YSaC, Vol. 792: Where’s the Bad Idea Bears when you need them?

2010 September 17

NEED YOUR HELP – $1000


FOR HELPING ME WITH $1,OOO I WILL SEND YOU A BOX OF FREE DELIVERY OF SEASONED STEAKS RIBEYE/NY STRIP.6/6OZ EVERY MONTH FOR 1 YEAR THE CONDO IS ONLY $9500.PLEASE GO TO “””””PAYPAL.COM AND ENTER MY EMAIL,johnnypokerchamp@xxxxxxx.com USING A CREDIT CARD”””IM A FULL TIME LANDSCAPER/COMMUNITY COLLEGE GRAD,IN NEED NOW,I WILL HAVE SOME MONEY LEFT EACH MONTH WHEN ITS PAID IN FULL,MY HOUSING.THANKS”””

Out of kindness, I’ve left off the self-portrait of himself in the mirror, but I’ll just say that Mr. JohnnyPokerChamp doesn’t look like a single mother to me.

Anyway … why sure, Mr. JohnnyPokerChamp, I’d love to send you $1000 in exchange for monthly steak delivery! I can’t imagine anything else you would do with the money.

Just out of curiosity, I asked Uncle Google about “Steak of the Month” clubs. Of the ones I found (and I’m kind of disturbed by how many there are), the ones offering 6 oz steaks tend to only cost about $500 per year, so that’s not even a good return on investment.

“Monthly steak delivery” may have to be another of my new favorite euphemisms.

Thanks, Debbi!

341 Responses leave one →
  1. 2010 September 17
    Mindfield permalink

    Yeah, I accidentally joined one of those. Except I didn’t read it very closely and ended up joining the Stake of the Month Club. On the plus side, I’m totally ready to deal with vampires in style. Yeah, you better appreciate how I’m killin’ you, Nosferatu. That’s gilded cherry wood protruding from your chest, that don’t come cheap.

    Also, I’m afraid Sparky’s “monthly steak delivery” may turn out to mean something quite other than stated in this particular ad. The line tells me I shouldn’t expound on that, though.

    Also also, is he trying to slip a condo sale in there, too? Or is it both — a condo with a monthly meat injection as part of its maintenance fees? (Shut up, line.) I’m confused. All I know is I’m hungry.

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    • 2010 September 17
      Meredith permalink

      uhhhh…meat injection? :::shudder:::

      Adores: 6
      • 2010 September 17
        TacoMagic permalink

        With as much meat as this guy must have to run a buisness like this, he must have meat everywhere in that condo! I’d even bet the curtains are made out of beef.

        What?

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        • 2010 September 17
          penguin permalink

          His girlfriend is probably Lady Gag-me

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        • 2010 September 17
          Yancy permalink

          My theory is that he works at a packing plant or shipping facility for one of those meat of the month clubs, and he’s skimming a little off the top to help pay for his condo.

          Oh, and elebenty-seven doors for the stake of the month comment above.

          Adores: 6
        • 2010 September 17
          EclecticBlue permalink

          Yancy, he works in a meat-packing facility? At least it’s not a fudge-packing facility… People might get the wrong idea….

          My theory was that either he boughtthe m-o-t-m club membership when he was employed, and then lost his job. Or, someone gave it to him as a gift, and he wanted to monetize it.

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        • 2010 September 24
          ActionBatch permalink

          lmao @ Taco

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      • 2010 September 17
        TacoMagic permalink

        meat injection?

        We’re fooling Mrs. Johnson.

        We’ve replaced her normal insulin shot with a mixture of grass-fed beef and free-range turkey.

        Let’s watch!

        Adores: 4
        • 2010 September 24
          ActionBatch permalink

          Taco- you’re going to give me seizures. Corporate seizures.

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    • 2010 September 17
      Artsy Computer Geek permalink

      Mindfield — when did you start arguing with “the line”?

      Please come into the Snark Lounge, lay down on the green couch, and tell me everything.

      Adores: 5
      • 2010 September 17
        Mindfield permalink

        Well, see, it all started way back in Soviet Russia, when the line crossed ME…

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    • 2010 September 17
      NotMyName permalink

      Screw a wooden stake, just find a katana and cut off his/her head….yoo hoo, Twilight* vampires, where are you?

      *I hate Twilight.

      Adores: 5
      • 2010 September 17
        penguin permalink

        Just keep those stakes away from my next husband, Eric Northman.

        Adores: 4
        • 2010 September 17
          AndieJD permalink

          Could Eric BE any hotter? Yum, yum. And I bet HE doesn’t sparkle in the sunlight.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 September 17
          Mindfield permalink

          Next husband? What happened to the fi–

          Wait. It’s probably safer that I not know.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 September 17
          LurkRealClose permalink

          As long as you keep them away from MY vampire TV husband, David Boreanaz. Deal?

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          PamCan permalink

          MMMmmm…. AAAaaangel…

          Edit: I mean…. Uhh… MMmmm… HHAAAAaamcan….

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 September 17
          LurkRealClose permalink

          Exactly, Pam! Or, Ms. Can, if you’re nasty.

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      • 2010 September 17
        sarajean80 permalink

        I think the preferred method of disposing of a Sparklepire is to grind it into a fine powder and then use the powder to fertilize trees to make up for all those that died so that the Twilight series could be printed.

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        • 2010 September 17
          NotMyName permalink

          I will honestly admit, I read the Twilight series, before it was so idiotically popular. It was alright, in my opinion, just not as good as the Inheritance trilogy, or Artemis Fowl, or books like that. My opinion though.

          I read alot.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          sarajean80 permalink

          I read it too, just so I would know what the hell everyone I work with was going on and on about. I was not impressed.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 September 17
          AndieJD permalink

          NMN, I kind of liked them, too. But they were certainly not awesome. Don’t get my feminist ass started on all the reasons I wish teenage girls didn’t like them.

          The funny part is that my husband and stepson lived in Forks for years and years, and they still go there for fishing weekends. Neither of them have read the books but I tell them things about them and they howl with laughter and/or rage.

          But all that aside, I have them, I’ve read them, and they’re pretty good. So I’ll stand with you against the coolness police.

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        • 2010 September 17

          Anyone that’s ever spent a lot of time in Forks howls at the “crap” in those movies and books.
          The place is a sh!t hole, probably the best Steelhead and Salmon fishing in the lower 48 though.
          Spent many a rainy day rowing a drift boat down one of the many rivers over there.

          If there were really undead beings roaming about in Forks they would be covered in mildew.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 September 17
          EclecticBlue permalink

          they would be covered in mildew.

          That mental image makes me giggle ๐Ÿ™‚

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 September 17
          CapnMac permalink

          well, mildew would explain the sparkle, especially in diffracted light in wet woodlands . . .

          cerebreal mildew might explain what a 16-er sees in a 107 y/o dead dude, too.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          AndieJD permalink

          I often wonder what the Quileutes think about being made werewolves.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17

          *Insert politically incorrect comment here*

          Besides, even if they were the clouds only part once a year, if you are lucky, when there’s a full moon.

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        • 2010 September 17
          NotMyName permalink

          Whoa, there’s a FISH called a steelhead?

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          AndieJD permalink

          There is totally a fish called a steelhead. It’s a salmonid (Sweet Clothespin Jeebus save me, I’m married to a fisheries biologist) and a favorite gamefish here in Washington.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 September 17
          NotMyName permalink

          When I think of Steelhead, I think of this.

          On a side note, I just found out there’s a Resistance: Fall of Man wiki. Cool, I know where I’ll be for the next few hours.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          NotMyName permalink

          I put this in the wrong place, see below.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          CapnMac permalink

          Steelhead are best over a fire of found wood near the bank, fried in a pan with butter, a bit of onion, and a sprig of dill.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 September 17
          LurkRealClose permalink

          I can’t believe IF didn’t stop by to tell us that Steelhead is the name of his Radiohead cover band.

          Adores: 0
      • 2010 September 17
        D / DM permalink

        BAHAHA @ NotMyName.

        You read the Twilight series before it sold out? Always on the lookout for underground YA Mormon-horror-romance, eh?

        I kid.

        Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          AndieJD permalink

          Yes, NMN, that is a picture of a native Washington steelhead. They catch them with their fishing poles, reel them in, bash them on the head to kill them and OH MY GOD THAT WAS MY ARM!!! SONOFABITCHIN MOFO JUST TORE OFF MY MUTHALOVIN’ ARM! WHY IS IT REACHING FOR MY HEAD? IT BETTER NOT TRY TO —

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          NotMyName permalink

          Watch out, it has a gun. And said gun’s bullets can go through walls. Yes this is an actual enemy, and they are very annoying.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          kelli permalink

          I thought Steelhead was a type of robot sex. I must have been misled.*

          *Actually, I came in second in the Miss Lead pagaent. I was Miss Understood.

