YSaC, Vol. 866: *Squick*

2010 November 30

This one’s behind a cut because … well, you’ll see. Is your boss behind you? Does your boss not like you looking at things that mention private parts? Well, then, you might want to wait for a few minutes. (No pictures, other than the mental images that will haunt you for ever and ever … )

Raw Pubic Hairs


Pubic hairs from my Anus and Scrotal Region. They are highly sought after as a South Asian delicacy and would fetch quite a bit of money on specific markets. Unfortunately for me, I do not have the time to properly package or prepare them. I have about one years worth of trimmings, as you can imagine that is quite a lot of pubes. After prepared, they may be soaked in soy sauce for 2-3 days, and then run through a straining device. This is an excellent dish when served on top of rice or chicken. I may be reached at xxxx xxxx between 9am and 3 pm for further details.

Huh. See, I wouldn’t have gone for the soy sauce preparation myself. I find that a little too salty, and I’m not a fan of salty balls. I think I would rather fry them in sesame oil until they were just crispy, and then let them drain and cool and serve them over a salad.

Anyone still hungry? No? Well, you can blame that on Karol and Bonnie, then. They’re the ones who sent in the ad.

297 Responses leave one →
  1. 2010 November 30

    Up here in Canada, these are used strictly as a garnish, never as a main course.

    Adores: 17
    • 2010 November 30
      Mindfield permalink

      Apparently they work on pizza, too.

      “Hoover it.”

      (Yes, I can quote chick flicks, too. Blame my wife.)

      Adores: 3
      • 2010 November 30

        Well, I guess you wouldn’t have to floss after dinner…

        Adores: 8
  2. 2010 November 30
    Lola permalink

    OP: I’m not totally sure, but I think Sharpton may be on line 1 for you.

    No “asshat” tag? Or am I projecting my own opinion too much here?

    Adores: 3
    • 2010 November 30
      sarajean80 permalink

      I thought the “no accounting for taste” tag was clever.

      Adores: 12
  3. 2010 November 30
    LimeLolly permalink

    *Gggaaack, wheeze, cough, hack*

    Now that’s a hairball.

    Adores: 11
  4. 2010 November 30
    MandaB permalink

    *Looks at breakfast. Looks at ad. Looks back at breakfast.*

    Yeah… I didn’t need to eat anyway. Ever. Again.

    Adores: 21
    • 2010 November 30
      Artsy Computer Geek permalink

      My thoughts exactly.

      Can I place an order for the 50 gal drum of brain bleach? Ewwwwww.

      Adores: 7
    • 2010 November 30

      I’ve decided that I’m going to block the ad from my memory, so that I CAN eat breakfast. It’s worked before–I barely remember anything about my junior and senior year of high school! What ad? I thought we just gathered daily for snarkage?

      Adores: 10
      • 2010 November 30
        MandaB permalink

        *waves hand in mysterious gesture*

        These are not the pubes you are looking for.

        Adores: 15
        • 2010 November 30
          CapnMac permalink

          Oi! Was lookit for the pubs, the Pubs!

          Adores: 6
  5. 2010 November 30

    The line “it would fetch quite a bit of money on specific markets” is what really gets to me. If I ever change careers, I tell you this: my momma didn’t raise no “anal hair reseller”.

    Adores: 22
    • 2010 November 30
      sarajean80 permalink

      I don’t remember “anal hair reseller” being an option on Career Day.

      Adores: 11
      • 2010 November 30

        They do tend to be overshadowed by the scrotal hair resellers don’t they?

        Adores: 11
        • 2010 November 30

          The real money is in ranching.
          Herds of wild pubes majestically grazing in verdant mall isles, watched over by a Schlep and his trusty bushing dog.
          During shearing season the pubes cries can be heard ringing out across the store fronts, “Hey man, watch it that thing is sharp!”

          Adores: 23
        • 2010 November 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          They were probably in those booths in the back near the bathrooms. I wondered why everyone avoided them.

          Adores: 3
  6. 2010 November 30

    Why not cut out the middle man …. or woman ….

    The stubble … could that be an ice cream topping?

    Adores: 4
    • 2010 November 30
      NotMyName permalink

      COOL!!! There’s a YSaK too!

      Adores: 2
    • 2010 November 30
      LimeLolly permalink

      Dairy Queen is missing out on this market.

      Thankfully. I’d hate to give up ice cream.

      Adores: 5
  7. 2010 November 30
    Bombdude permalink

    The line “it would fetch quite a bit of money on specific markets” is what really gets to me.

    But you’re ok with

    This is an excellent dish when served on top of rice or chicken.

    URP!

    Oops, scuze me, I’ll go get a towel and clean that up… Thank God I haven’teaten dinner yet.

    Adores: 6
    • 2010 November 30
      MandaB permalink

      Don’t worry, Bombdude, I’ll get it. We’re on day number whatever of “three kids with a stomach bug” at Casa de B. I’ll throw this in the wash with everything else.

      Tea and toast, anyone?

      Adores: 6
      • 2010 November 30
        Artsy Computer Geek permalink

        Manda — I feel for you. We had that fun last week. I think we went through gallons of ginger ale and crackers (most of which I washed later).

        Adores: 4
        • 2010 November 30
          Steve-O permalink

          I have a son with a terrible case of chicken pox. I’m with you in spirit as well!

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30
          mudslicker permalink

          You washed your ginger ale and crackers Artsy? How did that sound in the dryer? :: thump thump thump crunch ::

          Adores: 7
        • 2010 November 30

          Can I just say that I’m NOT looking forward to that stage of parenting? I haven’t puked since middle school because I can’t handle it… I had to hang out on the other side of the house with headphones on when MrEB had food poisoning a year and a half ago.

          Though, Mini has been teething the same tooth for almost 2 weeks, and we are DONE with that one.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30
          Artsy Computer Geek permalink

          Mudsy — by the time it made it to the washer, it was pretty much in a liquid state.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30
          mudslicker permalink

          The laws of physics have always baffled me.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 November 30
          CapnMac permalink

          Physics, psychics; just finicky spellin’ lessin a pet psychic law dog is ‘roun’

          Adores: 0
    • 2010 November 30

      I know how you feel bombdude, I also find it very hard to keep pube sauce down.

      Adores: 3
      • 2010 November 30
        Lola permalink

        Considering some of the things you’re brave enough to eat, Taco, that’s saying something.

        Adores: 3
        • 2010 November 30

          I have consumed some very, very nasty things for money. Pube sauce is luckily not one of them. In fact I think you’d have to hold a gun to my head.

          A shot of Soy Sauce, Grape Juice, and Nam Pla for $5? Sure! A shot of Pube sauce, toenail oil, and skin flakes? Death might be preferable.

          Adores: 9
        • 2010 November 30
          mudslicker permalink

          How about if it’s sprinkled lovingly on a baguette smothered in Nutella and you would get immunity and couldn’t be voted off the island? How about then Typo?

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 November 30

          Hey! Why wasn’t Pube Sauce ever on fear factor?

