YSaC, Vol. 348: It’s an anagram of “flab solo”.
Another in the series of, “If you can imagine the misspelling of it, it’s already on Craigslist!” Today’s challenge: foosball tables. Quick, think of the strangest spelling imaginable of foosball. Now click to see what others came up with …
Fooz Ball Table – $150
Where moving need to get rid of it quick works great
I’m having some perspective issues here. Is the table floating upside down? And what is the second picture supposed to show? “Look, here are the three legs for the levitating fooz ball table.” I think I need a Dramamine.
Harvard Fuzz Ball Table – $50
Nice Model works great ! Was a model house piece now outside needs to be cleaned and washed ! It is dusty Heavy Model Stands alone no need to prop on a table!! Lost the fuzz ball but any sporting goods store carries them for About $2 or If interested please call xxx xxx xxxx jacky
You’d think that at Harvard they would be able to write better than this. Or learn not to take pictures of things for Craigslist that have rat cages underneath them. (Yes, yes, I know that Harvard is the brand name. In a house of Stanford and Yale grads, though, we had to go for the easy joke.)
Fosball table – $100
Full size commercial grade .
That’s right, none of those amateur tables for me, no sir. I want the one that the professionals use.
Amazingly, these last three examples all come from the same metropolitan area. I’m not sure what it is about Mossuri Mussuri Moosuri, but they have trouble with their foosball.
Fusball, Air Hockey, Ping Pong Table–All in One! – $50
Fusball table that turns over into air hockey table. Table also includes board with netting for ping pong. All balls, pucks, paddles, and other pieces included. Table is in GREAT condition and was rarely used. This would be a great gift for kids or college students! Email if interested or if you would like more details!
Fuseball Table in Great Con. – $100
Have nice light wood colored fuseball table that I don’t have the room for anymore. Loads of fun!
If interested please call xxx-xxx-xxxx and leave a message. (I will respond promptly)
I’m trying to imagine how a game of fuseball would go. I think if you have too many people playing the game, the ball just blows up.
So … when you do a Google search for fuseball on Craigslist, you get ten pages (!) of hits along with Google’s helpful suggestion, “Did you mean fussball?” Sure. Sure I do. Let’s say, hypothetically, that I mean fussball, shall we?
NEW FUSSBALL TABLE – $250
Brand new fussball table. New cost $600.00. I don’t have a space for it, so selling it for $250.00. Our loss, your gain.
This fussball table is brand new. You can tell by the date stamp on the photos.
Thanks to Erin for the three Mossuri Mussuri Moosuri posts.
Crap, I was hoping for something with an umlaut. Internets, I’m disappointed in you.
“Heavy Model Stands alone” – my moment of Zen for the day.
To be fair, “Fussball” (Fußball) is the German spelling for football, so it was a decent Google suggestion. That poster, however, is probably not German.
I picture fussball as being a game played by frilly-apron-wearing athletes with feather dusters and a glass ball. Fussy!
“I picture fussball as being a game played by frilly-apron-wearing athletes with feather dusters and a glass ball.”
And while complaining.
I like the “fuzzball” table.
I’ve always wanted a game that worked with the stuff that clogs my sink.
My cats play that one already. Too bad the ball ends up under the fridge…
Fuss is the closest to correct transliteration, but we already have a standardized American spelling. I mean, a foosball table is definitely not a place to play Fußball.
Did they really have to specify that the Harvard Fuzzball Table is a standalone unit? Is someone really going to look at that picture and think it looks like a dining room table with something sitting on top of it?
The first listing truly worries me, looking past the header we see he/she says “Where moving…” Um, try “We’re moving…” I need more cophee, coughee, coffee.
Actually, a game called fuseball actually sounds kinda fun. I’m imagining an electrified ball that delivers a shock if held for too long by a player…
“Where moving need to get rid of it quick works great”.
I hate when people paraphrase Confucius.
That was my fortune cookie the other night!
When encountering fuseball, clear stay of table lest man who have happy hand no longer smile
This made me giggle uncontrollably! 🙂
I didn’t think the “fusball” entry was all that sucky, to be honest. Except for the non-standard, but relatively phonetically accurate, spelling of “foosball”, there really wasn’t anything wrong, strange, or dumb about the ad. And like others, both “fusball” and “fussball” made me think of “fußball”….
Fussball is the devil!
“Or learn not to take pictures of things for Craigslist that have rat cages underneath them.”
The rat cage was killing me too!
