Gold-plated money clip
You have got to be kidding me. They really presented a gold-plated money clip to the people who filed past Reagan’s sealed casket at the Presidential Library? Seriously. Not a David Cross routine. Real life. I’m not making this up. A gold-plated money clip.
Good to know that you didn’t have to be there to get one, though. Follow the link above to buy one on eBay. Greed Is Good®, right?
My workplace in Thousand Oaks closed early today, as the only route of egress was the motorcade route. We’d have been locked in a research facility with a jammed soda machine and only sputtering chambers and broadband connections to entertain us. Sounds like an Fox sitcom premise, when you think about it.
The motorcade was scheduled for evening, but at 11:30 a.m. people were lining Lynn Road (I swear I am still not making this up) with padded folding chairs, sunglasses, tacky beach visors, and red Igloo coolers of Diet Coke. When I left, I saw more of the same, along with hordes of miniature people born during Clinton administrations I and II — and someone had thoughtfully gone through and placed red, white, and blue helium balloons around the route. It was packed like Disneyland on the Fourth of July weekend. Northbound 101 was jammed with cars for miles; driving past I felt like Judd Hirsch in Independence Day, hauntingly feeling like I was somehow going the wrong way. Southbound 101 was accessorized with hovering military helicopters armed with fucking missiles. For real. This is still real life.
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November 27th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
How thick was that gold plating. They can make it VERY thin these days and it will wear off in a heartbeat. If they were giving out solid titanium money clips, then I would be more impressed…
December 10th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
There is a new paid ad on the Gold-plated money clip post.
January 14th, 2008 at 3:06 am
I got one of the titanium money clips (not the one with the gold ingot, the plain one) from the advertiser on this post. They are very high quality, sturdy, and attractive, with a nice finish and a firm grip. I can fully vouch for them.
I also got a titanium guitar pick, and it looks nice, but I haven’t listened to it yet.