I would probably buy the cat clock as long as the clock part actually works. Also sorta thought the Mario plate was kinda cute… But a wildcat FETUS? FURRLZ?? This site is damn crazy.
I was homeschooled- and I can’t say we ever felt the need for a cat fetus in a jar… But possibly that’s why I’m a social scientist and not a ‘real’ scientist?
And cmon – HK will buy a hideous commemorative Obama plate at CVS, but the Mario plate is a mystery? As both an Italian-American and a gamer, I am shocked. Shocked!
(Am I just not noticing something obvious? Like misspellings, or unwanted homoerotic incestuous overtones??)
Agreed. Neither is the most exquisite art piece on Etsy, but they’re handmade and worth the price asked. The handwriting on the Mario plate is poorly done, but the actual (traced?) graphics are kind of close to what they should look like.
The clock I don’t hate with or without the cat attached. I almost want to go pop open a few hard drives and buy clock faces to make one. Does that make me Regretsiful? Or Whimsicley Fucktastic?
I’d actually buy the cat-in-a-jar. But I’m a lover of medical science, specifically fetal development and birth. I just think it would be really cool to see up close.
I’d also buy the clock if it were done in a non-cat theme.
I’d buy the wings for kiddo if they didn’t have the beads and junk attached. They look like they’d hold up better than the stupid nylon ones.
Me too. That’s so disrespectful. For those who truly believe dirt from a grave holds protective powers, they’re not going to sell it for profit on etsy. If I was that man’s family, I’d be pissed someone’s trying to profit on his death.
Of course they would sell it on etsy. Hoodoo isn’t a religion. It’s a collection of practices to make things happen. Even if the thing you want to have happen is to make money from selling it.
+1 I like the cat clock too, but stealing grave soil is not only gross, but wrong. (If everyone did it, there would be exposed bodies everywhere for lack of soil… :S Besides, if someone really believes in grave soil power, don’t they also believe in hauntings? I’m not sure what angers dead spirits, but in movies, at least, disturbing their graves always qualifies…)
I’ve done rubbings of cool markers and we’ve visited a shit ton of (really old) graveyards in Europe, near cathedrals and ruins and such…but you leave things as you found it, as in DON’T TAKE SHIT AND SELL IT.
Was it one of these? I couldn’t find any pictures of someone wearing a unicorn strap-on, but I did find an etsy shop that sells unicorn strap-ons. (and tentacle dildos) Whipspider’s Etsy Shop I love how they call it “Art with Benefits.”
I’m trying to decide which of those makes the least sense. I think it’s the wings. I wouldn’t know they were supposed to be wings if the description didn’t say so. The other stuff, I can at least tell what it’s supposed to be.
I think that will be the new trend. After the hipsters have grown tired of the fingerless gloves and the one arm shrug, there will be the super ironic back curtains.
The thing is, I can’t help but think that if I ever really needed graveyard dirt for something – like, if my life or the lives of my loved ones depended on it – then I think I’d just go to the graveyard to get some, not buy it on Etsy and wait for it to be shipped.
Not that I think anyone ever really needs graveyard dirt for anything, but that’s another matter entirely.
Holah! i want the luxuri style so i can go outh to dinerr, i will bringe the Maryo plate! then i will waer my wings and split genes to the groceri store because i need to feed my dead mouse and fetus in a jar! they like it when i waer th unicorn horn and throw dyrt all over my living roome! oops! the mother board cat is teling me its time to go eat some brokoly!
If the seller put a little more effort into the Italian plate, like added some more characters along the rim, I’d be tempted to buy it. The Holah sign made me laugh and think the seller must really love her Jewish bread! When I realized it was supposed to be Spanish it made me sad again (I can only imagine what her mother’s grade was). The cat clock is pretty cool but would I buy it? Nah. Finally, nothing says honoring a fallen decorated soldier like robbing his grave of dirt and selling it online:-/
and that’s the best explanation ive seen for pronouncing it… i tried to explain this to a teenage girl with only two brain cells to rub together at a bakery.. she kept saying “jolla” like it was a fucking jolly rancher .. the bread company who put the label there ALSO misspelled it with a J.. i dont know who i was angrier with when i left. tarded management, the shitty education system, or teenagers who think they know anything.
I know Princess, I figured whatever she was trying to say she was doing it wrong LOL Never in a million years did I think she was going for Spanish until I read the description, it still makes me sad;)
i thought the same thing …even if it’s the braided Jewish bread i know and love it’s STILL spelled wrong. (but at least if she READS it though she’d pronounce it correctly (if she can even read))
There’s an awful lot of trust involved in some of these postings… How do I *know* that’s a wild cat and not just a domestic cat fetus, hm? I’ve got an awful lot of skepticism going on, so I’m going to have to require some item of proof, say a DNA test or voucher from a curator of mammals.
Second, there is a graveyard directly in back of my house and we’re right down the road from a Naval Base! It should work if I combine the dirt, right? Look for my Etsy shop to open up soon!
I peeked at her other entries and it seems that by “wildcat” she means “feral cat”. Wildcat just sounds sexier, I guess.
I had a collection of kitten fetuses when I was a kid. They came from cats who were spayed while pregnant. That’s where I’m thinking she probably got this one.
Technically they were my mom’s (she’s a vet, and she would take them to career days at schools). I just played with them. I guess I wasn’t as easily grossed out as most people because I spent so much time watching surgery, etc.
I can’t help but think of the effed up movie I saw on Sci-Fi where some lady kept all of her miscarried children in jars, gave them names and had stories about their lives and professions.
HTF does SHE know what kind of man he was? There are plenty of complete schmucks who fought and got wounded. You can respect that someone served, but it was the service, not sainthood.
I haven’t either, but I know a guy who does quite well with devil horns, so the unicorn thing probably exists somewhere. Not very interesting work though.
I can see the downside–there aren’t the convenient aisles to hide behind and the exit is half a mile away. People at the Ren Faire might stab you with their swords if they figure out what you’re up to and don’t want unflattering photos taken and put on the interwebz.
And there’s something wrong with using that method? If painting my shins with glue and rolling around in roadside refuse is wrong… I don’t wanna be right…
Interesting fact: Barnum actually never said that. It was said by his competitor,David Hannum, in reference to Barnum’s customers during the Cardiff Giant shenanigans and has since been incorrectly attributed to Barnum.
Frankenmouse its because you’re a geek. Welcome to the club. I’m your chapter president. Glad to meet you. Adult beverages & cookies are available at the back of the room. I had to repress the urge to correct that quote.
When I first saw the HOLAH thing and had not read the description, I thought it was supposed to be “Holla!” (like the urban slang). As in, “Hang your coat all up in dis shizzle, dawg!”
I don’t know what any of that even means, but it makes about as much sense as her Spanish.
Agreed! If it hadn’t already sold I might get it for my next Gothla … Not for the grocery store, though. It would clash with my fairy-hoarder-princess wings.
We had those preserved animals in my 6th grade science classroom. The teacher used to have us take them to use for tracing circles when we had to draw anything involving a microscope. They were also useful for freaking out the 5th graders.
Cool! I didn’t take earth science because I was taking Bio, but I’m told the 9th grade earth science teacher used to “borrow” the bio2 class’s fetal pigs and walk around the classroom with them.
We had a two headed 8 footed generally very deformed pig fetus in a jar in Biology class in high school. Our teacher kept it locked in his office. And said hi to it every day. And introduced it to the class on the first day of school each year.
There were some rumors of him doing some pig-jar petting after hours as well. He wasn’t a very popular teacher.
Ah! I’m giggling hysterically right now because that reminded me of a story from high school.
Two of my friends offered to help our bio teacher out after school one day.
One of the friends “tim” was cleaning a closet while the other was doing some filing.
Suddenly, there was a big bang and Tim started screaming from inside the closet. The other friend ran in and discovered Tim standing calf-deep in a pile of vacuum-packed, hairless, dead cats!
Turns out, they were dissection specimens for the advanced bio class, but it still freaked him out to go in that closet again!
I’m pretty sure there were extra hooves in there, too. Mr. Oster was very well liked. During class, if we finished early, we got to go up to the school farm and help take care of the animals. I wasn’t in 4H or FFA, but I love animals and hard work that I don’t have to do, so it was a treat for me.
that’s actually awesome. I didn’t have a lot of fun preserved stuff in high school bio, but gradate school biology labs?! soo muuuch coooool stuuufff (doesn’t the university know that they could be making a killing putting this stuff up on etsy?)
After hours of careful and painstaking research (ie I pulled it out of my ass), I figure out exactly which “very kind, noble spirit, that would give up anything to help defend what is right and honorable” was buried under that dirt.
Both more creative and gutsy than me. In my post above, I tiptoed around when I wanted to say, “So he got a purple heart. How does she know he wasn’t an asshat? My dad has a purple heart and he’s an asshat.”
except for the cat clock (which is cute but a little odd) everything else made me flinch as soon as I saw it. Sometimes I wonder how many times will i flinch at items from etsy before i am desensitized from it.
Wow, that is actually pretty classy. I can think of at least two people I’d get a kick out of giving that to; one’s a 30-year veteran of IBM, and the other collects old computer hardware. (The former IBMer just had a birthday, but the collector is getting married in late June…hmmm…).
I took a look at fetal wildcat person’s shop and found THIS: http://www.etsy.com/listing/48393573/real-pine-boogey-low-maintenance GEE! Thanks! I’ve always wanted a tiny pet made out of an “actual tanned squirrel scrotum.” God knows I wouldn’t want one made with a FAUX tanned squirrel scrotum.
Interesting. I have dirt from my grandmother’s grave. I’ve never taken any from someone’s grave (my mom got me mine) so I don’t know the etiquette but I do know some Pagans that use grave dirt aka “goopher dust”.
That’s an cool article. Never heard of him before but its sort of neat you have that little mystery you got to figure out.
Yay another person who knows of Sarina Brewer! I was just going to post to point out that she does AWESOME taxidermied pieces (if you’re into that). Though her jarred animals and pieces might turn some people off, her actual “gallery” pieces are amazing. She creates oddities, side show type pieces. And she is very ethical… no animals are killed for her work, all are roadkill or donated and she uses every part in respect for the dead animals (hence some of her weird listings).
I let my live ones crawl on me all the time when I kept them. A prettified dead one in my hair would be a good tool for keeping their furry butts in line.
I don’t know, but I was cat-sitting for a friend last month when she was away, and one morning I came downstairs to find a severed mouse head on the floor. I obviously threw away a whole load of dinero when I tossed it away outside. Damn!
As a long-time cat owner, it meant one of two things:
1. The cat liked you, and was trying to curry your favor by bringing you a present.
2. The cat was pissed their owner had gone away and left them , and was expressing it’s displeasure the only way it could.
