Coolest site ever

[vilakins]

OK, after the response to my previous post, I had a look and found the Unemployed Philosophers Guild which sells on line. You too can buy plush Darwins and finger puppets! There are other very cool things too.

• 'Little Thinker' plushies - scroll down to see them all. Highlights are Jane Austen (for glitterboy1), Darwin, Einstein, Gandhi (the funniest), Sherlock Holmes (for spacefall), Frida Kahlo, Poe with a raven on his shoulder, Elizabeth I (for all those DV fans), Socrates, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf. Click on them to see a larger picture and details.
  
  
• Finger puppets sets! Yes, they sell those: artists, philosopher, writers, psychologists, revolutionaries, composers, and evil politicians.
  
  
• Individual magnetic finger puppets - an incredible range of writers, scientists, and even minor deities. And there's another Sherlock Holmes one for spacefall too. What can I say; this site rivals the ThinkGeek one.

Check out the other links in the sidebar. They have mugs that change colour when you add a hot beverage, and some very cool and geeky ones. They have T-shirts (not many, but we do like the "Looking at Euclid" one, and the "Calvin and Hobbes" one: very clever indeed.

Ooh, and click around on the tags in Collections; you get anything related to that subject.

And reapermum, you can buy Racing Nuns at Amazon.co.uk. I also found some on eBay.

[Edit I am now cruising the ThinkGeek site and have found the 'meh' t-shirt one of the IT Crowd characters was wearing. I know at least one other person wanted one. I shall add it to my list for when I next buy from there.

Comments

[spacefall.livejournal.com]

The Holmes ones are a bit scary! Some of those plushies are seriously fab though. :D

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

They are! And I love that there are some fairly obscure writers and others in there.

[spacefall.livejournal.com]

it's geeky joy.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Hee, thank you, I do like the plushies! The Jesus one made me smile, too, with his WWID bracelet.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ha! I didn't notice that!

[executrix.livejournal.com]

The individual puppets made me want to do that meme where you alphabetize the people on your icons and ship them.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ooh, nice idea!

[hafren.livejournal.com]

"Van Gogh with removable ear! Pull it off, velcro it back! Hours of fun."
Perfect!

P.S.

[hafren.livejournal.com]

I didn't get the Calvin & Hobbes joke because the two they mention are the only Calvin & Hobbes I've heard of...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I saw him with the ear on his knife, but I am oddly relieved that you can put it back. There's also a 'Tickle Me Freud' (http://www.philosophersguild.com/index.lasso?page_mode=Product_Detail&item=0247) (click on 'see item in use--not what you expect) which rather tickled me. They should have a matching sad one called Schadenfreud[e].

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Which ones? The cartoon ones are actually named after John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes, which makes the t-shirt not quite as clever, I suppose.

Calvin and Hobbes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes) is a cartoon about a boy, Calvin, and his stuffed tiger Hobbes which is only alive when we see it through his imaginative eyes. He basically does RPGs with it, playing aliens in space etc, but he also comments very intelligently and wittily on aspects of life, It's a favourite of mine and I own several annuals. This extract from the Wikipedia article describes it quite well.

In the classic comic tradition of sidekicks, Hobbes represents Calvin's potential maturity and externalized conscience. [...]From everyone else's point of view, Hobbes is Calvin's stuffed tiger. From Calvin's point of view, however, Hobbes is an anthropomorphic tiger, much larger than Calvin and full of his own attitudes and ideas. But when the perspective shifts to any other character, readers again see merely a stuffed animal, usually seated at an off-kilter angle. This is, of course, an odd dichotomy, and Watterson explains it thus: "When Hobbes is a stuffed toy in one panel and alive in the next, I'm juxtaposing the "grown-up" version of reality with Calvin's version, and inviting the reader to decide which is truer."

[hafren.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's brilliant!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

And if you look at the Freud mug in use... there's an engraving of Freud drinking from it. :-D