Despite everything, I believe that people are really stupid
Know someone getting married? Why not send them an inspiring message stenciled on a page from The Diary of Anne Frank? It’s a thoughtful way to to say, “You two kids are going to be just fine, provided you stay in the attic.”
MAZEL TOV
May 19, 2011 at 1:44 pm
…I…I have no words for this…
May 19, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Asinine and tasteless, for starters.
May 19, 2011 at 1:48 pm
I knew when I saw the words “air raid” right under “Happily” it could not be a good fit.
May 19, 2011 at 1:52 pm
“dispersed ourselves” is under “ever after.”
perfect.
May 19, 2011 at 1:55 pm
And it’s right under the words “escape bag.”
May 19, 2011 at 3:36 pm
That’s marriage for ya. Some days, you’ll definitely wish you had an escape bag.
May 19, 2011 at 1:57 pm
That’s all right, there’s plenty on that page. Saldy none apply to weddings…
May 19, 2011 at 1:59 pm
*sadly. Derp.
May 19, 2011 at 2:17 pm
I managed to come up with bhbmhj bkjbhj bnmb after banging my head on my desk a few times.
May 19, 2011 at 5:48 pm
You had to hit your head too, huh?
May 19, 2011 at 4:38 pm
This is literally the most shocking thing I have ever seen featured on Regretsy. I actually registered an account on Etsy.com today, just so I could send a message to the seller. This is either a truly tasteless and offensive joke… or a shocking display of staggering ignorance. Ether way, it’s indefensible.
May 19, 2011 at 5:18 pm
I’m going with ignorance. You’d be amazed how stupid people are. “Hm, I’ve heard of this book before. I bet people would love to buy a page from it with stuff printed over the stuff printed on the page…duuuuuhhhhhh….”
May 19, 2011 at 5:53 pm
I’m going with ignorance too. No one could possibly be stupid enough to think this could be a good idea after reading the book. But the title? All little girls write in their diaries about weddings and sunshine and unicorn farts! How cheerful and delightfully aged!
May 20, 2011 at 4:30 am
Oh dear God, Marie, it can’t…it can’t be that bad, can it?
I’m with Tight; that is truly shocking and offensive; what the fuck?!?
May 20, 2011 at 4:46 pm
No, it can’t be ignorance. Even if you haven’t read the book, how can someone look at that page and line up the stamps without picking up enough random words and phrases to get the idea that it’s not a happy story, nor even a happy page? If the seller had used one o the happier entries (and there were some light-hearted ones – Anne remained remarkably upbeat throughout much of the nightmare she was living), then ignorance might fly. But not a page about air raids and keeping her escape bag near her.
May 19, 2011 at 5:05 pm
And I have no words for this:
http://gawker.com/5803380/pejazzling-now-you-can-vajazzle-your-penis
May 19, 2011 at 5:50 pm
I have some!
One is “Huh?” and the others are “Why lips and an iron cross?” Is one a hint at what he wants you to do, and the other a hint that you’d better not reveal any non-white parts of your ancestry?
I think I’d just as soon he went the “disco ball tied to penis with long string” route suggested by the linked picture.
May 19, 2011 at 6:40 pm
This link is useless without pics…
May 20, 2011 at 12:09 pm
These are not the pics you’re looking for, but they will help you imagine.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1388008/After-vajazzling-comes-pejazzling-TOWIEs-Mark-Wright-blings-boys-crystal-tattoos.html
They look to be endorsed by the British equivalent of a Jersey Shore dude, which, really, makes perfect sense.
May 20, 2011 at 12:17 am
Wouldn’t that be a Peenjazzle?
May 20, 2011 at 9:44 am
Actually, shouldn’t it be Peenjizzle?
May 19, 2011 at 6:41 pm
Didn’t AF die in the Camps? Is this supposed to be ironic?
Fucking hipsters
May 19, 2011 at 7:37 pm
Yes. She and her family were eventually found, and she and her sister Margot died in Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp of Typhoid. She was 15 at the time, and had spent three years in hiding along with her family, and several others.
We had to read ‘The Diary of Ann Frank’ in school. It’s one of the very few books I’ve ever read that honestly made me cry. The realization that the author has likely never read this and has no idea what it’s about makes me want to cry all over again at the ignorance and stupidity displayed here.
Unless her idea of ‘They lived Happily Ever After’ means ‘Well, at least they didn’t get gassed to death or killed in the ovens.’
May 19, 2011 at 10:11 pm
I believe that Anne died only a few days before the camp was liberated, adding to the sadness of the whole thing. Her mother starved to death because she squirrelled away her rations for her daughters while she was in another camp.
The fact that this person chose this particular book to use for their “art” makes me feel sick.
May 20, 2011 at 4:01 am
Margot and Anne died not from typhoid but from epidemic typhus – a louse-born disease which thrives in crowded dirty conditions. It killed unknown thousands of prisoners, POWs and refugees: most of the recently-dead victims in the mass graves discovered at Belsen died from it. The insecticidal properties of DDT discovered in 1939 proved effective against the lice and lead to major delousing efforts by the conquering allies.
May 20, 2011 at 4:51 pm
The book The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank documented her life in the camps from those who met her there. Everyone but Anne’s father Otto died. Anne and Margot were so close to living it makes me want to scream. Anne only died a week before liberation. A WEEK. She only managed to not be killed right away because the fuckers thought she was older than she was. If her age had been known, she would have been dead an hour after getting off the train.
May 19, 2011 at 6:47 pm
I literally shouted “Oh no!” as soon as I saw what they’d stenciled it on.
May 19, 2011 at 1:44 pm
Is that not really ironic?
May 19, 2011 at 1:46 pm
It might be truthfully ironic!
May 19, 2011 at 1:47 pm
I’d go with sardonic.
May 19, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Moronic!
May 19, 2011 at 2:31 pm
No, definitely *less* onic, please!
May 19, 2011 at 6:59 pm
Bionic and Techtonic !!
May 19, 2011 at 2:27 pm
I’m going to take the easy route and go with idiotic.
May 19, 2011 at 3:12 pm
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May 19, 2011 at 3:40 pm
now i need a gin and tonic
May 19, 2011 at 5:41 pm
bubonic
May 19, 2011 at 8:52 pm
You say “ironic,” I say “moronic.”
May 20, 2011 at 4:52 pm
I call it fucking stupid and shameful.
May 19, 2011 at 1:45 pm
The tasteful card every young couple needs on their wedding day.
May 19, 2011 at 2:13 pm
Besides the terrible choice of book, how is this a decent card design? And they liked it so much, they made a bunch more? Here, I tore a page from an old book and used a Sharpie and my kid’s plastic stencil to make you a card. It took me a whole 3 minutes!
May 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm
Actually, I kind of like the design, but not for a wedding card. A quick thank you, a last-minute birthday…etc.
And not for selling for $3.20.
May 19, 2011 at 2:53 pm
For a wedding, I think Austen would have been a better fit. However, Dickens’s Great Expectations would be fun too.
May 19, 2011 at 2:56 pm
I didn’t mean using this book.
May 19, 2011 at 4:50 pm
I’d have gone for Wuthering Heights. There’s nothing that says “happily ever after” like literature’s most selfish girl and most butthurt boy.
May 19, 2011 at 5:52 pm
Are you sure it’s Wuthering Heights you mean? Kinda sounds like a slightly more recent couple to me. Cough *Twilight* cough.
May 19, 2011 at 9:48 pm
@EyeHeartSpiders – Or Romeo and Juliet. My bf loves it (he acted in it in a high school play) but I keep telling him there is nothing romantic about killing yourself over some mediocre sex.
May 19, 2011 at 9:51 pm
im leaning Jane Eyre over Wuthering Heights , I mean nowadays most guys have the stark raving looney ex that they cant get rid of.
May 19, 2011 at 3:03 pm
It’s just one more annoying Etsy trend, print big bold text or graphics on an old yellowed page of a classic book. They want cash money for the incredible amount of effort it takes and the high cost of source materials.
May 19, 2011 at 7:55 pm
This is the absolute ass end of the “stenciled shit on book pages” trend.
May 19, 2011 at 5:06 pm
I wonder if we can make custom requests for specific page numbers.
May 19, 2011 at 5:52 pm
For those wanting that one particular scene from “Lady Chatterley’s Lover.”
May 19, 2011 at 5:53 pm
Which is an excellent way to hint that it’s not going to work out.
May 19, 2011 at 3:03 pm
Especially if they marry on July 28th. Maybe that’s why she chose that page.
