YSaC, Vol. 1529: This must be phase FIVE.
2013 June 6
Ball of gigants – $500
I have this incredible champions giants ball is signed by all the players want 500dls champions or best offer is genuine.
Gigants? Gigants? I think I saw Joel and the bots watching a movie full of gigants! It was in black and white, and starred Cesar Romero. Or possibly Claude Raines. Darn that gamma radiation. Sure, atomic energy is cuddly and all, but… gigants!
Also, what does this poster want 50 deciliters OF, do you think? The value is obviously quite different if it’s tritium-enriched heavy water or just a bucket of Natty Boh.
Thanks for the link, Camille!
Puréed Champions‘ run as the hit show at the 40waTt 2niTe thwarted by the lack of a grave in the stack of signboard letters.
Liquidized Giants by the dL a clear contender for a Wave on Wave cover band.
Morning all!!!!!!! Here is the post with its punctuation restored…….”I have this incredible champion’s giants. Ball is signed by all. The players want 5 oodls. Champions, or best offer, is genuine.” While I realize it still doesn’t make much sense, at least it doesn’t have all those red pencil correction marks all over it…… Thank goodness, two more days of classes, and I can get out of grading mode for a while. Thanks Windy, C…..J, and TC for all your help and inspiration!!!!!!!
Dang, dude, when does your school year start?
All of the urchins, and their educators, in Texas are now loose to whatever ends they intend.
They Might Be Gigants never made it as a cover band, as their alleged fan base was too hip, and disdained them, Disdain!
From the crotch of the Jolly Green Gigant?
The movie was “Them.”
My favorite story of gigants is Isaac Asimov’s “Dreamworld.”
My favorite story of gigants is mentioned here.
Dave, thanks for the info! I really want to read that now. 8)
Dollars Champions: They may not be the heroes Gotham deserves, but they’re the heroes Gotham can afford right now.
Until Bane blows up the stadium, anyway
(and to further show my geekery, Gotham’s actual football team are the Knights)
“It’s THEMMMMMMMMMMM!!”*
*extra coffee slices if you get the reference
So how much is five oodles? That’s what he wants for it, right? Or am I reading it wrong?
About the same as elebenty schnarcks, I think –depending on the exchange rate of bumdiddles to doberthnocks.
(I’ve been on a plane listening to a mom read Dr. Seuss to her little boy. But I don’t think there are any side effects, right?)
I don’t know, that Seuss guy’s books do seem to have some sort of lasting effect. I mean after listening to and reading so many when I was a kid, I couldn’t spell correctly or use proper grammar until I was much older. Unfortunately a lot of people get stuck in “Seussian”, as can clearly be seen by everything from Facebook posts to articles posted on major news website. I think adults who read or unintentionally listen to those books might regress back to the vocabulary and spelling of their childhood.* I don’t think those books are good.**
*This may or may not actually be true.
**This definitely is not true.
Some of us take a side trip to Whoville and never leave. 8)
How will he judge if my best offer is genuine?
MissMNN….That’s….”How will He judge if my best offer is genuine?” That’s kind of the ultimate question we will all ask one day, no?
Natty Boh? Are you from Baltimore? 😉
Now that you mention it…
I believe you mean ” Balmore”
Close. I think the accepted regional standard is Balm’r, most ubiquitously followed by ‘hon.’
Conversely, the city of Dundalk is pronounced with, at minimum, 3 syllables. It’s kind of like the tree rings of the area – the more established the resident, the more syllables are apparent in the word.
Off topic because there’s nowhere to snark about freecycle posts.
Somebody posted the following today. This is the entire message.
While brevity is the soul of wit, it can also be the harbinger of confusion, the demon of disorder, and the prince of perplexity. In this case, I think the text is missing an important punctuation. Clearly there should be a comma after stuff, which makes it more clear that this person is an amateur furniture mover who’s sitting forelornly on the curb waiting to be hired.
Now back to your regular sparkies.
“Prince of Perplexity” is the Prince all-drag queen cover band’s name. I hear they all wear berets and perform only in barns.
I don’t know about the 500 deciliters… I thought it was 5 Oodles. I think I have some of those cups left over from my undergrad days as emergency zombie invasion rations.
Convert to cubic knife and solve for gigahugenormous.
C””J, mudsy, Digi, How do you like the new Tardis version of the box? Punchity Punch Punch!
Good Morning, San Francisco!
It’s smaller on the outside!