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Blog Guy, I know you’re a serious foodie, and I have a kitchen appliance question.
Sure. Williams-Sonoma, about $200.00.
Excuse me? I didn’t even ask the question yet.
It doesn’t matter. Just go to their Website and you’ll find an expensive electrical appliance for every job you have in the kitchen.
I don’t care if it’s their Deluxe Slow Cooker for $279.95, the Belgian Waffle Maker for $199.95 or the Smart Grill and Griddle, 299.95.
Now, what’s your specific need?
How can I dry my coconuts for cooking?
They probably make an Electric Home Coconut Dryer, I’m guessing maybe $269.95.
Gosh, that sounds a bit steep. Can I also use that to dry my geckos?
Are you insane? No, you’ll need the Electric Home Gecko Dryer, $249.95.
Look, I can’t afford all that. Excuse me, I have to get back to drying my fresh batch of dung cakes now.
Dung cakes? Why dry them the old-fashioned way when there’s an Electric Dung Cake Dryer for just 199.95?
Really? That’s very tempting. Let me dry off my hands and make a note.
Stop! Throw away that towel and order the Electric Super Hand Dryer, $229.95…
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Top: A worker dries coconuts on a roadside at the coastal region of Chellanam, India, January 7, 2011. REUTERS/Sivaram V
Left: Dead geckos as seen before a drying process at Siwalan Tegal village in Probolinggo, Indonesia, December 17, 2009. REUTERS/Sigit Pamungkas
Right: A woman makes dung cakes on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan, January 19, 2011. The cakes are dried and used as fuel or in building mud houses. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza
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You know… I shouldnt have read this while having lunch…
Fortunately, I have a strong stomach….
And Lakeland here is quite comparable to Williams Sonoma..
49.95 for a Tangerine dish???? You are having a giraffe!!!
For some odd reason when I look at that first picture, I keep thinking of the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Clip clop, clip clop, clip clop.
@Nosmo: LOL!
The geckos should have had Gieco and driven out of town.
@Shra: Are you wondering what the Poo-Patty houses smell like in the rain, too?
I thought that, too, Nosmo. There are enough for a crusade!
The third pic also reminds me of “The Holy Grail”:
First Peasant: Must be a king.
Second Peasant: Why?
First Peasant: He doesn’t have s**t all over him.
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Peasant: Oh, there’s nice lovely filth over here!
@Nosmo, what is the average airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Hmmm…the people drying the geckos must have their policies with a competing insurance company.
I thought you might want to see this, BG… looks like Lamar lost it! http://www.freep.com/article/20110124/NE WS05/101240382/1007/news05/4-officers-sh ot-gunman-dead-in-horrifying-attack
Thanks, but I believe that’s a different Lamar.
I believe Williams-Sonoma makes a dung patty maker for under $200. Dung patties are delicious served with gecko pate, also available at W-S in the gourmet food section for $115.95.
Dung patties and gecko pate, huh? That’s the sound of this blog hitting rock bottom…
Actually, Spin, their new catalog offers a Home Electric Haiku-Writer, $289.95….
Spin, you paid $189.95 for the blog-reading stand? That’s ironic. I paid only $149.95 for their appliance that WRITES blogs! Then again, maybe I should have gone for the more expensive model.
Is William Sonoma diversifying into non-kitchen gadgets?
Can I get an Instant-Taser-Recharger?
Basler, did W-S give you a discount on your blog-writer in return for a blog mention?
No. Their gecko dryers are selling just fine without my help.
Bottom? No… I’m pretty sure that this site has only begun to probe the depths.
Dried coconuts=food; dried dung=burning and building, but one does one do with dried gecko?