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Stealers Wheel

Posted by Helen Killer

82 comments

Maybe you should steal a dictionary.

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Jul 29, 2010
9:36 am

#1 RobinLynne :

Skink is my new favorite word.

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Jul 29, 2010
9:36 am

#2 Mistletoe :

Thieves to the left of me, cryabeetus to the right – here I am, stuck in Regretsy with you.

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Jul 29, 2010
9:36 am

#3 curlytopnola :

oh, if i could take a red pen to this crap, WHAT i wouldn’t do….
or maybe it’s a parallel universe where homonyms are all loosey-goosey. whichever, there’s no excuse for skink-ing anybody or anything at anytime. it’s just bad manners.

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Jul 29, 2010
9:38 am

#4 evacooper :

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Jul 29, 2010
9:38 am

#5 Wilma Fingerdoo :

I’d like to buy some punctuation, Vanna.

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Jul 29, 2010
9:38 am

#6 Mistletoe :

The amazing thing, #1, is that it really is a word:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skink

Just not, you know, a VERB is all.

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Jul 29, 2010
9:39 am

#7 tdro :

Should be fairly easy to steal a dictionary, she has all that practice stealing images.

ZING!!! – HK

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Jul 29, 2010
9:39 am

#8 bootsychoo :

Looks like Tangdy Wedding Dress Factory got a new job writing copy.

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Jul 29, 2010
9:40 am

#9 O_rly :

A skink is not the same as a skank. A skink is a lizard. Does she let her skink chew on it to size down those nice, personable photos? I think I’m having an aneurysm.

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Jul 29, 2010
9:41 am

#10 Wilma Fingerdoo :

I may convo artist to see if they can make me an Iearn Lucky Charm Bracelet.
After all, they are magically delicious.

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Jul 29, 2010
9:41 am

#11 roughdiamond :

I want my wedding ring to be made of stainless steal.

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Jul 29, 2010
9:41 am

#12 miss_naughty :

I give her points for having manicured nails in the pics. I take away points for the nails not being all similar length. I am not sure if I should add or take away points for her index finger having a checkered pattern or not.

Regardless – I am going to attempt to use the word “skink” in a conversation at some point today.

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Jul 29, 2010
9:41 am

#13 joshpincusiscrying :

Manicure courtesy of the pit crew.

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Jul 29, 2010
9:42 am

#14 roughdiamond :

OH and she should be in the crazy nails hand model category.

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Jul 29, 2010
9:43 am

#15 AnotherPersonsTrash :

I loves me the nails. French manicures skeeve me out but with a badly done checkerboard….. ohhh yeah.

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Jul 29, 2010
9:44 am

#16 Travelgrrl :

That checkerboard fingernail will haunt my dreams, i fear.

And skinks are little lizards. Though I might skink down a little this weekend.

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Jul 29, 2010
9:49 am

#17 RobinLynne :

#5, you should contact “Tabbatha.” She sells it in bulk.

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Jul 29, 2010
9:53 am

#18 LeeLooDallas :

Three random NASCAR facts:
1. There was a driver named Dick Trickle. True fact.
2. My husband and I used to live in the midwest, slept through races on tv and coined the term “NAPSCAR”.
3. An oft used phrase by NASCAR commentators:
“It’s just one of them deals.”

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Jul 29, 2010
9:54 am

#19 RobinLynne :

I just found a wild skink wearing this bracelet.

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Jul 29, 2010
9:55 am

#20 trousers rolled :

If I don’t have a personable photo will seller skink one of me looking really, really cranky?

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Jul 29, 2010
9:56 am

#21 LeeLooDallas :

Also – it’s pretty cool that she lets the bracelet dry.

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Jul 29, 2010
10:00 am

#22 FadHamburger :

Is it just me or is her pinky nail really screwed up? Like it’s sideways…

It’s really creeping me out.

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Jul 29, 2010
10:05 am

#23 pplrdum :

There’s just too much to choose from here; I’m not sure where to place my snark. And it’s all deserving; “rather it be” the horrible grammar, the bad nail job, the stupid bracelets…where to begin?

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Jul 29, 2010
10:05 am

#24 WhyLikeThis :

Classy! it’s Italian, you know

I’m not sure exactly what skinking is, but i’m reasonably sure that it’s no way to treat an innocent reptile, and it’s almost definitely non consensual.

i will never understand the appeal of NASCAR. it seems to me you could get the same effect by getting really high and standing on an overpass. it’d be cheaper too

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Jul 29, 2010
10:11 am

#25 lisa_n :

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Jul 29, 2010
10:13 am

#26 KittyPrawn :

Urban dictionary tells me that skinking is… “how a cat prowls around the house. It especially describes how smaller, more lithe cats behave.”

Personally, it looks to me like skinking is gluing small pieces of square paper to metal.

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Jul 29, 2010
10:16 am

#27 meanbeads :

I’d buy something off of Zazzle if it meant we could send this seller a dictionary. It’s for a good cause…MY SANITY.

