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60 S.S. Giftology: Ribcaps!

ae9a7_ribcap.jpg If you're like me, the advent of snow during the holidays brings snow, which then triggers the "extreme" response — extreme sledding, extreme groin skiing, and extreme avalanche backstroke. I've performed all of these activities without cranial protection, because I can't find a helmet that matches my high-fashion standards in headware. Now I can't count past ten. Luckily for you or your winter extremes-loving giftee, today's Giftology entry will keep their frontal cortex both stylish and protected.

Ribcaps have all the jam-banderiffic style of your regular woolen beanie, but with the added bonus of StructUre closed-cell foam, which upon impact with trees, the ground, or 5-year-olds who refuse to move out of the way, transforms from a flexible state to a semi-rigid or even fully rigid state to protect all the neurons in your shreddin' brain case. You'll need those for later, when you bake them out of existence with some really dank weed.

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