Daily One Inch Button Rerun: Raw Pink Sushi

Let's take a trip to a sushi restaurant, shall we? You're sitting in front of the conveyor belt, plate ready to receive your delicious sushi. You're not quite sure what you want to eat today but that's okay, because the conveyor belt has a plethora of goodies from which you can make your decision. All of a sudden, you see it: the raw pink shrimp sushi. It's almost as if it's just beaming up at you, wanting you to just snatch it up. All of a sudden, you see someone a little further down from you who looks like he may take it. You sneak a marble out of your pocket and throw it down on the floor where it makes a loud clatter, and by the time your competitor is done realizing what made the sound you already have the raw pink shrimp sushi on your plate. Good going, sneaky sushi loving warrior.

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Daily One Inch Button - Vampire Bear Yaaay!

He's Vampire Bear and he's excited about something - maybe about the fact that the office is relocating to the East coast and that is something that is simultaneously a little bit sad and a little bit happy. Maybe he's excited that this week, for the first time ever, his lesson in Hebrew Reading incorporates nothing but real words in the Hebrew language. I would be pretty excited if I were him, personally. If you want to learn how to read Hebrew, check out Learn To Read Hebrew with Vampire Bear!

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Daily One Inch Button Rerun - Old TV

Note: For the rest of the month of August, we are going to run classic buttons every weekday except for Thursdays. We are working on a new website that will allow you to see all of the buttons at once on a nice looking page. Whee!

Oh, televisions. In ye old merry times, we would watch things like the moon walk and President Nixon admitting that he was not, in fact, a crook. Okay, so I wasn't alive for either of those monumental events but many people watched them on old televisions like this adorable one here.

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Daily One Inch Button Rerun - Lucky Owl

Note: For the rest of the month of August, we are going to run classic buttons every weekday except for Thursdays. We are working on a new website that will allow you to see all of the buttons at once on a nice looking page. Whee!

There is no price you can put on good health. If there were, and this owl really were able to bring you good health, then that price would be exactly one dollar. I don't know about you but that seems like a pretty good deal to me. It doesn't hurt that this is a pretty nice looking owl. Out of all of the buttons we sell at I Heart Rummage and Crafty Wonderland, this is the one that people continue to look at, admire, and purchase every single time without hesitation. Maybe we should have taken some photos of our happy customers so you could see how much they just love the owl button.

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Daily One Inch Button Rerun - Maneki Neko - Beckoning Cat

Note: For the rest of the month of August, we are going to run classic buttons every weekday except for Thursdays. We are working on a new website that will allow you to see all of the buttons at once on a nice looking page. Whee!

According to some very interesting sites I have scrutinized, over sixty percent of Maneki Nekos have their left paw raised - the others have their right paw raised. Why does our maneki neko have its right paw raised? Why, indeed, is the cat's paw raised so high?

The reason he is raising his right paw is because by doing so, he attracts money and good fortune - who isn't into that? The height is all about distance - the higher the paw, the greater of a distance his magic will go; if, of course, you do believe in the powers of the maneki neko, that is.

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Daily One Inch Button Rerun - Portable Tape Deck

Note: For the rest of the month of August, we are going to run classic buttons every weekday except for Thursdays. We are working on a new website that will allow you to see all of the buttons at once on a nice looking page. Whee!

Many men (and women) were and currently are able to walk with this device, which did not necessarily mean that they were or are even now walk men and walk women. I personally was super jealous when my friends got newer models than me with all kinds of fancy functions whereas mine seemed to be older and came from sales of the garage variety. I was actually looking for one earlier today - it has a special function that allows it to record via an internal or external microphone. That's a special kind of tape deck.

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Daily One Inch Button - Vampire Bear Shephard

Oh, Vampire Bear - how you care about your farm. You even invited little Shrimpy to help you watch over the sheep. It's a big job but somebody has to do it. Wouldn't you know it - it just so happens that this is a great mnemonic for helping teach people about the letter Shin in the Hebrew aleph bet? It's part of Vampire Bear's great educational series, Learn to Read Hebrew with Vampire Bear! You can learn about reading Hebrew and have lots of fun as well. If wearing cool buttons is your thing, we have the right buttons for you. Where else would you get your buttons?

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Daily One Inch Button Rerun - Charles Bronson

Note: For the rest of the month of August, we are going to run classic buttons every weekday except for Thursdays. We are working on a new website that will allow you to see all of the buttons at once on a nice looking page. Whee!

He came from the most humble of backgrounds - he was one of many children, a father from Lithuania and a family that was so destitute that they struggled just to get by. Charles Bronson, it is said, went to Hollywood not because acting seemed glamorous but because he thought it could pay the bills.

Charles changed his given surname to Bronson to appear more American - important in those times of very strict anti-Communist thought. He went from being pretty well known around Europe to starring in the Death Wish series of movies, inspiring people to take up arms and fight their own vigilante battles. He was a great man, and he shall be missed. Wear him on your coat with pride.

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Daily One Inch Button Rerun - Cute Bathtub

Note: For the rest of the month of August, we are going to run classic buttons every weekday except for Thursdays. We are working on a new website that will allow you to see all of the buttons at once on a nice looking page. Whee!

Aw, look - he's so happy to see you. You're probably thrilled to see him too after a long day of working hard at the coal mines or the cubicle. Sometimes it's great even just to put your feet in the tub - hot water + soap = good loving feeling.

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Daily One Inch Button - Shaved Ice Kakigori

Sometimes when you are in the mood for a cold dessert food, ice cream just won't do it. No, you want something made out of shaved ice, perhaps something that has been sweetened. The good news is that you can find your sweet treat in the form of kakigori, or Japanese sweetened shaved ice. Though sometimes electric machines are used to shave the ice needed for kakigori, in the summer you can find street vendors all over Japan manually shaving big blocks of ice. Kakigori is sometimes served in coffee shops with bean paste and ice cream. Makes me want to have some right now.

