Sunday, December 18, 2011

NOT a featured gift

This item was, I swear, featured in a catalog we got last week.





Let's face it: if your TV looks like that, I think I'd replace it before I'd get a swivel stand.

For that matter, it might be time to replace the VCR, too.
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19 comments:

  1. FizzyDecember 18, 2011 at 9:13 AM

    My parents still have a VCR!

    Then again, they didn't get a microwave till 2005. And my mother still doesn't know how to set up the voicemail on her cellphone.

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  2. TexDecember 18, 2011 at 9:48 AM

    http://www.walmart.com/ip/XL-Double-Swivel-Board-Black-Woodgrain/14301678?findingMethod=rr

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  3. bryce.schroederDecember 18, 2011 at 10:43 AM

    Interesting. Even the typeface looks old... what catalog is this? They must really not be aggressive about updating it :)

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  4. Officer CynicalDecember 18, 2011 at 10:59 AM

    It "stores" the VCR. Well, then I have a house full of furniture that "stores" most of the dogs' toys, plus pretty much anything else I can't find when I need it

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  5. AnonymousDecember 18, 2011 at 11:15 AM

    Just think of how much more scope this gives you for adjusting the antenna.

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  6. SeaSideRobinDecember 18, 2011 at 11:34 AM

    My grandmother had one of those swivel stands... 20 years ago.

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  7. meenerDecember 18, 2011 at 11:41 AM

    Looks like someone discovered that they forgot to place that ad back in 1983, and was afraid they would get in trouble, so here it is in this week's flyer!

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  8. AnonymousDecember 18, 2011 at 1:01 PM

    Somebody, somewhere must have said: "one of these days these things will sell again like hotcakes! Mark my words!"

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  9. Cthulhu SashimiDecember 18, 2011 at 1:48 PM

    Now all they have to do is convince all the hipsters in Williamsburg and Wicker Park and Silver Lake that cabinet TVs and VCRs are cool because they're ironically retro. After getting them all to drink PBR, this should be a snap.

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  10. AnonymousDecember 18, 2011 at 2:11 PM

    Hey no kidding, these things fit on top of the wood-grained multi-purpose table in the efficiency apartment dining room/living room/kitchen/study. So convenient when there are two students sharing rent, too.

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  11. AnonymousDecember 18, 2011 at 3:30 PM

    Are you sure the catalog wasn't mailed to you in 1980?

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  12. KatieDecember 18, 2011 at 3:44 PM

    Harriet Carter!!! *Best gifts ever.*

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  13. AnonymousDecember 18, 2011 at 5:05 PM

    "The swivel mechanism is made with our new 'wheel' technology!!!"

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  14. gloria pDecember 18, 2011 at 6:08 PM

    Welcome to the 70s. I think the catalog was buried in the bottom of a mailbag in a storage bin for 40 years.

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  15. AnonymousDecember 18, 2011 at 8:18 PM

    I tell my grandkids every year we gather for the holidays how we used to sit around and watch moving pictures on these box-like things, and no kidding, touching on the screen there did absolutely nothing but leave big fat fingerprints! Them sure was the days!

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  16. AnonymousDecember 18, 2011 at 9:38 PM

    But where do you put your ColecoVision?

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  17. PackerDecember 19, 2011 at 10:19 AM

    Tell me again about the old days when you had a VCR

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  18. The Bus DriverDecember 20, 2011 at 11:53 PM

    whats a VCR?

    LOL....

    All kidding aside, one of the first gadgets i bought as a teenager and one i saved money for at the time was a vcr that was close to 60 bucks........ yep.. they were THAT expensive.. it was around 1996 or so lol

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  19. ShalomDecember 22, 2011 at 10:11 PM

    @Bus Driver:

    Ditto, except that it was 1986, and it was $266 then (and that was the *cheapest* one on the market, an Emerson 2-head with wired remote).

    Sixty bucks, expensive? A ten-pack of blank tapes cost that much back in the day.

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So wadda you think?