Hit the Trail

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The perfect gift for the cave groom who has it all.

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Anyone seen the movie ‘Teeth’?

Cause there’s two sharks teeth on this one..

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Hey, gimme my tooth back!!!

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OOAK!!!

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Hey this would be perfect for one of the Geico cavemen!

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Helen, hit that one on the head. “Artist” should add on an old cigarette butt.

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How does she know that scrap of fluff is mink? Did she cut if off her grandma’s coat?

BTW: Are you at all concerned that now that you have a book deal, people will flood etsy with crap just to get your attention?

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And notice the attention to detail! The stitching is utterly divine!

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*turns and shouts* Honey, tell your mom to stay out of my craft supplies and get back on her meds!!

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Perhaps the buyer could rent this out for prom. Add a bottle cap and an opened condom package and I think she’s got a winner.

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edenartist — RE: “flood etsy with crap”.
Exactly. So much more authentic when items were added to Etsy before Helen made her killer website.

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“Note: shipping to United States only at this time”

That sound you’re hearing? The collective sigh of relief by the 6489491396 other people in the world.

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I feel the need to see this on a person to truly appreciate its beauty.

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total random request- I want to be able to show an image and type my name in BIG letters, too- how ya doing it, guys?

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See, I never wear a cumberband unless it’s covered with whimsicle sequence in the shape of a vagina, and tagged “Biblical”.

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Oh! I know what she means! It’s short for “cumbersome band.”

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pauldodo:

to make an avatar go to:

http://en.gravatar.com/

Big Letter names are hot links to people’s chosen web page. Since I only exist here I’m not completely sure hoe to do it, but try clicking the Sign In button and checking your WordPress profile page, it has to be there somewhere.

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“hoe”? H-O-W. moron.

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Maybe she should only makes things once the idea comes to her and she has thought it over at least 3 times. Then she would come to the conclusion that her ideas are stupid.

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It is a violation of Regretsy’s Terms Of Abuse to call out other Regretsy losers by pointing out spelling errors. Thank yew. Bobwhite. regretsy admin. This thread has been closed.

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And spare herself this embarrassment.

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hammerhead77, hope you’ll try again too when you have some time.

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#7 catspiracy- you almost made me spit my drink.

*note to self- don’t eat or drink while reading on Regretsy.

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I could have sworn I had a WordPress account, but I apparently don’t as I can’t log in to gravatar.
But I did realize I can display my full name here.
Whee!

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I play pickle-lo Stingray, maybe we should get the band back together.

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Kathleen Shrimp: use the Get your Gravatar today button and ignore the WordPress log-in boxes.

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I suspect that this is actually a custom order for MacGuyver, who is finally getting married (poor old chap). It’s really the only feasible explanation.

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Thanks, Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell

Same thing here, Kathleen- just awaiting them to send the password!

Cumberband=cummerbund…. I missed that one!!

I need fud

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Hey, Stingray and Kami- need a Ukulele player?

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EVERYONE needs a Ukulele player.

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Kamikaze – May I recommend the Duke of Uke?

http://www.dukeofuke.co.uk/

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YAY!! where do I sign?

YAY!!!I gots me a pic!

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I can play the tambourine- but only if I’m wearing my bell-bottomed flame orange polyester pantsuit.

That’s what you all had in mind for the band, right?

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OH! pauldodo. oh. that was worth the wait! I remembered where else I exist. Place a web adress in your WordPress profile and you’ll go BIG LETTER name.

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Absolutely Patty.

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ANY web address pauldodo.

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I’m covering it already- did it werque?

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booksanddecaf: thank you!

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Lookit me, I’m like the cool kids now! Cheers, Kami, I seemingly owe you several.

Now, back to the madness….
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OH! pauldodo. oh, yes it did.

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I think the Regretsy band should all wear the Cumberband- it’ll be speshly good for me cos I could request a selection of items to use as picks.

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I noticed that the artist left a bit of blank space on this thing, so I took the liberty of adding a few whimsicle things.

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pauldodo- perhaps the Cumberbands should have sequenced. I’m just saying.

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“Fits torso/waist 27″”

Damn, just a 1/2 inch too small…..

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hammerhead77=genius

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OK, referencing your own hot link is uberlame; but there’s a geocentric debate about SQUIRRELS?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrels
“The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please improve this article and discuss the issue on the talk page.” Sorry, I’ll get back on topic.