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 November 30
          mudslicker permalink

          I think Joe Rogan snagged it all to fill in his bald spots.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 November 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          Wow, could it be a show that featured sheep eyeballs and various testicular delights had standards? I am shocked.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30

          I’m more thinking their concept team just never considered a Body Hair Bouillabaisse episode.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          Just think of the ratings! Especially if the contestants were made to harvest it first.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30

          Yeah, every time you fail a stunt, you have to contribute to the pot. In the final episode, the winner is the one who can eat the most in 15 minutes.

          I think it’s about time I did one of those week-long ceremonial fasts.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30
          mudslicker permalink

          Why am I thinking that the term “Awesomesauce” would not bring happy thoughts nor would it really be appropriate today.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 November 30
          Camille permalink

          Ickysauce!

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 November 30

          Ickysaucesaurus!

          Adores: 3
    • 2010 November 30

      Bombdude – Ah, yes, I should probably clarify. I was OK with none of it.

      After I stopped dry-heaving, I contemplated the most absurd part of the ad. It was difficult because, as you can see, there wasn’t a whole lot that was plausible. But the fetch on specific markets line was particularly absurd because to be able to command a great deal of money on any market, something would have to be rare – which this “product” decidedly *isn’t*.

      Oh. I’ve thought too much about all this, haven’t I?

      OK, off to brain-cleanse. Anyone wishing to do the same can join me.

      Adores: 4
      • 2010 November 30

        Unless it’s this guy’s specific pube hair—in which case, why isn’t he selling autographs or something?

        Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          I don’t care if they taste like filet mignon stuffed with lobster, there’s no reason for Sparky to advertise the fact that he’s had nothing better to do for a year than trim his own tree.

          Adores: 9
        • 2010 November 30
          NotMyName permalink

          I just thought of something….errr never mind. I don’t want to ask actually.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 November 30
          mudslicker permalink

          filet mignon stuffed with lobster

          Er, ummmm….would you dip that in butter sauce or A1? And, just where would the lobster get stuffed? I think I’d prefer my surf not to be shoved anywhere inside my turf, thank you.

          I believe Food Network has forsaken me.

          Adores: 2
  8. 2010 November 30

    Between this guy and Mr. Tshirt, I’ve got enough DNA to create an entire army of clones. Why I would want an army of cloned asshats is beyond me. Frat house infiltration perhaps?

    Adores: 10
    • 2010 November 30
      MandaB permalink

      I believe the politically correct term is “politicians”, christina.

      Adores: 17
      • 2010 November 30
        Grampdaddy permalink

        That’s my girl!! You make me proud!

        Adores: 7
        • 2010 November 30
          MandaB permalink

          And I’m not even wearing my “I got my bad attitude from my dad” t-shit* today.

          *yes, intentional.

          Adores: 5
    • 2010 November 30
      SilvaNoir permalink

      The only use I could see is as human shields.

      Adores: 5
      • 2010 November 30
        sarajean80 permalink

        Soylent Green?

        Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30

          Soylent Brunette

          Adores: 3
      • 2010 November 30
        NotMyName permalink

        The new Buster on Mythbusters. Now, much more realistic!

        Adores: 4
    • 2010 November 30
      sarajean80 permalink

      You could play a real live game of Paranoia*!

      *For non-P&P gamers – It’s a game. You have clones. They die. Often.

      Adores: 3
  9. 2010 November 30
    Mindfield permalink

    My curlies lie over your chicken
    My curlies lie over your rice
    My curlies are great as a side dish
    Don’t worry, they’ve been cleaned of lice

    Serve up, serve up
    Oh, serve up my curlies tonight, tonight
    Serve up, serve up
    Oh, serve up my curlies just right

    Adores: 25
    • 2010 November 30
      mudslicker permalink

      “Oh, excuse me waiter, but I believe there is a fly in my pubic hair salad!”

      Adores: 5
    • 2010 November 30
      Meej permalink

      So, so wrong, and yet so, so accurate.

      Adores: 1
      • 2010 November 30
        Mindfield permalink

        Could have been worse. I had a couple of alternates in mind for the fourth line:

        “Just make sure to rinse off the lice”

        or

        “They have extra protein from lice”

        You may commence hurking.

        Adores: 4
  10. 2010 November 30

    Not just for breakfast anymore.

    Adores: 7
  11. 2010 November 30
    Camille permalink

    Not to bring too much logic to this, but if you ran hairs through a straining device, wouldn’t the device strain out the hairs?

    Adores: 6
    • 2010 November 30
      mudslicker permalink

      It would produce the heavenly “essence” of raw soy sauce flavored pubic hairs*.

      *I’m sure it’s a delicacy in NO country—not even Alaska.

      Adores: 4
      • 2010 November 30

        *Looks at the bottle of habenero infused soy sauce*

        *Looks at the bottle of anal hair infused soy sauce*

        Choices, Choices.

        Adores: 6
        • 2010 November 30
          Camille permalink

          In this situation, I think even minty soy sauce would be preferable.

          Adores: 3
  12. 2010 November 30
    sarajean80 permalink

    Good sweet Spice Christ.

    There are so very, very many questions.

    1.What would possess Sparky to save his “trimmings” for a year and did he discover there was a market for them before or after he started saving them?

    2. While there is no doubt some sort of fringe fetish market out there for such a thing, how many people are cruising the free section of CraigsList to satisfy their cravings for year-old manscaping debris?

    3. Aren’t there a number of health codes in place specifically to prevent this sort of thing from happening?

    4. Are the anal and scrotal hairs kept separate or are they mixed together in some sort of hellish melange?

    5.Why? Just … Why?

    Adores: 20
    • 2010 November 30

      You know, SJ, I couldn’t of said it better myself….so I won’t.

      Hi everyone! Hope y’all had a terrific Thanksgiving!

      Mine was great…except for the broken toe and horrendous cold…both appearing the night before vay-kay…sigh…par for the course for me.

      Adores: 2
      • 2010 November 30
        mudslicker permalink

        Hellish Melange was my favorite part. 8)

        Perhaps this band will be opening for the Taint Scrapings?

        Adores: 8
    • 2010 November 30

      Just FYI:

      This dish is not usually well accepted at the Thanksgiving dinner, no matter how much time and effort you spend on it.

      People can be so picky.

      Adores: 4
      • 2010 November 30
        NotMyName permalink

        I dunno, if you put it in the stuffing I’m sure it would blend right in.

        I think I may never eat stuffing again.

        Adores: 4
        • 2010 November 30

          Hey! How did you get my recipe?

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 November 30

          Brings a whole new meaning to tofurkey.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30
          mudslicker permalink

          I think that’s spelled:

          toefurkey

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 November 30

          toefunky?

          Adores: 2
    • 2010 November 30
      Lola permalink

      “manscaping debris” for band name du jour.

      Adores: 6
    • 2010 November 30

      A room mate saved his electric (face) shaver clippings. Ostensibly to make an itchy prank when sprinkled in another’s bed sheets…

      Adores: 3
      • 2010 November 30
        sarajean80 permalink

        Thank you for specifying that it was facial clippings. It would be very disturbing to think that there was more than one person out there saving used body hair.

        Adores: 2
  13. 2010 November 30
    Kreatyve permalink

    Ok, I was honestly expecting someone to leave a reference to South Park on here. As in the “Scott Tenorman Must Die” episode? Very funny episode indeed.