(Momentary wish to give an idiot the benefit of the doubt.)
We may never know, because someone bought it!
May 19, 2011 at 5:07 pm
But then they’d have to get a TON of copies of this one page. . . and spend a LOT of money on all those books. . . more than professionally done wedding invites!
And does it really look like the seller wants to put in that much effort?
May 19, 2011 at 5:59 pm
Thanks for the kick in the ass. Much appreciated. There was no reason for me to give her the benefit of the doubt.
May 19, 2011 at 3:43 pm
hey! skin heads need wedding cards too right?!
May 19, 2011 at 3:44 pm
note: no they do not. because that would mean they’re marrying, which probably means they’re reproducing :/
May 19, 2011 at 5:32 pm
They’re probably reproducing even without a marriage.
May 19, 2011 at 1:45 pm
Their wedding was a Gas.
May 19, 2011 at 1:46 pm
boo!
May 19, 2011 at 1:49 pm
I think “hiss” is more appropriate…
May 19, 2011 at 2:12 pm
That made me choke on my own spit.
May 19, 2011 at 2:28 pm
This made me choke on smartwentcrazy’s spit.
May 19, 2011 at 1:47 pm
Too soon.
May 20, 2011 at 4:37 am
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May 19, 2011 at 1:50 pm
No. Just no. It will always be too soon.
May 19, 2011 at 5:37 pm
Exactly.
May 19, 2011 at 2:55 pm
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May 19, 2011 at 3:40 pm
Yes it is a bad joke. Guess I really should have kept that one too myself. But I’m reminded of a line from Mary Poppins: “Me father always said there’s nothing like a good joke.” “And that was nothing like a good joke.”
May 19, 2011 at 3:55 pm
Her self-imposed label? You mean that she was Jewish and actually told people she was Jewish, instead of pretending she wasn’t? Because you seem to be saying that anyone who belongs to a group of people who are different from others you know is embracing their identity only to set themselves apart from others.
Which suggests that you need to (1) get over yourself–people don’t choose their identity in order to please or irritate stephsparkle, and (2) stop digging right now before your anti-Semitism becomes even more obvious.
May 19, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Sometimes I tell people I’m Irish and Norwegian even though I am! It’s kind of a self-imposed label.
May 19, 2011 at 9:05 pm
There’s a difference between embracing an identity and aggressively flaunting it. Like Margaret Cho and her million Chinese jokes. We get it already, be funny about something else for a change.
Also, judgmental much? She was not endorsing the joke or being anti-semitic.
May 19, 2011 at 9:54 pm
@Amy – butthurt much?
I made a Catholic joke about my parents not being raptured on a previous comment thread, which “outed me” as catholic to all of you. My boyfriend makes ginger jokes about himself all the time. It isn’t like you can’t see he’s a red-head. One of my sister’s friends used to introduce himself as “the gay one.” I had the feeling that what Stephsparkle was getting at was that maybe this girl spends a lot of time telling jokes about her religious/ethnic identity (it doesn’t specify which the girl was). It doesn’t imply at all that Stephsparkle needs to get over herself or that she’s an anti-Semite.
However, your post suggests that 1) you are a douche and 2) you like assuming things about others online. Have fun with that!
May 19, 2011 at 10:39 pm
@MissPlace you may argue if she’s funny or not but Margaret Cho is definitely Korean not Chinese!
May 19, 2011 at 10:55 pm
Sheltie-
My mistake. SpyGlassez said it better than me.
May 20, 2011 at 11:59 am
I guess that didn’t come across as it was meant. I just thought it odd that she would always say “Hi I’m ____ and I’m Jewish.” I have nothing against it. It was just different from what everyone else was doing and stood out in my mind. She never pretended to be anything else.
Didn’t mean to step on toes. Geez. Let it go.
May 20, 2011 at 4:55 pm
I’ve got a friend who calls herself “the Jew girl” among us. It’s more than just being open about her religion and more to the point that it’s an outright label that starts to lose meaning.
May 19, 2011 at 5:22 pm
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May 20, 2011 at 12:01 pm
No no. I agreed. I think my jaw hit the floor when she said it. I have never been so shocked in my life by a joke– a sick one at that.
May 19, 2011 at 1:45 pm
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May 19, 2011 at 5:23 pm
Stupid is as stupid does?
May 19, 2011 at 5:55 pm
Blah blah box of chocolates blah blah AIDS?
May 19, 2011 at 1:46 pm
This is breathtakingly idiotic.
May 19, 2011 at 1:46 pm
The wedding gift is two handrolled cigarettes made with stale tobacco mixed with pocket lint.
May 19, 2011 at 1:46 pm
This makes me await The Rapture with even more eager anticipation ! We’ll be rid of them ! Yeay !
May 19, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Not all of the stupid are righteous. I think we’ll be stuck with them permanently. And if there is a hell, they’ll be our roommates.
May 19, 2011 at 2:40 pm
Didn’t Jesus say that? “The stupid you will always have with you…”
May 19, 2011 at 3:18 pm
If he didn’t, he should have.
May 19, 2011 at 3:25 pm
I think it was Yoda who said that.
May 19, 2011 at 4:05 pm
@Twisty, Yoda actually said:
“Stupid with you will always have.”
May 19, 2011 at 6:06 pm
No way. I’m not sharing house with the sillies. I’ll write a strongly worded, all caps flounce to Jesus right now, saying I think his Rapture is unasseptable if I get put in with someone other than jealous losers. He’ll be receiving a crease and desist from my lawyers !
May 19, 2011 at 7:45 pm
We could always *claim* the stupid people were raptured. No one would ever have to know. (looks around with shifty eyes)
May 19, 2011 at 1:46 pm
This could be the start of a trend. How about a Housewarming Card written over a page from “The Amityville Horror”? Or an invitation to go camping on a page torn from the script of “The Blair Witch Project”? The possibilities are endless.
May 19, 2011 at 1:48 pm
you forgot the Bat Mitzvah invitations printed on pages of Mein Kampf . . .
May 19, 2011 at 2:51 pm
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May 19, 2011 at 4:06 pm
Or the Red Tent Party Card from the page in Anne Frank where she talks about her “sweet secret” (that’s almost the only thing I remember from reading that book. The other was the division of the moldy potato for dinner)
May 19, 2011 at 4:07 pm
I think pages from “Night” By Eli Wiesel would be a better Bar/Bat Mitzvah invitation.
Mazel Tov
May 19, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Oh
noesno!May 19, 2011 at 1:52 pm
She does have a housewarming card available, it’s also stenciled onto a page from the book. Not sure if I get that idea either…
May 19, 2011 at 1:57 pm
“Welcome to my tiny, cramped, dirty attic. Squeeze into the corner there, and have a sip of water and some dust. Music? No, that’s a machine gun you can hear.”
May 19, 2011 at 2:00 pm
It seems all her cards are made from that book. Apparently, it’s her only one.
May 19, 2011 at 2:02 pm
*was* her only one.
May 19, 2011 at 2:36 pm
She’s saving to buy Carrie.
May 19, 2011 at 2:42 pm
>She’s saving to buy Carrie.<
Yup, and she'll be unveiling her Red Tent/Menarche series soon after.
May 19, 2011 at 5:09 pm
And hey, she can wrap the remaining pages in yarn and sell it like it’s by Sylvia Plath!
May 20, 2011 at 4:11 am
She says she has lots:
“Sometimes I find books that are completely falling apart. Instead of letting these books go to waste, I’ve started using the old yellowed pages as steciled collage art. I’m having so much fun with it! Enjoy!”
Because the ONLY possible use for a yellowed copy of The Diary of Anne Frank is for this belief-beggaringly fuckwitted mare to sell as “steciled (sic) collage art”.
May 19, 2011 at 2:03 pm
sweet, you’re giving me so many ideas for my store!
May 19, 2011 at 2:32 pm
That’s what I was thinking!! It’s all about turning the worst idea ever into not a bad one. Silk purse, sow’s ear.
May 19, 2011 at 2:18 pm
Baby congrats card printed on Helter Skelter?
May 19, 2011 at 3:23 pm
Or Rosemary’s Baby.
May 19, 2011 at 3:55 pm
I expect someone’s already told you this, but I keep hearing your user name to the tune of “Waltzing Matilda” in my brain. Yikes, what an earworm.
May 20, 2011 at 4:54 am
Oh thanks a lot, now I am too
May 20, 2011 at 12:21 pm
Dammit.
May 19, 2011 at 4:02 pm
I’m thinking Rosemary’s Baby.
