Thanks for pointing out all of the cute stuff on e-bay (as seen on the home page – “ed"). Unfortunately, I can only look at a few thousand cute items at one sitting, so I devised a method to hone the list down to the cream of the cute crop; if you put in a keyword search including appropriate exclamation points, not only do you get a list of the most cute stuff (cuteness rating easily being measured by counting the punctuation marks carefully doled out by the seller.), but the cuter it is, the smaller the list becomes. Just look at these numbers-

Cute!=2686 items
Cute!!=1054 items
Cute!!!=504 items
Cute!!!!=135 items

This continues until we get to the achingly rare ten pointer finds like the “boy’s Guess sweatshirt- cute!!!!!!!!!!”

Of course, I’m in the market for lots of other crap that isn’t just “cute” but is equally extreme, like “rare!!!,” or “new!!!,” or the occasional “cool!!!”

I now find it quite simple just to put in exclamation points by themselves. There were a paltry few items meriting the prestigious 25+ point rating, but the one item that caught my eye was the gem, “CROCHET TABLECLOTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

I think the fact that the caps lock key was a clever marketing ploy as well. I got a tear in my eye, in fact, upon loading up the item’s info as I went back to my youth when all the neighborhood kids would play that game, running through the woods all the while shouting “CROCHET TABLECLOTH!!!!!!!!!”

Wow. I miss those days.

Was I supposed to ask a question?
– Jaf Rye