YSaC, Vol. 833: Is a furniter one who furnits?

2010 October 28

Mid-evil syle furniter – $100


Six pieces, two side tables, one armor, one dresser and two couple mirrors all for just 100 dollars. I don’t have any space for them and that is the only reason I’m selling them. If you have any questions please call me at ###-###-####, my address is at [address]

In the immortal words of Dr. Evil: “You’re quasi-evil. You’re semi-evil. You’re the margarine of evil. You’re the Diet Coke of evil. Just one calorie, not evil enough.”

To which we should definitely add – “Mid-Evil”. It’s not high evil. It’s not low evil. It’s just sort of mid evil.

I’d sure like to buy that armor, however. It would go with the mid-evil theme I’m trying to create.

Thanks for the link, Kendal!

174 Responses leave one →
  1. 2010 October 28
    Windrose permalink

    Why are these lovely items about to hang themselves? Or in a room on the other side of a mirror? Very odd.

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    • 2010 October 28
      Artsy Computer Geek permalink

      I think that they were at a “cross road” point in their life. They couldn’t decide if they really wanted to be evil furniter or not. If they decided they no longer wanted to be evil, they just couldn’t go on with their existence as we know it.

      BTW … Uncle Google doesn’t know what “furniter” is either.

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  2. 2010 October 28
    sarajean80 permalink

    Six pieces, two side tables, one armor, one dresser and two couple mirrors

    Hmmm…I don’t really have room for all that either. I’ll just take the six pieces (I hope they’re pieces of chocolate!), the armor, and the dresser to help me get into the armor. I’m not currently dating anyone so I can’t buy one of the couple mirrors. Darn.

    Adores: 10
  3. 2010 October 28
    mudslicker permalink

    *la la la* I’ve found some furniture for the semi-dumb truck driver…

    Adores: 12
  4. 2010 October 28
    Mindfield permalink

    Let’s see if I’ve got this straight: For $100, you get a suit of armor, a personal dresser who will suit you up when required, a pair of couple mirrors (presumably ones wide enough to let you see how you and your personal dresser look together — one for each side of the room), two side tables (presumably for whatever clothes you need to take off before being suited up), and six pieces … of something. Possibly a steak knife set. And all of it is moderately evil.

    So, your moderately evil personal dresser will suit you up in your moderately evil suit of armor, surreptitiously pasting a “kick me” sign to the back of your breastplate. After seeing how you look in one of the moderately evil couple mirrors (which will make you look chubby), your dresser will pile your clothes neatly on one or both of the tables and while you’re gone he’ll sprinkle itching powder in your knickers. The tables will leave a varnish stain on your nice trousers.

    You will go out and wreak moderate havoc on the town, like spraying graffiti on abandon buildings, upturning garbage cans, ringing people’s doorbells and then run away with a great clanking noise, and standing just off of cobblestone roads just inside a field, remaining perfectly still and waiting for someone to pass by so you can cry out helplessly for oil.

    Actually, that sounds like some good fun for $100. Except for the itching powder. Actually I’d probably just fire the dresser altogether.

    Adores: 20
    • 2010 October 28
      NotMyName permalink

      I have a question. This is going to take two posts, because I’m going to link images. Is the armor like that of the Crusades, like so?

      Or…

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      • 2010 October 28
        NotMyName permalink

        Is the armor going to be fantasy armor, like this?

        On a side note, typing “evil fantasy armor” into Google turns up alot of Final Fantasy characters.

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        • 2010 October 28
          mudslicker permalink

          Bad news on both fronts. The armor is actually an armor like an armoire.

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        • 2010 October 28
          Meej permalink

          That looks like very evil armor, NMN. I think we’re only looking for mid-evil here; maybe one or two horns, or a lone decorative skull, but in a nice buffed chrome rather than all that black.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 28
          NotMyName permalink

          Bad news…The armor is actually an armor like an armoire.

          Ugggh, “armoire” must be some kind of French* armor, probably isn’t good! I don’t want French armor.

          *No, I don’t actually hold anything against the French.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 28

          If I said you had a beautiful France, would you hold it against me?

          Adores: 9
        • 2010 October 28
          Camille permalink

          Armoire is very important if you want to prevent the French. If you’re not very prudential and don’t care about French prevention, you can just use an ottom.

          Adores: 14
        • 2010 October 28
          CapnMac permalink

          typing “evil fantasy armor” into Google

          I’d be sore afraid of getting pages of cosplay “singles” images . . .