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I’d like the sexy vampire cloth pad right in the center of my cumberband.

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Hammerhead, your refinements have been posted to Twitpic and Facebook.

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#60 Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell :

hammerhead77=genius

Gah!

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Until people started making fun of the spelling I thought it said “Cumberland” (as in the Cumberland Gap) and was hypothesizing that the sewn-on crap represented landscapes features.

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“Fits torso/waist 27″”

Damn, just a 1/2 inch too small…..

Again, what I was gonna say…..

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Gah!?

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Gah

SO much for getting back on topic.

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#58 Booksanddecaf- you do have a point….

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who looks at this and says “yeah, that’s definitely DONE. i don’t need to add another thing to it.”

??????????????????

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It’s kind of a shame we don’t have official forums (yet?)

We could totally have Photoshop challenges with some of these things. Design a Christmas gift basket! Dress up Suzie & Johnny for the prom! Design on a dime, Regretsy style!

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Way to go, Hammerhead- I think you just fucked up my chances of ever getting any serious work done, ever if we get one…..

Bring it on, H(A)!

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#57 hammerhead77 — oh, man. There is no reason on earth that those items COULDN”T be there — in fact, they sorta balance the piece. The Michael Jackson Golliwog and the reborn CSI baby now balance the new grouping of nuts and needle-felted vulva so beautifully. What an eye.

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Hammerhead77, you just cheered me up on a very lousy day. Thanks for the laugh.

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I’m a whizz at shaking the maracas so can please get a spot in the Regretsy band?
it took me a while to figure out what this baby blue ribbon with stones on it were supposed to be used for. I blame a sheltered upbringing

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Where would you ever wear this did they go out in the yard and find some crap and glue it all together??

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I <3 Hammerhead! Have to ask: WTF is that fish head thing?!

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thankgod she only makes things “once”

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#76- it’s from here….
http://www.regretsy.com/2009/10/05/fish-and-foul/

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#57 hammerhead77 :

That is a proverbial ‘Where’s Waldo?’ of awesome.

The more I look at it, the funnier it is. I just now noticed the CSI Miami baby wearing the Lil Kim nightshirt.

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Hermes- it’s the fish in a squirrel suit taxidermy that pauldodo linked. It might keep you up at night.

Come to think about it, what is up with crafts and squirrels?? We’ve had the squirrel blood, fish in a squirrel suit, and squirrel-in-a-vagina (combining 2 favorite themes). An Etsy search brings up over 180 pages of squirrel shit! (That’s just with squirrel spelled right–squirell and squirrell probably add more!) Geez, and I thought my dog was obsessed with squirrels…

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hammerhead77: I never noticed that…too funny!

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I wished for the Flavor Flav vagina and it miraculously somehow, by the grace of all things awesome and kickass at photoshop, came true..

so now I will close my eyes and wish for the CSI Miami baby to be riding a squirrel..

okay, making wish now

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pauldodo, has anyone ever told you that you look like edward norton?
just sayin…

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“This looks like the crap you find in your pockets after you go camping.”

CAMPING?!

Really now? I try not to judge; still, Helen seems the kind of woman whose idea of roughing it is a hotel without a day spa.

Not that I didn’t snort when I read it. Or maybe shortly before I read it.

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That may take a little while, but I think it could be arranged.
Would you prefer that it ride the fish in a squirrel suit or the bleeding squirrel on the front page? I may also have to add Sarah Palin in there, just for the helluvit.

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Kimmer-G: edward norton should be so lucky. just sayin…

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CSI Miami baby riding a squirrel off into a gleaming vagina setting-sun

(I’m with Kimmer, I can def. see Edward Norton)

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OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

oh hell yes!

I was typing that before I read that my wish was going to come true (you are a badass)

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I was thinking just regular squirrel, but then the thought of the fish in the squirrel suit being saddled up by the CSI Miami baby is funny as all hell.

Sarah Palin.

I think I might die of happy.

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From reading the other Regretsy pages, I actually do know of a seller who probably has crafted a vagina that looks like a sunset. If not, she’ll make you one! [*cough* http://www.etsy.com/shop/WomanInBloom *cough*]

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haha, hammerhead yes! Well played! Why am I not surprised?

