YSaC, Vol. 549: I’ll stick to the bunny slope, thanks.
2010 January 17
Down Hill Skis – $20
3 Pair Downhill Skis $20 each. One pair Ski Pants $10. xxx-xxx-xxxx
Hmm. Let’s call the top row A and B, and the bottom row C and D.
So three of these are skis, and one is a pair of pants. I’m really having trouble with the “one of these things is not like the other” game. I suppose I could imagine strapping B and C to my feet and hurling myself down a mountain, although I really wouldn’t want to fall with C attached to my legs. Since D is all one piece, that’s really more of a snowboard. I guess that leaves A as the pants, but I can’t figure out where the zipper is.
I mean, I know skiing is a dangerous hobby, but this is a bit ridiculous.
Thanks for the submission, Kristi!
Do you get the feeling that there is someone out there shopping for chainsaws and crossbows, trying to figure out what the pictures of snowpants and skis are for?
The beauty of skiing with chainsaws on your feet is that instead of crashing into trees, you actually cut them down and avoid accidents. It’s amazingly ingenious.
It’s sad that no one thought to cher this info with Sonny Bono.
Oooh. Ouch.
sounds like a new olympic sport. chainsaw biathlon?
I think these are for a James Bond skiing expedition like when he skied in the cello case? He would ski on the head board and use the chainsaws and crossbow to take out hapless henchman.
What in the name of Judy Blume is in picture A? I can’t figure out if its a heater or a coffin. I bet its something really simple I am not recognizing. One thing I can say is it’s not skis and it’s not pants.
Glad I’m not the first one to ask that question Lara. Anyone care to enlighten us?
Also, I’m not seeing James Bond so much as a horrible Edward Chainsaw-hands scary monster with big plank feet.
*Goes and hides under the covers for a while*
Not that this has anything whatsoever to do with the topic/posting, but it might cheer up sweetbuiscuit enough to entice her out from under the covers – the score at stumps on Day 4 of the Australia-Pakistan test is as follows: Australia 519/8d and 219/5d, and Pakistan 301 & 103/4. So basically the only way Australia can lose this would be an entire day of rain tomorrow, or the coming of the Rapture. And in both those cases it would still be a draw.
thanks lareina. for that info i’ll come out….chances of rain in Hobart are fairly high at any time, but it sounds like our guys will topple the middle order fairly quickly.
BTW, I do have a cricket-bat 😉
looks like a heater to me, but then I forgot to put my glasses on before booting up the PC, so don’t take my word for it.
now, where did I put them………
Looks like a coffin to me. Made me think of the coffin races for
Frozen Dead Guy Days here in Colorado. While they normally put wheels on the coffins and push them down the street, I can also envision them “skiing” down a mountain with this one.
Mimi: that’s awesome! How have I never heard of Frozen Dead Guy Days? I’m taking my summer vacation early and going to Colorado!
“Frozen Dead Guy Days” might be the best festival name ever!
I was thinking steampunk snowmobile.
Looks like a 1970s-era electric fireplace to me. We had one in our basement rec room when I was a kid.
Well, at least they weren’t listed as lions.
I’m beginning to think that there is some kind of force field that activates when you post to Craigslist, which can prevent you from getting the right photo in your ad. I wonder if I can get a huge government grant to test that theory? Excuse me, I have a lot of paperwork to go do.
Observation: Otherwise competent, rational people turn into cumputer illiterate maniacs when they attempt to post things on Craigslist.
Hypothesis: Electromagnetic fields are transported through high-speed Internet connections to create a sort of Gaussian effect on certain Craigslist users.
only certain ones?
We have to allow for some ambiguity or we won’t get the grant. 🙁
I heard that song in my head, too.
“None of these things are at all like the others. All of these things are crap.”
OOOOHHH, or maybe it’s a “Zombie Survival Essentials” montage.
You need a headboard to reinforce the door. The bow is for long range takeout. The chainsaws…well, we know chainsaws are bad-ASS and essential to surviving the undead (HellOOO, Evil Dead!).