May 19, 2011 at 6:17 pm
SORRY! I accidentally downthumbed you when I meant to upthumb! Ironically, it’s because I was holding a baby and trying to use my left hand.
May 19, 2011 at 8:34 pm
I was thinking Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal.”
May 19, 2011 at 9:57 pm
I’d actually buy that for my sister…she’d crap herself laughing.
May 20, 2011 at 5:00 am
No, see Swift is doing satire, so you could sell it as being funny, if your friends/relatives have a dark sense of humor.
May 20, 2011 at 6:37 pm
Abortion instructions from a gynecology textbook.
May 19, 2011 at 2:44 pm
How about “happy crafting” using the Regretsy book?
May 19, 2011 at 2:51 pm
How about “Have a Great Time at Summer Camp” cards using pages from The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn?
May 20, 2011 at 4:55 am
Or Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda on same.
May 19, 2011 at 2:57 pm
Ooh, I have a copy of “Small Sacrifices” that’s falling apart – I could donate it so the seller could make birth announcements!
May 19, 2011 at 3:02 pm
Sofie’s Choice.
May 20, 2011 at 4:56 am
Oh, snap. You should send it to her; she’ll never get the irony. Obviously.
May 19, 2011 at 2:59 pm
Here I was thinking the same thing. Now, what book says “Sorry about your recent loss of a loved one?” Death of a Salesman? Of Mice and Men?
May 19, 2011 at 3:01 pm
Moving along this thought process, can we send “Sorry you’re stupid” cards to flouncers on Of Mice and Men pages? Come on! It’s a classic.
May 19, 2011 at 3:13 pm
“Silence of the Lambs”?
May 19, 2011 at 5:07 pm
How about Pet Sematary for a sympathy card…it brings hope.
May 19, 2011 at 8:12 pm
Now that was truly from the dark side. Good job.
May 19, 2011 at 7:59 pm
“Good luck on your new life as a vegetarian” printed on a page from Animal Farm.
May 19, 2011 at 9:58 pm
I know! I have a crap copy of “Don Quixote” lying around somewhere. I’ll contribute it for “Congratulations” cards for graduates!
May 20, 2011 at 4:57 am
Of Mice and Men is good for congratulating someone on a new pet, too.
May 19, 2011 at 1:46 pm
If I may be Frank, this is a terrible idea.
Imagine the others in her collection. A page from Sofie’s Choice for a baby shower. A page from All My Sons for congrats on a new job…
May 19, 2011 at 2:04 pm
I was thinking Death of a Salesman for a new job. Stepford Wives would be lovely for the shower invites, and really, what event can’t you celebrate with some science fiction?
May 19, 2011 at 9:59 pm
Yes, but what could we use “A Canticle for Liebowitz” for?
May 19, 2011 at 2:11 pm
How about Go Ask Alice for those interventions?
May 19, 2011 at 3:03 pm
How about I Never Promised You a Rose Garden? It even comes with invented language like many Esty items.
May 19, 2011 at 2:33 pm
Carrie for a girl’s quinceanera or menarche. (I’ve seen things to give a girl for menarche. Who the hell wants to celebrate that?)
May 19, 2011 at 5:53 pm
Probably those who have no idea exactly what’s coming…
May 19, 2011 at 7:39 pm
My folks broke out the champagne, which was nice.
May 19, 2011 at 10:00 pm
My mom called my grandma and they laughed at me together.
May 20, 2011 at 7:07 am
Ugh, I didn’t even want my father to KNOW much less SAY anything about it! And yeah, except for girls my own age, I really didn’t want to talk about it. A party would have mortified me. Much less, periods are an enormous PITA to this day; I don’t find them happy fun times.
May 19, 2011 at 2:40 pm
Rosemary’s Baby for birth announcements.
May 19, 2011 at 2:43 pm
My boyfriend suggests another wedding invitation stenciled on a page from the script of “The Ring.”
Well, he suggested this after getting over going “g-aaaah” and twitching for a little while.
May 19, 2011 at 3:20 pm
Did you tase him again?
May 19, 2011 at 3:48 pm
Oh my God! fancyskants That made me laugh really loud for a really long time. I am still bursting out into random chuckles. Thank you!
May 19, 2011 at 9:03 pm
What? He was freaking me out!
May 19, 2011 at 2:54 pm
The Stand for someone suffering from Influenza.
A Chick Tract for celebrating someone’s same-sex marriage.
A page from The Bible for celebrating Eid.
Make Room! Make Room! for a birth or death announcement – multi purpose!
May 19, 2011 at 3:06 pm
For same sex I would suggest Shockproof Syndney Skate
May 19, 2011 at 3:08 pm
I am forced to stop you right there, as you have stumbled over one of my pet peeves. “Make Room! Make Room!” does not make soylent green out of people!!! It’s just the new and exciting alternative to soylent brown.
I am okay with using the movie poster for the birth or death announcement, however, as the movie is not true to the book.
May 19, 2011 at 5:35 pm
“Make Room! Make Room!” I picked for overpopulation, hence the birth/death thing. Not touching Soylent Green with a 10″ pole.
May 19, 2011 at 7:46 pm
Madame Bovary for a wedding.
Or The Crucible.
Why does Arthur Miller seem so appropriate for so many of these?
May 19, 2011 at 8:03 pm
What about The Amityville Horror for a housewarming? Too bad Poltergeist wasn’t a book because that would work too.
May 19, 2011 at 9:04 pm
Mother’s Day? “‘Night, Mother.”
May 19, 2011 at 3:09 pm
Mommie Dearest for Mother’s Day..
May 19, 2011 at 4:25 pm
Also for adoption.
May 19, 2011 at 1:46 pm
What. The. Fuck?
May 19, 2011 at 5:53 pm
My thoughts exactly!
May 19, 2011 at 7:44 pm
I’m praying for ‘ignorance’ over ‘abject stupidity’, and ‘abject stupidity’ over ‘actual evil’.
May 19, 2011 at 1:46 pm
Miss Wintchell, you’re such a bad girl. Melanie just took her website off. )= It makes me really sad, because the site was awesome (in 1996.)
May 19, 2011 at 2:01 pm
It’s actually still up (if you’re talking about the Melanie Griffith site). For some reason you have to use bit.ly/91U24h to see it.
May 19, 2011 at 5:11 pm
Yeah, malpert4, thanks. They only took out the index. The site is still up: http://www.melaniegriffith.com/avalon/meditation/relationships.html
So inspiring.
May 19, 2011 at 6:21 pm
Something in that audio gives me migraine aura.
May 20, 2011 at 1:24 am
I clicked that link and I swear I caught a whiff of nagchampa incense.
May 19, 2011 at 1:46 pm
I just had to pick my jaw up off the floor and screw it back into its socket.
What the bloody hell???
May 19, 2011 at 1:47 pm
I suppose we should be thankful that there’s an “L” in “happily.”
Maybe it’s meant to be…irony? No one seems to know what irony really is, anyway.
May 19, 2011 at 2:14 pm
From Merriam-Webster:
Definition of IRONY
1
: a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other’s false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning —called also Socratic irony I don’t think this is a pretense of ignorance. I think its sheer, wanton stupidity.
2
a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning b : a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony c : an ironic expression or utterance It is definitely the opposite of the literal meaning, but not at all humorous.
May 19, 2011 at 2:34 pm
From Alanis Morisette:
Irony: anything that doesn’t go my way.
May 19, 2011 at 2:55 pm
From my snarky shirt collection:
Irony, the Opposite of Wrinkly
May 19, 2011 at 4:46 pm
I though irony came after the washingy?
May 19, 2011 at 3:30 pm
I’m assuming it is unintentional irony. And no, I don’t find all irony humorous.
May 19, 2011 at 2:23 pm
Encouraging people to send ironic wedding wishes is part of the downfall of society. If you don’t like the couple you send a card of superficial platitudes. Our small lies hold us together as a species.
I get the sick humor of it. I really do. If The Diary of Anne Frank was a fictional story I would giggle about this card. There are just books you do this with and books you don’t. Anne Frank is on the Don’t list. The same sort of effect could be achieved by using a page from Atonement without mocking the memory of those who suffered and die in the Holocaust.
May 19, 2011 at 6:56 pm
Our small lies hold us together as a species.
Indeed. Do you think Billy Joel really loved her just the way she is? Hm?
May 20, 2011 at 6:13 am
Maybe not, but I do believe Buck Cherry really is “on top of it”
May 20, 2011 at 6:13 am
and for the reason he stated
May 19, 2011 at 1:47 pm
Hmm..and I thought I had a sick and dark sense of humor…but this takes the cake.
