It might be the happy nature of the Everyman in rodent form, plus the way his gloved hands point to the cicumference of the dial. Does his tail ever get pressed into service as a second-"hand"...one can only imagine the appendage getting twisted into knots if this were to happen!

The original watches made by Ingersoll in 1933 came in a wristwatch form for boys, costing about $3 and a pocket watch for a buck-fifty. (It's safe to say they're worth considerably more today!) These inexpensive time pieces were so popular they probably saved the ailing Ingersoll Waterbury Clock company from bankrupcy at the time. Ingersoll eventually became Timex and the watches made a Mod pop-culture resurgence in the 1960's.

I'm always reminded of that episode of Seinfeld, when Jerry and Elaine talk about the song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." Elaine mistakenly thinks that Edmund Fitzgerald wrote the song and that Gordon Lightfoot was the ship that sunk. Jerry then quips sarchastically that perhaps "it was rammed by the Cat Stevens." :-)

Anyway, an amazing array of Sarah Palin stuff has been showing up, and not just the usual t-shirts and stickers: I saw somebody selling a copy of her high school yearbook. That person is getting a pretty good payday! The Sarah Palin action figure is pretty funny. I wonder if it comes with a bikini and an AK-47?

The set of 8 Lego Batman toys includes: the Batboat, the Joker Helicopter, Batman and a Batarang, Mr. Freeze, the Batmobile, the Penguin and his Submarine, Robin, and the Joker!

Kapow! Bang! :-)

These rather fashionable underwear have some sort of (ahem) bulge boosting (cough) technology that would seem to make you look a little more prominent downstairs. No word of what would happen if you don't need any "enhancement" and you wore these anyway! It might be like on "Tool Time" (giggle) when the quest for more power would always go astray...I guess they can't be responsible if you put someone's eye out or women spontaneously swoon in your company.