Fuseball- score a point, your opponent gets zapped. The game for sadists (or masochists if they stink at ‘fuseball’)
I played this game for the first time last week and my girlfriend kicked my ass. I have therefore decided that it sucks.
Got one for “fosse ball” — as in the famous choreographer-filmmaker:
http://www.yousuckatkijiji.com/2009/06/kijijisuck-42-dance-like-deity-in-your.html
oh god.
Im sick and awake in the middle of the night. Trying not to wake up sleeping BF with lols at “fuseball.”
that really did it for me.
I don’t know. I’d kinda want a fuzzball table, too. XD;
I’ve been accused of being a fussball on occasion.
The title of this section “It’s an anagram of ‘flab solo’ ” made me think – who is ‘Flab Solo’? Han’s overweight brother?
A flab solo is obviously when the rest of the band leaves the stage to get high and the flabber plays alone for a few minutes to keep the crowd hot.
Percussive belly-fat jiggling – the perfect ‘accompaniment’ to the couch potato’s burped theme song.
I’d like to play fuseball. I heard it’s just dynamite.
Dynamite would require fuzeball.
[pyrocorey]In the argot of the armaments trade, a “fuse” is a mechanical device which contains/controls the fuze train. The distinction is subtle but important.
A fuze, once started, is unstoppable; it can be delayed or deferred, it can be made more rapid, too–but, once started, it is inevitable. Thus, the mechanical fuse, which can control, even prevent, the starting of the fuze.
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feuxbawl
like someone above posted before, “fussball” is the most correct spelling. because i guess on american keyboards one wouldn’t find the “ß” but would have to search at ms office’s additional characters for it to make it the 100% correct german spelling “fußball”.
anyhow, i just wonder why they don’t call it “footballtable” – or at least “soccertable” if they won’t people to confuse it with american football?
makes me wonder why american football is called american FOOTball? i mean, most of the gametime the foot and the ball never meet? why don’t they call it american rugby? and why to they call (european) football “soccer”? where does that word come from? (and don’t you say ‘look at wikipedia’ because i can’t be bothered to do so :-p )
Soccer comes from the Association part of Association Football. It will always be football and never soccer to me…but I am British. I’d never even heard of a Foosball table until I saw Friends, it was always table football, never as good as Subbuteo though
American football is so called because the ball is a foot long. As in, not quite a third of a meter. Silly? Yes, but not actually as ridiculous as you think.
And here, that game whose tables the OPs are trying to sell is called foosball. Not football. Not sure why, but that’s what it is.
(And, my spellcheck doesn’t accept foosball. Great game, though.)
We call it “Table Football” in the U – fewer misspellings for that. “Foosball” is the extrapolation of a brandname anyway…
On another note, I’m just waiting for a listing for anything to do with Autofussball – if you know what it is you’ll know what I mean…
After seeing the wacky spellings of “armoire” I was expecting much worse. The weirdest spelling I could imagine was:
FOUWSSUEBALWL
That is far stranger than the actual spellings.
My föösbäll table goes to 11.
I sympathize with Sparky’s medical problems, but if he’s suffering from fuseball he should go to a doctor, not post an ad on CraigsList.
I don’t know, if I had fuseballs…I probably wouldn’t be able to mention that to a doctor. Strangers on the internet? Piece of cake.
Which could be complicated if the fuzzballs had to be converted from internal to external or vice versa (or the further complication of acquiring an additional set in either orientation).
There were a lot of Justins back then.
Jasons. Sorry.
The Fuzz Ball Table makes me think of a bunch of kittens batting the ball around.
Like this?
ha ha ha ha!! That’s the exact same table we have! Only reason we own it is cuz my hubby is a huge Star Wars nerd. I’m now wondering if I ever taped his cat playing on it…
Not-a, I posted that on Facebook. 8) It’s so cute!
Fuzz Balls, what Sasquatch scratches in the morning.
I can’t believe you never played Fuseball. It’s like, Da Bomb!
Heeer, Dahlink. We play Fuzeball until zey tired, zen we keel Moose und Squirrel.
My husband’s cat would always get on the foosball table and bat the balls around until they went into the goals. Then she’d lay between the bars until one of us would get the balls back out for her. She was the only one that ever used it so it went into storage.
There’s not enough money in my fussbudget for the fussball table.
Al Sharpton on line one, Sparky.
Dave and Taco, Taco and Dave, good snark, good fun, good Punchity Punch Punch!
Good Morning, Robin van Persie!