I cannot imagine what the person who would give this card would wear to the wedding…any takers?
May 19, 2011 at 1:51 pm
White pasties and vulva panties. In a size 1, regardless of the wearer’s actual size.
May 19, 2011 at 5:14 pm
A snood.
And nothing else.
May 19, 2011 at 1:47 pm
…no, they didn’t?
May 19, 2011 at 1:47 pm
I don’t know, might be an awesome card to give someone passive aggressively. Think about it; your ex is getting married, you are socially obligated to go because “you two are doing just fine, you’re totally still friends….” Why not give the groom and the beautiful bride he left you for this gem of a card.
May 19, 2011 at 1:47 pm
So when the happy couple has kids, does the birth announcement go on a page from A Clockwork Orange?
May 19, 2011 at 1:49 pm
“Sophie’s Choice,” if they’re having twins.
May 19, 2011 at 1:53 pm
this has to be the comment of the day, because it fucking killed me
May 19, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Actually, if they’re having twins, another good one would be The Memory Keeper’s Daughter.
May 19, 2011 at 2:33 pm
I vote for Flowers in the Attic – - it keeps with the whole attic theme.
Yup, I said it.
May 19, 2011 at 8:31 pm
Thanks for the powdered donuts, mummy!!
May 19, 2011 at 1:48 pm
http://www.etsy.com/listing/74220986/etched-mirror-framed-born-this-way
From the same seller: Look in the mirror and shrug as you sigh, “Whelp…I can’t help this horror I’m seeing. Time to face the world!”
May 19, 2011 at 1:53 pm
What about this one?
http://www.etsy.com/listing/74404292/greeting-card-mark-twain-quote-blank
That, or cyanide gas.
May 19, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Or this one. Empty, and I’m not surprised.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/74024389/my-stash-etched-smoke-stash-canister-jar?ref=pr_shop
May 20, 2011 at 7:36 am
Just curious – is that really “etching”? It looks raised. Like someone glued sand or whatever onto the glass in a pattern (and spilled some all over the rest of it as well.) I really don’t know much about etching but I thought that meant the design was cut into the glass.
May 20, 2011 at 8:53 am
Is it sad that this is the first thing I thought of?
May 20, 2011 at 10:30 am
No, it’s been my only thought too. Beyond wondering about the “etching”. Seeing the pet gravestones I’m thinking none of it is actually etching.
May 19, 2011 at 2:08 pm
I never knew The Diary of Anne Frank was so versatile. This seller can find the perfect page for any quote!
May 19, 2011 at 1:59 pm
I want one that has my daily mantra, “It’s a medical condition!”
May 19, 2011 at 6:57 pm
“Mom says I’m handsome!”
“Pretty is subjective!”
May 19, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Surely the lot of us could come up with a wedding card more inappropriate than this one…
May 19, 2011 at 1:51 pm
Just as soon as my brain stops trying to crawl under the coffee table in horror at the state of humanity…
May 19, 2011 at 1:55 pm
Then again, at least it wasn’t a mitzvah card?
May 19, 2011 at 2:38 pm
She used Schindler’s List for that one.
May 19, 2011 at 1:48 pm
WHY WOULD SOMEONE THINK THIS WAS OK?!?! My soul hurts. Can’t even come up with anything funny to say about this.
May 20, 2011 at 7:38 am
“Too soon” actually made me smile. After the initial shock wore off.
May 19, 2011 at 1:48 pm
What a wonderful message! I hope your love for each other has to be hidden for years only to be locked up, tortured and snuffed out before it has a chance to grow and develop into maturity! All the best
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May 19, 2011 at 2:39 pm
“I hope your love for each other has to be hidden for years only to be locked up, tortured and snuffed out before it has a chance to grow and develop into maturity!”
I want THAT on a card.
May 19, 2011 at 2:48 pm
Another one to add to the cross-stitch list, perhaps?
May 19, 2011 at 4:49 pm
I heart you prynsess
May 19, 2011 at 1:49 pm
Congratulations, you posted something that made my jaw drop so hard it actually hurt. I… I just… maybe the impending rapture is making people lose their goddamned minds?
May 19, 2011 at 7:55 pm
Why would a person who believed the rapture was coming still be putting stuff on Etsy?
May 20, 2011 at 7:39 am
For all the sinners to be left behind?
May 20, 2011 at 6:55 pm
Who’s going to ship?
May 19, 2011 at 1:49 pm
And I’m going to make paper cranes from Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night’.
May 19, 2011 at 7:56 pm
Oooh, that would be a good one! “Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes” for a ‘get well soon’ card!!
May 19, 2011 at 1:49 pm
http://www.etsy.com/listing/71993557/etched-wedding-champagne-flute-set-for
She forgot the ” ‘d ” after “I” on the first glass.
May 20, 2011 at 6:56 pm
Gone. Wow, did she shut the whole shop down already?
May 19, 2011 at 1:49 pm
Loving you
Is like an attic full of cake,
A secret hideout for my heart
Where I dare not tread during daylight
For fear the neighbors will turn me in
To the secret police of love
My happiness in your arms
Is like Hitler getting that art scholarship
When you kiss me,
I feel like Eva Braun on Christmas morning
With a schnitzel under the tree
Sometimes I just want to Goebbel you up
Tread softly on my heart, dear
Do not speak loudly in the chambers of my desire
These orders are to be obeyed at all times.
May 19, 2011 at 1:53 pm
I just punched myself in the face for this, so you guys don’t have to. It’s handled.
May 19, 2011 at 2:00 pm
No, it’s lovely. In particular, “secret police of love” is a phrase I’ll be yoinking for my own use.
I can hardly wait for next Valentine’s Day.
May 19, 2011 at 2:09 pm
Oh, tell us what you’ll be printing it on!
May 19, 2011 at 2:12 pm
The Metamorphosis.
May 19, 2011 at 2:19 pm
Ahahahaha! Kafka’s nice but I’m thinking, if it’s still trendy, Obama’s long-form birth certificate.
May 19, 2011 at 3:08 pm
really, I think it might be even better if it’s not still trendy. Post-ironic, you know.
May 20, 2011 at 7:42 am
Brilliant!
May 19, 2011 at 1:49 pm
I have such little hope for the future of our species.
May 19, 2011 at 1:49 pm
Last time I facepalmed this hard was when I saw the Disney ‘Old Yeller’ brand dog food.
May 19, 2011 at 1:52 pm
Facepalming over this kind of stupidity is dangerous. You’re risking a fractured cheekbone.
May 19, 2011 at 2:23 pm
I concur. That sort of repeated injury (and if you read Regretsy, it would be repeated) is tough on the body.
May 19, 2011 at 1:49 pm
Are all the wedding invitations printed on the SAME page? Inquiring minds would like to know.
May 19, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Did she think it was romantic to use this book? Why not get some silly romance novel for a quarter at the used book store and use ANY page from that?
May 19, 2011 at 2:38 pm
That would be awesome. You have to make sure to use all the pages though, even the parts with the graphic sex scenes.
May 19, 2011 at 3:57 pm
no save that for congratulations on becoming a nun, monk, entering the priesthood
May 19, 2011 at 8:02 pm
Or for children’s birthday cards.
May 19, 2011 at 2:50 pm
I suspect she’s never read the book, and hasn’t the faintest idea what it’s about.
May 19, 2011 at 3:28 pm
One would hope.
Somehow, I’m more inclined to think she’s just too stupid to get the “neverinamillionfuckingyearswillthisbeO.K. level of wrongness here.
May 19, 2011 at 7:52 pm
I hope. Man I hope.
May 19, 2011 at 1:51 pm
Instead of being blank, the inside should read “PSYCH!”
May 19, 2011 at 1:51 pm
i am not eating or drinking
i am choking
what is wrong with people
May 19, 2011 at 1:51 pm
Nuthin says lovin’ like something from the oven.
(Yes, I went there.)
May 19, 2011 at 1:54 pm
Being the sick fuck that I am, I admire your courage.
May 19, 2011 at 1:56 pm
…God…thumb me down into oblivion. Clearly I lost my fucking mind for a moment.
It was meant to convey the utter fucking tastelessness of the card, but failed miserably. I can only apologize.
May 19, 2011 at 2:50 pm
Oh you definitely aren’t getting raptured now.
May 19, 2011 at 2:59 pm
And I was so close.
May 19, 2011 at 1:59 pm
May 19, 2011 at 2:04 pm
Is it possible to DIE of cringing? I’m soon going to find out.
