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Saturday Morning News

Darren Kennedy Examines Bad Christmans Gifts

Aired December 23, 2000 - 9:21 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Well, it can take countless hours to find just the right holiday gift. But finding a really bad gift, however, well, that can take seconds, or you can put a little work into it.

Darren Kennedy is with etour.com. He joins us with some pretty stupid ideas, yes. But they're fun stupid.

DARREN KENNEDY, ETOUR.COM: They're fun stupid. They're the things that you might want to give to someone else, but you might not want to get.

O'BRIEN: OK, OK, that's good, let's keep that in mind as we go through these things.

KENNEDY: Being here today, we're going to give you a chance to make a political statement as well as a fashion statement at your next holiday party.

O'BRIEN: All right.

KENNEDY: First we have these, from Enjewel.com, they are sterling silver pregnant chad cufflinks.

O'BRIEN: This is a pregnant chad. This is obviously not to scale, right? This is a...

KENNEDY: Not -- right, it's a little...

O'BRIEN: ... little bit larger.

KENNEDY: ... bit larger.

O'BRIEN: Larger.

KENNEDY: It's a definite conversation starter.

O'BRIEN: Yes, and it is, as you can see, that's the official pregnant one, it's bulging there. So...

KENNEDY: For the ladies with a political bent, you can have the dimpled chad sterling silver clip-on earrings.

O'BRIEN: The dimpled chad, (inaudible). I wonder how these are doing. Are these selling?

KENNEDY: I think they're selling. I mean, they're certainly capitalizing on the controversy. And maybe when Kyra comes back from her holiday break, you can give her the butterfly ballot with hanging chad pendant.

O'BRIEN: All right. For the political junkie who has everything, the butterfly ballot with the hanging chad. All right. That's good.

Now, what else do we have here? Something -- there are some things that are less topical.

KENNEDY: Less topical, a little more fun. We have right in front of you, we have the Poop Moose. This is lovingly...

O'BRIEN: Can -- for -- can we show this on TV here?

KENNEDY: Oh, yes.

O'BRIEN: OK, all right, OK. (inaudible).

KENNEDY: It's lovingly handcrafted from Alaska. What you do, it's a candy dispenser...

O'BRIEN: Right.

KENNEDY: ... because it looks pretty normal right now.

O'BRIEN: Right.

KENNEDY: If you raise the head...

O'BRIEN: Raise the head.

KENNEDY: ... and the candy -- did you get that, Liz?

O'BRIEN: Comes out.

KENNEDY: Did you get that? Yes, it's like...

(CROSSTALK)

KENNEDY: ... hard candy, nuts.

O'BRIEN: Went through the moose pretty quickly there, didn't it? Yes.

KENNEDY: It did. The moose has been eating healthy.

O'BRIEN: OK, plenty of roughage out there...

KENNEDY: That's right, it's...

O'BRIEN: ... in the wilds of Maine.

KENNEDY: That's a -- that's probably my favorite item.

O'BRIEN: Yes, I can see why.

All right, let's move along.

KENNEDY: If you move a -- we have a thing -- some items from the Boneroom.com, because what we're (inaudible)...

O'BRIEN: I'm not going to ask about the Boneroom. We'll leave that off to the side. But anyway, the Boneroom...

KENNEDY: Well, the Boneroom, that's from Stupid.com, actually. That is the...

O'BRIEN: Oh, I'm sorry, (inaudible).

KENNEDY: ... (inaudible). The Boneroom is -- they deal more -- mostly with animal parts...

O'BRIEN: Ah, OK.

KENNEDY: ... no special occasion can be complete without the animal parts.

O'BRIEN: And this is the -- this is an alligator head.

KENNEDY: That is -- that is a...

O'BRIEN: Is this a real...

KENNEDY: It's a real alligator head. The eyes, of course, have been replaced. But for the crocodile hunter in all of us, you can hang it from your rearview mirror and use it as a paperweight, you can give it to your 10-year-olds. Really has no other useful (inaudible).

O'BRIEN: But fortunately, they're not endangered any more, making this possible (inaudible).

KENNEDY: Right, exactly...

O'BRIEN: Yes, OK.

KENNEDY: ... those are, I think, farm raised.

O'BRIEN: Yes, all right.

KENNEDY: Here we have -- it's a creme de menthe flavored lollipop. It's sugar free, but as you can see it's not cricket free.

O'BRIEN: It's got a cricket in it.

KENNEDY: There's a real cricket entombed in the candy goodness.

O'BRIEN: I have a 6-year-old how might enjoy that one. And then quickly, give us the...

KENNEDY: Quickly, we have...

O'BRIEN: ... the ostrich, since we...

KENNEDY: No Christmas would be complete without the dancing Christmas flamingo.

O'BRIEN: Oh, yes.

KENNEDY: You simply press his wing, and he dances to "Jingle Bells." This is kind of in the same vein as the Billy Bass singing fish, but only in bird form.

O'BRIEN: All right. Well...

KENNEDY: And again, all of these items you can find on etour.com's, take a tour of our wacky gifts.

O'BRIEN: And we will do that, because it may be a little late to order on the Web. There are countless other reasons to give gifts like this all throughout the year.

KENNEDY: Absolutely.

O'BRIEN: All right, Darren Kennedy with etour.com, thanks for being with us and sharing.

KENNEDY: Thank you, Miles.

O'BRIEN: We really appreciate it, particularly the Poop Moose.

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