YSaC, Vol. 497: Here’s Buffey, where’s Angle?
Danish modern dinning set
I have inhirited a teek dining set and we don’t have any room for it. My grandmah passed this down to us, my mom said it was made in 1956. It is in pretty good shape, it also has a buffey or storage thing that goes with the table and chairs. It is storage right now. I can to do a partial trade for things like chicken tamales, iphone, or a working car. I also want empty used MAC makeup case. Or $500 money.
Rachel
So you have a buffey and it is storage right now. Aren’t buffeys ALWAYS storage? Isn’t that sort of the point of a buffey?
Does a “partial trade” mean that Rachel is willing to trade bits of the dining set away? So, for example, I could get two legs from a chair in exchange for say, eight chicken tamales? If I trade her a really good working car for the entire set, would she have to give me a certain number of tamales in change?
Actually, this sounds like a good way to get free furniture… all I have to do is get someone to give me a Mercedes, and then I can trade it for the furniture and all the tamales I can eat!
Thanks for the link, jh!
Angle, not Angel? Right! Angle was from the spin-off Sit Com “Coredellia and Friends” Where they fought vampires that lived off stupid.
Craigslist featured prominently in the Vampires search for food.
Yes, Angle has his own detective agency, Angle Investigations where they try to solve triangles, as long as they’re not too obtuse.
[Thank you, Dan, for mentioning Buffy, one of my fave shows ever. Know one I know in the real world seems to like it anymore.)
Oh, we do, Moxie. In fact, one of my current favorite shirts is the one that says “And then Buffy staked Edward. The End.” That’s how I like my vamps – done and dusted, with only a few exceptions.
bwahahahaha…I want to see an all out Buffy vs. Bella rumble, after Buff stakes the crap out of her boyfriend.
Or maybe she and Angel and Bella and Edward could double date??? Start a support group for mortal women who love vamps? I am now picturing Angel rolling his eyes continuously at Edwards emo-ness.
“Angel” is on in the morning while I get ready for work, and “Bones” sometimes in the evening while I am online.
It has not escaped my husband’s notice that “that guy” is in both shows and they are the only two shows I watch, other than “Big Bang Theory.”
Mmm, David Boreanaz…dark and brooding or slightly neanderthal, I’ll take it.
Oh, how I wish that would happen. She’d probably fall in love with him, though, based on her track record. :/
I’m more of a Spike fan, especially before he was chipped, but I’d still choose Angel over Edward Cullen.
mind if I join your drooling session there frigglesnitz?
*pats sofa* Shhh, he’s shirtless….
I know, why do you think I’m drooling?
Have you enjoyed this video of Buffy vs. Edward yet? Even my 12-year-old Twihard enjoys it. Of course, she is a “Team Jacob” partisan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZwM3GvaTRM
I think I’m loving that all these things seem to be on an equal level for her. Girl must LOVE her chicken tamales. Also, her Mac makeup, if she wants a free lipstick so bad that she’s willing to trade a whole dining set for some empty cases (they give you free stuff if you bring in 6 of them).
With my very own Buffey, though, I know I’d always feel safe knowing I’m protected from the hordes of the undead and demonic. I’d try to see if I could get her to reenact scenes with me, or do stunts. “Buff, can you please pass the mash potatoes from the sideboard…but when you do it, can you do a double back flip and land on one foot? That would be great, thanks”.
I wonder how much this is worth in meatloaf?
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
In Weimar Germany, people would trade wheelbarrows of currency for a single loaf of bread. Fortunately, in America, we’ll be able to bypass the US dollar entirely and move over to an all-chicken-tamale based economic system. Instead of the gold standard, we will be on the Mexican snack food standard, which is far tastier. This person, with her teek dinning buffey is just a wee bit ahead of the curve. Forward thinkers are often mocked and ridiculed, which is a good thing, because it discourages them from being pains in the ass.
Papa, how would be know if we got real Mexican chicken tamales, or counterfeit ones made in Barrio Logan or even New York City? It’s a great idea, just needs a few safeguards in place. 8)
Happy Turkey Day to US YSaC fans! I’m thankful for all of you, no matter where you are.
Windrose,
We have many more Mexicans in NYC than you might think (lots in my neighborhood) … the tamales themselves might not be from Mexico, but if the people making them are, I’m going to consider them authentico.
Didn’t some kind of Mexican food item make a seemingly overvalued appearance in a previous Craigslist ad? I think chicken was involved in that one too. Did we ever agree on what it was an innuendo for?
Dang, and I’ve been looking for a teak buffet for so long. The teek buffey is close, but no Cohiba.
Along with Meredith and PapaSloth, I’m curious about the tamale reference. I checked that XE currency exchange site but they don’t show a tamale-to-buffet equivalent, or even vice versa, so I’m still in the dark about how many tamales she would want for it. They do offer an empanada-to-breakfront and a chimichanga-to-china hutch rate, however, as well as Mac cases-to-armoire information.
“Storage thing” in storage? How meta.
And, dear Rachel, I hear you. Chicken tamales or a working car? Of course! There are days I find myself just baffled, unable to decide between that Learjet and Chipotle.
“chicken tamales, iphone, or a working car. I also want empty used MAC makeup case”
My mind cannot wrap around this unique grouping of barter items. If I could offer 15 chicken tamales, a broken iphone, and a 1973 Gremlin that stalled when one turns left , how many empty MAC cases do I need to get this?
Well, I think it’s 6 empty cases for 1 free lipstick at MAC, so it really depends how many she wants.
… Or she will accept five hundred dollars money. Which means, I think, that she wants either round five hundred dollars worth of chicken tamales, or a car that’s worth less than five hundred dollars.
