O Christmas Tree O Christmas Tree with pez
This afternoon we put up the very first Christmas Tree I've ever had in my adult life. I feel very warm and yule-tidy. I'd wear a Mrs. Claus hat if I had one.
Items currently on our Christmas Tree:
1. Three strands blinky electric lights (two white, one green. On sale at Jewel, $1.89 per)
2. Six microwaved boxes unbuttered Orville Reddenbocker strung with needle and thread
3. One six-inch plastic gorilla (it's at the top. Where the angel goes. It's pounding its chest like Kong)
4. Actual Christmas ornament of mounted Trout. In honor of my father.
5. One three-inch rubber bendable monkey ("We have a primate theme going," said Christopher)
6. One red life-sized bird with real feathers (the dog is DYING for it)
7. Photo keychain of Christopher and his cousin John, age six, at Astroworld in Houston
8. One mini kaleidoscope
9. One plastic whistle (the tube-shaped ones that go "VOOOOOOM!" What are those called?)
10. One mini bowling ball and ten mini bowling pins in a small red bag
11. One Pez ornament (snowman) from Christopher's lifelong collection of rare pez (!) currently on Ebay auction for a ridiculous amount of money.
ME: You're charging HOW MUCH for Pez?
HIM: It's a Pez COLLECTION.
ME: It's PEZ.
HIM: It's twenty YEARS of Pez. Limited Editions. Still in the original PACKAGING. Look, here's a Pez Hoppy!
ME: ?
HIM: Hoppy! The prehistoric kangaroo from the Flintstones! They only made like a hundred of these! And these Pez puzzles are ILLEGAL 'cause they didn't get copywrite permission to photograph the Pez!
ME: Do you know what I can buy at Neiman's for all that Pez?
HIM: Save that snowman, please. For the memories.
(later in the day)
ME: So what does Pez taste like, anyhow?
HIM: Chalk.
ME: So why is everybody so excited about it?
HIM: (great disbelief, like I've just said the world is flat) Come ON! You eat it out of a DISPENSER!
Comments
I now know what to get you for Xmas.
Posted by: Betsy | December 12, 2005 8:52 AM
Okay.
(1) The correct sound of the plastic whistle is, "Ziiiiim, ziiiiiing, zooooooooooom!!" It has to go three times. I still don't know what it's called.
(2) You LOVE the snowman pez ornament. You did a giddy dance this morning when I got it out of the Pez Chest.
Posted by: Christopher | December 12, 2005 1:04 PM
wow christopher is some kind of crazy pez collecting genius. i assume he's seen the ladies' room at Cozy, no? with the millions of Pez glued to the walls? (maybe the men's room is like that too?) my wonder woman pez was my favorite for a long time but i don't seem to have it anymore. sad. of course i am more interested in eating the pez than saving the containers. :)
Posted by: carolyn | December 12, 2005 2:20 PM
Christopher: is there a Wonder Woman pez in the pez chest for Carolyn? And have you been to Cozy? We tried to go there one time and accidentally wound up at ... shit ... what's the place with all the meat? That served us meat in the Bloody Mary? And YES, I do love the snowman. I DID do a giddy dance! And YES, Carolyn, Christopher is a genius about all sorts of things, but I am biased. And Betsy, all I want for Christmas is my two front teeth. Yes my two front teeth.
Ziiiiiing!
Posted by: Megan | December 12, 2005 8:20 PM
those are called slide whistles. i believe it's the type sideshow bob (and/or mel) plays instead of talking on the krusty and klown show.
Posted by: N. Kittinger | December 12, 2005 8:23 PM
That's so funny! I have been collecting rare pez since about 1998! I have over two hundred! We should compare and contrast what we have!!
Posted by: Byron | December 13, 2005 1:16 PM
Have you seen these: http://www.pezmp3.com/
I don't know how to make a link in comments, so you'll have to copy/paste.
Posted by: Viki | December 17, 2005 7:36 AM
If it is a short tube about as long as your pinky that does not have a slide, i have always called them fireman whistles.
Posted by: Kristen | December 24, 2005 11:39 AM