YSaC, Vol. 760: Shot in the dark.
2010 August 16
Today we have two ads, both sent in by the same person:
2 tall lamps – $25
I am selling 2 tall black lamps. I use them in my living room just for decoration but you can also usethem for your bedroom as well. $25 for the pair o.b.o
GLASS CHANDELIER – $250
GLASS CHANDELIER PRICED TO SELL FAST WE PAID OVER $900.00 DOLLARS FOR
THIS CANDELIER . CALL MARTIN (xxx)xxx-xxxx
Hmm. If only there was some sort of light source around to make these pictures easier to see.
Thanks, Lilly!
I see that Sparky’s been shopping for lighting at Dimbulbs R Us again.
He should have shopped at Big Watts!
If only these decorations were-
*BUMP* Ow!
As I was saying, if only we could use these decorations-
*WHACK* Ouch! Damnit!
Anyway, we really need to replace these decorations with something-
*CRASH* *THUMP*
I’m ever so glad that Sparky #1 pointed out that, in the Venn diagram of Places One Can Use This Lamp, there is an overlap between the “in the living room” circle & the “in the bedroom” circle.
But you are not allowed, under any circumstances whatsoever, to use them in the den.
Unless it’s a den of wombats, born on Febuary 29th, who are identical twins.
And can whistle Ave Maria.
Doesn’t everyone have a den just like that?
I hear Bill Gates has three, but one’s virtual.
I am sad, then, I have no den, nor basement either.
Though, my house has been called a “lair” . . .
I have a basement and an attic …Oh, wait they’re other apartments are they? So I can’t store my decorative but dim lamps there? Therefore I must put them on Craigslist – some idio …. kind person will buy them.
See, this is what bugs me though. Living room, good; bedroom, good; but what if I wanted to use it in my garage? What about the den? I mean, is the quality of light just not good enough here, or would it just really throw off the feng shui of those other rooms? Could I give it a little more shui? Maybe change the lampshade or hang some tassels or something?
I dunno. Maybe I should get the chandelier instead. I think it would add a touch of ritz to my garage.
The best room I ever heard suggested for a chandelier was one’s “mudroom,” by that Christopher wossname (Lowell?) on HG. Now I want a mudroom, so that I can make it just fabulous!
Quit talking about my bedroom Lola!
I had a mudroom in a previous house, and it had a chandelier (in a rustic decorative motif) in it. When you live in the country, the front door never gets used. Everyone always comes in the back door through the mudroom. It was indeed fabulous. Christopher Lowell never gave his decorating approval, however.
I know people who have mudrooms (I grew up in a rural area) but, interestingly, that’s not what they call them, by and large. Usually it’s just “the back door.” Even if there’s a separate room for it. In one of our houses it was “the utility room” because the w/d and hwh were back there as well.
Some of the people who lived way out in the country not only never use the front door, when we were growing up, they never locked it, either. I knew kids with no keys to their house because there wasn’t a demonstrated need for it. We always locked up, regardless, due in part to my parents having lived in three major cities before we moved there and they were in the habit.
It must be a regional thing. When I designed the house and called it a mudroom, I got the same response. I grew up in Colorado and seem to recall the term being used there. And I put in a basement in the house, which is atypical for houses in California. It was a great place for wine and sausage making and for storing canned/fresh produce. Also, a great place for forts for the kids.
My mom calls ours both the mudroom and utility room–it also holds most of our food, so it’s technically a pantry as well.
Our mudroom is right next to the dungroom. We keep the door closed.
We don’t have a mudroom, but we have a nothing room.
It’s called that because for quite some time, there was no one major purpose it served by which we could name it. Now it’s primary functions are den and the Guinea Pigs’ room.
We rollerskated in our basement. Until Dad ruined the
Fang Shooey by putting in a “den”.
Clearly we need some hummingbirds to help us here.
Sparqy has drawn
the Ace of Dim in the Brightness
The sense of missing trees in a forest. Sparq may be punch-drunk from repeatedly striking objects. If Sparq is bruised and battered, we would rejoice.
