YSaC, Vol. 1158: MError, MError, in the log.

2012 January 3

im looking to barter a ((big)) kids kitchen set–the fake kitchen for children. and not one of those cheap little ones thay sell now and i think i have some dishes and silverware and odds and ends that i will throw in if i can find that stuff… and a pink kids makeup table and chair with the hair dryer thing thay lower onto there head like at the saloneand a merror and i think they all play some kind of music—i think….. Any child would love this under there tree. i know times are hard so im looking to trade this for some kids wii games. for my 9 yr old daughter. these are not for sale im looking for a trade…so email me the games you have. or mabe some man toys,, id love a project motocycle– a street bike

So, all of these things apparently play some kind of music. The kitchen plays music. The dishes play music. The makeup table plays music. The merror plays music.

What kind of music does a merror play, anyway? Well, it turns out MERROR is an error message returned by the SAS statistical analysis package, so I suppose the music is just whatever your standard system error beep is. And this makeup table makes that noise.

I know when I was a child, I would like that under my tree. A makeup table that emits the Windows system beep. I would, however, have known how to spell “their.”

I would have also known I’m not likely to be able to trade a kitchen set for a motorcycle.

Thanks for the post, Greg!

67 Responses leave one →
  1. 2012 January 3
    Ralph permalink

    If Sparky wants to trade for motorized “man toys” for a project, I think I have a broken lawnmower.

    The mower, the merror.

    Adores: 17
    • 2012 January 3
      Irregular Fractal permalink

      I have a meerkat, is that a man toy?

      Adores: 2
    • 2012 January 3
      camille permalink

      I’m old fashioned – I prefer my man toys not to be motorized.

      Adores: 6
      • 2012 January 3
        Lola permalink

        I was thinking of a totally different kind of man toy that is in fact motorized.

        *corner*

        Adores: 11
        • 2012 January 3
          Bianchi Sound permalink

          I read it as “man parts” in Adam Baldwin’s voice.

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  2. 2012 January 3

    im looking to barter a ((big)) run-on sentence and an ellipsis family fun pack and some abused parentheses and commas for some capital letters. or mabe some apostrophes. i dont think they play any kind of music.

    Adores: 11
    • 2012 January 3
      Lola permalink

      Not even that kind? Sounds boreng.

      Adores: 1
    • 2012 January 3
      funky "eMonkey" monkey permalink

      Best phase today: “ellipsis family fun pack”. Snort.

      (o/t whine) My office is so cold today that I didn’t even have to put my generic-caffeine-free-sugar-free-soda in the community fridge. They’re (or thay’re) frosty just from sitting on my desk. Handy!

      Adores: 2
      • 2012 January 3
        Windrose permalink

        It’s a free company benefit. 8)

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  3. 2012 January 3
    DGiovanni permalink

    You are not reading this correctly… “times are hard…” especially for a certain cartoon mouse. If you think typing with a coffee cup is hard, try using over-sized hands with only 4 fingers and wearing white gloves, that is why all the misspellings. This is obviously Mickey clearing out one of his many storage units, this one of course is filled with the magical items that played background in Fantasia. Picture all the above, singing and dancing in a Conga line… I’ll wait, go ahead… picture it…… Now do you see what a deal this is?!?

    Adores: 7
  4. 2012 January 3

    It’s Erwin Schrödinger’s long-lost redneck relative, Sparky Schrödinger!
    Will the items make music or won’t they? Can he find the random pieces or can’t he? Will the kitchen set be cobbled together out of old asbestos and string cheese or will it actually be a collection of used cardboard boxes?

    Until such time as you actually observe Sparky’s items, they can be all of those things!

    Adores: 11
  5. 2012 January 3
    Fl'amme Appat permalink

    So let’s see now, the seller wants to trade this children’s kitchen set for some Wii games suitable for a 9 year old girl? And any child would love this play set under their tree, apparently any child other than his own child. So at first he seems kinda filled with Xmas spirit; trade one child’s toy for another type of child’s toy that we assume she will like better. Then some how the Xmas spirit escapes him completely and he decides to trade Susie’s stuff for toys for himself.
    HO-HO-HO Merry XMAS!

    Adores: 4
    • 2012 January 3
      Irregular Fractal permalink

      I’ve got the perfect game that will keep them both busy… I’ve had it laying around the house and been looking to trade it for a box of random crap:
      Grey’s Anatomy: The Video Game*

      *Yes, this is real.

      Adores: 5
  6. 2012 January 3

    Man’s toy’s, eh? I think we have a Fischer Price My First Tool Kit around here that my son no longer uses. Maybe he’ll trade for that? I could use a new kitchen.