    Adores: 2
    • 2010 November 30
      mudslicker permalink

      I was thinking more of the Ren & Stimpy episode when cousin Sven comes to visit Ren and he and Stimpy revel in sharing their “collections” with each other.

      Oh, good times!

      Adores: 3
      • 2010 November 30

        Wasn’t there one gross kids’ show where the currency was human toenail clippings? And the main character monster people found some guy who kept a whole jar full, and wanted to steal them?

        Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          Hey, you’ve been reading my Care Bears fanfic!

          Adores: 7
        • 2010 November 30

          Time to remove SJ from my Nano Buddies list.

          I’ll be in the shower for the rest of the week if you need me.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 November 30
          SilvaNoir permalink

          taking a guess at “Ahh! Real Monsters” as it’s the only monster show I could think of. The main character looked like a demon bunny, he had a friend who held his eyes in his hands, and there was a male monster teacher who wore high-heels I think. My memory is fuzzy.

          Adores: 1
    • 2010 November 30

      “Salty Balls” wasn’t enough?

      Adores: 5
  14. 2010 November 30
    Lou Stool permalink

    I love love LOVE the hours in which we can call this dude. 9am-3pm? That’s business hours, folks. Just imagine sitting in a cubicle tomorrow morning and overhearing this guy fielding a call about his delicacy.

    Adores: 10
    • 2010 November 30
      sarajean80 permalink

      If Sparky works at a call center that call might be recorded and/or monitored for quality control.

      Oh, I dearly hope that is the case.

      Adores: 8
    • 2010 November 30
      mudslicker permalink

      I’m sure the workforce is safe from this gonad. Those are probably the hours this guy’s mother goes to work and he can talk freely in his room in her basement.

      Adores: 8
    • 2010 November 30
      Mindfield permalink

      “Hello? Oh yes, hello! Glad you called. Uh-huh. Yeah. Uh-huh. Yes, that was my posting on Craigslist, what would you like to know? Uh-huh. Yeah. Yes, they have been kept in an air-tight bag, with the bag having the air vacuumed out of it each time it needed to be resealed. Yes, they’re still quite fresh, they have a shelf life of several years. Yes. Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. Oh yes, they absolutely stay crunchy in milk. Mm-hmm. Uh-huh. No, sorry, I can’t guarantee nutritional content, as I did not keep a log of everything I ingested since I began harvesting. Mm….yeah…uh-huh…pruning shears…yeah…well yes, they are rather thick, that’s why. Uh-huh. No, sorry, roots are not attached, these were trimmed with scissors. Mm-hmm. Sure, stubble is available on request, but it’s extra. Yes, that’s right, use it wherever you would normally use pepper. Yes. Yes. Head & Shoulders. Yes, weekly, without fail. Uh-huh. Ys, well, great talking to you too, hope to hear back from you. Bye!”

      Adores: 15
      • 2010 November 30
        NotMyName permalink

        “Hello, this is the CDC, how may we help you? Uh-huh. Right. Oka-wait, what?! Are you kidding me?! I’ll send a team right away!”

        *click*

        “Attention, attention, we have a code black* red. All teams suit up and get ready for takeoff. Report to the hangar immediately. I repeat, this is a code red! Bring all equipment, including respiratorsgas masks, tear gas (to subdue the ‘seller’), and our standard issue mini chain-guns and BFGs! Bill, please notify the president of what is going on!”

        *klaxon horns blaring in background*

        *Nice try Mr. Sharpton, but I’m smarter now.

        Adores: 4
        • 2010 November 30

          Chief Sitting Bull on Line 4 for you, NMN.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 November 30
          NotMyName permalink

          *Switches to color green*

          Ha! There are no famous little green men people!

          Besides, isn’t Chief Sitting Bull dead?

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30

          J’onn J’onnz on Line 5.
          Marvin the Martian on Line 6.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 November 30
          NotMyName permalink

          They aren’t….but….hmmmm….

          *switches to color magenta*

          I will not give this up!

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30

          Patricia Quinn’s on line 69 for you, NMN.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 November 30
          MandaB permalink

          Magenta from Blues Clues on line 9 for you. Be careful, she’s got the PETA people with her!

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 November 30

          Line 69 if IF’s Sex Pistol cover band.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 November 30
          NotMyName permalink

          Fine…Code Clear. No one is offended.

          Also, I have no idea who Patricia Quinn is.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 November 30

          Sue Storm on line 42.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 November 30
          NotMyName permalink

          Oh I know! You can’t be racist to your own race*! This is now a Code White!

          I win. Maybe. Ish.

          *I don’t think you can, anyways. It’s counterproductive.

          Also, why did you assume I didn’t know who Sue Storm was. If I know who Deadpool is, I certainly know who The Fantastic Four are.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          Patricia Quinn played Magenta in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 November 30

          I linked for the benefit of others.

          Also, the Coca-Cola Polar Bear is on Line 43.

          Adores: 6
        • 2010 November 30
          Tankerbell's Snarkmail permalink

          Try a Code Rainbow, NMN. Nobody can object to- huh. Just got an urgent email from GLAAD and the receptionist tells me there’s a group of clowns here to see me. Gotta go.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 November 30
          NotMyName permalink

          Code Abyss. It is the absence of color.

          Oh, and my avatar is wearing Abyssal Armor. Ironic.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30

          **hands NMN’s avatar a cellular phone.**

          Your avatar is on line (-1)^(1/2).

          Adores: 6
        • 2010 November 30
          NotMyName permalink

          “Hello War, how’s the apocalypse? Still trying to restore the balance*? So, how about we talk about how we can get this little altercation behind us?”

          “You won’t like my terms.”**

          *Darksiders, PS3. Love it.

          **Actual quote from the game. The second part, anyways.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30

          Hey Astro, is your avatar supposed to be You Diamond Fill-ups?

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30

          It’s supposed to be reminiscent of the Superman Symbol.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30
          NotMyName permalink

          SuperOrc!*

          *It was orcish, right, Astro? I haven’t read the forums for awhile.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30

          Sort of. My copy of RotK was old and a little hard to read, so I mistook an “h” for an “n”.

          Adores: 1
  15. 2010 November 30

    What a coincidence, you can make a similar dish with all those toenail clippings you’ve been keeping in the jar!

    Personally though, I think they’re far better as a decoration than main course. What a conversation piece.

    Adores: 1
    • 2010 November 30
      mudslicker permalink

      I think he should take his “year’s supply” and get cracking with that glue gun and some glitter. Mama needs a Christmas wreath for the front door!

      Adores: 7
      • 2010 November 30

        Hot glue, glitter, pubes, and toenail clippings. What could go wrong?*

        *Well, other than little festive clumps being stuck to your clothing.

        I gotta go brush my teeth… and now I’m imagining sparky using my toothbrush as a little comb. I hate you guys.

        Adores: 5
        • 2010 November 30
          mudslicker permalink

          If you’re worried about your toothbrush being used as a little comb, then I suggest you just throw away that jar of pommade. Don’t even ask or venture to ponder.

          We love you TM—and Sparky does too!

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          Gotta keep next year’s crop looking it’s best.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30
          Mindfield permalink

          Hey, do I have something in my teeth?

          *smiles widely*

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30
          mudslicker permalink

          I hope that’s spinach Mindfield!

