Cocktails and Records

Back home after another annoying day at work, I’m alone and consoling myself with a copy of 70s K-Tel compilation Mindbender (key tunes: ‘When will I see you again?’ by Prince Charles’ favourite band The Three Degrees, ‘Kung Fu Fighting’ by Carl Douglas and the ever-morbid  ‘Santa Never Made it into Darwin’ by Bill and Boyd) when I’m reminded of the innovation to end all innovations right there on the back of the LP cover.

Yes folks, it’s the K-Tel Record Selector.

The Record Selector isn’t just a cheap looking contraption that holds 24 of your precious LPs in a flimsy piece of plastic. It is ‘the modern method of storing and selecting your favourite music’. You simply ‘place your albums in the Record Selector, move the first one forward and the others follow automatically. When the Selector reaches the album you wish to play, you simply remove it and return the rest to their starting positions’. It’s got ‘finger touch starting’! It is the future!!

I’ve never had the privilege of experiencing the wondrous K-Tel Record Selector for myself (beyond the record player, my family’s embracing of music technology was sadly limited to ‘the shelf’) but perhaps you did? Or was it just an Australian thing? I do hope not.

A little while back I wrote about the joys of the e-cigarette and now, you’ll be delighted to know, I’ve found the ideal accompaniment to it.  It’s Le Whif inhalable coffee.

Inhalable coffee is perfect for the busy person who doesn’t have time for a coffee break or who is just plain tired of having to repeatedly lift those damn cups to their mouth and swallow pesky liquid. No, with the Le Whif, you just raise the convenient pocket sized aerosol spray to your nose once and take a sniff.

And with one quick hit containing as much caffeine as an espresso, inhalable coffee is also a handy reminder that you’re a lazy, joyless sod with an addiction problem.