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Posted by Helen Killer

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Oct 26, 2009
11:51 am

#1 pottery123 :

Like does it come with the cheap wire or the cheap string? Makes a lot difference to me… just saying, I don’t want to get ripped off.

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Oct 26, 2009
11:51 am

#2 NinjaGato :

Helen…I fucking love you.

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Oct 26, 2009
12:05 pm

#3 Lexiii :

OMG funniest thing I’ve seen all day!

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Oct 26, 2009
12:11 pm

#4 Such is the Craft Ninja :

That’s it…someone finally created a shop that is incredibly creepy, disingenuous, and really really bad on purpose – for the sole purpose of getting posted on Regretsy.

Helen, I believe you have been punked.
It’s that bad.

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Oct 26, 2009
12:17 pm

#5 Helen Killer :

#4, No, this item was added in August. I didn’t start Regretsy until October 1.

More importantly . . . it just sold.

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Oct 26, 2009
12:20 pm

#6 smemilyanne :

That shop is for real?

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Oct 26, 2009
12:22 pm

#7 pottery123 :

WTF. I hope they found about the string or wire before buying.

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Oct 26, 2009
12:26 pm

#8 hello_robin :

Wow, she’s also selling a rock with glued on eyes for $10.00, now that’s a deal.

I hate that anybody bought that. I mean, I think some of these would make hilarious gag gifts, but someone just wasted $5 on a paper clip and string.

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Oct 26, 2009
12:27 pm

#9 Helen Killer :

@ #6 – The shop is real. The comment thread is a Photoshop I made for my own amusement, obviously.

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Oct 26, 2009
12:31 pm

#10 Such is the Craft Ninja :

#5, Indeed, excuse my initial reaction…but even more importantly: http://www.prettyprincesspug.com

Be sure to click on every single link. Especially “Vanilla and Strawberry Ice Cream”
OMG.

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Oct 26, 2009
12:37 pm

#11 magenashley :

hmm…i don’t understand why anyone would buy this…

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Oct 26, 2009
12:48 pm

#12 smemilyanne :

Of course Helen, the “Narc on this post” was a huge tipoff.

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Oct 26, 2009
12:50 pm

#13 Helen Killer :

@#12, You’d be surprised what people miss!

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Oct 26, 2009
1:06 pm

#14 The Mayor of Bethville :

Finally! A necklace that will help me organize this pile of papers.

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Oct 26, 2009
1:07 pm

#15 everydaymama :

Oh my… What? I got paper clips! Any one want to go into biz with me?

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Oct 26, 2009
1:31 pm

#16 QiWhiz :

OMG, I love you.
Laughing….so…hard…

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Oct 26, 2009
1:40 pm

#17 QiWhiz :

After viewing Pretty Princess Pug’s website, I think PPP is in on the joke.

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Oct 26, 2009
1:42 pm

#18 pottery123 :

OMG!!! I just realized the first pic is thread, not wire. It’s got to be quality thread to make me think it was wire. Well worth the price.

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Oct 26, 2009
1:48 pm

#19 Chrisnyc1213 :

You have to wonder if she’s 12 years old or bat-shit crazy. Pretty Princess Pug? It’s like something they’d spoof on South Park.

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Oct 26, 2009
2:06 pm

#20 Monstrosa :

This is insane!
She re-drew Garfield comics: http://www.prettyprincesspug.com/Garfield.html
Introducing Pretty Princess Pug’s newest, bestest friends: Cease and Desist.

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Oct 26, 2009
2:27 pm

#21 bcason :

Wow! I could make a ton by selling paperclips on string?! If I had of only known sooner!!!

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Oct 26, 2009
2:29 pm

#22 whyohwhy :

Oh pretty Pretty Princess Pug you rock my world!!

Three cheers for Regresty for showing us some fanstastic art mockery sellers the past few days. “Snacks on a Plane” is still my favorite.

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Oct 26, 2009
2:31 pm

#23 lyricsma :

That fake comment thread is one of the funniest things I have ever read! Seriously,I laughed for 15 minutes. Thanks!

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Oct 26, 2009
2:35 pm

#24 meanpeople :

Hey someone “bought” this today!!

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Oct 26, 2009
2:49 pm

#25 Jea :

I honestly think this shop is a mockery.
My mind can’t fathom this kind of uninstitionalized insanity.

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Oct 26, 2009
2:57 pm

#26 itsnotschultz :

Can’t…comprehend………so…much…stupidity………brain…melting………….

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Oct 26, 2009
3:17 pm

#27 aka_rosebud :

This item alone is why your site rocks, helen. This stuff can’t stay hidden!!

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Oct 26, 2009
3:45 pm

#28 addiosix :

Oh hell no.

Oh no somebody did not just put a paperclip on a string and try to sell it as jewelery.