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30

          And not jockitch…

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30
          CapnMac permalink

          Ok, almost started in on a sea story, but, have clean stopped, just in the interests of humanity as a whole and our community’s mental health as well.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30
          mudslicker permalink

          I’m envisioning a story that is filled with hundreds of seamen!!! Is that how it starts out Cappy? Or is that how it ends?

          Hmmmmmm?

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 November 30
          NotMyName permalink

          His story is a hard on to tell.

          Ha. Haha.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 November 30
          CapnMac permalink

          You people . . .
          Just was reminded of things from the past, where being stuck on a ship long enough can make a number of juvenile and goofy things humerous as a break in routine.
          But, out of context, they are just of questionable taste and/or squicky.
          Ergo, y’all are much better off not hearing about it (even with the ad for today setting a very low bar).

          Adores: 0
  16. 2010 November 30

    Anyone want to come to my new pube restaurant?

    I called it “What the Pho?”

    Adores: 4
    • 2010 November 30

      You can’t miss it, it’s right next to the waxing salon.

      Adores: 6
    • 2010 November 30
      Mindfield permalink

      Located conveniently next to the Wax Off body salon, just off I-90 in North Tonawanda.

      EDIT: Damn you, Hammy! *shakes tiny fist*

      Adores: 3
      • 2010 November 30
        Lola permalink

        [overly literal query] How does what appears to be an Irish setter with giant teeth have a tiny fist? [/overly literal query]

        Adores: 4
        • 2010 November 30

          Transplant

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 November 30
          Mindfield permalink

          Ever heard of Anubis? I’m related to him something like several thousand times removed. It probably goes without saying that the genepool got pretty diluted over time. Just look at my older second cousin Barf, now there’s a branch of the family tree we don’t like discussing at family gatherings. I don’t know how Lone Starr put up with him.

          Adores: 8
        • 2010 November 30

          So…you are…Anoldbris?

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 November 30
          Mindfield permalink

          Well, I was circumsized a long time ago, but I try not to let that define my character.

          Adores: 7
        • 2010 November 30
          CapnMac permalink

          How does what appears to be an Irish setter with giant teeth have a tiny fist?

          One presumes that, as dogs will do, it was found somewhere else and brought here to be gnawed upon. Or for playing “fetch” with. Or the “it’s mine, see:runaway!” game.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 November 30
          NotMyName permalink

          My dog LOVES that game.

          See, it’s my sock, not yours! *runs away like a nut*

          Adores: 3
  17. 2010 November 30
    NotMyName permalink

    Allright, who’s brave enough to actually go look this up and see if it really is an Asian delicacy?

    Adores: 2
    • 2010 November 30
      sarajean80 permalink

      Sorry, “pubic hair recipes” is on my Do Not Google list; it’s right between “zombie porn” and “eyeball marinades”.

      Adores: 8
      • 2010 November 30

        How about “Anal Hair Sculpting”?

        Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          That’s higher on the list.

          Adores: 2
      • 2010 November 30
        NotMyName permalink

        I highly doubt there’s such a thing as zombie porn.

        Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30
          kelli permalink

          NMN, there is zombie porn *

          *Do not click unless you have a strong stomach and are over 18. Oh and be glad it’s just stills and not video

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30
          NotMyName permalink

          I’m not clicking that link.

          Is there also robot or anime porn? Because if there is, I have officially lost all my reserve hope for humanity.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30

          There is tons of both.

          In fact there is robot anime porn is large amounts too.

          Google “Hentai”, I dare you.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 November 30
          kelli permalink

          NMN hentai is anime porn and they often do parodies of regular anime. And yes, child there is robot porn * and has been for a long time. Rule 34 applies.

          *This link is mostly tongue in cheek, I didn’t want to link another explicit site. Also, I just realized that these two replies make me look like I am a porn expert and I just want to say I used Uncle Google, not any prior knowledge (except Hentai, but who doesn’t know about Hentai)>

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 November 30
          mudslicker permalink

          Rule #34. You should know that by now NMN.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30
          NotMyName permalink

          1) I actually knew about anime porn, I just couldn’t think of a second one to ask about.

          2) I only recently learned about rule 34.

          3) I’m not looking up either robot porn or zombie porn.

          4) I wonder if this conversation will affect what ads appear for today.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30

          Somebody once ‘Ninja Linked’ me a drawing of two Boeing 747s in a *ahem* compromising position.

          Rule 34 goes so far beyond robots.

          Adores: 4
  18. 2010 November 30
    Bianchi Sound permalink

    This post will be a hard on to forget.

    Adores: 3
  19. 2010 November 30
    MandaB permalink

    Okay snarkers – let’s come up with a marketing slogan for these things! The only thing coming to mind right now is the television ads for Cracklin’ Oat Bran. Remember those? Somehow “Who ate all the crunchy ass hair?” just doesn’t have the same ring* to it.

    *No pun intended.

    Adores: 5
    • 2010 November 30

      Pube Hair Crunchers! Now with gag reflex suppression addititive!

      Adores: 4
      • 2010 November 30
        NotMyName permalink

        Pube Hair Crunchers! The perfect gag-gift!

        Edit: Now at Spencers!

        Adores: 2
      • 2010 November 30
        MandaB permalink

        “Crunch all you want, he’ll shave more!”

        Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30
          mudslicker permalink

          Are these anything like Grape Nuts…or are they bigger and more like Watermelon Nuts?

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 November 30
          MandaB permalink

          *snort* watermelon nuts! Those would make it hard to walk!

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 November 30
          mudslicker permalink

          Okay. Then how about Plum Nuts? Would they still make that “swooshy” sound as they rubbed together when Sparky walked?

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30
          MandaB permalink

          I’m hearing something like stubble on courdouroy… Zip zip zip zip…

          Adores: 3
    • 2010 November 30
      mudslicker permalink

      “I want my Manpho!”

      “Spice-a-Roni the Bangkok, Thailand treat!”

      “iPubes—yes, there’s an App for that!”

      “Hamburger Helper, helped her hamburger, make a great meal!”

      “Ancient Chinese secret!”

      Adores: 4
    • 2010 November 30
      sarajean80 permalink

      Man Munchies – for those times you crave a little something nutty!
      Now with fudgy clusters!

      Adores: 4
      • 2010 November 30
        NotMyName permalink

        I’m glad I’m not eating right now.

        Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30

          Indeed.

          *sigh* so much for my effort to forget the ad… I forgot it, but it didn’t do me any good!

          Adores: 1
    • 2010 November 30

      Curley flies.

      Adores: 1
    • 2010 November 30

      Anal Hair Coffee Filters: The darkest cup of coffee you’ll ever brew!

      Adores: 1
      • 2010 November 30
        MandaB permalink

        “The best part of waking up is ball hairs in your cup!”

        Adores: 4
        • 2010 November 30

          Brings a whole new meaning to straining your coffee through your teeth.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          I don’t think I’d want a beverage that requires flossing afterwards.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30

          Or during…

          Adores: 2
    • 2010 November 30
      Mindfield permalink

      Curly Crunch:

      “They’re puberrific!”

      “Stays crunchy in milk!”

      “Betcha can’t eat just one!”

      “Good to the last follicle”

      “The loofah you can eat!”