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 October 28
          CapnMac permalink

          Ugggh, “armoire” must be some kind of French* armor, probably isn’t good! I don’t want French armor

          Well, if one is French, or lives on much of the Iberian penninsula, the armoire is your only closet–so it is the armor for your collection of snappy berets, scarves, and shoulder bags–oh an that one really-long, super-warm wool coat for the 3 days it gets that cold, down by the Loire, but not if Stephan is along, unless Rolf and Lørs are akong.

          In the US, armoire are typically used to armor television sets.
          As if no one in the house actually watches Fox programming.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 October 28
          ZODIAC permalink

          NMN, I would’nt want French armor either. I just think it might be poorly made as the French have only won two wars.

          [France corey]The French Revolution(really, that was just impossible for the French to lose one way or another), and against the British in a little thing called The American Revolution.[/end France corey]

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 28
          Stephanae permalink

          Yes, 50% of English vocabulary is adapted from French, because in 1066, this nice Norman fellow named Guillaume crossed the channel and kindly offered to rule England for several generations and share the superior French culture.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 October 28
          Meej permalink

          Clearly, Stephanae, the English won that one, as they got the better end of the deal. 🙂

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 28
          CapnMac permalink

          And, thus, forever half-fused gender-based noun modification with verb-based modification, and including a great heap of “silent letter” spellings in that mix as well–creating the creole we call English today.

          Those “northern” fellows also pushed the germanic types twoards the frontiers, where they displaced the previously displaced natives, and so on, until the various Celts, Picts, and Gaels said “Nae furthre Sarky!”

          But, it all worked out, the ancestors of that Guillaume fellow went back across the water a few times. Crecy and Agincourt and Aquitane are still remembered by the Frankish even today.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 28
          Lola permalink

          [english major nerd pedantry corey]
          Actually it’s more like forty percent, but the influence of French (Anglo-Norman and other) is still not to be denied, obviously.
          Neither is it, while having many influences, technically a creole. A creole has pidgin characteristics; there are creole varieties of English but it itself is not one (because it would be of what? Anglo-Saxon? Anglo-Frisian?).
          [/probably the only one here who gives a shit corey]

          [random observation]
          Personally my favorite English royalty of Gallic birth was Eleanor of Aquitaine; Queen of both France and England, in that order, and heir in her own right to the Duchy of Aquitaine, which is why she had to hide to avoid kidnapping and forced marriage after her divorce from Louis, before her marriage to Henry; any man who married her probably got better land than that which he already held. No wonder the jealous spread rumours about her that persist, however libellously, to the present day. Well, that, and she was actually beautiful by the standards of the day.
          [/historically-based rant]

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 October 28

          I once learned the entire history of Creole and Cajun and what the difference was and how what we know as Creole came to be, but alas, the evening ended with 5 too many hurricanes at the Blacksmith Pub so all I remember is waking up in the tub at the Rennaisance Pere Marquete.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 October 28
          Stephanae permalink

          Actually it’s more like forty percent

          I apologize for my hyperbole.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 October 28

          I apologize for my hyperbole

          I that like a grave bowel on steroids?

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 29
          Lola permalink

          Meh, Stephanae, no need to apologize. 🙂 You weren’t wrong, just … perhaps a bit overenthusiastic. Sometimes we need a bit of that – too many people are apathetic these days!

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 29
          Addicted Reader permalink

          Cute avatar Lola!

          Also,

          probably the only one here who gives a shit

          I think you forgot where you are. We all care about the minutiae here.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 October 29
          Lola permalink

          Thanks, AR! I love black cats – I have one – and that one seemed both holiday-appropriate and indicative of how I feel lately.
          Also thanks for the reminder of the collective interest in minutiae and our self-confessed pedantry … I need to keep a lid on the curmudgeonliness in a sympathetic environment, as well as be slightly less shrill when on a soapbox, even if the topic is one in which I’ve had interest for more than a couple of decades and know more than is probably healthy or useful.* 8)

          *Like that stops any of us!

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 October 29
          Addicted Reader permalink

          A sympathetic environment is the best place to be curmudgeonly, we’ll just make jokes about it and not get offended. I hope things improve for you quickly!

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 October 29

          Remember, Miss Lola, don’t parse angry!

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 29
          Stephanae permalink

          Thanks, Lola. I do get enthusiastic when it comes to topics like language and French bashing.

          I relate to your soapbox problem. My degree is also in English, my minor was in French, and I have an extreme obsession fascination with grammar and linguistics in general. I had to physically restrain myself so that I didn’t respond in a long and curmudgeonly way to the phrase “gender-based noun modification.”

