Bad Souvenirs: 15 Truly Terrible Momentos To Collect And Regret
THE decision by eBay to discontinue its trade in Holocaust memorabilia brought to an end a particularly offensive and peculiar episode in the annals of collections and souvenir-hunting.
And while it is undoubtedly one of the most despicable examples, there is no shortage of tasteless, gauche and tacky souvenirs out there, if you know here to look…
(Warning: one picture below portrays a lynching. It is shocking.)
Never leave Australia without one of these delightful kangaroo scrotum bottle-openers…
Or Pisa without a leaning tower lady with a misshapen bottom…
Or Brazil without a rectal exam souvenir – regardless of whether or not you’ve been strip-searched at the airport…
Or the Vatican without one of these misspelt souvenir coins bearing the name ‘Lesus’ instead of Jesus…
D’oh!
Or Dallas without a model of JFK’s assassination…
Or Minnesota without a postcard of a lynching
Or mount Fuji without a jelly-bean replica…
Or a Royal Wedding without a box of condoms…
Or a Led Zeppelin concert without this bootleg souvenir programme bearing the image of the well-known Zep front-man Marc Bolan…
Or the Moon without moon money…
Or Vanuatu without, er, this…
Posted: 1st, March 2014 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True, The Consumer Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
