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http://blogs.sun.com/brucelee/date/20070615 Friday June 15, 2007

Found. Owned.

 So, Guess what I found at a yard sale? Hint. One of these things is not like the other.

Alright, it's not an intelligence test already. The Sun shot glass was actually an afterthought. I found the Georgia Corn bottle because I wanted to send it to my brother. I'm from Georgia, and he still lives there, and we used to find tacky little souvenirs like this amusing when we were 6 and 8 years old. I knew he'd get a kick out of it. The melon guy--well he's just strange--and the woman at the yard sale didn't want to charge me a full fifty cents for both of these items. She only let me pay a quarter. Then, as I was turning to leave, she said "If you see anything else on that table you like, just take it with you." It was past three on a Sunday, and the yard sale was winding down. Anything left would be taken to the dump.

Then I saw something fully that had gotten my attention in a distant way, but I'd ignored it. I see so many items with the Sun logo on them, that I barely noticed the Sun shotglass. Actually the blue glass has a little class, but I was amazed that a random yard sale should have Sun swag on the table and that the swag should be, well, a shot glass. I did as she asked and scooped it up off the table. It's Sun, after all, but its  bedfellows are a little odd.




Posted by brucelee [General] ( June 15, 2007 09:17 AM ) Permalink
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It was free? As in free beer? As in free OpenSolaris? As in free NetBeans? As in .... ahem...sorry, getting carried away. But it certainly does seem strangely appropriate that you would get a free shotglass with a Sun Logo!

Posted by Paul Monday on June 15, 2007 at 09:42 AM PDT #

My Sun shot glass is in the company of my other curios like my Swedish horses and Peruvian llamas. I love it. : - )

Posted by Carolyn on June 15, 2007 at 12:36 PM PDT #

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