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=30135571

is it me or does that one look like what would happen if Darth Vader got his head squished in between a set of vice grips until one of his eyeballs popped out

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If you want real fun look at her sold items, too. That’s where I found the one I needed for the sunset

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can’t.stop.laughing.

http://www.etsy.com/view_transaction.php?transaction_id=10044781

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It’s good to know that they were’t made from molds.
That would mean that there are some out there that have owls, and flowers and such as part of their delicate anatomy.

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You know, I wanted to mock how it just looks like formless slabs of unfortunate play-doh. Then I saw one of the more detailed pieces on her site.
Like the fishy death vadge.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=33020094
Dear. God.

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Sorry Pauldodo and Kamikaze, long day, just found my way back to Regretsy. Yes, let’s get the band back together, We can rock some CCR and call ourselves The Suzie Q Cumber Band.

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I usually make things before i think of them

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I’d like the CSI baby naked and riding a giant carrot, but that’s because I’m also a cakewrecks fan.

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OK, let’s see if the gravatar thing works.

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Rolando could be a carrot? http://www.etsy.com/view_transaction.php?transaction_id=14376517

Rrrrrrrrrolando

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#91 when I clicked on the link, my husband had this to say:

“Looks like a spider laid an egg in her cootch.”

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I was looking for vaginal carrots at first, so I casually opened this up in a separate Firefox tab, because it was orange and kinda the right shape

http://www.etsy.com/view_transaction.php?transaction_id=11674016

and just now went to look at it closer and I was all ‘SWEET MOTHER OF GOD A SEA MONSTER!!! ITS A SEA MONSTER!!’

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Oh noes! Need halp! I still see the little faceless white humanoid.

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#100 OMG! It’s a giant squid!

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#99 beqi :

haha. I started to notice that too. I was looking at it more closely and then saw the spider, and then remembered those creepy NatGeo ‘I survived a poisonous spider bite’

about how limbs go black and necrotic and fall off so I stopped that train of thought immediately and went back to ‘Squishy Head Darth Vader’ =\

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The Vagina Kraken

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The orange one looks as though it has genital warts.

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OMG. I can’t believe it. This is exactly what mine looks like…

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=33020094

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OK, I had to google Edward Norton…..

NO WAY! but then again, he is about twenty years younger….

Did Addiosix get her fish squirrel vag montage? I’m happy to attempt it if Hammerhead’s too busy?

Or I could go running in the cold….

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Edenartist- I want photos…

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Cumberband?

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Welcome to the party, WooHoo.

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Thx paul. I’m truly afeared of all the vag worship.
(trembles)

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I’m more afeared of the dribbling peni and the scary clowns, but that’s just me, prolly.

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#20 Frankenkitty :
Where’s the squirrel vagina?

When I Googled “squirrel vagina” I got this pretty dress:
http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2009/03/VAGINA-GOWN.jpg

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Paul, maybe I’m slow but what is
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Yeah, more or less- more bizoux than smooch, but take it anyway and where you want it.

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bizoux?

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#sigh# Gallic ‘air kissing’, usually puckered and noisy, usually missing the target.

Mwah mwah!

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Regretsy is a wealth of knowledge. E.g. I also hadn’t known chipmunks eat mice.

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Having kids has the same kind of effect- I didn’t know Chipmunks could sing until I was introduced to Alvin and his friends…. still can’t believe it.

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Can I be in the band too? I play violin….

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I heard a rabbit scream recently, honestly.

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I am starting to think folks are just making crap with the goal of getting on Regretsy. At least I hope that was the reason this particular piece of crap was made.

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#121 Naveedess : You are most welcome, pull up a stool and jam with us!

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Paul – new avatar!

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Wearable whimsicle.

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I can’t see it…

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Yours, I mean.

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edenartist – ROFL! Also LMAO at Vagina Kraken.
I’m working on the reborn squirrel piece. I have finished the vaginal sunset. (There’s a sentence I never thought I’d type), but then I had to stop ‘cuz, well, I wanted to watch an EPL match, but I’ll be able to work on the reborn-squirrel motif this afternoon when the TV gets commandeered to watch “football” (you know, the rugby knock-off with the helmets and such)

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I feel a book sequel coming on….:)

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It’s a mink merkin. With teeth.

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I can sing and play drums and pennywhistle, all very badly. Can I be in the band?