          *Edit Pretend this is up by LRC’s steelhead comment.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          sarajean80 permalink

          I was Miss Informed. They didn’t tell me until after the pageant though.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17

          I dated Miss Demeanor for a while, she was nothing but trouble!

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          LurkRealClose permalink

          Sometimes too many Sparkies make me Miss Anthorpe

          Adores: 1
      • 2010 September 17
        AndieJD permalink

        Ever try hanging something shiny and spinning in front of him, NMN? My guess is he’ll start chasing it trying to eat it and your problems with him will be over.

        Adores: 4
        • 2010 September 18
          Grampdaddy permalink

          Ooooh, Shiny!…. What were we talking about?

          Adores: 2
  2. 2010 September 17
    camille permalink

    As I read it, he’s not even sending you a box of steaks – he’s sending you a box of “free delivery.”

    Adores: 5
    • 2010 September 17
      NotMyName permalink

      Also, if he’s sending you a box of seasoned steaks, how old are they? Will he pay for refrigeration?

      Adores: 4
      • 2010 September 17
        Irregular Fractal permalink

        Not to mention the fact that steak is a generic term and doesn’t specify beef.
        I wonder if you can get 6 oz. out of a good-sized NYC sewer rat…

        Adores: 3
        • 2010 September 17
          sarajean80 permalink

          it actually says

          .6/6OZ

          You should be able to get .6 of 6 oz worth of steak out of a rat.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 September 19
          D / DM permalink

          I’m aware of that. What I was confused by is how “rimshot” is double entendre. Unless it’s by reference to a similar-sounding word.

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      • 2010 September 17

        I wondered about that too. Also, I’ve heard meat referred to as “aged” before. I thought the idea was to eat meat before it “ages”?

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        • 2010 September 17
          sarajean80 permalink

          According to the Great and All-Knowing Wikipedia;

          The process enhances beef by two means. First, moisture is evaporated from the muscle. This creates a greater concentration of beef flavor and taste. Second, the beefโ€™s natural enzymes break down the connective tissue in the muscle, which leads to more tender beef.

          There’s more here if you are still curious.

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        • 2010 September 17
          TacoMagic permalink

          It’s one of the reasons you hang deer for a few days before processing them (assuming it’s cold enough outside anyway). It helps make the flavor more meaty and less gamey.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17

          Some of the most expensive steak houses dry age their beef for 40 days (or more)

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        • 2010 September 17

          Gotcha. Not being a meat eater, I figured the meat was aged in a cave somewhere, like cheese or wine. Knowing what raw meat left on the counter over night can turn into, I really didn’t want to think about fuzzy, wormy meat as a delicasy.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17

          Just ask Gramdaddy, you can’t beat aged meat…

          What?

          Adores: 1
      • 2010 September 17
        Astrognash permalink

        Well, of course! He’s obviously going to send them down using the winterbagel.

        Adores: 5
        • 2010 September 17
          EclecticBlue permalink

          dadun, chsh!

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          CapnMac permalink

          (Psst, EB, if you use [rimshot] it’s simpler, and, here with us, at least a double entendre, too {G}.)

          Adores: 1
      • 2010 September 17

        box of seasoned steaks

        Kentucky derby losers.

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        • 2010 September 17
          D / DM permalink

          @CapnMac:

          [rimshwa?]

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        • 2010 September 17
          CapnMac permalink

          The drum riff that ends with a cymbal shot “dadun, chsh!” as EB put it, is known as a “rim shot.”

          I do not know why.
          Same way I do not know why you put ice in lemonade but not orange juice.

          Adores: 0
  3. 2010 September 17
    Meredith permalink

    Someone who has “poker champ” in their e-mail address sounds like the kind of person I would give money to. I’m sure they’re using every cent they have to pay for living expenses. And I mean, what worthier cause is there than “help your not so local landscaper/community college grad pay for a 9500 dollar condo”. Or is he saying that the yearly rent is 9500$? Cause if that’s the case, I may start a bidding war with Sparky.

    Adores: 9
    • 2010 September 17
      sarajean80 permalink

      He should have used an email that said something like “Poorblindorphan@******.com” or “youareaheartlessmonsterwhokickspuppiesifyoudontdonate@******.com”. That would have been much more convincing.

      Adores: 17
      • 2010 September 17
        Artsy Computer Geek permalink

        Taco will probably have e-mail address envy with that email address SJ.

        Adores: 7
      • 2010 September 17
        Meredith permalink

        Yeah, anything remotely like”chronicgamber@website.com” makes me a bit suspicious

        Adores: 5
        • 2010 September 17
          sarajean80 permalink

          If it was something like “imanasshat@******.com” I might consider sending a dollar because he was honest. I would consider it, I wouldn’t actually do it.

          Adores: 7
        • 2010 September 17
          sarajean80 permalink

          I must share this because it just happened and was … oddly relevant. As part of my job I forward emails from a central account to individual accounts. We have a job opening right now and a lot of people have been emailing in their resumes. I just had one come in from an address that was, no kidding, “p1mpNhoz@*****.com”.

          Oh, yeah – that’s professional.

          Adores: 9
        • 2010 September 17

          I once had to deal with a planning application where the applicant’s address was ‘hotvetnurse’ – the case officer and I had met her and were unanimous that it was false advertising.

          Adores: 9
        • 2010 September 17
          AndieJD permalink

          Sarajean! Offer that job to that fine candidate with the excellent judgment immediately! Don’t let him/her get away!

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 September 17
          sarajean80 permalink

          The truly odd part is that, judging by the name and information in the resume, it was most likely sent by a woman.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 September 17
          Meredith permalink

          SJ, we talk about that type of thing here at my job. Had someone send in their resume, and the e-mail was “Iluvbitching@***.com”. Made SUCH a good impression….on the trashcan.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 September 17
          penguin permalink

          I have a customer that has furpanties@…com as his email.

          Adores: 7
        • 2010 September 17
          sarajean80 permalink

          If there was a YSaC version of Clue, I would guess Mr. Furpanties got it in the kitchen with the lead pipe.

          Adores: 6
    • 2010 September 17
      NotMyName permalink

      Would you donate money to someone with “wow” in their email address?

      If you see me posting a lot at once, it’s because I just got back from college.

      Adores: 4
  4. 2010 September 17

    I feel so discriminated against! Where’s the Tofu of the Month Club?

    Adores: 11
    • 2010 September 17
      Meredith permalink

      Knock knock, your monthly bag o’Fu is here!

      Adores: 8
      • 2010 September 17
        Lara permalink

        Didn’t you hear Wyclef Jean is running for the president of Haiti? I don’t think he would be willing to get in the bag.

        Adores: 5
        • 2010 September 17
          Meredith permalink

          “What’chu got in that BAG????”

          “Uh, actually, Ludacris….it’s Wyclef Jean”.

          Adores: 4
      • 2010 September 17

        I’m going to go out of my way to work “dont make me open a bag of ‘Fu on yo ass!” into my conversations.

        Adores: 7
      • 2010 September 24
        ActionBatch permalink

        Aw, man! What’s in the bag?! WHAT’S IN THE BAG?!

        Adores: 0
    • 2010 September 17
      Mindfield permalink

      Ooh, what month is wiener-fu?

      (Note: I do not have a wiener fixation. Today.)

      Adores: 6
      • 2010 September 17
        TacoMagic permalink

        I’m well trained in Brat-Fu, the ancient art of grilling brats and drinking beer before [local sports game].

        Adores: 6
        • 2010 September 17
          Mindfield permalink

          And I am a master of Tai Chi…cken, and I’m a fair old hand at Kung Moo. I am one with the tongs!

          Adores: 7
        • 2010 September 17
          EclecticBlue permalink

          [local sports game]

          “Go my favorite sports team, go!”

          Adores: 12
        • 2010 September 17
          TacoMagic permalink

          I’m told there is a very popular sports team here in Wisconsin, but I can’t for the life of me remember who they are. Something about shipping… gah I can’t remember.

          Addendum: Screaming “Go Home Team!” at a sports event is only funny to others who don’t particularly care about sports.

          Adores: 9
        • 2010 September 17

          Took me a while to get the “something about shipping” joke.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 September 17
          mudslicker permalink

          That’s Cleveland that has the sport’s team that has something about shipping.

          *What have the Browns done for you today?*

          Adores: 6
        • 2010 September 17

          “Go Vikings!… And take the Twins with you!”

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 September 17
          NotMyName permalink

          What’s the Vikings’ cheer?
          Is it “Burn, Pillage, and Kill!” ?

          On a side note, I’m not a master of food-martial arts, but I DO have a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Yes, I like to release random, and slightly intinidating, information about myself.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 September 17

          NMN…you’re slightly “intinidating”? Do you have a heart?