As for what happened to the rest of the mouse, they may’ve eaten it. Or they may’ve just decapitated it and left the body lying somewhere to rot. Cats are strange that way.
Bold as Brash Brendamouse
April 7, 2011 at 11:08 am
Could you imagine wearing all of those craptastic creations at one time? While carrying your fetal wildcat on your plate of grave dirt? Not sure about the Holah thing. That just might tip the whole ensemble to just plain silly.
I knew a guy in the Army who said he though of a basket of dead kittens to make sex last longer (I’m hoping so he didn’t get too excited too fast). I was practically the barracks whore, but I did not sleep with that man.
Also, I was okay with the cat until I saw the picture of it in the hand. It made me almost cry. Then again, my meds aren’t working, so getting phone calls from telemarketers makes me cry right now.
Postmenopaws in a Purple Turban
April 7, 2011 at 11:24 am
The close-up on the face did me in. I refuse to go back and see which picture that is in the line-up. I haven’t been on meds in about four years, so I’m all outta tears.
It makes me extra sad because it looks like it could be a fetal version of my big boy Liam (Maine Coon mix–we think). He was six weeks old and all of about 1 1/2 lbs. when we brought him home from the shelter. I know better than to look at the close-ups. Our cats are our babies.
I figured out what was wrong with this kid’s Spanish. She must live in Arlen, TX and have Ppppeeeeggggyyyyy Hill as her Spanish teacher. That’s the only excuse I can figure for butchering Hola that badly.
Cat clock rocks. And I am apparently the only person here who kind of hearts on the faux fur legwarmers – I like silly costume pieces. WTF on the cat fetus though, I mean. GAAAAH. It ain’t hand made, and if it is vintage I don’t want to know!
This dirt … was respectfully taken from the heart area of the grave of a Sergeant. She just stole it! Is respectfully taken a new slang for stolen? And it’s not just any odd sergeant, it’s the decorated one, so he’s probably turning in his grave if he knows how little his dirt is making on etsy…
Yeah. Respectfully…like how a tribe member in a forest asks the tree for his forgiveness before cutting, I guess.
Cept this is a grave. That she is stealing from. Not even the grave of a witch or a hoodoo practitioner, where that might be expected. Nope. Just an American Officer. I’m sure that will make for big magick.
I picture the ghost of a serviceman in uniform standing there scratching his head going, “…The Hell?” as dirt is removed from his grave by a woman wearing the furry leg warmers and hoarder fairy wings.
That shop is brimming with WTF. Thankfully they have gift certificates. Because why be so draconian as to purchase a pot-bellied pig hoof fob when your loved one might prefer the alligator foot choker or a set of squirrel paws? Really, let them CHOOSE.
I live a few blocks from Arlington Cemetery, who knew I could make a living desecrating the graves of our departed servicemembers? “Quit Your Day Job” featured seller here I come!
300,000+ people are interred at Arlington. At 3.33 per grave, that’s about $1,000,000 in desecrating cash to be earned. And, of course, you can always step up the price for defiling the graves of Medal of Honor winners and former Presidents…
You forgot to factor in $0.20 per listing, plus paypal fee. And most importantly where are you going to find 300,000+ buyers for this dirt? Unless you are hoping that the one who bought the featured listing is a secret millionaire who collects grave soil and would buy the whole lot
Also if it somehow does become a successful money making machine I can see graveyard mafia gangs emerging, fighting for the plots of famous people, defending their territory etc.
The cat fetus just reminds me of my scary biology teacher from high school. The anatomy class she taught had to dissect cats, and the day after they arrived she showed off her collection of jarred cat fetuses and happily told us how every year she orders pregnant cats for the anatomy class so she can keep the fetuses. If only she knew about Etsy…
Uh, how do these people are let to teach anybody?! I understand the purpose of dissection and other biology studies, but that teacher sounds like a sadistic nutcase.
Science teachers are legally required to be ‘off’ in the head. Mine had a slo-pitch accident (lol) and brought in the ruptured vein they cut out of his thigh. Nice guy though.
My chemistry teacher ate chalk. “It’s chemically pretty much the same as baking soda, so it’s good for your stomach!” Why not just eat baking soda then?!
Also she could go an entire day without peeing, and expected us to do the same. >_<
I’m a science teacher, and totally not “off” in the head!! Although I teach college biology… does that count?
My high school biology teacher did come in to Victoria’s Secret when I worked there and try on a negligee. He said it was for his wife, but I knew he wasn’t married. He totally recognized me, too!
There was an advanced biology class at my HS that did that. I didn’t take that class. It was back in the Dark Ages of the 80s, so it never occurred to me to put together a protest movement.
Now? Hell yeah. I’m not a PETA person, but there’d be hell to pay over dissection. I still remember Frog Day, the teacher realizing he hadn’t killed enough frogs for the class, and whacking a few extras. Literally. I was lucky enough to be out sick on Fetal Pig day.
And guess what? Nobody made any major discoveries about frog/fetal pig/cat anatomy in those classes. I can’t remember anything about frog anatomy that good illustrations wouldn’t have told me. All I remember is those frogs being killed.
I don’t have a problem with using animals in research when there is Absolutely No Alternative. But biology classes doing the same damned dissections for decades doesn’t count.
Pearl has had over 2500 sales. I have to study her success. When I open my store, I won’t have much room for error.
I wouldn’t buy jeans like this, but crap, I have work jeans I retired because they’ve faded. I can cut the sides and sell them? Wow. I’m inspired.
I wear v-neck white tee shirts under my uniform…and the pits have darkened/stained. Any use before I pitch them? Shit. I thought I was going to sell knitting and jewelry. Now I think my grocery garb might be worth more money! Help. Wine is making me brainstorm (3rd shifter, so it’s like midnight for me).
Is it bad that in your first post, I read “T-Bell” as “Taco Bell” and wondered what Disney was doing with my favorite not-even-Mexican-enough-to-be-fake-Mexican restaurant?
I’d like to put a whole outfit together using the flappin’ jeans, the rat head thing, the boots and the unicorn horn – I’d have to borrow the leopard print tassels in from yesterday to complete the set.
The cutest jeans in the ENTIRE WORLD. That is not hyperbole – she is serious.
Why did you only post this stuff AFTER it was sold? Now none of us will have the opportunity to wear the CUTEST JEANS IN THE ENTIRE WORLD I AM SERIOUS unless we capture the current owner, and skin her.
I’m most confused with the jeans – is somebody intending to wear them in public? Or are they havig an “ugly pants party” at the office?
The wings are a whole different piece of cake – there are so many beautiful fairy wings for sale, I can’t comprehend how someone paid almost a hundred bucks on this granny’s curtains accident.
A pouch of alleged graveyard dirt seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to purchase from a total stranger on the internet. Every fifth bag of dirt comes with free magic beans. Every tenth bag of dirt comes with a sticker that says “SMRT”.
I am equally grossed out and stupefied. A freaking cat fetus? Gross! The only thing in that whole freaking list worth paying anything for is that cat clock…it’s dumb but it serves real purpose if it works. Wow!
Stick a suctioncup on the horn and you’ve got a sale lil missy. And that grave dirt one makes me lose faith in the USA. Assuming it’s real: A. who has the nuts to start digging up war heros? B. Shouldn’t somone be watching military graveyards?
I would definitely buy the wildcat foetus, I’m actually a big fan of the artist who sold it (looking at previous comments, I see she’s already been mentioned).
I might also buy the fairy wings, if I didn’t want to thrown a curtain into a ceiling fan myself.
Why not contact the seller with a lucrative business proposal – welcome her to collect all the dirt from your hoover and from around the house/yard and she can keep it as a payment for cleaning up?
1. That daughter obviously never paid attention to Dora or her Spanish teacher.
2. Who would buy graveyard dirt online when they could just drive to their local graveyard?
3. Those pants are confusing. Are the crochet bows supposed to stop the jeans from fraying all the way to the waistband? Where would be the ideal climate for them? I mean, you can’t get true circulation with them since the inseams are intact.
I am so glad I’m not the only one who likes the cat clock.
OK, the unicorn horn would be a great accessory to a unicorn Halloween or Mardi Gras costume. It looks like it would be cheaper than something from Party City, and would probably hold up better. I bought something very similar for a devil costume this year. It’s not like I wear the horns out around town (unless it’s Halloween). I bet the person who bought the unicorn horn also bought theirs for a costume.
Because let’s face it, that person must have been doing something pretty damn shady to get those things sold… which may or may not have involved war hero grave dirt.
I’m guessing the unicorn horn is available in a 2-piece set, and she’s wearing the other one on the lower end. She’s got that, “one-time-at-band-camp” look on her face.
I think it’s because they’re easy to make. I’ve made custom horns before and ‘unicorn’ style horns are the easiest to make. It’s a beginner project I think.
Holah people ! So far I have noted quite a few votes in favor of the cat clock. Well, you can add mine. The fact that no real cat was pickled, skinned or dismembered to make it only adds to its charm.
And just to be totally pedantic, if you want yer spell to work, you have to dig up your own fucking grave dirt, on the right fucking day, at the right fucking time.
You act like magic is, like, hard or something. I don’t have time to be digging up my own dirt because I have a lot of homework this week, and besides my mom won’t drive me to the graveyard.
I too would take the clock and remove the cat parts. Harddrive clock in itself is cool enough. IF it actually works. I’ve seen some neat shit made out of harddrives. OH, i did see a digital cock made out of an HD before.
I might buy the unicorn horn if I was feeling especially lazy and didn’t want to make my own. I LARP though, so it has a purpose. If I need custom horns I generally make them myself. It’s not difficult.
FWIW, I HAVE seen some people wearing horns at the Ren Faire around here (Bristol, WI). Some vendors sell them. Maybe people do wear these horns at Faires around the country but people don’t notice them because their eyes have been burned out via chain mail bikini. Squick.
Mock away for the LARP thing if you must. I’m confortable with my nerdiness.
Even when I was a drunkpunk back in the day, wore ripped black clothes I found in the trash and rolled around on filth and broken beer bottles at shows I wouldn’t WEAR A FUCKING RAT ON MY HEAD!
GAH!!!!!
Why is it that the worst, most horrendous rubbish is made by the recycling, earth-mothery, “wasting-any-part-of-an-animal-is-disrespectful-to-mother-nature” loony bins?
Some awesome stuff can be made by recycling. Why not go make some of that?
I don’t think they understand that ‘mother nature’s’ way of recycling is COMPOST. Killing an animal only for it’s tongue/gallbladder/fur = awful. Letting an accidentally killed creature rot back into the earth = nature! Preserving the remains of that kitten is the opposite of wasting.
My reaction to the first picture after I scrolled down was “MITTENS, NO! WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOU?!”
