Quiz: What shiny new toy are these people lining up at the mall for?

[taterguy]

Post your best guesses here

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Free gas?

[taterguy]

2. This toy doesn't use gas

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. Cheese

Or a five-pound bag of rice.

[taterguy]

4. Incorrect

[LeftyMom]

5. Electric lawn mower. nt

[taterguy]

9. No

[Critters2]

6. Wheat? nt

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. A chance to fight to the death to see who gets food this summer?

[auntAgonist]

8. apple iphone?

[dorktv]

10. cordless power grills

[taterguy]

12. How many grills have cords?

[dorktv]

14. I have no idea...I just thought it would be something men would want.

[taterguy]

16. Actually I would like a cordless grill starter

The one we currently use requires running an extension cord out to the grill

[dorktv]

17. ah so I was not totally off.

[Doug.Goodall]

11. Iron Man Figure

[lost-in-nj]

13. That stupid Guitar Hero

or at least a Wii


lost

nothing is that important

unless it improves your quality of life




:hi:




lost

[ghostsofgiants]

33. Guitar Hero and Wii are both fun enough to improve quality of life a little.

:P

[LeftyMom]

15. They're lined up to buy 200 lbs of rationed rice at Costco.

Then they'll get home and wonder what they needed a lifetime supply of rice for.

Am I right?

[taterguy]

18. No, you're not right

And since when is rice a shiny new toy?

[LeftyMom]

22. When you sew it up in scrap cloth and make beanbags.

Can't imagine what else all those lemmings lined up at Costco think they'll do with all of it before it gets weevils or moths or something. :shrug:

[flvegan]

19. GTA IV.

They all look like hardcore gamers.

[Deja Q]

24. I'll take Simcity or "Sins of a Solar Empire" any day

:D

[Turbineguy]

20. A baseball bat

to beat the shit out of Rush Limbaugh with.

[taterguy]

21. It is something that can do harm to others

[Initech]

23. One of these?

[taterguy]

25. And now the answer . . .

A chance to gawk at this, the Navy's newest ship, er, submarine

Photo was taken 13 hours ago. It's been a long day.

[dorktv]

26. neat

[taterguy]

27. Actually it was pretty cool

[Tuesday Afternoon]

42. submarine races !!

:D

[taterguy]

43. If those actually existed that boat would win

Its official speed is "classified" but I'm pretty sure it can haul ass.

It better be able to haul ass since you're looking at a couple billion tax dollars in the pic I posted.

[hobbit709]

28. If you've seen one pigboat, you've seen them all.

[quip]

29. USA! USA!

:patriot:

[TZ]

30. Up periscope!

Right?:rofl:

[quip]

31. Give me a break! It can't stay up ALL the time!

:rofl:

[TZ]

32. btw

I invented a new poll option JUST for you...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7705536

[Pierre.Suave]

36. is that a Virginia class?

if so, it is the first pic I have seen of one?

or is it the latest, and last, of the Seawolf class?

[taterguy]

39. Yes, it's a Virginia Class, the USS North Carolina

[Pierre.Suave]

41. Cool, thanks for the pic.

[qnr]

38. That looks like some Coasties in a Rigid-Hull-Inflatable-Boat getting ready

to ram it.... inter-service rivalry and all that. Ut-oh, now I'm having fun imagining a boat with inflatable bladders hitting steel at high speed....

[snailly]

34. Stay Off My Lawns signs that emit ear piercing sounds that only

teenagers can hear?

[NMDemDist2]

35. a job. n/t

[qnr]

37. The new "STFU-BillyMays-O-Matic"? n/t

[Richard Steele]

40. Minimum-wage jobs? nm