There's No Business Like Old Shoe Business

ShoesA magnanimous collector in Victorville, Calif. is giving away the dream collection of a lifetime: Odor Eaters and corn pads worn by "various celebrities." Impossible you say? According to the ad on craigslist, the owner "no longer has the time to maintain this unique collection." Um, how do you maintain used Odor Eaters?

Although the ad won't reveal to whom these fetid foot treasures once belonged, it does say that they will divulge that info to the person chosen to receive these remarkable and irreplaceable pieces of Hollywood history. If just the idea of owning these shoddy relics isn't enough to get you excited, there's a picture of a small pair of shoes and shroud-of-Turin-ish pads that once lined the feet of a "famous actor of the '50s."

Something about this ad smells funny, and it's not the shoes.


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1. Can you get DNA from an odor eater? Someday these could be used to clone Spencer Tracy....

Posted at 7:28PM on Jan 2nd 2008 by p.u.

2. Dr. Schol just called; he's got dibs.

Posted at 7:31PM on Jan 2nd 2008 by wasted days and wasted nights

3. something tells me that elvis figures into this somehow

Posted at 7:56PM on Jan 2nd 2008 by mook

4. OMG! Those are totally my shoes! Do I get a cut?

Posted at 8:01PM on Jan 2nd 2008 by Ezra Buzzington

5. what a popular story!

Posted at 8:14PM on Jan 2nd 2008 by nikki

6. Totally incorrect usage of the word "magnanimous". Morons.

Posted at 9:17PM on Jan 2nd 2008 by Biker 1957

7. wow, a crappy story with even crappier photoshopping. is anybody there, that's over 14 years old, a real journalist?

Posted at 8:26PM on Jan 4th 2008 by Got A Life

8. Cagney.. he was only 5'5

Posted at 10:14PM on Jan 2nd 2008 by CJS

9. Mickey Rooney, Danny Kaye... oy!! The list goes on and on.. I think they are to small for Gene Kelly but who knows.

Posted at 10:30PM on Jan 2nd 2008 by CJS

10. my god he was a cheap bastard..........................you CAN change these every 10 years or so.

Posted at 11:34PM on Jan 6th 2008 by Portmanteau

11. Where's the proof that they even belonged to a famous actor of the 50s? If I had them, I'd turn around and sell them on ebay.

Posted at 3:40PM on Jan 6th 2008 by There's One Born Every Minute

12. 6. Totally incorrect usage of the word "magnanimous". Morons.

Posted at 9:17PM on Jan 2nd 2008 by Biker 1957
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magnanimous |magˈnanəməs|
adjective
very generous or forgiving, esp. toward a rival or someone less powerful than oneself.
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HEY DUMBASS!!! How is that word misused? He's GIVING them away! Some weird footfetisher will probably consider this a GENEROUS gift! Pull your head out of you butt! There is nothing worse than when an IDIOT like you brags about how smart they are and in the process show just how stupid they really are! I just hope you read this!!!

Otherwise, what a lame story!

Posted at 7:43AM on Jan 3rd 2008 by You'r an idiot who thinks they a smart!

13. Pesky small print!!! I guess I need glasses now.

Posted at 7:46AM on Jan 3rd 2008 by You're an idiot who thinks they are smart!

14. I guess we'll just have to take his word for it as to where these oh so valuable relics came from....

Posted at 10:06AM on Jan 3rd 2008 by duh

15. Hmmm, I don't think they HAD "Odor Eaters" in the 1950s. Those are probably just the inserts that have detached from the interior of the shoe. A "famous actor from the 1950s" is pretty vague. I'll guess Jerry Mathers. Hell, if they send them to me for free I'll take them. I'm planning a rummage sale this spring.

Posted at 10:08AM on Jan 3rd 2008 by stefano

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