          Adores: 7
        • 2010 September 17
          NotMyName permalink

          Yes, I have a heart. Why? Don’t you? Do you need one? Because I don’t have one to spare.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 September 17
          Meredith permalink

          My guy used to play a lower budget video game, and random background characters would shout out “YOU GO PLAYER 2” and “PLAYER 1 ROCKS!”.

          So now it’s shouted whenever someone is watching sports in which they have no favorite team. Or me…who doesn’t even like sports.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 September 17
          CapnMac permalink

          Pats for Barrister-B

          Adores: 0
      • 2010 September 17
        AndieJD permalink

        Be careful, all y’all with the mad fu. Because Dave Grohl’s band will fight you.

        Adores: 7
        • 2010 September 17
          MandaB permalink

          No matter how many times we explain it, my kids still call them “The Food Fighters”. Nothing like driving along in the car, singing along with the radio, and having your 3-year old suddenly shout, “Hey, this is Food Fighters!!!”

          Adores: 7
        • 2010 September 17
          CapnMac permalink

          Well, there are worse things small children could scream out, some of them music related . . .

          Adores: 0
    • 2010 September 17
      sarajean80 permalink

      Sadly I could not find a Tofu of the Month Club using my Google-Fu, but I did find a Peanut Butter of the Month Club and Vegan Cookies, Brownies, or Fudge of the Month Clubs.

      Adores: 5
      • 2010 September 17
        NotMyName permalink

        Peanut Butter of the month club? I think I’ll join that. Does anyone else do this, or is it just me? I like to eat peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon.

        Adores: 3
        • 2010 September 17
          sarajean80 permalink

          Does Nutella count? It’s technically chocolate-hazelnut butter.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 September 17
          mudslicker permalink

          NMN: Most people, at some point in their life, can’t resist the urge to scoop peanut butter straight from the jar. With that said, if you don’t live alone, always be sure you’re the first one to open a new jar.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 September 17
          sarajean80 permalink

          And always put the lid back on if you are going to step away from the jar for a minute and you have any pets that share the same taste in snacks.

          FYI a cat can get it’s head stuck in a half-empty Nutella jar if it tries hard enough.

          Adores: 9
        • 2010 September 17
          EclecticBlue permalink

          My favorite way to eat peanut butter is to scoop it out of the jar with a spoon, and then dip the spoon into delicious delicious chocolate chips. Yummmm….

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          TacoMagic permalink

          My OCD is activated by a fresh jar of peanut butter. I really, really hate messing up the beautiful frozen ocean-scape of a new jar. On a few occasions I had to have somebody else do the first scoop.

          Oh, I’ve got a shiny new camera. Next time I open a jar of peanutbutter I totally need to take a close up shot of the frozen brown ocean.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 September 17
          mudslicker permalink

          Oh my bejeebus! Me too! That shiny peanut-ty creaminess of salty Jif-Wiffness is too hard to stab into.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          sarajean80 permalink

          I’ll store the jar upside down for a few days and then turn it right side up so that gravity does the dirty work for me.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 September 17
          Limelolly permalink

          The Peanut Butter Factory makes chocolate peanut butter: milk chocolate and white chocolate variety,… I can’t keep the stuff stocked at my house… it get’s eaten very quickly by the human males.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17

          My peanut butter comes with a messy pool of oil on top that I pour out, rather than stir in. This makes for a dryer peanut butter that is perfect for home made peanut butter cups.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          Grampdaddy permalink

          frozen brown ocean….

          makes me strangely uncomfortable – I picture Nanook of the North having the Inuit version of a Tacosplosion.

          Adores: 3
      • 2010 September 17
        EclecticBlue permalink

        Don’t just pity da foo’… *puts on glasses* pita da ‘fu.

        Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17

          My poor, poor oldest grandchild will never know the ecstasy that is peanut butter. She’s got a life-threatening allergy.

          Me, I love the stuff…by the spoonful and slathered on bananas, apple slices, and chocolate bars.

          One day the grandchild was visiting and opening my pantry, stepped back and gasped….”WHY do you have peanut butter???” She asked, probably afraid for her life.

          I explained it was because I wasn’t allergic…and then feeling bad for her I totally lied and said I rarely eat the stuff. yeah, right..like every.single.day.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 September 17
          TacoMagic permalink

          Dagnabbit! I want a peanut butter, banana, and honey sandwich now.

          Thanks a lot CJ.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          mudslicker permalink

          That’s payback Taco for the Dire Straits ear worm you gave us all this morning.

          Thanks! A lot CJ!

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17

          Two, two, two posters in one!!

          My work here is done!

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          TacoMagic permalink

          Thatโ€™s payback Taco for the Dire Straits ear worm you gave us all this morning.

          If it helps, it’s been in my head all day too.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          AndieJD permalink

          Mine, too.

          Adores: 1
    • 2010 September 17

      Anything FU you Christina.

      Adores: 2
      • 2010 September 17

        My brain put a comma after anything so I was gonna say, FU too Hammy! ๐Ÿ˜€

        Adores: 4
        • 2010 September 17

          I wouldn’t mind FU…

          What?

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          Whirlwitch permalink

          Okay, get a room youse guys.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17

          *Snerk*

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17

          Sorry, I has a life threating allergy to margarine.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 September 17

          Good thing I switched to PAM!

          Adores: 1
    • 2010 September 17
      D / DM permalink

      I went googling for a Tofu of the Month club, and I am relieved to have found none. Of course, there’s always this:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7c3bQQmwVE

      Adores: 1
  5. 2010 September 17

    Okay, I’ve read this and passed it through the super-duper catulator/translator/discombobulator…and I have no idea what Sparky is selling/buying/trading/expecting.

    Adores: 3
    • 2010 September 17
      Mindfield permalink

      He wants to give you $9,500 worth of steak each month via PayPal to give to his condo for $1,000 on his credit card so he can have money left over each month, his house.

      Adores: 5
      • 2010 September 17

        OOOOHHH!! Thanks for clearing that up there, Mindfield. Makes total sense now.

        Adores: 5
      • 2010 September 17
        CapnMac permalink

        My catulator swatted at me for waking him up (and for smelling like chinese buffet) and turned around a few times in a huff.

        But, it looks like SparK wants you to palpal him a grand every month.
        He will then defray the cost of his $9500 condo rent with that cash.
        In return, he’s going to forward the $29.95 worth of meat that comes with his condo lease.

        sParKy may actually have heard what P.T.Barunm said, and is hoping ten or eleven folks step forward on his deelio. That way, he’ll have spare change so as to create more single mothers at the condo.

        Adores: 0
    • 2010 September 17
      TacoMagic permalink

      He wants his money for nothing and his chicks for free.

      Adores: 18
      • 2010 September 17

        That ain’t woikin’..dat’s the way you do it!

        Adores: 5
        • 2010 September 17
          TacoMagic permalink

          Does this count as earworm of the day? Cause now I’ve totally got it stuck in my head.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 September 17

          Absolutely…

          mmmmm…maybe get a blistah on yer little finger, maybe get a blistah on your thumb…mmmm….microwave ovens, kitchen deliveriiiieeesss!!

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 September 17
          Mindfield permalink

          I shoulda learned to play the guitar.

          Adores: 4
      • 2010 September 17
        mudslicker permalink

        I think that’s money for nothing and ground chuck for free.

        Adores: 11
        • 2010 September 17

          I shoulda learned to play them drums.

          Adores: 3
      • 2010 September 17
        Meredith permalink

        TM, now you’ve done it. How did you know that’s one of my all time favorite songs? Topped only by “Walk of Life”.

        We got to move these color tv-eeeeeeeees.

        Adores: 3
        • 2010 September 17
          TacoMagic permalink

          Money for Beef

          I want my side of beef!

          Now look at that sparky, that’s the way you do it,
          You say you’re a mother on the CraigsList ad.
          That ain’t working, that’s the way you do it,
          Money for nothing and beef for free.
          Now, that ain’t working, that’s the way you do it,
          Lemme tell you that guy won’t fail,
          Maybe get a brisket for a thousand dollars,
          Maybe get a brisket in the mail.

          We gotta month long one year condo,
          Givin’ money to sparkieeeees,
          We gotta haiku, refrigerator,
          We gotta move these sides of beeeeeeeeeeef.

          Adores: 28
        • 2010 September 17

          :whacks TM squarely between the eyes with a stack of doors:

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 September 17
          Meredith permalink

          I want my side of beef!

          Now look at that sparky, thatโ€™s the way you do it,
          You say youโ€™re a mother on the CraigsList ad.
          That ainโ€™t working, thatโ€™s the way you do it,
          Money for nothing and beef for free.
          Now, that ainโ€™t working, thatโ€™s the way you do it,
          Lemme tell you that guy wonโ€™t fail,
          Maybe get a brisket for a thousand dollars,
          Maybe get a brisket in the mail.

