YSaC, Vol. 811: Roll out the barro.
Ted sends in two examples of the same mistake:
HECHINGER WHEEL BARREL – $15
Wheel Barrel – $10
Green wheel barrel. Seen better days. Perfect for decoration. First come first serve. Cash only
Okay, in all honesty I can understand making this mistake. Wheelbarrow vs. wheel barrel don’t sound THAT different, and the etymology of “barrow” is not commonly known.
However, I don’t know about y’all, but I can’t figure out why this guy thinks his busted wheelbarrow would be perfect for decoration. I can think of about twenty-six things that would be a better lawn decoration than a broken wheelbarrow, not the least of which would be a giant inflatable badger.
And you know what? I bet this is the same wheelbarrow that was used to carry around this rowing machine.
And lo, I believed the potential for the mangling of wheelbarrow was complete. But, as always, I was proven wrong by the denizens of Craigslist, this time with an ad submitted by our very own CapnMac:
PLASTICK WLLBARRO – $25
PLASTICK W BARRO LIKE NEW
Wheelbarrow. It’s not quite the new armoire, but really, what is?
Finally, I’ve found the perfect piece to finish off my amazing garden display of swingset (complete with bedazzled deer hooves) and sandbox/boat.
The sandbox was exactly where I was going with this one. Portable AND fun!
Scary.
YOU…MY HEAD…OUT!! 😉
Does this happen to you?
You think up a really cleaver response to the post, spend time making sure it’s speeled correctly, and submit it– only to find out someone else has been in your brain! Someone else stole your snark!
Well, you can put an end to that type of intrusion now! Just send $9.99 in unmarked bulls to Windrose Retirement Fund, and we’ll send you an authentic FOIL BEANIE! Your thoughts will be safe, your snark will be secured, and you won’t have to take it any more! Void where prohibited, your mileage may vary, taxes included, batteries not included cause that would cost extra.
Windy..I want one of those! Mindfield keeps stealing all my ideas…no, really..it’s just as you describe it.
$%^&# smiling puppy-face….
Probably not as bad as a toilet with flowers growing out of the bowl and tank, but yeah, I’m sure someone out there is thinking the “wheel barrel” would look lovely with a few pots of marigolds in it.
I’ll stick to gnomes and pink flamingos.
What could be more fun that a wheel barrel of monkeys? I think that would make a lovely lawn decoration, which is why it’s an excellent thing that I live in the city and have no lawn.
Don’t let city living stop you, Camille! I’m pretty sure the upstairs neighbors have a wheel barrel of monkeys that is periodically brought over and let loose indoors!
Really, Sparky? How did you manage to spell the same word two different ways and still get it wrong?
[rant] This annoys me on so many levels, like those people who spell magic “magick” and women “womyn”. It’s not cute, it’s not unique, and it’s not “revolutionary”, it’s a double heaping cupful of failure. Buy a dictionary. [/rant] It’s completely possible, and highly likely, that Sparky thought it was actually spelled that way, but it still annoys me.
Yeah, we all know it’s not spelled “Plastick,” it’s spelled “Plastik.”*
*Not necessarily true.
…and when you spell is “plastique” it takes on an entirely different meaning…..
Mmmm, Semtex. I love the smell of C-4 in the morning!
You two are my Heroine(s)!!
[corey] Really, your Semtex is better if it does, in fact, “smell like” Composition 4. While similar, we are talking about products as different as butter and margarine. And “semtex” is a label applied to products as certain as Parkay, and to those as iffy as dollar-store “magrarine” . . .
[/corey]
Anyone else picturing the Cap’n sitting in a Unibomber-style shack sniffing plastic explosives? Show of hands?
:: raising hand ::
Bet he can’t say “manifesto” three times fast though.
Merely the trivia of a not-entirely-mispent youth, you two.
Oh. I entirely mis-spent my youth. In fact I still owe money.
Ah, Astrognashashashashashash,
Careful how you overspell my name, it sounds like you’re taunting me!!
Young man, your linkages make me proud. I give you one free skip-the-smite card.
Plastik is immitation plastic, like krab salad.
What on earth were you doing with your salad that it gave you crabs?
There’s a joke here, but in the interest of not scarring your young mind, I’ll toss this one of to someone else to finish.
The HELL? When I try to give Astro a door, I get an internal error message and then … this:
http://micromarching.com/show/25mk/all-the-right-moves
Explain yourself, young man! Did you highjack the doors so that we can play a marching band game?!?