&
King of Having all Marbles, reversed
The sense of creating darkness in full sunlight; of dehydrating the saturated just be being nearby.
The darkness protects the correctly and righteously indignant while they club Sparq relentlessly in the dark. We are lucky.
Hummintini’s all around!
[pedantic plumbing corey]
Please, please, do not use HWH.
If only because heating hot water is redundant (and a trace foolish).
Now, DWH, “domestic (meaning potable, not heating) water heater” is just fine.
Even a recirculating HW system is only passing tepid water back to the heater.
Yes, the water in the tank is supposed to be warmer than the CW supplied to the house, which makes the heating more efficient; but that is a tank design issue. (Also how a tankless unit works, supply-temperature water is flash heated to desired output heat within the unit on demand, rather than sitting in storage.)
[/corey]
I’m getting *crickets* again every time Capn explains something.
Need to put his posts through the CatMath Rosetta Stone Translator.
I think I can translate:
Sparky’s a dumb-butt.. only he could be so dim-witted that he sucks out all the surrounding light so you can’t see the light shining from the lightbulbs.
And it’s a water heater, you fool*. Hot water heater is incorrect because hot=heat.**
But I like the way Capn’ explains it better, more melodious and less crass than my words.
*Okay, so leave out the ‘you fool’ part, that’s my interpretation.
** I want an ‘E’ for Effort.. my brain hurts.
Where is the sign up sheet for the correctly and righteously
indignant again? In the lounge on the bar? Thanks! Who needed NVG’s again?
Shot in the dark
Your pics are lame
Darlin’, you give light
A bad name
Your love’s a lamp in the family room
Decorating our lives with your shade
Black like the endless gloom
TG: Do you have a digestive disorder today?
He’s TacoGasmic, not TacoGastric.
By the way, Taco, before you keep using that name, you might want to check out the discussion we had about animals yesterday.
It’s easier for me to put my foot in my mouth if I don’t know what happens on the weekends. It helps with the hijinx and wackiness!
If you are currently eating a banana, you might want to skip over the conversation Astro is referring to.
*adjusts reading glasses on nose*
Oh…OH…damnit. Thanks for the clarification, Astro. Somehow I only saw the “gas” part of Taco.
Nothing wrong with Bananas! *Omnomnomnomnom*
I
make sweetlovetobananas!If you trip over a lamp in the dark and no one is around to hear you scream, does it still make a sound?
**whispers to Taco as he “noms” on the bananas**
You do know Bananas represent certain male body parts, right?
Did you know if you suck on a banana hard enough you can get the peel off?
It’s true!
Line crossed! Line crossed! Line crossed! Line Crossed!
And it’s only 9:20 where I’m at–much too early for a line crossing.
*looks up from reading the newspaper*
How did that line get way over there? All I did was politely inquire if Taco was feeling poorly today.
Edit: Have some more coffee 🙂
I usually feel so well too!
What?
My snark back for when I’m sick of the question, “How do you feel?” is “With my hands.”
Mine is:
“From behind, it’s so much easier to cup them from there.”
Note to self – Never stand in front of Taco.
Or behind him.
Or pretty much anywhere in his general vicinity.
You’re all just lucky that I haven’t completed the iGrope app yet.
Is it sexual harassment to watch you eat that banana?
I think I can fix both of these Sparkies’ lighting issues.
:fetches two jugs of gasoline:
Anybody got a light? I know they don’t.
*Grabs one of the Jugs*
*Oooot ooot Ooot Ooot ooot ooot Oooot*
Ya’ll like the musik? Let’s git a banjo in here and we’ll show ya’ll a smarking good tyme!
Yeehaw! Let’s have a hoot-hollerin’ good time!
**winks at Taco.**
Ok… I’m gonna go brush my teeth.
I think he wants you to show him how eat a banana without removing the peel.
(Ewwwww.)
Heck, that’s easy! I can even show him how to eat one without chewing!
Pics? YouTube? Paint-by-Number-Paintings?
