Monday, March 15, 2010

American Science & Surplus


Maybe this sounds familiar: You’re at home making a shopping list. On your list you have written the following items:

127 Slime Slingers
2 Giant Horse Heads (fake)
15 Geodes (real)
4 Semi-Automatic Bug Bots
1 Radiation meter
1 African Pterosaur skull
2 Home Shrimp Growing Kits
Switches
Brake lights for head
500 pencils printed with “Louisiana Rural Water Assoc.”

Then you sit back and wonder where to purchase all of these disparate items. You think, “Well, Target and Walmart certainly try to have everything I would ever want to buy. However, they are on the other side of town, thereby requiring that a great deal of time and fossil fuel be expended. Furthermore, my chances of having a fender-bender in the parking lot are, like, 20 times higher than anywhere else, and everyone who shops in those stores is completely insane, and the customer service is crappy because the employees are paid peanuts and treated like lowly, vassal creatures, which makes me feel terrible, and I want to die every time I shop there, and the products suck and aren't made to last, and stores like that drive out family-owned businesses, and....” But alas, you go anyway. After four hours of exhausting scanning through towering, mind-boggling labyrinths of shelves, under blinding artificial light, you come up completely…without what you went in to buy.

Well, my friends, fret no longer! And look no further than the internet! No, not Amazon.com. Not Ebay.com, either. Everything on your list, plus thousands of other things you never knew you wanted, can all be found at one amazing online store: American Science & Surplus. This site is AMAZING. Not only can you get a brass sextant for $29.95, 100 mini cotters for $1.75, and a life-sized translucent green frog with colorful, anatomically correct organs for a mere $1.50, you also get a photo and a slightly humorous drawing and description of each item! Wow!

Rock-bottom prices, hassle-free shopping, a sense of humor, and wacky, high-quality stuff you never knew you could buy. Need I say more? No, I needn't. This amazing web store speaks for itself. Check it out at www.sciplus.com

4 comments:

  1. I do all my shopping there. --MacGyver

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  2. Ha! You think this site is so great, but you *conveniently* failed to mention the really expensive stuff. See Jobaria Femur Bench:

    Take a seat on a dinosaur! The 6-foot-long thigh bone of the giant plant-eater Jobaria has been fashioned into a unique bench. $2,495.00 EACH (What the hell?!)

    *Plus, Special shipping charges apply.
    *PLUS This item is not available for delivery to Alaska, Hawaii, or the Territories.

    Sheesh!

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  3. You make good points, but I stand by my review.

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