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 29
          Lola permalink

          *offers flask to Stephanae*

          Thanks for being understanding, everyone. When I’m on my last nerve, I tend to auto-soapbox and have my nostrils on auto-flare (quivering with righteous indignation!) before I realize what I’m doing. Things lately haven’t been bad per se, just … emotionally challenging. And with some insomnia thrown in to make things interesting! 8) And to be a functional and responsible human being, I can’t deploy the flask at will/wish, so right now I’m just hoping things will settle down and I can sleep a little over the weekend.

          Adores: 2
    • 2010 October 28
      tigprincess permalink

      Mindfield – can I borrow this idea for the next management team building course I run?

      Adores: 1
    • 2010 October 28

      I think Mindfield has it covered. The rest of us can take the day off.

      Adores: 2
  5. 2010 October 28

    Ah we, the season of love, when the air is full of armor.

    Adores: 14
  6. 2010 October 28
    Lou Stool permalink

    Is the hammer on top of the armor in case it turns fully-evil?

    Adores: 6
    • 2010 October 28
      tigprincess permalink

      Its a hammer handle is it? I thought it was a hockey stick.

      Adores: 1
    • 2010 October 28
      Bombdude permalink

      Nah, that’s your weapon. If it was a high-evil suit of armor, you’d get a sword, but a mid-evil suit only gets you a war hammer…

      Adores: 1
      • 2010 October 28
        NotMyName permalink

        Don’t diss the War Hammer!
        And what about axes? Spears? Daggers? Hmmm, Bombdude?

        Adores: 1
        • 2010 October 28
          Bombdude permalink

          Well, I’d not like to go to war with a dagger as my main weapon. An axe I’d categorize up there with a good broadsword or two-handed sword, and a spear, well, again, not my choice for a main weapon to do battle with, in armor.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 October 28
          NotMyName permalink

          I don’t know, I’d rather have two small daggers than a broadsword. For one thing, daggers are small and easy to carry, meaning you could have more than two. As to the spear, there’s only one thing to be said: range. You’d be a fool to try to close in on someone wielding a spear.

          Then again, all weapons have their pros and cons.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 October 28
          Bombdude permalink

          However, in this scenario, the war axe would be my worst nightmare, considering the armor is wooden.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 28
          sarajean80 permalink

          War Axe + Wooden Armor = Victory Bonfire?

          Adores: 6
        • 2010 October 28
          CapnMac permalink

          [armor and weapons corey]
          If one is about afoot with mounted belligerants, the best single item is the Halberd. Enough reach to unhorse a k-n-n-n-e-g-g-e-t handily, while also having enough blade to fend off ambulatory adversaries.

          “War Hammer” also is under-specific at this range from when that sort of combat was high-tech. “War hammer” is a bolo or chain with iron or stone ends used as striking weapon, or as a casting weapon (with the codicil that tossing away one’s weapon is disarming.

          Now, maces and morning stars gave rise to using mauls and similar devices. Which could be handy–a 20# wooden maul is a different-sized object than a 20# iron mace.

          One wears plate to fend off random firks and daggers and the like while concentrating on not collecting a spear or lance up the strap from those poncers on horseback.
          [/corey]

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 28

          A Texas A&M victory bonfire.

          Too soon?

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 October 28
          NotMyName permalink

          Yeah, but the halberd’s unwieldy, and usually only used by footmen to stop cavalry. Not good in a one-on-one fight.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 October 28

          Can I join the fight? My weapon of choice is carrier pigeons and Ex-Lax, you know, if all the BFGs are taken.

          Adores: 7
        • 2010 October 28
          CapnMac permalink

          “Too soon”? Nope.
          That tradition (capital “B” Bonfire) is long-gone and will never come back.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 October 28
          CapnMac permalink

          [more corey]
          Actually, compared to spears and long-swords, a halberd is light and nimble, relatively easy to teach, too. takes training, like all good weapons. Just does not take the years a longsword does. (And a shortsword will not suffice against horse, the rider gets to add the half-ton of horse to his sword blows, assuming he has expended spear and lance, and is not spitting you at a 2-3 meter stand-off range.)

          Also, the greatest enemy to infantry is always horsemen–you ignore other infantry to defend/attack horse first.

          Same reason leg infantry will always defend against APC and Scout vehicles, first. You take on the greatest threat first. (Oh, and if you are leg infantry, there is no such thing as “friendly” aircraft–it’s all shot at, like crows on an owl.)
          [/corey]

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  7. 2010 October 28

    If you couple mirrors what do you get?

    Compacts?
    Sequins?
    Seven years good luck?

    Adores: 8
    • 2010 October 28

      Tou get sequins. You plant these sequins and little compacts will start to grow after a few weeks.

      With love and care those compacts will eventually grow up to be full length mirrors ready for harvest.

