Holiday Gift Giving Guide

Many, many years ago, when I was still in high school, I remember being over at David’s house and watching Conan O’Brien. What makes this memory hard to forget, besides David’s smooth operator style, is a bit Conan did about Hello Kitty.

The premise of the bit was Hello Kitty versus the Fisher Price Little People. You may recall the Fisher Price Little People as the creepy paraplegic toys that where basically a peg with a round head on top.

The bit was melodramatic and portrayed the fisher Price Little People as “good” while Hello Kitty was “evil.” It was basically a series of images: an image of the Little People, an image of some peaceful scene, the words “good,” an image of Hello Kitty, an image of something disturbing, then the words “evil.” The images kept alternating back and forth with Carmina Burana blaring in the background for maximum dramatic effect.

There is a kernel of truth in that bit. Somehow Hello Kitty inspires evil. I posted the Hello Kitty murderbot last week. This week I give you the “hello kitty transformation set.”

This got the most attention from Gizmodo, which titled it the “Hello Kitty Cat Humiliation System.” Gizmodo stated that the Japanese auto-translated version of the original Gizmodo Japan page is funny. They weren’t kidding.

Allow me to post some examples for you non-link clickers.
“This the commodity is not daily arrival and the collar. It will stop the use and unreasonable wearing of long haul. “Foppery” to be delightful is potato excessively for the cat.”

“So, when the [ya] it is you dress in the cat of the foppish class upper-class person, attracting the attention of the camera young priest in oneself you are not wrong the shank!”

Oh man. I think we all know what our cats will be getting for Christmas this year. Pretty soon everyone’s cat will be dressed in the manner of a foppish upper-class person. If you don’t have a cat perhaps you can still find a use for a transformation kit. The kit looks to be about baby sized. I don’t expect there is anything that can make a baby cute….but this probably couldn’t hurt.