Odd Yard Sale Finds

This struck me as very odd when I came across it at a local yard sale. Turns out that the oddest thing about it is that, unbeknownst to me, it is not really that odd at all. Beer Can chicken has a HUGE following! There is even a well-known (not by me) Kenny Chesney country song that pays homage to the brew bird. I will have to attribute my ignorance in such matters to the fact that I don’t own a grill, I don’t eat chicken, and I don’t drink canned beer. Guess that makes me the oddest thing about this OYSF entry.

I am guessing this is strictly a novelty item, isn’t it?

Not wild asparagus, as featured in this first Euell Gibbons book published in 1962, but the other food that made the naturalist a household name (and the subject of much playful satire) in the 1970s.

It is estimated that 70 million decks of playing cards are sold in the United States each year. I couldn’t find the breakdown by shape, but it is probably safe to assume that the rounds are very much in the minority.

This very nicely detailed medieval figurine looks to be exactly that, until one looks behind the base and discovers it to be a novelty transistor radio.