YSaC, Vol. 476: The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of
2009 November 5
MANY THINGS
full size head board and frame $30
desk $30
please reply with interest time and day you could pick up
email or text ###-###-#### or ###-###-####
To quote the King of All Cosmos, “My, the world is certainly full of things.” And this ad has many things in it. You can tell, because it tells you so. There’s a headboard and frame. And a desk. And.. er.. well, did we mention the headboard? With a frame? Really? I don’t think we did.
Thanks for the link, Eric!
Well, I can see at least eight things listed for sale in this ad, and some of them may be real bargains. The problem is that the hasn’t been punctuated clearly. Allow me:
Full-size head, board, and frame: $30
Desk: $30
Please reply with interest. Time and day, you could pick up; [also] email or text.
I’m really interested on his prices for Time in particular, because this is a difficult part of the semester, and I could use a few extra hours to get caught up on my work. In fact, if he’s selling that whole Day for cheap enough, I might go for that. (Heck, he doesn’t list a price: maybe they’re free?)
But I’ve got plenty of Text right now. No need for more of that.
I wonder if he’ll only accept interest when I reply. I’d hate to have that $30 principal monkey on my back for the rest of my life.
Principal Monkey is going to be my favorite character on the new show Kung Fu Styles High School.
Well, him and Drama Coach Crane.
In Soviet Russia, Georgia’s always on my my my my my my my my my mind.
No, no: In Soviet Russia, you are always on Georgia’s my-my-my-my-my-my-my-my-my-mind.
This is something like the third day going that either the post or the comments have had Beatles’ references. I’m liking this development. Thanks, guys!
Lola, the title mentioned the Walrus again, too. Sure it’s a different Walrus (maybe–who really knows what was going on in Lennon’s drug-addled brain?), but still it’s sort of a Beatles’ reference.
Where’s the picture of the head? I need to know what condition the head is in before I can reply with interest.
And here I thought Time and Day were the names of two people he was trying inform that they “could pick up”.
Why do I crave a fortune cookie right now?
Maybe he means Morris Day and the Time?
So…he’s also offering some Jungle Love with the other “many things”?
Maybe, but there’s no mention of a bearskin rug and a fireplace …
A definite lack of shoes, ships, sealing wax, cabbages and kings – no deal.
I spent probably the first 15 years of my life thinking the poem referred to “ceiling wax.” None of that here either though, whatever it is.
You are not alone. I once wondered what ceiling wax was, also. I recall thinking that it must be something that was used to patch a leak in the ceiling.
…until you posted this, I didn’t realize it *wasn’t* ceiling wax. Which, now that I consider it, makes no sense, but I never thought anything about it. To be fair, though, it’s Lewis Carrol, so making sense is optional.
count me as one of the “ceiling wax” believers as well!
Did none of you read the book? Seeing the Disney movie doesn’t count as reading. You young people today with your interwebs and the google! Hmphf!
Hey now! I thought it was ceiling wax because my parents read it to me when I was 3 or so…I didn’t read it until I found the book again when I was 12ish! Besides…ceiling, sealing…same idea.
YSAC now deserves its own “The More You Know” commercial.
count me in, too. and I even knew what “sealing wax” was from a young age.
Not only Mr. Carrol, but also Puff the Magic Dragon. Strings and ceiling wax. Of course, I tied a broken string of faux pearls around a horse figurine and pretended it was a dragon.
Not much of why the sea is boiling hot, either. Dang.
Or whether pigs have wings.
A shame, there’s a lot of stuff my Mom said would happen on the day pigs start flying.
Is there a deck in there? My Level 12 Rogue could use extra experience points…
What, too lazy to fight kobolds in the woods or what?
Dang, all he’s got is things. I was really looking for stuff, but I suppose I could settle for things. Better than dohickies at least.
I concur. There is a serious lacking of thingamabobs anywhere on Craigslist. It’s a travesty!
By the way…what’s wrong with dohickies? Did they go out of style and I missed it? I hate when that happens.
I have no actual problem with dohickies, but I’ve got a thingamabob themed room that can be accentuated rather nicely with stuff. And, we all know that dohickies clash something awful with thingamabobs. Things go ok with thingamabobs but the look gets kind of redundant while stuff adds the desired depth to the aesthetic.
And of course, things go better with Coke.
Open your eyes, people! The desk has shelves! The headboard has shelves! I’ve never seen so many shelves in one CL ad! This is truly many things.
You could put “stuff” on those shelves.
And then you could talk amongst yourshelves.
Reduced to the straight man again. 8)
For a second, I thought the headboard was a church pew. Damn, that’s one shelfy headboard.
I used to have one that looked like that – in the 1980s. It also had a round mirror with frosted roses. A little bit “best little whorehouse” and I’m surprised that my parents bought it for me. What can I say – I was 14.
My parents had a waterbed version with the flowered mirror and shelves, but it was this really dark, shiny wood. I think they got it in the early eighties after I showed up, I’ve got vague memories of Dad running a hose through the bedroom window so he could fill it from the outside tap.
