Author: drmk

  • YSaC, Vol. 266: It’s Flatulence Friday!

    NICE OLD SOFA BLUE LOOK  – $389


    I HAVE GORGOUS OLD BLUE VINYL SOFA. THIS BABY IS ORIGINAL THE RIPS OR TEARS IN IT ARE NATURAL FROM GAS OR FARTS. YOU WILL NEED TO PICK UP.

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    This was Lindsay’s very first submission to YSaC. She says she will be combing her local Craigslist for “Midwest stupidity.” Apparently there’s plenty of that to go around. I’m mystified by the pricing of the sofa — but even more mystified by the fact that the listing has since been modified to “sold pending pickup”! Someone actually bought that thing?

    Anyway, as we all know, I’m all about making connections for people … it’s just my giving nature. Read on to find out more:

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  • YSaC, Vol. 265: Avoid the microwave.

    Read this or perish – 333


    I’ve done this internet dating thing for years now. I’ve mostly dated women in their mid-30’s to low 40’s (I’m talking breast size here, not age). It could be just a coincidence, but these gals all say they want me to play dead so they can drive me around town in the back of a hearse, or else they want to push me around in a baby carriage … yet they exhibit obvious signs of a fear of commitment (to a mental hospital).

    What is up with you gals? I feel like I’m dating 14 year old girls in men’s bodies, with female genitalia, but with men’s back hair … though with the post-menopausal mood swings of 52-year-old women. What gives? Or is it just me?

    I am seeking a woman who sometimes poses as a boy, sometimes as a lady, sometimes as a tree or bush (the kind that can walk, though). Someone with an identity crisis. Someone who finds herself licking postage stamps if only because of the taste. Someone who isn’t afraid to play in the dirt, on the edge of cliffs, or with poisonous snakes that can spit toxic venom across long distances with laser accuracy. Someone who loves life as much as I do (i.e., not very). Someone who loves dogs, especially mine, and has no problem including her “bitch” (if it’s a female dog) on walks, trips to the zoo, excursions to casinos and/or offshore oil wells, etc. — and who doesn’t get jealous of it (it’s happened before!). The kind of person who isn’t phased by a household with no microwave, or a microwave that one casually opens, only to find a human head in it (just hypothetically speaking — I don’t do that kind of thing).

    I want to spend my time with someone who really cares about what they put into their body. I am a fan of trying to eat unprocessed foods, and when I can, I eat organic produce, only to later pig out on the most processed, artificial food possible. Weird, huh?

    Road trips are good fun, and I like to be spontaneous about them. Once I got it on in the bathroom of a greyhound and then wound up getting the clams, but it’s all experience.

    I am looking for something long term. I can’t waste any more of my energy with someone who is not looking for the same, unless they are looking for something short-term, which is also fine.

    Please be 20-35, no children, dogs are ok but we can share mine ’cause he is awesome (and fairly well hung, FWIW). Please be nice, compassionate, honest, in good shape, and attractive. Lepers discouraged but not rejected unconditionally.

    At first glance, this isn’t exactly a Craigslist fail, as it made me laugh myself silly. It’s really more of a Craigslist win, in that regard. This is my favorite part:

    I am looking for something long term. I can’t waste any more of my energy with someone who is not looking for the same, unless they are looking for something short-term, which is also fine.

    If I were single and in this particular Midwestern university town, I would totally think about contacting this guy … and then not do it.

    On second glance, there’s just something a little too strange about it. I’m not sure what it is — maybe it’s his unnatural attachment to his dog. I’ve dated men who are a little too attached to their dog, and I have to say that after that, I draw the line at a guy picking scabs off of his dog IN BED. I think that’s a reasonable place to draw a line, don’t you?

