YSaC, Vol. 421: The geezer period was after the French Prudential period.
nice home decor
[1]very nice wall hanging $5.00
[2]bird house center piece $10.00
[3]very nice swag $6.00
all are homemade
Say, that is a very nice wall hanging. Is that cross-stitch or latchhook? Can I get the pattern for that at JoAnn Fabrics? I think my grandmother would like that on a pillow. It’s so hard these days to find good embroidery work of geezers making obscene gestures. I mean, back in the 20s it was all the rage to decorate your house in early grandpa-grabbing-his-junk! It was everywhere — wall hangings, tea cozies, antimacassars, you name it. For some reason that style just didn’t keep as well as we thought it would. They say if you wait long enough everything will come back into fashion, though, and this is proof!
Thanks to Mo for sending this one in!
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nice flowers!
You took the words, such as they are, right out of my mouth.
“Wall hanging” . . . is that what they’re calling it nowadays.
I’m pretty sure something’s ‘hanging’ but it’s not a wall. It rhymes with wall…
There’s a joke in there somewhere about the wall hanging being hung, but I can’t quite make it….
Why, yes, I heard the wall hanging WAS well hung. 🙂
or NOT hung, as the case may be.
antimacassars!! great. are there pro-macassars?
Bird house centerpiece? Wh…? I’m confused (as usual). Don’t they just need, like, some seed, a roof, and a perch? Have I been calling the wrong things bird houses all this time?
Next thing you know, the little fuckers are going to want their very own French Prudential piss-soaked mini-couches.
If you look hard enough at the picture to the right, you can sort of make out what could be a birdhouse under all those fake magnolias. It’s a bit like one of those hidden-picture, ‘Where’s Waldo?’ sort of things.
I *think* I see it. That’s messed up. How are the birds even supposed to get in?!
Nah – the geezer is obviously the ‘bird house’ – he’s offering loads of places for the birds to perch, and they can peck at his nuts all day long. I just hope for his sake that no Woodpeckers turn up though (although having said that it looks like he’s turning his own wood pecker up)
Yeah, flowers. Like the flowers.
(notlookingnotlookingnotlookingnotlooking)
I had reason to look up “antimacassars” last week — I knew what they were, but not how the word evolved. Blame hair oil and Lord Byron.
I blame Don Juan too…!
Oh yeah, Don Juan should take the hit.
Personally, I want the dimensions of that wall hanging. It might be too small to really fill out the space over my mantelpiece. I really ought to message the seller to get more details.
Also, I wonder if it has been printed on acid free paper? No use investing $5.00 on a “very nice” wall hanging if it’s just going to deteriorate over the years.
This disturbs me on so many levels. I must now go remove my eyes with this rusty spoon I found.
See, if images still had to be captured and distributed via paint and brush, things like this wouldn’t happen–I don’t care how hi-freakin’-larious you think grandpa grabbing his junk might be, no one’s going to stand there contemplating the real thing for the hours it would take to commit it to canvas. Targeted technophobic revolution, anyone?
Nerd that I am, I decided to look up alternate definitions of swag to find out if the poster was differentiating between item (1) wall-hanging and item (3) swag. I have to admit I was hoping for some slang definition along the lines of “horny old geezer, often seen making lewd gestures to unsuspecting women in coffee shops.” Alas, no such luck. It seems what the poster really meant was:
[1]very nice wall hanging $5.00
[2]bird house center piece $10.00
[3]vintage husband
The horny husband, you’ll notice, is priceless.
Anyone consider the possibility that the poster selected the wrong picture for the wall hanging and just didn’t double check their post? That picture looks like its straight off 4chan and not actually mounted.
On another note, I think this would be a perfect set for the next edition of “Which One of These Doesn’t Belong?” on Sesame Street.
Ryan, I think we all realize they aren’t actually trying to sell “Grandpa Grabs His Junk” and just uploaded the wrong photo. That’s….why they suck at craigslist, and why it’s funny.
I…oh, hell. I’ve explained the funny, and it killed it. 🙁 Poor funny.
Damn, Dad! Stay off my computer when I’m posting to Craigslist!
Dammit, sprayed my monitor and I wasn’t even drinking anything! You cut that out Monica!
Thanks, JcT! That is my mission in life 🙂
Now there’s two things I can get my gram off CL: a frolicking nudist and feelin’ his friskies gramps.
My Christmas list will be complete, as soon as I get my mom the auntie couch.
Considering dear ol’ auntie was found dead on it, wouldn’t the “anti-auntie couch” be more appropriate?