YSaC, Vol. 1099: Just keep swimming, just keep swimm … SHUT UP!

2011 October 13

QUARREL CASTLE for fish tank aquarium + small quarrel+ornamental tree – $10


For sale i have a QUARREL CASTLE for fish tank aquarium + small quarrel + ornamental tree. Please call xxx-xxx-xxxx

A quarrel castle? That’s my new name for the house I lived in with my ex.

Thanks, Blue Fox!

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  1. 2011 October 13
    Lola permalink

    I can’t afford a quarrel castle; my tank is too small. How about a spat shack? A huff hut? A terse exchange tent?

    Adores: 16
    • 2011 October 13
      Lola permalink

      What I can afford: dictionary, spell-check. 8)

      Adores: 3
    • 2011 October 13
      D / DM permalink

      This disagreement domicile might be just the thing for you.

      Adores: 4
    • 2011 October 13

      And for the really economically-challenged, there’s a tiff tent for sale at Wally World.

      Adores: 8
    • 2011 October 13
      MandaB permalink

      How about a French prudential melee chalet?

      Adores: 5
      • 2011 October 13
        Lola permalink

        I think a French Perventional melee chalet could be even more appropriate!

        Adores: 4
    • 2011 October 13
      tigprincess permalink

      Having tried to erect a tent in a gale with my ex I favour the terse exchange tent ….. closely followed by the divorce duplo.

      Adores: 3
  2. 2011 October 13

    MY BUBBLES!

    Adores: 5
  3. 2011 October 13
    MandaB permalink

    So, Angry Birds has branched out and gone aquatic?

    Adores: 6
    • 2011 October 13
      Windrose permalink

      Yes, but it’s still in betta.

      Adores: 18
      • 2011 October 13
        Irregular Fractal permalink

        And yet my Tetra Tetris game goes largely ignored. Sigh.

        Adores: 9
      • 2011 October 13
        MandaB permalink

        There’s something very fishy about that.

        Adores: 5
  4. 2011 October 13

    I just want to see the crossbow that could fire that thing.

    Adores: 5
  5. 2011 October 13
    D / DM permalink

    Until now, fish have always been the pets of choice for people who don’t have the attention span for pets. They’re low-mainentenance, emotionally unavailable, and, quite frankly, boring.

    Enter the quarrel castle. Now you can see that your fish get just as frustrated as you do, and they’re not under any legal obligation to hold it in. Live vicariously through your underwater chums (pun intended!) as they do things to each other that you only wish you could do to your boss, your mother-in-law, or that homeless guy with the hat that’s way too cool for a homeless guy! The quarrel castle can provide as many hours of entertainment and frightening, violent wish-fulfillment as you can provide new fish!

    Adores: 6
    • 2011 October 13

      I’m sorry, but ever since “Finding Nemo” I simply cannot look at my aquarium without there being a running dialogue in my head from all the conversations I imagine taking place.

      “MY treasure chest!”

      “No, it’s mine!”

      “Hey, guys…I think I can reach the filter, now if one of you will distract our human….”

      “MY fake-plastic-who-thinks-tropical-plants-come-in-this-color hiding space!’

      “No, it’s mine!”

      “My food..nom..nom…nom…”

      “Mine!”
      “Mine!”
      “Mine!”
      “Mine!”
      “Mine!”

      Who needs a quarrel castle? My whole aquarium is one big knock down drag out brawl all day long.

      Adores: 16
  6. 2011 October 13

    I no longer need the quarrel castle because I no longer have fish. Instead, I now have pure bread dogs: a chiwawa and a docksund docshund wiener dog.

    Adores: 7
  7. 2011 October 13
    LimeLolly permalink

    Betta fish + mirror = Quarrel Castle.

    Adores: 8
  8. 2011 October 13
    MandaB permalink

    Quarrel Castle is the name of IF’s House of Pain cover band.

    Adores: 11
    • 2011 October 13
      Lola permalink

      “Splash around!”

      Adores: 6
    • 2011 October 13
      Irregular Fractal permalink

      We also do some selected Fleetwood Mac covers.

      Adores: 5
      • 2011 October 13
        tigprincess permalink

        you and elebenty gazillion others! but, hopefully, not Neil Diamond karaoke ? please? pretty please?

        Adores: 2
  9. 2011 October 13
    Windrose permalink

    My former boss and I used to end up on Quarrel Reef. It was quite a barrier to our working relation.