I flunked out of college biology because I couldn’t dissect the cat. Had no trouble with the snake or the rat, but I had three cats of my own waiting and home, and how could I possibly face them after having dissected a possible relative?
Those heels really sell the whole roadkill shinwarmers. Nothing screams class like shredding looking fur and shitty used ribbons over high heels. Pair that with the rodent fascinater and you’re ready for a night out at a backwoods kegger.
Don’t forget the hotel bedsheets accented with dumpster dived treasures and you have a real whimsicle thang going on. All your cousins will be so jealous as they feel you up!
I have a tiger fetus and a pig fetus in my display case. I’m really not sure why they’re there… I still live with my father, and we’ve had them as long as I can remember. I’m not even sure that he remembers where we got them… XD
I don’t mind the cat clock – at least you can tell it is hand made, it is recycling something and that person actually had to have an idea for it to happen.
I showed my boyfriend the furry leg things and he asked WTF they were supposed to be. So I googled spats and showed him a picture. His response? “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means”.
I kept my fetal cat from AP Bio and took it to college. That’s how I made friends – “Hey, I have a preserved cat in a jar. Wanna see?” Well, that and I sold cigarettes from my room. Good times.
To be honest, my eyes went to the name and image of the first item (the kitten) before I read the title of this post and I speedily clicked it, hoping no one else had bought it yet. So, yes, I would definitely purchase a kitten in a jar. My decor is a little on the eccentric side. (I swear I’m not goth/emo/whatever.) I already have an alligator head, a fetal shark and a pig embryo (the latter two in jars).
I never understood the whole taxidermy decor thing but I’m willing to learn–somebody try selling your dead pets on etsy and let’s see what happens. Maybe the world is waiting for a kitten-head fascinator and just doesn’t know it yet?
Guess what, Mother Nature also does not believe in wasting any part of an animal. It’s called “decomposition”, and it’s a bit more earth-friendly than your jar of formaldehyde there.
I actually think the cat clock is incredibly clever. However, its cleverness combined with its somewhat … simplistic? cartoonish? … rendering of a cat makes me wonder if the clever part of it is actually original. But I still likey.
Rat Fascinator: Want!
Holah: ?Que? (don’t know how to do the upside down one here)
Flappy Pants: Say what?
Spats: Not so bad.
Fairy Wings: Looks like she’s backed up to that railing to hold them up … with all that junk attached, I can see why.
April 7, 2011 at 9:38 am
I would buy two out of the ten?
April 7, 2011 at 9:42 am
Which two?
April 7, 2011 at 9:59 am
Don’t know about Knitty Knaughty but I’d buy the cat clock (& break off the cat). I guess that’s only one I’m willing to part with money for.
April 7, 2011 at 11:00 am
I would probably buy the cat clock as long as the clock part actually works. Also sorta thought the Mario plate was kinda cute… But a wildcat FETUS? FURRLZ?? This site is damn crazy.
April 7, 2011 at 11:12 am
I could totally see buying the wildcat fetus for a homeschool unit or something. Or for a kid that was really interested in biology.
The cat clock I would consider if it were $2.
April 7, 2011 at 3:35 pm
I was homeschooled- and I can’t say we ever felt the need for a cat fetus in a jar… But possibly that’s why I’m a social scientist and not a ‘real’ scientist?
And cmon – HK will buy a hideous commemorative Obama plate at CVS, but the Mario plate is a mystery? As both an Italian-American and a gamer, I am shocked. Shocked!
(Am I just not noticing something obvious? Like misspellings, or unwanted homoerotic incestuous overtones??)
April 7, 2011 at 4:24 pm
Agreed. Neither is the most exquisite art piece on Etsy, but they’re handmade and worth the price asked. The handwriting on the Mario plate is poorly done, but the actual (traced?) graphics are kind of close to what they should look like.
The clock I don’t hate with or without the cat attached. I almost want to go pop open a few hard drives and buy clock faces to make one. Does that make me Regretsiful? Or Whimsicley Fucktastic?
April 7, 2011 at 10:04 am
my money’s on the rat head and the unicorn horn.
April 7, 2011 at 5:22 pm
Together on the same head they would be quite something.
April 7, 2011 at 10:04 pm
I’d actually buy the cat-in-a-jar. But I’m a lover of medical science, specifically fetal development and birth. I just think it would be really cool to see up close.
I’d also buy the clock if it were done in a non-cat theme.
I’d buy the wings for kiddo if they didn’t have the beads and junk attached. They look like they’d hold up better than the stupid nylon ones.
April 8, 2011 at 10:02 am
On that theme, I’m making ones with duct tape. I shall post a photo, if anyone wants to see it, after I’m done…
March 22, 2012 at 11:38 am
I like how you hate cats that you don’t like a cute (well, trying to be at least) cat-themed clock but want to decorate with dead cats
To be fair though I love cats and totally want that fetus but that’s just because I love fetuses
April 7, 2011 at 12:15 pm
yes DEFINATEly must have the cat clock….
and must admit to liking the spats…ive crocheted something similar…heh
April 7, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Yes, I also think they’re “to hott” for words.
April 7, 2011 at 9:39 am
Those boots are not steampunk.
They’re steampuke.
And wow, there’s a whole lot of things just begging for a “What The Fuck?!” in this post…
April 7, 2011 at 10:17 am
Not steampunk, gothic, lolita, Victorian, Vampire or anything close to resembling attractive!
April 7, 2011 at 10:53 am
I almost steampuked when I saw them. Funny, the preserved fetal kitten didn’t bother me, but those spats? Absolutely can’t look at them while eating.
April 7, 2011 at 11:02 am
vulturelet, our avatars are so different but so similarity!
And I don’t see a hoodoo certification on that sergeant’s grave dirt.
April 7, 2011 at 1:50 pm
I think they would look great with my boyfriend’s renaissance costume. It’s a little weird anyway.
April 7, 2011 at 9:40 am
however they got the marketing to find their target niche, i want in on it… before i have to resort to selling aborted wildcats too.
April 7, 2011 at 11:07 am
Fetal cat? Dress it up like Lion-O and we can talk.
April 7, 2011 at 9:41 am
The clock’s not so bad.
April 7, 2011 at 9:59 am
yeah only the cat part is…
April 7, 2011 at 1:35 pm
I’ll admit the clock is kind of cute – the dirt from a WWII Soldier’s grave kind of ticks me off, though.
April 7, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Me too. That’s so disrespectful. For those who truly believe dirt from a grave holds protective powers, they’re not going to sell it for profit on etsy. If I was that man’s family, I’d be pissed someone’s trying to profit on his death.
April 7, 2011 at 5:46 pm
Aria, do you really think that didn’t come from her back yard?
Really.
O.K., maybe her front yard.
March 22, 2012 at 4:38 pm
Of course they would sell it on etsy. Hoodoo isn’t a religion. It’s a collection of practices to make things happen. Even if the thing you want to have happen is to make money from selling it.
April 7, 2011 at 3:19 pm
+1 I like the cat clock too, but stealing grave soil is not only gross, but wrong. (If everyone did it, there would be exposed bodies everywhere for lack of soil… :S Besides, if someone really believes in grave soil power, don’t they also believe in hauntings? I’m not sure what angers dead spirits, but in movies, at least, disturbing their graves always qualifies…)
April 7, 2011 at 7:23 pm
jesus keerist, I am SO embarrassed to be from Michigan after seeing the witchy-poo sellers items.
i’m not going anywhere near the west side of the state for a while, thank god.
April 7, 2011 at 9:41 am
Etsy: the super happy creamy yummy rat-killing, fetus-hoarding, grave-desecrating wonderland of your fluffiest unicorn dreams!!!!
(yeesh)
April 7, 2011 at 10:22 am
Desecrating a grave of someone is a super shitty thing to do. I hope they are cursed for their stupidness! Asshat.
April 7, 2011 at 10:49 am
Oh, I am sure she respectfully DANCED on it before harvesting the grave.
April 7, 2011 at 1:40 pm
I’ve done rubbings of cool markers and we’ve visited a shit ton of (really old) graveyards in Europe, near cathedrals and ruins and such…but you leave things as you found it, as in DON’T TAKE SHIT AND SELL IT.
April 7, 2011 at 5:49 pm
Rachel, you better copyright or trademark or somehow PROTECT that phrase before Etsy steals it as their new slogan.
April 7, 2011 at 5:53 pm
Rachel, you’d better copyright that phrase before Etsy steals it for their new slogan. I know I’d shop a place that used it!
April 7, 2011 at 9:42 am
The fact that the lady with the unicorn horn looks kinda sweaty is making me wonder what else she might have been using it for.
gross.
April 7, 2011 at 10:15 am
April 7, 2011 at 10:33 am
A friend of mine bought a weird unicorn horn stap-on last year. I wish I could find the photos she posted.
April 8, 2011 at 1:47 am
Was it one of these? I couldn’t find any pictures of someone wearing a unicorn strap-on, but I did find an etsy shop that sells unicorn strap-ons. (and tentacle dildos) Whipspider’s Etsy Shop I love how they call it “Art with Benefits.”
April 8, 2011 at 1:49 am
Goddamnit, the picture worked in the preview.
April 8, 2011 at 1:50 am
Aw, the hell with it. Just click the link in my comment above, if you care.
April 7, 2011 at 12:22 pm
“look at me I’m horny !” ( facepalm facepalm)
April 7, 2011 at 10:17 pm
Don’t facepalm wearing the unicorn horn or you’d impale yourself!
April 7, 2011 at 4:21 pm
How do you post images? I REALLY want to share my Sid Vicious Pot Holder Glove!
April 7, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Type in without the spaces.
If you’re using a photohosting website like Photobucket or Imagehost, they’ll often have the code there for you to copy and paste.
April 7, 2011 at 5:44 pm
Alright, preview doesn’t actually give an accurate preview of the post. Let’s see if this works:
Type in U+003C IMG SRC=”filename” U+003E without the spaces.
April 7, 2011 at 5:46 pm
I give up.
ya use the little less than/greater than signs. I need some Arbour Mist…
April 8, 2011 at 1:52 am
Maybe she’s sweaty ’cause she just finished giving someone a Hungry Unicorn
April 8, 2011 at 12:37 pm
Wow. I so have to try that.
April 7, 2011 at 9:43 am
That cat clock is the holy shit.
April 7, 2011 at 9:43 am
If I saw anyone walking with those jeans flapping between their legs, I’d look for a hidden camera…
April 7, 2011 at 9:44 am
My cat threw those boots up last week.
April 7, 2011 at 9:44 am
I’m trying to decide which of those makes the least sense. I think it’s the wings. I wouldn’t know they were supposed to be wings if the description didn’t say so. The other stuff, I can at least tell what it’s supposed to be.