          We gotta month long one year condo,
          Givinโ€™ money to sparkieeeees,
          We gotta haiku, refrigerator,
          We gotta move these sides of beeeeeeeeeeef.

          Adores: 6 +1

          Nope, see, I wrote that. Has my name on it. Even the doors are mine.

          Adores: 11
        • 2010 September 17

          Taco and meredith, it’s been along time since we’ve had a group punch. I’m totally nom-nom-nominating this^

          Adores: 3
  6. 2010 September 17

    “I will have some money left each month when its paid in full, my house.”
    So is he reassuring his house here? Don’t worry, House, I’ll have money left to get you those new fancy-ass tile floors you always wanted! Now who’s gonna drive me to the casino?

    Adores: 7
    • 2010 September 17
      TacoMagic permalink

      Once I hit the big six I’m gonna take my house out to the faciest dinner it’s ever had. I know it’s a little expensive, but I’m told Subway makes really good sandwiches, and my house loves sandwiches.

      Adores: 7
      • 2010 September 17
        camille permalink

        “Faciest”? Your house eats faces?

        Adores: 7
        • 2010 September 17
          sarajean80 permalink

          I don’t remember seeing faces at Home Depot. Must be one of the aisles in the back.

          Unless Taco’s house is a zomb

          Adores: 6
        • 2010 September 17
          TacoMagic permalink

          Faces are in the exterior decoration aisle.

          Adores: 6
        • 2010 September 17
          mudslicker permalink

          I thought they were in the Check Out My Tools Aisle.

          Adores: 2
      • 2010 September 17
        Meredith permalink

        Are we talking house-face like this:

        http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:6f2JSE8B3bnzDM:http://mocoloco.com/archives/open_face_house2_jul_04.jpg&t=1

        Or creepier house-face, like this:

        http://paranoicmrbrain.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/face-house.jpg

        If it’s the second one, I’m not visiting. That house is giving me the eye…

        Edit: And no, I still haven’t managed the embedded link thing. I use the prehistoric cut and paste method still.

        Adores: 7
        • 2010 September 17
          TacoMagic permalink

          I think that second house just saw what I did there.

          Adores: 9
        • 2010 September 17

          I can’t embed either…which is probably a good thing…

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          EclecticBlue permalink

          I was thinking more along the lines of this, except for a house.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 September 17
          NotMyName permalink

          As to the cut-and-paste method, Meredith, I still use that too.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          sarajean80 permalink

          I use the advanced cut-and-paste method. I copied the code for embedding links and saved it in a Word document. When I want to get all fancy and embed a link I open the document, copy the code, paste it, and then insert the linky bits I want to use.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          NotMyName permalink

          What is the code? Without an actual link, please. That way I can try it. Oh, and where do I actually put the web address?

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          EclecticBlue permalink

          <a href=”http://lmgtfy.com/?q=html+links”>This is the text</a>

          This is the text

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 September 17

          EB, I love that. How come I’ve never heard of that site?

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          sarajean80 permalink

          Dammit, I can’t get it to work!

          Edit: But EB did. Yay!

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          NotMyName permalink

          Is it working?

          I keep getting
          rel=”nofollow”

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          sarajean80 permalink

          I think so, but I got a “Site not found” message. I think you have more than one link in the embedding code, you have to embed each one separately.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          NotMyName permalink

          Let’s try this

          WTF. That was this site.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          EclecticBlue permalink

          Hmm. NMN are you putting the http:// in front of the link? It looks like your links are trying to be internal links, rather than external links (which makes sense to me and probably not to you… hmm…) Basically, it’s kinda like your computer. If you’re using Windows, you can go to My Documents. Your computer knows that it’s YOUR My Documents, so it doesn’t have to have more information than that. But if you want to go to a website called http://www.mydocuments.com, you need to give it more information, so it knows to look external to your computer. You wanted to tell the computer to go to http://www.gametrailers.com, but since you didn’t tell the computer to go external to where it was (with http://) it tried to go to http://www.yousuckatcraigslist.com/www.gametrailers.com.

          So the moral of the story is, try it again with http://, and I’m sure it will work ๐Ÿ˜€

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          EclecticBlue permalink

          And now I’m marked as SpamCan…. Gah. Long complicated explanation is awaiting moderation. Long story short, stick http:// in front of the www

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          NotMyName permalink

          Soooo….. video games!

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 September 17
          EclecticBlue permalink

          Hooray!

          Adores: 3
    • 2010 September 17
      AndieJD permalink

      I think he might be reassuring Dr. House. Which kind of pisses me off. Hugh Laurie belongs to ALL OF US, JohnnyPokerChamp!

      Adores: 5
  7. 2010 September 17
    mudslicker permalink

    THE CONDO IS ONLY $9500

    Is this a month/yearly? Because I can see at least 9 more people who will have to buy into this pyramid scheme sweet steak deal for Johnny, the single mom, to keep a roof over her head.

    I’ll take your eye round and raise you a sirloin!

    (Okay, apparently I am “ditto-ing” Meredith’s observations in her post above. Hard to see what’s up when you’re in the comment window. Sorry Meredith)

    Adores: 5
    • 2010 September 17
      Meredith permalink

      I’m not sharing my steak with nobody, not no how, not no way!!!

      Adores: 6
  8. 2010 September 17
    penguin permalink

    He’s having the steaks delivered by a NY stripper. Being that I am in Texas, I don’t know if a NY stripper adds value or not.

    Adores: 3
    • 2010 September 17
      MandaB permalink

      I suspect the only difference between a NY stripper and a Texas stripper would be their accents. I suppose it also goes without saying that everything’s bigger in Texas.

      Adores: 5
      • 2010 September 17
        EclecticBlue permalink

        Depending on where the “bigger” is, that could be good or bad!

        Adores: 3
        • 2010 September 17

          According to this New Yorkee, bigger refers to hair styles, trucks and food portions.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 September 17

          And speaking as a Texan, may I add…attitude…

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          CapnMac permalink

          And there is a joke about “seeing the elephants”
          But, I don’t want to fuss with the line.

          I prefer ribeyes.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 September 17

          I’m inclined to agree, CJ. Yanks have a bad reputation when it comes to attitude, but we’re actually really nice once you get past the loud, course exterior.

          Adores: 2
  9. 2010 September 17
    ToBScholarly permalink

    Is “condo” the new word for living in a storage unit?

    Adores: 3
    • 2010 September 17
      TacoMagic permalink

      If by storage unit you mean “refrigerator box”, then yes.

      Adores: 5
    • 2010 September 17
      sarajean80 permalink

      Living in a storage unit = “Spacious studio apartment with convenient parking!”

      Adores: 5
    • 2010 September 17
      Meredith permalink

      ACTUALLY, I’ve kind of had a dream of living in a storage container…or a shipping container, if you will.

      http://www.thegreenestdollar.com/2009/02/want-to-live-in-a-shipping-container/

      Adores: 5
      • 2010 September 17
        sarajean80 permalink

        I have semi-seriously considered buying an extra large storage building (the nice stick-built ones that look like little barns) and converting it into a small house, but I lack the skills and funds to do so. I’d also have to have a place to actually put it as well. My dream home is this little gem.

        Adores: 4
        • 2010 September 17
          TacoMagic permalink

          You would love the cabin that my friend built on his hunting property. Made entirely from wood harvested off the land, no electricity or plumbing, heated with a wood stove, and the only lighting is gas lamps (or battery powered when we run out of gas). We use it for gaming weekends. Very quiet and no computers to distract the players.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 September 17
          sarajean80 permalink

          Everything but the “no plumbing” and “no electricity” bits. I need running water, flush toilets, and high-speed internet access; it says so right here in my owner’s manual.

          Adores: 7
        • 2010 September 17
          mudslicker permalink

          What sarajean said, but I’d definitely need Showtime as well.

          The next season of Dexter is getting ready to start.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          sarajean80 permalink

          My Dad actually upgraded their satellite TV package for the sole purpose of getting the Speed Channel. It’s all racing, All. Day. Long.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          Bianchi Sound permalink

          I think it’s nice that Taco plays poker with the Unibomber.

          Adores: 11
        • 2010 September 17
          TacoMagic permalink

          Close.

          D&D with a demobilization specialist.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17

          demobilization specialist

          Steals batteries out of hoverrounds?

          Siphons gas?

          Adores: 6
        • 2010 September 17
          TacoMagic permalink

          Uhh…

          He helps soldiers from Iraq with their end of tour discharge paperwork and sets up their veteran benefits.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          mudslicker permalink

          Tommyknockers?