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Oct 26, 2009
3:47 pm

#29 addiosix :

Edit:

OH HELL NO SOMEBODY DID NOT JUST BUY A PAPERCLIP ON A STRING FOR FIVE DOLLARS.

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Oct 26, 2009
3:48 pm

#30 JustJon :

I hate this person. Why? Because I honestly can’t tell if she is doing an Andy Kaufman ironic thing, or if she is underage (Im assuming that pic of the girl in the rainbow brite shirt is her, which would mean she is definitely not underage), or if there is some sort of brain injury involved. I WANT TO KNOW WHICH JOKE I SHOULD BE IN ON! gaaah!

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Oct 26, 2009
3:50 pm

#31 thisiscrap :

“You won’t find it in any jewelry stores ”
Not in any that are not run by the insane, that is…
If you check the rest of the quality merchandise in this persons shop, you will see that they have a screw loose.
Ragdoll business cards are collectors items? Who collects them, garbage men?

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Oct 26, 2009
4:02 pm

#32 Holly Weird :

I have to believe, for my own sanity at least, that this shop (and that website, my god) are some kind of experiment in absurdity or something. I have to believe that, or I will lose my own mind.

This origami box with a face drawn on in magic marker retails for $20
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23576602

And she liked this idea so much, she listed two of them.

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Oct 26, 2009
4:18 pm

#33 worldfamousfudgy :

How did this sell? Was it a pity buy?

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Oct 26, 2009
4:30 pm

#34 CateLawrence :

Interesting that her stuff gets sold…

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Oct 26, 2009
4:39 pm

#35 everydaymama :

I think insane asylums should stop allowing their patients to use the computer ;P

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Oct 26, 2009
5:04 pm

#36 tly :

wth? it got sold?! the person who actually bought it is more crazy than the maker…

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Oct 26, 2009
5:09 pm

#37 MadGypsy :

I just viewed her pretty princess pug site. This is why morons should not have access to HTML writing. Nuff said.

Also I hate pugs. They are quite unpleasant. Even more so when they are crudely drawn in MS paint.

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Oct 26, 2009
5:44 pm

#38 pottery123 :

HEY, it only cost her $5.00 and I bet she got more hits to-day on her site, than any one else to-day. Wish I had bought it first.

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Oct 26, 2009
6:10 pm

#39 AgoutiAvenger :

#32 – I thought that was a used chinese take out container! I was a bit baffled, but then I saw the location was Brooklyn and it all made sense.

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Oct 26, 2009
6:15 pm

#40 ThisJustMakesMeSad :

Just. Read. My. Name.

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Oct 26, 2009
6:30 pm

#41 HomeAlone :

I have seen pendants I recognize from wholesale catalogs plunked on a commercial finished chain and sold as hand made jewelry in “respectable” Etsy shops. Paper clip on string is just the trailer trash version of same.

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Oct 26, 2009
6:33 pm

#42 HomeAlone :

CateLawrence says: Interesting that her stuff gets sold…

I have always thought the same thing about Hello Kitty. 6 year olds, maybe…

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Oct 26, 2009
6:38 pm

#43 razberries :

are there paper clip earrings to match? all she’d have to do to market them is take two paper clips and shove them through somebody’s ear lobes

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Oct 26, 2009
6:42 pm

#44 NinjaGato :

This site is proof that a sucker really is born every minute. And said suckers should not be allowed to breed.

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Oct 26, 2009
7:00 pm

#45 stophittingyourself :

What I think is amazing is that there are 44 comments on this crap.

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Oct 26, 2009
7:09 pm

#46 sar-sar :

I’m sure the owner of “Involuntary Emesis” & “Catnip fetus toy” will enjoy “paperclip on a string.”

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Oct 26, 2009
7:22 pm

#47 sbarnes2 :

Argh matey, even more insane was her other sale, a tiny paper frickin’ unicorn colored with markers that sold for frickin’ 20 dollars.

TWENTY DOLLARS! WTF PEOPLE?

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Oct 26, 2009
7:50 pm

#48 zan :

its a librarian man. just google “Kacper Jarecki”.
(which is the email on the pug princess site)
sounds like a joke…maybe…i think

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Oct 26, 2009
8:10 pm

#49 WedThurFri :

String? Wire? Looks like a big ol’ pubic hair to me.

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Oct 26, 2009
8:33 pm

#50 Angela :

Sold?! Everyone is shocked! Please look up shilling. Or consider that the popularity of this site makes crappy things hilarious crappy gag gifts. Can you imagine your best friend opening a birthday present containing a vagina painting? Speaking of vagina’s, wheres the link to that costume?

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Oct 26, 2009
8:36 pm

#51 Angela :

ps. that site makes me think that pretty princess whatever has suffered some sort of head injury, anyone remember the charlize theron character in arrested developement?

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Oct 26, 2009
8:37 pm

#52 deedee :

She probably includes “free” drugs or tittie pics with each purchase. That has to be it. Otherwise I just can’t fathom why someone would pay so much money for this when they could make the same thing themselves by stealing a paper clip from work and pulling a thread from an old sweater. Especially in this economy… who has the money for $5 paper clips on string?!

