YSaC, Vol. 695: Boom, baby! Milkshake!
2010 June 12
*****HUNTING STUFF THAT IS LOUD!!!!!!!
i have 3 hunting devices that im looking to sell if interested please email me nate at [email]
Naomi sends this in, commenting: “I am not myself a hunter. But I’m pretty sure that ‘loud’ is not the only quality one looks for in a hunting device. For example, one might care what KIND of hunting device it is.”
Au, contraire, Naomi! I am so excited about this ad I am beside myself. Why? Possibly due to the various hunting documentaries I watched as a child, I see this and think, “The only company that could possibly make these awesome loud hunting devices… is Acme!”
Normally we redact contact information to protect the posters’ privacy, but in this case it’s because I’m contacting Nate myself.
Hunting stuff is loud, all those checked shirts and orange vests and big rubber boots. No fashion sense at all.
At least the pants camouflage themselves.
Oh,
I R a hunter.
Not only am I a bedazzeler of hooves, I employ several specialists just to disintigrate tornadoes and I assure you, LOUD is pretty much what you’d like in a hunting apparatus.
Unless you’re bowhunting.
In that case, just bring oil for the swing set.
*And smoke for the bees.
I find this ad a rather creative way to get around the whole “you can’t sell guns on craigslist” thing
Funny thing, I actually purchased a rifle while on a week long bicycle ride away from home. I wondered if I’m the only type of person who would do such a thing, but I no longer wonder.
I first read your last sentence as “I no longer wander” and thought you were doing a public service announcement warning of the perils of riding a bike with a rifle.
Stay in school, kids!
“Bought a gun on a week-long bicycle trip” is one of the more curious things I’ve read. But then people hate cyclists and there’s that whole possibility of your trip getting all Easy Rider. Pedal on, my friend.
Or it could be that the OP is- or was- into hunting loud things.
Could be that he started out stalking the city streets late at night with his shotgun, looking for the elusive Incessant And Pointless Car Alarm.
When the public applauded his skillful efforts, he branched out and offered his services to a wide variety of common noise disturbances. Apartment complexes & college dormitories couldn’t hire him fast enough.
Peace & quiet reigned in the valley until one day, he took it too far and attempted to hunt his own neighbor….the Guy Who Mows His Lawn At 7 AM On A Sunday. Not realizing this was a federally protected species, he took a shot. Missed, but got caught by the game warden anyway. Now he’s forced to surrender all his shotguns. He’s hoping to sell them to another hunter who shares his enthusiasm for this type of game….hence the title of the post.
Be vewy, vewy quiet. I’m hunting wabbits! heh heh heh heh
Aw, how’d they hear me coming?
Fudd speaks….
Does the hunting device come with a jack for my iPod, or can I download tunes directly to it? ‘Cause I have often thought to myself, as I crept silently and stealthily through the underbrush in search of notoriously shy and easily frightened woodland creatures, that all that was missing was some phat beats.
or Bat Feats?
Or Fat Beets, if you are of the vegetarian persuasion.
Then again, you probably wouldn’t be interested in hunting gear to begin with.
Me likey Beet Jam.
Is that a band name?
Band name or condiment; either way, it’s catchy.
My corey senses tells me this is a veiled ad for guns. Sorry for understanding, but I’ve not had enough coffee for humorous snark yet.
Oops, JT already said that. Seriously, where’s the Tacospresso when you need it?
Not available on weekends. Try our new, loud, espresso, in hunter green!
I’ll pass on the green liquids, thanks.
Actually my coffee recipe isn’t very different from the one TM posted the other day so I really should be more awake than I am. I’m guessing it’s the 100% humidity and 95° that’s keeing me in my sloth-like state.
[corey]
CL Buyer not that brighter a bulb than the Sellers–may not be enough hints here, if, in fact, boomsticks are for sale.
So, nate may have come into some “game calls” instead.
If you do not know how to regulate one, a slate-box turkey call is very loud.
Ditto an elk bugle call. There are also tapes of various game noises available, with remote speakers.
But, at a guess Sparky (who wants us to email him nate–and why/which Nathaniel we are left to guess) has come into turkey calls from a decendent relative. Turkey hunters always seem to have 4,5, elebenty, calls; which all have various logics for acquisition. All are “loud” to the untrained, too.
[/corey]
*consults Cap’n-to-English dictionary*
That would actually make some sense, but I think I will have to go with the consensus and say that
Sparky“nate” is trying to circumnavigate Craigslist’s gun restrictions. If the “devices” were calls they probably would have been listed as “whistles” over in the musical instrument section.(Cap’n, I’m picturing you as Ash giving the “This is my boomstick!” speech and it’s giving me the giggles.)