Later edit: Ooooh, now I see it, your Adores are a linky! Aren’t you smart. 8)
Yep. I figured it out after I saw Innannananananana do it in a comment last night.
By the way, did you like the show? I designed it myself.
Sorry, no, didn’t play it. Might later, now that I know you actually did it yourself.
I’m confused! How do you link doors? Not that I can even give doors, but still, I need to know!
I don’t care how it’s spelled*, just as long as it’s not part of the Nestene Consciousness…
*This may not be true.
Seriously, Nestene, stay away from the breast implants. That’s just pervy.
I want to know how he spelled “HECHINGER” correctly (Uncle Google said it was ok) and still misspell barro.
My guess? HECHINGER is written on it, but barro/barrll/barroll/etc. isn’t.
That’s never helped Sparkies before…
Note too, if we are to apply sense and logic to sparkyspeak, that “like new” has been thoroughly abused in that second ad.
The bucket has much use, that is plain to see. But, a close look shows that the handles are replacements, and not very good ones.
This nifty bit of sparquie-magick is like blending a deeplomate and the sand-box boat and a winter bagel and offering that amalgam as an “all terrain vehicle–like new”
But it’s new to you, or as one of the really sleazy looking used car lots advertises: NU 2 U!
S arky in an A hat.
He sells his wllbarro
His mind is quite narro
He says, Decorate your lawn.
Call Sparky Malone!
Those old folk songs bring tears to my eyes.
“Singing ‘Seen better days,’
Wll barr, wll barr-o”
All together now!
Wllbarro, wllbarro, wllbarro
I want to ride my wllbarro, wllbarro, wllbarro
I want to ride my wllbarro
I want to ride my wll
I want to ride my wllbarro
I want to ride it where I will.
I think that’s due to the fumes from what ever the wllbarro/barrel was previously hauling.
I HAVE WHEEL BARREL. WHEEL BARRO. PLASTICK WHEEL BARRIO. $15. W BARREL. YOU WANT COME GET REEL BURRO. $10. SEEN BETTER DAYS THIS EEL BURIAL I HAVE. OLD BUT NEW. $25 WEAL BURBLE. IS GOOD BUT NOT SO GOOD. YOU WANT BEER WARBLE? I HAVE LIKE NEW OLD BETTER PLASTIQUE DEER MARBLE. $18.44 AND I SELL YOU STEEL MAGNOLIA. FIRST COME FIRST TO GET.
<3
"You want Beer Warble?" made me lose it. The cheese fell off my cracker. ^_^
I had the same reaction. I don’t even know what Beer Warble means, but yes, by all means, I want some.
Camille…I believe the warble is what one attains after quaffing many a beer.
I’m just guessing, mind you…it’s what I’ve been told…no, not from experience…no, really.
That’s close. It’s the results of consuming copious quantities* of beer and then trying your hand at bar karaoke. Whitney Houston, to be exact.
* I had originally typed “quantites,” which I think means I just invented a new quantum element. I should notify the folks at the LHC.
Beer Warble? Isn’t that a bird related to the barley-throated Finch?
It’s preferred mode of locomotion is hopping. It’s known for its hops.
Is that the one that makes the sound, “Cooors, cooors?”
My favorite one is “EEL BURIAL.”
Who knew eels had funerals? I didn’t.
“We are gathered here today to commemorate Sparky* the electric eel, who died trying to shock a megalodon** to death, and sadly failed. Please bow your heads and hold hands and/or fins to have a moment of peace for this beloved creature of the deep. Amen.”
*Yes, Sparky. For once the name actually makes sense.
** I call dibs on a new Sy-Fy movie….Mega-Eel versus Megalodon: Terrors of the Tides!
I thought eels were buried at sea.
This should win the “James Thurber” award for Best Impersonation of the Mentally Challenged. Thankyou, MF, my boy.
Sounds like Faulkner’s tale told by an idiot.
BUTT IS IT AN GOOD HATCHETGRRRR BOWL WEAL VULL BURBLE? ME BUY YOU STEEL MARBLES BUT NO BEER BURROS—UNLESS BETTER GNU. PLASTIQUE DEER GO BOOM BOOM. LAST STANDING GETS ONE. JOHNNY CASH ONLY.
IT IS GOOD FEEL BOOBIES YOU COME SEE MAKE OFFER. $27.56.