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Arrgh! Why didn’t my new gravatar show up???

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Oh, there it is. Patience, grasshopper.

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js: all at the same time? OF COURSE you can!

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This one definitely made it to get on Regretsy as check everything else she has sold- mainly vintage items. But why sabotage your own shop by making something so (yes!) repulsive? I just don’t get it. We need Columbo to solve THIS mystery…

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buffoon: i fear folk don’t get the Regretsy book guidelines and think if they can get here they can get there. Case in point:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=35025395
*WARNING* NSFW!

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Oh, and full credit to hammerhead77 for finding this first! Sorry hh77!

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Bloody hell, Kamikaze- what the heck sort of shop is THAT?! I mean, did you read her “profile”- sheesh….!! Everything else is $99 and this vag doll (and I think my eyes may have started to bleed if I’d looked at it any longer) for $1? Come on. At least TRY to convince us.

I am thinking that Regretsy actually needs to move away from the clinically insane and the trying too hard and concentrate on the just REALLY BAD ARTS AND CRAFTS. It is often so much funnier, and Helen’s comments…

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…are the best. Couldn’t agree more. Helen, of course, didn’t find (or at least didn’t use) this, we her minions did, hammerhead77 specifically. Don’t know if you read any Esty forums, but the book announcement unleashed a shit storm in both directions, with some sellers swearing to get their stuff noticed by Regretsy; then this. You get that she took another Esty artist’s work featured here and altered it yes? I am, in all ways, in complete agreement with you.

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Alternately, she’s a brilliant Regretsy devotee determined to seriously fuck with Etsy, which elevates her from clinical insane to potential martyr.

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Not sure I had seen the original piece she altered- mighT have missed it. But what happens when someone ACTUALLY buys this and sends her a photo LOL?!! How’d she like DEM APPLES? Can’t follow through on the sale because oh, it was a joke and BAM- busted!

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Precisely.

FYI: the Regresty post:

http://www.regretsy.com/2009/11/10/dolly-dearest/

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oh lol yes I remember that now. It reminds me of one of my all time favourite websites- http://www.awkwardfamilyphotos.com

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Sorry, stuck on the first pic…

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the whole website is a catalogue of unmitigated disaster… kind of like this one! (and glad about it I am too!)

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@100 addiosix – it’s a cthulhucooter

@ 138 Kami – I laughed so freaking hard I damn near cried!

@ 145 buffoon – love it

Oh, and can I join the band? I play the drums (poorly)

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#148 jeepers.O.My.peepers :
ALL CREDIT DUE to hammerhead77, it was a bad over site not to credit him immediately.

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Do we have a singer yet?

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Sorry hammerhead77 I transfer my kudos to you
Still think you rock though kami

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Spank you very much!

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Kamikaze, Patty, Pauldodo, Jeepers (anyone else?): when’s our first practice? And in whose garage?

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#57 HH77: Hilarious, thanks, vey whimsicle!

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I hired a room- can you all get to Nottingham by 12 tomorrow?

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AM or PM?

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I can sing, sort of. And drum, and play the pennywhistle. But I can’t march at the same time. Where is Nottingham?

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Regretsy’s Own Suzie Q Cumber Band, a CCR Tribute Band featuring:
Stingray Charles – Keyboard
Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell – Pickle-lo
pauldodo – Ukulele
Patty (in bell bottomed flame orange polyester pantsuit) – Tambourine
Pytt – Maracas
Naveedess – Violin
js – Voice, Drums, Pennywhistle (simultaneously)
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW!

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js:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=nottingham&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Nottingham,+UK&gl=us&ei=6csJS7CHFMnSlAe-ipmFBA&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CA4Q8gEwAA

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pauldodo: I’ll swim if I have to.

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Can I play the triangle?

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OF COURSE!

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Addiosix, you’re in! And who’s gonna play the cow bell? Our songs need more cow bell!

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Regretsy’s Own Suzie Q Cumber Band, a CCR Tribute Band featuring:
Stingray Charles – Keyboard
Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell – Pickle-lo
pauldodo – Ukulele
Patty (in bell bottomed flame orange polyester pantsuit) – Tambourine
Pytt – Maracas
Naveedess – Violin
js – Voice, Drums, Penny-whistle (simultaneously)
addiosix – Triangle
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW!