April 7, 2011 at 1:08 pm
I thought they were back curtains…
April 7, 2011 at 3:55 pm
My first thought was that she got tangled up in curtains and those beads you string across doors to keep flies out
April 7, 2011 at 9:01 pm
I think that will be the new trend. After the hipsters have grown tired of the fingerless gloves and the one arm shrug, there will be the super ironic back curtains.
April 8, 2011 at 6:10 am
Regretsy fashion is taking off. I noticed Johnny Weir wearing gloveless-fingers on a Ru-Paul’s Drag Race rerun last night-
April 8, 2011 at 6:11 am
Awww, the photo didn’t work (it did in preview)!
It’s here- http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/39/2011/03/medium_johnnyclap315.jpg
April 7, 2011 at 9:45 am
Wait, I’m the only one who’s excited to have found a reputable source for graveyard dirt?
April 7, 2011 at 11:24 am
Don’t you mean “reputable”? I didn’t see a Certificate of Authenticity mentioned in the listing.
April 7, 2011 at 11:30 am
The thing is, I can’t help but think that if I ever really needed graveyard dirt for something – like, if my life or the lives of my loved ones depended on it – then I think I’d just go to the graveyard to get some, not buy it on Etsy and wait for it to be shipped.
Not that I think anyone ever really needs graveyard dirt for anything, but that’s another matter entirely.
April 7, 2011 at 2:56 pm
Don’t be silly. Graveyard dirt is like Vintage Dust.
April 7, 2011 at 3:22 pm
When I need graveyard dirt, I just smash up some oreo cookies…IF, you catch my drift…
April 7, 2011 at 9:45 am
I would totes buy that clock.
April 7, 2011 at 9:45 am
Holah! i want the luxuri style so i can go outh to dinerr, i will bringe the Maryo plate! then i will waer my wings and split genes to the groceri store because i need to feed my dead mouse and fetus in a jar! they like it when i waer th unicorn horn and throw dyrt all over my living roome! oops! the mother board cat is teling me its time to go eat some brokoly!
this is all bullshit.
March 22, 2012 at 8:53 pm
That hurt my eyes to read that.
Although I agree with you 101%.
April 7, 2011 at 9:45 am
If only the mom helped with the Spanish.
April 7, 2011 at 9:49 am
She got a little Yiddish on her Spanish.
April 7, 2011 at 11:05 am
I thought she was trying for “Hollah” and missed an L. Her version is much more idiotic.
April 7, 2011 at 11:25 am
maybe it’s supposed to be voila?
April 7, 2011 at 11:58 am
Wallah?
April 7, 2011 at 1:23 pm
Wa-lah!
April 7, 2011 at 11:39 am
somehow i’m imagining the way she practices her spanish at home sounding like peggy from ‘king of the hill’…
April 9, 2011 at 10:16 pm
OMG Me too! She needs to work on her “esPANol”
April 7, 2011 at 2:34 pm
“Definately” would have made it better….
April 7, 2011 at 9:47 am
If the seller put a little more effort into the Italian plate, like added some more characters along the rim, I’d be tempted to buy it. The Holah sign made me laugh and think the seller must really love her Jewish bread! When I realized it was supposed to be Spanish it made me sad again (I can only imagine what her mother’s grade was). The cat clock is pretty cool but would I buy it? Nah. Finally, nothing says honoring a fallen decorated soldier like robbing his grave of dirt and selling it online:-/
April 7, 2011 at 11:26 am
that’s challa bread. The “ch” is the pronounced as if you are bringing some phlegm up from your throat.
April 7, 2011 at 11:51 am
and that’s the best explanation ive seen for pronouncing it… i tried to explain this to a teenage girl with only two brain cells to rub together at a bakery.. she kept saying “jolla” like it was a fucking jolly rancher .. the bread company who put the label there ALSO misspelled it with a J.. i dont know who i was angrier with when i left. tarded management, the shitty education system, or teenagers who think they know anything.
April 7, 2011 at 12:25 pm
How much does the Challa cost?!
April 7, 2011 at 12:52 pm
I know Princess, I figured whatever she was trying to say she was doing it wrong LOL Never in a million years did I think she was going for Spanish until I read the description, it still makes me sad;)
April 7, 2011 at 4:28 pm
I had exactly the same thought process. Sad that I came up with three or four possibilities before reading the description.
March 22, 2012 at 10:50 am
I always told my French classes to pronounce the guttural “r” as if you’re a cat trying to hock up a hairball.
April 7, 2011 at 11:39 am
i thought the same thing …even if it’s the braided Jewish bread i know and love it’s STILL spelled wrong. (but at least if she READS it though she’d pronounce it correctly (if she can even read))
April 7, 2011 at 10:11 pm
Did anyone else notice that Luigi seemed to have a couple of extra fingers? I could have sworn he had the normal four for animated characters….
April 7, 2011 at 9:47 am
There’s an awful lot of trust involved in some of these postings… How do I *know* that’s a wild cat and not just a domestic cat fetus, hm? I’ve got an awful lot of skepticism going on, so I’m going to have to require some item of proof, say a DNA test or voucher from a curator of mammals.
Second, there is a graveyard directly in back of my house and we’re right down the road from a Naval Base! It should work if I combine the dirt, right? Look for my Etsy shop to open up soon!
April 7, 2011 at 11:13 am
I peeked at her other entries and it seems that by “wildcat” she means “feral cat”. Wildcat just sounds sexier, I guess.
I had a collection of kitten fetuses when I was a kid. They came from cats who were spayed while pregnant. That’s where I’m thinking she probably got this one.
April 7, 2011 at 11:41 am
You had a *collection* of kitten fetuses? Wasn’t one enough?
April 7, 2011 at 1:19 pm
Wasn’t the thought of one enough to put you off, moar leik? D:
April 7, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Technically they were my mom’s (she’s a vet, and she would take them to career days at schools). I just played with them. I guess I wasn’t as easily grossed out as most people because I spent so much time watching surgery, etc.
April 7, 2011 at 4:57 pm
That is damn creepy..
I can’t help but think of the effed up movie I saw on Sci-Fi where some lady kept all of her miscarried children in jars, gave them names and had stories about their lives and professions.
April 8, 2011 at 6:25 am
Saddly Moose, there are people like in real life. I found one of their blogs once. I wish I still had the link.
April 7, 2011 at 9:50 am
If anyone “respectfully” takes dirt from my grave to sell on Etsy, I will haunt a bitch.
April 7, 2011 at 9:58 am
Besides, hasn’t that poor decorated WWII sergeant suffered enough already?
April 7, 2011 at 11:20 am
They obviously didn’t tell him that serving his country means having your grave desecrated for an online flea market.
I’d give him another medal.
April 7, 2011 at 1:46 pm
HTF does SHE know what kind of man he was? There are plenty of complete schmucks who fought and got wounded. You can respect that someone served, but it was the service, not sainthood.
April 7, 2011 at 3:23 pm
What if he was actually a Nazi spy…? If it actually worked, that could lead to some lulz…
April 7, 2011 at 9:50 am
Jeans with slits up the sides? The evil cousin of skants, perhaps?
April 7, 2011 at 9:55 am
Yes, they are called “evening gants”
April 7, 2011 at 4:59 pm
This makes me wonder if it’s possible to make reverse ass-less chaps.
Can we have a wtf-pants contest?
April 7, 2011 at 9:50 am
I am a bad person because I TOTALLY dig on that cat clock.
April 7, 2011 at 4:29 pm
If loving that cat clock is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
April 7, 2011 at 9:52 am
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April 7, 2011 at 9:54 am
Oh man oh god oh god oh man oh man oh god
that fetus
why.
April 7, 2011 at 9:55 am
So that you can create your own shrine, fetish, or totem.
O_O
April 7, 2011 at 10:36 am
Or fascinator.
April 7, 2011 at 11:33 am
Cloning, my friends. If you’re doing a little home-clonging in your basement, you need a fresh supply of DNA once in a while.
April 7, 2011 at 9:55 am
I have never seen anyone wearing a unicorn horn at a renaissance festival.
Fortunately. Because dude, wtf?
April 7, 2011 at 10:02 am
Also, the first time I looked at Minnie Pearl in her fancy split jeans, I thought she had four legs. Nothing says HOT like extra, dangling limbs!
April 7, 2011 at 10:03 am
…that was not supposed to be a reply. \/\/hatever!
April 7, 2011 at 11:06 am
I haven’t either, but I know a guy who does quite well with devil horns, so the unicorn thing probably exists somewhere. Not very interesting work though.
April 7, 2011 at 11:11 am
Oh, I have though. Ren Faires are like “Etsy: The Live Show” and are the best people watching on earth. Even better than Walmart.
April 7, 2011 at 1:00 pm
There needs to be a blog for ‘People of Renfaires’. Goodfolke of Renfaire, maybe.
April 7, 2011 at 10:31 pm
I can see the downside–there aren’t the convenient aisles to hide behind and the exit is half a mile away. People at the Ren Faire might stab you with their swords if they figure out what you’re up to and don’t want unflattering photos taken and put on the interwebz.
April 7, 2011 at 1:53 pm
We had not one but TWO unicorns on the same day at the faire down here. On another note, we also had two minotaurs.
April 7, 2011 at 10:11 pm
I thought your comment said you saw two centaurs at first, and I was very impressed. minotaurs? no so much.
April 7, 2011 at 9:56 am
I thought the cat clock was cool too!
Everything else… what the what??
April 7, 2011 at 9:56 am
I’m not a cat person at all, but I still thought it was cool
April 7, 2011 at 10:10 am
Me too.
April 7, 2011 at 11:03 am
The cat clock showed some ingenuity and skill. The other things—–not so much.
April 7, 2011 at 9:58 am
Those boots look like the wearer painted her shins with glue and rolled around in the roadkill and crap on the side of the road.
April 7, 2011 at 10:25 am
Let’s hope there isn’t a fetal wildcat specimen stuck somewhere in the fur.
April 7, 2011 at 2:20 pm
Can’t be sure unless we see the other side of the boots.
Frankly, I’m afraid if I go to the listing to see if there was a reverse view, I might throw up.
April 7, 2011 at 11:04 am
And there’s something wrong with using that method? If painting my shins with glue and rolling around in roadside refuse is wrong… I don’t wanna be right…
April 7, 2011 at 9:58 am
the clock is rather awesome, I think.
Dead cats an grave dirt? Not so much.
April 7, 2011 at 9:59 am
At first I thought “Holah” was a misspelling of “Holla!” As in, holla if you think this wooden sign is the shit!
And it is shit, because psh, I could do better than an 11-year old.