BEWBIES NO FEEL. HANDS FEEL, GRETEL.
There has to be sufficient quantitties for me to make an offer.
I ARE WHAT ABIL SHOULDER KNEES SQUEEZY SQUEEZY!?
**foams at mouth and falls to floor**
*Pokes Astro with toe, fake dials 911*
“Yes, we have another one.”
“Yes, I think the usual naked pictures of Roseanne Barr will bring him around.”
*Astro jumps up and dives into his closet*
“My work here is done.”
Who?
Pretty sure that Roseanne had already gone through a few name changes and her show was off the air by the time Astro was born.
Lucky Astro!*
*Her picture could still scare a zomb back to life.
Weal Burble got me. Unstoppable giggles to the point of aching sides. That’s a masterpiece, Mindfield!
DEER SIR’
i WANT CALASAY WHEE BARLELY’ WILL IT TO. IS MINTY CODITION WHINE BLOWER? NO TOUCHING NOT LESS THAN LUXURY WHIZ BORER FOR FIRM OBOS
Oh! I NEED a luxury whiz borer!!!!! The one I have now is a generic one.
I do seem to have “whine blowers” around here after school. If I could only change them to wine.
Gosh, it sounds like the comments over at I Can Haz Cheezburger in here today.
I know… It hurts my brain…
I just read “luxury whiz borer” as…err something more explicit.
YOU TRADE WHINE BARLEY FOR MEAL CARROT OR BOB MARLEY OK THANK YOU?
ME PURR-FIR JAKE KABOB MARLEY TO BOB MARLEY, EBBY SNEEZER. TRADE MEAL CARROT FOR TWO MEAL TICKETS FOR NEW SEA SUN.
O’TAY?
I read BOB MARLEY as ROB MARLEY, and I’m thinking, who is Marley, and why would I want to rob him.
Aaaah. But also, who is Marley and why would you want to Jacob him?
I met Ziggy Marley once.*
* This is actually true.
I always wanted him to have a twin called Zaggy. Jamaicans with a sense of humor.
That way they would always remember what their favorite brand of rolling papers was.
FOODPEOPLE IS HASING A WANTING FOR YOUR WHEE BIRD OHS! WHEEL PAY IN AMERICAN DOLLS FIVE! JA JA JA!
Hmmm, on the one hand, robbing poor dead old Bob Marley would warrant an ability to venture into the afterlife (and, presumably, back again).
Which might run afoul of the “can’t take it with you” strictures of the mortal coil.
But, if we are to believe the writings of some of those who were around at the time, our man Bob was Robbed of all his values by the undeserving and before reaching room temperature, too. But, one of the cruelities of the music biz is the number of parasites afflicted upon those actually responsible for the work product.
Bob Marley’s estate has been involved in some legal wrangling (I have a friend who sat on the civil jury). Attempting to rob him will probably involve teams of lawyers and more money than you could believe. And who would want to do that, anyway? He could haunt you forever, and no matter how much you might have liked reggae, you’d have perpetual earworms of “Three Little Birds” and “Trenchtown Rock” ever after.
*sigh*
Coffee, meet sinuses… Sinuses, coffee…
*searches for paper towel stack*
B-Dude…seriously…haven’t you learned by now?
You know… I’m at work, and I flip through tabs tracking different things I am researching/working on, and I am constantly reaching for/drinking the coffee. So every once in awhile, the two randomly intersect, I hit the YSaC tab while reaching, and the *ABORT! ABORT! ABORT!* message doesn’t reach all the right endpoints until the mess is made…
Does the badger have a giant inflatable can of spraypaint and a giant inflatable table?
Those are sold separately, you can take them for free.
Very nice to!
To WHAT?! lol
To … where? That’s the question that keeps me awake at night!
Run TO the hi-i-i-lls…
Run fo-or your Ba-a-a-arro…
TO ARMS!
TO LEGS!!!! FIGHT MY BRETHREN, WITH ANKLES AND KNEES, AS WELL AS CAPS LOCK BUTTONS!!!!
If you are referencing something, I don’t know what it is.
Neither do I, but you’re doing pretty well making it up as you go along, which is exactly what we specialize in here.
AB, was that an Iron Maiden reference? If so, I say “Rock On!”
(And if not, well, everyone can just disregard this comment…)
Looks like classic line-up Maiden to me. Aah, the glory days. *wipes away nostalgic tear*
Now, about this giant inflatable badger. I’ll take 3 – hopefully it’ll keep next door’s pesky cat off my garden.
