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Title: Hurricane, get this for yer dad.
Post by: GmanJoe on December 14, 2004, 07:07:53 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4092345.stm


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The "lap pillow", shaped like the bottom half of a kneeling woman, is selling for about 9,429 yen ($90), the French news agency AFP reported.

"Single men find this soothing," said Mitsuo Takahashi of the manufacturer Trane KK.

He told AFP that the Hizamakura, or lap pillow, fulfilled a primal need.

"From the time people were kids, people have laid their heads on their mothers\' laps to get their ears cleaned," he said. "This is made to be quite close to the real thing."

But they are also reported to be proving popular as joke gifts at office parties.

So far the company has sold about 3,000 laps, Mr Takahashi said.

The Hizamakura is similar to a product, shaped like a man\'s torso with one sturdy arm, which has been on sale since last December.

That product, the Boyfriend\'s Arm Pillow, was made by Japanese company Kameo, and is being targeted at Japanese single women.

Title: Hurricane, get this for yer dad.
Post by: Living-In-Clip on December 14, 2004, 08:05:24 AM
Brilliant. They got one shaped like a nice big boob? I prefer to lay on the boobies.
Title: Hurricane, get this for yer dad.
Post by: Kurt Angle on December 14, 2004, 08:17:06 AM
Do the legs open? ;)
Title: Hurricane, get this for yer dad.
Post by: GmanJoe on December 14, 2004, 08:17:55 AM
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Originally posted by Kurt Angle
Do the legs open? ;)


There\'s a dick that\'ll pop yer eye out. ;)
Title: Hurricane, get this for yer dad.
Post by: ooseven on December 14, 2004, 09:10:22 AM
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Originally posted by GmanJoe
There\'s a dick that\'ll pop yer eye out. ;)



That sounds like a occupational hazard for the likes of us ;)
Title: Hurricane, get this for yer dad.
Post by: Titan on December 14, 2004, 10:16:18 AM
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"From the time people were kids, people have laid their heads on their mothers\' laps to get their ears cleaned," he said. "This is made to be quite close to the real thing."


Um......what? I really didn\'t understand that. My mom never cleaned my ears that way. She stuck a frickin q-tip in there or with water.
Title: Hurricane, get this for yer dad.
Post by: Evi on December 14, 2004, 02:55:28 PM
Who thinks of this crap?
Title: Hurricane, get this for yer dad.
Post by: Titan on December 14, 2004, 06:16:45 PM
Obviously the Japanese.
Title: Hurricane, get this for yer dad.
Post by: Evi on December 14, 2004, 06:30:10 PM
The Japanese are cool, but damn...they are some weird-@ss b^tches :p
Title: Hurricane, get this for yer dad.
Post by: Mr. Kennedy on December 14, 2004, 06:46:56 PM
perfect!!!

I love japanese prodcts!
Title: Hurricane, get this for yer dad.
Post by: Titan on December 14, 2004, 07:21:23 PM
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Originally posted by The Hurricane
perfect!!!

I love japanese prodcts!


I bet he orders two. One for his dad and one for himself ;)
Title: Hurricane, get this for yer dad.
Post by: unknown on December 15, 2004, 01:02:18 PM
the japanese come up witht e weirdest shizzle I swear.
Title: Hurricane, get this for yer dad.
Post by: Samwise on December 16, 2004, 12:45:10 AM
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Originally posted by GmanJoe
There\'s a dick that\'ll pop yer eye out. ;)

Actually I think it would sell more that way... weird japanese people.