Well, I did find something to hold your banana.
It’s even got a ribbed area so that it will work better!
Why do we even bother having a line anymore?
SJ, that’s a very good point. I think when our illustrious llamanun* crossed the line in the original post, that should have created a warp in geometric spacetime that did away with the line, among other things (too many to list).
*May bees be upon her
We have a line because that’s what you DO.
If we didn’t have a line we couldn’t feign exasperated indignance when we feel it has been crossed. It’s loaves and fishes to the hungry masses. It’s smoke on the water. It’s the man behind the curtain you’re not supposed to pay attention to. It’s the pacifier our brains crave that allows us to feel we’ve elicited the correct moral response.
Now what was that about that banana again?
Jug grabbing? Really?
Check out this post and the related posts on Boing Boing for more banana-related products than you ever knew you needed.
“Mexican Wrestling Bananas” gets my vote for band name of the day.
This little light of mine, I’m not gonna let it shine!
This little light of mine, I’m not gonna let it shine!
This little light of mine, I’m not gonna let it shine!
Gonna sell it on CL, like new!
So, back when I went to church, some kids were singing that and happened to be unintentionally holding up the ASL sign for…*ahem*…lady parts. Read the lyrics (original or Windy’s) with “light” as a euphemism, and you have yourself one very dirty song.
You mean to tell me that those glowy round things what eyeloominated the room like the devil’s magic for a spell can be replaced? Hoo-wee! This tek-nology stuff they have these days is amazin!
I don’t like those ones what have the devil’s magic in ’em, the constant wailing of tortured souls gives me a headache.
That’s why I bought the ones what are filled with tiny fairies. Much quieter.
We learned at school that Fairies don’t need air. Similarly, we learned that a dead fairy still glows!
Everyone clap for Tinkerbell! Let’s get that light glowing again.
Unless you have the Clapper. That could become problematic.
She can fly! She can fly! She can fly!
Now with her NEW natural-gas* powered ROCKET PANTS.**
*yes, that kind.
**yes, you should’ve pictured Billy Mays saying all that.
That reminds me of the Popcorn Pants from the Amanda Show. That show was odd, in the oddest possible way.
I never clapped for Tinkerbell. I hated her. I still don’t care for the little, foul mouthed (in the original), evil pixie. I also didn’t like Peter Pan. I knew it was wrong to steal children.
Tinkerbell has the clap? Better get Pans’ peter checked.
I dun’ want nunna those fairies runnin’ ’round my house with them there colorful flags an’ sparkly clothes!
*apologies, no idea why I’ve lapsed into hillbilly today.
Anyone else notice that neither ad mentioned if the light fixtures were actually in working condition? They could be made out of toothpicks and used bubble gum for all you can tell.
They did pay OVER $900.00 for the second one, and I’ve never seen levels that high, so it must do something, right?
They should have bought a cheaper “candelier” and used the money they saved to buy a camera with a working flash.
Or buy a set of Tiki torches.
Oooh, thought: Maybe the camera DID have a working flash, but in order to preserve the color and tone of the portrait, they opted to turn the flash off? What if we’re actually looking at a future Man Ray?
Maybe these new fangled dark bulbs sucked all the light in like tiny singularities, preventing
alluminationillumination.Why do they need a flash? They’re taking pictures of lights for crying out loud!
More likely the black hole between Sparky’s ears sucked in all the light.
*Stephen Hawking’s voice*
“Recently we have discovered the source of all dark matter and we purchased it on Craigslist from two sources, for $275 and some obos. As improbable as this seems the catmath is unmistakable.”
Oh Lou, Lou, you crossed the line into Logic Land.
I usually just pay over the counter, or the internet. Who pays for something over a stack of money?
The 80s called. They want their candelier [sic] back!
*$900 my ass*
:checks bank account:
I only have $225. Can I get a quarter-ass?
For you sarajean? Of course. *sexy winks*
😉
**winks at mudslicker**
Harhar.
AAAAAAHhhhhhhhhhh!
