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YSaC, Vol. 431: Serious cat does not LOL.

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Animal Print – $45

Large Animal print collection from Home Interior
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Only serious people respond – I am not looking to buy, sell, or engage in other activities on this website – so please do not bother me with other offers! I am a very serious person!

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I am Serious Lion. This is serious post. Serious, I say! Serious Lion is not interested in your solicitations to view your webcam or refinance my mortgage. Serious Lion will not send money to Nigeria via Western Union. Serious Lion is only interested in sitting here, and being serious. And a lion. Because I am Serious Lion.

(Before anyone yells at me, follow the “lion” link. I know it’s not a lion.)

Thanks, Lesley!

Comments

57 responses to “YSaC, Vol. 431: Serious cat does not LOL.”

  1. sarajean80 Avatar
    sarajean80

    I’m surprised they did not resort to the imfamous ALL CAPS to show just how serious they were.

  2. Windrose Avatar
    Windrose

    Okay, $45 is serious money, but shouldn’t there be a candle holder or wall sconce to go with it? Like, you know, a serious decorating ensemble? “engage in other activities on this website –” That must be more of that code talk there. Back to Google.

    1. sarajean80 Avatar
      sarajean80

      You can see, to the bottom left of the very dark photo, the edge of what looks like another frame. Of course this listing must be only for psychics since that’s what you would have to be to know what else is in the “collection”.

    2. sfaye Avatar
      sfaye

      It might go nicely with my swag.

  3. Colleen in MA Avatar
    Colleen in MA

    Happy tigers do not look like lions.
    Serious tigers look like lions.
    I don’t see the problem here.

  4. PrincessLuceval Avatar
    PrincessLuceval

    It’s serious, because Home Interior is serious crap, er, art. You seriously go to these parties at other peoples’ houses, and sit there seriously while the “professional decorator” seriously shows you how much more serious your house can look. When in actuality, I’m looking in the catalog, and saying to myself, “$95 for this crap? Seriously?”

  5. kelli Avatar
    kelli

    Dear Mr. Serious,

    One print does not a collection make. It would be a stretch to even consider two a collection.

    1. Isaac Avatar
      Isaac

      Now you’ve got me imagining that this ad was originally posted by Yahoo Serious. And suddenly I want to buy a lion print.

  6. kt Avatar
    kt

    ha! i didnt even catch its a tiger, not a lion. also took me a minute to realize “obo” mean or best offer not some sort of left field reference to the instrument (which i realize is spelled oboe)

  7. Sherri Avatar
    Sherri

    I accept the serious nature of that not-a-lion.

    However, I have a mental image of an animal print used in home decorating — zebra, maybe, or the ever popular leopard — done in polyester fake fur stretched over a chair frame shaped like a high heeled shoe.

    That would not be serious.

  8. MsDolfinn Avatar
    MsDolfinn

    If I had that print in my house, I’d be pretty serious about getting rid of it too.

  9. TeDiouS Avatar
    TeDiouS

    I think they just made things worse for themselves. Now they are going to get all kinds of “serious” offers. For accidental death and dismemberment insurance. And low percentage home loans. And German-as-a-second-language courses.

    Why subject yourself to those boring things when you could be getting random offers for penile enlargement aids? Or proposals of marriage from beautiful Russian women? Or that can’t-live-without-it kitchen gadget that peels your bananas, juices your onions AND cores your potatoes.

    Bet they’re sorry now.

    Seriously.

    1. Windrose Avatar
      Windrose

      Gosh, can’t remember the last time I had my potato cored. 8) I’ll take two!

  10. dogface Avatar
    dogface

    The only way this could get any more serious is if that tiger was painted on velvet.

    1. sarajean80 Avatar
      sarajean80

      It might be. the seller makes no mention as to the medium, or even the dimensions. It could be a framed postage stamp cleverly photographed in a dollhouse to make it look bigger. Or it could a wall-spanning tapestry woven of actual cat hair. That might actually be worth $45.

