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When it comes to kitsch, there’s always an excellent chance of it thriving in a 99¢ store. Even more so when it’s a penny less:
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Once it’s one cent less than the kitsch standard, there’s a guaranteed level of cuckoo-ness going on in many of the specially made products that suck up shelf space like muscles on a reef at these places. There’s so much wrong about this particular product that makes it makes my eyeballs spin. First, I always love when essential information about the capabilities of the product are hidden once the product is inserted in its plastic packaging.
![contact-cement_5118](https://www.alleewillis.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/contact-cement_5118.jpg)
Also nice when the product name itself is covered once the product is secure in the package.
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Even better is when the product in use is illustrated and there’s no clear connection between the graphic and the product. I don’t know what this leather-like attache case and accesories are supposed to show about the prowess of contact cement. Was the entire set fabricated using it?
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Even better is the implication of the second “use”: gluing together an entire dining room set!
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The directions on the back stress to always avoid “cintact” with eyes.
As far as the rest of the jumble in the directions, I thought I was buying contact cement and not plaster…
The uses of plaster and contact cement are quite different. And I didn’t know that there was a materials such as “wood leather” or “cotton yamed”. And I’m always wild about a misplaced comma as in “same or, various substances”. All of which leads me to conclude that this kitsch find couldn’t be more of this if it tried:
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denny
Super mysterious!
Douglas Wood
You hit the motherlode of bad packaging and worse translating!