YSaC, Vol. 1172: Actually, it’s fiddler crab season
2012 January 24
Trade 30 duck decoys for a stuffed [taxidermy] rabbit
I have 30 mallard decoys [15 male 15 female] in 2 mesh bags with anchor weights. They all look like the ones in the picture.
I want to trade them for a mounted rabbit.Don’t care if it was wild or domestic, but don’t want one that is al buggy or that was poorly tanned.
I might trade the decoys for other outdoorsy type stuff as well or sell them for a little cash.
I might pay a little cash for a stuffed bunny instead, if you got one and don’t need any duck decoys.
…Life is like that sometimes.
Duck Season!
Wabbit Season!
Duck Season!
Wabbit Season!
…ennui season.
Thanks, Carla!
I thought you could only hunt fiddler crabs in months without “R”s.
[too much eBay searching corey]
There’s an entire market of fiddler crabs as ornaments/good luck charms.
But, what is slightly more interesting is to search “yujin”–which offers up an entire line of sealife replicas cast in pvc, all about 2″/50mm in size.
[/replica shellfish corey]
Replica Shellfish Corey is the name of IF’s Phish cover band, with lead singer Corey Haim.
My mama always told me life was like a mesh bag full of mallard decoys. You never know when someone with a stuffed rabbit will need them.
Craigslist Philosophy: It quacks me up.
This is like one of those needlessly complicated series of trades that starts with a bowl of fresh strawberries and ends up with someone getting a new car, or in this case a taxidermied rabbit from someone who isn’t named Al Buggy.
I thought it ended up with Bert getting very upset.
That, sir, is an inmitimigated frabrication.
Shhhh… be vewwy vewwy quiet. I’m bwowsing CwaigsWist.
Yeah, goodness knows you wouldn’t want a Buggy Bunny. Especially given that your ducks don’t look even the tiniest bit Daffy.
Or one that has tanned poorly. No orange spray tanned bunnies or ones with sunburns, please.
We don’t even know if he likes bikini lines on his bunnies or not.
Yeah! No Snookie bunnies here!
“snooki bunnies”?
Knowing what “dust bunnies” are made of . . .
I was already afraid of quark leakage from the tv in just channel surfing, the thought of that leakage engaging in quantum coalescence is frightening in any shade of orange . . .
*goes off contemplating spin & color based hadron dustmops*
We don’t want no Cheeto colored bunnies!
*That’s be best I can do today. Work is sucking bigguns lately. I’m now at the point where I’m spending as much time documenting and collecting cover-my-ass paperwork as I’m spending actually doing my job.
Neither do you want Lindsay Lohan bunnies. The shade of orange is decidedly off putting, especially on a cute natural redhead.
(Redheads unite! Viva la Ginger!)
Sparky the Mighty! I might do this, I might do that. So unpredictable. He’s obviously trying to get George to tell him about the rabbits.
😀
Well, darn.
Only on YSaC can you be like “Oh, oh, oh, I can make a snarky reference to Of Mice and Men!” and then be ninja’d by a bird.
Ninja’d by a Bird is the name of my Dresden Dolls cover band.
Please, IF, tell Astro about the duckies.
And I get to tend ’em?
（＾Ｏ＾☆♪ Schtuff da wabbit, schtuff da wabbit!
I thought I found a fiddler crab once, but a closer inspection revealed he wasjust a crabby violinist which might explain why I found him at the symphony.
Duck… duck… duck… duck… duck… duck… duck… RABBIT!
(on a side note, I loved messing with people while playing that game. I’d shout “PINEAPPLE” instead of “GOOSE!” and they’d half start and have to sit down. Or I’d say “goose” casually and not run, and be halfway around the circle before they realized they had to catch me.)
I was a rather Tweak-ish child. Ack! This game is way too much pressure!
Just pictured Bill the Cat there. LOL, Thanx, for that!
Perchance he will take my Donnie Darko sleepy time bunny.
Doors galore for the Darko reference…
AL BUGGY IS A CHEAT AND A LIER!!!! DO NOT TRUST THIS MAN!!!! HE WILL TRY TO SELL YOU A RABBIT DO NOT BE FOOLED!!!1! IT IS NOT DEAD!!!! IT IS ONLY STUNED AND TIED UP WITH PACKING TAPE!!! WHEN IT GETS FREEE IT IS PISSED!!!!! IT WILL TEAR YOUR FACE OFF!!!! DON’T LAUGH RABBITS HAVE BIG TEETH!!!! DON’T GIVE HIM YOUR MONEY YOU WILL NEED IT FOR DOCTOR BILLS!!!!