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Jul 29, 2010
10:17 am

#28 rumi monger :

SOLD! to the lady smoking outside the DMV.

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Jul 29, 2010
10:18 am

#29 Efit :

“Skink” is exactly the word that came to mind when I saw her nasty DMV-worker clickety-click-on-the-keyboard nails.

Oh wait, that’s “skank.”

Skink, skank, skunk.

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Jul 29, 2010
10:19 am

#30 Sammy the Goose :

Here’s what the skink thinks…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tedsla/3213997027/

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Jul 29, 2010
10:23 am

#31 razberries :

this spelling skinked, skanked, skunked….
(sing in a “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” voice)

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Jul 29, 2010
10:24 am

#32 Efit :

@#26 – Holy shit. What are the odds that two Regretsy snarkers make a DMV comment at the same time? (Your comment hadn’t posted when I posted mine).

skinky.

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Jul 29, 2010
10:25 am

#33 cecikierk :

Steal is a brand new kind of steel that has a gold tone.

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Jul 29, 2010
10:28 am

#34 knittin-kitten :

If this is how she writes, imagine having a conversation with her.

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Jul 29, 2010
10:29 am

#35 razberries :

holy crap is right…LOL
I just thought “Grinch” when I saw this…sorry for the blatant repost…

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Jul 29, 2010
10:31 am

#36 rocza :

She doesn’t just need a dictionary. She needs a Strunk & White, too.

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Jul 29, 2010
10:36 am

#37 LeeLooDallas :

Rocza – don’t you mean a Strink & White?

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Jul 29, 2010
10:36 am

#38 cecikierk :

Oh, related:

A woman on Jerry Springer said to another woman: “YOU ARE A HORE, H-O-R-E HORE!”

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Jul 29, 2010
10:40 am

#39 AnnieRexia :

Redneck to English – fail.

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Jul 29, 2010
10:42 am

#40 Skully :

I wonder if she skinks down the images herself, or if she takes them to Skinkos.

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Jul 29, 2010
10:44 am

#41 Stretch65 :

SKINK – lets conjugate shall we
I skink
You skank
They skunk and the whole mess is skinky
I will file this under Etsy ebonics

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Jul 29, 2010
10:44 am

#42 LeeLooDallas :

Skully for the WIN!

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Jul 29, 2010
10:46 am

#43 knittin-kitten :

I looked through her shop. It looks like the dollar store exploded in there.

I am puzzled as to the lack of cars on her NASCAR bracelets. She went to all that trouble to find the sponsors logos and rip them off, couldn’t she get a picture of the actual car?

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Jul 29, 2010
10:46 am

#44 Stretch65 :

Skinkage is what happens when a man is submerged in cold water

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Jul 29, 2010
10:47 am

#45 sparklepire googly eyes :

Well you could always take your Skink for a walk down a street in St. Louis called Skinker. Hopefully no one will steel your brand new Skink bracelet.

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Jul 29, 2010
10:48 am

#46 Stretch65 :

…and at only $15 now that’s a steel!!!

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Jul 29, 2010
10:50 am

#47 coolpauper :

I can hear they way she speaks by reading her writing. I’m sure she would tell you she started doing crafts “whenever” she was in high school. (that one always drives me particularly crazy!)

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Jul 29, 2010
10:50 am

#48 Patty got abducted by a Steampunk Alien :

I wonder, duz she makes them fore the NASCAR driver Tonye Stewart cuz my ol’ mand is a big fand of hiz.

*ouch, my brain*

I have photographic evidence that NASCAR lulls living creatures into a coma.

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Jul 29, 2010
11:00 am

#49 VagtasticSteampunkSPRHRO :

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Jul 29, 2010
11:04 am

#50 IscreamUscream :

24? I bet Jack Bauer could kill somebody with that thing.

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Jul 29, 2010
11:13 am

#51 roughdiamond :

Now I’ve got the song in my head. Thanks, HK.

“Well I don’t know why I came here tonight,
I got the feeling that something ain’t right,
I’m so scared in case I fall off my chair,
And I’m wondering how I’ll get down the stairs,
Clowns to the left of me,
Jokers to the right, here I am,
Stuck in the middle with you.”

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Jul 29, 2010
11:15 am

#52 inmediasres :

I don’t know, but something about “skink” just sounds horribly dirty to me.

Also, I’m so wanting to make a Friends quote here… something about a reject from the Mr. T Collection? I pity the foo’ who puts on my jewelry, I do! I do!

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Jul 29, 2010
11:45 am

#53 thatdingo :

STOP!

Skink it Down!

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Jul 29, 2010
1:02 pm

#54 Iterpy :

She has Sandy Claws (made only marginally better because it is not her feet).

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Jul 29, 2010
1:06 pm

#55 HelenaHandbasket :

Mayhaps it is poor camera perspective, but she seems to have one of those wonky big toe thumbs, ala Megan Fox.