Guess I’ll have to save up for therapy now…
..or a puchi puchi bubble wrap keychain….
i’m always a day late to the party it seems. i just have to mention that i have the same chandelier as the second post, i paid $10 for it at a goodwill store. it is a damn good light source for my living room, but nowhere in the $250 range. i’d be hard pressed to exchange obos for it as well.
Now, this is a modern aesthetic! See, most people would take a lamp and use it for light, but Sparky is repurposing the lamps as pure decorative artwork. It’s a commentary on how although modern technology has come so far, it has spiritually left us in the dark.
And man’s inhumanity to
lampman.Man’s inhumanity to man is committed by these photos with the eyestrain incurred in attempting to figure out what they are.
Ow! My eyes! has a new meaning here for me.
It’s like reading under the covers late at night by the light of my cellphone.
Except less pequininos.
*Shakes Cane*
In my day we had to use a jar of lightning bugs to read at night. They’d turn off and you’d have to shake the jar if you wanted to read the next page!
I’m sure in Gramp’s day they didn’t have eyes yet so reading had to be done with the tongue.
I had no idea how much reading I was getting done on dates! Awesome.
So THAT’S how I got through college… I was “studying”… :-p
Side note, I actually took several anatomy classes when I was in college. But I always did my studying by hyself.
Waitaminute….
Don’t forget to juxtapose the underlying counterpoint.
Smedley, I do believe you’ve quietly snuck up to that line. Do you need a push over it? Because I believe a nesting comment is appropriate here.
It’s always the quiet ones. Did I forget to mention the Vogonity?
I’m pretty sure I mentioned the Vogonity.
[matt] It’s obvious really…they need the money to pay their electric bill. [/matt]
[alterna-matt] Both posters are obviously blind and did the best they could with a device they can’t possibly understand how to operate! You people should show a compassion for those who are differently abled![/alterna-matt]
Sorry Archie, but I think SJ makes a better Matt impression at 60 mph.
You’re right, Taco. SJ has her matt-rage up and running at full speed this morning. I guess I still haven’t completely returned from vacation mode yet.
Let’s see.
Rate, on a scale of 1 to 5, how much you agree with the following statements:
It’s Always 5 O’Clock Somewhere
Let yourself relax on island time.
Time is money.
Another day, another dollar. Darn cheapo boss.
Some of that rage was real. I stubbed my toe on my desk and it happened to be the same toe I dropped a hammer on this weekend.
Woodworking and bare feet don’t mix.
*hands SJ an icepack and Lola’s flask*
Everyone in the Snark Lounge is getting injured–maybe I should go and make myself a suit of bubble wrap. I DON’T WANNA DIE!
I totally want a suit of bubble wrap for the next time I go dancing downtown.
Meh, by then Lady Gaga will have already done and dusted it.
Ooh! Bubble wrap!
**Therapy is expensive. Bubble wrap, on the other hand, is very cheap.**
I have a key chain that simulates bubble wrap. Ummm….
:google break:
It looks like this;
http://blogofwishes.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/bubble-wrap.jpg
I have the blue one.
I think there’s an app for that.
*iTunes break*
Yep. I wonder why I don’t have that one. I have the glow stick and the zippo lighter, you’d think I’d want to complete my collection of utterly useless apps.
I have the app too.
And something call The Most Useless Machine, which is like digital crack for OCD sufferers.
CDO, thank you very much.
Although the joke amuses me as an OCD sufferer, I actually dislike the reordering of the letters because then if you spell out what the letters stand for, you get “compulsive disorder obsessive”, which bugs me more than the letters being out of alphabetical order. 😉
Anyway. That said, thanks for the digital crack tip, SJ. *investigates*
[Corey] Gotta say it… but it looks like they have a cheapy camera, and those kinds of cameras can’t handle being pointed at a light source. [/Corey]
That explains why THOSE lights are off, though, not any other light on the planet. And it doesn’t explain why the candle-er looks like it’s floating (maybe that one’s just me?)
