Remember The Sharp End? Well the creators of that wince-making comedy item were clearly not content with altering our perception of the household moggy, they've decided to mess with Man's Best Friend too!
The pencil sharpener is concealed in the white plastic dog's bottom. When you sharpen your pencil, you'll get a plaintive barking noise, and the sharpenings will drop into the dog basket below.
You'll never look the family mutt in the eye again.
Dog Bottom Sharpener - £6.99 from ShinyShack.com
Dog Bottom Sharpener
Karmasheetra
It's a bit like those mats you can get with the numbered dance steps on to teach you to tango and rumba, but with slightly different markings!
In an effort to liven things up in the bedroom department, some inventive soul has combined the spirit of the Kama Sutra with a walk in instruction manual on a sheet, with numbered hand, foot, knee and bottom positions for both participants! I wanted to say both parties, but a party with the Karmasheetra in it would be quite an eye-opener, so you might want to keep the curtains closed to avoid shocking the neighbours.
Light hearted fun for the flexible, just make sure you don't put your back out!
Minty Weirdness
There's something quite compelling about peculiar flavour combinations. Do you remember Cherry Flavoured Coke? It was that weird a concept that everybody wanted to try it.
I'm suffering a similar fascination with Bacon Mints and Monkey Mints. Firstly let me clarify that Bacon Mints may be bacon flavoured with a hint of mint, but Monkey Mints are definitely not monkey flavoured. Relieved? Actually, they're banana flavoured. Slightly worried now?
I'm not sure who came up with the novel idea of mixing the classic flavour of mint with both bacon and banana, but I'm all for a bit of food experimentation. In the words of pretty much everyone's mum: 'How do you know you don't like it until you've tried it?'
Sound advice there.
Bacon Mints - £1.99 from ShinyShack.com
Monkey Mints - £1.99 from ShinyShack.com
Bubblewrap Keychain
There's nothing quite so more-ish than a big sheet of bubble wrap to pop when you've got a bit of time on your hands, (except perhaps Banoffee Crumble Biscuits, but that's another story). The down side is when you've completely cleared an area of bubbles and all that's left is the sad, flat plastic sheet.
Well, strange-but-true, that's not a problem anymore. You can have never-ending bubbles without all the bulky problems of carting a huge roll of bubble wrap around with you. Aside from the fact you'd have to buy the roll its own seat on the train, people are just going to think you're odd.
The Bubble Wrap Keychain lets you pop obsessively to your heart's content, while still being small enough to fit in your pocket. You get 7 bubbles, and each one makes a popping sound as you press it. You have to press a different bubble each time, or else no popping sound, and if you're popping really obsessively you'll find you're occasionally get rewarded by a loud 'Yee-haaaa!'.
Just don't leave it lying around on your desk, it's an irresistible magnet for fiddly fingers, and people will constantly be making off with it to getting their poptastic fill.
Bubblewrap Keychain - £5.99 from ShinyShack.com
Space Putty
What marvellous stuff Space Putty is. You can roll it up and bounce it like a ball, but if you leave it sitting for a while it'll melt back down into a puddle.
Apparently this stuff has its origins back in the Second World War, when American scientists were searching for rubber alternatives. This stuff really wouldn't make a great tyre or shoe sole, but it is fun to fiddle with.
You can roll it out into a long rope, plait it, twist it and squidge it back together again, but unlike something like plasticine, you won't be able to make long lasting models out of it. That intriguing tendency to 'melt' means that you'd come back to find your artistic works of art lying in around in blobs. But then that's part of its charm.
My favourite activity at the moment is to fold the putty to trap the air, then pop the air pockets like a kind of endlessly flexible bubble wrap! All this and metallic silver too, so it looks like a molten metal. Squish it, stretch it, snap it, then put it back in its pot.
Space Putty - £4.99 from ShinyShack.com
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