      Adores: 3
    • 2010 November 30

      Fur burgers?
      Bearded clam chowder?
      Levi Fly pie?

      Adores: 2
      • 2010 November 30
        sarajean80 permalink

        A couple of those look like selections from the Sparkles Lady-Bits collection.

        Adores: 1
    • 2010 November 30
      Grampdaddy permalink

      Okay. Then how about Plum Nuts?

      Plums doesn’t seem right – prunes seem like a much more accurate descriptor.

      Adores: 3
  20. 2010 November 30
    Moira permalink

    This has made my snark flee. I handed out doors and now I think I shall go whimper in a corner.

    Carry on.

    Adores: 6
    • 2010 November 30
      mudslicker permalink

      I can’t WAIT for the term-related ads to start popping up on the sidebar!

      Adores: 4
    • 2010 November 30

      snark flee

      If you have snark flees try Advintage or Crossline, they are available in your local YSaC archive.

      Adores: 4
      • 2010 November 30
        mudslicker permalink

        I prefer snark mites myself.

        I think Wiki defines them as that snark that grows on the floor of caves.

        Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30

          This ad gave me snark ticks…

          *Twitches*

          Adores: 1
  21. 2010 November 30
    Lilly permalink

    regrets, that is all I have today:
    http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=eating+pubic+hair

    Adores: 1
    • 2010 November 30
      kelli permalink

      You can’t make me click that.

      Adores: 12
      • 2010 November 30

        I ain’t clicking it either. There are some things better left unknown and unseen.

        Adores: 6
        • 2010 November 30
          mudslicker permalink

          All I can say is that bell will not be rung by moi.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30
          Mindfield permalink

          I want to say that the reality of clicking that link won’t be as bad as what my imagination could conjure up, but the Intarweb has proven repeatedly that this is considered a challenge that it will win decisively and without mercy.

          Adores: 6
        • 2010 November 30

          I think Lilly has unwittingly created a ‘Pandora’s Box’ situation here.

          Except I don’t think you’ll find hope to be one of the things in this box.

          Adores: 8
        • 2010 November 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          I have no desire to peek in that particular box. Past run-ins with Uncle Google have proven he is a mean bastard with a sick sense of humor. It’s part of his charm.

          Adores: 10
        • 2010 November 30
          lilly permalink

          sorry, this was my thought process — that can’t be real, people don’t really buy pubes and then eat them, this can’t be real, crap my curiosity is going to get the better of me, google that, oh for the love of bees there are over 900K of results and most of them seem to be legitimate questions about the health consequences of eating pubes, of look there is a youtube video, oh good time to go to work and distract my mind, freaking internet you have once again made me lose faith in humanity.
          Also, I keep thing of this passive aggressive notes post:
          http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2007/08/20/i-think-its-going-to-be-a-long-long-time/

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 November 30
          NotMyName permalink

          Heh, reminds me slightly of that “please stop masturbating in the shower, the pipes can’t handle it” sign.

          Like that’ll ever happen.

          I should probably go back to passive-aggressive-notes, thanks for reminding me.

          Adores: 2
    • 2010 November 30

      A word of advice, do not do a Google image search for Bea Arthur. Even with moderate safe search on. No porn, but Bea either did a lot of figure modeling or there is some interesting Maude fan art out there.

      Adores: 2
      • 2010 November 30
        NotMyName permalink

        Why were you…no, I don’t really want to know.

        Adores: 4
        • 2010 November 30

          Do you have to ask? Why would I not want to look for images of the awesomest woman to be immortalized in cardboard ever?

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 November 30
          Lola permalink

          Christmas shopping? I mean, get a Bea Arthur cutout for everyone on your list and you’re done!

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30
          Camille permalink

          Beas be upon her.

          Adores: 4
  22. 2010 November 30

    In happier news, the set of coirkers who have always bothered me have been moved downstairs! Woo-hoo! No more stabbity lunch breaks!

    Adores: 3
    • 2010 November 30

      stabbity lunch breaks

      That sounds naughty.

      Adores: 1
      • 2010 November 30
        MandaB permalink

        She said lunch breaks, not funch breaks, Hammy!

        Adores: 2
      • 2010 November 30

        Stabbity lunch breaks: times where I have to take a lunch break and go somewhere else to avoid becoming all stabbity and psycho. (More likely event would be having an emotional breakdown at my desk. But, a girl can dream.)

        Adores: 3
        • 2010 November 30
          Lola permalink

          Yeah, stabbiness toward coirkers is bad, even if they deserve it. Now you can have your breakdowns in privacy. 8)

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30
          mudslicker permalink

          …and can stop spitting in the lunches they store in the break room fridge….

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30
          Limelolly permalink

          and can stop spitting in the lunches they store in the break room fridge….

          Why stop?

          Adores: 2
    • 2010 November 30
      Tankerbell permalink

      Had serious girl-crush on EB before, now after “stabbity”, I need to know what comes after girl-crush. Girl-smash?

      Adores: 3
      • 2010 December 1

        Girl-stalking?

        I wish I could claim credit for the term, but I appropriated it from stark.raving.mad.mommy. (That is a link to a specific post… Go there and be alternatively frightened and amused) :-p

        Adores: 0
  23. 2010 November 30
    kelli permalink

    The more I read it (though why I keep reading it is a mystery), the more I think it may be a prank. I think either it’s an allusion to that South Park episode mentioned earlier or someone decided that his friend/enemy needed some phone calls about pubes.

    Adores: 4
    • 2010 November 30

      I’m glad I’m not the only optimist here who thought that this was a prank/troll rather than a serious ad.

      I want so much to believe it isn’t real, but the pessimist in me realizes that there are people who think that you have to do a currency exchange when going to Hawaii so pube sales may be perfectly reasonable in the realm of sparky thought.

      Adores: 5
      • 2010 November 30
        mudslicker permalink

        I read it as a stupid Johnny Knoxville prank right from the git-go. Not even the Asians would come up with something like this—and they can come up with some pretty messed up ish to eat. And if, by taking this stance, I somehow miss out on some very real, awesome delicacy—well, then so be it!

        Adores: 3
        • 2010 November 30
          NotMyName permalink

          By Asians, you obviously mean Japan.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30

          I’m pretty sure Korea has some pretty funked up dishes, too… Cracked has some good articles, but it’s blocked on my work network.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30
          NotMyName permalink

          Awww that sucks, today’s two articles were “6 Animals That Just Don’t Give a F%^$” and “The 5 Most Meaningless Warcraft Achievements.”

          Yes, I read Cracked.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30
          mudslicker permalink

          Yes, Japan…

          +VietNam
          +Cambodia
          +China
          +Korea
          +Thailand

          …and when I focused on Asian and S.Asian countries I did not mean to insinuate in any way that the the U.S. and the rest of the countries from around the world do not have their share of questionable and/or barf-able cuisine.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30
          MandaB permalink

          I lived in China for a bit. All sorts of wacky menu items presented themselves during that time, not the least of which included deep fried scorpions (they taste like potato chips) and freeze dried yak penis (I yakked upon learning what I had consumed). They definitely have some interesting cuisine, but none of the delicacies I had included pubic hair. Well, not intentionally anyway. I think.