Well, if this is the sort of trolling that gets “hits” for making f/a transactions on CL, I’m guessing the CL staff would flag them as often as they “worked”
Which would seem to argue against the success of the technique.
Or, maybe I’m too much more familiar with the legitimate trade, and miss the subtleness of “Hey, I gots Stuff, call me” form of get-around-the-rules advertising.
(And, I’m really thinking of the old comic–which is eluding Search– with the two deer to the effect of “Boomstick? No, Larry, that’s a Winchester 2385.”)
The problem with the vague, “I gots Stuff” approach would be if it’s vague enough to escape the legions of flaggers who have nothing better to do than scroll through ads all day, the ad’s probably too vague to reach the intended audience.
On the plus side; if they keep trying, YSaC will never run out of fodder.
Exactly my point.
Like, suppose “Loud” is sparky for “Allowed”–who in the CL (ahem)”audience” would get that?
“Email me nate” could just have a sign reading “Hunting Allowed” and get deluged with queries like “Y’a gotta .25-06? Or issit a .35magnum? Them is loud. ”
This past Christmas, my brother & sister in laws gave their 4 yr old nephew (my son) a duck call. It took me 3 months to effectively hide that thing from him.
I wouldn’t mind him playing with it… if he’d just take it OUTSIDE.
Unfortunately, he’s the only child on that side of the family, so the only revenge I can get is to send my son to their house with that instrument. Except, I’ve forgotten where I’ve hid it!
Be glad it was not a slate call.
This is a slate top on a sound box, which has a stylus.
The stylus has a hardwood end which is struck and dragged across the slate.
That creates the loud (in the 90-95 dB area) sorts of calls turkeys do.
Greatest din is created if a person has a video of how to make the calls
So you hear the “video” and the acolyte attempting to emulate it.
Hey Cap,
I’ve heard slate calls and they are very loud … but nothing competes with a toddler blowing on a call as hard as they can right next to your head. The ringing lasts for hours if not days. One only wishes that ears would bleed and relieve the echo.
The other Euphonium in concert band class (the biggest redneck I ever met. His Facebook profile pic is of him holding a rather large gun with a Confederate flag in the background, and he drives a big red pickup truck, to boot) constantly brought in his duck call and his turkey call. It got real annoying real fast. Eventually our band director took them away.
So if we email him Nate, can we take the devices for free?
But which Nate? Nate Dogg, Nate Robinson, Nate Hawthorn, uh…I ran out of Nates.
Ooh, I know a Nate! He broke up with me in eighth grade to date a foreign exchange student. I’d love to track him down and attempt to email him to someone.
So, he wasn’t ‘Nate the Great’?
Hunting Stuff that is loud, huh?
Well, this could mean one of two things.
It could either mean he’s goin’ huntin’ with a ‘zooka,
or he’s hunting howler monkeys/my sister*.
*Same difference.
Gail, thank you for playing, here’s your lovely parting Punchity-Punch-Punch!
G’Night, Acme!
Listen, Sparky: I may have been born yesterday, but it wasn’t in Candyland. If I email you a perfectly good Nate (assuming I can get him into the cup holder at all), how do I know I’ll ever see (or hear) those three loud hunting devices? No, we’ll have to meet at the coffee house near my office.
Can your Nate work as an attachment? Then you can have your Nate and email him too.
What if your Nate is past it’s expiration date? How expensive to reregister Nate and then send it off. I’d rather just keep Nate for myself – I keep my Nate with twine.. ha.
I keep mine in a hole in the cellar. Precious!
Just toss down a bottle of lotion every couple of days.
Perhaps Sparky is hunting for a bottle of the new emailable Jean Naté. It’s not enough to simply let your prey hear you coming. For maximum impact they also have to be able to smell you a mile off. It’s called “psyching out your opponent”. I learned this in ninja school.
Nate is the bait, email a date.
Hunting device is loud, it could draw a crowd.
I’m looking to sell before he starts to smell.
I’m Windrose, and I approved this post. 8)
Totally off topic but I get free pancakes today.
Sweet!
Free ALL the Pancakes!
Aren’t hunting tools supposed to be quiet? At least, until the prey is dead?
Digi, you traded in your quilt square!
The Ghostcat and Capn Mac! It’s a 60s sit com about a lovable sea captain and the ghost of a cat that haunts him! Punchity Punch Punch!
Good Morning, Boomstickers!