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          LurkRealClose permalink

          Knocks over little old ladies and steals their canes?

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 September 17
          CapnMac permalink

          [cabin corey]SJ,
          Hardest part is being close enough to civilization to have over-wire electricity, and someone skilled at waterwell drilling. All, while being far enough from Planning & Development offices that would insist upon a number of features un-needed in these sorts of buildings.

          “Off Grid-ing” can be popular with this sort of design, but it’s a life as severe and demanding as ocean cruising under sail. Windmill and PV will need a battery stack, which needs its own building (more expense) on top of $35-45K for the install.

          Also, being ‘off grid’ take work in that you wind up farther from the grocery store than frozen ice cream–which also gets to be an effort to which you are committed (as in sentenced, too).

          I’ve been involved in a few of these, both better and worse. If you really need/want more details, ding me over on f/b so as to not clutter the bandwidth here.
          [/corey]

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          sarajean80 permalink

          Thanks for the offer Cap’n, but the idea is firmly in the “maybe one day” folder because of that very problem ; any property I could afford that would allow that sort of structure would be too far into the back of beyond to be practical and any property close enough to be practical would require a bucket-load of special permits and variances that would cost more than a normal house.(If I could get them at all) It’s nice to dream though.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 18

          SJ, this house is absolutely darling. The only thing I would need would be a champer pot/soup tureen under the bed upstairs for those half-asleep nighttime forays. I would never make it down and back up the stairs in one piece.

          Adores: 1
  10. 2010 September 17
    ToBScholarly permalink

    As a side note, it would make me super happy if we could click to enlarge those pictures. From the disproportional bird on the swingset to the vending machine/front door? in this picture, I find my mind screaming, “DEAR GOD I NEED A CLOSER LOOK! MUST IDENTIFY CRAZY PICTURE!”

    I sure am glad he included a picture of a steak though. I have always wondered what one looked like.

    Adores: 6
    • 2010 September 17
      TacoMagic permalink

      Well you do have to admit, as far as pictures of steaks go that one is pretty good. They used a light box and everything.

      Which of course means he stole it from somewhere online. Pity.

      Adores: 6
      • 2010 September 17
        sarajean80 permalink

        I don’t think I’d want to see a picture of Sparky’s meat.

        Adores: 18
        • 2010 September 17
          Meredith permalink

          Uh, SJ, that’s what the internet is for. Unsolicited pictures of man meat, especially at the most inappropriate moments.

          Adores: 6
        • 2010 September 17
          sarajean80 permalink

          That gives the term RickRoll a new and deeply disturbing meaning.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 September 17
          Meredith permalink

          I like my RickRolls with butter, not man meat.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          LurkRealClose permalink

          Or margerine.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          Limelolly permalink

          I.can’t.believe.it’s.not.butter.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17

          PAM!!

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          PamCan permalink

          ๐Ÿ˜‰

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          mudslicker permalink

          I think you’re having an oleo affair with yourself there Hammy.

          *pay no attention to the Pam can behind the curtain*

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17

          Oh, oil be fine. It is butter with someone else though.
          Dairy I say if you would like to join in you’ll have to wait your churn to parkay in the festivities.
          I wouldn’t want to spread myself to thin, even though I’m polyunsaturated I do have a limit!

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 September 17
          PamCan permalink

          I’m not behind any curtains! I’m all can, no curtains… Ohh… Hammy, is THAT why you keep leaving me?

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          mudslicker permalink

          Big butter Jesus
          Sweet cream Jesus
          Oh country fresh Jesus
          Unsalted Jesus
          Oh Promise Jesus
          Imperial Jesus
          Canโ€™t believe itโ€™s not Jesus
          Oleo Lord

          Oleo Hammy….Oh spread the word.

          Adores: 4
      • 2010 September 24
        ActionBatch permalink

        @ sarajean: lmao. brilliant. utterly freakin’ brilliant. less than three for you! <3 ^_^

        Adores: 0
    • 2010 September 17
      mudslicker permalink

      I need a FARTHER look. In fact, most of these Sparky ads shouldn’t even come with pictures.

      They should come with pron.

      Adores: 7
      • 2010 September 17
        sarajean80 permalink

        Looking for stuff on CraigsList would be a lot more fun with random nekkidness, but then my work computer would block it and I would be sad.

        Adores: 3
        • 2010 September 17
          sarajean80 permalink

          :click:

          Chair.

          :click:

          Chest of drawers.

          :click:

          Nipple.

          :click:

          Ooooh, an ottermangle!

          :forwards ad to YSaC:

          Adores: 10
      • 2010 September 24
        ActionBatch permalink

        ^ love ^

        Adores: 0
  11. 2010 September 17
    Windrose permalink

    Maybe this is like that guy who was born female and had a sex change, then had a baby girl, and now he is her father.

    Adores: 7
    • 2010 September 17
      MandaB permalink

      Darth Vader had a sex change???

      Adores: 7
      • 2010 September 17
        Meredith permalink

        Oh Manda….teeheeheeeheeeheee

        Adores: 2
  12. 2010 September 17
    Lara permalink

    I prefer my meat delivery more often than monthly…what?

    Adores: 10
    • 2010 September 17
      TacoMagic permalink

      I know what you mean Lara. My wife and I buy meat at the store every Friday.

      Adores: 5
      • 2010 September 17
        EclecticBlue permalink

        I bought my meat at the grocery store earlier this week, but last night I had to beat my meat to prepare for dinner tonight, because I got the cheap stuff.

        Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          Limelolly permalink

          So mini eb is going to have a sibling?

          I’m so confuzzled… I lost track of the conversation around here.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          TacoMagic permalink

          When my wife made Swiss Steak Mozzarella a few days ago I’m told she really had to pound my meat to get it just right.

          Venison is like that though, kinda tough and stringy until you beat it.

          Adores: 5
    • 2010 September 17
      Meredith permalink

      I like to get my meat delivered in bulk… and then cut it up, put it in little labeled baggies, and keep in in my freezer.

      My male YSaCer’s just involuntarily squiked and reached for their…brats.

      Adores: 9
      • 2010 September 17
        sarajean80 permalink

        That sounds more like something they would do in Wisconsin.

        Adores: 6
      • 2010 September 17
        Bombdude permalink

        You and Mr Dahmer

        Adores: 2
  13. 2010 September 17
    kelli permalink

    No. Just no.

    Adores: 2
  14. 2010 September 17

    I have a feeling you would wake up one day to find a live cow in your front yard with instructions on how to “remove” your steaks…

    Adores: 10
    • 2010 September 17
      mudslicker permalink

      Better than a dead cow with instructions.

      Adores: 6
      • 2010 September 17

        Oh, I don’t know about that…Live cows get a little cranky when you start carving on them.

        Adores: 6
        • 2010 September 17
          mudslicker permalink

          A dead cow leaves you with limited time for carving preparation. You need to Get-to-it-Hop-Sing and try to keep the flies and the vultures away. What if it was delivered while I was on vacation? I’d come home and there’d be a rotting meat mound of dead Elsie on my front lawn.

          I could at least dress a live cow up in sparkly Hello Kitty dresses and Lancรดme makeup (or is that Moobelline?) and pare her out at my leisure.

          Adores: 7
        • 2010 September 17

          A dead cow leaves you with limited time for carving preparation

          Chainsaw, duh.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 September 17
          mudslicker permalink

          Confucius say, “Ham who cut dead cow with chainsaw, loses face.”

          Duh.

          *Udderly ridiculous*

          Adores: 7
        • 2010 September 17
          TacoMagic permalink

          I didn’t know Hammy knew where my house was.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 September 17

          *Udderly ridiculous*

          *Why I Udder!*

          *Fires up chainsaw*

          Confucius say, “Cow without legs, ground beef.”

          Adores: 8
        • 2010 September 17
          mudslicker permalink

          *clearing computer screen as well as my throat*

          Confucius say, “Legs without cow, have nobody to call their own.”

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 September 17
          AndieJD permalink

          Except that you can’t really “defenestrate” a person, because that would connote removing the eyeholes themselves, which you couldn’t really do accidentally since that would require filling them in somehow. I think we’re really talking about one of MY favorite words, which is enucleation. Removal of the eyeballs. (I went to law school because I hated being a nurse. But I am still enthralled by anything medical.)

          Edit: Did that need Corey tags?

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          EclecticBlue permalink

          Andie, the definition I know of “defenestrate” is something along the lines of throwing somebody/something out/through a window. Though, enucleate is also an awesome word :-p Jennifer Garner once enucleated a guy….. that was an awesome scene.

          Adores: 0
      • 2010 September 17
        TacoMagic permalink

        Well you gotta do something with all those cows that die mysteriously.

        Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          mudslicker permalink

          Well you gotta do something with all those cows that die mysteriously.