    Anyway, the mere mention of dog penis is also enough to turn my otherwise favorable impression sour. I don’t want to know that about your dog. I don’t even want to know that about you. I can safely say that I have no idea what size penis my cat has. (Then again, that might be because my cat is (a) female and (b) fixed, but still … )

    But the real killer for me is the “licking stamps because you like the taste” bit. NOBODY LIKES THE TASTE OF STAMPS. And by the way — wet paper? BLARGHARGHBLARGHARGHARGH. Wet paper is disgusting. Deliberately licking paper is worse than running your fingernails down a chalkboard while chewing on tinfoil and singing a Beyoncé song. All of those things are individually cringeworthy, but wet paper is worse than all three of those things combined. Stamps are nothing but wet paper with pictures on them. So is acid. I rest my case.

    My point [and I don’t actually have one, mind you] is that at first this ad comes across as all clever and genuine.  Then you start seeing the seedy underbelly, and you realize you’re dealing with a dog-obsessed serial killer who rides Greyhound buses and likes the taste of stamps. And one of those things is just a dealbreaker.

    That’s the Midwest for you.

    This was sent in by Christy — thanks!

  • YSaC, Vol. 264: The suck runs deep with this one.

    Free Chickens


    Have 520 chickens-must get off the property IMMEDIATELY! I will NOT give the chickens to black people, I don’t like them! Sorry!
    Call Fat Willie- (270)xxx-xxxx

    This one was flagged almost immediately — what a surprise. And again, it was difficult to restrain myself from leaving in the phone number.

    Jami (from DateWrecks) sent this one in, pointing out that the neighborhood in which this was listed is not exactly country bumpkin land; she says it’s a southern urban area. That’s rather a lot of chickens even if you ARE on a farm, instead of having them running around your three bedroom split-level ranch. I’m thinking Fat Willie might have had a run-in with Animal Control.

    I can’t even make up a funny story in my head about this one. Not to perpetuate stereotypes or anything, but:

    1. Southern
    2. Racist
    3. Going by the sobriquet of “Fat Willie”

    … the “asshat” tag is kind of unavoidable, isn’t it?

  • YSaC, Vol. 263: The real punkers stay at the Hilton.

    Rock clubs – 30


    I am coming to Chicago in Sept, and need to know the Real Rock clubs of Chicago. I do not want the tourists hangouts, or want2b clubs. I am looking for the real down and dirty, kick ass, Lets get drunk and get naked clubs!! I am a metal,glam,PunK, major rager on the 4 strings, who is coming to Chicago, to do a little business during the day, and tear it up at night!! I am staying downtown at the Marriott courtyard, will be in town for three days. So clubs and events around downtown will be helpfull.

    Nothing says “major rager” PunK like the Marriott Courtyard! Rock on, man.

    Also, is it just me, or is that one picture using this bedspread as a backdrop? (A very sexy backdrop, of course, since there’s a liquor bottle and a bass guitar involved. That makes it sexy.)

    And … 30? Really? Really? That’s a tough-looking 30.

    Sent in by Caroline — thanks!

  • YSaC, Vol. 262: Today’s lesson — the singulare tantum.

    FREE UNDERWEARS!!!


    anyboody want some free underwears? i got 9 mens large breefs. desent shape, no big holes, no skid marks. i didtn wear them hardly much and dont fit no more. my loose is you’re gain!

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    Juliet sends this one in, saying, “I do like the variety of underwear displayed. You have the leg-hugging shorts, lots of basic black (it’s always chic, a man’s version of the little black dress), and the  velour couch-print speedo-style; but my favourite for sure are the beigey-pinky briefs. It doesn’t get any sexier than those. And no skid marks? How awesome is that? Cuz, when I want free underwears, skid marks are a dealbreaker. So are big holes, although I don’t mind a few small ones. One has to have standards when it comes to free underwears. I can’t just take just any free underwears from just anyboody. And best of all, their loose is my gain! How can anyoone pass up such a great offer?”

    Yup, that about covers it. Unlike those leopard-print speedos.

    Is it really geeky of me to be amused that the phrase singulare tantum has a plural form? Yeah, I thought so.

  • YSaC, Vol. 261: I didn’t really need proof of that last part. Thanks, though.

    2.5 yr old yellow lab. UTD on shots


    He’s friendly, utd on shots, was raised w/ children and houstrained.

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    I didn’t think it would be possible to take a less-flattering picture of the dog you’re trying to abandon than this one, but these people have managed to do it.