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#1- am- some of us have to work!
#2- js- you are so ‘in’ the band!!
#3- Kami- no need, I’ll send the jet.
#4- addiosix- a band’s never compleat without a triangle playa.

That covers it…..

What’s our signature sound?

I fancy doing SKA covers.

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Yep! thats a curtain tie back, I recognise it, my nan has one…

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I can’t wait to see Nottingham! I always wanted to tour it while playing SKA covers on the pennywhistle.

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Sting: I have a fever and (yes!) FEVER! More COWBELL!

(good to have you back!)

need…new…thread

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Scarily, I went to a gig tonight and yes, there was a penny whistle player in a band doing Ska covers, in a Zydeco stylie, in Nottingham….

It’s been that kind of evening here….

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Can I be in the band? I can use pumpkins as drums!

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pauldodo: yes, I dig late 70’s Ska-The Specials, The Beat, Selector…

Kamikaze: you may have left Jeepers (on drums) off the band list.

Gotta go for now, the kid wants me to make her some strawberry milk.

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Yea Frosty! Another drummer!
Now I really gotta go, strawberry milk doesn’t make itself.

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And the band played on….

Night all!

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jeepers.O.My.peepers: 10,000 apologies!
Regretsy’s Own Suzie Q Cumber Band, a CCR Tribute Band featuring:
Stingray Charles – Keyboard
Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell – Pickle-lo
pauldodo – Ukulele
Patty (in bell bottomed flame orange polyester pantsuit) – Tambourine
Pytt – Maracas
Naveedess – Violin
js – Voice, Drums, Penny-whistle (simultaneously)
jeepers.O.My.peepers – Drums
addiosix – Triangle
frostypumpkin – Pumpkins (percussive)
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW!
mmm…

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strawberry milk.

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Hey are we up to three drummers now? ‘Cause that’d be awesome! There is a Brazilian rock/punk band with two drummers and they do some crazy shit.

In regards to genre, I’m cool with damn near anything but country! I did, however, promise my mom to play a deathmetal version of “close to you” by the Carpenters if I ever got a gig.

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who’s on cowbell?

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Apropos of absolutely nothing, I posted in the etsy forum today while shopping for corn poo soap (yes, for real). It was a nice post, complimentary, I thought. They accused me of being someone’s sock and banned me. Not sure what to make of that.

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I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!

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I should really read before posting. Uh.

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Wow. That is outrageous Runaway. Is there a link to your comment that we can see?

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No need for all the crediting, Kimikaze. I just stumbled upon it.
I think I had a different reaction to that vagina doll thing. I thought it was funny as hell just on a wacko, sending up Etsy level. It reminded me of the vagina on a vagina that someone made. I don’t think that vag doll is anywhere close to bookworthy, if that was the seller’s intention. In fact, the vag doll thing would probably have been better posted in a comment thread over here. Save the $ on the Etsy listing!

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Yeah…hang on.

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OK, no, I can’t get the site up, but I think it’s this computer, not them. It’s the “April Winchell” thread. I don’t think I spelled that right, did I? Sorry – don’t ban me! I posted as whimsiclefluffery something like 12 pages in.

I guess I’m just banned from the forums and from responding to all the members accusing me of…what, exactly, I’m not sure, but some sort of nastiness?

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See if I can’t find it.

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Alright, after much unnecessary delay on my part, here is that custom order of whimsicle fuckery for addiosix:
http://i762.photobucket.com/albums/xx262/hammerhead77/addiossixwf.jpg

It’s not my best work, but enjoy!

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Thread that Runaway refers to: http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6356591&page=12

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http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6356591&page=12

Scroll down – too long to post here, sorry.

Basically says, “Hey, I found you through regretsy and now I want to buy your stuff and tell people about it.”

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This is the slowest computer in the universe.

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Runaway, page 15 of that thread has a post from RobWhite, himself, that says:
says:
Sock puppets not welcome, hello to everyone else, back to your regularly scheduled thread. =)
Posted at 9:38 pm, November 22 2009 EST – Report this post

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#190, stutter much?!

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So, haven’t read and followed the whole thread, but I’m guessing that, perhaps, Etsy can see/deduce your involvement with Regretsy, Runaway, can see that you are not an Etsy seller, and blocked/removed your account. And apparently there were other “sock puppets” that he/they removed at the same time. Censorship, even against those like you who were trying to point out the benefit of Regretsy to Etsy sellers. Really scary.