April 7, 2011 at 10:44 am
I thought that, too! Now that I know it’s misspelled Spanish, I want to mispronounce it, too. “Hoe-la!”
April 7, 2011 at 10:00 am
That cat clock! I actually like it! But maybe that’s from exposure to everything else on the list.
Laughing so hard at the dirt. Funny how you can tell how kind and noble someone’s spirit is just from looking at their grave!
April 8, 2011 at 1:55 am
I like it too. I wouldn’t buy it, but I can see why someone would. The other things though. Oy.
April 7, 2011 at 10:04 am
P.T. Barnum was right.
April 7, 2011 at 11:45 am
Interesting fact: Barnum actually never said that. It was said by his competitor,David Hannum, in reference to Barnum’s customers during the Cardiff Giant shenanigans and has since been incorrectly attributed to Barnum.
I don’t know why I felt a need to tell you that.
April 8, 2011 at 10:12 am
Frankenmouse its because you’re a geek. Welcome to the club. I’m your chapter president. Glad to meet you. Adult beverages & cookies are available at the back of the room. I had to repress the urge to correct that quote.
April 7, 2011 at 10:07 am
When I first saw the HOLAH thing and had not read the description, I thought it was supposed to be “Holla!” (like the urban slang). As in, “Hang your coat all up in dis shizzle, dawg!”
I don’t know what any of that even means, but it makes about as much sense as her Spanish.
April 7, 2011 at 10:09 am
I uh, I like the cat clock…
April 7, 2011 at 10:10 am
I would buy two of the items. Maybe three.
April 7, 2011 at 10:10 am
I actually kind of like the dead rat fascinator. That’s the most attractively mounted rat head I’ve ever seen.
April 7, 2011 at 11:07 am
Agreed! If it hadn’t already sold I might get it for my next Gothla … Not for the grocery store, though. It would clash with my fairy-hoarder-princess wings.
April 7, 2011 at 1:35 pm
OMG! I’ve been looking for a pair of fairy-hoarder princess wings for years! Where did you buy yours?
April 7, 2011 at 6:00 pm
See above.
April 7, 2011 at 11:09 am
I have to say, I agree. It is the only mounted rat head (I don’t count the rat rug we saw a few days ago) I’ve seen, but it is the most attractive.
April 7, 2011 at 4:11 pm
It is the most attractively mounted rat head ever! I want that. I do.
April 7, 2011 at 10:16 am
We had those preserved animals in my 6th grade science classroom. The teacher used to have us take them to use for tracing circles when we had to draw anything involving a microscope. They were also useful for freaking out the 5th graders.
April 7, 2011 at 11:10 am
We had a two-headed pig fetus in one of my classrooms in high school. It was pretty interesting.
April 7, 2011 at 4:45 pm
Cool! I didn’t take earth science because I was taking Bio, but I’m told the 9th grade earth science teacher used to “borrow” the bio2 class’s fetal pigs and walk around the classroom with them.
April 7, 2011 at 6:41 pm
We had a two headed 8 footed generally very deformed pig fetus in a jar in Biology class in high school. Our teacher kept it locked in his office. And said hi to it every day. And introduced it to the class on the first day of school each year.
There were some rumors of him doing some pig-jar petting after hours as well. He wasn’t a very popular teacher.
April 7, 2011 at 10:25 pm
Ah! I’m giggling hysterically right now because that reminded me of a story from high school.
Two of my friends offered to help our bio teacher out after school one day.
One of the friends “tim” was cleaning a closet while the other was doing some filing.
Suddenly, there was a big bang and Tim started screaming from inside the closet. The other friend ran in and discovered Tim standing calf-deep in a pile of vacuum-packed, hairless, dead cats!
Turns out, they were dissection specimens for the advanced bio class, but it still freaked him out to go in that closet again!
April 7, 2011 at 11:07 pm
I’m pretty sure there were extra hooves in there, too. Mr. Oster was very well liked. During class, if we finished early, we got to go up to the school farm and help take care of the animals. I wasn’t in 4H or FFA, but I love animals and hard work that I don’t have to do, so it was a treat for me.
April 7, 2011 at 10:18 pm
that’s actually awesome. I didn’t have a lot of fun preserved stuff in high school bio, but gradate school biology labs?! soo muuuch coooool stuuufff (doesn’t the university know that they could be making a killing putting this stuff up on etsy?)
April 9, 2011 at 12:49 am
We had a 4-legged chick, and two-faced kitten. Oh the hours I spent staring at them in biology…
April 7, 2011 at 11:55 am
I’m 23 and that would freak me out, dude. Dead things, ew.
April 7, 2011 at 10:21 am
I’ll admit to liking the rat fascinator. I have a thing for taxidermy, fur stoles with the faces still on, etc. Then again, I’m a loon.
April 7, 2011 at 10:49 am
So which one won, the cat fascinator or the rat fascinator? I’m tempted to start a whole fascinating menagerie!
April 7, 2011 at 10:23 am
After hours of careful and painstaking research (ie I pulled it out of my ass), I figure out exactly which “very kind, noble spirit, that would give up anything to help defend what is right and honorable” was buried under that dirt.
April 7, 2011 at 10:31 am
Figured, not figure. As you can see, I put hours of careful and painstaking research into my proofreading too.
April 7, 2011 at 11:06 am
Aww, I have a soft spot for R. Lee Ermey. I grew up with Marines, what can I say.
April 7, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Your post just reminds me that I should be watching re-runs of “Mail Call” right now…
April 7, 2011 at 4:03 pm
I saw “re-runs” and for some reason I read “Mail Call” as “McHale’s Navy.” I guess that tells you a thing or two about me.
April 7, 2011 at 1:57 pm
Both more creative and gutsy than me. In my post above, I tiptoed around when I wanted to say, “So he got a purple heart. How does she know he wasn’t an asshat? My dad has a purple heart and he’s an asshat.”
April 8, 2011 at 10:13 am
A lot of people with Purple Hearts are asshats. I’ve met more than one in my life.
April 7, 2011 at 10:23 am
Seriously that cat clock kinda grows on you, I’d trade a jar of dead bees for it.
April 7, 2011 at 10:24 am
There’s a market for just about anything out there. Sometimes people will buy or market the damndest things…
April 7, 2011 at 10:29 am
From the treasury “Morose by Any Other Name: Things That Make Me Unbearably Sad.”
April 7, 2011 at 10:31 am
Barnum was abso-fuckin’-lutely right!
April 7, 2011 at 10:35 am
I’d buy that cat clock in two seconds!
And I don’t know how to put this, but I had boots just like that, except that underneath the fur, they were wellies.
April 7, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Don’t admit the boot thing ever…. again.
April 7, 2011 at 10:41 am
except for the cat clock (which is cute but a little odd) everything else made me flinch as soon as I saw it. Sometimes I wonder how many times will i flinch at items from etsy before i am desensitized from it.
April 7, 2011 at 10:41 am
I want the cat clock!!!!!!!!!!!
April 7, 2011 at 10:47 am
And check out this clock in the same seller’s shop – VERY cool!
http://www.etsy.com/listing/70498565/vintage-1960s-ibm-disk-platter-now-a
April 7, 2011 at 12:07 pm
That is a cool clock.
April 8, 2011 at 1:58 am
Yeah. Definitely worth buying.
April 7, 2011 at 12:39 pm
Wow, that is actually pretty classy. I can think of at least two people I’d get a kick out of giving that to; one’s a 30-year veteran of IBM, and the other collects old computer hardware. (The former IBMer just had a birthday, but the collector is getting married in late June…hmmm…).
April 7, 2011 at 1:48 pm
I really like this seller’s work. Yes, the cat clock, too.
April 7, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Speaking as a nerd, it makes me very happy that we now live in a world where any part of a computer can be seriously described as having a “patina.”
April 7, 2011 at 10:28 pm
I would definitely buy some of these geeky clocks, especially the cat one.
April 8, 2011 at 10:14 am
I should hope there’s not many left. It isn’t like IBM made a side business of turning disks into clocks. That left that for Retetsy sellers.
April 7, 2011 at 10:42 am
I’d only buy the unicorn horn if it came with a snood.
April 7, 2011 at 11:08 am
Would that be a snoodicorn or a unisnood?
April 7, 2011 at 1:05 pm
A Snoodicorn – because a Unisnood is one you can use multipurpose.
April 7, 2011 at 2:06 pm
I’m pretty sure her mother can help you out there.
April 7, 2011 at 10:43 am
I took a look at fetal wildcat person’s shop and found THIS: http://www.etsy.com/listing/48393573/real-pine-boogey-low-maintenance GEE! Thanks! I’ve always wanted a tiny pet made out of an “actual tanned squirrel scrotum.” God knows I wouldn’t want one made with a FAUX tanned squirrel scrotum.
April 7, 2011 at 10:49 am
That would look great with one of those “alien trophies” made out of a deer butt. (Look it up! It’s really a real thing!)
April 7, 2011 at 10:57 am
“Many people say that the real talent to deer butt art is the shaping of the anus to look like a mouth, a true test of the artists loving hand.
Your anus can be made very simple, or you can stretch your anus for realistic effects such as smiles and frowns.”
…oh, deer.
April 7, 2011 at 12:08 pm
In all the goatse we’ve enjoyed* on this site, never once have I seen realistic smiles or frowns.
*enjoyed= endured.
April 7, 2011 at 12:40 pm
I… I’m not sure I want to google that, but the curiosity is overpowering.
April 7, 2011 at 12:44 pm
And I googled it… I officially pronounce this world fuckin’ insane and am planning to crawl under the biggest rock in the deepest cave I can find.
April 7, 2011 at 3:50 pm
Another day, another dismaying thing I can’t unlearn. Thanks Regretsy!
April 7, 2011 at 10:59 am
It’s called a swamp devil.
April 7, 2011 at 11:12 am
I have to respectfully disagree. If you do an image search for “Swamp Devil,” you don’t find what I’m talking about.
If you do an image search for “Deer Butt Alien,” BAM! Thar she blows!
Alternately, I have heard the term “Assquatch.”
April 7, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Damn it, I can’t believe I googled that, and came up with this:
http://dba-oracle.blogspot.com/2008/10/fast-anus-removal-with-butt-out.html
“The anus removal is a critical aspect to proper redneck butt art, a great holiday activity for the whole family.”
April 7, 2011 at 12:46 pm
I love Regretsy; it’s so educational. I had no idea before today that deer butt art even existed.
April 7, 2011 at 3:04 pm
OK this has officially blown my mind. I feel really disturbed now
April 7, 2011 at 6:10 pm
Dear God! One of them has TEETH.
March 22, 2012 at 11:03 am
The fact that someone makes a TOOL to remove deer ani [isn't that the plural?] is really disturbing.