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Daily One Inch Button - Florence Griffith-Joyner Flo-Jo

I remember sitting in my friend Eric's living room in the late 1980s and watching an episode of the awesome television sitcom 227 when none other than Florence Griffith-Joyner, better known as Flo-Jo made an appearance and an appeal to the character on the show to keep on keeping on. I also remember watching her during the Olympics and being amazed at her speed. You can see the controversial race where she beat a world record for the 100 Meter dash in 1988 here. The controversy was that the wind reading equipment stated that the wind was within the allowed limits but later it was determined that the equipment was faulty and it had been quite windy; nevertheless, she continues to hold the title. Her death in 1998 was a devastating loss to the athletic community and the world at large.

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Daily One Inch Button - Vampire Bear Soup

Ah, hot soup! Hot soup is great on a cold day but apparently it can also be quite good on a hot day as well. This is because it warms you on the inside and so the outside heat affects you just a little bit less. I have been told that this is why it is actually better to drink cold drinks on a cold day rather than hot drinks. Either way, Vampire Bear is using the soup to teach about yet another letter in the Hebrew aleph bet in his internationally acclaimed series, Learn to Read Hebrew with Vampire Bear. Have you been following that series, and are you learning how to read Hebrew? It's a pretty nifty language, I think.

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Daily One Inch Button - Principal Belding

He was the target of all of Zack's trickery - and he fell for it again and again and again. At the end of the day, he was the one who ended up teaching Zack, Kelly, Screech, Lisa, A.C. Slater, Jessie, and all the kids watching a good lesson.

Who can forget when an earthquake hit and his very pregnant wife gave birth in an elevator? (Why don't shows ever feature pregnant women who are forced to give birth on a stopped escalator? Probably because they can walk off.)

He was there for the brief mishap known as "The College Years" (Year?) and then came back for "The New Class" which was oddly longer in years than the original. Funny how that goes. (Kind of like how Degrassi: The New Generation has been on longer than the original? Should we make D:TNG buttons? I think I want a Liberty button!)

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Daily One Inch Button - I Heart Alpacas

They give us wool freely. Aren't they adorable?

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Daily One Inch Button - Beer, beer, beer!

I think if there were a revised version of the classic "Take me out to the Ballgame," it would include beer in there somewhere. Granted, beer is nearly as overpriced at ballparks as it is in some bars (One of my favorite lines from The 40 Year Old Virgin is when a character is explaining that the bar is crowded because it is "Nine dollar beer night") but it's part of the experience, right?

Speaking of price, I actually had the distinct honor (I think that's the right word) of having one can each of Pabst Blue Ribbon and Rainier beer - if for no other reason than I had never tried them and my friends usually call me a "beer snob" because I prefer tap-pulled beers made by McMenamin's to canned beers by just about anyone. It was a different experience, and I don't mean that negatively.

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Daily One Inch Button - Sid Vicious

Let's just put it out there: as Hunter S. Thompson said, he was too rare to live and too weird to die; he did anyhow, and far too early in his life. Consider this: he joined The Sex Pistols in early 1977 and by January of 1978, the group broke up. It is widely believed this was due to the influence of his girlfriend, who introduced him to heroin. Sid died in 1979 at the incredibly young age of 21, but his influence on the music world has been immense despite the fact that it was agreed that he was a fairly competent bass guitar player at best. Mr. Vicious: you are missed.

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Daily One Inch Button - Vampire Bear Serves Tea

It looks like it's time for a tea party, or maybe Vampire Bear is just having his two dear friends Goobie Bear and Shrimpy over for tea. Either way, he is using the opportunity to teach them about the wonderful letter tav, which makes a solid "tea" sound in the hebrew aleph bet. It's all part of his weekly lessons, "Learn to Read Hebrew with Vampire Bear." What a wonderful lesson to learn. Also, I can't help but think it would be nice to have a cup of tea with Vampire Bear. Don't you?

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Daily One Inch Button - John "Hannibal" Smith

He was a decorated war hero and a colonel - or a lieutenant colonel, depending on how you looked at it. For four years, he was the leader of the fearless team of men trying to evade the military (wanted for a crime... he didn't commit) while taking on dangerous jobs for money. He was the one who would throw on a disguise to see if the team's clients were legitimate or just fronts for the military. He was also the one that, according to our man B.A. Baracus, would get a bit crazy while "on the jazz." There was nothing like seeing Hannibal set off an explosion with the use of his ever present cigar.

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Daily One Inch Button - Compost It!

Studies show that putting organic material in the trash creates more methane than just about anything else. Think about that for a minute.

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Daily One Inch Button - Miso Soup

You know that one commercial where the snowman kid comes home and he's obviously really cold, and his mother serves up a big piping hot bowl of soup? (Where is the father in this picture? Just wondering.) How much more satisfied would the boy have been post melting had the soup been a nice hearty miso instead of the store bought made from condensed full of preservatives soup that the mother chose to make? How much healthier would that former snow boy be? I'll tell you right now that he would be one healthy child. Treat yourself (and your snow children) to some hearty miso soup today.

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Daily One Inch Button - Divine

For many people, there is one name that they associate with the name Divine and that is John Waters. For years they worked together, John Waters at the helm and Divine as actress extraordinaire. You only have to watch Pink Flamingos the one time to remember Divine forever. Tragically, even though Divine found success with roles in films such as Hairspray (when the film was remade, the role she played amusingly went to John Travolta who did a spectacular job) she was struck down far too early in life. Who knows what could have been and what inspired performances Divine could have put on had she not passed on so young? We shall remember her in our hearts and DVD players.

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