YSaC, Vol. 518: It’s Uncle Rebus time!
2009 December 17
Dell labtop
Dell labtop 2007 windows7 18″ 12 pounds grat condison.
Comes with case and spar battery core duo 2 Carey fast. It has .5 tarabit mimory
is Welling to talk about price
plz email me at #########@gmail.com
You all remember these, right?
Dell 
+ top
Dell 
+ top 2007 windows7 18″
12 pounds 
– e 
+ son.
Comes with case and 
battery core duo 2 
fast.
It has .5 
+ bit 
– e + ory
is 
– n talk about price
Boy, that takes me back…
Thanks for the post, Andre!
Dan, you had too much fun with this one. 8) Great picture of the Duke of Wellington. But I’m sure you could have come up with some picture for 12 pounds!
He’d just have to figure out a way to subtract 8 from this.
Don’t you still need to subtract an r from Jim Carrey?
But I agree: this is a very fun post.
(I think this, on the other hand, would give you the spelling you wanted…)
Or that.
Did you mean to put in a link there, Ed? I get nothing.
No, no link intended. I was adding to my comment below which was actually written earlier. But I was agreeing with your Mariah Carey link so I thought it would make more sense as a reply to you. Guess I was wrong.
This guy spells like my 2 month old.
That is to say he drools on the keyboard while mashing large groups of buttons with his closed fists. He may or my not soil himself in the process, but I’d bet yes.
Little tacomagic would probably do a better job.
Should have been a picture of Drew Carey, or even better, Mary Carey.
*Shakes head*
Dude, it’s way to early for my brain to even begin to think about how this guy went about writing this ad. But Dan, kudos to you for making it easier to read.
This isn’t even qualified for ESL. I’m thinking EFOSL. (English as a fifth or sixth language)
Dude, people who know english as a fifth or sixth language are damn fluent in it, as far as I’ve experienced (which is exactly four people). I’m thinking “English as taught by certain kentucky school districts”
Excellent pictogram. 🙂 But I’m more interested in a computer that’s willing to talk about it’s own price.
I think you put more work into the comment about the post, than the poster put into the entire thought of selling this thing, from “hey, I wanna sell it” to the actual effort put into Craigslist.
That’s scary. 🙂
Hey — making fun of things sometimes requires a bit of added effort. It’s what separates us from mockworthiness… right?
*sees mime, totally forgets about rebus, hides*
You and me both, Lola. I saw that it was part of the rebus before I started solving it, and couldn’t get through. AHHH!
*Realizes mimes are colorless clowns and joins Lola in hiding*
Can’t sleep, mime will eat me.
Yes he will, sarajean, while silently implying the “nom nom nom” of him munching you from the toes up.
‘silently implying the “nom nom nom”’
BWAH!
*snort*
ok, how’s this as an alternative to the scary mime?
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:Crystal_River_mimosa02.jpg
– sa + ry
crawls out from under the bed
Much better, Dev. Thanks!
That’s not the only sort of mimosa I would welcome this morning.
A workaround for all you mimophobes:
Instead of the scary quiet guy minus e
This here bird minus sy
Or this movie minus zy.
In what world does a labtop from 2007 way 12 pounds, have half a tarabit of mimory and come with windows7?!
By my math, half of 1 Terabits is about 62.5 Gigabytes. Pretty impressive RAM but very average if talking about memory on a hard drive.
The poster doesn’t say it weighs 12 pounds, so I think the 12 pounds is the asking price, which would be just under $20 US. ($19.6464 according to Google)Quite a bargain for a laptop.
That’s still more than I’m willing to pay for a Dell.
Hey, I have a Dell!
*Remembers countless problems with laptop including screen flickering on and off in random, seizure-inspiring spurts*
I retract my protest.
heh heh heh, I have a dell laptop…it’s about 4 1/2 years old now. My dad with his infinite experience with all manner of laptops called me yesterday to remind me that the hard drive is going to die soon…good thing to know
I was wondering about that, too! My lab-top* mix weighs about 75#. 18″ and 12# is more of a chi-top**, complete with fuzzy greenness from windows, I would think. (chi-chi-chi-chia!)
Darn. Mixing my metaphors, there. Ah well.
*(shepherd bottom…I am guessing about this, though. I wasn’t there to see the actual creation of said mutt)
**I guess the chihuahua could be in either spot…
Maybe it’s 1.2 pounds?
I’d hoped the ad would mention Br’er Labtop and the Tar Babby.
“How is Tar Babby formed?”
With [TARBABBYTRAITS1] and [TARBABBYTRAITS 2], of course!
Would Dan be Uncle Rebus, then?
this and Ed’s above are vying for favorite comment of the week for me.