April 7, 2011 at 8:30 pm
Oh HOLY HELL, you weren’t kidding!!!!
April 7, 2011 at 1:39 pm
I wouldn’t think there would be enough there to be worth the effort of tanning it.
April 7, 2011 at 1:49 pm
Oh dear sweet bajingoes on a crutch. And I thought the rat hat was bad.
April 7, 2011 at 10:45 am
I think I saw those spats one cold wintry day at the MGM in Detroit coupled with gold satin booty shorts.
April 7, 2011 at 8:29 pm
So did I, but I think it was Walmart on a Friday night.
April 7, 2011 at 10:47 am
I can make a better set of fairy wings WITH MY ASSHOLE!
April 7, 2011 at 11:29 am
Did you marry my ex?
April 7, 2011 at 10:47 am
I totally thought the spanish sign was supposed to say “hollah” for a while.
April 7, 2011 at 10:48 am
When my mother passed, we found a box among her effects labeled “Father Power’s Dirt” in my Grandmother’s handwriting. Some research led to this:
http://www.bettnet.com/blog/index.php/weblog/comments/the_little_known_shrine_in_our_midst/
So, we have Heirloom Dirt!
April 7, 2011 at 11:15 am
Interesting. I have dirt from my grandmother’s grave. I’ve never taken any from someone’s grave (my mom got me mine) so I don’t know the etiquette but I do know some Pagans that use grave dirt aka “goopher dust”.
That’s an cool article. Never heard of him before but its sort of neat you have that little mystery you got to figure out.
April 7, 2011 at 11:28 am
Thanks. I wonder what people will dig up about us in 90 years?
April 8, 2011 at 10:17 am
NOTHING. I will leave every dark, dirty secret lying around for them to find. *insert evil Mr. Burns laugh*
Seriously though, my family’s skeletons don’t hang out in closets. They get out & dance around on a regular basis.
April 7, 2011 at 10:54 am
That’s a whole lotta WTF.
April 7, 2011 at 10:58 am
Yay Sarina Brewer! She is awesome. (Way better than the “taxidermist”/animal recycler person who was featured last week.)
April 7, 2011 at 12:25 pm
Yay another person who knows of Sarina Brewer! I was just going to post to point out that she does AWESOME taxidermied pieces (if you’re into that). Though her jarred animals and pieces might turn some people off, her actual “gallery” pieces are amazing. She creates oddities, side show type pieces. And she is very ethical… no animals are killed for her work, all are roadkill or donated and she uses every part in respect for the dead animals (hence some of her weird listings).
Check out her website at http://www.customcreaturetaxidermy.com and look at the gallery and side show pieces. Very cool stuff!
April 7, 2011 at 5:13 pm
Wow, those are really amazing. Way better than the fish-squirrel.
April 7, 2011 at 6:19 pm
NOTHING is better than the fish squirrel.
April 7, 2011 at 10:59 am
“It’s a lifestyle.” What’s a lifestyle? Can someone tell me why cutting up shit and putting ruffles on it qualifies as a lifestyle?
April 7, 2011 at 6:57 pm
I’m pretty sure being an idiot is the lifestyle she was referring to. That, or being really cold all the time.
April 7, 2011 at 11:00 am
I really want to know who’d possibly put a dead rat head in their hair for decoration. Seriously. Who?
April 7, 2011 at 11:14 am
Dr. Seuss’ lesser known character, Rat in the Hat.
April 7, 2011 at 11:16 am
Lady Gaga?
April 8, 2011 at 2:00 am
Oh god, don’t give her any ideas…
April 7, 2011 at 11:16 am
*raises hand*
I let my live ones crawl on me all the time when I kept them. A prettified dead one in my hair would be a good tool for keeping their furry butts in line.
April 7, 2011 at 1:59 pm
More than likely someone with tickets to the Kentucky Derby.
April 7, 2011 at 2:04 pm
I don’t know, but I was cat-sitting for a friend last month when she was away, and one morning I came downstairs to find a severed mouse head on the floor. I obviously threw away a whole load of dinero when I tossed it away outside. Damn!
I never found the rest of the mouse, by the way.
April 7, 2011 at 2:33 pm
Sounds like the Kitty Mafia stopped by!
April 7, 2011 at 7:39 pm
As a long-time cat owner, it meant one of two things:
1. The cat liked you, and was trying to curry your favor by bringing you a present.
2. The cat was pissed their owner had gone away and left them , and was expressing it’s displeasure the only way it could.
As for what happened to the rest of the mouse, they may’ve eaten it. Or they may’ve just decapitated it and left the body lying somewhere to rot. Cats are strange that way.
April 8, 2011 at 4:51 am
I will personally give Kate Middleton a dollar if she wears it to Ascot next year.
April 7, 2011 at 11:08 am
Could you imagine wearing all of those craptastic creations at one time? While carrying your fetal wildcat on your plate of grave dirt? Not sure about the Holah thing. That just might tip the whole ensemble to just plain silly.
April 7, 2011 at 11:09 am
The wildcat fetus just makes me very, very said. Dead kitties aren’t much fun, no no no…
April 7, 2011 at 11:17 am
I knew a guy in the Army who said he though of a basket of dead kittens to make sex last longer (I’m hoping so he didn’t get too excited too fast). I was practically the barracks whore, but I did not sleep with that man.
April 7, 2011 at 11:21 am
Also, I was okay with the cat until I saw the picture of it in the hand. It made me almost cry. Then again, my meds aren’t working, so getting phone calls from telemarketers makes me cry right now.
April 7, 2011 at 11:24 am
The close-up on the face did me in. I refuse to go back and see which picture that is in the line-up. I haven’t been on meds in about four years, so I’m all outta tears.
{{proofreads extremely carefully}}
April 7, 2011 at 2:06 pm
It makes me extra sad because it looks like it could be a fetal version of my big boy Liam (Maine Coon mix–we think). He was six weeks old and all of about 1 1/2 lbs. when we brought him home from the shelter. I know better than to look at the close-ups. Our cats are our babies.
Off to hug my kitties. Back in a minute.
April 7, 2011 at 11:21 am
*sad.
I only get said about tanned squirrel scrotums. Scrota.
April 7, 2011 at 3:33 pm
That reminds me…
April 7, 2011 at 11:11 am
I figured out what was wrong with this kid’s Spanish. She must live in Arlen, TX and have Ppppeeeeggggyyyyy Hill as her Spanish teacher. That’s the only excuse I can figure for butchering Hola that badly.
April 7, 2011 at 10:35 pm
may lah-mo peggy hill! ho yeah!
April 7, 2011 at 11:12 am
Cat clock rocks. And I am apparently the only person here who kind of hearts on the faux fur legwarmers – I like silly costume pieces. WTF on the cat fetus though, I mean. GAAAAH. It ain’t hand made, and if it is vintage I don’t want to know!
April 7, 2011 at 11:12 am
This dirt … was respectfully taken from the heart area of the grave of a Sergeant. She just stole it! Is respectfully taken a new slang for stolen? And it’s not just any odd sergeant, it’s the decorated one, so he’s probably turning in his grave if he knows how little his dirt is making on etsy…
April 7, 2011 at 11:36 am
Yeah. Respectfully…like how a tribe member in a forest asks the tree for his forgiveness before cutting, I guess.
Cept this is a grave. That she is stealing from. Not even the grave of a witch or a hoodoo practitioner, where that might be expected. Nope. Just an American Officer. I’m sure that will make for big magick.
April 7, 2011 at 2:55 pm
I picture the ghost of a serviceman in uniform standing there scratching his head going, “…The Hell?” as dirt is removed from his grave by a woman wearing the furry leg warmers and hoarder fairy wings.
April 7, 2011 at 7:42 pm
That imagine makes this entire mess just a little bit easier to look at. Thank you.
April 7, 2011 at 9:29 pm
Muttering “I went to war for *this* weirdo?”
April 7, 2011 at 11:16 am
and the rat fascinator… who bought it? A cat? Cause I just can’t imagine a person wearing one…
April 7, 2011 at 11:18 am
It would be a great “hunting trophy” for a weird dollhouse. I have great enthusiasm for this rat head.
April 7, 2011 at 11:24 am
Well if it was made of polymer clay it would be cool for a weird dollhouse, I guess the real thing would please few:)
April 7, 2011 at 11:39 am
If it were truly mounted..like say, a mouse head mounted like an elk head for a darkly themed dollhouse…with tiny antlers? I could see it.
Dark, but kinda funny.
Rats on your head, though…no.
April 7, 2011 at 1:42 pm
I would possibly pay money to the person who buys it and then puts it on the cat to model it… seriously.
April 7, 2011 at 11:18 am
I would’ve gotten the clock for my husband who works in IT.
April 7, 2011 at 11:18 am
as for the jeans – poor and pityful – agreed. Upcycled? – no, downcycled more like it, or even undercycled, or maybe off-cycled – help me here
April 7, 2011 at 1:05 pm
recycled?
April 7, 2011 at 1:07 pm
upchuck-cycled?
April 7, 2011 at 1:12 pm
The washing machine spun off-cycle. That’s what happened to the leg seams.
April 7, 2011 at 11:20 am
I love the cat clock.
April 7, 2011 at 11:23 am
I had to go to the dead fetus seller’s shop…who the hell uses a dead pigeon’s head for a doll or puppet?
http://www.etsy.com/listing/58843639/pigeon-head-adult-long-neck-real-bird?ref=v1_other_2
I like to think I’m open-minded, but, today, everything in that shop made me cringe or frown.
April 7, 2011 at 11:47 am
Weirdly, I can kinda see it – for one of those strange fetishy art dolls.
April 7, 2011 at 12:20 pm
That shop is brimming with WTF. Thankfully they have gift certificates. Because why be so draconian as to purchase a pot-bellied pig hoof fob when your loved one might prefer the alligator foot choker or a set of squirrel paws? Really, let them CHOOSE.
April 7, 2011 at 11:23 am
I live a few blocks from Arlington Cemetery, who knew I could make a living desecrating the graves of our departed servicemembers? “Quit Your Day Job” featured seller here I come!
April 7, 2011 at 11:33 am
Would you really be able to quit your day job selling dirt for $3.33?
April 7, 2011 at 12:30 pm
300,000+ people are interred at Arlington. At 3.33 per grave, that’s about $1,000,000 in desecrating cash to be earned. And, of course, you can always step up the price for defiling the graves of Medal of Honor winners and former Presidents…
April 7, 2011 at 1:15 pm
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April 7, 2011 at 1:23 pm
Also if it somehow does become a successful money making machine I can see graveyard mafia gangs emerging, fighting for the plots of famous people, defending their territory etc.
April 7, 2011 at 1:18 pm
If you do venture into this please make sure you collect the dirt respectfully.