          Adores: 4
      • 2010 November 30
        sarajean80 permalink

        It probably is a prank, but it’s not outside the realm of possibility for it to be a real thing. Very unlikely and implausible, but not impossible. Asians have been known to eat weirder things.*

        *Those with weak stomachs and/or a fondness for cute baby birds are advised to not click that link.

        Adores: 2
      • 2010 November 30
        Tankerbell permalink

        I’m praying that it’s a prank, because I’m getting a yucky, fetish-y vibe from this ad. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

        **On another note, would not click Sarajean’s weird food link for all the pubes in Sparkdom.

        Adores: 3
        • 2010 November 30
          NotMyName permalink

          If you read the earlier conversation, you would know that today is apparently fetish day.

          *Fetish Day; everyone has one. What’s yours?*

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          The way things are going, not having a fetish will be considered a fetish before long.

          “You mean you don’t pelt your lover with jawbreakers and call them “Boris”? That’s just … weird.”

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 November 30
          NotMyName permalink

          pelt your lover with jawbreakers and call them Boris

          I think we just found S.J.’s fetish.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30

          Now, the real question is: Does “them” refer to the lovers or the jawbreakers?

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 November 30

          Is there a difference?

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30
          NotMyName permalink

          Yes.

          Dangit Hammy! You’re in my way.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30

          Do not cross this line

          ———————————–

          or this one

          ———————————–

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30
          NotMyName permalink

          I crossed them both, seeing how this comment is below yours.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30

          HaHa you are under Hammy…oh.

          Adores: 3
  24. 2010 November 30
    Windrose permalink

    I am keeping my fingers over my eyes as I type this. The ad was bad enough. The snark is, as always, top of the line, and therefore equally likely to provoke unswallowing. It’s too cold for the return of the swallows, so pardon me if I hang out on Facebook today. *erp*

    Adores: 3
    • 2010 November 30
      mudslicker permalink

      What Windy? Not even an eensie-teensie snark joke about….. “nesting materials” from you?

      I believe your chickadee turned into a pussy. *meooooooowwwww*

      Adores: 4
      • 2010 November 30
        Windrose permalink

        Only that it is strictly forbidden! Lost a baby bird recently because the parents found string somewhere, put it in the nest, and it got tangled around the chick’s ankle. By the time we pulled the chicks from the nest, the baby had a bad infection he couldn’t shake. Hair would be worse. That is what keeps me from using dryer lint, fluffy though it is, as some of the towels have hairs on them of dubious origins, and could be a hazard to birds.

        Thanks for getting me thinking about a less squicky subject, Mudsy! You’re a good friend.

        Adores: 5
        • 2010 November 30
          mudslicker permalink

          That’s because you have awesome socks Windy!

          So, just what are hipster birds using these days to make their nests? Styrofoam peanuts? Silly string? Gluten free spaghetti? Paper mache? VHS tapes? Lady Ga Ga dresses? North Face fleece?

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 November 30
          SilvaNoir permalink

          The wild birds around me always like to shred any plastic blue tarps. Not a nest around that doesn’t have bits of blue woven in.

          Adores: 2
  25. 2010 November 30
    Mandy permalink

    Geezzzz, this is something that I won’t be able to erase from my mind for a while… I assume he sells it to some sh**tty restaurants, maybe that’s what he meant when he said the “and would fetch quite a bit of money on specific markets” line.. lol

    That also makes me think of a restaurant in Paris: I went to have lunch there and asked their menu in English (I didn’t speak French back then). One of the items on the menu was (I’m NOT joking!):

    “6 nails with sauce” (nails instead of Snails)…

    I laughed so hard at the restaurant, but now I assume that maybe the sauce was “pubic hair in soy sauce”… Oh no, sorry, the pubes are only supposed to be served with chicken and rice…

    EW!

    Adores: 4
  26. 2010 November 30
    NotMyName permalink

    Anybody seen Laurelhach? Yeah, I know it’s a random question.

    Adores: 2
    • 2010 November 30
      Lola permalink

      … Yesterday, or Sunday, perhaps?

      Adores: 1
    • 2010 November 30
      sarajean80 permalink

      I think she’s in school.

      Adores: 1
      • 2010 November 30
        NotMyName permalink

        Oh right, high school. I forgot…

        Adores: 1
  27. 2010 November 30
    Tankerbell's Snarkmail permalink

    *Beep! Thank you for snarking. Tankerbell is unable to snark at this time. She will return your snark when the rinse cycle of her industrial brain bleaching is complete, which should be in about… February. Have a nice day.

    Adores: 7
  28. 2010 November 30

    In an attempt to avoid today’s topic, I’d like to point out the fact that Bombdude said “haven’teaten”, which I’m guessing is something German and naughty.

    Adores: 5
    • 2010 November 30
      Mindfield permalink

      Ja, ist eine vurd von which ist sprachen ven sie ist busy mit der fraulein, zo ve say “Nicht now Herr Gunter, ich bien haven teaten!”

      Also sprachen mit der sexen changen.

      Adores: 3
      • 2010 November 30
        NotMyName permalink

        Via Babelfish:

        Yes, one is vurd of which is spoke ven it is busy with the woman flax, zo VE say “not now Mr. Gunter, I bien haven teaten!”

        Adores: 1
      • 2010 November 30
        mudslicker permalink

        I must be bilingual! I understood every word of Mindfield’s language strudel up there.

        He’s dreamy when he gets his Hitler on….

        Adores: 3
        • 2010 November 30
          Tankerbell permalink

          He’s dreamy when he gets his Hitler on….

          I know, right?

          Adores: 1
      • 2010 November 30
        Mindfield permalink

        Danke schoen! Ich bin hier fur die damen, liken eine Deutsch versionen der Bacontini.

        Adores: 4
        • 2010 November 30
          MandaB permalink

          Weinertini?

          Adores: 6
  29. 2010 November 30
    Irregular Fractal permalink

    It’s good to see Justice Thomas putting together a strong business plan for his retirement years.

    Adores: 5
    • 2010 November 30
      mudslicker permalink

      Yeah, we all know that things go better with Coke…

      😉

      Adores: 4
  30. 2010 November 30

    New from General Ills, sold under the “Betty Cockhair” brand name it’s:

    BiSquick! *Now with more real pubes*

    Adores: 7
    • 2010 November 30
      Mindfield permalink

      Mmm. Pee biscuits.

      Adores: 1
    • 2010 November 30

      Please submit your recipes to be considered for the Betty Crocker cookoff.

      Adores: 2
    • 2010 November 30
      MandaB permalink

      It makes a perfect crust for dingleberry pie!

      Adores: 4
    • 2010 November 30
      mudslicker permalink

      Mrs. Bush is looking for her pearl necklace!!!

      Call a bambulance, people!

      Adores: 1
      • 2010 November 30

        I only have the number for the whaaambulance.

        Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30
          mudslicker permalink

          George Michael on Line #13 for Hammy!

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30
          Mindfield permalink

          I have the number for some amber lamps, does that help?

          Adores: 3
  31. 2010 November 30
    sarajean80 permalink

    I’m surprised Sparky didn’t sell his gleanings to his local merkin maker.

    They could have made merkin gerkins.

    Adores: 3
    • 2010 November 30

      Yes, he could be the fuller bush man.