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I know I’m late but I’d love to play cowbell (as I don’t think anyone has scooped it up yet)
I also sing opera…seriously.
And yes, new thread is needed, whoever said that!

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Kimmer-G, you may be too late. The Runaway Lawyer may have already swallowed all the cowbells (back at comment #179).

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They know I’m not a seller because I told them. I was intending to become a genuine buyer.

And, JFTR, they are totally using the term sock puppet incorrectly. If anything I am a troll, and frankly, even that is reaching.

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Nom nom nom cowbell.

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damn…well, there’s still the opera thing…if Kamikaze decides the band could use some high-pitched/rabbit screaming type sounds.

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Anyone else here moderated a forum before? It can be a tough balancing act, but the modding in those Etsy forums is pretty much a standing example of what not to do as far as I’m concerned. The mods are passive-aggressive. When everything goes haywire they come in and shut the thread down. Why not give a warning when the thread is opened that everyone needs to be civil and play nicely (including the Etsy posters!!) or it’ll get closed?? Give a warning or two if things get heated.

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(cont’d) Then, if nobody listens to warnings, shut the thread down! The mods there are also inconsistent. It’s perfectly OK to call out other posters, but it’s not OK to call out other sellers? How does that make sense?? The regular posters, esp. sellers, in those forums clearly seem to be shown favoritism. Just reading that forum as an outsider, that winks girl is clearly feeding & goading the supposed trolls! I’m guessing since she’s a seller, they won’t do anything about that behavior.

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I’ve been an admin and you are right – it is hard sometimes. My personal philosophy is that unless racist or personal insults are being flung, there’s no reason not to let it play out, but of course, that’s not my forum and I’m probably more liberal than most in that regard.

I do think it’s shitty to cut off my ability to respond to their accusations, which makes it look like I took my toys and ran off when that’s not the case.

BTW, I messaged Hyena, the OP, and she was very nice.

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#186 hammerhead77 :

HA!! I love it I love it!! I nearly spit soda down my shirt when I opened that link and started laughing

I so very absolutely right-click ’save as’ desktop-ed that bad boy — thank you for my custom order of badassness!

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Oh, I’ve been totally banned now.

“This account has been deactivated.”

Way to treat your customers, assholes.

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I noticed that too, when I clicked on your whimsiclefluffery name/link. I assumed you knew.

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No, before they just banned me from the forum and I was still able to do other stuff. I was planning to go back later and buy corn poo soap for my little brother, heh. Guess not, huh?

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hammerhead77 — I’m in agreement concerning the winks woman.

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Oh, I was also going to suggest as a constructive comment that people should be able to purchase things without signing up for an account and going through all the BS of looking for links in their email blah blah blah. That is a huge turn-off if you are doing a lot of shopping or are overly impatient. So Etsy peeps, since I know you are reading this – that’s my helpful comment for ya.

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Runaway – Apparently Soapy Ho has been getting a lot of hate mail and shit from other Etsy sellers herself, so maybe she would be willing to work out an order with you off of Etsy somehow? Ya’ll could use Paypal. Cut out Etsy altogether.

Maybe Soapy’ll read this. Then again, maybe she won’t since the thread is now 200+ random posts long!

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Runaway Lawyer: Sorry to hear that Etsy deactivated your account. If it’s any consolation, I’ve lost 5-6 accounts this week. But I deserve it, I’m an asshole.
http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6356591&page=25

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#186 HH77: Oh how I wish every sunset could be so whimsicle!

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Just wasted 20 minutes reading that closed thread of people who care too much. Jebus, it’s all just for laughs, guys. Why get so upset that someone is making money for making me laugh.
But, back to the ‘bund; what are those 3 things that look like petrified squirrel brain bits?

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Good morning- ah, the cowbell players have arrived- oh, and an opera singer- can you sing scat, Kimmer-g?

Way to go, Runaway, you’ll get us all a bad reputation….:)

Thanks!

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Wow. I just came over here. So runaway, you WERE going to buy something! I stood up for regretsy in that thread saying that it does bring people to etsy who have never heard of etsy before – and pointed to your post. Then I guess you were booted off etsy, and someone told me you were a sock puppet.