          Is this a frequent occurence in your neighborhoo TM? Cows just dropping like flies?

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          TacoMagic permalink

          Only when the Aliens are in town. Those crazy little green men just love their cow exsanguination.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 September 17
          mudslicker permalink

          I didn’t know that cows and penguins got along so well.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 September 17
          EclecticBlue permalink

          Exsangiunation is one of my favorite words. It’s a close battle between that and defenestration.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 September 17
          NotMyName permalink

          Defenestration sounds…..painful.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          EclecticBlue permalink

          Unless it’s a first story window :-p

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 September 17
          CapnMac permalink

          Almost all defenestration works out badly.

          In architecture, “fenestration” is the aligning of the tops of windows and doors on a floor. Having the fenestration (windows) come of of a building is traumatic enough. Having them warp out of alignment not a good start to a day, either.

          Since fenestration is windows is eyes, if we mean a human corpus–becoming defenestrated not going to be a high point, there, either.

          The last sense, the one EB was referring to, is exiting a building by way of a window, not a door. As she said, this can be problematic above the ground-level floor.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 September 17
          camille permalink

          To my knowledge “defenestration” refers to throwing people out of windows – I’ve never heard of it referring to human eyes. My recent trip to Europe included a visit to the site of the Second Defenetration of Prague, which apparently helped start the Thirty Years War. Alas, I have no information about the First Defenestration of Prague, though Wikipedia does.

          Adores: 2
    • 2010 September 17
      sarajean80 permalink

      :knock-knock:

      :door opens:

      “Yes?”

      “Yeah, I gots yer free steaks here.”

      “That’s a cow.”

      :moooo:

      “Yeah. So?”

      Ummm… Why are there dotted lines drawn all over it?”

      “Oh, right.”

      :Hands over a large hacksaw.:

      “Here’s the disassembly kit. Sign here.”

      Adores: 12
      • 2010 September 17

        It’s OK SJ it’s an Ameglian Major Cow.

        Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          mudslicker permalink

          My Ursa Major Bear scoots over and exsanguinates your Ameglian Major Cow.

          Adores: 2
      • 2010 September 17
        CapnMac permalink

        [bovine corey]
        Delivering a live cow would at least allow a person to milk said bovine (unless a heifer and milked out).

        Delivering a dead steer would likely mean better meat overall, but not the best ways to maintain good relations with the neighbors.

        A live steer, a beeve, now that would have a number of advantages. For one, you’d not need the grass mowed. You also would have fewer urchins running around the yard (and would make for a cool h’ween decoration).
        Downside is that you need about an acre of grass to feed a beeve; acre and a half for milking cow; two for gravid cow. Water quantity is not high, but acces is; bovines will walk a mile, two miles to get to water when thirsty. They also follow their noses, too. Which could be traumatic for the neighbor’s koi pond . . .
        [/corey]

        Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          EclecticBlue permalink

          Oooo, ooo, I know what “gravid” means!

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          sarajean80 permalink

          I know what a beeve is!

          That’s Wally’s little brother.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17

          GravID is the time stamp given to Avatars, before they are shot through the black hole and become Gravatars, so they know what year/day/hour/minute to release them from the server.

          Adores: 0
  15. 2010 September 17
    Windrose permalink

    I don’t think this is the first time this scheme has been tried. He’s sort of a Johnny-come-lately.

    Adores: 4
    • 2010 September 17
      TacoMagic permalink

      Yeah, “give me lots of money for barely any compensation” seems like it just might have been tried a few times before.

      Adores: 4
      • 2010 September 17
        Whirlwitch permalink

        Not to mention “give me a car for barely any compensation”.

        I’m trying not to go anywhere juvenile with “Johnny-come-lately”. And largely failing.

        Adores: 3
        • 2010 September 17
          Windrose permalink

          Wow, I’m rather disappointed. I expected a long, hard thread on this subject.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          kelli permalink

          It seem we just weren’t up for it.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 18

          I tried, but your act is a hard on to follow, Windrose.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 18
          Grampdaddy permalink

          I want to go back to Meredith getting her meat in bulk. Does it come with little costumes?

          Adores: 1
  16. 2010 September 17

    I think Sparky’s ad is really a rebus…lets see…

    Steak+Condo+Donate=Ox’E’codone?

    Adores: 3
  17. 2010 September 17

    [totally OT rant] I simply must share…. Yesterday I got an e-mail on my FB account from the daughter of a very dear friend of 20+ years, but whom I haven’t seen in probably 2 or 3 years (she moves around a lot)…and it had the “I’m here to share my fantastic _________ secrets with you!!!!” tone…complete with all the breathless exclamation points.

    She proceeds to explain how she didn’t mean to ignore all her FB friends, but she’s been slovenly and gotten fat after her brother died unexpectedly last year…but now she’s fabulous thanks to this miracle, blah, blah, blah…

    Frankly, I didn’t comprehend what I read past the “…brother died…” I’ve known this kid since he was about 4 yrs. old (he’s grown now with two sons), and I find out about his death because his sister is plugging some new product she’s selling?!

    WHISKEY-TANGO-FOXTROT???!!

    I responded, kindly, about how sad that was and ignoring her sales pitch asked for her mom’s addy so I can send a long-overdue sympathy card.

    I’m still shaking my head over that bizarro exchange…humanity may be doomed…[/end totally OT rant]

    Adores: 4
    • 2010 September 17
      TacoMagic permalink

      Having a great body sure does reduce the emotional sting of a loved one dying. I’m glad I’m beautiful or I’d be really sad right now.

      Adores: 7
    • 2010 September 17

      Most likely a scammer hacked her email account and is using her address book to pretend to be her.
      I’ve seen this happen to other people, usually they (the hackers) send some sob story about your friend being trapped in Europe and needing money to get home…

      I would call her to see if that’s what it was, since if they hacker he email account she won’t get your return email (plus they now know your email is live and they can sell it to spammers)

      Getting sneaky aren’t they, Bastages!

      Adores: 4
      • 2010 September 17

        No, Hammy…I verified it was her….sigh…..

        Adores: 2
      • 2010 September 17
        Lola permalink

        My email was hacked by the “I’m trapped in London and need money to get home” folk … best part? All of my friends who got it knew it wasn’t me (those who hadn’t seen me in person in the past couple of days and who knew I wasn’t planning upcoming travel) because … wait for it … it was badly spelled and contained copious amounts of poor grammar and misused punctuation and capitalization, unlike my real messages. Yes, kids, spelling, grammar, and capitalization matter! In some cases, they are part of what separates us from the fraudmeister asshats.

        Adores: 12
        • 2010 September 17
          Grampdaddy permalink

          Let’s see if I got this right: it was full of bad spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors – Taco hacked your email account….

          Isaac would have known immediately.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 September 17
          TacoMagic permalink

          I would have hacked Lola’s account, but I kept making typos in the hacking script I was trying to write.

          Adores: 6
  18. 2010 September 17

    NEED YOUR HELP
    *Anagram fun*

    Unheeled Pyro (Dog left the arsonist’s side)

    Deeper Unholy (Possessed submarine movie)

    Heed Puny Lore (Listen to a Leprechaun)

    Eloped, Hey Run (Best idea yet!)

    Yelped Roe Hun (Spouse ate bad caviar)

    Elder Euphony (Grampdaddy poetry)

    Need Pure Holy (Gets rid of Zombs-)

    Dry Leo Pee, Hun (Sop up catulator mattress stains)

    Adores: 4
    • 2010 September 17
      Elder Euphony permalink

      There was an old man named Grampdaddy,
      Who pounded his meat into patties.
      They made him feel filled,
      When they had been grilled,
      on a smokey fire made out of phatties.

      Adores: 3
      • 2010 September 17

        Well as long as you don’t pound your meat into Peppermint Patti, we would have to turn you in for that…

        Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          kelli permalink

          From what I’ve heard, Peppermint Patty prefers Marcie.

          Adores: 2
      • 2010 September 24
        ActionBatch permalink

        gotta wonder what that says about Charlie Brown…

        Adores: 0
  19. 2010 September 17
    AndieJD permalink

    Wait! I’ve just had an idea! A revolutionary idea! JohnnyPokerChamp is a “full time landscaper”, right? Well, my yard needs a lot of work. What if – bear with me, now – what if JPC came over to my house and did some landscaping jobs? And then I could pay him for the landscaping? It’s so crazy it just might work!

    OK, you’re right. Naaaaaah. Something’s bound to go wrong. PayPal-ing him a grand in advance and hoping he will come through with the meat-injection-of-the-month is a much better idea. That’s why CL is here. To educate naive, old-fashioned girls like me.

    Adores: 6
    • 2010 September 17
      mudslicker permalink

      I’m sure that would somehow violate the rules of the Landscaper-Con Man Union.