April 7, 2011 at 11:26 am
I like the Mario and Luigi plate! I don’t like the possible incest implications, but other than that it’s kinda fun.
April 7, 2011 at 11:29 am
The cat fetus just reminds me of my scary biology teacher from high school. The anatomy class she taught had to dissect cats, and the day after they arrived she showed off her collection of jarred cat fetuses and happily told us how every year she orders pregnant cats for the anatomy class so she can keep the fetuses. If only she knew about Etsy…
April 7, 2011 at 1:05 pm
Uh, how do these people are let to teach anybody?! I understand the purpose of dissection and other biology studies, but that teacher sounds like a sadistic nutcase.
April 7, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Science teachers are legally required to be ‘off’ in the head. Mine had a slo-pitch accident (lol) and brought in the ruptured vein they cut out of his thigh. Nice guy though.
April 7, 2011 at 2:36 pm
My chemistry teacher ate chalk. “It’s chemically pretty much the same as baking soda, so it’s good for your stomach!” Why not just eat baking soda then?!
Also she could go an entire day without peeing, and expected us to do the same. >_<
April 7, 2011 at 3:32 pm
I’m a science teacher, and totally not “off” in the head!! Although I teach college biology… does that count?
My high school biology teacher did come in to Victoria’s Secret when I worked there and try on a negligee. He said it was for his wife, but I knew he wasn’t married. He totally recognized me, too!
April 7, 2011 at 2:19 pm
There was an advanced biology class at my HS that did that. I didn’t take that class. It was back in the Dark Ages of the 80s, so it never occurred to me to put together a protest movement.
Now? Hell yeah. I’m not a PETA person, but there’d be hell to pay over dissection. I still remember Frog Day, the teacher realizing he hadn’t killed enough frogs for the class, and whacking a few extras. Literally. I was lucky enough to be out sick on Fetal Pig day.
And guess what? Nobody made any major discoveries about frog/fetal pig/cat anatomy in those classes. I can’t remember anything about frog anatomy that good illustrations wouldn’t have told me. All I remember is those frogs being killed.
I don’t have a problem with using animals in research when there is Absolutely No Alternative. But biology classes doing the same damned dissections for decades doesn’t count.
April 7, 2011 at 11:29 am
The thing is, this sweet baby’s are one of a kind, so it’s understandable why they sold.
I’m going to making clink clink in gipsy style now.
April 7, 2011 at 11:30 am
Rat Head Fascinator is a great band name. Not so much as a “thing to wear on your head for any reason whatsoever”.
April 7, 2011 at 11:43 am
agreed, sounds very cool!
April 7, 2011 at 11:33 am
Sold.
That’s the only word certain folks saw in this whoooole shebang.
Look for more horrific furspats to be found all over the flea Mar..er…Etsy!
April 7, 2011 at 11:33 am
i own jeans just like that! they got that way after a drunken argument with my bf, though…maybe i could sell them with bows sewn on!
i, uh, also have a pair with the crotch ripped out…
April 7, 2011 at 11:40 am
The unicorn lady is the last of her kind. “holah” is her mating call. Please bring offerings of dead preserved animals to assure a full life.
April 7, 2011 at 11:43 am
Pearl has had over 2500 sales. I have to study her success. When I open my store, I won’t have much room for error.
I wouldn’t buy jeans like this, but crap, I have work jeans I retired because they’ve faded. I can cut the sides and sell them? Wow. I’m inspired.
I wear v-neck white tee shirts under my uniform…and the pits have darkened/stained. Any use before I pitch them? Shit. I thought I was going to sell knitting and jewelry. Now I think my grocery garb might be worth more money! Help. Wine is making me brainstorm (3rd shifter, so it’s like midnight for me).
April 7, 2011 at 11:46 am
I dont understand why the preserved specimen is so weird to everyone….(might be because I have a few of my own…*lol*)
A science teacher could have bought it…or a student. Mine got me some excellent science credits when I was in school.
April 7, 2011 at 11:49 am
Aw, that cat clock was nice
wait… they sell graveyard dirt in big stores?
April 7, 2011 at 11:51 am
Disney’s going for a hipper, more bohemian look with T-Bell.
April 7, 2011 at 11:52 am
April 7, 2011 at 11:54 am
You try to be cool and post a picture and it’s not showing up. I should just give up on being cool. Not working for me.
http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/9387/tbell.jpg
April 7, 2011 at 2:24 pm
She looks annoyed. I think I know why.
April 7, 2011 at 2:44 pm
Bahahahaha. Love the pissed look on her face.
Is it bad that in your first post, I read “T-Bell” as “Taco Bell” and wondered what Disney was doing with my favorite not-even-Mexican-enough-to-be-fake-Mexican restaurant?
April 7, 2011 at 6:29 pm
Holah!
April 7, 2011 at 11:54 am
LOL, Custom Creature is in my favorite shops. Their website is AMAZING.
They could totally save that “Holah” sign by adding an “L” and a star of David.
April 7, 2011 at 12:24 pm
they’d also have to add a “c”
April 7, 2011 at 11:56 am
Every single one of those items looks like they were found in Jame Gumb’s house from “Silence of the Lambs.” Especially the fairy wings.
April 7, 2011 at 12:07 pm
Precious! Is that you????
April 7, 2011 at 1:37 pm
April 7, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Whoops – code problems.
http://oi56.tinypic.com/mcs00g.jpg
April 7, 2011 at 2:37 pm
It puts the rat head fascinator in the basket.
April 7, 2011 at 12:01 pm
It was either her or Tilda Swinton.
April 7, 2011 at 12:03 pm
OK, I swear I put the code in the first time.
April 7, 2011 at 12:05 pm
The SWINTON is an amazing fashionista.
Oh..I know..it’s bad sometimes. But I love her. She Crazy. Crazy as in awesome.
April 7, 2011 at 12:07 pm
I love SWINTON, but I went with the Sev for my masterpiece that doesn’t want to show up. (I even previewed it, honest!)
http://i1229.photobucket.com/albums/ee471/beesonpie/effery.jpg
April 7, 2011 at 12:12 pm
niiiiice! Heh.
April 7, 2011 at 12:09 pm
I think she’s an amazing actress! Her Julia kept me on the edge of the seat for the whole 2 or 3 hours of the movie…
April 7, 2011 at 12:14 pm
I’m actually kind of in love with her. Serious crush. She made an amazing Archangel.
April 7, 2011 at 12:02 pm
I’d like to put a whole outfit together using the flappin’ jeans, the rat head thing, the boots and the unicorn horn – I’d have to borrow the leopard print tassels in from yesterday to complete the set.
April 7, 2011 at 12:03 pm
Oops… I forgot the fairy wings… Now we’re all set to go.
April 7, 2011 at 1:41 pm
Look at the replies for the comment above yours. Someone granted your wish!
April 7, 2011 at 12:03 pm
If I had money to blow…the rat head and the cat foetus, definitely.
April 7, 2011 at 12:08 pm
I’m not ashamed to say that I’d buy those wings and wear the hell out of them if I had any disposable income at all.
As it is, I have a coathanger somewhere…
April 7, 2011 at 12:08 pm
The cutest jeans in the ENTIRE WORLD. That is not hyperbole – she is serious.
Why did you only post this stuff AFTER it was sold? Now none of us will have the opportunity to wear the CUTEST JEANS IN THE ENTIRE WORLD I AM SERIOUS unless we capture the current owner, and skin her.
April 7, 2011 at 12:11 pm
That cat clock is mankind’s greatest treasure
April 7, 2011 at 12:12 pm
my boyfriend’s half Italian – I kinda wish I’d bought that plate as a gift for him. Or his mom. Probably not for his mom, actually.
April 7, 2011 at 12:17 pm
A fool and his money are often parted due to etsy.
April 7, 2011 at 12:22 pm
“a fool and his shitty found objects are soon on Etsy “
April 7, 2011 at 12:36 pm
I’m most confused with the jeans – is somebody intending to wear them in public? Or are they havig an “ugly pants party” at the office?
The wings are a whole different piece of cake – there are so many beautiful fairy wings for sale, I can’t comprehend how someone paid almost a hundred bucks on this granny’s curtains accident.
April 7, 2011 at 12:40 pm
Thanks for making me lose my lunch. I’m sitting here chowing down on my bagel and boom!! Dead animals and graveyard dirt!! I spit up my bagel.
Never again will I read and eat lunch.
April 7, 2011 at 6:33 pm
New here?
April 7, 2011 at 12:46 pm
A pouch of alleged graveyard dirt seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to purchase from a total stranger on the internet. Every fifth bag of dirt comes with free magic beans. Every tenth bag of dirt comes with a sticker that says “SMRT”.
April 7, 2011 at 12:50 pm
I am equally grossed out and stupefied. A freaking cat fetus? Gross! The only thing in that whole freaking list worth paying anything for is that cat clock…it’s dumb but it serves real purpose if it works. Wow!
April 7, 2011 at 12:51 pm
Stick a suctioncup on the horn and you’ve got a sale lil missy. And that grave dirt one makes me lose faith in the USA. Assuming it’s real: A. who has the nuts to start digging up war heros? B. Shouldn’t somone be watching military graveyards?
April 7, 2011 at 12:53 pm
I would definitely buy the wildcat foetus, I’m actually a big fan of the artist who sold it (looking at previous comments, I see she’s already been mentioned).
I might also buy the fairy wings, if I didn’t want to thrown a curtain into a ceiling fan myself.
April 7, 2011 at 12:53 pm
Whether it’s from a grave or anywhere else, I refuse to pay money for dirt. I could always go get some from the vacuum, for free.
April 7, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Why not contact the seller with a lucrative business proposal – welcome her to collect all the dirt from your hoover and from around the house/yard and she can keep it as a payment for cleaning up?
April 7, 2011 at 1:05 pm
What kind of a person digs up dirt from someone’s grave…to SELL?!?! WOW. I really have no words…just, WOW.
April 7, 2011 at 1:27 pm
1. That daughter obviously never paid attention to Dora or her Spanish teacher.
2. Who would buy graveyard dirt online when they could just drive to their local graveyard?
3. Those pants are confusing. Are the crochet bows supposed to stop the jeans from fraying all the way to the waistband? Where would be the ideal climate for them? I mean, you can’t get true circulation with them since the inseams are intact.
I am so glad I’m not the only one who likes the cat clock.
April 7, 2011 at 1:36 pm
I would TOTALLY buy that cat clock
April 7, 2011 at 2:16 pm
OK, the unicorn horn would be a great accessory to a unicorn Halloween or Mardi Gras costume. It looks like it would be cheaper than something from Party City, and would probably hold up better. I bought something very similar for a devil costume this year. It’s not like I wear the horns out around town (unless it’s Halloween). I bet the person who bought the unicorn horn also bought theirs for a costume.
