10-year old me loves this for its outrageous tackiness (yeah, I had great taste even back then). Modern me recognises it for what it is: the horrific symptom of a chronic hoarder.
I have a kid who has two years of French in high school and she’s at work, so I can’t ask, and I’m too lazy to Babelfish it… but isn’t “boudoir” actually French for “bedroom”?
Then this makes it a “seductive bedroom bedroom look…”
(Hanging on the Telephone/Blondie)
Did you buy ev’ry bead they had at the craft store?
Stick ‘em on with six boxes of glue maybe more?
What skank would have this in her damn budoir?
This is an ugly fucking telephone
22 hours? really? Was twenty one and a half hours spent picturing yourself in a boat on a river, With tangerine trees and marmalade skies? or is you clock hard too read cause you glued a bunch of crap to it?
I’m working on a Moroccan flavor for our living room (if one licks the couch it tastes like lamb kebabs), but I can see I’ve been going about it all wrong.
A rotary phone mat have been an interesting bit for a retro decorated room, if it had just been cleaned up (ew), and not tarted up.
Possibly belonged to Phylis Diller too looking that tacky. Did you see her phone listed above with the ring pops labels?? Said her kid loves them and she just couldn’t throw away the labels??I concour that this is hoarding signs..Eww used candy wrappers from her kid..wonder if her germs are free with that
Ten minutes to glue on the plastic gems, beaded fringe, magazine cutout of pin-up girl and dead animal skin. 21 hours to add each bit of glitter individually. (You can’t just be throwin’ this stuff on any ol’ which way; that would be tacky.)
For some odd reason, this…phone made imagine how Chewbacca would decorate his boudoir if he were gay and half blind. Don’t know why. Maybe it has something to do with the furry thing on it.
And while this phone might still be in operational order, I challenge anyone to find a 4-prong phone plug that is still connected to a telco in the US. Or phone service that still detects dial signals.
The first time I read the description my mind saw Macaroni influences instead of Moroccan, which would have been appropriate since it looks like a 2nd graders art project.
i’ve been to catherine’s store in wausau, WI. it was a horrific experience. not only is her stuff brain-bendingly bad, most of it is dirty and damaged. (sorry, “experienced”) and catherine herself is disturbing. the other tenants of the building don’t miss her.
May 21, 2010 at 4:37 pm
Nope, sorry. None left over after I made my mini croquembuche cakes.
May 21, 2010 at 4:38 pm
If I didn’t have the backstory, I’d say this was Shit My Kids Ruined, 1960 style.
May 21, 2010 at 4:40 pm
You know, I like the tacky, glittery decorated telephone as much as the next guy. But this thing is just hideous.
May 21, 2010 at 4:40 pm
It actually kind of looks like my old, pink Hello Kitty telephone that I had when I was in high school. Minus the dead animal.
May 21, 2010 at 4:40 pm
Moroccan influences?
I had no idea that the people of Morocco used glitter glue, stick-on plastic gems, Mardi Gras beads, and leftover mink from an out-of-date stole.
May 21, 2010 at 4:41 pm
Morocco Mink. Wasn’t that a Hanna-Barbera cartoon in the 70s?
May 21, 2010 at 4:41 pm
It’s looks like the beaded curtain and the telephone got into a fight and the telephone lost.
May 21, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Fuck my entire comment. I can’t get over the “seductive bedroom boudoir look with a Moroccan influences.”
Too much bad, and I’m totally one Buffalo Exchange trip away from being a full-fledged hipster.
May 21, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Someone use this to call 9-1-1.
May 21, 2010 at 4:47 pm
10-year old me loves this for its outrageous tackiness (yeah, I had great taste even back then). Modern me recognises it for what it is: the horrific symptom of a chronic hoarder.
May 21, 2010 at 4:49 pm
The phone is dead.
May 21, 2010 at 4:49 pm
I have a kid who has two years of French in high school and she’s at work, so I can’t ask, and I’m too lazy to Babelfish it… but isn’t “boudoir” actually French for “bedroom”?
Then this makes it a “seductive bedroom bedroom look…”
May 21, 2010 at 4:50 pm
22 hours!!!! My perception suffers as well with lack of sleep.
