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YSaC, Vol. 307: They have their own Society, you know.

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Comfortable overstuffed chair w/audubon – $30

We’ve had this in our enclosed deck and it’s in good shape with no tears, no odors, smokers or cats around. It has a drip stain from a storm that some water got in from but will clean up very nice for any room. xxxxxxxxx@hotmail.com

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This endangered species of audubon was preserved thanks to the efforts of the National Audubon Society. Please remember them with your philathropic donations, because if audubons go extinct, where will we put our feet? WON’T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE FEET??

Sorry, but this is a cause I believe in very strongly, as you can tell. I’ve seen firsthand the devastation that losing a species of audubon can create, and I don’t want this to happen to the rest of the civilized world. SAVE THE AUDUBONS!

And if you’re not interested in saving the audubons (because you’re a TERRIBLE person), perhaps you’d be interested in this?

Free couch and 2 automans

free couch little stained…i usually just put a blanket over it…i got it for free on CL so i just wanted to return the favor. Two matching automans as well. Cannot deliver or help load.

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Maybe free automans will tug at your heartstrings enough. No? My god, people, what do I have to do to get through to you?

[Thanks to Roz and Amanda for submitting these listings!]

Comments

49 responses to “YSaC, Vol. 307: They have their own Society, you know.”

  1. Amy H. Avatar
    Amy H.

    The last item missing from my collection is the EXTREMELY rare French Prudential Audubon. It’s a very elusive creature that can often be found lurking near large herds of Dinning Tables. And on another note, does that picture of the couch make anyone else dizzy?

  2. joe Avatar
    joe

    “little stained…i usually just put a blanket over it…” Other times, I don’t. Hence the stains.

  3. Nathan Avatar
    Nathan

    I think this stems from a confusion between an ottoman and the Autobahn. Perhaps he was trying to sell two German highways?

  4. jackie31337 Avatar
    jackie31337

    Not that ottoman makes much more sense, despite being the correct word. I’m tempted to call people up and ask if they mean Ottoman as in the empire or the thing you put your feet on.

  5. Colleen in MA Avatar
    Colleen in MA

    I’m just relieved they didn’t call that chair a sofa.

  6. Lizzy Avatar
    Lizzy

    As long as it’s not free automatons, I’m in. Robots scare me.

  7. CE Blog Avatar
    CE Blog

    You know this reminds me of a great story about American ornithologist and artist John James. You know the guy. His effort to catalog every species of bird in the United States resulted in the publication of The Birds of America (1827-1838), a collection of 1,065 life-size engravings of birds found in eastern North America. It is considered a classic work in ornithology and in American art.

    I should really tell you all about it sometime.

  8. T-Bone Avatar
    T-Bone

    Both pieces of furniture look like they have been on the front porch of a frat house.

  9. Some chick Avatar
    Some chick

    And I thought “Chair and Atomin in Great Shap” was bad….

    http://syracuse.craigslist.org/fuo/1175546845.html

  10. D Avatar
    D

    i went to wikipedia.com to see what’s the joke with audubon (I’m german) and not just was that cleared up, thanks to wikipedia I now know how* “autobahn” is spelled in english. made my day, thanks!

    by the way, you’re spelling “autobahn” wrong then. I mean, you don’t say “audomadic dransmission” either, do you?

    *there once once was a german game show, called the “Knoff Hoff Show”, the name referring to the wrong literal german spelling of “Know How”. only one example how obsessed we germans were with correct and wrong english spelling & translation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4bnk8c29qw

  11. isaac Avatar
    isaac

    … but … but … but no one spelled autobahn wrong?

    1. D Avatar
      D

      sorry, my fault. i meant “pronounced” instead of “spelled”. the joke’s on me for wrong translation here.

  12. Dave and the ferret Avatar
    Dave and the ferret

    They’re imported from Contemporania. The Contemporanians developed that style back when Contemporania was part of the Audubon Empire.

    1. Angel Avatar
      Angel

      Istanbul was Contemporania.
      Now it’s Istanbul, not Contemporania.
      Been a long time gone, Contemporania.
      Now it’s Audubon delight on a moonlit night.

      1. HamCan Avatar
        HamCan

        Au-dub-on: The gold button on an audio panel that replaces one sound with another.

        Antithesis: Au-dub-off

      2. CapnMac Avatar
        CapnMac

        TMBG ftw

  13. TypoMagic Avatar
    TypoMagic

    I had a bad case of Audubans once. Took some Imodium and it cleared right up.

    1. Windrose Avatar
      Windrose

      Only once? That surprises me.

      PS — Many thanks for the addition to our family!

