, just the kind of thing we have come to expect and anticipate!
Thanks!!
PS, I hope I don't get outbid by goldenpalace again!
Posted by: Mad Soapboxer | January 18, 2006 at 09:15 AM
Oops, thanks for fixing that, wolfie.
Posted by: John | January 18, 2006 at 09:15 AM
You're welcome John *curtsies*
Posted by: wolfie | January 18, 2006 at 09:19 AM
C'mon Elizabeth... "whoopsie-daisy" is SOO elementary school! Can't ya at least call it a "cootchie"
Posted by: CoastRaven | January 18, 2006 at 09:22 AM
**looks at url, decides not to click**
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | January 18, 2006 at 09:23 AM
People put LOTS of these on ebay (trust me)
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | January 18, 2006 at 09:25 AM
Looks like Lays is stealing plotlines from Everybody Loves Raymond...
Posted by: tropichunt.com guy™ | January 18, 2006 at 09:42 AM
mmmm... salty!
Posted by: insomniac | January 18, 2006 at 09:42 AM
You know, until I looked at the picture (briefly as I am at work and they have rules and what not, I never realized that the aforementioned oopsie daisie is shaped remarkably similar to a jellyfish. Could explain all the jellyfish sightings recently. Most scientists couldn't identify an oopsie daisy properly being as they have so little contact with them.
All of the current scientists or science people on the blog excepted of course.
Posted by: Somewhere North | January 18, 2006 at 09:44 AM
I thought it looked more like this
But it would make a nice compliment to one of these if you had one
Posted by: russell | January 18, 2006 at 09:45 AM
No bids, huh? Go figure.
Posted by: artchick | January 18, 2006 at 09:57 AM
*snickering at Mahatma Jane*
Posted by: Leetie | January 18, 2006 at 10:11 AM
ahhh rick.... it doesn't take a rocket scientist... did anyone mention chips and dip yet?
Posted by: judi | January 18, 2006 at 10:23 AM
KOW,
After they paid $25,000 for William Shatner's kidney stone, I imagine anything's possible.Hell, if I'd known the damn things were so valuable, I'd have saved my own!
Posted by: Spiny Norman | January 18, 2006 at 10:37 AM
it's a potato chip, for cryin' out loud. Somebody has a dirty mind.
Posted by: ceeg22 | January 18, 2006 at 10:39 AM
Where's the dip?
Posted by: OldNerdGuy | January 18, 2006 at 10:41 AM
Perfect lil' dip scooper, innut?
Posted by: Spiny Norman | January 18, 2006 at 10:48 AM
Looks more like an orchid to me...but then orchids look remarkably like...
...yeah I guess I see it.
Posted by: Bill | January 18, 2006 at 11:17 AM
So far, the votes tabulated (except for Florida where they are still rigging them) it qualifies as either a chip, an oosie daisie, a jellyfish or an orchid.
And still no bidders. Unbelievable.
Posted by: Somewhere North | January 18, 2006 at 11:38 AM
i'm not going there. oosic, potato chip... where is this blog going. snork.
Posted by: queensbee | January 18, 2006 at 11:45 AM
Has anyone noticed that the beginning of MEDIUM looks a lot likes this potato chip? In fact, its even got color?
Is this to entice us to go get a bag of chips to watch the show?
I thought too much tv spoiled your sex life?
Was this chip made to help us all turn off the tv and eat chips? I'm not awake yet.
Yes, somewhere, someone has a collection of various artifacts that resemble this wonderful reminder of motherhood. After all, Washington DC has the Washtington monument. We need a building honoring the potato chips there. I'm writing my congressmen. This is MUCH more important than the Supreme Court saying that Doctors can mercifully kill us all.
Posted by: Novanglus | January 18, 2006 at 11:47 AM
I think you have to know what you're looking for to see that in a potato chip. However, if you can make some money off of it, more power to you!
Posted by: Kafaleni | January 18, 2006 at 11:52 AM
"Somebody has a dirty mind."
You rang?
Posted by: Mad Soapboxer | January 18, 2006 at 12:20 PM
Looks like a "whoopsie-daisy" that has shriveled and dried from lack of use.
And the bastards never even paid me for modeling for them!
Posted by: punky brewster | January 18, 2006 at 12:29 PM
at least it's not sour cream and onion.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 18, 2006 at 01:08 PM
(daggone it! a perfectly good ebay thread and I'm too busy to look for stuff . . . )
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | January 18, 2006 at 01:30 PM
...a potato chip...?
Posted by: daisymae | January 18, 2006 at 02:46 PM
Punky, I don't think I want to make a comment on your "lack of use" situation... oh wait, by saying I'm not going to comment, that *IS* a comment, isn't it?
Never mind. Forget I said anything.
Posted by: Mad Soapboxer | January 18, 2006 at 04:05 PM
I wonder why the guy who put it up for auction is willing to part with the closest he'll get to the real thing.
Posted by: A comment | January 18, 2006 at 04:30 PM
My boyfriend and I made this at a sushi restaurant one night, but we didn't have the foresight to try to sell it on Ebay. It did get us a free dessert, though.
Fun with ginger.
Posted by: Sara | January 18, 2006 at 04:40 PM
Actually, it appears that the seller is female, not a guy as one might suspect.
And Sara, your ginger-crafted whoopsy daisy is outstanding. Kudos to you.
Posted by: Scott | January 18, 2006 at 04:44 PM
At least it wasn't man boobies....anything but man boobies.
Posted by: Kat | January 19, 2006 at 09:30 AM
Punkster, I think I can help you with y
Posted by: Poop Dogg | January 19, 2006 at 10:42 AM
MMMMMM potato chips. I love salty potato chips.
Posted by: Tim | January 19, 2006 at 10:43 AM
Too bad Georgia O'Keefe is dead, she coulda painted it.
Posted by: fantomefan | January 19, 2006 at 05:45 PM
damn Sara, I'd eat that!
Posted by: rick the ick | January 17, 2010 at 02:11 PM