      Adores: 9
      • 2010 October 28
        kelli permalink

        Tou get sequins

        So after *you* do all the hard work of getting the mirrors drunk, playing Barry White and Tom Jones for weeks on end, and spraying mirror phermones, Tou gets the offspring? Not fair!

        Adores: 5
        • 2010 October 28

          Tou’s a jerk, steals your children in the knight and then armors them.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 28
          kelli permalink

          That’s why I keep my kids in the squire.

          Adores: 4
      • 2010 October 28

        What happens if I plant a Compaq?

        Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 28
          sarajean80 permalink

          You get labtops laptops, maybe an Android or two.

          I’m gonna plant this old iBook I found, hopefully I’ll get a nice crop of iPods.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 October 28
          Stephanae permalink

          Just be careful not to plant the iBook near the Compaq. I hear cross-fertilization yields broken calculators.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 28

          What happens if I plant a Compaq

          Smug satisfaction?

          Adores: 3
    • 2010 October 28
      CapnMac permalink

      Well, mirror A has a reflection of Mirror 1; Mirror 1 has a refelction of mirror A. Which creates infinity, therefore the mirros vanish as a result of Newtonian logic.

      Except, that, by Einsteinian physics, the engery level is so low, it takes an infinity for the coupled mirrors to disappear, creating an illusion of presence and duration.

      Then, Quantum Physics requires the mirrors to only exist in Sparky’s garage in a cat is present–all others need to roll at least 13 D20S for Reality Check.

      QED

      Adores: 5
      • 2010 October 28
        sarajean80 permalink

        mai brane hurted nao

        Adores: 8
  8. 2010 October 28

    I’m going to wait till after Halloween when I can get full-evil armor and furniter for half-price.

    Adores: 7
    • 2010 October 28

      You gotta go early though, otherwise all that’ll be left is elebenty boxes of peanut butter nougat armor.

      Adores: 4
  9. 2010 October 28
    mudslicker permalink

    my address is at [address]

    First rule of Craigslist: Never divulge your Sparky address—unless you’re itching to get forked.

    Adores: 6
    • 2010 October 28

      I have this forking itch…yeah…right there…
      *wags*

      Adores: 7
      • 2010 October 28
        mudslicker permalink

        Let me get my plasticware all set up Hammy. Be patient. It will be well worth it.

        😉

        Adores: 6
    • 2010 October 28
      kelli permalink

      Never divulge your Sparky address

      Are you telling the address never to reveal his Sparky or are you saying that the implied you shouldn’t reveal his Sparky address but his normal address is okay? I have questions.

      Adores: 3
      • 2010 October 28
        mudslicker permalink

        I think the answer to that question is: “it’s timely”

        Adores: 4
  10. 2010 October 28
    NotMyName permalink

    What’s kind of annoying is that I noticed “Mid-evil” and “armor,” and I thought, “Hmm, I could comment on that.” Then I read Dan’s* few paraphrases, and I realized I had nothing to add that he didn’t already say.

    *Bees be upon him.

    Adores: 6
  11. 2010 October 28
    Meej permalink

    Is two couple mirrors, like, um, four mirrors, then?

    Adores: 10
    • 2010 October 28
      sarajean80 permalink

      Unless they are “special” mirrors just for couples. That could be why the mirrors are not in the pictures – Sparky hasn’t taken them off the ceiling yet.

      :escorts self to corner:

      Adores: 16
      • 2010 October 28

        Damnit SJ, I think our brains are sharing a gutter.

        Adores: 9
        • 2010 October 28
          sarajean80 permalink

          If you’re hungry, those filthy hippies over there are handing out brownies and colorful stamps. The one they gave me has the Cheshire Cat printed on it for some reason.

          Adores: 10
        • 2010 October 28
          mudslicker permalink

          “Don’t eat the brown acid Cheshire Cat stamps!”

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 October 28
          sarajean80 permalink

          Uhhhh…Okay. I’ll just … throw them in this trash can. Yeah.

          On a completely unrelated note, does anyone else feel like their feet are trying to eat their legs?

          Adores: 4
      • 2010 October 28
        Bombdude permalink

        Hi guys!! :waves:

        What are you guys doing down here? I haven’t had company in ages! Or at least half an hour.

        Adores: 4
        • 2010 October 28
          mudslicker permalink

          I only started feeling that way after I ate the Shrek stamps (they had a sign on them that said “eat me Alice”). And then I turned into an ogre.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 October 28
          Windrose permalink

          Hey, have you guys been in my meds again?

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 October 28
          sarajean80 permalink

          The green ones taste like sunshine.

          I mean … No?

          Adores: 7
        • 2010 October 28
          mudslicker permalink

          The blue ones were [da] minty!