May 21, 2010 at 4:53 pm
THAT’S what my etsy store is missing! A “metaphysical/readings” section!
May 21, 2010 at 4:54 pm
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May 21, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Way to ruin a vintage phone. I don’t give a shit if 22 hours were invested to fuck it up, but it’s worthless now! The mink really did it in. lol
Next time, if you want to fuck things up, use a hammer. Guaranteed it won’t take 22 hours.
May 21, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Seductive bedroom boudoir look indeed. I would look forward to integrating this into my sex life.
May 21, 2010 at 5:01 pm
#17, just use the other side of the phone, I’d imagine the mink would be hard to clean.
May 21, 2010 at 5:01 pm
I can’t decide: a crank call or just a wrong number
FAIL!
May 21, 2010 at 5:02 pm
Christ on a bicycle, what a horrible thing to do to a phone.
May 21, 2010 at 5:02 pm
(Hanging on the Telephone/Blondie)
Did you buy ev’ry bead they had at the craft store?
Stick ‘em on with six boxes of glue maybe more?
What skank would have this in her damn budoir?
This is an ugly fucking telephone
May 21, 2010 at 5:06 pm
This is the phone you use to call Liza Minnelli in an emergency.
May 21, 2010 at 5:07 pm
$175 for a garage sale telephone covered in glitter?! Sometimes, old things aren’t “vintage”, they’re just old crap.
May 21, 2010 at 5:09 pm
But who can you call to dial up your level of taste and judgement?
May 21, 2010 at 5:09 pm
I woulda spent 23 hours and at least cleaned up the filthy cord.
Was someone’s granny using it for S&M bondage for about 40 years? Cuz it looks that sticky.
May 21, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Since you had to bring La Liza into it…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLCRisDDjxI&feature=player_embedded
May 21, 2010 at 5:10 pm
22 hours? really? Was twenty one and a half hours spent picturing yourself in a boat on a river, With tangerine trees and marmalade skies? or is you clock hard too read cause you glued a bunch of crap to it?
May 21, 2010 at 5:13 pm
This is like a prop from a mid-’80s romantic comedy. The heroine would have a kooky BFF who would use the hot-glue phone to order a pizza.
May 21, 2010 at 5:13 pm
Well, according to the description – this phone does “have a ring on it!”. Ha!
May 21, 2010 at 5:14 pm
#28, well played!!
May 21, 2010 at 5:17 pm
Yes, how could it possibly take 22 hours to glue on STRINGS of hideous plastic beads and sequins? Maybe catching the mink took a little while?
May 21, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Liberace called from beyond. He wants his telephone back.
May 21, 2010 at 5:22 pm
I think they spelled “DALI” PHONE wrong in the title.
May 21, 2010 at 5:53 pm
I’m not seeing the “Moroccan influence”…..
May 21, 2010 at 5:55 pm
If that $175 pricetag is just too steep, they do have this bargain available in their store, too:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/45896476/recycled-vintage-dial-phone-by-creinke?ref=v1_other_1
May 21, 2010 at 5:57 pm
Ugh, old phones have charm on their own. You don’t have to kitsch them up. Kitsch some crap up that needs help being appealing.
May 21, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Aw, look – a little friend for dead mole purse…
May 21, 2010 at 6:29 pm
Oh god! Have you seen her shop? She’s got moar!!
May 21, 2010 at 6:58 pm
I don’t have to “look closely” to see that this is an absolute piece of crap
May 21, 2010 at 7:25 pm
The only labeled in the shop as a rotary phone instead of a “dial phone” is not even a rotary phone:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/20418045/recycled-rotary-phone-by-artist-c-reinke
May 21, 2010 at 7:30 pm
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May 21, 2010 at 7:57 pm
I love how the hot pink beading next to the mink give it the appearance of bleeding – as if freshly skinned. Loverly.
May 21, 2010 at 8:28 pm
The numbers are covered by sequins. That would totally mess me up when I try to dial.
Veto.
May 21, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Not even Janis Joplin full of Southern Comfort and Quaaludes would think this was cool….
