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Ten Awesome Gifts for the Special One-Percenter in Your Life

Dec 8, 2011

by BaronSamedi3
posted in Awesomeness

It's that time of year again! The time when all the gift-giving lists appear, giving you wonderful gift ideas at very reasonable prices. You'll be able to find lists of gifts for your organic-living friend, your geeky friend, your friend who loves to build things, your pyromaniac demolitions expert friend, your friend who keeps used one-shave razors under the bed, and your friend who believes Santa Claus is real. And if you look hard enough, you'll be able to find a great gift for your friend who is and does all of those previous things.

And that covers 99 percent of your friends. After that, there's that trouble spot, the one percent friend. Who, thanks to a recent political movement, now has a term that can be applied: The One-Percent friend.

Buying gifts for your 99-Percent friends is pretty easy. All you have to do is look a little past the end of your nose in order to find a fitting, thoughtful, thrifty gift for the 99-Percenters you know. But what of that One-Percenter in your life for whom money isn't an object?

Here's a list of thoughtful gifts your One-Percenter will love.

NFL

There's nothing your one-percenter pal will love more than an new opportunity to make money hand over fist. The Detroit Lions and Arizona Cardinals may be losing, but if your friend owns an NFL team, he certainly won't.

The NFL is a spectator sport which is priced for and advertised mainly to its secondary fans, with even the cheapest tickets exceeding three digits. Your friend will be able to rake in the dough through memorabilia, tickets, concessions, and advertising. And with one team or another always threatening to move if it doesn't get a new stadium, he can pocket a little bit of tax money if he's cheap and quiet enough.

Screaming Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon

Since your One-Percent friend probably already gets his cheap-ass labor from overseas, we can call this a little bit of a pro-American stealth gift. California's Napa Valley is home to some of the most acclaimed and expensive wines in the world.

This particular wine is a mortgage at an average price of $2,618 a bottle. With fragrances of crushed berry, liquid stone, licorice pastille, violet, and graphite. It's a little bit disorganized upon first taste, but then again, so is the economy.

Enzo Ferrari

What's life in the fast lane without a fast car? The Enzo Ferrari can top out at 217 MPH and hit 60 from zero in 3.4 seconds.

Ha! I almost got that out without laughing. Yes, those speeds are real, but where is there a freeway where you can drive 217? Hell, they only get 14 miles per gallon! These suckers are status symbols. For $670,000, you should get your One-Percenter two, in case he decides to have some fun by driving one into his swimming pool.

Kizuna Encounter

You have to be a little nuts to try to complete a collection for any video game console, but there's a special spot of insane for those who owned the Neo Geo. Even the cheapest games for that sucker hit three digits. And with less than twelve copies of this super-duper-rarity ever having been produced, you're looking at a price tag of $10,000 and upward.

The game itself is a typical tag team fighter from SNK, the makes of quite a few popular fighting games, including Fatal Fury. Actually, in this case you can forget your One-Percenter. I'm a console collector. I'll be happy to get a copy of this one.

Royal Copenhagen

You know what would go really well to serve Screaming Eagle in? Royal Copenhagen, a brand of China that graces the dinner tables of suck celebrities as Elton John and Oprah Winfrey.

Painted in beautiful leaf patterns, these simple, elegant pieces of china will set you back quite a variety of prices ranging from teacups ($1500 each) to dinner plates ($2150 each). A good five-piece set runs $8075. Hey, Oprah likes it, and if it's good enough for the Queen of daytime talk, it's certainly good enough for you!

Polo

If your One-Percenter is into sports, you might consider getting upgrades for his polo equipment. You can buy a perfectly healthy horse for less than $1000, but if you're gonna get good polo gear for your friend, you need to do it right. That's why you should first be setting aside $35,000 for a top-notch horse show jumper!

Of course, to actually ride the horse, you'll need a good saddle, which is why Thornhill is there for you. Once you pony up (pun intended) $1995 for one of Thornhill's platinum saddles, you'll then need polo balls (Pro Chukker, Gold Box of 100 for $295), mallet ($120), and vented helmet ($230). And what if your friend is into other sports? They won't be. Other sports just seem so 99 percent.

Vantare Platinum Plus RV

If your One-Percent friend like to rough it a little, this $2.5 million RV is just the ticket to let the world go during a long camping trip. It includes a 235-gallon gas tank which costs over $1000 just to fill up (you weren't going to rudely present the RV without a full tank, were you?). It also features custom sculptures on the ceiling, marble steps to get up to the cabin, and if the towing car breaks down, there is a sports car which comes conveniently tucked underneath.

I remember once reading about a former US President who enjoyed hunting. He had his era's version of the RV: Rail cars for eating and sleeping. He was also assisted on one trip by 1000 Sioux Indians. Wish your friend luck in trying to find any Indians willing to act as guides.

Almas Belgua Caviar

The word "almas" means diamond. It's only a fitting title for this extremely rare caviar from a beluga, as it costs $25,000 for a single kilo.

There's only one place in the world where this stuff is available, and that's Caviar House and Prunier in London England's Picadilly, where they sell it in a 24-karat gold tin. If you plan to glop it all over a cracker, better make it something better than the Saltines.

U2 - 20 Years of Achtung Baby - Uber Deluxe Edition

One-Percenters can be populists, right? Its been 20 years since the original release of the classic U2 album Achtung Baby, and U2 is celebrating it with a garish, overdone box set which might have gone better with their garish, overdone record Pop. It comes with the original Achtung Baby, the follow-up album, Zooropa, b-sides and reworkings of previously unheard material first recorded during the original sessions, four DVDs including a new doc called From the Sky Down, the concert video Zoo TV: Live from Sydney, and all the Achtung Baby music videos with bonus material. On the print side, there are five 7-inch vinyl singles in their original sleeves, 16 art prints taken from the original album sleeve, an 84-page hardcover book, a copy of Propaganda magazine, four badges, a sticker sheet, and a pair of Bono's bitchin' shades.

It doesn't include any concert passes, but it does cost $630. You know, for the people.

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JSMaresca December 10, 2011

That Platinum RV will go far to advance global warming !

BaronSamedi3 December 10, 2011

So will the Enzo!

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BaronSamedi3 December 08, 2011

Thank you, thank you, and thank you!

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devora December 08, 2011

Genius list! I'll take all of them. The Enzo in red, please, and my ring size is 3.3 :P

BaronSamedi3 December 09, 2011

You can get the Enzo in any color, as long as it's yellow!

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woopak_the_thrill December 08, 2011

I love this list! I think you may have inspired me to do my own LOL!

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djevoke December 08, 2011

This list rocks! Considered it shared!

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