Tackiest Souvenir Ever Contest. You can try, suckers, but you will never top this.

A lady that I work with likes to travel, and she always makes a point to bring me back the tackiest souvenir she can find. Over the years, I've received some pretty heinous stuff, much of it Elvis related, but this year she went to Punta Cana and, well, let's just say she will never top this gem:

You'll note that it's half clear/half blue acrylic, with two fake fish swimming in the toe.

There's also a pink pen with the words 'Rep. Dominicana' on it. The pen itself isn't that bad, until you note that the shoe is also a pen holder. Now, doesn't this look great together? I keep it proudly displayed on my desk.


So, why don't you show me your tacky stuff, then we'll take a vote.

I can't beat that. :thumbsup:

:D :hi: :pals:

I don't have mine anymore but found a picture of one similar.
Mine had the face made of black fabric and on the pencil "Jamaica, Mon" written in sharpie marker


I try to get a friend the ugliest t-shirt I can find.

:D :thumbsup:

:D

:D :headbang:

I would so rock that shoe :headbang:

Picture an 8-10" tall wood carved replica of the male anatomy, complete with a little green grass skirt, and the state, Hawaii, carved into the base.

My Dil bought that for my daughter when she and my son went on their honeymoon. We got a BadAss coffee Co. of Maui cup, thank goodness.

:shrug: :D

You got the 'MIL Appropriate' souvenir, didn't you?

:rofl: I can still see the look on my daughter's face when she opened it. It's still here, 12 yrs later, packed away. I plan on reminding them of it in the future. :evilgrin:


Thank goodness for Mil appropriate souvenirs.

:rofl: or :cry:. At the very least it rates a :wow:.

:wow: The look of shock on my daughter's face was priceless.

It's only been in recent years, after finding it packed away that I found it amusing...especially with the thought that we could give it back to her at some point.

:D

You can even push buttons on the back to make her punch her poms out in front of her. My kids stole it from me the night I got it so they could play with it. LOL

I won't call it tacky, though, because it's fun and was given to me out of love. :)

It could take a sharp turn into tacky if you could somehow work Elvis into the mix.
:D

should be taken into account. :P

and said you can pick up some incredibly tacky stuff in Lourdes - all related to the shrine there. Unfortunately, I have no pictures to show.

mikey_the_rat

I saw it in Arizona, and I thought "How tacky!"

scorpions embedded in plastic from the Thing? are mandatory when people visit me.

:shrug:

Open wide, fangs out, with a pin and pin back attached to the throat so you could pin it to your jacket. And you could turn it around and look at the dessicated layers of the inside of his neck.

So, it's a "devotional candle" that's tacky by design.

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19971207&slug=2576526

A Poke In The Nose -- Laura ''Lava'' Lampe Can't Help It; Her Irreverence Oozes In Products That Sell Well
By Linda Keene

LAURA "LAVA" LAMPE HAS finally outdone herself. It wasn't enough to tweak the Catholic religion with a line of devotional candles that include the "Prayer for Positive Cash Flow," "Protection from Bad Hairdressers" and "Our Lady of Junk Food." Now, Lampe has taken on an entire subculture by producing "Twister Ridge," the trailer-park setting for paper dolls.

Encased in a cut-out mobile home, the book features Bubba and Nadine, a gum-snapping, gun-toting pair of newlyweds who will charm your white socks off. They're trailer trash to the core: Nadine's motto is "High heels! High hair! Hi there!," while Bubba hosts a road-kill barbecue.

a small dead shark floating in pale blue fluid in a glass jar. Ahhh, Florida.

I keep telling her she should have a website.

Southern souvenir shops used to sell these years ago.
Little white box labeled "Alabama pecans".
Inside were two tiny plastic bed pans.
Get it?
Pe-cans?
Pee cans?
Of course we call them puh-KAHNS.
D-U-M-B and yankee to boot.
;-)

I can't even remember who gave it to us or from what state it came from, but it was a scrawny looking yellow plastic dog heisting his leg, aiming right into a shot glass.

I've got both.