YSaC, Vol. 431: Serious cat does not LOL.
2009 September 21
Animal Print – $45
Large Animal print collection from Home Interior
oboOnly 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!
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!
I’m surprised they did not resort to the imfamous ALL CAPS to show just how serious they were.
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.
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”.
It might go nicely with my swag.
Happy tigers do not look like lions.
Serious tigers look like lions.
I don’t see the problem here.
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?”
Dear Mr. Serious,
One print does not a collection make. It would be a stretch to even consider two a collection.
Now you’ve got me imagining that this ad was originally posted by Yahoo Serious. And suddenly I want to buy a lion print.
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)
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.
If I had that print in my house, I’d be pretty serious about getting rid of it too.
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.
Gosh, can’t remember the last time I had my potato cored. 8) I’ll take two!
The only way this could get any more serious is if that tiger was painted on velvet.
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.
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.
I would seriously add that to my collection.
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….
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.
Usually, when you have to say that you’re a serious person, you’re the only person taking you seriously.
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.
Thank you! That was bothering me.
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….
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.
Serious Lion is for sale for $45, but refuses to engage in “selling.”
I… see….
I noticed that part too …
*scratches head and furrows brow contemplatively*
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.
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*
“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.
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.
Maybe it’s a “re-homing fee”.
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.
Is the listing for prints of Large Animals, or are the prints themselves Large?
Am I the only one who’s wondering that?
It is a large print of a large animal – how large and what that seriously large animal is, we’re not sure.
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!
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. 🙁
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.
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.
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! >:(
I can tell you’re serious, you have your serious eyebrows on. >;}
Is it time to say hello to Mr. Angry Eyes?
I think it’s serious that someone let a cat drive their car!
It’s okay. This cat is SERIOUS about safety.
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.
I vote for making Colleen look crazy.
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…
Go to http://en.gravatar.com/ — it’s based on your email address.
Thank you!
(I am now totally analyzing whether the exclaimation point makes this comment too uncool, but I’m leaving it. Hell.)
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.
Serious lion? Oh I see what you did there.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
But what about She Who Must Be Obeyed? Surely she can buy it…Serious Lion dare not refuse!
RAWR… Seriously.
i like to search the internet for new kitchen gadgets to add to my kitchen `,-