      Adores: 2
      • 2010 September 17
        NotMyName permalink

        My dad worked as a landscaper for a few years….this guy gives landscapers a bad name!

        No, I’m not spanish.

        Adores: 5
        • 2010 September 17
          mudslicker permalink

          Ummm… just curious NMN …how old are you?

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          NotMyName permalink

          18….why?

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          mudslicker permalink

          Just wondering. Always think it’s a good idea for the regs in here to kind of watch out for the younger crew like Astro and yourself. Puts things into perspective sometimes too.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 September 17
          TacoMagic permalink

          I freaked everyone out when they learned I wasn’t 45.

          Adores: 7
        • 2010 September 17
          mudslicker permalink

          Yeah… 45 going on 14.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 September 17

          I freaked everyone out when they learned I wasnโ€™t 45

          I always thought you were 33 1/3

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 September 17
          TacoMagic permalink

          I think it was mostly Windrose or Lola come to think of it, but I’d have to look back to find out for sure and I’m too lazy to do so.

          She said something like “You’re how old? I always pictured you as being middle aged!”

          I felt old by assumption.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 September 17
          mudslicker permalink

          I remember that day. And your old avatar wouldn’t have given that impression. I still can’t believe Astro’s only 15.

          Assumption? Isn’t that when Mary went up into…. oh, never mind.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 September 17

          I know I thought you were much older TM…now as for Astro…I’m just reeaaaaalllly struggling with the “I’m only 15” part…

          NMN…yeah, 18 makes sense he/she “talks” like an 18-yr. old.

          Anyway, it’s nice that y’all watch out for the younguns.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 September 17
          AndieJD permalink

          Taco, how old ARE you?

          (*Not going to admit that I was imagining someone closer to the Pepsi generation, also)

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          Whirlwitch permalink

          Referring to HamCan – just counted on my fingers and I am 33 1/3 myself right now. Does that mean anything?

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17

          If I remember correctly, Taco is one year older than me.

          But I’m not sure many of you know how old I am so that doesn’t help much, does it? ๐Ÿ˜‰

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          TacoMagic permalink

          I was born 19 years after the start of the Pepsi Generation.

          Uhh…

          I was 3 when Super Mario Brothers was released on the Famicom.

          The Atari 2600 had been out for 4 1/2 years when I was born.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          AndieJD permalink

          So, basically, you’re one of the guys on The Big Bang Theory, Taco? Very cool.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          Grampdaddy permalink

          Before Hammy or TM get to it, I am NOT 78….

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 September 17

          *quick google*

          Yes, you are a year older than me. In fact, if I’m thinking the right month based on the 4 1/2 year calculation…almost exactly one year.

          Edit: Checked the “born on date” forum discussion, we’re 6 days off from being exactly a year apart.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          TacoMagic permalink

          My wife tells me that I’m very similar to Leonard, with slightly less social debility and many, many more video games.

          I was flattered?

          FACT: I am currently building a set of Mega Man Perler Bead coasters. Yeah, that ages me juuust right.

          EDIT: Yes SJ, you are thinking the correct month, assuming you’re seeing that the Atari 2600 was released in October.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 September 17
          AndieJD permalink

          Well, Uncle Google says the Atari 2600 was released in October, 1977 (and it autocompleted my request, too, which suggests to me that some other YSaC-ers are madly scrambling to figure this out, too). If my catulations are correct… let’s see, divide by elebenty, carry the starfish, stand up sit down fight fight fight… that makes you approximately born in 276 b.c. Amirite?

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          AndieJD permalink

          Leonard is hot, btw.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17

          Taco, did you just call me SJ?

          Edit: And yes, I did see the October release date.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          Grampdaddy permalink

          Hey NMN! Don’t take it as a put-down about age, either. We really do like to take care of the younger members of the community, make sure they are welcome and nurtured until they are completely capable of eviscerating anyone who crosses their path.

          You’re welcome…

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          TacoMagic permalink

          I did, sorry Bridgete. I guess I’ve gotten to the point where I’m just looking at avatars and not the names, and with you two having somewhat similar cats my addled brain just picked the easiest name to type. *Looks at his clock* Yup 4:15 on Friday, my attention span is totally nonexist- OH SHINY!

          (In TacoMa’am’s words: “Slightly less social debility.”)

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 September 17

          Taco is the same age as me, I think… which is just WEIRD
          ( 28 )

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          sarajean80 permalink

          I think Taco’s close to the same age that I am.

          The 80 in my username is my birth year (1980), anyone semi-competent at math should be able to guess how old I am.

          There’s also a born on date thread in the fora if anyone’s curious.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          CapnMac permalink

          Actually, I believe Astro is 16, which makes a nice inside straight as Laurehach is 17, then NMN at 18.

          Whihc poses a question on whether NMN was ever in marching band . . .

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          NotMyName permalink

          I’m slightly confused that you can tell I’m 18 by the way I talk, but I’m still he/she.
          Secondly, to Grampdaddy, I’ll be raised and nurtured till I’m capable of eviscerating anyone in my path….do you mean in real life? Or on the internet?

          Oh, and marching band? Nope. I can only play the kazoo.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          EclecticBlue permalink

          NMN, mostly the video game preoccupation, and a little bit of the less-older-pop-culture knowledge. That’s what gives it away for me, anyways.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17

          The born on date mostly has month and day, but no year. ๐Ÿ˜‰

          I’m with EB on the ability to determine age by comments. Gender is much harder, especially on here, unless the name or avatar gives it away. We all joke about massive links and meat injections without regard to our own gender.

          Cap’n, I just checked the born on dates, and unless January lands at a different time for you than for me, Astro is still 15, because he was 15 when I started commenting, and that was in late May. I’m also pretty sure the last time Laurel said her age, she said 16.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17

          The fact that I understood HamCan’s 33 1/3 comment AND Grampdaddy’s 78 comment makes me feel a lot older than 4 years shy of middle age.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          CapnMac permalink

          Oh well then, I was wrong–teach me to rely upon memory.

          Adores: 0
    • 2010 September 17
      Meredith permalink

      Uhhhh, I re-read, and all of the sudden “landscaper” and “meat delivery” took on a very squiky slant. :::shudder shudder:::

      Adores: 2
      • 2010 September 17
        Whirlwitch permalink

        As in – some guys like it if the meat delivery site is landscaped?

        Apparently I have a personal grudge against the line.

        Adores: 10
        • 2010 September 17
          AndieJD permalink

          …. Giving Whirlwitch the highest of fives…. Doors a’plenty for you!

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          LurkRealClose permalink

          Exactly, WW! Here’s some more doors.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 September 17
          sarajean80 permalink

          Heck, take this extra set of shutters, too. They are like tiny louvered doors, but for windows.

          Adores: 1
  20. 2010 September 17
    Addicted Reader permalink

    I think this needs the “disingenuous” tag. I at first read the title as offering $1000 TO YOU in exchange for help of some unspecified sort. But no, Sparky wants YOU to give HIM the money.

    Adores: 1
  21. 2010 September 17
    mudslicker permalink

    Out of kindness, Iโ€™ve left off the self-portrait of himself in the mirror

    How could I have missed this. It had to have been reflecto-porn. Eureka! Now the meat reference makes sense!

    Adores: 5
  22. 2010 September 17
    EclecticBlue permalink

    OT: So, I still giggle every time I see the “Won’t you be my neighbor” sign on my way home from work. Now I have a better mental image to attach to it.

    Adores: 2
    • 2010 September 17
      TacoMagic permalink

      Ahoy EB!

      Adores: 2
      • 2010 September 17
        EclecticBlue permalink

        Ahoy!

        ?

        Adores: 2
        • 2010 September 17
          Whirlwitch permalink

          A hoy is a type of boat.

          Adores: 1
    • 2010 September 17
      Whirlwitch permalink

      How could you think of anything other than a man in a zippered cardigan?

      Adores: 2
      • 2010 September 17
        EclecticBlue permalink

        Well, Mr. Zippered Cardigan is on the sign. But, the image is him holding said bee bee guns. “Won’t you bee my neighbor? *maniacal laugh*”

        Adores: 1
  23. 2010 September 17
    AndieJD permalink

    I am confused by the way these threads appear. I never know which “reply” will put my reply closest to the post to which I am replying. Why is my enucleation post so far away from the defenestration posts?

    *DISCLAIMER: I really am confused by the order of the posts but also just really like typing “enucleation” and “defenestration”.

    Adores: 1
    • 2010 September 17
      EclecticBlue permalink

      By the time the third nesting comes along, it doesn’t really want to go farther in. So in order to reply as close to below a comment as you can, you need to scroll up and click the first “reply” button you come across. The reply box will be placed right above the next “reply” link. Clear as mud?