Yes, and as Isaac coughs out, it’s the title of the post, which I didn’t pay attention to until later. Great minds? No. Unobservant? Definitely!
*coughcough* Title of post *coughcough*
Isaac, you should really get that checked. Could be H1N1 or even Captain Tripps.
Captain Tripps -p = another Stephen King reference for me this week!
*doin’ the happy dance/no ,make it stop!*
Thanks Ed for feeding my yin yang fix today.
Yay! I’m not the only one who thought of The Stand when reading that!
joins mudslicker in the happy dance
My aunt’s labtop jumped all over me and tried to look up my skirt the last time I visited them. No thanks.
You think that’s bad? I have OS X Snow Leopard installed. You should’ve seen the mess I had to clean up last time I had guests over…
A propos of nothing, anyone know how to get blood stains out of pink shag carpeting?
Three words, dear;
Strategic
Rug
Placement
great idea, I know someone who has a lovely lion rug for sale.
My question is what is the bottom of the labtop? I’m guessing something like a toy poodle because that’s the only way I could see it weighing only 12 lbs.
The image of a laptop with built-in poodle is giving me the giggles. Would it show up as drive K9 ?
It does say that it comes with a case. But a case of what?
Case of beer? – That would be heavier that 12 pounds.
Case of amontillado? – For the love of God, Montresor, that’s not a lot of bricks.
Case of the chicken pox? – Twelve pounds is a lot of calamine lotion.
I think it’s more a case of the heebie-jeebies myself (I’m pretty sure you can only buy heebie-jeebies by the case).
Best Poe reference of the day. 😀
Isaac the Pedant missed this one: *cough cough* It’s “Cask (or Casque) of Amontillado”, not case *cough cough*
Jr. Pedant
I know, but if you want to be very pendantic, I did not list it like a story title. I just referenced the story in the remark. It could just be a dozen bottles of wine that happen to share a name with a famous Poe short story.
I was pretty sure Sarajean knew what she was doing: more pun than slip.
It could also be A Case of You, but Joni Mitchell weights more than 12 pounds…
Since the poster is selling only the top part, I’m guessing we’ll never know!
“Grat Condison” sounds like it could be a Mexican meat dish or a Xuxa song.
And here, when I saw Welling, I thought it was Tom Welling. My theory is, Superman is trying to get rid of superdog, and is posting on Craigslist in code so as not to reveal his secret identity.
Thank God you picked up on the spar. Made my day. I too thought of Tom Welling 😉
I would never buy this computer. The ‘Carey’ the post refers to is obviously a poor spelling of, but meaning to reference, hari kari and the computer is currently disemboweling itself.
Obviously the spellcheck function was the first to go.
I think the owner of the laptop was feeling under the weather, congested, and just too sick to drag himself from bed to the computer. So the owner dictated the ad to a very literal-minded assistant, who posted exactly what he heard, congestion and all.
That’s me. I got logged out for some reason, so it didn’t have my avatar. Weird.
I had that thought as well, whilst cowering from the mime.
“Coud you ride dis for be?”
“What do you want it to say?”
“…Labtop … grat condison …” etc.
In further support of this theory, the ad in the upper right on my page is for “Mucinex”.
I’m getting “Mucinex”, “Men4Men”, and something called “Ask a Coleman Technician”.
If you imagine the person is drunk on Nyquil because of a very stopped up nose, then it totally makes sense.
Best. Commentary. EVER.
“duo 2 carey fast”…..Is the poster saying his computer is as fast as 2 Careys?
I’m picturing Drew and Mariah running a marathon with their ankles tied together. I’m thinking the old Commodore 64 in my grandparent’s garage is faster than that.
Or grandparents’ even. Just figured I’d call myself out on bad apostrophe placement before somebody else did.
Before I finished reading the comment and realized it was a correction, I thought you were saying that even your grandparents would be faster than that.
You never know, maybe they are. You’d be surprised at how fast old people can move….
Okay…so begs the question – if this is a labtop, is it a)some kind of canine/computer hybrid? or b)just the top half of a Lab?
Either way it’s too creepy for me, even at the bargain price of 12 pounds.
Reminds me of a number of years ago, a classmate was drawing a picture of a dog on a white board, but the marker was running out of ink, leaving her unable to draw the head. So instead, she picked up the red marker, and drew bloodstains, leaving the dog with no head. Wrong part missing, but that is the first thing that came to mind. (/off topic randomness)
I’m wondering how anyone who spells that poorly had the money to buy a laptop in the first place?
Who says they bought it? Maybe it “fell off a truck” or something…
The lab, I think, is needed to retrieve ta’rabit.