It’s ok, I have a holy hand grenade
I thought that went, “It’s ok, I have a holy hand grenade, Batman!”
Five!, er, no, THREE!
Not enough doors in the world, Capn, not enough by a long shot.
That’s only in Antioch!
One of my favorite Threadless Ts:
http://www.threadless.com/submission/366882/Bad_Tempered_Rodents
*sneaking into others’ offices, giving Silva doors*
With nasty big pointy teeth!
Look at the bones!
Whya rabbit? Whya no chicken?
In all fairness, he’s willing to trade for other “outdoorsy type stuff”…I will take his cash for an old flannel shirt, expired sunblock, and a tent stake. Do I win this Yankee swap?
I know where he can get an outdoor mower.
That’s white!
Hey! Hey! Windy – let’s keep ethnicity out of this, or we’ll have “He who must not be brained” back calling us racist!
Oh, wait, you were referring to yesterday.
Never mind…
Grampdaddy, it figures you would show up on a day I didn’t get back to comment later in the day. 8)
[boring corey]
Used mallard floating decoys are around $50-60 the dozen (about $55-65 for a set of six, new); so Spark has a legitimate $150-worth of barter on his side or the proposed trade.
Wandering eBay, the search “taxidermy mount (rabbit,hare)” offers prices around $175 to $450, with the latter being exotics and mounts with bases; the former being near where what Spark’s ad was looking for.
Now, if a person removes the word “mount” from that search, there are a number of, well, rather-troubling entries in the $15-25 range, which are rabbit pelts glued on hard plastic shells shaped like bunnies.
The difference–near as I can tell–being that the latter would wind up a scratching post around my cat, and the former would be viewed with suspicion and a certain amount of “anti-evil-eye” hissing and back-arching and the like.
Mostly, I just hope Sparky here is not some weird HHNF stalker.
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[corey]
[boring corey] is redundant.
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30 birds in hand apparently are worth 1 bunny in the bush.
I feel dirty now….
…Life is like that sometimes.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of the corner, ’tain’t gonna do to feer no bunny bush, for I am the fiddlerest crab in the
taxadurtexedermstuffin’ place.As noted above, this is a pretty reasonable trade, Sparky’s spelling difficulties aside. At first I thought he was switching from duck hunting to coyote hunting, but the injunction against manky rabbits makes me suspect he simply wants it for decoration.
“Manky Rabbits”…Thank you! I generally don’t spray the computer screen this late in the day.
Now I totally want to go to court and file a Motion for an Injunction Against Manky Rabbits.
Yeah, but you’d just get caught up in the “Is this the manky rabbit of the first part, or the manky of the second part?”, and then you’d get into restrictive clauses in the document barring ducks from the premises, which would lead to Al Sharpton doubting your sanity, and that would lead to needing a sanity clause, and we all know “You can’t fool me -there ain’t no Sanity Clause.”
Thank you, Chico!
Hare hare!
Just went back and looked at the picture with the ad – obviously a major clusterduck!
Sparky seems very disorganized. I refuse to buy from anyone that doesn’t have their ducks in a row.
The way I understand it, if you get two rabbits one of them will be mounted frequently.
Finally we know what happened to the Velveteen Rabbit. After it became a real rabbit, his organisms were removed, he was stuffed with sawdust etc., and traded for two mesh bags of mallard decoys. Another childhood story meets reality and Craigslist.
Crap, it wont let me edit that. I meant organs, not organisms. Curses!
Just be glad you didn’t type ‘orgasms’ – NOBODY wants their orgasms replaced with sawdust.
My life is like that all the time which is why I keep a large supply of duck decoys throughout the apartment.
The anchor weights will come in handy, I can toss both bags in the pond like I’m drowning ducks. When the environmentalists have a cow over that, it’ll give me a chance to finish my deep fried spotted owl. Isn’t that what decoys are for?
Tankerbell, you broke the bank at YSaC! Punchity Punch Punch!
Good Morning, Chuck Testa!
Nope, Chuck Testa