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Jul 29, 2010
1:12 pm

#56 MonstersFromTheID :

#45 sparklepire googly eyes :
“Well you could always take your Skink for a walk down a street in St. Louis called Skinker”

Reality trumps whimsicle snarking. I grew up in St. Louis, & my friend Tom used to take his lizard for a walk down the street. However, the lizard was a 6 foot iguana & the street was not Skinker. The iguana was also potty trained – I have pictures.

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Jul 29, 2010
2:47 pm

#57 WhyLikeThis :

PLEASE!!!!!
someone with Level 4 Photoshop skills needs to make a skink skank skunk
it would be so unbearably awesome and i will be your new best friend
pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease?

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Jul 29, 2010
3:01 pm

#58 brucifer :

Unsanctioned, unauthorized NASCAR trademark copyright infringement! Some poor redneck child is going without pork rinds tonight because of that.

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Jul 29, 2010
3:17 pm

#59 twatsupcock :

I skink this is too racy for me. . .

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Jul 29, 2010
3:26 pm

#60 steviesegel :

people still wear these stupid modular bracelets? I thought we all had moved on to Pandora?

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Jul 29, 2010
3:47 pm

#61 RobinLynne :

#57 http://i32.tinypic.com/id7w8w.jpg & Since we’re BFF now: I like chocolate and sunsets on the beach. ;D

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Jul 29, 2010
3:59 pm

#62 WhyLikeThis :

#61 total awesomesause RobinLynne!
so much better than what i had in mind.
As you just made my day, i’ll see what i can do in the chocolate & sunset front
I’m still chuckling!

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Jul 29, 2010
4:30 pm

#63 Vile & Evil Debbie Downer :

RobinLynne, AWESOME.
WhyLikeThis, I made you a skink skank skunk,too. Mine is kind of a mutant:
http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af28/sunshynegrll/skinkskankskunk.jpg

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Jul 29, 2010
4:33 pm

#64 RobinLynne :

I’m blown away by the sheer amazingness of your image, Vile & Evil!

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Jul 29, 2010
4:35 pm

#65 knittin-kitten :

That’s a good on VEDD! Love the tramp stamp!

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Jul 29, 2010
4:55 pm

#66 WhyLikeThis :

YAAAAAAYYYYYY! another one!
thank you VEDD!
I am so happy right now

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Jul 29, 2010
5:29 pm

#67 Buzzkill To Teenagers who think they are Steampunk :

I want to sue that shop owner for the additional dementia I have now because I tried to read that.

and I think skinks are cute.

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Jul 29, 2010
5:39 pm

#68 aroseisarose :

I touched Jeff Gordon’s car once. I am banish-ed.

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Jul 29, 2010
5:44 pm

#69 aroseisarose :

Hey, there was candy on it. I just don’t remember which brand.

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Jul 29, 2010
6:16 pm

#70 lemon floor wax :

Remind me to tell you my theory about fake nails with French manicures being the new tramp stamp sometime…I tell it best when I’m drunk.

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Jul 29, 2010
6:20 pm

#71 Mistletoe :

“And when it’s time to ship it, I’ll make sure it’s skink-wrapped!”

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Jul 29, 2010
6:59 pm

#72 TheCraftyApple :

Skink
Not to be confused with skank. 2 totally different things.

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Jul 29, 2010
7:18 pm

#73 MyEyesMyEyes :

I have a pretty personable photo of me dressed as a skank that she can skink.

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Jul 29, 2010
11:46 pm

#74 Marlo :

FUN FACT: Skink is ham in Swedish!

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Jul 30, 2010
3:38 am

#75 Mandi Apple :

My favourite thing about this whole listing is that despite “skink”, “steal” and “personable”, she can actually manage to spell “epoxy resin” correctly. How the hell does that work out? XD

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Jul 30, 2010
6:32 am

#76 KerriTheAnn :

One of my nicknames when I was little was ’skink/skinker’…my mom had a gift for making up words and implementing them into our everyday vocabulary. When I try using them now, people give me funny looks.

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Jul 30, 2010
12:15 pm

#77 Dynomoose :

I have little skinks in my backyard. They are very fast.

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Jul 30, 2010
5:43 pm

#78 Ms. Anthropy :

I got a dollar that says this steal bracelet has a matching chokker…

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Jul 30, 2010
10:34 pm

#79 Call me Bubbles, darling, everyone does... :

Jeez, thanks for the play by play…

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Aug 1, 2010
7:39 pm

#80 PussDaddy :

I hate Nascar and the stupid skinks who like it.

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Aug 5, 2010
11:33 am

#81 ShuffleCara :

Tammy Trailer Trash has to make a living too. I mean Jesus, if people buy those god awful taxidermy items, whats the harm in a little NASCAR copyright infringement.

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Aug 29, 2010
6:10 pm

#82 irishmeadow2 :

Well now that I know how to make one, why would I pay her $15..

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