To if by Seay; On if by Land–Too Arms! Too Arms!
The Gibbrish R Comink! The Gibbrish R Comink!
HeeHee classic Cap Shlock. I love it.
I may have sent a drunken email or two with the Cap Schlok on.
Oh the summertime is coming
And the lawn is looking barely
And the wild Craigslist ads
Have decorations, though they’re scarey.
Wll ye buy my wll brro?
And we’ll all go together
To plant those plastick holders
Fll of gently blooming heather
Wll ye go, Sparky, go?
Sparky didn’t say it had to be an outside decoration. Just thing of the decorating you could do inside with this “beautiful” work of rural art. It could be hung on the front door to welcome people to your abode. It would be a “statement piece” in your foyer. Your game room wouldn’t be complete without one of these. The opportunities to use this willbarro inside are
limitedlimitless.SaraJean could ya’ll please translate willbarro to NC southern. I tried, but it wasn’t coming out right. You’re much better than I am.
The closest I can get is “weelbearah”.
(Now everyone’s probably wondering why I’m sitting at my desk saying wheelbarrow over and over to myself.)
“(Now everyone’s probably wondering why I’m sitting at my desk saying wheelbarrow over and over to myself.)”
No..no, they’re not…
Plastick Wllbarro is the name of my Lynyrd Skynyrd cover band.
Is that because if you gimme three steps the tire falls off?
IF! Where have you been? We’ve been having to name your cover bands for you. Please try to visit more. It makes me happy.
My deepest apologies to the Irregular Fractal Fan Club and particularly our esteemed Chief Fractalite for my absence… the concerns of Being a Professor and Getting Tenure have eaten up any free time I might dream of having lately. But I know I have to get my priorities straight, so I’M BACK BABY!
Welcome back IF!!
YAY!! I hope you were able to acquire much tenure, so you don’t have to leave again any time soon. In fact, you might need a whelbarro in which store your tenure. I wonder where you could find one.
Also? I’M BACK BABY is the name of my Sir Mix-a-Lot cover band.
Oh…that elusive Promotion & Tenure. Silly Universities. They want you to do this thing they like to lovingly refer to as R – E – S – E – A – R- C – H.
They might as well change the word TENURE to MANURE because you usually have to walk through vats of it.
Hey! Everybody!!! I’m a manured professor now. Smell my success!
Good to see you back IF.
Great to see you, I’d missed the lederhosen.*
*This may not actually be true. I probably missed the cover band comments.
We sometimes tend to discard stuff just because it’s lost its shine. A coupl’a squirts of PAM and that Wheel Barrel will be good for another 500 miles…….
Don’t say “PAM” and “squirts” in proximity to one another, especially if HamCan is going to comment just after you!
*Rubs hands together*
Over the barrel
Somewhere there is a wheel barrel
Give a sigh,
There’s yard art that I heard of
Once on Beverly hillbillies
Somewhere there is a wheel barrel
Plastick is blue,
And the screams that you hear me scream
Really come from you.
Some days I wish that he could spell
A simple word like wheelbarrow
Please blind me.
Where bubbles pop like letters dropped.
In a pile of bottles tops
That’s where you’ll find me.
Somewhere there is a wheel barrel
Blue words fly.
heel and w fly out of the W barro.
Why then, oh why, oh why?
If happy little blue pills fry
Till my mind goes sterile
Why, oh why can’t I?
Wish I were as talented. Love it.
Can we get a round of “happy little blue pills” for everyone? Happy Blue Wednesday. Windy, gets an extra share today to help with those “annoying people at work”.
Hooray! Like me some happy little blue pills!
Viagra?!!!?
What are you two up to?
About four hours, now. I think it’s time to see my doctor.
Let me get out my ruler. Next time its girls day at YSaC, stick around.
Artsy, actually, I am a girl. And I have nothing that’s been up for four hours. But IAA set it up so well, I couldn’t resist beating it down. You know?
Vie Agra? No, See Alice.
Actually Viagra can assist you ladies too:
Viagra for Females To be Released This Week
LRC — I know (I could tell by the fashionable poncho), but it was so easy I couldn’t resist.
Oh, excellent. I do have a stunning fashion sense well beyond your average robot moose. 😀
That sounds like pirate talk.
“Aaargh! Avast! We’ll hang you from the highest yard art!”