May 19, 2011 at 5:31 pm
I’m not gonna lie. I love this picture.
May 19, 2011 at 8:13 pm
I see the couple went in a different direction. Forget cutting into a wedding cake…
May 20, 2011 at 10:24 am
GRILLED CHEEZUZ! This is the funniest/worst/most horrifying thing I’ve ever seen!
May 19, 2011 at 2:09 pm
I was going to say the EXACT SAME THING, but then I chickened out and wrote a horrible poem about Hitler and schnitzel and god knows what else instead.
May 19, 2011 at 2:13 pm
Trade you!
(and that was kind of you..)
May 19, 2011 at 2:55 pm
Hitler and schnitzel should not even be together in the same love poem. They evoke two very different feelings. I would fail this literature class.
May 19, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Well, I for one got what you meant – you were horrified as well. Most sane people are horrified by what happened in Germany prior to and during WW2….
But like we’ve said about PLENTY of shit – sometimes, you just have to laugh. At the stupidity of this seller, at tasteless jokes. It’s not meant as a damn insult, or to mean you agreed with what happened.
Why is it ok to joke about some things, but not others?? I guess that’s my main question. *I* was not a Nazi, thus I should not have to feel guilty for what happened. I wasn’t even alive then, could not have done anything to help or prevent. Can I learn from history? You bet your sweet ass.
But I can also laugh at completely tasteless humor. And I’m not going to feel bad for that.
And…..let the thumbs down begin!
May 19, 2011 at 2:46 pm
I love you for this, Stranger on the Internet.
May 19, 2011 at 2:50 pm
Hey – I’m just here to keep us all from being hypocrites.
May 19, 2011 at 4:22 pm
Excellent point, angelbuttons77. I also would say that by taking this thing seriously to the point of being offended (which I readily admit that I am, after careful consideration) and actually discussing it, we come dangerously close to elevating it to “real art.”
I’d much rather make fun of shit until it’s meaningless and symbolically powerless.
May 19, 2011 at 4:30 pm
I saw “Piss Christ”, many years ago in LA at the Temporary Contemporary…a sometimes pretentious/sometimes amazing modern art space. It was really new then.
My best friend stood there with me and we both said…”Hey…is that really pee?” at the same time.
His next sentence was “Good thing that’s not actually Jesus…cuz someone might be offended and he would be all kinds of uncomfortable.”
At the time, for some reason, that made me laugh like an idiot. I had to go outside. We both did.
When I ready about the defacing of it recently..I think of that. I tend to think of his reaction as better.
May 19, 2011 at 4:34 pm
You make a good point as well – turning it into a true “statement” by overly analyzing or being overly offended….when we all know it’s most likely she’s just a total idiot who doesn’t know wtf the book is about…
May 19, 2011 at 10:10 pm
My bf and I have had a similar conversation, specifically about the “Hitler hates….” videos on YouTube, where clips of an old movie are reused to insult soccer teams, WoW, vuvuzelas, and just about any other pop topic. He’d made a comment about whether people might get swept up in the humor and forget the atrocities, and I reminded him that part of all the Hitler memes and Hipster Hitler comics is a method by which we as a culture are confronting and stripping the power from the monsters of the past. I would never laugh at the holocaust, but every time I laugh at a Hitler joke, I make him an object of derision. Otherwise, people act out of fear instead of out of certainty when reacting to something.
May 20, 2011 at 7:56 am
German WW2 reenactors tell the best nazi jokes!
May 19, 2011 at 1:51 pm
this literally knocked the breath out of me. what blatant stupidity.
May 19, 2011 at 1:52 pm
I actually prefer the more immediate irony of her Home Sweet Home card stenciled on a page from the same book.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/72934531/home-sweet-home-greeting-card-on
May 19, 2011 at 5:21 pm
And I bought the Home Sweet Home card just for the horrific irony. Now, who to send it to?
May 19, 2011 at 10:11 pm
Better send it fast, in case the recipient is raptured.
May 20, 2011 at 2:25 pm
I’m pretty sure the person I would send it to would not be raptured.
May 19, 2011 at 1:52 pm
Sound advice there, about the “escape bag”.
May 21, 2011 at 12:40 am
OT but i love your username. i say “butts lol” all the time.
May 19, 2011 at 1:52 pm
This is just plain stupid. Obviously they never READ this book. Horrible.
May 19, 2011 at 2:08 pm
According to this listing: http://www.etsy.com/listing/72934531/home-sweet-home-greeting-card-on
It is one of her favorite books. Favorite because she used it as a handy doorstop?
May 19, 2011 at 2:33 pm
see, SHE should be ashamed – if it was her favorite damn book, how can she not see the absolute tastelessness of all of this???
At least the people posting the jokes on this page know that it’s tasteless and wrong….
May 19, 2011 at 2:52 pm
Maybe she doesn’t know what happened immediately after the end of the book?
May 19, 2011 at 3:34 pm
It doesn’t matter what happened after – what happened DURING is bad enough, ya know??
May 20, 2011 at 7:54 am
I don’t see anything on there about it being one of her favorite books. Only that it’s a “vintage book” and “literature”. Something about the page being cut into pieces and formed into a little house is actually *worse* than the “happily ever after” bit. She HAS to be getting notices on this from someone.
May 20, 2011 at 12:54 pm
It’s in another one of her listings that it’s her favorite book…
May 19, 2011 at 1:53 pm
…Is it bad that I’m now HOPING the world ends on Saturday? -_-
May 19, 2011 at 1:53 pm
It reminds me of a Hallmark card I once read…..”Hope there is much Furher on your Birthday”….of course printed on pages of Mein Kampf.
May 19, 2011 at 1:59 pm
Well, clearly that card wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on, since it was missing the umlaut! If you’re going to spend 1.99 on a card, it damn well better have all those extra dots!
May 19, 2011 at 2:09 pm
May 19, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Aww, this English major working in book publishing adores you for this, amazon!
May 20, 2011 at 7:56 am
That’s genuinely awesome.
I still wish the world really would end tomorrow.
May 19, 2011 at 1:53 pm
Ahh, there’s nothing like reading the classics to…wait, what?
Someone didn’t actually *read* this book.
May 19, 2011 at 1:53 pm
Also in this series, invitations to the bachelor party on pages from, “Deliverance.”
May 19, 2011 at 4:45 pm
You stole my thought! Get out of my head, you thought thief, you!
May 19, 2011 at 1:53 pm
Oh lord & lady above. They have something against Jewish girls surviving in WWII.
“Be careful reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” – AGAIN on a page of Anne Frank’s diary.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/74404292/greeting-card-mark-twain-quote-blank
“I <3 U" with a butchered map heart of Italy in addition to rubbing young Anne's face in it.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/72935155/i-love-u-greeting-card-on-yellowed-book
"Don't squat with your spurs on." I don't think they were worried about spurs while squatting in Birkenau, Auschwitz, or Buchenwald.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/73694020/greeting-card-dont-squat-with-your-spurs
"Love, Faith, Hope, Inspire, Forgive & Peace". The awe inspiring STUPIDITY of this is blinding.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/73239912/set-of-6-inspirational-notecards-hand
"Home Sweet Home". I'm guessing maybe that should be "Home Sweet Gas Chamber."
http://www.etsy.com/listing/72934531/home-sweet-home-greeting-card-on
May 19, 2011 at 1:54 pm
God! “Breathe” & “Believe” on Anne’s Diary pages as well.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/73003176/hand-stenciled-breathe-believe-on
WTF kind of sick, perverted, sociopath does this shit then sells it?? Jesus H. Christ!!
May 19, 2011 at 2:01 pm
Even better: http://www.etsy.com/transaction/49042345
May 19, 2011 at 2:02 pm
My soul weeps bitter tears for humanity.
May 19, 2011 at 2:26 pm
She claims that it’s one of her favorite books, and she wanted to put it to good use because it was falling apart…
Huh.
May 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm
For the truly depraved, this card could work if you did have something like “…wait, nevermind.” on the inside and give it to someone equally dark as a post-divorce card or something similar.
Please tell me that’s what the person who purchased this is doing…please?
May 19, 2011 at 2:31 pm
On second thought, even the depraved would shake their heads.
May 19, 2011 at 2:34 pm
memsaab- you’ve got to be kidding me!
May 19, 2011 at 3:53 pm
tardis, nope! Right there on the page you linked to:
“I’ve had the book for years (it is one of my favorites) but it was literally falling apart. I wanted to put the yellowed pages to good use.”
I don’t think she has any idea how clueless this is…(well, by now she might).
