Jar of Rocks

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Nine bucks, for a jar of rocks... At the thrift store? Thrift stores are famous for crazy-low prices, usually. How much do rocks normally cost? I have no idea, but this seems very high to me. They are a nice minty-green color, but I'm going to pass on the $9 rocks.

I know what A La Mode means, it's my favorite flavor of Apple Pie, and we used to get them at McDonald's all the time (you had to order an apple pie and a plain sundae.) Oh, I see it, it's on the bottom in smaller text. It says Apple Pie and Vanilla. Is this educational? Or confusing?

Perfect movie tie-in for Oreo cookies. You feel all the emotions eating them. Sadness knowing they are high calorie, Anger about counting calories, Disgust for yourself knowing about all those calories, Nervous and Fear about what to do with all those calories, and finally... Joy, at the amazing awesome taste of the Oreos.

Can you tell the difference between classic 1980's Chips Ahoy packaging? The package hasn't changed much, has it?

I took this picture to illustrate to a friend about the odd sign for what appears to be some kind of Bicycle Lab. When I got my camera out, to take the CYCLAB pic, some bike guy zoomed past and snuck into the picture. Is that a Cyclintist? Eeeek, I was trying to combine Cycle with Scientist, did it work?

Sometimes the old-me inside gets a funny thought like, if I was a time traveler from the past, and went forward to this time, things like "SLAY" and "IYKNK" would seem very bizarre. I would ask "What does IYKNK mean?" and they say "If You Know, You Know" and I'd say "I don't know! That's why I'm asking!!"

Ouch. WWE bought out the WCW brand years ago, but the rivalry was so epic, that it somehow seems wrong to see an Eric Bischoff figure, the heart of WCW, in a WWE package.

Another funny laugh, I might have taken a similar picture of a different figure already, but Mirror Master here is all kinds of hilarious exagerrations combined. First, his um... bulge in his pants is ridicolous, he has a sneer, like he knows you're checking out his package, and seriously? His hand gesture? Next to his um... package? What were they thinking?

I like checking out the cartoon mascots on the discount brand cereals. Dragons and Squirrels!

Busted! You can't own color combinations! No need to pay the NFL for these plushies that in no way match existing team colors. 

How can something be "The Official" anything of "Hip Hop"? It sounds like something they can't claim.

Hahahahaha! "Hidden vegetables"? How about you raise your children properly, and give them clear vegetables they can see. I get that you want your kids to eat vegetables, but hiding them seems like the wrong lesson.

This is kind of a buzzy-phrase, a twist on some sort of message about having patience. But it feels a little off. I think I want to know more about this process I'm supposed to trust.

I had some melting-chocolate stuff left over from a pretzel kit, and tried them out on the Chips Ahoy. There was no way this wouldn't be amazing, and of course, it was. The one tub of chocolate covered a bunch of cookies! Don't worry, we didn't eat them all at once.

Um.... The MTV Video Music Awards, on CBS? Isn't MTV it's own channel? I'm so confused by this.

Hi, little buddy! Here's a fun story. Every once-in-a-while, we get little harmless moth things in the shower, and we spotted a little worm thing that we thought was a pre-moth caterpillar. Rather than wash it down the drain, we scooped it up into a jar. and just left it alone, with a tiny amount of water. After two weeks, we discovered... it did turn into the moth!

You can see the tiny worm thing on the bottom of the jar. Here we are letting it go outside. There was no cocoon thing, it went from worm to moth right away. This picture was from last summer, so don't worry, it wasn't cold outside for it.

Bye, pal! We were worried about you after like, a whole week of just having a worm in water. But you did fine. So you know, if we see the moths in the shower, we normally just jar them and take them outside anyway. They are super docile and friendly, as far as bugs go.

Buffalo Wild Wings lunch! Blazin is the hottest sauce they got, and it's a very respectable level of hot-ness. Be careful. Certainly pro-level, especially impressive for a chain restaurant to have such a hot sauce option.

I was going to make a funny comment about finding a good deal is like sniping. But maybe that joke is hiding from me and I can't see it. Also worthwhile to note this is a throwback to original G.I.Joe figures, where this is not any particular character, just a generic Sniper.

Ollie's gets Playmobil sets? Did Playmobil skip regular stores? They went straight to Ollie's?

Wow. Give it up for McDonald's. They had TV commercials claiming they had $8 Big Mac Combos. I didn't believe it, but it was true! That promo is over now, but it was super nice to re-live prices from a few years ago when things were a ton less expensive than now.

I thought it was cool that there was so many logically-matching vehicles for the Toy Story characters. They could even do more. Like the Pig on the train.

You can look closely and see Cobra Commander's eyes in his combat helmet! Normally he wears that shiny silver mask you can't see through at all.

How about this? It's a POP! Figure that probably looks a lot better out of the box. Cute.

Um.... I think these people need a dictionary. Little tiny ice cubes don't count as "crushed" do they? This should just say "little tiny ice cube tray" because that's what it is. No crushing required.

Lego made a new Pirates of the Caribbean ship. Which one? Why, Captain Jack Sparrow's Ship! That's the name of the set. Did they not think people would know the name The Black Pearl? It's not like they named the movie after it. The very first movie. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of The Black Pearl.

There's not much merch for the game Genshin Impact, so when I see it, it's cool. That t-shirt is for Nahida, the Archon of Wisdom. The story in the game does a brilliant job at making the smart character like.... really SMART. Often movies and shows have characters that are supposed to be smart, but they do dumb things. It's hard to explain properly, but Nahida has done smart stuff you'd never even think of. 

There's not much Pikmin merch either. Notice the Japanese text all over this.

Wow. It's a blind-box vending machine. They don't even need a store anymore to sell these! Check out the Spy Family mini plushies!

Yeah, these boxes ain't cheap! $20. Yikes. I like that the secret rare one is Anya Forger in her funny ingognito outfit. That's the one I'd want, yet I'd have to spend so many $20 to get it, probably.

You'd think this was a fun re-color of a Star Wars character, to make a witch for Halloween. But there are actual witches already IN Star Wars!

You might not notice this right away, but this new box for new Star Wars figures, of "old" Star Wars figures (did that make sense?) has been purposefully scratched-at, to appear like the box is old and worn.

Hilarious to look at these two packages next to each other, and the real, but kinda-fictional, T-Rex looks a ton more menacing than the completely-fictional DRAGON.

This reminded me of the types of things I'd see at the Toy Fair, that I haven't been to in a long time. Too bad magnets are so expensive. They must be, everything with magnets seems expensive.

I might have posted pictures of the cool Hot Wheels Racerverse cars before. I took this pic to send it to a friend when I saw some new ones were out. These ride right on regular Hot Wheels tracks, if you have them. So they are like having figures race on them instead of just cars.

Herbie! It's been forever since I've seen those movies about the living car. I wonder how well they hold up? Is there a movie where the car hangs out in the middle of nowhere, New Jersey?