    Adores: 6
    • 2012 January 3

      Unless Sparky is looking for the inflatable sort of man-toy.

      I’ll be in the corner.

      Adores: 6
  7. 2012 January 3
    Windrose permalink

    Susie: Daddy, why are you putting my Barbie’s Hair Salon in your truck?

    Sparky: Suz, I got a great deal trading this for something. You don’t play with it anymore, right?

    Choose Your Own Ending!

    1. Susie pulls out a carton of gasoline and a match.

    2. Susie notices something shiny and wanders off.

    3. Susie calls Child Protective Services.

    4. ????

    Adores: 4
  8. 2012 January 3

    Where tree?

    There! *points* There tree!

    Adores: 3
    • 2012 January 3

      Not that there tree – it’s keeping my house from rolling into the creek!

      Adores: 3
      • 2012 January 3
        funky "eMonkey" monkey permalink

        That would be “crick”, thank you.

        Adores: 1
        • 2012 January 3

          Spell-check kept trying to change it into “cricket”, I think I need to find one that speaks Southern.

          Adores: 2
        • 2012 January 3
          Lola permalink

          Not entirely sure that’s southern, ghostie, though it may have been originally. I grew up in the northwest and there were places with “creek” in the name that were locally prounouced “crick.” Maybe it is just a rural designation.

          Adores: 0
        • 2012 January 3
          LimeLolly permalink

          It’s a yankee thing.

          As observed by my southern hubby: ‘Crick’ is what you get in your neck, that there is a ‘creek’.

          And crayfish are only found in the north. Down south, they have crawfish/mudbugs.

          There are a few other words that he claims are mispronounced, but those are the two we argue about the most.

          Adores: 0
        • 2012 January 3
          Lola permalink

          Are you sure? Because I suspect ghostie’s not a yankee … hmmm.

          Adores: 0
        • 2012 January 3
          LimeLolly permalink

          Nope. Not sure of any thing. I just hang out on the walls, here.

          Adores: 3
        • 2012 January 3
          mud "" slicker permalink

          …licking yer eyeballs….

          Adores: 4
        • 2012 January 3
          Irregular Fractal permalink

          As a Native New Englander, we used ‘creek’ to refer to the body of water, and also used ‘crayfish’ as compared to crawdad or mudbug. It’s also soda rather than pop, aunt rhymes with flaunt, and pawn doesn’t rhyme with porn.

          Adores: 2
        • 2012 January 3
          funky "eMonkey" monkey permalink

          My relatives from the gulf call crayfish “snacks”. Urp.

          Adores: 1
        • 2012 January 3

          My grandmother’s biggest pet peeve was the way we pronounced pecan, she insisted it should be puh-khan and not pee-can and would often tell us that “a pee can is what you keep under the bed, a puh-khan is a tree.”

          (They are called “cole dranks” not sodas and crawdads are “bait”.)

          Adores: 2
        • 2012 January 3

          It was “creek” in my area the Northwest, and we didn’t have a word for crayfish because we had an ocean and, frankly, it makes better crustaceans than the crayfish.

          Oh, damn. Big slam on the crayfish outta nowhere.

          I think “crick” comes from Michigan.

          Adores: 5
  9. 2012 January 3
    Cindy B. permalink

    A kitchen and a makeup table under the tree? That would have to be one helluva tree!

    Adores: 3
  10. 2012 January 3
    kelli permalink

    Maybe the toys belong to Sparky, not his daughter, and he cannot fit on the chair, no matter how hard he tries and he still kind of likes the kitchen set but he keeps forgetting to pretend to turn off the stove when he leaves and he is afraid that it will start a pretend fire and he doesn’t have a fire truck in his toy box so he is probably better off trading them for some games to help his daughter forget about the time that Daddy cried because the pretend hair dryer got stuck on his head and it kept playing that song over and over again and then he had to use butter to pry the dryer off his head and it left a mark on his head that lasted for days and now he thinks maybe if he can’t get the wii games for his daughter, maybe he should get some man toys for himself.

    Or maybe I have too vivid an imagination.

    Adores: 11
    • 2012 January 3

      I’m guessing it’s the first thing, but with margarine. Sparky’s watching his pretend figure.

      Adores: 5
  11. 2012 January 3
    funky "eMonkey" monkey permalink

    *asks Uncle Wiki what the fur is “thay”*

    “The Red Wizards of Thay are a fictional organization and social class of evil aligned wizards in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting of Dungeons & Dragons and Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. ”

    *asks Uncle Webster*

    “The Vietnamese word ‘Thầy’, meaning ‘master’ or “teacher'”.

    *asks the Sparktionary*

    Um, er. All the pages in this book are blank.

