AACCK!! The Bedazzler
It’s been a little while since I’ve posted anything (outside a couple of comments in different places), so let me start off by saying I hope everyone had a great Christmas. I also hope you’re about to have (or had, if you’re reading this in 2006) a great New Year. I get to run the sound board at church for the New Year’s Eve service, after which I’ll be helping to count the offering. After that, I’ll head home and go to bed. I should probably be excited that this year is over, but I don’t plan on staying up. The novelty has worn off.
Anyway, I felt the need to make you, my loyal reader, aware of a rather frightening development. Many of you watched the Apprentice last spring. You may remember Tana, the runner up that season. During one of the projects, she let her team on a hunt for something called the Bedazzler. The Bedazzler is basically a Ron Popeil-type gadget designed to put rhinestones on stuff. This product was clearly on its deathbed, as Tana had to run all over NYC to find one.
Well, she won’t need to hunt for it now. It seems it’s been relaunched. Not only has it been relaunched, but there are TV commercials for it. Commercials starring Tana, giving the viewer all kinds of (useless) ideas for stuff you can do with this thing. So for only $19.95 (plus shipping and handling), you can own this goofy gizmo by calling a convenient 800 number.
What’s next? A Trump wig?
Ladies and gentlemen, I have no doubt that you are far too wise to purchase this thing. However, I encourage you to caution your friends and neighbors who may not be as wise. ‘Tis the season for giving, and so please, give those around you fair warning about this scam, so that they will not fall prey, nor suffer physical harm from the shock of seeing this devise on the market.
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Consider yourself warned.
posted by Derek @ 12/30/2005 09:52:00 PM
4 comments
4 Comments:
You could have given us a website to look up this scary thing we are to avoid!
Mmm. No way. When parents tell their kids not to do drugs, they don't introduce them to the local dealer, do they? Education, not temptation.
Derek, the BeDazzler has been around since the early 80's. I myself never had one, but I did WANT one. THere are curently 2 in this house right now, if I haven't thrown them out since Avis bought them and never used them. One is a wonderful, plastic-y pink, with handy little trays to hold your different sequins. During the hey day they were used to put rhinestones mostly on t-shirts and jean pockets. I was never allowed to do something that looked so racy.
Yes, I'm aware it's been around. I was under the impression it was basically dead. It's my personal feeling that we as a society would be better off it had died. I'm stunned and dismayed it's being actively advertised (and presumably manufacture) again
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