May 19, 2011 at 3:56 pm
…aaaaaaaand never mind. I just read further down this thread. She is a fucking idiot.
May 19, 2011 at 3:48 pm
“Breathe & Believe…. two things I have to remind myself to do all the time.”
I can believe that she constantly has to remind herself to breathe. The bold stupidity displayed in her shop is staggering.
May 19, 2011 at 4:11 pm
What does the H in Jesus H. Christ stand for? I’ve always wondered…
May 19, 2011 at 5:39 pm
I was always told Holy. Could be Hell though. I don’t know for certain, just what I was told as a kid.
May 19, 2011 at 6:04 pm
Hector
May 19, 2011 at 6:59 pm
Hector? Never heard that one before but goes well with Jesus (said as in Spanish). I actually like the sound of that. I may have found a new curse string. Thank you Regretsians!
May 19, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Horatio. That’s what my dad always told me.
May 19, 2011 at 7:02 pm
HELEN KILLER, clearly.
May 19, 2011 at 8:25 pm
I’ll be pedantic again, http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/30/why-do-folks-say-jesus-h-christ this is pretty concise about what is known or theorized on the matter.
May 19, 2011 at 9:21 pm
DID YOU KNOW?
When Sarah and Abraham were blessed by the Old Testament God, he added the H’s to their names (previously more like Sara and Abram). Jesus’ Jewish name was Yehoshuah, (the HO part is the holy H) but when he crossed over to the dark side he removed it from his name to be Yeshuah.
At least that’s what I read once and for some reason still totally remember.
So it’s really ironic to be putting an H back in Jesus’ name. Must be the work of drunks and craftards.
May 19, 2011 at 2:20 pm
The spurs one is the one that really baffles me.
May 19, 2011 at 2:33 pm
My brain can not even begin to compute these horrors. The spurs one is probably one of the tamer assaults on Anne Frank’s Diary.
May 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm
“I <3 U" with a butchered map heart of Italy in addition to rubbing young Anne's face in it.
Shame she couln’t find a map of Eastern Poland.
May 19, 2011 at 2:33 pm
She keeps that stash for her personal Heiling.
May 19, 2011 at 2:31 pm
Even more tasteless? What do I win?
http://tinyurl.com/3k79enq
May 19, 2011 at 2:35 pm
I’m advocating the seller win a forced sterilization for the benefit of humanity.
May 19, 2011 at 2:41 pm
You know, I was kind of on the side of “Oh, don’t be so hard on the poor silly thing” until I found the Father’s Day one. Now I’m just sincerely sad.
I can sort of see where the “happily ever after” and more serious ones were going (don’t get me wrong, still shockingly poor taste and such products are why critics are important), but the pairing of base humor and Anne Frank is just really…freaky and offputting.
May 19, 2011 at 2:49 pm
No. Just no. Who the FUCK … I mean honestly.
May 19, 2011 at 3:17 pm
Well… her dad was the only survivor of the group…
May 19, 2011 at 6:53 pm
This particular passage is about how they’re almost discovered. It’s fucking heartbreaking. I’m sorry: what an idiot.
May 20, 2011 at 8:17 am
Oh FFS – she might as well just finish it and put “My Dad the FuhrerX FATHER! Hahahaha!”
This woman is SICK.
May 19, 2011 at 2:43 pm
to be fair, the Faith, Hope, Peace, and Forgiveness is ACTUALLY what Anne Frank wished for….so that one ALMOST makes sense….but only if it’s on the right pages from the book…
May 19, 2011 at 8:05 pm
Cynthia Ozick actually wrote an extremely challenging essay about the misinterpretations of Anne Frank’s diary that everyone from Hollywood to young girls who love the books are prone. She mentions in particular one teenager who write in an essay how devastating it was in the movie when the Franks are arrested, “and Peter and Ann have to break up”.
I guess this is just a more…graphic…example of that.
May 20, 2011 at 8:22 am
If you remember “My So-Called Life” that hideously WHINY television show, the teacher asked her about the book, and how she would describe Anne, and Angela says “Lucky.” The teacher says, “Lucky? She DIED in a concentration camp. Why would you say LUCKY?” She says, “She got to hide out for 3 years with a boy she liked” or something about like that.
I was pissed enough about that – you’d have to be kind of a fucking idiot to take it in that direction even if you ARE a teenage girl. That’s just not enough excuse for this shit.
May 19, 2011 at 1:54 pm
Is this from the newly released chapters of the Anne Frank Diary? You know, the ones they thought we were too prudish to handle?
May 19, 2011 at 1:54 pm
What is….I don’t even…seriously, you guys?
May 19, 2011 at 1:54 pm
Oh my God. I am truly speechless. I’m not even going to TRY to come up with something amusing to say because, honestly, the tastelessness of this item is so mind-boggling as to make me want to curl up in a fetal position and cry for humanity.
May 19, 2011 at 1:54 pm
Why do I have the feeling the seller has no idea what the book is about? I’m kind of hoping, actually.
May 19, 2011 at 2:07 pm
My guess is that she saw “Diary of a Young Girl” in the title and thought it was some sort of sweet coming-of-age novel. Of course, anyone who would think that would have to be dumber than a sack of collectible thimbles, but I’d rather believe this than the alternative.
May 19, 2011 at 3:18 pm
Actually, there is some coming-of-age in the book… and some bombs… and some raids… but that’s not what’s important here.
May 20, 2011 at 8:24 am
I was figuring that must be it until she said it was one of her FAVORITE BOOKS and made a fart joke on one card. Then I realized she’s just a fucking idiot. And probably kind of evil in the bargain.
May 19, 2011 at 1:56 pm
My jaw is hanging open. I can’t believe how ignorant people are. (Stupid is an accident of birth, ignorant is a choice) This was the book that made me realise that there was a world out there that could be evil and that it was important to talk, think, and do things to help and not just live blithely, willfully within one’s own little safe neighbourhood.
“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.”
Abraham Lincoln
Or in this case post it to Etsy and remove all doubt.
Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/abrahamlin109276.html#ixzz1MplXI3oA
May 19, 2011 at 2:05 pm
And I couldn’t even get my correction to post under my post….. Time for a drink….
May 20, 2011 at 8:01 am
Thanks for fixing it for me!
May 19, 2011 at 1:56 pm
I can’t even believe someone was so stupid enough to use Anne Frank! My mind is blown.
May 19, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Fahrenheit 451 for a condolence card for a burn victim or loss of house or loved on in a fire…
May 19, 2011 at 3:36 pm
A Farewell To Arms, a get well soon for some one undergoing an amputation
May 19, 2011 at 4:16 pm
Scarlett Letter for a baby shower
May 19, 2011 at 5:26 pm
On Rememberance of Things Past for someone with dementia?
May 19, 2011 at 5:26 pm
Rosemary’s Baby for a christening? (Oh, the irony!)
May 19, 2011 at 7:07 pm
How about a page out of Lolita for a card celebrating a young wombyn’s first minstrel period?
May 19, 2011 at 1:57 pm
Oh dear heaven, she uses pages from the same book for other messages such as, “Home Sweet Home,” “Fly Me to the Moon,” and the almost MORE appalling, “Don’t Squat With Your Spurs On.”
There really are no words.
May 19, 2011 at 1:58 pm
Damn, editing obviously not my strong point, (and in a post about ignorance) *blithely, willfully unaware within.
May 19, 2011 at 1:59 pm
I think part of my brain just broke.
May 19, 2011 at 2:19 pm
I’m with you. I can’t even think of any type of response. After expelling a laugh/gasp/moan that sounded like sea lion I just keep shaking my head and mumbling random syllables.
May 19, 2011 at 1:59 pm
The more I think about this, the less it works. I can only think of books where this could be done in an ironic way, and it might be funny. This, however, will just have the happy couple trying to work out what the sender is trying to say deep down, without realising the sender was lured in by the words “And they all lived happily ever after.”
(Unless the US edition has a different ending. The UK ending is a bit sad, so I can understand the publishers adding a more ‘upbeat’ version for the US market.)
May 19, 2011 at 2:05 pm
There is no upbeat ending for Anne Frank’s story. The closet doesn’t open up into Narnia or anything.
May 19, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Damn. Well, that was what my defence as Devil’s Advocate rested on. Y’know, it happened with ‘Brazil’ and ‘A Clockwork Orange’, I thought there might have been an earlier precedent
I shall now appeal for clemency as the creator of these cards is too stupid to read. Or write without a stencil.
