Archive for 2007, click title to see full post

A groucho with a gun

December 28th, 2007 @ 4:19 pm by zymetric

Last night a security guard was robbed at the San Diego Zoo. No one was injured.
According to SignOnSanDiego.com:

The robber was described as a white or Latino man in his early 20s, about 5-foot-9 and 170 pounds, wearing jeans, a black Afro wig and Groucho Marx costume glasses and nose, the sergeant said.
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2007 Wrap-up: blog

December 27th, 2007 @ 5:59 pm by zymetric

This is the first in a series of “year in review” posts we are planning. First, for our 3 loyal readers, the blog run down.

26, number of entries written so far this year:
That is an average of 1 fresh post every 14 days or so. We are 2 posts shy of our 2006 [...]

5 Last minute coupons

December 12th, 2007 @ 5:00 pm by zymetric

10% off of all in stock items sitewide
OR:
15% off of all in stock shocking toys & games15% off of all in stock food pranks15% off of all in stock exploding pranks15% off of all in stock fart & poop crap

Restrictions: All coupons below expire Friday, 12/14/07. Only valid for new orders, placed after [...]

Dried Rhino Poop

December 12th, 2007 @ 12:49 pm by zymetric

Talk about the white elephant gift for this season (or should that be the brown?). This truly is the perfect idea for someone who has everything.
From the eBay auction:
Great gag gift, made from dried elephant poop which has been sealed in poly… Add your own engraving plate to personalize the award.

Exploding pens on the tele

December 12th, 2007 @ 12:41 pm by zymetric

Anyone catch the exploding pen on last night’s episode of ‘London Ink’?. Think ‘Miami Ink’ (or L.A. Ink), but w/ British accents. Well, we are temporarily out of stock on those (go figure), so there weren’t any orders placed for that – not that it would be anything like when they re-air the [...]

Holiday Shipping Cutoffs

November 29th, 2007 @ 3:41 pm by zymetric

We are posting our 07′ holiday cutoffs below (standard delivery). Remember that we do offer expedited shipping, including next day & second day air. Read our full shipping policies.

 

Brave fans hit it out of the park

November 28th, 2007 @ 12:44 pm by zymetric

 
It’s official. The Richmond Braves, a AAA minor team for the Atlanta Braves, have successfully entered the Guinness World Records, thus unseating Gorham Maine, for the most amount of people simultaneously wearing groucho glasses at the same time (2,513). See our previous groucho entries. The fact that we are only about an [...]

Cyber Monday, from a niche e-commerce perspective

November 27th, 2007 @ 3:17 pm by zymetric

First, the good news: Our server only crashed 3x yesterday, which is pleasing, considering the problems all the big guys from the likes of the Discovery store to Sears to Yahoo! have been experiencing (ahem) since Friday. Despite all of the more recent improvements we have made to the architecture of our site [...]

An open letter to Woot groucho fans

November 26th, 2007 @ 12:35 pm by zymetric

Dear disappointed wooters,
We have over 2,100 economy groucho glasses on hand ready to ship, starting @ just $0.67 pair. Use code “woot” and we will throw in a free puff cigar with each pair purchased.

More product placement on ‘The Office’

November 7th, 2007 @ 5:11 pm by zymetric

 
If you caught last weeks episode of “The Office”, then you may have seen the silly string, homemade stinkbombs, and fake moustaches that Dwight, Michael, and Jim used in their ploy to get back Stanley from a competing paper firm. This isn’t the first time our products have been featured on that show, or [...]