P.S. It’s difficult for me to leave spaces between the [] and the text… It’s harder to read without the space, but my code-brain says that things get messed up when you have extra spaces floating around. The eternal battle between … erm… what?
“The eternal battle between … erm… what?”
Feng and Shui….
Let’s ask the hummingbirds, shall we?
The hummingbirds say; “Leave us alone, we want to drink sugar water and have hasty unplanned bird sex.”
That doesn’t seem very enlightened.
In the 80’s it was all the rage, wasn’t it?
Ok, I get:
8d9s8 79324 tnasd ijvm0 87930 9mdsf 0if23
So, that will need a key, so I’ll draw cards:
Corpen
Mike
Speed
p1
Zero
hey, wait these are flag signal training flash cards; Worst Tarot Deck Ever.
The Tarot reading didn’t turn out too well for me but I think, in the meantime, you sunk my battleship.
Capn, did you pick up Taco’s mugs up there?
…What?
jnoip[e ewtriupp yt06t 6uye4jok
No, mugs create middling random patterns, the round introducing pi into the equation.
Whereas if one uses an encryption program, it will condense text into neat groups of characters in groups, often of five each (though other numbers are used).
Does that mean I should pump my mugs through an MD5 hash before using them?
I see ten digit grid references. Charlie Golf One.
Taco, I think that’s a great IDEA! :-p
I love that the fixture in the second ad is shown sideways. When I first saw it, my initial impression was that it was a child’s snow sled.
I was thinking laser cannon on a Battlestar.
Well, both are probably more useful around the home than these things, considering that we don’t even know for sure that they work (cf. whoever pointed that out up the thread).
I thought the second one was a very oddly shaped greenhouse.
I thought it was a Vernian submarine.
Then I thought “greenhouse.”
I did not think chandelier until I actually read the ad.
If past experience is anything to go by, the pictures don’t always correspond to the actual ad.
Even after reading the ad, I’m still not thinking “chandelier.” Or even “candelier.” More like “many dead bulbs in a glass cage. Sideways.”
I like the “Vernian submarine” idea – my first thought was the gondola from an airship, but then I decided it was the nose section of one of Flash Gordon’s spaceships (Buster Crabbe era). And yes, I do need to get out more…
I always thought the Nautilus must have had a lot of windows. It was the only even remotely reasonable excuse as to why they saw SO MANY FISH, EACH ONE OF WHICH VERNE HAD TO DESCRIBE INDIVIDUALLY.
Describe individually and with great detail. I love Jules though–great stuff.
Wait, you READ the ad?
Dim bulbs selling dead bulbs?
:squints at first ad:
I think the first one is a photo of a drunk ghost wearing a lampshade. And watching TV.
I need couple of flourescent boy band posters I can put up so that those black lights can glow.
I’m guessing that Sparky didn’t have them in the bedroom because his sheets and blankets would have run the risk of glowing like a skid row bar sign.
Mudsy, to quote you from above:
Line Crossed! Line Crossed! Line Crossed! Line Crossed!
*klaxon ahhhhh-ooooogaaah*
It’s all good if the line’s already been crossed.
*calling rochambeau*
“Flour scent”? All purpose, cake, multi-grain?
Totally off topic, but Jen used the phrase ‘old-school foxy grandmas’ yesterday, and I just wanted to say that that phrase should be used way more often.
Yes indeedy. Just make sure our hearing aids are turned up so we can hear you.
Or in Grampdaddy’s case, make sure his hearing aide has the ear trumpet at the ready, because I am sure he wants to be aware of any foxy grandmas, of any school.
Slightly off topic, but given the number of times that we find an ad with both Catmath and Speeling problems, it’s interesting to note that there may be a link between the two.
I love lamp.
I lava lamp.
[illumination corey]
“Lamp” is the portion which actually creates light.
This is found in either a “luminaire” or “fixture” or “appliance.”
A “chandelier” is a fixture which is suspended from above and has multiple lamp locations within that structure. No matter if it is lamped by tapers, gas jets, or electrical illumination.
