Goomba lurking in Barlow Tyrie outdoor furniture

After seeing similar boring outdoor furniture posing in ads with all Seven Seas, your brain goes from seeing this:

To seeing Super Mario Bros. Goombas:

Right?  Not to mention the Donald Trump wig he’s got on there:

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Tropical bird kitchenware ~ the toucan can opener and the parakeet garlic press

There were a couple of little kitchen items that I stumbled upon this week totally separately.  The first is this toucan can opener found in Metropolitan Home (March 2008 Page 8):

The second is a parakeet garlic press.

Both are good for the people who want nothing and both are made by a company called Animal House.  [...]

Beach beds ~ no, for real this time

Finally, a bed maker has put their bed where the beach is:
That’s WeatherMaster outdoor furniture from the Spinnaker Collection by Laneventure.  Other bed makers, like Hastens, Simmons, and Tempur-Pedic, just want you to think that your bed is a medium to paradise.
But, in the end, can you really imagine lugging one of these down to [...]

Corelle dinnerware ~ the harshest paradisiacal conditions

This ad has nothing to do with the product:

Yes, it’s Corelle glass dinnerware.  And it looks like it was discarded into the great floating trash abyss in the Pacific.  And does anybody really think of this type of underwater coral/fish scene as "the harshest conditions"?
This one came from the January/February issue of Elle Decor page [...]

The Tackiest Escapist Toilet Seats

Like the ocean, your toilet contains water.  Therefore, your toilet seat should celebrate its beach-like position on the edge of a tiny abyss.
Here are our nominees for the tackiest escapist toilet seats in the world:

1. What better way to start the images than with this little starfish number?
 

2. This is like the honeymoon of toilet [...]

Tempur-Pedic ~ rainforest ready

If you’re looking to outfit your rainforest tent with a mattress, you may want to choose Tempur-Pedic with all of its waterproofing and its ability to repel pooling rainwater by expelling the frequent puddles of the tropics up and off the bed.  I don’t know about you, but I can’t sleep next to waterfalls.  I [...]

Mysterious door appears on California beach

The world stands mesmerized by a stainless steel door with ocean-sapphire glass that appeared mysteriously on a beach in California this morning. Local surf legend Bobby Miller was the first to see the door. He revealed his discovery to two of his fellow surfers who contacted local authorities.
They stood in awe at what [...]

My neighbor just threw her washing machine into her pool from the diving platform ~ in her heels

I was sitting outside on the balcony yesterday overlooking our pool, when suddenly my incredibly strong and bronze neighbor appeared in my peripheral vision. It was hard to miss her because she was wearing a striking yellow dress, heels, and those freaking blindingly reflective super hero bracelets.
Imagine my surprise when I also just [...]

LG’s new HDTV ~ kitchen paradise found?

Imagine our un-surprise when we noticed that LG used a tropical island as the image on their publicity shots for their new $3,999 refrigerator embedded with a 15" high definition television:

Here’s the close up:

And inside?

Yup, lemons, limes, pineapple orange juice, fruit bowls are all front and center.   Paradise indeed.  Consider this product officially categorized in [...]

Grohe ~ German for ‘waterfall’

In looking around the Metropolis magazine website for the Dubai article that I mentioned in the last post, I noticed a Flash animated waterfall ad for Grohe sprinkled around various pages:

The ad is similar to the one that I posted on Hawaii marketing itself, hold the Adam and Eve models.  It’s a little obvious with [...]

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