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  • YSaC, Vol. 1749: Turns out $200 is your price for flight.

    Yesterday’s poster was selling all sorts of wacky stuff. Today’s poster? Not so much:

    Motor – $200

    condition: like new
    Robin

    Well, $200 is a pretty good deal. And there’s really only two types of motors, right?

    It could only be either this:

    or this:

    And either one of those seems like a steal for $200. Of course, my grasp of engineering may be a little fuzzy, but it’s still better than Robin’s grasp of Craigslist.

    Thanks for the link, sd!

  • YSaC, Vol. 1748: Bricks are Heavy

    free crap!!

    Moving and have plenty of stuff we no longer need.
    Kitchen table….made of lovely wood like substance…has stains and scratches
    Eight toaster ovens
    Three foot tall green glass duck, head is broken off, currently has a smaller wooden duck mounted in its place
    Old potting soil
    Broken Microwave oven (Kenmore brand, very good quality, lasted many years before it died)
    Large pile of old clothes.
    Canned Goods…most expired.
    Diapers
    First aid kit
    At home std test kits (at least a dozen)
    Bricks
    Front seat from a honda (large cigarette burn)

    too many more items to list
    All items are in the middle of ### road, near ###. Im sure they wont last long

    OK folks – today’s homework assignment is to design a Rube Goldberg machine using all of these items. It should accomplish a very simple task in a needlessly complex way. But please hurry – either the potting soil or the duck is starting to smell funny.

    Thanks for the post, Matty!

  • YSaC, Vol. 1747: With apologies to Rob Van Winkle

    OLD ELECTRIC CLOTHES PRESSURE – $30

    VENTAGE ELECTRIC CLOTHES PRESSURE WOKS WELL 27″ wide 50 YRS OLD

    dun dun dun da da dun dun,
    da dun dun dun da da dun dun…

    Pressure,
    Pushing down on pants,
    Pushing down on shirts,
    no man has worn

    Under pressure,
    That gets your seams all flat
    takes your wrinkles out
    can leave scorch marks

    It’s the terror of knowing
    This machine has a mouth,
    The knobs look like eyes
    Screaming “Let Me Out!”

    Thanks for this scary appliance, Susan!

  • YSaC, Vol. 1746: Hey Jack Kerouac …

    You know what’s always sounded like fun? Loading up everything I own into a motorhome and taking off. Just hitting the Eisenhower highway system, going wherever I want to go, with all the comforts of home right there behind me. These modern motorhomes are just amazing — they’re super efficient with space, and some of the newer ones are downright luxurious.

    The one thing I’d be afraid of is that in windy conditions, they’re pretty much a giant rolling billboard getting blown around on the road. All that surface area just catching the wind — it’s got to be pretty hard to keep it going in a straight line.

    So imagine my excitement about this:

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  • YSaC, Vol. 1745: I’ll take two!

    Now, normally we try to conceal where a post was made, in order to protect the stupid. However in this case, that would seem to involve removing half of the post:

    free (vancouver)

    Seriously. That’s the entire post. And there’s an obvious joke to be made: This person is giving away free Vancouvers! Wakka Wakka Wakka!

    Well, actually, it seems they ARE giving away free Vancouvers – since this wasn’t posted in Vancouver at all.

    Really. It was posted in an entirely different, non-Vancouver city. So… there you are. Vancouvers for everyone!

    Thanks for the post, Stephanie!

  • YSaC, Vol. 1744: Iced Poky Mom.

    PODEYOM MICK TWO FEET TALL! -$20

    THIS IS A NICE FIND A MIKE THAT MOVES AROUND! CALL ME CHRIS HAS A HAVEY BOTOM! CALL ME CHRIS AT [redacted]

    “Podeyom Mick” is clearly an anagram for “My Cooked Imp”*, which is obviously referring to Mike, who is only two feet tall but agile. I’m not sure why we’re cooking Mike, though. He seems a little … wiry. Seems to me as though Chris is the one who has been hitting the food trough.

     

    *Or “Icky Demo Mop”.

     

    Thanks, BianchiSound!