Atlas Shrugged: The Mocking

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Checking Our Gift Register

More Married Megan McArdle: Don't buy me a quesadilla maker for a wedding present. Or an electric cocktail shaker or egg poacher. I want expensive crystal and china, if you please.

7 comments:

  1. I have a crystal ice bucket, or really huge & ugly vase, from my wedding. But she can't have it: I used it as a spare change jar.

    Best thing we got: Battery operated drill/screw driver and a battery operated hand vacuum.

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  2. Megan is an idiot. Quesadilla makers are cheap, take up little space, and don't produce the same amount of heat as an oven, so they're ideal on hot days. Plus, you can keep one in an office or other places where you don't have access to an oven. Electric egg poachers are considerably less messy than boiling an egg directly in the water, have a better shape, and there's no chance of the egg splitting apart (and you're not working directly with boiling water, so they're safer as well). The electric martini shaker I imagine can come in handy if you're throwing a large party or work in a bar. But these things are useless to her, so they're useless period.

    And all this coming from a person who has admitted she owns an electric potato peeler.

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  3. Oh hell...just send those crazy kids an EdenFantasys catalog and let them shop for themselves.

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  4. What about Ayn Rand's Guide to Successfully Stealing Other People Husbands?

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  5. I thought McMegan is America's Least Useful Appliance. At least a quesedilla maker makes quesedillas. Megan just makes nightmares for proofreaders and fact-checkers.

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  6. When I was a kid we had a flying saucer sandwich press & no idea how to use it.

    http://www.cubanfoodmarket.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=CFM&Product_Code=SANDPRES-05&Category_Code=20201

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  7. I'm going Galt on buying wedding gifts for Randians, but I gotta say the egg cooker would be way more usefully productive than she is.

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