I’ve lasted a little bit longer, but then there hasn’t been a cat trying to sharpen it’s claws on me.
Ever see a cat try to sharpen it’s claws on a waterbed? I have. It’s really funny until your dad goes to bed and finds his feet are wet. That’s how we ended up with declawed cats when I was little.
Had a roommate who left an unsheathed dagger on her water bed headboard. Yup. Big slice, couldn’t patch it. A bit later she got married, and I inherited the bed frame. Put a queen size mattress in it, and it lived a nice long life.
Sarajean –
Dark, shiny wood? Sounds like I had the twin to your parents’ headboard. It was on a regularly-mattressed bed, though.
My parents didn’t get rid of it until a few years ago. I miss it even as was also an embarrassing reminder of florid, early-adolescent taste.
My parents also had a waterbed, and we also had cats. But we never declawed them. I remember when the beloved waterbed was finally put out to pasture a few years ago. It was so sad, all deflated and lying in a heap in the yard, covered with patches. When I saw how many times we’d had to patch it over the years, I couldn’t believe it lasted as long as it did.
Great, now I just want to go home and play Katamari.
I feel the cosmos.
I hope you’re not talking about the King’s cosmic package.
Omg, you noticed it too!? I’m so glad I’m not the only one who noticed, I thought I was just filthy.
Moxie, anyone who played the first game and DIDNT notice is either blind or lying…and if you were referring to the picture on the website…yeah…wow, that’s worse than any of the games. He’s damn near David-esque with his junk all unbridled…
On a seperate note:
“Cosmic Package” would be a great band name.
Musical style similar to “Yes”.
Wow, I interpreted that totally differently from everyone else. I thought you meant you’d had a pink drink or two and were experiencing the effects.
Nope, video game.
And I thought that package was where he KEPT “all the cosmos”. Looks like he’s stuffing SOMETHING down there.
But are they Needful Things?
Regards,
Stephen King
Naaaaaa na na na na na na nana Katamari Damacy!
… curiouser and curiouser!
If I reply with indifference, will he still sell me his many things?
Who taught this guy to count, one of Pratchett’s trolls? “One, two, many, lots!”
Maybe he has no fingers? I mean really, who can count without fingers?
“One. Two. But then there are shelves, so that may count as more ‘things’. Hmmmm….how many comes after two…..DAMN THESE FLIPPER HANDS!!!!”
Now I feel bad, making fun of a grown-up Thalidomide baby or something.
Don’t be. I watched an episode of one of those true crime shows on A&E, and it was about a guy called “Lobster Man”.
Yeah, he was a son of a bitch who beat his wife and terrorized his kids, till someone killed him.
Now I don’t feel bad about making fun of anyone. No hands doesn’t mean you can’t be stupid or evil. We’re all fair game.
Meredith –
I saw that in action at lunch today. This older woman parked her walker semi-adjacent to a table in the (self-service) restaurant and then went into the bathroom (unassisted). A man came along and seeing no one there, moved it. She came back out and bitched at him. He offered her the table but she played the martyr card and loudly sat nearby instead. I actually thought, “Yeah, just because she’s disabled doesn’t mean she’s not a jerk.”
Oh I love finding people who make the same jokes I do… My non-reading friends never understand me…
Quoting lines from a book back and forth with someone is just as fun as doing it from a film, but people who don’t read frequently don’t seem to understand that. Several of my friends are people with whom I bonded by discovering we referred to the same books/authors. And yes, I am a lit geek.
I would have asked why you had non-reading friends, and then I remembered that one of my best friends cant even spell “friend”…or pretty much any other word. The only thing she ever reads is a road map.
If he was a Pratchett troll that would explain his counting system and all we would have to do in order to make him a little smarter is lower the temperature. If only it was as easy to make all the CL posters smarter.
It is tempting to want to herd them all into a massive internet Pork Futures Warehouse, but on the other hand, if we did, we wouldn’t have this site …
Igor? Igor! Oh, where did that wretch get off to now. Bother.
Yay, I have a picthure now! Or I should, let’s see if it works.
Couldn’t find anything special yet, so is just meh face.
Why won’t it WORK???!!!
Good to finally see you, Meredith!
Why shank you.
Meredith is beautiful! The YSAC ladies are fly. But I can say that, as a lady. *NO CREEPINESS HERE I PROMISE*
Yeah, it looks like everyone on YSaC who has a picture is top quality (assuming authentic pictures, that is)–although a few look like birds, cats, or monks. And no creepiness intended here, either, as I’m a very happily and devoted married guy.
Why yes! I AM this shaggy in real life!
Dude, this monk picture is totally a picture of me. I have a full head of hair, and I don’t wear robes, but this is my face.
(Well, actually the mustache is a little bit incorrect. But it’s basically a good likeness.)
and then there are those of us that are little yellow eggy cars….the cutest of them all.
I’m a barreleye aka cockpit fish.