April 7, 2011 at 2:17 pm
Goals for today:
1 Kill Bigfoot
2 Cut off legs
3 Add elastic (vital!)
4 Etsy
April 7, 2011 at 2:43 pm
and 5…. Profit!!
April 7, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Nonono, five is “???” and SIX is profit!
Because let’s face it, that person must have been doing something pretty damn shady to get those things sold… which may or may not have involved war hero grave dirt.
April 7, 2011 at 5:24 pm
I was a little wary of going for that meme, but I’m glad you did!
April 7, 2011 at 2:25 pm
I’m guessing the unicorn horn is available in a 2-piece set, and she’s wearing the other one on the lower end. She’s got that, “one-time-at-band-camp” look on her face.
April 7, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Okay, I want the cat.
April 7, 2011 at 2:55 pm
NOOOOOO ARE THERE MORE UNICORN HORNS
April 7, 2011 at 3:19 pm
I think it’s because they’re easy to make. I’ve made custom horns before and ‘unicorn’ style horns are the easiest to make. It’s a beginner project I think.
April 7, 2011 at 3:02 pm
Holah people ! So far I have noted quite a few votes in favor of the cat clock. Well, you can add mine. The fact that no real cat was pickled, skinned or dismembered to make it only adds to its charm.
April 7, 2011 at 3:06 pm
And just to be totally pedantic, if you want yer spell to work, you have to dig up your own fucking grave dirt, on the right fucking day, at the right fucking time.
Not that I have personally done that or anything.
In a while.
April 7, 2011 at 5:04 pm
You act like magic is, like, hard or something. I don’t have time to be digging up my own dirt because I have a lot of homework this week, and besides my mom won’t drive me to the graveyard.
April 7, 2011 at 5:35 pm
I knnnnnoooooooooowww! Like, right?
April 7, 2011 at 3:11 pm
I too would take the clock and remove the cat parts. Harddrive clock in itself is cool enough. IF it actually works. I’ve seen some neat shit made out of harddrives. OH, i did see a digital cock made out of an HD before.
April 8, 2011 at 3:34 am
A digital what… ?
April 7, 2011 at 3:17 pm
I might buy the unicorn horn if I was feeling especially lazy and didn’t want to make my own. I LARP though, so it has a purpose. If I need custom horns I generally make them myself. It’s not difficult.
FWIW, I HAVE seen some people wearing horns at the Ren Faire around here (Bristol, WI). Some vendors sell them. Maybe people do wear these horns at Faires around the country but people don’t notice them because their eyes have been burned out via chain mail bikini. Squick.
Mock away for the LARP thing if you must. I’m confortable with my nerdiness.
April 7, 2011 at 11:14 pm
Your monocle says you love being nerdy, but your angry eye-brows are daring us to say something so you can cut a bitch.
April 8, 2011 at 7:41 am
I gave up on dignity the day I realized that I play a mixture of dress up and cops vs robbers for fun on the weekends.
April 7, 2011 at 5:01 pm
I resent being called “earthy” by the fairy wings seller…I am serious.
I would, however, love to have the title “Luxury Goddess of the Autumn” and go around making clink clink in gipsy style.
April 7, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Something tells me the preserved fetus is used in the process of creating a reborn Lola monkey…
April 7, 2011 at 6:38 pm
So was the graveyard dirt.
April 7, 2011 at 6:56 pm
Preserved fetus – CHECK
infamous gravesite dirt -CHECK
Fairie dust and felted vagoo – CHECK and CHECK
and wall-ah! REBORN LOLA MONKEY!
April 7, 2011 at 5:54 pm
I would actually buy that clock.
Is something wrong with me?
…Yeah, don’t answer that.
April 7, 2011 at 6:09 pm
Even when I was a drunkpunk back in the day, wore ripped black clothes I found in the trash and rolled around on filth and broken beer bottles at shows I wouldn’t WEAR A FUCKING RAT ON MY HEAD!
GAH!!!!!
April 7, 2011 at 6:59 pm
I sometimes see the things that people are selling on Etsy and never, ever, want to leave my house again.
April 7, 2011 at 7:06 pm
Why is it that the worst, most horrendous rubbish is made by the recycling, earth-mothery, “wasting-any-part-of-an-animal-is-disrespectful-to-mother-nature” loony bins?
Some awesome stuff can be made by recycling. Why not go make some of that?
April 7, 2011 at 7:11 pm
I don’t think they understand that ‘mother nature’s’ way of recycling is COMPOST. Killing an animal only for it’s tongue/gallbladder/fur = awful. Letting an accidentally killed creature rot back into the earth = nature! Preserving the remains of that kitten is the opposite of wasting.
April 7, 2011 at 8:04 pm
Dur… by ‘opposite of wasting’ I meant ‘opposite of recycling’.
April 7, 2011 at 7:16 pm
Dear Whoever Bought Those Jeans, It sure would be entertaining to see a video of you walking briskly in them. Pretty Pu-leeeeze?
April 7, 2011 at 8:01 pm
My reaction to the first picture after I scrolled down was “MITTENS, NO! WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOU?!”
I flunked out of college biology because I couldn’t dissect the cat. Had no trouble with the snake or the rat, but I had three cats of my own waiting and home, and how could I possibly face them after having dissected a possible relative?
April 7, 2011 at 8:11 pm
Regretsy has tattooed a phrase on my brain, and this just reinforces it:
“What the FUCK is wrong with people?!?!?!”
I mean, these people could just send their money to me and not have to clutter up their spaces with….THIS!
April 7, 2011 at 8:15 pm
Those heels really sell the whole roadkill shinwarmers. Nothing screams class like shredding looking fur and shitty used ribbons over high heels. Pair that with the rodent fascinater and you’re ready for a night out at a backwoods kegger.
Don’t forget the hotel bedsheets accented with dumpster dived treasures and you have a real whimsicle thang going on. All your cousins will be so jealous as they feel you up!
April 7, 2011 at 8:19 pm
I think that rat needs some googley eyes. There is nothing that cannot be improved by the addition of googley eyes!
April 7, 2011 at 8:20 pm
AND glitter! Don’t forget the glitter!!!!
April 8, 2011 at 3:32 am
And a moustache.
April 8, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Definitely…those huge ones that would make it look like Cookie Monster. Touche.
April 7, 2011 at 8:26 pm
If you mix the grave dirt with the cat fetus, will a Pet Cemetery thing occur?
April 7, 2011 at 8:40 pm
There’s a rat on your head! THERE’S A FUCKING RAT ON YOUR HEAD!!
Oh…
People are fucking ‘tards.
April 8, 2011 at 12:41 pm
Gotta clean the spray off my computer again. Thanks, Ms. Anthrope.
April 7, 2011 at 9:03 pm
Not gonna lie, I would totally buy the cat clock. Even if that bitch was $50. K more like $38.50 but it would be sold is all I’m sayin’…
April 7, 2011 at 9:11 pm
I have a tiger fetus and a pig fetus in my display case. I’m really not sure why they’re there… I still live with my father, and we’ve had them as long as I can remember. I’m not even sure that he remembers where we got them… XD
April 7, 2011 at 10:08 pm
Oh holy shit. I wheeze-laughed like a crazy person when I saw those jeans. Kids these days….
April 8, 2011 at 7:13 am
I don’t mind the cat clock – at least you can tell it is hand made, it is recycling something and that person actually had to have an idea for it to happen.
I showed my boyfriend the furry leg things and he asked WTF they were supposed to be. So I googled spats and showed him a picture. His response? “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means”.
April 8, 2011 at 7:17 am
I kept my fetal cat from AP Bio and took it to college. That’s how I made friends – “Hey, I have a preserved cat in a jar. Wanna see?” Well, that and I sold cigarettes from my room. Good times.
April 8, 2011 at 7:34 am
Thank you for my first laugh of the day.
April 8, 2011 at 7:48 am
To be honest, my eyes went to the name and image of the first item (the kitten) before I read the title of this post and I speedily clicked it, hoping no one else had bought it yet. So, yes, I would definitely purchase a kitten in a jar. My decor is a little on the eccentric side. (I swear I’m not goth/emo/whatever.) I already have an alligator head, a fetal shark and a pig embryo (the latter two in jars).
April 8, 2011 at 1:07 pm
Are you my friend Jordan? Because that suspiciously sounds like her collection as well.
April 8, 2011 at 12:20 pm
I would so buy the rat hat.
April 8, 2011 at 1:06 pm
I would probably buy the mario plate for kicks, it’s cute in a weird way.
April 8, 2011 at 9:35 pm
The seller of the fairy wings looks like she covered some fabric in super glue and rolled around in a craft store dumpster.
April 8, 2011 at 9:54 pm
I never understood the whole taxidermy decor thing but I’m willing to learn–somebody try selling your dead pets on etsy and let’s see what happens. Maybe the world is waiting for a kitten-head fascinator and just doesn’t know it yet?
April 8, 2011 at 9:59 pm
I’m a science teacher and I probably would have TOTALLY bought that preserved wild cat.
April 9, 2011 at 12:02 pm
Guess what, Mother Nature also does not believe in wasting any part of an animal. It’s called “decomposition”, and it’s a bit more earth-friendly than your jar of formaldehyde there.
April 9, 2011 at 12:44 pm
I’d actually buy the fetus…but I’m weird like that.
April 9, 2011 at 9:09 pm
A noble spirit who would give up anything, apparently that includes the dirt used to bury him.
April 11, 2011 at 5:18 am
Nothing less disrespectful to a dead animal than to deny it the right to be reclaimed by nature, by making a hyper-respectful fetishist toy!
April 11, 2011 at 9:25 pm
Just so I have this straight…
You took dirt off a grave.
A grave of a decorated WWII veteran.
To paste onto a paper plate for what looks like a project a 4 year old would make.
So you can…sell this…to someone.
Can I use the unicorn horn to jab you in the eye, oh mysterious grave dirt looter?
April 14, 2011 at 1:15 am
Destroy it with fire. All of it. I wonder whether I had ever seen such a wtf fest before.
April 15, 2011 at 1:02 pm
April 29, 2011 at 6:19 pm
I actually think the cat clock is incredibly clever. However, its cleverness combined with its somewhat … simplistic? cartoonish? … rendering of a cat makes me wonder if the clever part of it is actually original. But I still likey.
March 22, 2012 at 10:46 am
the cat-computer parts-clock is actually pretty awesome.
March 22, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Rat Fascinator: Want!
Holah: ?Que? (don’t know how to do the upside down one here)
Flappy Pants: Say what?
Spats: Not so bad.
Fairy Wings: Looks like she’s backed up to that railing to hold them up … with all that junk attached, I can see why.