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I just ordered 3 cans of Hello Kitty (apparently low-salt) Spam...... Maybe to eat, probably as gifts, maybe just to collect. As a limited edition item, apparently gone viral and hard to find in store shelves, they are already being resold on Ebay and Amazon for outrageous markups.

You are not gonna tell us you dont know who/what Hello Kitty is......

Apparently Spam is aiming for infinite flavor varietys. Apparently my own humble tasebuds are not fully aligned with human culinary proclivities.

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Gotta' love the Wave Motion Gun....... Anybody else watched the cartoon as a kid?

Oh? We actually did stuff like this. And reflecting on it now, i'm almost surprised that I made it to out of my teens. (Many of my friends did not!) As an aside, I did try many regular unicycles, but just could never do it. ( My aunt could, though) Aren't the modern motorized ones self balancing?

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If you think about it, so were the skateboards many of us once rode. One rock and.... your skateboard stops, and you don't. And I rode my skateboard in the middle of New York City traffic, sometimes while holding onto the back of a bus......

I had to smile and shake my head at how invested I became in cheering the kitty's determination.

I had to smile and shake my head at how invested I became in cheering the kitty's determination.

Yikes. Got the strangest feeling of Deja vu. https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/26/china/small-plane-crashes-into-beijing-skyscraper-intl?cid=android_app

I always keep boxes. Years later, I may want to sell expensive equipment, and people are very impressed to buy things in their original boxes, with all documentation and packaging intact.

My old cat, Jack, now gone but never forgotten, could be picked up while asleep from wherever he was laying, and was perfectly content to be transported and deposited anywhere his humans wanted him, where he would happily stay asleep until eventually wandering off to do cat things. I called him Ragdoll Kitty.

You know, every time I see something like this, I'm boggled.... Not only buy the creativity and talent, but by the sheer, almost inhuman patience of the creators. Heck, I've never in my life managed to complete anything more than the simplest of jigsaw puzzles, so something like this is as beyond me as flying to a cat.