Your perfect gift...

[theexorcist]

Courtesy of HHC-endorsed spam.

store.cstv.com/marketplace/store_contents.cfm?store_id=304&dept_id=7709&product_id=128091&partner_id=15074

Really. I'm speechless.

[SFHoya99]

Awesome.

[98hoya]

"For the Georgetown alum with everything, and I do mean EVERYTHING, with a Georgetown logo."

Father Healy would be so proud of what we've become.

[EasyEd]

How else can you cut the cheese?

[98hoya]

Good point, EasyEd. You know, until I saw this new product, I thought I was going to be stuck eating Velveeta and Craft American Singles (the fake yellow color only) for the rest of my life.

Now, I'm off to buy some fine Umbrian pecorino!

[DFW HOYA]

Maybe the bookstore is pricing this stuff. Where wlse would you get a spiral notebook...for $7.49?

tinyurl.com/3vshuf

[Nevada Hoya]

Ah, but it is a five-subject notebook.

[98hoya]

Jun 25, 2008 20:34:47 GMT -5 DFW HOYA said:

Maybe the bookstore is pricing this stuff. Where wlse would you get a spiral notebook...for $7.49?

tinyurl.com/3vshuf

Ah, but DFW, check the link again: there are only 3 $7.49 spiral bounds remaining! Someone is buying this stuff!

Perhaps a spiral notebook comes free of charge when you purchase a Hoyas logo garter:

store.cstv.com/marketplace/store_contents.cfm?cart_id=114852377718572111121975131720082506&store_id=304&partner_id=13955&dept_id=-2&product_id=128110

That item might be even more perplexing that the cheese knives.

I suppose Hoya brides could wear it as their "something blue." Come to think of it, if a bridesmaid buys it right before the wedding then loans it to the bride, the garter could serve the triple role of something new, borrowed, AND blue!

[Boz]

I think we're missing the point here.

There is nothing wrong with selling a Georgetown set of cheese knives. (better than coffins)

Hey, it's the free market at its finest. You just know that some people will want this for their tailgates (wait, we don't have those anymore) or their fancy-schmancy cocktail parties before a game (that they arrive to at halftime).

I have no problem with that. None at all.

My problem is, if you're going to market a Georgetown set of cheese knives (and sell it for $48) -- then market a REAL Georgetown set of cheese knives (and sell if for $48), goddammit!

We get a little 'G' on the outside of the box? Really? That's the best you could do?

No Jack the Bulldog emblazoned on each hilt?
No Georgetown seal etched into the blade of each knife?
No words to the alma mater on the inside of the box cover?

Hell, you know, they make some pretty good wood stains these days. Maybe we could have the box itself be, oh I don't know, BLUE?

This is, as Sgt. Hoke Moseley likes to say...a weak suck!

Georgetown can do better.

[SoCalHoya]

I'm all for Gu merchandise, even if I'll never buy the stuff myself. The more is made, the more GU makes in revenue. So, buy away cheese lovers.

What really peeves me is that I still can't find what I'm looking for...a stinking gym bag that says "Georgetown" on the side, perhaps with a drink holder. I've been looking for this since I was on the hilltop, but to no avail. I actually first joined the HT board in order to see if anyone knew of one.

Boo!

[98hoya]

It doesn't bother me that they sell absurd items, I just think it's, well, absurd that anyone buys them. If folks think it's worth the money, then they should have at it.

I think my memorabilia collection consists of one old GU baseball cap, one Hoya Saxa t-shirt, and one class ring.

I'm curious: do others have major collections of college memoribilia?

[FormerHoya]

We have been unpacking boxes from our move to Las Vegas (b/c why rush into things?), and I have to say that I was horrified at the sheer number of cheese knives that we (not we, Mrs. FormerHoya) own.

I wish we ate cheese often enough to justify the volume of cheese knives in our kitchen, but I think a twice-a-day cheese plate is probably unhealthy or something.

I guess what I'm saying is that no one should forward this link on to my wife.