Midget pirates. Most yard art I’ve seen isn’t all that tall.*
*The stuff that I have seen that is rather tall I am attempting to forget.
Midget Pirates – that’s gotta be someone’s cover band, right?
Midget Pirates is IF’s They Might Be Giants cover band.
Midget Pirates is the name of IF’s They Might Be Giants cover band.
EDIT: Ahhh! The robomoose beat me to it!
Haha! Great minds, SJ. Also us.
Grated minds.
😉
Mmm… cheesey brains*…
*I’m pretty sure there’s a disease that turns your brain into something resembling cheese. Unfortunately, I don’t think I have enough time left on my edit to find it… Maybe it’s rabies, or mad cow disease or something?
[pc corey] Midget is an offensive term. Little person is acceptable. [/pc corey]
I have a few friends who are little people and saying midget around them would get the same response as calling a black person the N word.
Quite, Kruzfelt-Jacobs is human spongiform encephaly (“mad cow” is bovine spongiform encephaly).
Though, it seems like third-stage syphillis also eats holes in the brain.
Depleting the cerebral lipids is one of the primary morbidities of amphetamine abuse–the nerves literally have nothing to separate them, and “short circuit.”
[pirate pc corey] Pirates prefer to be referred to as Aquatic Opportunists. [/pirate pc corey]
[more pirate pc corey]Many of the people now referred to as pirates were actually privateers.[/pirates]
Apparently there’s a difference. My brother is currently writing his dissertation on privateers, and could tell you all about this.
EDIT: Can.Not.Remember.Code.for.strikethrough.ARGH.
Or Buchaneer Americans.
*is properly embarrassed re “midget” usage*
Thank you for the reminder, christina. I believe I had known this, but as I don’t have cause to use similar terms with any regularity I must confess I did not remember.
*stubs ground sheepishly with toe*
I’ll get me coat.
In keeping with the thread above this one:
Hey, we guys are sensitive about having our “happy little trees” called midgets!
No worries, Lola. Remember the post from way back looking for an Asian Midget? I was going to show this to one of my friends, who happens to be a Korean little person, then I thought about the day one of our other friends made the mistake of calling her Oriental. I decided against it.
It’s seen better days, I’ts decorative in many ways
It’s seen better days – bet the bottom drops out.
It’s seen better days, first come first served so don’t delay
It’s seen better days – bet the bottom drops out.
I’ve seen barrow days and I do barrow things. (I catch sparky-saurs)
Oh, Will Barro is a freind of mine on Facebook*. What’s he seeling?
*Probably not true because I don’t use Facebook and have never encountered anyone by this name.
I before E actually does apply to the word “friend”, you know.
Astro — I think he was trying to seel not speel.
Eye sea watt ewe meen.
Remember a friend is just a fiend with an r.
A fiend with an “r”?
T’Would’t bein’ a pirate, then, arrh?
Finder?
Red fin?
HECHINGER WHEEL BARREL
*Anagram fun*
Cerebral Reel When High (Weeeeeeee)
Herring Wheel Bleacher (Cheap seats at the fish races)
Welch Harbinger Heeler (Dog that predicts the grape harvest)
Wheelchair Bergen Herl (Make a disabled dummy puke)
Cher Bell-Ringer Heehaw (I got you Hunchbabe of Kornfield Kounty)
THE HECHINGER WHEEL BARREL
sanity depends
upon
spelling whl
barro
made my brain
broken
I’ll take the white
small pills.
[poetry corey] The poem I based this on, The Red Wheelbarrow, seems to be hated by all the poets in my MFA Writing program. I’m not sure why. It is, though, perhaps one of the easiest poems to memorize aside from “Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes”: Adam/Had ’em. [/poetry corey]
Them,
Ahem
.
Ant
Rant
.
Row*
Now
.
In
Bin
.
No
Go
.
I
By
.
T
P
.
C?
*(rou)
[my artistic preferences corey]The easiest poem to remember, yet not actually the shortest poem on record:
8 Millimeter (mm)
-Richard Brautigan.
[nested bonus corey] However, it is sometimes noted that the above text is the title of the poem, which would make the actual poem zero characters, zero syllables, thus, the shortest poem to never exist.[/bonus corey] [/art corey]
A Beat’s Review of HamCan’s Epic Poem, ” “:
Yeah, man, that HamCan! He speaks to me, man, and you, he speaks to YOU. He says nothing like he knows nothing! He knows it like you and I and the universe just ain’t hep to, dig? I read this, and I think to myself, there is a man who would know exactly what to do when confronted by a red table for sale take it for free.