      Adores: 2
      • 2010 September 17
        NotMyName permalink

        “By the time the third nesting comes along, it doesn’t really want to go farther in.”

        Yup, no explicitness here. Not.

        Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          EclecticBlue permalink

          *Twitchtwitch. Twitch*

          Adores: 2
    • 2010 September 17
      EclecticBlue permalink

      Also, I think having a second energy-drink-mix was a bad idea. Especially after I was already shaky from fast-walking around the park in 88 degree weather, and having consumed only about 400 calories for the day. Here comes the twitchy muscles….

      Adores: 1
      • 2010 September 17
        EclecticBlue permalink

        Note to self (hehe! it is a note to myself! I’m replying to my own comment!): mg of caffeine consumed must be equal or greater than 3 times the kcal consumed in the last 18 hours in order to avoid the TacoMagicTwitchies.

        Edit: *twitch*

        Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          EclecticBlue permalink

          The voice in my head is on endless repeat. It’s going “Uh-oh… you made a mistake! *chants* Made a mistake! Kissed a snake! How many doctors will it take! Oe… Two… Three… Four… I declare a thumb war! Five Size Seven Eight! Who do we appreciate?? Dr. McNinja! Made a mistake, kissed a snake, how many doctors will it take? One… Two… Three… Four… I declare a thumb war! Five Six Seven Eight! ……”

          *twitch*

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 September 17

          This, EB, is why I a-door you so much.

          Adores: 1
    • 2010 September 17
      AndieJD permalink

      EB, I wasn’t as confused as I sounded based on the location my post posted. I do know you’re right, I was more addressing Capn’s post.

      But now I’m thinking about how cool it would be to throw something out of someone’s eye sockets. You would, of course, have to enucleate them first (YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS I got to type it again). Becuase if you didn’t, then it would be the eyeball itself being thrown out through the socket and there would really be a question whether you were defenestrating or enucleating (OMGOMGOMGOMG it’s like quiet T-shirt time all up in here). And it would have to be something that was either inside or behind the person’s head, I think. I will leave that part to Leonard/Taco.

      Adores: 4
    • 2010 September 17
      CapnMac permalink

      Replies are limited to being three deep.
      They are threaded within that structure.
      Thus:

      A. has a Reply
      A.1 has a reply
      A.2 does not
      A.3 ditto above.
      A.1.a has a reply
      A.1.b does not.
      B. has a Reply
      C. has a Reply
      C.1 has a reply
      C.2 does not
      C.3 ditto
      C.4 ditto
      and so on.

      Now, the jestro page theme does apply colors and boxes, which are supposed to help, but, it can be easy to miss the next reply while scrolling up a page. On a hand-held device, like a phone, this is probably redoubled.

      That help any?

      Adores: 0
      • 2010 September 17
        AndieJD permalink

        I like soup.

        Adores: 4
        • 2010 September 17
          Lola permalink

          I like chocolate.
          The llammu apparently like cheese.

          I’m boggled you were able to figure that out. I just went so far as to remember to scroll up for the nearest “reply” click and left it at that.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          kelli permalink

          I like cereal.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 17
          Camille permalink

          I like popcorn.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 September 18
          Grampdaddy permalink

          I like Peppermint Patties.

          Adores: 1
      • 2010 September 24
        ActionBatch permalink

        I like stuff! It’s the stuffiest!

        Adores: 0
  24. 2010 September 17
    EclecticBlue permalink

    Weee, I’m talking amongst myself again!

    *twitch twitch*

    Adores: 3
    • 2010 September 17
      NotMyName permalink

      I’ve done that before….usually late at night, at about 1 in the morning.

      Adores: 2
    • 2010 September 17
      CapnMac permalink

      No you’re not (well, maybe over on f.b {g})

      Adores: 0
  25. 2010 September 17
    CapnMac permalink

    Ok, last night on one of my builder’s fora, they had found a CL listing to lampoon.

    Some elegant Sparky had a Cunning Plan. They own some bottom land and want a pond. So, on CL they have an ad, you get all the topsoil for free, if you’ll just dig it out and haul it away.
    Oh, they’d estimanted it was at least 120,000 cubic yards; about 5 acres 12′ deep of topsoil.

    Lessee, 15 yard dump truck is only 8000 trips (3.8 working years if the dumping site is only an hour away).

    So, maybe our landscaping Sparquie can help. With his beat-up pickup truck (2 cubic yards) and a beat up 1/10 yard Bobcat, that’s twenty bobcat trips a truck load, call that a half hour.

    Let’s guess Sparquie’s condo has 5 to 10 empty acres and is only 30 minutes away.
    That’s 60,000 trips, and 60,000 hours. Ok, Sparquie is industrious and works 300 10 hour days, or 3000 hours. Sparq’ will finish in 20 years.

    At $15/cy, he should gross $1.8million selling topsoil.
    He will have worn out 10 or 11 Bobcats at $20K each.
    And at least 5 construction p/u at about $20K each, too.
    Then, the rent on the condo, 20 years @ $9500/mo.
    Let’s average diesel out at 10 gal/dy at %2.75/gal.

    1,800,000 gross
    -200,000 excavators
    -100,000 trucks
    -2,280,000 rent(oops, forgot $1000 discount for steaks)
    -2,040,000 rent
    -165,000 fuel
    __________________
    Sparq’ makes
    -705,000

    oops, and Sparq has to give away the steaks, so nothing to eat. And, he has not paid taxes or other fees, either. (Like the wetlands permits the pond-wanting Sparky doesn’t know to get yet.)

    Nope, you can learn everything on the intertubes, no need for people with experience or licenses of actual, paid-for businesses and the like . . .

    le Sigh

    Adores: 2

  26. 2010 September 17
    AndieJD permalink

    Oh, holy Clothespin Jeebus. I was just looking at the YSaCtionary definition of Corey. I had read the original post before but never the comments. OMG you guys, I am going to have abs of steel from laughing. I scared my cats out of the room about halfway through. This is a perfect example of how the posts are hy-freaking-larious, but your comments are just as funny. Well done. Doors to all.

    Adores: 1
  27. 2010 September 17

    I just noticed that my innuendo was especially thinly veiled today…and my snark was of low quality.*Sorry, blush*

    I was a little cranky because I was rudely awakened at 1am by a rowdy group of teenagers who thought it was a great idea to TP, egg, paint ball and cabbage* the entire neighborhood.

    Keep in mind that this is a very quiet suburban neighborhood on a dead end street where nothing much like this ever happens.They picked up most of the mess at my…”request” until the cops showed up, then they scattered ๐Ÿ˜‰

    Apparently they had slashed a few tires and keyed some cars, also caused an accident by tossing cabbages at cars.

    Dangerous behavior, and they are lucky they didn’t go into the wrong yard or threaten the wrong person and get themselves shot.

    *The sheriff told me it was “cabbage day” apparently a local high school tradition…WTFBBQ?

    Adores: 1
    • 2010 September 17

      WTF Steak of the Month BBQ indeed! I hope they caught at least some of them!
      One of my friends was almost blinded by an egg thrown at her car (going 55). Her window was down and it hit her left eye. She thought it was a rock at first, and started screaming because she thought the goo running down her face was her eye. The kids who did it weren’t caught.
      Man, back in my day all we the bad kids did was smoke pot in someone’s basement and listen to music.

      Adores: 1
      • 2010 September 18

        They were out there making noise like it was the 4th of July.

        When I cornered them they looked at me as if I was the one doing something wrong.

        Couple good spankings using the “judge” when they were younger might have learned them to have a little more respect for other people.

        I never have understood the “I’m the center of the universe and no one else matters” mentality.

        Adores: 1
  28. 2010 September 18

    To those who are editing the wiki: My two cents on the periodic table is posted in the forum.

    Adores: 1
    • 2010 September 18

      I added 11 – Cc – Cranialchlorine for you plus I thought up another one…

      69 – Gr -Getarumium

      And I edited the page the way you suggested, I was going to do that at some point nanyway because no one would ever scroll down to the end of the list.

      I keep meaning to compliment you on your Avatar, it is very well done and intriguing.

      Adores: 1
      • 2010 September 18

        Thanks! I’ll admit that I took this picture after spending an insane amount of money at a salon to get it that straight. It went back to its normal frizzed out state within hours. Maybe I’ll post a normal hair picture sometime, around Halloween would be appropriate.

        Adores: 1
  29. 2010 September 18
    Windrose permalink

    Sorry, gang, can’t read it all tonight. I’ll graze through it tomorrow. But here’s something I am happy to do! LRC, for predicting that CJ would be in the box today, here’s an Honorary Punchity Punch Punch!

    CJ, here’s A CLU! Punchity Punch Punch!

    G’Night, Prague!

    Adores: 1

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