          Adores: 4
      • 2010 October 28

        But there’s only two couple’s mirrors. You need at least three for around the heart shaped hot tub and one for the ceiling.

        Adores: 4
        • 2010 October 28
          Windrose permalink

          Same for the video cameras.

          Adores: 3
  12. 2010 October 28
    Lola permalink

    Those don’t look all that evil. I’d say only moderately to slightly, depending on how difficult they are to dust.

    Alternately, I think I went to school with a Syle Furniter. He wasn’t evil at all. I wonder if he can sue for libel.

    Adores: 7
  13. 2010 October 28

    Sigh…first the evil 400 error returns and now I can’t toss doors at anyone…grrrrrrr…….

    Adores: 5
    • 2010 October 28
      CapnMac permalink

      Got through most of the page, then saw this post–then noticed that the Status bar in IE was reading “Done, but with errors on page” (this since the [weapons corey] reply. What that typically means for me is that when I press Submit for this reply, I’ll get a 400 Bad Request Error.
      Will see . . .

      Adores: 2
      • 2010 October 28
        CapnMac permalink

        And, then, did not get an error. Hmmm

        Adores: 0
        • 2010 October 28

          I gave up on Firefox completely. I would clear the cache, light some sage, pluck a pheasant, whatever it took, and I still get the bad request error. Chrome has been friendly so far.
          Speaking of, is anyone reading this site on an Android phone? I’m leaning towards the EVO but I haven’t had a chance to see if it plays nice with YSaC yet.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 October 28

          Dan and I both have Androids, and the mobile version works fine for us. Then again, so does the site itself, so take that for what it’s worth …

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 October 28
          Stephanae permalink

          Firefox has always been good to me. I’ve never had a problem with this site on any browser, though.

          Adores: 1
  14. 2010 October 28
    NotMyName permalink

    Looks like the bottom picture was taken from the outside of the house. That suggests that:
    A. Sparky locked himself out of his own house and thinks the best way to get back in is to have someone else come over to buy something, then be told they have to get in the house to do so, which they do; the people get some old furniture, and Sparky got inside his home.
    B. These “furniters” are much larger than we thought, taking up an entire room’s space, thus making it impossible to get a good shot from inside the house.
    C. This isn’t Sparky’s house, those aren’t Sparky’s “furniters,” and Sparky is trying to make a buck off of someone else’s property, like an asshat.

    Adores: 8
  15. 2010 October 28
    tigprincess permalink

    Sparky says he doesn’t have any space for them yet shows us two photos of them in, presumably, space. So is Sparky being existential? Why is there a length of electric wire / bomb fuse protruding from one? Maybe that is the source of mid evil-ness? Maybe you only get to be dressed to the mid (riff)? In which case is this a shower and bidet question? Top down or bottom up.
    *waves farewell to the line*

    Adores: 5
    • 2010 October 28
      Bombdude permalink

      Those can’t be in space, where are the stars? Hammy, can you locate those Furniters in space?

      Adores: 1
      • 2010 October 28

        Furniters live on the Planet Syle, they are well armored, nocturnal and have a soft fuzzy reflective underbelly. During mating season they flash each other repeatedly before coupling.
        They are often hunted for their under pelts which are used to make Dr. Denton’s for the royalty of planet Syle, who live in a feudal system that much resembles Earth’s mid-medieval period.

        Adores: 5
        • 2010 October 28
          kelli permalink

          Hammy, you’re naked!

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 October 28

          Yeah, I installed a different browser and fat fingered my outfit…

          The edit function works now though, so I can edit on some boxers and socks…

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 October 28
          Lola permalink

          You know, I read this earlier today, and have just read it again, and “fat fingered my outfit” sounds like a filthy euphemism (is that an oxymoron?). Or am I just thinking that because Hammy said it?

          *takes flask back to gutter*

          Adores: 6
        • 2010 October 28
          sarajean80 permalink

          Yes.

          Brownie?

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 October 28
          Lola permalink

          Thanks, Sarajean. My entire last two weeks has been worthy of a pan of special brownies and a flask IV the size of a 55-gallon drum. With, ideally, grain alcohol and morphine. My snark is way under par and my sense of humor needs chiropractic.

          … You know, I barely mail anything any more. I can’t figure out why I licked all of these stamps. I’m going to ask this big purple cat if it knows why … if I can get it to stop singing opera, that is …

          Adores: 1
    • 2010 October 28
      Bavec permalink

      The wire/fuse thing looked like silly string to me. Which is quite possibly the root of mid evil and all other forms of evil

      Adores: 3
      • 2010 October 28
        Windrose permalink

        Bavec, you’re in the Don’t Suck Box! That touch of pink looks really good in the Golden Lotus.

