YSaC, Vol. 209: Shouldn’t we have prevented the Germans, instead?

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4 pcs french preventional dining room set – $275


China cabinet and serving/buffet table in great condition
table and 6 chairs.
the table has a leaf, the chairs all need to be re-apolsterd.
cash and carry xxx-xxx-xxxx

That “thud” sound you hear is me banging my head on the desk. Repeatedly.

As if French Prudential wasn’t bad enough, now we have French Preventional. What, exactly, are they preventing? Whatever it is, they’re French — it won’t work! It will be like the Maginot Line of furniture. The chairs will launch an aerial assault on the china cabinet and the buffet table will surrender immediately.

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37 responses to “YSaC, Vol. 209: Shouldn’t we have prevented the Germans, instead?”

  1. Monica Hamburg Avatar

    Could you bang this person’s head against your desk instead of your own…?

  2. Carlos Avatar
    Carlos

    Priceless…

    I’m sure it will be French Provisional next!

  3. TeDiouS Avatar
    TeDiouS

    well, I figure “Preventional” at least sounds closer to Provincial than “Prudential” does…

    But as for the chairs that need to be re-apolsterd (it took me three tries to type it that wrong!) – where does one go for apolstery work? Must be a specialized field, I would think. Those damned preventional french and their fancy apolstery…going to cost a fortune to get it done.

    1. ktoui Avatar
      ktoui

      I think its going to cost a fortune to “get’er done” ;-}

  4. Are you ok? Avatar
    Are you ok?

    Don’t hit your head too hard, you might need to be re-apolsterd.

    1. Chinese Avatar

      서먼드는 1990년대에도 고령에 이르렀는데도 계속 활

      1. Spaceman.Spiff Avatar
        Spaceman.Spiff

        Looks like hangul to me.

  5. Are you ok? Avatar
    Are you ok?

    TeDiouS: LOL

  6. candace Avatar
    candace

    LMAO…that is too funny.

  7. Martha Avatar

    The re-apolsterd made me stop and LAUGH.

  8. Random Person Avatar
    Random Person

    I don’t know, TeDiouS. I was just thinking about that myself, and I sort of feel like “prudential” is a better overall match. Same number of syllables, same stress pattern. But I was also thinking, “at least this one managed to pick a word with ‘v’ in it.”

  9. Tyler Avatar

    If this picture series constitutes the Maginot Line, what would the Germans send? Obviously, heavy black forest hutches would override the line in days.

    Of course, the American recliners would soon come to save the French, proclaiming, “Lafayette, we are here!”

  10. rolyole Avatar
    rolyole

    I believe there has been a mis-hyphen, it should be reapoles-turd.

  11. Baron von Rochester Avatar

    This was hilarious … especially your quip about the “Maginot Line of furniture.”

  12. Dindrane Avatar
    Dindrane

    Maybe the chairs are heretical and need to be re-apostled? Do you need a priest to handle that, or just a good dunking in a nearby spring?

    1. Dave and Ferret Tribe Avatar

      I’d be worried that they’d commit re-apostasy.

  13. beware_the_spoon Avatar
    beware_the_spoon

    I like that it is a 4 piece set with 6 chairs.
    Math Fail.

    1. Janellionaire Avatar
      Janellionaire

      Maybe the “pcs” meant “pictures.” There are four pictures, after all. Could be we’re reading this all wrong, and they are actually just selling snapshots of some crappy old furniture.

  14. El Kev Avatar
    El Kev

    Damn! beware_the_spoon stole my comment.

  15. iconoclastiac Avatar

    I am not sure what was funnier, the ad’s speeling or the text accompanying the post, but I burst out laughing. This preventional furniture will also prevent illness through the use of laughter therapy.

  16. JMeister Avatar
    JMeister

    This isn’t the same guy that was responsible for “The Table”, is it?

  17. Karmyn Avatar
    Karmyn

    Why do people keep trying to prevent the French? They’ve been around a long time now. They may eat weird things and hate others, but they’re not going anywhere.

    1. Dave and Ferret Tribe Avatar

      I hear that French preventional furniture is all the rage in certain parts of London.

  18. TacoMagic Avatar

    We tried to prevent the French. We failed. I’m sorry, guys.

  19. Smedley Avatar

    “Inglourious Apolsterds”

    Nazi-hating furniture behind enemy lines in WWII.

  20. Smedley Avatar

    OK, got an “Out of Memory at Line 17” error with the edit.

    1. Windrose Avatar
      Windrose

      Congratulations, you win a day of free intertubes!

  21. Windrose Avatar
    Windrose

    Mademoiselle has furniture, parley vous?
    All of the chairs need apolstering, parley vous?
    Mademoiselle is selling things
    She thinks they’re French, she’s such a *ding*
    Hinky dinky parley vous!

  22. Windrose Avatar
    Windrose

    Today the box is full with Sister Mary Rudabaga and Dave and Ferret Tribe. I was thinking up an Owl and Ferret poem, but the pea green boat made me giggle too much.

  23. Windrose Avatar
    Windrose

    Well, that was a. . .day. Sister Mary Rudy and Duh-aaayyyyee-veeee, here are your matched Punchity Punch Punches!

    G’Night, Virginia Schmitz!

  24. Dick Goesinya Avatar
    Dick Goesinya

    Your site is garbage… seriously it isn’t even kind of funny. You are a fucking moron and should spend your time looking at stuff that is creative rather than waste your time here trying to be creative. Perhaps I should simplify it for you; not everybody is cut to be an astronaut. Make sense to you? Your not cut out for online creativity.

    I stumbled on this shit blog today and spent all of 20 minutes trying to find something to laugh at, then it hit me. The irony is you. In fact, you are so lame that I laugh at your existence.

    The best you can come up with is playing grammar police on a back page swap meet site?

    You should hang yourself.

    1. mud "bookish-y" slicker Avatar
      mud “bookish-y” slicker

      No worries!!!! Look at the file you’re on……February 12, 2009.

      And it’s YOU’RE dipshit!!!

      1. TacoMagic Avatar

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        So much fun to play with.

        Too bad my primary blog has only had one crazy person… and I’m pretty sure it was just a malfunctioning spambot at that.

  25. Dick Goesinya Avatar
    Dick Goesinya

    @ mud “bookish-y” slicker

    good me good fucker. Wow total blast on YOUR part.

    Do the world a favor and die

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    1. funky "looking innuendo" monkey Avatar
      funky “looking innuendo” monkey

      1.21 gigawatts? Great Scott!

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