      1. dogface Avatar
        dogface

        What would be even cooler would be hand-painted velvet made of cat hair the size of a postage stamp photographed in a dollhouse. That would just be the shit.

        1. sarajean80 Avatar
          sarajean80

          I would seriously add that to my collection.

      2. roughpaws Avatar
        roughpaws

        You mean to tell me I could have been making money off all that damn hair my cat sheds?!

        Hmm..
        Wonder if anybody on Craigslist would be interested….

        1. sarajean80 Avatar
          sarajean80

          I saw a woman on TV who was a groomer and after she gave Persians a lion cut she would save the fur, spin it into yarn on a wheel and have a small purse knitted for the pet owner. I think she charged $40+ for it.

  11. dogface Avatar
    dogface

    Usually, when you have to say that you’re a serious person, you’re the only person taking you seriously.

  12. Sarah Avatar
    Sarah

    If you parse the poster’s sentence differently, one could argue that they don’t even want to sell their Serious Lion. They are not interested in selling on this website, so maybe they just want to lord their Serious Lion over the poor, poor masses that have no such cunning home decor.

    1. Ray Avatar
      Ray

      Thank you! That was bothering me.

  13. SoundsLikeVla Avatar
    SoundsLikeVla

    I am a fan of Not-A-Lions. They are so much more existential than regular lions. However, I prefer my N.A.L.s to have shape shifting frames. This serious N.A.L. doesn’t even have dimensions, much less dimensions that change by the day. Home Interiors needs a line of shape shifting art to get my business. In the mean time, I’ll stick with FingerHut, a subsidiary of Avon….

  14. Apex Avatar
    Apex

    As though spammers actually read the ads before they hit you with “I see you’re trying to make extra money and I thought you might like to know how my brother-in-law found a way to make $6000 per month from home working only one hour per day.” Seriously.

  15. Erika Avatar
    Erika

    Serious Lion is for sale for $45, but refuses to engage in “selling.”

    I… see….

    1. Lola Avatar
      Lola

      I noticed that part too …
      *scratches head and furrows brow contemplatively*

      1. JcT Avatar
        JcT

        You give me $45. I give you some serious crap. I don’t understand what that has to do with “buying” or “selling”.

        Now get serious.

        1. Lola Avatar
          Lola

          I’m randomly giving you money, and you … give me a gift of serious crap? Is that it? It’s … a sort of transaction, but not buying or selling?

          *looks at your avatar and decides that she has enough cat crap in her life, both serious and stinky, and decides to keep her $45*

  16. Gala Avatar
    Gala

    “I am not looking to buy, sell, or engage in other activities on this website ” – So are you giving it away? I totally thought you were trying to sell on this website. My bad.

    1. sarajean80 Avatar
      sarajean80

      I caught that, too. Maybe they are just telling everyone how much they paid for the serious Not-A-Lion, not actually offering it for, you know, sale.

    2. Meredith Avatar
      Meredith

      Maybe it’s a “re-homing fee”.

    3. eeyore19 Avatar
      eeyore19

      I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don’t want to do that.

  17. sarajean80 Avatar
    sarajean80

    Is the listing for prints of Large Animals, or are the prints themselves Large?

    Am I the only one who’s wondering that?

    1. Celeste Avatar
      Celeste

      It is a large print of a large animal – how large and what that seriously large animal is, we’re not sure.

    2. Meredith Avatar
      Meredith

      That was my first thought, too.

      “Is this a large collection, or a couple of pictures of very large animals?”

      And then the mental picture came: A series of oil paintings, all of obese animals.

      Very classy!

  18. Anne Lions Avatar
    Anne Lions

    I love that lion. I wonder where I can get one just like it. But I demand my lions to be funny, not serious, so I don’t want that one. 🙁

    1. sarajean80 Avatar
      sarajean80

      I don’t know, you rarely see lions(or tigers) wearing party hats and telling jokes as they rip into a steaming haunch of antelope. Maybe Animal Planet should have a special on big cat comedians, help expand their audience.