May 19, 2011 at 2:12 pm
I have never heard of publishers changing plot elements or endings of well-known works of literature based on the market in which they’re being sold. Any examples?
May 19, 2011 at 2:23 pm
Brazil!
Okay, I know it’s a movie. i just always think of it for such examples, as my godmother watched on TV and though it had such a lovely ending, which confused the heck out of my mother.
May 19, 2011 at 2:34 pm
The totally ridiculous 90s film adaptation of The Scarlett Letter also comes to mind. I had forgotten about the final chapter of A Clockwork Orange being left out of the American version — though that was done to result in a darker, supposedly more realistic ending, not a happier one.
May 19, 2011 at 2:32 pm
The US version of ‘A Clockwork Orange’ had a slightly different ending to the original, but I was thinking of ‘Brazil’. (For anyone seething – I don’t really think there was an amended version of Ann Frank’s story. There might be a market in re-writing some of the classics to put happy endings in, but not this one.)
May 19, 2011 at 2:46 pm
Actually, there’s a WHOLE company dedicated to “cleaning up and purifying” many works of literature – like Huckleberry Finn, in which Jim is no longer a slave – he’s a hired hand. Seriously, WTF is wrong with people??
May 19, 2011 at 5:30 pm
I don’t know if it’s a company that’s doing that to Huckleberry Finn. I remember hearing that a teach in the South didn’t like his daughter reading such dreadful writing and went in and changed the N word to “slave” (or was it some other term?) which is so wrong and incorrect and damn it, I wish people would just NOT read books if their fragile little brainlets are offended.
May 19, 2011 at 7:06 pm
Especially since Mark Twain himself spoke so adamantly about the difference between using the right word and the almost right word. He did not choose his words idly and it really steams my beans to see someone so cavalierly change them and still say they were his.
May 20, 2011 at 5:10 am
http://www.spencerdailyreporter.com/story/1693557.html
It’s a publishing house – NewSouth. heh.
May 20, 2011 at 8:39 am
From what I’ve read the school versions of Huckleberry Finn are officially being changed to remove the so-called “N-word” despite the fact that the use of it was most deliberate and for a reason. *shrug* People suck.
May 19, 2011 at 3:21 pm
Plots themes? No. Titles? Yes. I think Agatha Christie’s books and JK Rowlings demonstrate this well.
May 21, 2011 at 2:58 am
The Philosopher’s Stone? Just makes me think of Rodin and The Thinker.
May 19, 2011 at 2:15 pm
You do know “The Diary of a Young Girl” is non-fiction, right?
May 19, 2011 at 2:37 pm
I do. I’ve never for a moment entertained the thought that it could be, or is, otherwise. I just hoped that the seller came from a La-la world where they did do a version with a happy ending, and where Old Yeller just got a bit poorly then improved, and where ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ reads just like ‘Carry On Camping’.
Otherwise she (or he) would have to be really, really stupid.
May 19, 2011 at 3:07 pm
There was a slightly sanitized version of Anne Frank, (partially edited by the girl herself the rest edited by her father) mostly it just took out the sex and some of the criticism of her parents. They are still found, she still dies.
May 19, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Since it’s a non-fiction book I can’t think of any way they could make the ending upbeat in any country.
May 19, 2011 at 2:44 pm
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May 19, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Really??? I can’t. I can think of fanatical groups that would like that, but not COUNTRIES themselves….
May 19, 2011 at 2:58 pm
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May 19, 2011 at 3:40 pm
I think you’re mixing up “what the media shows us and tells us about” and “the whole truth of what happens in the world.”
May 19, 2011 at 4:24 pm
You can’t change the ending of that book. It’s a diary published posthumously. It’s history. It’s not fiction. The facts are the facts.
I really wish there was some way the outcome could have changed. Really, really wish. God. *shakes head*
May 19, 2011 at 8:29 pm
I could just see some dumb schmuck slamming together the ending of the diary with Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself and Anne Frank actually saves her family and ends the war by seducing and killing Adolph Hitler:-/
May 20, 2011 at 8:32 am
I rather found the girl to be (as is wont to happen at 13) somewhat disrespectful and a little bratty-seeming at times. Even in saying so, what would NEVER have occurred to me, even at that age, would have been to make LIGHT of the story or what happened to her. FFS; these people were being put through torture and slaughtered – what in the fuck could possibly be funny or “light” about something like that? Even a child knows better!
May 19, 2011 at 8:08 pm
Uh, no. Americans like our happy endings, but no one has ever tried to rewrite Anne Frank that I know of…except, I suppose, for all those goddamn stage productions where they do the ‘I believe that people are still good’ passage from the darkened stage at the end.
May 24, 2011 at 6:53 am
Actually, Anne herself tried to rewrite her diary when she thought about how after the war it might end up in a museum or it might get published.
And then when after the war and it became clear that Anne was no longer alive, Miep Gies (one of the helpers) gave the diaries to Otto (Anne’s father), he too edited the diaries before having them published.
Years later, the ‘unedited version’ came out, in which Anne’s feelings about her mother and her sexuality were more explicit than in the edited version.
I would hate to see a re-write of Anne Frank’s diaries, though.
May 19, 2011 at 1:59 pm
http://www.etsy.com/listing/74404292/greeting-card-mark-twain-quote-blank?ref=v1_other_1
Here’s another page for the Diary of Anne Frank for a card reading
“be careful of reading health books. You might die of a misprint”
Also, incredibly inappropriate
May 19, 2011 at 2:00 pm
There are also “inspiring words” stenciled onto pages from the same book. It just gets worse and worse!
May 19, 2011 at 2:01 pm
Really? REALLY?!? Why would anyone think that the Diary of Anne Frank would be appropriate for such a thing?
What next? A Hanukkah card tastefully printed on an age yellowed page from Mein Kamph?
May 19, 2011 at 2:02 pm
I hate that she used one of my favorite books (one from 1952 especially, probably one of the first prints) to stamp Pier 1-ish crap on. Really, you’re going to put “BREATHE” and “PEACE” on pages from Anne Frank’s diary? Unless she has a sense of humor, this wedding card in particular is ironic, because Anne is talking about escaping.
May 19, 2011 at 2:05 pm
Oh, and then there’s this. Who can be this oblivious?
http://www.etsy.com/listing/72934531/home-sweet-home-greeting-card-on
May 19, 2011 at 2:06 pm
I have a LOVE for old books and I hate it when people do this to them! They are meant for READING not glue and glitter
May 19, 2011 at 2:16 pm
To be fair, if she wasn’t a complete idiot, I’d assume that she had bought the book already damaged (like at a yardsale or library book sale, and was ‘upcycling’ the remainder of the book. Which could be elegantly done, if one wasn’t an idiot, and actually paid attention to the text and subtext. (and actually, I’m wondering if she’s seen someone doing it right and misunderstood the finer points of it.)
May 19, 2011 at 4:49 pm
And if you must use an old book, the world is full of old Reader’s Digest versions of books all nicely yellowed and just waiting to be ripped apart.
May 19, 2011 at 8:15 pm
I actually bought some prints done on the pages of a turn of the last century encyclopedia. I too am against destroying books but I don’t really feel bad about that one since it was a reference book and the information was well out of date. The artist then matched the subject of the print to the subject of the article.
So, there are a few key differences between doing it well and this.
May 19, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Okay, mostly, what on earth was this seller thinking? But “PEACE” on top of Anne Frank? I confess I like it. It’s sorta “Peace, or else. Don’t F it up like last time, world.” A cautionary tale!
I would love to believe that’s what the seller intended. I would also believe I’m getting a unicorn that farts $1000 bills for my birthday.
May 19, 2011 at 2:18 pm
You, too? Our unicorns can have play dates.
May 19, 2011 at 2:02 pm
I can’t say much. I once gave a speaking, children’s Transformers birthday card as a wedding card. I just crossed out birthday and added in wedding.
May 19, 2011 at 2:07 pm
My friends and I always give intentionally inappropriate cards for things. I gave one friend a “Happy 5th Birthday, Son” card for her graduation.
May 19, 2011 at 2:15 pm
My friends and I always give each other children’s birthday cards, and just correct the age. So when someone turned 22, I just got them a “Happy 2nd Birthday” card, and drew in the other 2. I mean, why do the individual age cards stop at, like 10, and then only resurface at certain birthdays, like 16, 18, 21 an 50. I want a “Happy 29th Birthday” card, dammit!
May 19, 2011 at 5:32 pm
I love that! Last year I turned 50 and a friend (a few years older) gave me a Finding Nemo card for a 5-year-old and drew in the 0. I loved it.