Some squares claim that Ham isn’t the same anymore. Said he met Pam, made him an honest man. Said he’s conformed, yeah. But them squares, they just need to read ” “. HamCan. Man.
I hear there’s going to be a performance of HamCan’s new work, followed by John Cage’s 4′ 33″. Bring your earplugs. 8)
So did anybody notice that ActionBatch is in the Box???? 8) Congratulations.
♪ ♪ -by the Traveling Wllbarros
Been beat up and battered ’round
Been sold once to a craigslist clown
I’m just looking to be found
Wheel me with care
Da Minty Shell’s changeable
And plastick is tolerable
So baby, throw adore
Wheel me with care
I’m so tired of decorating
Hanging out with some old gnome
Won’t you push me to a brand new home
Every sparky’s got some crap to send on
Put my carcass on the ‘list, don’t speel wrong
I’m so pissed off, and you’re a tool
I’ve got to go, no ridicule
A day care center or some school
Wheel me with care
Love it! Love it! I’ll go look around the Command Center ™ to see if I can give you extra doors!
BRILLIANT!
Handle With Care is one of my all time favorite songs. This is excellent.
[OT in “if anyone cares to know” vein]
Barrows are used to ‘borrow’ material from one place to another.
If one digs parallel swales along a right-of-way and places the spoil material in the center to become the roadbed, the swales are then called borrow or barrow-ditches, which is where the term “bar ditch” comes from.
A wheelbarrow with two front wheels is a mason’s-barrow (occasionally called a “tremie” {Tree-MEE}). The extra wheel offers more stability when hauling heavy wet mortar or concrete (and keeps the tires from digging ruts as badly).
There are powered versions of tremies (“buggies” by some vernacular) which have a small engine and powered wheel under a bucket seat at the rear. These used to be used in high-rise construction for pouring floor concrete in the days before using concrete pumps became commonplace. Using a pump truck is very much preferable as it was far too easy to drive a tremie off an under-construction floor high up in a building.
[/ot]
Now, to dare yet another 400 Bad Request error. These started in at 1400 CDT for me. No Adores available in this present iteration, but, at least the site opened. le sigh.
Let me add some more Captain (from wikipedia):
[corey]
The term “wheelbarrow” is made of two words: “wheel” and “barrow.” “Barrow” is a derivation of the Old English “bearwe” which was a device used for carrying loads. Because the word “barrow” is not in common use in English today, many people incorrectly substitute the word “barrel” in place of “barrow” as this seems to make more sense (possibly because the cavity in a wheelbarrow resembles a half-barrel) even though it is not a correct etymology; this is an example of an eggcorn.
In linguistics, an eggcorn is an idiosyncratic substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound similar or identical in the speaker’s dialect. The new phrase introduces a meaning that is different from the original, but plausible in the same context, such as “old-timers’ disease” for “Alzheimer’s disease”. The term eggcorn was coined by Geoffrey Pullum in September 2003, in response to an article by Mark Liberman on the website Language Log, a blog for linguists. Liberman discussed the case of a woman who substitutes the phrase egg corn for the word acorn, arguing that the precise phenomenon lacked a name; Pullum suggested using “eggcorn” itself.
[/corey]
Who needed the example of “Coryism”?
Now I have a craving for eggcorn on the cobshell.
*shudders*
Long, long ago (if not so far away) I committed one of those classic undergraduate blundres of signing up for a class based on the written description, rather than by asking persons who had taken the class.
Said class was “Survival.”
One of our class assignments (since it was Fall semester) was to collect acorns to make acorn brittle. Acorns have a very short time between under-ripe and over-ripe. This means one has to collect a great batch of acorns, more than is needed to cull them.
Since it is a brittle, one also gets to experience either boiling sugar in dorm-approved heating devices (and this back when a 450-500W MW was still $3-400, not a common dorm accessory). Or, one gets to experience boiling sugar in bachelor apartments.
In either event, the end product is decidely unique, and not necessarily in a good way. Venison jerky is a much better way to sequester acorns in a long-lasting format.
We’re gonna be famous! Quick, everyone, clean up this place and change into your best pants to be quoted all over the internetz in!
But I sold my pants on Craigslist!
in my best MOM voice.