        Adores: 4
        • 2010 October 29
          Bavec permalink

          *Blushes* It’s such an honor not to suck!

          Adores: 0
  16. 2010 October 28
    ToBScholarly permalink

    Mid-evil, semi-dumb – why are CL posters so half-hearted? Their fifty-fifty approach to what they require makes me leave empty-handed.

    Commit to something whole-heartedly Sparky!

    Adores: 12
    • 2010 October 28
      Stephanae permalink

      To furnit or not to furnit?
      Is it nobler in the mind to commit
      To the coupled mirrors of outrageous evil
      Or dresser yourself in the armor of mediocrity
      And by furniting become mid-evil?

      Adores: 10
  17. 2010 October 28
    Bianchi Sound permalink

    I’M F-ING EXTREME!! FURNIT AND FURNITER ARE FOR WIMPS! I ONLY OWN FURNITEST!!!!

    Adores: 8
    • 2010 October 28

      Bianchi, I think you’re the most extreme Femele I’ve ever met!

      Adores: 3
      • 2010 October 28
        mudslicker permalink

        I thought Bianchi was a Famele. Huh.

        Adores: 2
        • 2010 October 28
          Camille permalink

          Wait, Bianchi is a rooster? In a gray cat suit? I’m so confused.

          Adores: 5
  18. 2010 October 28

    [furniture corey]
    The real “bummer” here is that if you remove the sparky-ness of the post, the furniture sparkerson is trying to sell are actually rather nice, and $100 is a very good price.

    Looking at them, they appear to be in the Colonial American style, though the scuffing on the lower portions shows that they are most likely more modern pieces made in the style. Even so, the craftsmanship on the pieces appears to be rather good, potentially hand made.

    $100 is really a bargain for these, and dispite the cluelessness of their owner, I’d give them a good home were I to stumble across this add in Milwaukee.
    [/corey]

    Adores: 7
  19. 2010 October 28
    kelli permalink

    I want that armoire. I’ll even call it armor if Sparky insists.

    Adores: 6
    • 2010 October 28

      You and me both, sister.

      *Taco dons the armoire of invincibility!*

      Adores: 9
      • 2010 October 28
        kelli permalink

        *readies the mid-evil termites*

        Adores: 8
  20. 2010 October 28
    LimeLolly permalink

    Finally! I have been needing to update and modernize the evil lair. I’ve had it on the market for 3 years, and after watching all those DIY shows, I now understand that people want move-in ready. This will be the best $100 spent so far. It’s a lot of work though as I can’t decide on the colors to use. Do I use Deathly Black, or Zombie Green? I wish this wasn’t so hard to decide.

    Wish me luck. 🙂

    Adores: 3
    • 2010 October 28
      NotMyName permalink

      Do you want stealthy evil, or beastial evil? If stealthy evil do lots of dark blue and black. If beastial evil*, do red and black.

      *See my avatar.

      Adores: 2
      • 2010 October 28

        Beastial evil? You’re not allowed back at the Petsmart, are you.

        Adores: 8
        • 2010 October 28
          NotMyName permalink

          Yeah, I was was going to change it, but it was more than five minutes since I posted the comment.

          Adores: 4
  21. 2010 October 28
    Irregular Fractal permalink

    Well, duh. To be truly evil, you’d need a toaster.

    Adores: 6
    • 2010 October 28
      mudslicker permalink

      An iron maiden toaster.

      Adores: 7
  22. 2010 October 28
    LimeLolly permalink

    [address] = please come help yourself to all this extra stuff I don’t have room for

    No, not the tv or game system… or my purse/wallet… what is wrong with you people?

    Adores: 7
    • 2010 October 28
      Artsy Computer Geek permalink

      LL – you said to help myself. Did you expect me to take that mid-evil furniter in the front yard?

      Adores: 5
      • 2010 October 28
        LimeLolly permalink

        If it’s not nailed down….

        Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 28
          sarajean80 permalink

          …you won’t need to get your new crowbar dirty.

          Adores: 3
  23. 2010 October 28
    Windrose permalink

    “Do you expect me to talk?”

    “No Mr Bond I expect you to buy the furniter.”

    Adores: 10
  24. 2010 October 28

    This is not “mid-evil” furniture….horrible, tacky, tasteless mid-70’s furniture…yes, definitely.

    Adores: 7
    • 2010 October 28
      LimeLolly permalink

      According to my parents, the 70’s were evil… but I don’t think that’s anyway to talk about their oldest child. Am I being too sensitive?