  19. mudslicker Avatar
    mudslicker

    I’m confused..

    Is the collection that of “large animals”..?

    Or

    Is it that the collection of animals itself is “large”?

    Knowing which of these it is would definitely help in impacting my seriousness level. Apparently being serious does not guarantee that one would not be obtuse.

  20. JcT Avatar
    JcT

    Ok you people, cut the crap. This is serious. I was in a car accident when I was a teenager, totalled two cars. That was a joke compared to the seriousness of this situation.

    Some of you are making jokes. You think this is funny. We are writing down your names, you not-taking-it-serious people. It is plain that you are engaging in other activities, maybe even buying and selling, on websites. DO NOT BOTHER ME!

    We do not screw around here at Home Interior, so if you are planning to screw around, don’t do it. Just give me the $45 and get the hell out. DON’T make me get a serious on you. You will regret it! >:(

    1. sarajean80 Avatar
      sarajean80

      I can tell you’re serious, you have your serious eyebrows on. >;}
      Is it time to say hello to Mr. Angry Eyes?

    2. Colleen in MA Avatar
      Colleen in MA

      I think it’s serious that someone let a cat drive their car!

      1. Meredith Avatar
        Meredith

        It’s okay. This cat is SERIOUS about safety.

      2. JcT Avatar
        JcT

        Hmmm… Now I can’t change my avatar for a while or else people will think Colleen is crazy… or at least, not serious! I was going to put my real face up there for a little while, just for the fun of it, but now I can’t. Oh well, I’ll have to stay serious for a little while longer… seriously serious.

        1. drmk Avatar
          drmk

          I vote for making Colleen look crazy.

        2. ??? Avatar
          ???

          Can someone please tell me how to add an avatar to this site? I know it’s been posted before, but I can’t find it, and I’m tired of my quilt block…

        3. drmk Avatar
          drmk

          Go to http://en.gravatar.com/ — it’s based on your email address.

        4. ??? Avatar
          ???

          Thank you!

          (I am now totally analyzing whether the exclaimation point makes this comment too uncool, but I’m leaving it. Hell.)

    3. Irregular Fractal Avatar
      Irregular Fractal

      This is what happens when you let Bill O’Reilly out on the Intertubes. I’m surprised the ad didn’t threaten to call Fox Security on me for even thinking of buying, selling, or Other Things.

  21. casualencounters.com/blog Avatar
    casualencounters.com/blog

    Serious lion? Oh I see what you did there.

  22. Mrphysic Avatar
    Mrphysic

    The Lion is trying it’s darnedest to be serious too but I can see a smirk creeping on to it’s face. It’s a big let down on the serious front. So immature.

  23. RequiredName Avatar
    RequiredName

    I can’t take this person seriously. Not when they’re using lowercase letters and only one exclamation mark at a time. If they had written:

    I AM A SERIOUS PERSON!!!

    then I would know they meant business.

  24. Trinket Avatar
    Trinket

    I actually tried to buy this but SeriousLady refused to sell to me. She got mad because my email signature was some witty quote or other and she could tell I wasn’t a serious person. I was very disappointed. I wanted to add it to my collection of collections of only one thing.

  25. Chagnasty Avatar
    Chagnasty

    List of people who can’t bid on this:

    clowns, comedians, girls (as Cyndi Lauper said, they just wanna have fun, which is clearly not serious), the Joker…

    1. Jami(no "e") Avatar
      Jami(no “e”)

      Man, I am bummed that because of my gender I can’t buy this… Guess I’m going to have to bump up the sex change to snatch this deal up.

      1. SoundsLikeVla Avatar
        SoundsLikeVla

        But what about She Who Must Be Obeyed? Surely she can buy it…Serious Lion dare not refuse!

  26. Jenni Avatar
    Jenni

    RAWR… Seriously.

  27. Oxygen Monitor Avatar
    Oxygen Monitor

    i like to search the internet for new kitchen gadgets to add to my kitchen `,-

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