I was fully expecting to receive Roadkill's and Label's latest tees in the mail today, but little did I know a Bestee-phant was also gonna be stampeding up to my doorstop crushing cars and lives Jumanji-style before turning into a smaller silver version of itself and roll around in bubble wrap and fall into a box. Weirder things have happened, it's a big world.



When I saw the "Frah-gee-lay" stickers on the side of the box, old A Christmas Story waves of excitement washed over me. True, this wasn't gonna be as epic as a lady's leg that illuminated a room, but a damned close runner up I'm sure.



Not only was Threadless giving me an award I'm extremely honored to receive, they have also graced me with the gift of miles and miles of bubble wrap to burst apart bit by bit for the next couple of days! My OCDs have found a new outlet!



Picture taken from an extreme angle to give the Threadless elephant some sort of scary-looking stampede trampling action. It seems like it's coming straight out of the screen to trample a keyboard hand, doesn't it? Eh? Ok, so only the crickets I'm hearing thought that might happen...



The t-shirt loving mini-Stampy also comes with a small plate commemorating the bestee you won in 2007, so there's proof that I didn't just sit in the bushes of suburban Malaysia waiting for Flying Mouse's Threadless box to appear before I grabbed it.



The combination of it being 4am and the fact that I was partially buzzed made it seem like the Bestee elephant needed a group photo of zany friends to welcome it into my dusty, dusty shelves.



Okay, I'm definitely enjoying this way too much now.



And here's just a photo of Dr. Hibbard heartily examining a part those in the medical field call "Elephantiasis of the Buttocks".

I hope no one thinks this is intended to "rub in" getting a Bestee at all, I just thought some fellow Threadheads might want to know what it looked like and to share the experience with me...thank you oh so much Threadless, and again congrats to all others who got a Bestee in '07 and all the folks who will no doubt dominate the 08' field as well!