      1. HamCan Avatar
        HamCan

        I didn’t even know he was pregnant…

        When is the babby shower?

        1. Windrose Avatar
          Windrose

          I think we have to hand wash, and line dry.

  14. CoffDrop Avatar
    CoffDrop

    Ode to a chair by Sabrina F Ahmad

    Oh Chair
    sitting there
    empty and bare…

    Are you waiting for somebody to sit on you?
    Are you missing someone who’s not there?

    To the travel-weary tourist stuck on a plane
    You’re a sight he never wants to see again
    To the tired journeyman, you’re a heaven-sent gift
    Just looking at you gives his spirits a lift.

    Chair, do you enjoy being sat upon
    day by day
    by people who don’t care?

    Chair, you’re a mystery
    Or maybe a part of history
    A symbol of authority
    An object of utility…

    Or…then again, maybe just a chair

    1. HamCan Avatar
      HamCan

      These particular chairs probably have a very strong ode.

  15. ratwoman Avatar
    ratwoman

    “i got it for free on CL so i just wanted to return the favor.”

    A rarely used meaning of the word ‘favor’, indicating a heartfelt and lasting curse on you, your family, your friends, their families, neighbours, pets and anyone else within a 20-mile radius of that couch.

    My spellcheck doesn’t like ‘favor’ and suggests favour, faro, Fargo, farer or Faber.

    1. SisterLyle Avatar
      SisterLyle

      But not ‘flavor?’ Peculiar.

      1. ratwoman Avatar
        ratwoman

        Presumably it’s to do with UK English… the extra ‘l’ would be a step too far.

    2. Smedley Avatar
      Smedley

      Fargo, huh? So this is the couch the wife was tied to before they fed her to the chipper?

    3. CapnMac Avatar
      CapnMac

      Ah, another case of “haunted raptor syndrome” perhaps?

  16. Windrose Avatar
    Windrose

    I was right, that does look rather odd in the box.

    1. HamCan Avatar
      HamCan

      This post intentionally left blank.

      1. Artsy Computer Geek Avatar
        Artsy Computer Geek

        Hammy — Congratulations!!! You once again proved that silence is golden.

        1. LimeLolly Avatar
          LimeLolly

          Man mastered the gift of silence.
          Woman mastered the art of frying pan upside the head.

          I think we know who wins.

        2. HamCan Avatar
          HamCan
        3. LimeLolly Avatar
          LimeLolly

          Nope. It’s the cat.

          The cat always wins.

        4. HamCan Avatar
          HamCan

          Me? OW!

  17. HamCan Avatar
    HamCan

    Rub audubon,
    Three hens and a capon,
    And how do you think they be?
    They’re butchered, and baked,
    The drumsticks they take.
    Turned out, tasty all three.

  18. Mindfield Avatar
    Mindfield

    You know, when I was on the bring on my teens, I loved Automan. It was short-lived, but its Tron-esque theme married with the buddy cop genre appealed to both my love of action and all things geek.

    Now I can get not one, but two Automans. Free! I don’t know if I really have the room for a pair of Chuck Wagners in my apartment, but I think I’d be willing to make it work, just as long as I don’t have to take them for walks too often.

    1. SisterLyle Avatar
      SisterLyle

      They’re difficult to house train, but it can be done. Just remember to be firm when they have accidents and let them outside as soon as they start whining.

      1. Artsy Computer Geek Avatar
        Artsy Computer Geek

        I thought they squeaked???

        1. SisterLyle Avatar
          SisterLyle

          Depends on the breed.

  19. kelli Avatar
    kelli

    But will they match the decor in my moderm apartment?

    1. SisterLyle Avatar
      SisterLyle

      That’s the beauty of moderm decorating! The less things match, the closer you are to achieving true modermism.

      1. HamCan Avatar
        HamCan

        Moderm beauty is only skin deep…

        1. kelli Avatar
          kelli

          So I should decorate with skins?

        2. HamCan Avatar
          HamCan

          Yes, Leotard skins.

        3. Jen Avatar
          Jen

          Is a leotard a spotty not.a.lion that has to use the safety scissors and sit in the corner at playtime?

  20. Windrose Avatar
    Windrose

    Hey, isn’t it the equinox today? Hey, Vernal, know what I mean?

    1. Vernal Avatar
      Vernal

      Say no more, say no more! Eh?

  21. kelli Avatar
    kelli

    Weren’t the automans an early enemy of the Doctor? Plastic flowers still creep me out.

  22. Windrose Avatar
    Windrose

    Hammy. P-p-p!

    G’Night, Haiti!

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