Complete fuckery. I’ve been on etsy for years and I don’t get it at all. I don’t care HOW you hear about etsy – just give me your money! LOL

I really don’t get why they’d boot you…

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Whimsicle fuckery, indeed.

Seriously, though – sock puppet is the term for someone who has a legit account who opens up a secondary account for purposes of harassment or other nefarious measures. Troll is the term you want to be using. Admin *knows* we aren’t a secondary account (or all the same person, except for Stingray and I don’t think that’s any secret) by IP addresses – it’s quite easy.

And yes, I’m my own person – I even link to my (very quiet for the last week) blog here.

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I read all 212 pages. *L* My ears were burning so I just HAD to come look!
I had to go to work after I posted in the April Winchell thread, so I missed all the pages after I posted. Guess I should go read them.
I have to say…it’s a sad sad day when a lawyer has a little brother in need of soap.

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Sorry ’bout that, Monstrosa. If I could get your time back, I’d probably try to recoup the 3 years of grad school I’m not using.

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#182 hammerhead77 :
OK, thanks hh77: just don’t like to steal laughs is all. Latest pic=more genius!

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Runaway: screed this yesterday on a different thread:
Esty admin’s head is so far up it’s ass it can kiss it’s own tonsils. Wanna sell cookies from your kitchen without regard to federal food safety and shipping laws? Welcome! Wanna resell racist lawn signs from your trailer? Welcome (ok, I grant, that one’s a 1st amend. right, but still). Wanna mention a fair use free speech website that generates business for sellers? BLOCKED!…

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…Meanwhile, if some functionally illiterate “vintage” clothing reseller wants to jump on the forums and viciously attack BUYERS, you know, the people who actually SPEND MONEY on Esty, that’s totally OK under the T.O.U.

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It really is unfathomable. Sellers should be up in arms.

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Soapy Ho – Runaway wanted to buy some corn poo soap as a gift, but got booted off of the forums, for, well, nothing really, if you read it. Now she (he?) has no Etsy account. After that, I wouldn’t blame Runaway for not wanting to give Etsy any $. I thought maybe Runaway could buy the corn poo direct? (Again, not a sentence I ever thought I’d type.)

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Oh god. I’m away from the ‘puter for 3 days and look what happens. WTF is a cumberband? Or maybe this seller is a complete idiot.

Ideas should never come to her. I’m gonna have a discussion with “ideas” so that this never happens again.

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http://www.soapyho.com/
or a click on Soapy Ho’s name anywhere in the threads.
Her direct sales website.
Maybe you all knew that.

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Non sequitor: Kamikaze, saw these and thought of you:

http://beatsbydre.com/products/Products.aspx?pid=B5596

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Re. Runaway getting banned from the forums: I get the feeling Etsy hasn’t a clue how to handle this Regretsy phenomenon and is reeling a bit. Hope you get your hands on some corny poo soap. (ew, grosssss)

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Stingray! I’m flattered? Frightened? No one can read my Poker Face. Thank you.

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Sock puppets are usually created to back up a poster with an unpopular opinion. For example, if I liked this “cumberband,” I could make some sock puppets to agree with me:

HH77: I like the cumberband. If I saw a guy wearing that I’d think it was totally hot.
HH77sockpuppet: ITA! It is awesome.
HH77sock#3: It’s a shame it’s a one-of-a-kind creation. If the seller had another one, I’d buy two!
HH77: Thanks, HH77sp! Glad I’m not the only one who thinks it’s cool.
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Sorry Pauldodo, I’m stuck in customs at East Midland Airport, the sniffy dogs found several questionable stems and seeds between the keys of my Hammond B-3.

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#158 and so on..Kami, Paul and Sting

I wanna play…been hunting, just now catching up on regretsy addiction…
I play the fisher price keyboard like no other, and the flute..
but not simultaneously,
so, you may not consider that talent..however, I can back up sing…alto

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#227
you’re wearing the cumberband aren’t you???

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The Suzie Q Cumber Band, featuring:
Stingray Charles – Keyboard
Kamikaze-go-in Straight To Hell – Pickle-lo
pauldodo – Ukulele
Patty (in bell bottomed flame orange polyester pantsuit) – Tambourine
Pytt – Maracas
Naveedess – Violin
js – Voice, Drums, Penny-whistle (simultaneously)
jeepers.O.My.peepers – Drums
addiosix – Triangle
frostypumpkin – Pumpkins (percussive)
The Runaway Lawyer – Cowbell
Kimmer-G – Voice(Leporidae Soprano)
vangoghbabe – Fisher Price…

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…well, guess the band’s full.