Laurelhach – just put your shoes on and brush your hair … We really need to get done before they get here. Oh yeah, pick up your brother.
But…I can’t drive…*
*true story.
I think we should get our own TV show.
I mean, if CBS can give William Shatner a sitcom about Bleep someone’s dad said on Twitter, then they can give a Llama-Nun* a comedy talk show with a semi-live** audience flown in** from across the country.
*Bees be upon her.
**Semi-live as in some of us will have to use satellite linkups, like me, who is a minor. Not as in zomb-
And some of us aren’t in the same country, either. Reina is in Dubai. Jen is in New Zealand. HamCan is in orbit.
And may I please be played by Angelina Jolie?
I think Arsty meant “pick up your brother” as in pick him up off the floor because he’s spun himself around to the point that his eyes are crossed and he wouldn’t pass a sobriety test.
No, I don’t have kids, but my youngest brother is nine years my junior and what I just wrote could easily work today (he’s 26) as much as when he was four.
Dunno, thinking a show with animated avatars might be better in so many ways (like not scaring the sparky-like sponsors so much.
While also neatly allowing participation in multiple time Zones, nations (and varying levels of permissions for personal appearances “doing” stuff).
If we were in a show with animated avatars, then we’d be sued….my avatar is a trademark of Insomniac games.
Oh, I don’t want it, you can have it
It’s too green for me
It’s too green for me
It’s too green for me
Oh, I don’t want it, you can have it
It’s too green for me
It’s too green, it’s too green
It’s too green for me
I get reeling
It’s bizarro
When I’m wheeling
With my barro
I don’t want it, you can have it
It’s too green for me
It’s too green for me
It’s too green for me
Oh, I don’t want it, you can have it
It’s too green for me
It’s too green, it’s too green
It’s too green for me
With two handles
It’s fantastic
This old barrel
Made of plastick
I don’t want it, you can have it
It’s too green for me
It’s too green for me
It’s too green for me
Oh, I don’t want it, you can have it
It’s too green for me
It’s too green, it’s too green
It’s too green for me
Is it almost like new?
No, no, no, no, no
Will its legs hold up true?
No, no, no, no, no
Should I sell it or pawn?
Should it sit on my lawn?
Could this armament
Be an ornament?
No, no, no
Bravo.
The box. No one has looked at the box today. No one.
We don’t have a box anymore. We have a collective golden lotus.
I just looked at it. I don’t usually get to see the box unless I switch over to the desktop site and remember to peek at the bottom of the page before replying to someone. Excellent choices.
Usually by now someone, often even the honoree, has noticed and said something. Not just you, christina, it’s just weird that no one has said anything, even after I posted about it on my lunch hour. Sigh.
Astro, thank you for the reminder. 8)
I looked at it! Excellent choice. Well done, Action Batch.
I’m sorry if I’m ridiculously insular.
Desmond has a w barro in the market place…
ActionBatch, you don’t have to share this with Mindfield or Hammy, they’ll get what’s coming to them. Punchity Punch Punch!
G’Night, Landover!
Srsly? There’s like a million ridiculously insular comments here, including multiple acts of poetry, and NO ONE got the William Carlos Williams reference?? Well maybe there was, but I scanned thru all y’all comments and didn’t see it. So here’s your literary education for the damn day:
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
[matt] [/matt]
You forgot these.
Also: cf. BrainStew, et seq.
I’m still laughing over “ridiculously insular*.” Oh, flounce! *snap snap*
*We specialize in it to a degree – and memes aren’t particular to this site. So what?
See, the problem, Amanda, is that you scanned the comments. I long time ago I scanned “A Farewell To Arms” because I had more important things to do, like going to the mall and smoking cigarettes behind the school. When I got my test back it had a red F on it.
Well, now we done been educated! 8) Careful, Amanda, I have an itchy edit finger!
[after waiting for someone else to call “corey”]
“scan” means to look at thoroughly, as in “scan the horizon for enemy”; “skim” means to read lightly and quickly [/corey]
I thought about that, Innana, but I was on my way into work when I replied and didn’t have time to write out everything, so I went with her choice of words.
MattAmanda – Srsly? Like…srsly? Rly? Srsly? TTFN!
e i o u
Here Amanda, you dropped these.
Vowels are of the devil.
Then shouldn’t that read;
I was going to do that. But I was trying to avoid being ridiculously insular.
Thanks for picking up my slack sj!