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Oct 26, 2009
9:11 pm

#53 froufroubijou :

holy f*ck what IDIOT BOUGHT THIS??????

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Oct 26, 2009
9:17 pm

#54 smemilyanne :

The man behind the Pretty PRincess Pug:
http://www.meetup.com/members/2756411/

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Oct 26, 2009
9:32 pm

#55 Cold Salt :

The question is, who is the joke on?

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Oct 26, 2009
11:56 pm

#56 mishlamanda :

Pretty Princess Pug is right on trend…next step is stringing bobby pins on a chain, like this beauty right here

http://www.mycatwalk.com.au/fashion/missbibi/hair-pin-necklace/missbibi5.html

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Oct 27, 2009
12:56 am

#57 heidrun :

@ 46: no, no. can’t you see – this is minimalism!
seriously, that man has too much time on his hands.

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Oct 27, 2009
12:58 am

#58 heidrun :

the “rainbow brite” picture with the weird dog is creepy, somehow.

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Oct 27, 2009
9:10 am

#59 sylvan_shadows :

Feedback was already left for the paperclip necklace. I’m pretty sure whoever bought it didn’t buy it because they liked it. Either it was her, one of her friends, or someone out of pity.

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Oct 27, 2009
9:35 am

#60 ozymandias :

You really need to stop including these attention-seeking Etsy people who juist want to get mentioned on Regretsy. There’s plenty of weird stuff out there just on its own merits, and it’s hard enough to sell on Etsy when you have to put up with jokers like this.

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Oct 27, 2009
9:50 am

#61 PlainJane :

I just can’t and won’t believe this is real because if a tiny part of me does, I may just die a bit inside. The fact it was sold makes me even more suspicious.

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Oct 27, 2009
9:54 am

#62 PlainJane :

If somebody legit did buy it, I think they did so in the hope it will bring them views which probably worked, a $5 advertisement isn’t bad at all.

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Oct 27, 2009
1:31 pm

#63 Hawkeye :

#10 – thank you for recommending the Vanilla & Strawberry Ice Cream section, I fucking DIED while reading that. Hilarious.

Also, the woman who bought this gem of an item has a legit store with swarvoski-esque necklaces, etc. I loved her comment on the sale of the item!

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Oct 27, 2009
2:00 pm

#64 Monstrosa :

Thinking of opening a shop to sell things I find stuck to the bottom of my shoe. On a string – that’s what makes it handmade.

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Oct 27, 2009
5:41 pm

#65 YippySkippy :

Just goes to show that people are suckers for free shipping!

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Oct 27, 2009
5:55 pm

#66 yermama :

Pretty Princess Pug proves my Point…Say NO to Ecstacy!

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Oct 27, 2009
7:30 pm

#67 katylu :

I don’t know whether I’m more freaked out or annoyed by this, but the blonde wig Rainbow Brite pic has been copied from my flickr acccount :O What the hell?! I’ve reported it to Etsy and left a convo for the seller – anything else I can do?

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Oct 27, 2009
9:17 pm

#68 chrissie :

I make jewelry and have an Etsy shop. I make nice jewelry, it’s even sold in some very nice boutiques. I don’t have very many sales on Etsy. Now I know why. I need to start making ridiculous crap and get it on this site then I might sell something! I have paperclips, pink paperclips, blue paperclips I even have silver paperclips. Any requests?

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Oct 28, 2009
1:27 pm

#69 crapgawker :

Helen the thread you made is absolutely hysterical! I would love to go to lunch with you and some of the other posters – we could order Cosmos and wear our Sucks – oops I mean – SEX in the City earrings.

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Oct 30, 2009
11:08 pm

#70 portable wig :

This librarian from Brooklyn is absolutely legit and just mocking Artists with a capital A. Note he calls himself “Yup, Richard Prince is the magical symbolic father of Richard Prince Jr, the artist in residence at Pretty PRincess Pug Palace!”
And Richard Prince is a very famous artist who does jokey work, pieces made from co-opted cartoons and photo’s. If you’re interested:
http://www.richardprinceart.com/necklace.html
http://my.qoop.com/store/Kacper-Jarecki-3561227397932105/

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Nov 1, 2009
6:12 pm

#71 griko :

She was selling someone’s business cards for $50. Wow. Just… wow. *raises an eyebrow*

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31019357

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Nov 11, 2009
11:23 am

#72 WrathOfFoamy :

I hate this kind of crap. This idiot is just doing something stupid to get famous… or infamous… either way, it’s not art, not creative, not anything but sheer assholery! Yes, I just made up a word! Pffft on Pretty Princess Pug!

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Nov 26, 2009
7:18 pm

#73 HelenaHandbasket :

You’d never clear airport security while wearing all that Bling.

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