      Adores: 5
    • 2010 November 30
      Mindfield permalink

      …and remember, I’m not only the Merkin club president, I’m also a client.

      *drops trou*

      Adores: 7
      • 2010 November 30
        sarajean80 permalink

        :squints:

        With your coloring I don’t think I would have gone with the royal purple and electric lime Not. A. Lion-striped one.

        Adores: 4
        • 2010 November 30
          Mindfield permalink

          Well that or the bright red one were all we had in stock at the time, and the last thing I wanted was to be one red nose away from lugging Ronald McDongald around in my pants.

          Adores: 5
    • 2010 November 30
      mudslicker permalink

      For some reason…such cheap jokes are very invigorating this time of the day!

      I think my groans are having babies…

      Adores: 2
      • 2010 November 30

        Cheap?
        These jokes cost me dearly, very dearly indeed.

        Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30
          mudslicker permalink

          As they do us Hammy. As they do us….

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30

          Then my job is done here…

          Adores: 1
  32. 2010 November 30

    OT: The Beast (Roy the kitten, about 5 months old) has been driving me NUTS about the Christmas tree. It only happens when the lights are on, but ALL EVENING he climbs in the tree, bats ornaments off the lower half of the tree, and chases them around the house. Thankfully, last year I got rid of all our breakable ornaments in preparation for a mobile Mini, but putting a couple dozen ornaments back on the tree is driving me crazy!! I’ve tried hissing at him, I’ve tried putting aluminum foil around the base of the tree (kinda works—only because he prefers playing with the foil to playing with the foil to playing with the ornaments), I’ve tried squirt bottles… this cat just doesn’t discipline! My main options left are to either lock up Roy when we’re home and want the tree on, or never have the tree lights on. Any sanity-keeping ideas for me?

    Adores: 1
    • 2010 November 30
      NotMyName permalink

      Get a dog.

      Sorry, couldn’t resist.

      Adores: 1
      • 2010 November 30

        My dogs wag more stuff off the tree then the kittys bat off of it.

        Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30
          NotMyName permalink

          Okay…get a second tree for Roy?

          Adores: 1
      • 2010 November 30

        Haha. MrEB has been convincing me not to give Roy away for a while now… Usually it’s socks carried around the house, and toes attacked, and bird threatened, but the Christmas tree is bringing it’s own special level of frustration, and it’s going to take some serious convincing to get through the month… Now I understand why my mom would never let us get a kitten….

        Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30
          Tankerbell permalink

          Call it a tradition. For me, it’s not Easter if I’m not finding the last of the Christmas ornaments under the furniture.

          My ginger cat loves to just hang out under the tree when the lights are on. I think he thinks it’s a disco.

          Adores: 6
    • 2010 November 30

      Put duct tape sticky side up around the tree, end of problem.
      Once a ktty gets his feet stuck once they won’t go near there again.

      *Duct tape use number 587*

      Adores: 6
      • 2010 November 30

        Actually… I will see if I can find some duct tape when I get home. Maybe some painter’s tape would be easier… This will probably be the last-ditch effort before the aforementioned locking away or no lights on the tree.

        Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30

          Please video it, it’s hilarious!

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 November 30
          NotMyName permalink

          You could attempt to rig the area around the tree so that when Roy goes under it a string is pulled, and by way of one of those old cartoon contraptions, an airhorn is blown, a piano falls, and Tom Roy can finally catch that mouse.*

          *Yeah, my mind drifted over to Tom and Jerry halfway through that sentence.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 November 30

          I’ll video that, and when I put duct tape and/or painter’s tape on the kitchen counter and table :-p

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30

          NMN: That is Mr’s idea. But he hasn’t put it into being yet.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30
          Tankerbell permalink

          You know those plastic pads that you put under a desk chair that’s on carpet? The ones that are all poky on the bottom so they can’t slide and you swear when you try to move them because they poke your fingers? My sister has a piece of one of those, upside-down, on her stove so her kitties won’t get on it. You could try that.

          Adores: 3
    • 2010 November 30
      sarajean80 permalink

      Do you still have a playpen? I remember my Mom telling me that she would put the tree inside the playpen after we outgrew it so that we couldn’t get to it to fiddle with the ornaments or presents. Might work on the cat.

      Adores: 2
      • 2010 November 30
        NotMyName permalink

        Wouldn’t a cat just jump over it, though?

        Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30

          Yeah, I thought about the playpen, but NMN is right, the cat would be over that thing in a heartbeat. He already jumps over the playpen to play with Mini :-p I’m currently trying to decide if the presents under the tree would be a deterrent or just make it easier for The Beast to hide from me under there…

          (P.S. I love how everyone jumped on my OT, especially because it combines our three favorite things: Cats, helping each other, and Not Pubic Hair 🙂 )

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 November 30
          NotMyName permalink

          Hey! Awesome! Not Pubic Hair is one of my favorite things too!

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 November 30
          Tankerbell permalink

          The presents are a definite no-no. Roy and Mini will compete to see who can open them first. My cats are all adults and they still enjoy a good nom on a present.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          You could blow up a few small balloons and put them in the playpen with the tree. He’d only jump in once 🙂

          Presents will probably have to be put away, my little terrors love boxes; they think every present is for them. Fearless will eat regular unadorned cardboard, wrapping it up seems to add extra flavor.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 November 30

          You could ask Bombdude for some C4 and…

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 November 30

          Oh, Tank, you’re right… both of my cats enjoy a good cardboard and/or paper nom.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          “I swear officer, it was just to keep the cat out of the tree!”

          I have the sudden urge to go watch “The Cat Came Back” on YouTube.

          Adores: 2
      • 2010 November 30
        CapnMac permalink

        One of the things I have wanted for the tree would be a good deterrent, too.
        I’ve always thought an xmas train would be cool for before presents clutter up the skirting. Just a simple loop of track. Improved by wiring a mottion-detection switch into the train controls.

        Not that there’s been lots of presents to put under my tree in the last few years. So, a train would be festive. And keep the cat from batting branches.

        Maybe someday . . .

        Adores: 0
        • 2010 November 30
          Moira permalink

          My dad has always loved electric trains. I have a wonderful picture of him at age 11 or so and one of my uncles playing with a train. He always wanted one under the tree, too.

          One year, his present to my mom was…

          an electric train.

          She didn’t speak to him until he unearthed and presented her with a small box with her actual present in it.

          The train now lives in a shed in the back yard. Dad was trying to create landscaping and mountains with that expando-foam-in-a-can but I think that experiment went badly wrong and he never finished creating his masterpiece.

          In other train news,, my sis and I went to see Unstoppable with dad on Sunday for his birthday. It was rather good.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 December 1

          A motion-activated train would be awesome! I could totally get MrEB to go for that…

          Adores: 0
    • 2010 November 30
      mudslicker permalink

      Resistance is futile! I used to come home daily from work to find my fatty cat Spatz lounging halfway up the tree in the branches. The branches sagged so much you couldn’t hang anything from them. I honestly believe she thought that I did this especially for her every year as a wonderful “gesture” of appreciation and nothing I did would dissuade her from this mindset. And now she’s gone and I still miss her and chuckle a little at this time of year.

      Needless to say, I haven’t even attempted to put up a tree with my two latest heathens.