May 21, 2010 at 8:57 pm
I’m working on a Moroccan flavor for our living room (if one licks the couch it tastes like lamb kebabs), but I can see I’ve been going about it all wrong.
A rotary phone mat have been an interesting bit for a retro decorated room, if it had just been cleaned up (ew), and not tarted up.
May 21, 2010 at 9:03 pm
A fingerless epileptic could produce finer work in less time.
May 21, 2010 at 9:32 pm
Did “drunk dialing” needed another meaning?
May 21, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Possibly belonged to Phylis Diller too looking that tacky. Did you see her phone listed above with the ring pops labels?? Said her kid loves them and she just couldn’t throw away the labels??I concour that this is hoarding signs..Eww used candy wrappers from her kid..wonder if her germs are free with that
May 21, 2010 at 10:17 pm
Ten minutes to glue on the plastic gems, beaded fringe, magazine cutout of pin-up girl and dead animal skin. 21 hours to add each bit of glitter individually. (You can’t just be throwin’ this stuff on any ol’ which way; that would be tacky.)
May 21, 2010 at 11:48 pm
Seductive? Did I miss something?
For some odd reason, this…phone made imagine how Chewbacca would decorate his boudoir if he were gay and half blind. Don’t know why. Maybe it has something to do with the furry thing on it.
May 22, 2010 at 12:03 am
that ‘pin-up’ girl looks like she has a tail.
May 22, 2010 at 12:31 am
Maybe the mink bit is for when you want to have phone sex.
May 22, 2010 at 2:29 am
This just made me vomit in my own mouth.
You must not be Japanese. – HK
May 22, 2010 at 6:42 am
#33 Dali would sue you for that comment. The Lobster Phone is brilliant. I love the lobster phone.
http://elfini.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/lobster-phone-dali.jpg
And while this phone might still be in operational order, I challenge anyone to find a 4-prong phone plug that is still connected to a telco in the US. Or phone service that still detects dial signals.
May 22, 2010 at 8:02 am
All that’t missing is the rainbow unicorn!!!
May 22, 2010 at 8:19 am
Lady Gaga, your telephone is ready.
Stop gluing, stop gluing, don’t you add another thing more.
You left your taste back in Michaels aisle Four
Stop gluing, stop gluing, don’t you add another thing more.
My God, your gluing arm must really be sore.
May 22, 2010 at 9:00 am
22 hours to cover something in hot glue and then throw crap from the junk drawer on it? Someone has way too much time on their hands!
May 22, 2010 at 12:11 pm
Just what I need, a germ catching mink on my phone. And isn’t it spelled dial?
May 22, 2010 at 12:13 pm
I found the rainbow unicorn!
May 22, 2010 at 2:20 pm
“if you look closely you will see the pin up girl”
Isn’t it physically dangerous to look at this thing closely? I wonder if there are HAZMAT goggles.
May 22, 2010 at 3:15 pm
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May 22, 2010 at 3:38 pm
For $175.00, this had better come with hand sanitizer, latex gloves and a dental dam. Ewwww….
May 22, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Boy, somebody was tweakin’ balls.
PussDaddy
May 23, 2010 at 12:04 am
I thought you were Dail!
May 23, 2010 at 12:14 pm
If they would of left the pink phone alone and sold it vintage they could of made at least $70.00 for it.
May 23, 2010 at 4:13 pm
My favorite quote:
“They make a great conversation piece and add to your decorum.”
May 23, 2010 at 4:45 pm
This phone is to seductive as
dog puke is to edible.
May 24, 2010 at 6:17 am
As an aficionado of rotary telephones, I am actively offended by this.
May 24, 2010 at 7:13 am
The first time I read the description my mind saw Macaroni influences instead of Moroccan, which would have been appropriate since it looks like a 2nd graders art project.
December 21, 2010 at 6:27 am
i’ve been to catherine’s store in wausau, WI. it was a horrific experience. not only is her stuff brain-bendingly bad, most of it is dirty and damaged. (sorry, “experienced”) and catherine herself is disturbing. the other tenants of the building don’t miss her.