Which is also why that brass gravy boat looking critter with a wick in it is a lamp as well. The “luminaire” part would be the loop handle at one end. This is also why some items, like Klieg lights are so complicated, since the light is created by passing high-voltage current over a carbon rod, which then incandesces, so the lamp and the fixture are virtually one and inseparable.
Spend a lifetime in lighting design and interpolating photomentric charts, and these things get ingrained in a person.
[/corey]
Ya learn something every day…
Or fail to learn something and just stare at the words with a puzzled look on your face and your head cocked to one side, like a puppy someone is trying to explain calculus to.
My brain has been in home-improvement mode (off and on) for the last 3 months, so it made a bit more sense to me than it otherwise would have :-p
If it helps, for most folk “bulb” = “lamp” even though not all lamps have bulbs.
Gas lamp uses a mantle.
Fluorescent uses a tube.
LED often has no glass other than the silicon wafer in the diode.
Photogrametric chart is what a professional uses to design ceiling “can” lights, since the fixture, its trim, and then the lamp determine how big the circle of light on the floor or countertop will be. And decreasing the difference in light on surfaces helps reduce eyestrain while giving enough illumination to be useful. Also handy foe under-cabinet and over-cabinet lighting design.
Is very tedious for designing parking lot lighting (or checking one’s lazy electrical engineer’s all-by-CAD drawings). Especially when your name is on the City development forms stating that the lighting is Dark Sky compliant (even at the ATM, which has to be lit to State Banking Regs [eyeroll]).
One of my instructors had a saying when students didn’t understand something, and it always reminded me of Foghorn Leghorn: “Boy is staring at the board like a hog staring at a wristwatch.”
Snarkin’ Alive!
Well, you can tell by the way I use my snark,
I’m a YSaC man: no time to Matt.
Caps are LOUD and women to nest.
I’ve crossed the line with the best.
And now it’s all right – it’s O.K. –
And you may snark another way.
We can try to understand Sparky’s dark photographs.
Whether you’re a hummer or if your even dumber,
You’re lightin’ a lamp, lightin’ a lamp.
Feel the couch quakin’ and ev’rybody snakein’
and we’re lightin’ a lamp, lightin’ a lamp.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, Lightin’ a lamp.
I almost gave you a door, then I noticed your your/you’re confusion.
Edit – Also, shouldn’t it be snakin’ ?
[Matt]Thdddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd[/Matt]
I ended up giving you a door anyway. It’s a great song despite the Tacoisms.
Yeah HamCan, don’t work my side of the street!
You mean your side of the tracks?
Nah, he means his corner.
You, sir, are the Master. Garage doors, silo doors, hangar doors.
Brazillian Doors for you, Ham.
Aw, heck, I’ll go Portuguese!
Hope that’s not like a Brazilian wax…
a bit off topic: I am of the elderly ancient generation of Grampdaddy’s. I just heard about this today, while I am sure to you youngins it is all old hat. How to Vajazzle http://www.vajazzleville.com/content/how-vajazzle
Yes there is a nice little you tube filmstrip demonstrating the jazzling. I think I would prefer rhinestones on my deer hooves.
People are taking the whole Sparklepire thing to a new and disturbing level.
You should have enough songs for a YSaC album by now, eh Hammy?
I’m just looking for a recording artist…
Hammy Davis Jr.?
The aDoors?
How about the Mexican Wrestling Bananas? I hear they are very a-peeling..
CJ, *groan…”
Yeah… the aDoors with lead singer Jim Morrisham.
I want a Christmas album as well.
Hark the Herald Puter Angles Sing…
You mean sinq?
Only if they’re stud lesbian dj stripper anqles, who make the crowd go wild in boxer shorts and sports bras when they’re waitressinq, washinq dishes and qivinq qrind lap dances. Puters who sinq—but don’t judqe them by the imaqe.
*i need a nap*
I feel like using some [Matt] tags. [Matt]Sparky makes no representation that the objects of light work as such and most likely just accidentally on purpose fails to mention their epic fail as functional objects of lights. Hence, Sparky refers to them as “decorations”. This epic fail obviously is why the pictures are so dark. [/Matt]
That feels more like a Corey to me, there’s just not enough righteous indignation.