This is starting to remind me of that scene in Rain Man where someone asks Dustin Hoffman how much a car costs.
I will also accept 500 dollars money…you know, if you have it just laying around taking up space.
Does it have to be real money? ‘Cause I can raid the Monopoly bank this evening when we’re playing.
“How much does a car cost, Rachael?” “A tamale.”
“How much does a candy bar cost, Rachael?” “A empty MAC case.”
I remember my Mom, when I was just a tot, sitting down one day to explain the mysteries of money. I thought the 5 pennies=1 nickel, 10 pennies=1 dime, etc. thing was pretty complex. This new economic system, though, is beyond my feeble comprehension. X chicken tamales +/- 1 iPhone +/- working car +/- 1 make-up case = dinning table (teek!) + buffey or storage thing. It makes my head hurt. What about grocery shopping? What if I want to buy a Coke? Is that like 2 chicken tamales? Part of an iPhone? What if the make-up case isn’t empty? What if there’s still some good foundation or concealer in there? What then?!?!?? Economic chaos, that’s what.
I need a bigger fanny-pack! (wanders off mumbling “Hmmm…fanny-pack=make-up case + 1 chicken tamale, maybe?”)
The buffey/chicken tamale/makeup case thing, while complex, still sounds simpler than the whole crown/farthing/shilling system the English used to have…if Charles Dickens were here he could hammer out a deal with this girl in no time.
This has all the makings of a terrible word problem, like the ones that tormented me in math class.
“If a Danish modern dinning set and buffey leave the station at 5:38PM travelling at 4 chicken tamales per hour, how many apps must an iphone have to equal a working car?”
ok, now my head is about to explode, thanks sarajean.
Oh, I hope it’s multiple choice! The answer is B, right?
Huh. Wondered why I was suddenly w instead of Windrose. Maybe I should stop sipping the cooking sherry.
wait…you were suddenly w what?
I belive I have been just kicked out of my birth-house. this is truly unfortunate.
OH I GET IT. you’r normally windrose!
awesome!
The answer is “spoon”.
somebody also read cakewrecks??
perhaps the answer is fork?
All I can think of is Glee now:
“He’s cheating off a girl who thinks she square root of four is rainbows.”
I so don’t want to be a fan, but that show is chock full of quotable hilarity.
What is the next item in this series?
Chicken tamales, iPhone, working car, MAC makeup case, ______
a. used pornography
b. babby
c. $500 money
d. [femaletrait3]
e. None of the above.
The answer is (f) all of the above
Don’t you know you can get in trouble for publishing SAT questions without permission?
Can I just get the storage Buffy? All my problems solved: vampires and excess stuffe that I can’t yet put elsewhere until the ship delivers this cool concrete container thingy I’ve just bought on Craigslist. I can offer two onion baghees and a chicken kebab and a bicycle? I think that’s the dollar to guinea exchange rate?
Maybe the chicken tamales are to feed Buffey, although without the teek dinning set, I don’t know what they’re going to eat off of.
Wasn’t there a beautiful dinning table recently that you could eat off in the nude? perhaps its the same poster – no takers on the original so now he/she’s gone into the vampire hinterland?
I just like the . . . efficiency . . . of saying “grandmah” instead of having to say, you know, “mah grandma.” Genius.
Let’s not forget she will also accept $500 money. too bad I don’t have $500 money…. do you think she’d accept $500 dirty diapers, or $500 dust bunnies? Those I have in abundance.
I have $500 vomit! due to the fact that it’s thanksggiving and i’ve beeen drinking since 10:00 am….whatever!
you need to buy more hamburgers!
Hehehe, arallyn’s getting less and less coherent as I scroll down!
Happy thanksgivings (that’s a thing, right?) from a long-time lurker in a very different time-zone, who’s thankful to you all for making her chortle though the work day. 🙂
Okay, I’m going to plead insanity, because I remember EVERYTHING about today besides typing anything on here. Crimony.
Where are you lurking from, Jen?
Yay durnk potsing!
You can take my car or my iphone but damned if you are getting your hands on my tamales!
Geez, every guy thinks his tamales are so special.
This may or may not have any relevance, but I’m a girl.
I love you guys. Happy Thanksgiving!
Teek dining set eh?
I had to look it up, but now it makes perfect sense:
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Teek_(species)
Oh, now you’ve done it! As if I didn’t waste enough of my time here and on Facebook! It will take me a week at least to read that whole darn wookipedia. (thanks)
Misspellings aside, my first reaction was that “Danish, modern, teak, made in 1956” was a cluster oxymoron. In 1956 we were barely out of the postwar depression, and teak rather strikes me as the grandmotherly antithesis of “modern” in furniture design.
But apparently I don’t know squat about furniture snobbery. Google finds me a site, http://www.danishteakclassics.com/vintage_classics.php, which uses “Danish Modern” as if it were a brand name, and proposes to sell 1950s teak monstrosities for obscene dollar amounts.
So perhaps Rachel does have her hand on something people would pay money for. But that of course depends on pedigree and condition, which is why a photo would have been nice. I mean, without a photo, how would anyone know whether the table is suitable for eating in the nude on?
“Ugh! Something’s rotten in the state of this table… Do you think grandmah ate nude on it?”
By the way, I cannot believe that no one has yet suggested that Chicken Tamales would be an awesome name for a band.
“THE Chicken Tamales” and you have a hilariously stereotypical name for a cartoon mariachi band.
I would gladly give this girl $500 money for a 1956 Danish modern teek dinning table. That shit is GORGEOUS. Why is there never a picture when it’s something I WANT to see?
So Rachel, I really need to know. Is it a dinning set (headline) or a dining set (body). It makes a difference to how many chicken tamales I’d trade for it.