Grilled Cheese-gate, Other Fun with eBay

Grilled Cheese-gate

That crazy lady who seems to think her grilled cheese is the virgin Mary has now made it to international news. Not more than 5 minutes after writing yesterday's post titled "A Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese." After Googling the term "Grilled Cheese-gate" I confirmed what I thought to be true the minute the name hit me while walking home from Yoyogi Station last night...I am original!!! Yay!!!

I ran a search for "grilled cheese" next. It gave me 338 items. Pictures of some of the things I found are below. Click on the pics to be linked to their auctions.

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An "I ate the Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese, It was Sacrilicious!" t-shirt.

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This is a replica made of wood selling for over $14,000!!

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The Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Bunch. AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

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Classic...

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A Grilled cheese made with Wheat Bread...Highest bid is currently $5.54.
One funny comment about this item referred to the old ad campaign for cheese "AAAHHH The Power of Cheese!!" hahahahaha

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Dubya Grilled Cheese

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

And finally the king of them all. "The Million Dollar Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Recipe "World Famous" since 11/16/04" Really funny, no pic but lots of great grilled cheese ideas I am going to try since I eat about 3 or 4 grilled cheeses a week.

The one that started all of this commotion is currently on it's fourth bid, valued at $7,600. Who in the hell would buy this??

Other Fun with eBay

In light of the fun I had with that muppet selling a grilled cheese effigy, and this article I read on MSNBC about how eBay is going to limit the use of racial slurs on it's site. I decided to have a bit more fun with eBay's search function. The example given in the article is the good ol' N-bomb, nigger. Instead of looking up the work "nigger" someone will have to look up "black americana" to find what they are looking for. I decided to have a little fun with racial slurs and this is what I came up with. No, I am not racist. I just wanted to see if there is actually enough bigotry on eBay to require the soon-to-be-implemented rules.

I ran a search for "nigger" and it gave me 23 items. A whole list of things ranging from books with the word nigger in the title, to sheet music for a song title "Nigger Blues" by LeRoy White, to a 1930's song book titled "Twelve More Nigger Tunes." All of those titles are links to those auctions for those of you who think I am making this up. Out of all of these, the one I thought was the funniest (again I am not racist) is a record from 1916 titled "Nigger Love a Watermelon HA! HA! HA!" A picture of the record is below.

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Next I typed in a search for "wetback" and found 9 items. 7 of them were a book with the title in it. I don't know what one of them was. The funniest one is a record called "Wetback Hop." (eBay)

Next I searched for "penis" and it turned up 1,127 items. All of them being penis enlargement/enhancement pills. Here is a picture of one of those items.
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Creative name at least.

If anyone else finds funny things to taunt eBay with let me know. Always in the mood for a good laugh. Who would have thought back when eBay started it would become so ingrained in our lives??