The casket/heater: well, that could be used to heat your home should the power be cut off, burn corpses to stop the spread of disease, or, if it turns out to be a casket, to bury you with the dignity you deserve for your valiant efforts to keep the world from being overrunn by walking corpses.
Perhaps the reference to skis tries to obliquely indicate that you should replace your feet (or maybe your legs) with the chainsaws, in a cross between Bruce Campbell and Rose McGowan in Planet Terror.
+1 for Bruce Campbell reference. Yes.
I think the chainsaws could let you really carve the slopes.
Maybe it’s actually an anti-skiing PSA, which is why the first pic has that unsubtle coffin in it.
Second observation: the Zombie Survivalist getaway and/or extreme-extreme motorized skiing might be from lashing one’s feet to the twin chainsaws and powering them on … you use the bow in the place of poles and also to protect yourself.
I haven’t skied in a while and it probably shows in my comments. If you need me I’ll be “sampling” brandies in the lodge.
The juxtaposition of words to pictures is making my head hurt – almost as much as “Not. A. Lion”.
Two chainsaws, a crossbow (!), a…backyard heater of some kind and a….headboard? Should we be looking for this guy on America’s Most Wanted??
Maybe it all belonged to Jean-Claude Killer.
Dang, that reference goes WAY back. 8) I was a mere child at the time. Maybe you need a visual aid or link for this one, Lost.
Or more likely Claudine Longet.
@jg – Claudine L.: didn’t like Spiders.
I would like to know exactly where this person goes skiing.
I can successfully navigate my way down a mountain with all of these items attached to my body.
And now I’m finding myself oddly attracted to you. Even though I’m straight. And none of those items is a cricket bat.
*Only* all of those items? You wouldn’t have ski pants, you know *creepy grin*
Ski pants are for chumps.
No matter how many times I read your post, I can only visualize a chimp with ski pants.
I see your point, and raise you an eyebrow.
Chimps FTW.
Point of Order, You Honor. That is not, in fact, a crossbow. It is an ordinary, perfectly safe for skiing, re-curve hunting bow. Absolutely harmless without arrows. *whacks self on forearm with string and gets a nasty welt* Ow!
Not.A.Crossbow.
So since it’s not a crossbow, you definitely don’t want to use it for crossbow-country skiing.
I always forget my finger guards and cut my fingers up. Yes, intelligent people such as myself should really be using deadly weapons.
Those are skis and ski pants? No wonder I have never been skiing. It looks far too dangerous.
My husband and I were looking at buying ourselves skis, and they were upwards of $300 on sporting-good store websites. How silly of me not to check CL! I can get skis for both of us, plus a spare pair, for under $100. Score! Can I have that phone #, drmk?
Welcome back; hope you’re feeling better today!
Thanks! Yeah, still tired, but otherwise feeling fine.
The B-movie possibilities are endless. Sorority girls enticed by weekend of ‘skiing’ in creepy backwoods cabin where there happens to be no cell phone service, tv or phone lines. Oddly enough, there is an abundance of chainsaws, coffins, beat-up beds and hunting equipment around, but no skis.
And NO ONE is the least bit concerned…
Oh, and ALL of them are prancing around in skimpy negligees despite sub-zero temperatures.
I think we have the makings of a blockbuster here!
I know who posted this ad. Isn’t it obvious? MacGyver! We see a coffin, headboad, chainsaws and a bow, but MacGyver sees whatever he wants them to be.
The coffin is for MacGuyver after Chuck Norris gets through with him.
*waits for inevitable onslaught of Chuck Norris jokes*
*claps hands like an excited infant*
In Soviet Russia, Chuck Norris jokes wait for you!
Sex has Chuck Norrisual frustration.
Odd. That didn’t quite take off like I imagined.
Maybe because it’s a Sunday? And the evening? Well, early, early morning in my case, but for people who are not insomniacs living in the middle east, it might be the sort of time they tend to be away from the computer.
They have Sundays in the middle east now?
Racist!
Finally…
Yep, cars and stuff too. It’s a whole new world, a new fantastic point of view….
Well met!
Epic image upload fail.
