Let The Bidding Begin!

Some people really know how to spend a hundred grand.  

Consider the discretionary budget available to the clown who just forked over $100,000 for a Cheeto that supposedly bears an uncanny resemblance to that big fat gorilla, Harambe, from the Cincinnati Zoo.  This was the gorilla who was shot by his handlers after he threatened a small boy who had gotten into his enclosure.  The kid was stupid and his parents inattentive but Harambe paid the price and became a bit of a legend, enough so to inspire an eBay seller to solicit bids on his  Flamin' Hot Cheeto doppelganger.  The bidding began at $11.99 and ended several hours later when P.T. Barnum's "a sucker born every minute" maxim or the right amount of alcohol kicked in and produced the $99,900 winning bid.

I guess I see the resemblance but, now what?  Surely you don't eat your new prized possession?  Do you shellac it?  Mount it on the wall?  Put it in the safe for positive proof you were not of sound mind when the kids go to probate what's left of your estate?

I thought about all of this for quite some time and have concluded that it is more than a little crazy to attempt to divine what makes a person with some spare cheese spend it on something like this.  No, it's time to forget all that and get busy finding something just as stupid to sell to the obviously growing horde of folks with more money than brains. 

A quick trip to the pantry and I struck gold!

Right there in that big Costco bag of Maui Onion potato chips was a little dandy that, I think you'll agree, is the spitting image of the late Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 

Simply check out the comparison of the chip with a 1945 photo of Roosevelt and Winston Churchill joy riding in a vehicle captured from Hitler's motor pool.  Uncanny!

I'm opening the bidding at $11.99.  This is a one of a kind treasure.  Operators are standing by. 

FDR...don't you see it??

FDR takes Winston for a spin in the Fuhrer Mobile, 1945.