      Adores: 7
      • 2010 October 28

        If memory serves, L-Squared, I’d say the 60’s were evil-er than the 70’s…and you can tell your parents I said so.

        Flask?

        *hands flask to Lime*

        Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 28
          Bavec permalink

          Pretty sure it goes something like
          60’s – worst style
          70’s – worst furniture
          80’s – worst sitcoms

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 28

          And hair, Bavec, the 80’s had the worst.hair.ever.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 October 28
          Lola permalink

          Sorry, CJ, but I am convinced that was the ’70s. The ’80s were all about The Glory That Is Styling Products. I had hair like Joan Cusack in Working Girl*; I don’t know what you are talking about. 8)

          *Not entirely an exaggeration. Unfortunately.

          Adores: 4
  25. 2010 October 28
    mudslicker permalink

    Finally a home for my rooster! Ad reads:

    Build Your Own Chicken Coop
    Follow Simple Step-by-Step Plans.

    Adores: 4
    • 2010 October 28
      sarajean80 permalink

      Step 1. Buy a chicken coop.
      Step 2. Place chicken coop in chicken pen.
      Step 3. ?????
      Step 4. Profit! Chickens!

      Adores: 7
      • 2010 October 28
        mudslicker permalink

        I believe these are mid-evil step-by-step plans sarajean.

        Adores: 2
  26. 2010 October 28
    Stephanae permalink

    furnit v. i.

    1) To divest yourself of lice by transferring their eggs to your dog. (This is usually considered a moderately evil act.)

    2) To use absurd euphemisms for swear words. (Derived from the expression, “Furn it!”)

    Adores: 6
    • 2010 October 28
      LimeLolly permalink

      Fur nit – to make cat fur into kitten britches.

      *or is this a different dialect?*

      Adores: 4
      • 2010 October 28
        sarajean80 permalink

        kitten britches

        Something about this just strikes me as funny. I just love the way it sounds. I may start calling people “Kitten Britches” just for the fun of it.

        Adores: 7
        • 2010 October 28
          Camille permalink

          Band name of the day!

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 October 28
          Windrose permalink

          Kitten Britches would be LimeLolly’s tribute band to the Archies.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 28
          LaKitta permalink

          I can’t decide if “kitten britches” is one of those quasi-charming/quasi-deragatory little names like “dollface” (“Hey, Kitten Britches, be a doll and fix me a drink”) or a welcome alternative to *shudder* “panties”. Or both.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 October 28
          sarajean80 permalink

          Well, now it will be. Once you put something on the Internet it becomes completely true.

          Hmmmm…..Hey, I just won the lottery!

          :waits expectantly:

          Damn.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 October 28
          LimeLolly permalink

          Just a smart-alec phrase that was the answer to “What are you doing?” when I was growing up. Knitting cat fur into kitten britches.

          Why that had to be done in the kitchen or the bathroom is something I didn’t understood. I never truly understood my family.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 28
          sarajean80 permalink

          Mom’s favorite answers to “Whatcha doin’?” are “Painting the Sistine Chapel with a toothpick.” and “Choppin’ cotton.”

          Adores: 2
      • 2010 October 28
        Stephanae permalink

        That would be the transitive meaning. You have to furspin the furyarn before you can furnit the kitten britches, but I hear it’s a popular thing to do in winter for those hairless cat breeds.

        Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 28
          sarajean80 permalink

          I would furnit britches for hairless kittens. Hairless cats creep me out, they look like little aliens.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 October 28
          Windrose permalink

          I, for one, welcome our Hairless Feline Overlords.

          Adores: 6
        • 2010 October 28
          sarajean80 permalink

          Says the lady with a million birds.

          Adores: 5
  27. 2010 October 28

    Portmanteau time!

    Furniture + Igniter
    =
    Furniter

    Which is the future of this furniture.

    Adores: 4
    • 2010 October 28
      NotMyName permalink

      Furniter = piece of self-igniting furniture?

      Adores: 2
      • 2010 October 28

        Furniter=Fuzzy PJ’s

        Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 28
          Artsy Computer Geek permalink

          Hammy – does “Furniter=Fuzzy PJ’s” have something to do with those bananas yesterday?

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 October 28

          Hmmm, I’m tempted to say that has more to do with fuzzy BJ’s, but I better not or Windy might edit me…*

          *Crap, my turrets is acting up again.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 October 28
          mudslicker permalink

          Hehe…your turrets?

          Whatever you choose to a-spire to.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 28
          Windrose permalink

          My reputation does half my work for me. 8)

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 October 28

          Apparently I have Apraxia too.

          Because I ketchup Camel, BBQ torque enumerate rectum lemons steering wheel!