Off Topic: Have you been to the forums today? Graham T has started tracking our very own YSaC memes there, and I have put in a shameless plug for my writing. Check it out!
Thanks for the plug, Windrose. It’s memelicious.
Cough cough.
Well, no new contender in the Don’t Suck box. Looking back on yesterday’s posts, no one scored very high. (Not to be confused with scoring while high) A bunch of us tied at 10 votes, but Meredith, in her response to Chris Hansen, scored a tie-breaking 11! So that would be the popular choice for not sucking yesterday. Thank you all for participating. 8)
I don’t do it solely on the highest votes — I do it based on what amuses me. It’s all about me, you know. *nods*
Sorry I didn’t update the Don’t Suck box today. It slipped my mind. I need minions.
I totally accept that. However, not having perfected my mind reading abilities, I use the popular vote to fill in gaps.
Just what qualities are you looking for in a minion?
You know full well what qualities she’s looking for… http://www.yousuckatcraigslist.com/?p=3835
Oh,oh! Me, me, me! I work for the government, I can do this job!
You can get a lackey for about half the price of a minion.
maybe so, but are they as good?
Minions tend to be more the “I believe in your cause” type, lackeys however are usually just in it for the money.
Heav U treed puting a ad on Criagslist for an imion? I here itsa good plase to fill jobz.
drmk, usually it’s all about me, but here in the wonderful, if marginally tipsy, world that is YSaC, it absolutely is all about you…..and Not.a.Lions.
This could be the chardonnay speaking.
* buggers off under the covers again, wondering where to get grammar lessons at the age of (almost) 40, so as to understand half of what goes on here *
(A) is a freestanding “fireplace” similar to this that either vents out the back or uses gas or electricity. The trick is getting it just hot enough so that it melts enough snow to grease the slope, without melting in.
This is completely off topic. But I’d like to point out that every day for the past week, when I log on here…there are 69 comments. This is perplexing and semi-disturbing to me.
Nicole, we do this on purpose. When we get to 69 comments, we stop until we see you have logged on. 8) Hope you feel special.
Thank you, Nicole, for stepping up and mentioning that very occurrence. It has happened to me twice as well in the last week. I was loathe to think conspiracy (albeit an intriguing one), but now Windrose has me befuddled . . .
AH. My job here is done.
The word ‘befuddled’ needs to be used more often, and I thank you for re-instating it as awesome and usable.
Is that a coffin or one of those crazy tiny fireplaces?
Cleasel, try to keep up. 8)
i would still prefer to use the traditional log based fireplaces compared to electric firepalces’**
I don’t think those ski pants are my size. Or my fabric. Or my mental image of ski pants. Pass.
I once bought a pair of ski pants like those. People said that they made my butt look pointy, so I ended up taking them to the thrift store.
And what did the people find at the thrift store?
The only picture even remotely relevant to the text is C. But only because the ad is selling pairs of things.
I believe that what Sparky is selling here is a skis-and-snowpants kit. You use the chainsaws to carve skis out of the headboard. You use the bow to kill a deer to make deerskin ski pants, for which you need the fireplace to clean, dry, and tan the deerskin.
You’re welcome.
When I first looked at picture “A”, I thought it was a coffin. This reminded me of my childhood. I looked closer, even taking my glasses off and putting my face against the computer screen for a better look. I then realized what it was. It was a freestanding fireplace.
Don’t look at me like that. I was a completely normal child with a completely normal childhood. It’s just that when I lived in Montana, 20 miles from the nearest ghost town, I had a coffin to play with. I was in third grade and we was poor. I put that coffin on my sled and I pulled it around behind me just about everywhere. One day I was pulling it down the creek, you know, because it was frozen, I slipped and fell and hit my head. I spent ten days in the hospital with a concussion. Yes, it’s true, but I defy any of you to say you never put any of your toys on a sled and pulled them around.
I don’t know that I ever did, OMV, but I love the idea of you and your pet coffin.
Digi, all systems are go to eject you from the box. Happy Monday! Punchity Punch Punch!
Good Morning, Chamonix!