    Adores: 10
  10. 2011 October 13
    Meej permalink

    The first rule of Quarrel Castle is, you don’t talk about Quarrel Castle.

    Adores: 11
  11. 2011 October 13

    He’s only king fish of the castle until the queen fish comes home. After that, he’s king fish of the fake tree.

    Adores: 9
  12. 2011 October 13
    kelli permalink

    You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

    Adores: 5
  13. 2011 October 13
    mud "" slicker permalink

    Brings new meaning to the word ornamental.

    Adores: 2
  14. 2011 October 13

    So is this where Professor Quirrell goes to argue with the *SPOILER ALERT* Voldemort in the back of his head?

    Adores: 5
    • 2011 October 13
      kelli permalink

      When I was reading the book, I kept mentally substituting squirrel for Quirrel.

      Adores: 5
      • 2011 October 13
        CapnMac permalink

        That’s ok; Cloo network has been running a James Bond marathon–Ian Flemming’s character Quarrel is in several of the movies, despite being killed in Dr. No.

        Adores: 0
  15. 2011 October 13
    TinyBallOfLight permalink

    Well, you know, fish have 3-second memories. So, I imagine a quarrel castle is about right…

    1 fish: Hey, that’s my food!
    2 fish: No, it’s mine.
    spelling fish: Hey look, a quarrel castle!
    fail fish: Hey look, a quarrel castle!

    Adores: 7
    • 2011 October 13
      madbrnnr permalink

      *Sigh* As much as I hate to go all corey on you TBL, this is subject which is near and dear to me (after 40 yrs of fish keeping lunacy).

      /corey/ The 3 second memory thing is just myth, busted on numerous occasions by dozens, if not hundreds, or researchers and scientists. /end corey/

      On a less serious note, why in the bloody blue fins of the great tuna would a person misspell by adding a half dozen letters and a syllable to a perfectly good single syllable word? That would be like spelling fish as “philllshggg” (note the silent els and Gs). Speeling problems indeed, but humanity is also doomed, imho.

      Adores: 8
      • 2011 October 13
        TinyBallOfLight permalink

        I know the 3-second memory is a myth. It was just a joke. I like Dorie in Finding Nemo. She made me laugh. =)

        Adores: 3
        • 2011 October 13
          madbrnnr permalink

          Oh, good. Hated to go all serious anyway, but I do loves me some fish – as my parents would have attested to way back in the day when I took over their living room…and hall…and my room.

          Although I do realize it sometimes seem like all my fish are memory challenged or, god help us all, secret Craigs List posters, as they take in and spit out the same rejected piece of food 9 times in a row.

          Adores: 6
        • 2011 October 13

          It’s not that they have a short memory; it’s that they resist learning with extreme prejudice.

          Adores: 13
      • 2011 October 13

        That would be like spelling fish as “philllshggg” (note the silent els and Gs).

        Yeah, everyone knows that “fish” is correctly spelled “ghoti.”

        Adores: 5
        • 2011 October 13

          I thought the catfish was the only one with a ghoti…

          Adores: 3
      • 2011 October 14
        TinyBallOfLight permalink

        P.S. What the deuce is a Corey? I keep seeing that all over YSAC. It’s kinda freaking me out…almost as much as the “doors,” “coffee slices,” “punchity punches,” and “corner.” ???

        Adores: 2
        • 2011 October 14
          Windrose permalink

          Tiny, for the answers to these, see CJ’s comment under the Virgin Blood ad.

          Adores: 0
  16. 2011 October 13

    Holy Moley… I’m in the box with a lot of me today. I’m beside myself with joy… and he’s hogging the seat.

    Adores: 10
    • 2011 October 13
      mud "" slicker permalink

      And I’m sure you have the t shits to prove it.

      😉

      Adores: 2
      • 2011 October 13

        Ooof, yeah. I need to cut down on the Lava Sauce when I’m eating Diablo Hell-Fire burritos.

        Adores: 3
        • 2011 October 13
          mud "" slicker permalink

          *That is SUCH a visual*

          😀

          Adores: 2
        • 2011 October 13
          D / DM permalink

          Congrats, and as a bonus prize, have some Chipotlaway.

          Adores: 1
        • 2011 October 13
          mud "" slicker permalink

          I thought it was called chipotlepoo.

          Adores: 1
        • 2011 October 13

          Some people paint vivid landscapes with their affluent worthsmithery.