    Adores: 3
    • 2012 January 3
      Irregular Fractal permalink

      Regarding the Sparktionary, all the words are imaginary. Please rotate your Sparktionary 90° from the real axis and try again.

      Adores: 5
  12. 2012 January 3
    Lola permalink

    OT: Work beat me nearly to death last month, and I didn’t have enough time to snark early or often, and even when I did I had no energy for snark. I missed everyone, not to mention the corners and coffee slices.

    Adores: 6
    • 2012 January 3
      camille permalink

      Lola, I hope your New Year’s Resolutions include lots and lots of snark.

      Adores: 4
      • 2012 January 3
        Irregular Fractal permalink

        Seconded, thirded, and fourthed. Or is that quartered?

        Adores: 1
  13. 2012 January 3
    Digitalaxis permalink

    Beware the evil saloneand! Bow your heads before its mighty prow! Render unto it as tribute your hair dryers, makeup tables, and finest silverware, and play great songs of joy and merriment as you celebrate that the merror has spared you from your eternal torment and kitchen playset!

    Adores: 6
  14. 2012 January 3

    email me the games you have

    I tried to email him a Clue, but he didn’t get it…

    Adores: 14
    • 2012 January 3
      mud "" slicker permalink

      That’s cause he couldn’t get a Life.

      Adores: 3
      • 2012 January 3

        And that’s because he has a MONOPOLY on stupid.

        Adores: 5
        • 2012 January 3
          Lola permalink

          Is that curable with an Operation?

          Adores: 2
        • 2012 January 3
          Irregular Fractal permalink

          No, Sorry.

          Adores: 4
        • 2012 January 3
          mud "" slicker permalink

          Aw, Shucks and Ladders.

          😉

          Adores: 3
        • 2012 January 3

          The mind Boggles

          Adores: 4
        • 2012 January 3
          mud "" slicker permalink

          You Hammy, are nothing but Trouble!

          Adores: 2
        • 2012 January 3

          I’m board with this game.

          Adores: 3
        • 2012 January 3
          Lola permalink

          Your joke is Parcheesi.

          Adores: 3
        • 2012 January 3

          I’m more a Chess man, although I do like a good Backgammon.

          Adores: 3
        • 2012 January 3
          LimeLolly permalink

          The absolute Perfection of this thread makes it numero Uno.

          Adores: 4
        • 2012 January 3
          mud "" slicker permalink

          Okay, everybody Go Fish!

          Adores: 2
        • 2012 January 3

          I think you’re a little Rummy.

          Adores: 1
        • 2012 January 3
          Irregular Fractal permalink

          With all due credit to Hammy, how is there not a Baby Got Backgammon t-shirt available on the vast Internet wasteland of commerce?

          Adores: 6
        • 2012 January 3
          Windrose permalink

          The best cure for rummy is gin! And, uh, I had to Scrabble to get that one!

          Adores: 1
        • 2012 January 3
          Lola permalink

          Really? I was making jokes like that back when I was still in my Cribbage.

          Adores: 2
      • 2012 January 3
        Windrose permalink

        Well, it just seemed such a Trivial Pursuit.

        Adores: 2
        • 2012 January 3
          DigitalAxis permalink

          You’d have to be a Mastermind to make sense of that post.

          Adores: 2
  15. 2012 January 3
    Tankerbell permalink

    Kelli, there is no such thing as too vivid an imagination. At least around here.
    Or, apparently, in [Location], where all inanimate objects play music (or maybe that’s just because Sparquois forgot his meds again) and you can get wii games or motorcycles in exchange for your busted-ass old toy kitchen and make up table.

    Adores: 1
  16. 2012 January 3
    LimeLolly permalink

    “Daddy, where’s my makeup table? I want to play fashion model. ”

    “Nevermind that, come play Resident Evil. It’ll be fun.”

    Adores: 7
    • 2012 January 3
      mud "" slicker permalink

      Play Grand Theft Auto and she can kill all the fashion models she wants! Providing that they’re whores.

      Adores: 3
  17. 2012 January 3
    ladycrim permalink

    All the inanimate objects play music? Did they happen to come from an enchanted castle in France?

    Adores: 5
  18. 2012 January 3
    tigprincess permalink

    2012 can get no better – I was in the box yesterday! Thanks everyone ….. also for all the giggles today.

    Adores: 2
    • 2012 January 3
      Bianchi Sound permalink

      Yes, the box is a great way to start the year. Especially since the year is going to be so short, what with the apocalypse and all.

      Adores: 2
  19. 2012 January 4
    Windrose permalink

    It must have been Caturday, tigprincess and Bianchi Sound were in the box! Punchity Punch Punch!

    Good Morning, Whoville!

    Adores: 0

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