I’m just as cute but have less fur on my face.
so that’s what that is sfaye, I did wonder
Thank you Heather. I like your….jello mold??? Buffalo wings???
Oh, and we get creepy here all the time…no worries.
It looks like one of the unfortunate jello concoctions from Liliek’s Regrettable Food gallery
EDIT: Found it! http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/knox/6.html
Why, yes it is one of Lilek’s jello molds! Some of you may also recognize me and my mold from the lovely comments section at Everything is Terrible! (I’m looking at you, Isaac). Over there my jello mold actually glows (like on Lilek’s site). I’m easily amused.
Now that you have a picture up, I have confirmed that you are indeed not my cousin Meredith. I suppose I could have confirmed that by just asking you, but I’m lazy like that. 🙂
hmmmmm. let’s see if this works.
sooo, that works, but not my other e-mail. BIzarrre.
at least you didn’t accidently change your name as I did
Aw, c’mon people! Two things is a “many”!
I have many hands! And many feet!
No, wait, scratch that. I guess two things ISN’T a “many” after all.
In Watership Down (the book not the movie) rabbits cannot count above four. Everything else is their word for many “hrair”
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that rabbits cannot count above four in real life, either.
I’m at my desk working on a design for a book about bathroom humor and Marketing wants to me to base the design I did for a book about the history of toilet paper. oh. my. god. It’s too much!
Is it the infamous Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader? My parents keep one in the downstairs bathroom for “company”.
Nah, nothing so successful. Think “Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader for the Urban Outfitters/Spencers” crowd. Do they even still buy books?
Do candy bar wrappers count?
I buy half my books there. “Hipster Haircuts and the toolbags who wear them”
“The Slutbags Guide to Dating”
“Moustaches”
What I really want is a book called “Everybody Poops….and it’s Disgusting”
I just read an article about how important toilet paper is, and it’s overlooked impact on the modern world.
Think about how different everything would be if we were still using our left hand.
I’m left handed, so “Eww.”
Ditto and ditto.
How many of us are lefties? I am.
I’m not *totally* sure what you refer to here, but I’m right-handed. I’m still going to hell, though, because I’m a ginger.
Wait, ok so I’ve read the bible several times through but never thought about this…if gingers have no soul, they don’t go to hell, right?
*note* I’m not looking to incite religious debate; just looking for what various religions say about it
I thought people used leaves and other detritus to begin with D:
Why do people have butt cheeks anyway? It makes going poo a chore! I know, I know, it’s the whole “walking upright” thing and having to sit…but it would be easier to have cushier chairs and no butts.
We would slide off!!! Think of all the people trying to sit, and everyone sliding forward all the time!!!
giggle giggle
Other animals have butts and don’t walk upright. Although I recall from my college Anatomy and Physiology class that the feline gluteus maximus is the smaller of the glutes and the gluteus minimus is the larger because cats don’t walk upright. I imagine it’s similar with other tetrapods.
I can’t remember the title, but there is a song on a recent Dr. Demento collection about not having a butt. It’s so funny. The mind is going. I can feel it.
but like…all these other animals, their bumhole is not between two flabby cheeks! it’s so unsanitary! I’ve studied comparative phys and I think all terrestrial mammals have both glutes, so I don’t know why none of them would have these hideous cheeks if they were at all practical.
“I’m a ginger”? I assume that doesn’t mean your hair colour, name, or preferencial spice.
Then again, your hair does look a bit ginger-y.
Better red than dead, arallyn.
My left-handedness will never forgive you for that visual.
I too am left-handed and right-brained.
Glad I’m not the only lefty. I have heard that the left-handed are more creative, but there’s probably a higher incidence of rage-induced insanity from having everything be backwards. I was in my late teens before I got the hang of using a manual can opener and I still don’t like them. The @*&# knob’s on the wrong side.
I’m a natural blonde, I think that pretty much means I’m going to hell in a handbasket made of butter but I’ll have a lot of fun on the way.
I’m a lefty too! And I also hate can openers. Ugh.
another lefty here
And another tortie!
I changed my email, so this is a picture of me. If anyone cares. My forehead’s not really that big, though. I think it’s the camera angle.
yep, her names misty and she’s 20 this year, cute huh?
and another lefty!
From the looks of it the desk also had a computer and printer on it. At $30 that’s a pretty good deal. So long as the computer dosen’t have Vista. If it has it, I’d ask for at least half-off the price.
and, is that the mouse on the middle shelf, or a cupcake on a small plate?
it looks like a cake to me, but then, I’m kinda hungry.
in Soviet Russian cupcakes are mice
lol, good one
MANY HUMOROUS COMMENTS:
In Soviet Russia – Interest replies with you
Band name: Full Size Head Board
Is that a headboard?
Either I have no clue what a headboard is, or I just don’t understand how that one works.
Don’t you end up hitting your head?
It’s a place to keep all your heads. You don’t let them all roll around higgledy-piggledy, do you?
😀
A King of All Cosmos reference.
I think I just died a little.
X3