And I’m talking amongst myself again. What is it with 2pmish?
2 pm in Ish is beer time! It’s also when they release the hoards of zomb
Nothing wrong with 1400ish, I got here about half-past.
[matt] Oh my Deity, I can’t believe you all have so obviously missed the point of this ad. Sparky isn’t offering the lamps as light sources because they’re FAIRY HOUSES. Who else would be tiny and amoosing enough to “usethem for your bedroom” (so sic) AS WELL as decoration in their lounge??? I mean, I’m no heffalump, but I’d have a pretty hard time sleeping in a lamp, decorative or not.
Man, you guys should try not being so homo-sapien-centric – not everything in this world is designed for people. If you bothered to listen to the hummingbirds you’d know that. [/matt]
“Man, you guys should try not being so homo-sapien-centric – not everything in this world is designed for people. If you bothered to listen to the hummingbirds you’d know that.”
I’ve been trying to tell them that all day, Jen…they’re not listening…they never listen to meeeee….
*takes self, busted knuckle and all, off to corner to pout*
Just for you Mudsy.
Snark! the Puter Angles sinq,
Taco found a new kink,
Bananas in chimps with salsa mild,
Bleach will never reconcile.
Joyful all ye cocktails rise,
Join the truck bees as a meme,
With the Puter Angles we claim,
Clothespin Jeebus was made in Sparkydom.
We all had some hors doovers,
Drank two beers and drove a Ford!
Fixi.eee Bike.ssss and then some,
Fun was had with Lesbians.
Holy hell and esophagus!
Five inch floopys and desk dinos!
Lights are dark and gighugic things,
Purple messages and dung that rings .
Reflectoporn, oh glory be,
Ortofon you scratch and scream,
Six is eight oh what mirth ,
What the heck is an ssfs worth?
Unrotated pictures are a major pet peeve of mine. The rage caused by those sideways pictures is driving all snark out of my head.
And I’m with those who suggested that these don’t work. Sparky knows it, too.
I gave away some questionably functioning lamps on CL a while ago. I was very clear about their questionable status, and I didn’t ask for any money.
Yeah, just too pissed of to be funny, and I’m not sure why. I think I’ve been away too long.
Oh, great. We got our schedules today.
Guess who has Algebra II first thing in the morning?
I believe the saying is “Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning, and that will be the worst thing you will have to face all day.”
Pshaw, everyone knows that saying, like “diamonds are a girl’s best friend” or “if you keep doing that you’ll go blind. I MEAN it!” is just a cynical marketing ploy by – ALL HAIL HYPNOTOAD.
I can’t wait to get my schedule–I already know I have band first hour and jazz band third, but I want to know if my locker is in a normal part of the school or in some obscure back corridor that may or may not be haunted.
Miserable day at work, out of cash until Friday, and a baby love bird biting my fingers. No joy in Mudville.
Congratulations Julia! Punchity punch punch!
G’Night, Never Never Land!
I’m sorry to hear that, Windrose. I hope today is better!
Thanks, AR. As long as my boss keeps asking the staff to spin straw into gold, that won’t get much better. And if I would just stop paying bills, we’d have more money to live on. 8) At least this morning I can laugh at it, and I so appreciate the kind thoughts.
Hang in there, Windrose. I have been there, and it is difficult.
Thanks, Lola. I had such a good weekend that I think yesterday seemed worse in contrast. It’s still a ridiculous situation at work, but that’s nothing new. I should be used to it by now. 8/
Probably selling off excess things, so they can pay the electric bill.
They’re selling all their electronics to get the money they need to pay the electric bill.
Hey guys! I don’t know if anyone has thought of this or said it, but:
DO YOU THINK THEY ARE SELLING THINGS OFF TO GET MONEY TO PAY THE LIGHT BILL?!?!?!?!?!elebentyone
Whew. Sorry. I think I was possessed by a Sparkcase there for a minute…