13 Responses to “So. Very. Sad.”

1. #1 |  Mark S. |  February 18th, 2010 at 2:29 pm

   What a great idea! Now I won’t have to go to all those darn weddings.

2. #2 |  ClubMedSux |  February 18th, 2010 at 2:44 pm

   “Flowers AGAIN?”

   [cut to thirty seconds later]

   “Order now and we’ll throw in free wooden flowers!”

   Well, if they’re WOODEN…

3. #3 |  Guido |  February 18th, 2010 at 2:45 pm

   Thread hijack warning:

   This made the front page of CNN. Finally some national exposure.
   http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/18/new.york.doodle.arrest/index.html?hpt=C1

4. #4 |  David |  February 18th, 2010 at 2:46 pm

   I saw these last week and wondered why the arms look like they were torn from Mickey Mouse?

5. #5 |  flukebucket |  February 18th, 2010 at 2:57 pm

   Reckon why they didn’t call it the reach-around?

6. #6 |  hamburglar007 |  February 18th, 2010 at 3:33 pm

   #4,

   That was the first thing I thought of when I saw the picture.

7. #7 |  A.G. Pym |  February 18th, 2010 at 3:37 pm

   Immediately made me think of:

   “I built a hugging machine . . . and sometimes my Dad borrowed it.”

8. #8 |  Z |  February 18th, 2010 at 4:12 pm

   Yay! all the pretense of affection without that messy give and take of actual human interaction!

9. #9 |  Trish |  February 18th, 2010 at 4:47 pm

   It looks like a Carrot Top prop.

10. #10 |  Chris Berez |  February 18th, 2010 at 5:21 pm

    I think that if someone were to ever send you a Hug-E-Gram, you should be legally allowed to beat them to death with a claw hammer.

11. #11 |  anarch |  February 18th, 2010 at 6:46 pm

    A girdle called a hugegram says “You’re too huge.”

    Not nice.

12. #12 |  ben g |  February 19th, 2010 at 8:58 am

    This HAS to be an import from Japan, the country that invented the lap pillow: http://www.japantrendshop.com/hizamakura-lap-pillow-p-64.html

13. #13 |  Sean L. |  February 19th, 2010 at 7:13 pm

    When I see the URL, I think of HUGEgram, which I certainly wouldn’t want delivered to my back door.

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