          I paint in a different, more laundry-intensive way.

          Oh, the coffee slices have spinkles today!

          Adores: 4
        • 2011 October 13
          D / DM permalink

          Well, if you spinkle when you tinkle…
          …take your cute red hair with you.

          Adores: 5
        • 2011 October 13

          Chi-poo-tle?

          Adores: 2
        • 2011 October 13

          And now I want a Jumbo Jack. Curses!

          Adores: 1
    • 2011 October 13
      LimeLolly permalink

      Joy is an unusual name for someone of the male gender.

      Adores: 2
      • 2011 October 13

        Life ain’t easy for a boy named Joy.

        Adores: 2
        • 2011 October 13
          funky "eMonkey" monkey permalink

          Daddy left home when I was just two
          Mama didn’t always know just what to do
          All Daddy left was a fish tank that made a lot of noise.

          Thangs weren’t always easy for Mama and me
          But the roughest thing besides trying to eat an ornamental tree
          Was putting up with Daddy naming me “Joy”.

          Adores: 5
    • 2011 October 13
      Windrose permalink

      Yes, it’s a Taco Essplossion!

      Uh.

      Clean-up on Aisle 7.

      Adores: 2
  17. 2011 October 13

    It doesn’t look to me like a squirrel would fit in that castle… I think they prefer Legos anyways.

    Adores: 2
    • 2011 October 13

      Those are some nice not.a.squirrels.

      Adores: 2
      • 2011 October 13

        Eh. Everyone knows that just having stripes doesn’t make you a different creature. YOU try finding a good image for a squirrel castle :-p

        Adores: 1
        • 2011 October 13

          How about sugar gliders flying over a castle?

          Adores: 4
        • 2011 October 13
          mud "" slicker permalink

          Those must be sugar gliders after they’ve molted*

          *do not get them wet

          *do not feed them after midnight

          Adores: 5
  18. 2011 October 13
    SpaceBug permalink

    Personally, I never quarrel with the miniature bouncy castles.

    Wait, what were we talking about again?

    Adores: 5
  19. 2011 October 13
    kelli permalink

    And thus concludes another episode of Idiots With Internet Access. Join us next time and see Sparky misspell his own name… twice.

    Adores: 5
  20. 2011 October 13

    When two ancient keeps collide:
    It’s called a castle quarrel.

    When two lesser keeps collide:
    It’s called a vassal castle quarrel.

    When two lesser keeps bother others with their battle:
    It’s called a vassal hassle castle quarrel.

    When two lesser keeps keep doing battle while they rope the righteous dead:
    It’s called a Lasso vassal hassle moral mortal castle quarrel.

    Now when lesser keeps are killing popes and popes are roping rings while bothering their naked kings, and naked kings ride their ships while leaning to one side:
    It’s called a Ferrule vessel lasso vassal hassle mortal barrel royal beveled castle quarrel.

    And when-
    SHUT IT!

    Adores: 16
  21. 2011 October 13
    CapnMac permalink

    [synchronistic semi-topical]
    Was reading my former hometown blog, and it seems juvenile delinquents have been puncturing the Pekin ducks at one of the City ponds with both plastic and metal quarrels from a tiny crossbow.
    As is the case of juveniles, they failed to A, bring enough quarrel; B, failed to identify a true pest species (grackles or pigeons, either of which are at infestation levels).
    Sadly, public ordinances to not permit the use of stocks and yardsticks upon the juveniles in question.
    [/sst]

    Adores: 0
    • 2011 October 13
      Bombdude permalink

      I have some (semi) private ordnance, if you’d like to use…

      It’s private until it detonates, then it gets all public and attention-getting real quick like…

      OH! You said “ordinance”… My bad… Nevermind.

      Adores: 2
  22. 2011 October 13
    Ralph permalink

    This ad deserves an award, preferably an Oscar.

    Adores: 4
    • 2011 October 13
      LimeLolly permalink

      Sadly, it’s only Guppy-worthy.

      Adores: 1
  23. 2011 October 13
    Nicole permalink

    As I tell my fish every time they have relationship problems:
    No need for Quarrel Castle. There’s plenty of fish in the sea.

    Adores: 2
  24. 2011 October 14
    Windrose permalink

    Taco! Punchity Punch Punch!
    Taco! Punchity Punch Punch!
    Taco! Punchity Punch Punch!
    Taco! Punchity Punch Punch!

    G’Night, Janet!

    Adores: 1

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