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NotRocs - Rocket Lamps
I almost convinced myself not to include lamps
in this collection, because a lamp is really just a sculpture
with a light bulb in it. A functional desk ornament. But some of
them are so cheesy that I just couldn't leave the genre alone.
 These
lamps I actually like. They're so perky. Flip one on and
a smile is instantly pulled across your face (imagine the
sound of stretching a wet Chihuahua...). I especially
like the metal strut that supports it. It is suggestive
of the trajectory of an ill-fated cluster rocket I
witnessed recently.
At right: a Rocket Lava Lamp. I warned you that these
were cheesy...
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 Rocket
shaped lava lamps of every possible flavor. These would
have greater stability than the one above, since it has
actual fins and not just outlines of fins.
I starting to get more than a little baffled by the
mutitude of rocket-shaped lava lamp designs. I don't see
any natural connection. A whole page could be dedicated
to this theme alone - but this is enough.
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OK, one more -- but this is a very serious rocket-shaped lava lamp.
I'm not sure, but I think you need to be Level Three
certified before you're allowed to switch it on.
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 Behold
the Rocket Tornado Lamp. It had never occured to me that
that climate controls on a spacecraft could be so poorly
designed.
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These look to be the most flightworthy of all the tornado rocket lamps.
01/02/06
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At right, another rocket lamp experiencing the same
catastrophic malfunction in its life support systems.
This rocket, however, also displays the severed torso of
Curious George impaled on the nose cone.
From the expression on the monkey's face, he
apparently didn't know what hit him. Further forensics
would suggest that his demise occurred prior to impact,
as he obviously took his spacewalk without attaching his
helmet. Given George's madcap history of
attention-deficit hijinks, this would not be out of
character.
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01/02/06
The Coca-Cola bear appears to have fared better than
Curious George
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02/02/06
Hey, it's a rocket lamp for your bike! This beauty hails all the way back to the late 1950's.
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 The
Lunar Rocket Lamp hails back to the Sixties, according to
the documentation it sported on Ebay.
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 Sometime
in the past four decades, some randy golf enthusiast
decided the Lunar Rocket Lamp on its own was
just not
tacky enough. In a fit of artistic displasia, three
golf-babe pinups were lovingly decoupaged onto the side
of the globe. And I thought the connection between
rockets and penguins was obscure...!
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