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#230 Love. it.

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Thanks!!! I am sitting here after 12 hours of working putting up some new soaps on my website. I just now thought to ask Killer if I could even do this! I put up my own little Regretsy section. I hope she sees this message or my email before I’m finished. *L*
You guys seriously…you are all wayyy too much fun. I don’t care what anyone says!

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Incidentally, there actually are some cute sock puppets for sale on Etsy
I am very tempted by this Scottish one: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28492758

but it’s a bit expensive for what it is.

Ya’ wan’ $15 fer tha’ wee pooppet, laddie?! I go’ a fookin’ trouser sock of me own! I ca’ glue a wee bit a’ felt to it fer 2 quid!! Cut yer price, fer fookssake!

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KAMIKAZE
sweet!
I’m ordering the Pleather Chest Halter and Granny Montana ASAP….should be here for our first gig.

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#229 VGB: Well I WAS wearing the cumberband at LAX, but activists shouting “fur is murder!” splashed red paint on it. How’d they know that lil’ tuft of orange fur was real mink? At least they didn’t ruin my bald eagle hat or my astrid spats.

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I’d like to add….in the description;the seller used “dangly” and “nut”……

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WHERE’S THE GROUPIES?

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#236 Stingray
IF you would have been wearing the vag necklace…you would have had no problems…would’ve slid you right thru security

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I’m home again….

Stingray, You shudda said…. I’ll cancel the room and wait for the nod from the rest of the band….

Kami- the Fisher Price thing should fit nicely in the band- as long as it’s filled with solidified rusk and has chewed keys. Oh, and the battery compartment lid’s gone.

Just sayin’

p
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#240 Paul
I’ll get rt on that…I’ll have my pet chipmunk gnaw on the keys…

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rub a little meece juice all over them

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OOPS!

Sorry VGB, I meant you…… :S
#stands in corner, head dipped in shame#

p
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#239 VGB: Good advice, thanks. I could use a wardrobe consultant for these trips – my butt necklace set off the metal detector at LAX.

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Y’all are funny. Need a harmonica or a groupie?

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#245 RS: thanks, yes and yes.

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RS; bring Jeff with you, he can provide the harmonics.

p
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#244 Stingray…
You know you had that ass shield on….don’t deny it.

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#248: Yeah, gotta love the mud flap.

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@Stingray..hmmm, now every time a see a trucker …

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@VGB: 10-4 YL.

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If you roll it up and keep it in a leather satchel, you could take it to parties. Tell people that you are a shaman, take out your cumberband, unroll it and pretend you are casting spells/curing people with the elements of nature by rubbing the nut, and kissing the stone..or visa versa, depending on the spell or ailment you trying to cure…..

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#252 VGB: Sounds like Gypsy Dangler’s dance routine from the early ’80’s.

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Sometimes, my dogs manage to raid one of our trash cans and I see this exact same thing when it’s time to shovel their poop out of the backyard.

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I still can’t believe the banning. That’s too stupid.

Here’s a cute sock puppet portrait to cheer you up: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21692509
It’s sold. There are more, but this one’s the best.

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I’ll have to jump up and down, then, seeing as I apparently ate the cowbell. FWIW, I looked for decorative cowbells on Etsy, but they are an as-yet untapped product idea. I’m thinking OOAK whimsicle holiday-themed squirrel sparkly twilight vagoo cowbells?

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The Suzie Q Cumber Band:
Stingray Charles – Keyboard
Kamikaze – Pickle-lo
pauldodo – Ukulele
Patty – Tambourine(bell bottomed flame orange polyester pantsuit)
Pytt – Maracas
Naveedess – Violin
js – Voice, Drums, Penny-whistle (simultaneously)
jeepers.O.My.peepers – Drums
addiosix – Triangle
frostypumpkin – Pumpkins (percussive)
The Runaway Lawyer – Cowbell (in gastro)
Kimmer-G – Voice (Leporidae soprano)
vangoghbabe – Fisher Price
reallyscarey – Harmonica

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*spit*

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Off topic. Checking gravatar thingee. Ignore! Move along! Nothing to see here!

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