          Adores: 2
      • 2010 October 28
        LimeLolly permalink

        KABOOM!!! Oooh, pretty colors.

        Adores: 2
  28. 2010 October 28

    Yes, I would agree that chunky 70s mission-style particle board furniture is right smack in the middle of evil.

    Adores: 4
  29. 2010 October 28
    Artsy Computer Geek permalink

    Totally Unrelated – Astro, I was driving downtown today and saw that it was Band Day this Saturday. Go GHHS!! Good luck Astro and CHS. (Remember to have a good time – it’s suppose to be fun.)

    Please continue as you were…..

    Adores: 2
  30. 2010 October 28

    They don’t even look mid-evil to me – I’d say they’re just slightly malevolent.

    Adores: 5
  31. 2010 October 28

    Is “two couple” mirrors redundant? Or just saying the same thing?

    Adores: 3
    • 2010 October 28
      LaKitta permalink

      Is “two couple mirrors” redundant? Or just saying the same thing?

      Adores: 3
      • 2010 October 28
        sarajean80 permalink

        Is “two couple mirrors” redundant? Or just saying the same thing?

        Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 28
          Stephanae permalink

          Oh yay! A new meme!

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 28

          Is just saying redundant the same thing as “two couple mirrors” , Or ?

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 October 28

          Whee! Meme of mine, HamCan coppped. Proud, I am.

          Adores: 1
  32. 2010 October 28
    Kae permalink

    I am afraid to own this armoire. I am afraid it would eat my soul.

    Adores: 1
  33. 2010 October 28
    NotMyName permalink

    This is extremely off-topic, but I am personally amazed that it has happened. Have you ever played an online game that actually stirs emotions such as sadness within you? It rarely happens, because in our minds, these games are just games, not even close to real. But earlier I played Air Pressure. Now I’m not going to force anyone to play it, because it is a bit childish, but it is just so rare that you find an online game, that isn’t huge, that has no large budget, and that’s casual, that actually makes you feel truly sad.

    Adores: 1
    • 2010 October 28
      Stephanae permalink

      I’ll have to give it a try!

      Adores: 1
  34. 2010 October 28
    Windrose permalink

    Announcing the Results of the 3rd Quarter Suck-Off! *where is that trumpet fanfare I ordered? Oh dear*

    The Top Honor goes to christina, who made it to the Don’t Suck Box on her own merit 7 times! That’s like once every other week or so! Applesause, everyone!

    Adores: 5
  35. 2010 October 28
    Windrose permalink

    Second place goes to Mindfield, the weirdly smiling puppy, with 6 comments on his own and one group nod! Cheers and confetti!

    Adores: 5
    • 2010 October 29
      Mindfield permalink

      Woo! I’m #2! I’m #2!

      Wait…

      Adores: 2
  36. 2010 October 28
    Windrose permalink

    Third place goes to TacoMagic, the wiz-kid who managed 4 on his own, 3 group, and one honorary. Awesome sauce!

    Adores: 5
  37. 2010 October 28
    Windrose permalink

    MandaB has fourth wrapped up with 4 of her own and one group, Bianchi Sound and sarajean80 are tied for fifth with 3 each and one group each, HamCan at sixth with 2 and 3 group, and Astrognash at seventh with 2 and 2.

    Adores: 4
    • 2010 October 28
      Windrose permalink

      Oh, cue the parade, ticker tape, and the Apple in Times Square.

      Adores: 4
    • 2010 October 28

      I got a C- in not sucking…

      YES! I can still play on the Snarketball team, AWESOME!!!

      Adores: 8
    • 2010 October 29
      MandaB permalink

      I want a t-shit* that says “I don’t suck enough to get fourth place!”

      *Yes, that was intentional. Taco’s best typo ever!

      Adores: 3
  38. 2010 October 29
    Windrose permalink

    Today’s punchee, Bevac, is wearing armor. That’s not fair! *pout*

    Punchity punch punch!

    G’Night, Aquitaine!

    Adores: 3
  39. 2010 October 29
    CapnMac permalink

    National Cat Day on Friday!!

    Adores: 0
  40. 2010 October 29
    Addicted Reader permalink

    Sparky: *posts CL ad* “Ok, these are nice pieces, they should sell really quickly!”

    Next day: “No responses yet, but I’m sure someone will see them soon.”

    2 days later: “Gee, why has no one contacted me about buying my stuff?”

    2 weeks later: “I can’t believe NO ONE wants to buy these! What’s wrong with everyone???”

    Answer: EVERY WORD IN YOUR TITLE IS WRONG, SPARKY! No one wants to buy from such an idiot, if they even see your ad in the first place.

    Adores: 4

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