      Adores: 1
      • 2010 November 30

        If it was just lounging, I could deal with that. Cute. But he jumps around and knocks ornaments down…

        We’ve got an artificial tree, which means that even though there aren’t dying pine needles to be carried around the house, Roy has already bent some of the metal branches. Which will be bent next year, and the year after.

        And I lurve Christmas trees. This is the first year we’ll be staying home for Christmas, instead of traveling to family… If it wasn’t for the Christmas tree, it might as well be February.

        Adores: 2
        • 2010 November 30
          NotMyName permalink

          Ferbruary. Of what year?*

          *See WAY above.

          Adores: 4
    • 2010 November 30
      Limelolly permalink

      Block off access to the stem/trunk… all the way around the tree. Make sure what you use to block touches the lowest limbs of the tree. Two years ago with our kitten, I had cardboard boxes that I stacked and packed in so that the only way for the cat to get into the tree was to climb onto the last 8 inches of each flimsy branch and worm his way from the outside in… he only tried it once. Move all ornaments at least 3 feet from ground level. No tinsel, and bury lights way back near the trunk. Sure the tree will look funny, but the cat will learn to leave the tree alone.

      Edit: For the record, we have a 9 ft artificial tree… and don’t you believe it when ornaments are touted as “non-breakable or shatter-proof”.

      Adores: 4
    • 2010 November 30
      MandaB permalink

      Have you seen this before? It never fails to make me laugh.
      http://www.fluffytails.ca/christmas.asp

      We’ll see if my linky link worked or not…

      Adores: 1
    • 2010 December 1

      Beast Update: Funnily enough, he didn’t not attack the Christmas tree this evening… Though, we did just have to dig him out of the back of the dishwasher -_-

      If the Christmas tree beastness continues, we may get a motion activated train. Mr will enjoy that.

      Adores: 0
  33. 2010 November 30
    Addicted Reader permalink

    Whew, what a long weekend without this kind of snark! (Family is usually good for snark IRL, but it’s not the same.)

    Happy Birthday to those whose birthdays I missed!

    Yeah, I’m just gonna ignore the original ad.

    Let me know if there’s anything in the comments I should be sure to go back and catch up on!

    Adores: 4
  34. 2010 November 30
    Grampdaddy permalink

    The part that is truly sad about this is that soon, very soon, the big corporate concerns will be taking over the production. The small producers, who have kept the family name in the business, will soon find that they can’t compete with the huge factory-farms. One by one, square inches of pubes will lie fallow, the small growers won’t be able to make the payments on their trimmers, and the banks will step in – seizing the once verdant fields. Scissor manufacturers will feel the pinch next, being forced to cut production and close their doors.

    The next thing you know, you won’t be able to get any artisan or heritage pubes – just the mediocre, bland, and blah mass-produced item.

    Gotta go now, I’m bushed.

    Adores: 10
    • 2010 November 30
      Tankerbell permalink

      I sincerely love me some Grampdaddy. But giant corporate pube farms?
      This is one crop I haven’t seen in Farmville yet.

      Adores: 5
    • 2010 November 30
      Mindfield permalink

      I think you overestimate the issue. Pube growing just doesn’t scale well to an industrial level. ConShagra has been trying for years to engineer better, hardier crops that grow faster and further into the season, but they haven’t been able to achieve the richness of colour, tensile strength, curliness or taste of locally grown, small-batch crops. There’s a kind of hormonal osmosis that occurs when that many men are placed in small, cramped pens, force-fed genetically modified grain and forced to grow pubes en masse that breaks down the structure of the crop and makes it commercially nonviable.

      It’s only when men are raised on free-range farms, allowed to graze on free-growing crops of steak and bacon, drink from fresh springs fed by craft breweries, command their own remote, and are left free to scratch and adjust themselves in the comfort of breathable cotton briefs that the true quality stuff can be grown, and the amount of land and electricity for the flat-screen televisions that requires for a large commercial concern to invest in is prohibitive.

      Adores: 6
      • 2010 November 30

        Not to mention the extreme defolication that started in Brazil, spread to the beaches of California and is rapidly spreading to the rest of north America…I mean, pubal grooming could potentially raise the global hemline way above see level causing polar bears to blush uncontrollably.
        Where is Al Gore when you need him!

        Adores: 3
        • 2010 November 30
          Mindfield permalink

          Exactly — it’ll cause the same global pandemic of plum smugglers that we saw in the 80s, and nobody wants that.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 November 30


          Well, you can tell by the way I scratch my crotch,
          I’m a trimmin man: no time to talc.
          Pubic’s long and wax is warm, but I turn it down
          I prefer bein’ shorn.
          And now it’s all right. It’s OK.
          And you may trim another way.
          We can try to understand
          The Bazillions effect on man.

          Whether you’re a brother or whether you’re an other,
          you’re shavin’ da pubes, shavin’ da pubes.
          Feel the hair growin’ and everybody knowin’,
          and we’re shavin’ da pubes, shavin’ da pubes.
          Ah, ha, ha, ha, shavin’ da pubes, shavin’ da pubes.
          Ah, ha, ha, ha, shavin’ da pubes.

          Oh wait, that was the 70’s sorry…

          Adores: 5
      • 2010 November 30
        Grampdaddy permalink

        Sorry Mindfield – I’ve heard it all before, primarily about chickens. Everyone said you couldn’t make a good chicken unless it was free-range, and now most chickens are corporate produced, clustered in their cubicles and clucking for their mothers. Probably nothing more discouraging than a mother-clucking chicken.

        Anyway, back to the corporate pube farms: Anything done with the chickens can certainly be done with any other peckers. Just as no one has time for individually, personally choked chickens, soon the corporations will make it unfeasible to purchase hand collected curlies. There will just be one more division between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’ – the gap between the rich and poor, the waxed and the shaven.

        Remember me when that day comes – I warned you!

        Adores: 7
  35. 2010 November 30
    CoffDrop permalink

    *clears throat*

    Ahem….

    A poem by s hemming

    Pubic Hair

    Pubic hair, it makes me frown,
    I shave it off I trim it down.
    It sticks to every nook and cranny,
    Armpit, bumcrack, willy and fanny.

    It came up on me without warning,
    Bald one night and fur in the morning!
    Raven curls and then..one day,
    No-one warned me they’d turn grey!

    My son approached me one grave night,
    With such demeanor of delight,
    ‘I’ve got pubes!’ he yelled insistant,
    And whipped his pants down in an instant,
    Exposing for the world to see ( the dog, his dad, his brother and me)
    A growing lad proud of his stuff,
    Two small lychees covered in fluff!

    Pubes are wiry, pubes are tough,
    Stuck on the soap, stuck on your muff,
    A guy upon a sit-down mower couldn’t trim mine any lower,
    But love ’em hate ’em scrape ’em away,
    These pubes of ours are here to stay!

    Adores: 0
  36. 2010 December 1
    Windrose permalink

    So, hope this was a good day for everyone! Sorry to have missed it. No, wait, I’m not that sorry. But it did pull in a lot of comments! Hooray for YSaC!

    Camille, Queen of the Golden Lotus, (oh, might not be the best title in light of today’s feature!) Uh. Punchity Punch Punch!

    G’Night, South Asia! CARE packages are on their way!

    Adores: 0

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.