May 19, 2011 at 2:19 pm
There’s intentionally but amusingly inappropriate and then there’s just plain defiling the memory of a young woman who for many if not most of us was our first honest glimpse into the depth’s of man’s inhumanity to man.
May 19, 2011 at 2:36 pm
As I said below, I didn’t really have anything else to post that wasn’t a string of four letter words and insults to the card maker’s mother.
May 20, 2011 at 9:07 am
I love the idea of giving intentionally inappropriate cards. I don’t like the idea of supporting this particular ignorance (since she said it’s one of her favorite books and she is quite obviously not being intentionally ironic – not with the fart joke, no way.) So I wouldn’t buy this from her regardless. It’s just too…STUPID to brook.
May 19, 2011 at 2:17 pm
I like to buy almost appropriate cards and then edit them/write a paragraph on the inside explaining why I got it for them.
May 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm
My family does this all the time. This is why I love them.
May 19, 2011 at 2:20 pm
There’s a pretty big difference between a Transformers card for a wedding, which is kind of lame but ultimately worth a half-second chuckle, and this.
May 19, 2011 at 2:35 pm
I agree. I didn’t really have anything else to say on the subject that wasn’t a bunch of angry ranting.
May 19, 2011 at 10:19 pm
My friend gave me a “congratulations on your new baby” card when I got my degree; she crossed out “baby” and wrote “masters.” I loved it. She also sent me a card that was a taco, and drew a picture of the Virgin Mary on the front of it.
May 19, 2011 at 2:07 pm
Nothing quite says “Come join me and my loved ones on my special day!” quite like genocide.
May 19, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Well, it is a family event. *rimshot*
May 19, 2011 at 2:09 pm
And WE’RE the fat, hateful, kitten-kicking, dream rapers?
May 19, 2011 at 2:22 pm
Clearly we are. We’re not raping the writings of a long dead Jewish girl who died at the hands of the Nazis. THAT’s what you do when you’re a member of the cupcake brigade.
May 19, 2011 at 2:09 pm
This is the most insulting, tasteless, disgusting thing ever featured on Regretsy. And that’s including all the vulva art.
May 19, 2011 at 4:17 pm
VULVAS ARE RAD AND EACH ONE IS AS BEAUTIFUL AND UNIQUE AS A SNOWFLAKE, DAMNNIT
May 19, 2011 at 10:33 pm
At least they don’t fall out of the sky like snowflakes – that could get really messy, and lead to huge dry-cleaning bills.
May 19, 2011 at 2:11 pm
Wow! What’s next?
GET WELL SOON printed on a page from the script of Lorenzo’s Oil
HAVE A NICE TRIP printed on a picture of the Donner party setting off…
May 19, 2011 at 2:22 pm
I would buy that Donner Party one.
May 19, 2011 at 2:48 pm
How about a book about the Donner Party with a quote from ‘Where the wild things are’: “We’ll eat you up, we love you so!”
That’s a win, right there.
May 19, 2011 at 5:35 pm
Uncle Whippity, you’re not the least bit modest about your achievement. Good for you!
May 19, 2011 at 10:34 pm
Why not use the Donner Party for an invitation to a formal dinner?
May 20, 2011 at 9:02 am
“It’s a BYOB Party–Bring Your Own Body (To Eat)” Condiments will be provided.
May 19, 2011 at 7:05 pm
OK, the Donner Party idea made me laugh again instead of feeling kind of sick.
May 19, 2011 at 2:12 pm
I am puzzled. With such an obviously GENIUS set of cards that’ll no doubt fly off the shelves, what is she going to do when she runs out of pages from Diary of a Young Girl?
May 19, 2011 at 2:27 pm
Go to another garage sale.
May 19, 2011 at 2:15 pm
Does anybody have the nerve to contact the seller and ask her what the fuck she was thinking? I’d do it, except I don’t think I could trust myself to write more coherently than Ms. Crease and Desist.
May 19, 2011 at 2:19 pm
I did, but I think that I was so horrified I ended up sounding like someone who deserved to go on the butthurt page.
May 19, 2011 at 2:24 pm
I was going to but I assumed other people already did.
facepalm- what did you say to her? The only thing I could think of was,”…do you know who Anne Frank is?”
May 19, 2011 at 2:15 pm
I smell a “most offensive greeting card” contest coming up.
May 19, 2011 at 2:22 pm
Yes…but it should be “Most Unintentionally Offensive Greeting Card” contest. They should be real cards…that we make and sell for charity.
I have about 100 ideas floating around for this…
May 19, 2011 at 3:31 pm
Charity cards? I see a April’s Army craft just waiting to be made.
May 19, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Yes…I want this to happen!
May 19, 2011 at 2:23 pm
First person to photoshop ‘ARBEIT MACHT FREI’ to read ‘HAPPY BIRTHDAY DORA’ wins my eternal love.
May 19, 2011 at 2:16 pm
And it has sold!
May 19, 2011 at 2:17 pm
Under one of her transactions, the seller states that “I’ve had the book for years (it is one of my favorites) but it was literally falling apart. I wanted to put the yellowed pages to good use.” Really? This is “good use?” (http://www.etsy.com/transaction/49042345)
May 19, 2011 at 2:21 pm
I absolutely promise that I am suggesting absolutely nothing at all, but all I am saying is that they have a Twitter.
@maineengraving
May 19, 2011 at 7:10 pm
Oh god. Of all the batshit crazy people, why’s this one gotta be from my state?
May 19, 2011 at 8:09 pm
If you read their Etsy profile, they have a Facebook page a well…
May 19, 2011 at 2:22 pm
Surprised you chose this card over this horrifically distateful one:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/72934531/home-sweet-home-greeting-card-on
“Home Sweet Home,” with the pages cut into a house with a smoking chimney. This seller clearly needs to brush up on the Holocaust.
May 19, 2011 at 4:04 pm
The “BREATHE” one also stands out.
Also, what’s up with the stenciled letters? Doesn’t she realize that they give off a military-industrial vibe?
Oh right, she’s using Anne Frank pages for weddings invitations. So probably not.
May 19, 2011 at 8:12 pm
Jesus Christ. On a crutch. Going “WTF?”
May 19, 2011 at 2:23 pm
There is a whole world of possibilities…
May 19, 2011 at 2:26 pm
Darn, it sold. I was just thinking it would be perfect for me to to send this to someone I know getting married next Sat.who sort of half-assedly (yes, that is a word) invited me to the wedding at the last minute, claiming my invitation was sent to the wrong address. Actually, the girl’s father spoke to my father and said the family was invited, even though none of us actually got invitations. I have yet to receive any actual information about this event other than it is on Saturday on Long Island. I figured sending this, with no gift, about 3 weeks after the wedding, would be an appropriate response.
May 19, 2011 at 2:58 pm
this and the rest of them are perfect to send to no one unless you want people to think you are an idiot like the seller.
And you know, you will definitely be Left Behind on Saturday if you send this crap.
Just sayin.
May 19, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Are you on the groom’s side or the bride’s? I ask because if there was a long-term lover dumped for this wedding (it doesn’t sound as if “class” is a priority with that family) and I were in your position, I’d address the card “Dear [Former Girlfriend] and [Current Groom], I hope you have a long and happy life together and may no one come between you…unless you’re into threesomes, in which case, I’m giving you the orgy-size bottle of lube. God bless!”
Boy, did I wander off the point there. Sorry.
May 19, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Seller, here’s a spoiler for you since you’ve obviously never read the book:
Every single person hiding in that attic was discovered by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps. They all DIED, with the exception of Otto Frank, Anne’s father.
I really have nothing snarky to say, so I will just tell you to go fuck yourself.
May 19, 2011 at 2:40 pm
This was the perfect SPOILER ALERT.
May 19, 2011 at 7:12 pm
Also? Dumbledore dies. Frodo lives. Jesus does both. Rosebud is a sled.
May 19, 2011 at 10:22 pm
Fuck, it was a SLED?
May 19, 2011 at 10:22 pm
May 20, 2011 at 12:41 am
A teacher in high school told us that actually, although it was a sled in the movie, Rosebud was what Hearst called his mistress’ vagina. I don’t think Orson Welles was allowed to allude to that at the time of the film. And, perhaps my teacher was a lying bastard, but I liked his story!
May 20, 2011 at 8:49 pm
Rosebud was the mistress’s clitoris.
May 19, 2011 at 2:30 pm
I emailed her, this is the response I got:
Hello,
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is one of my favorite books. While studying literature in college, I was struck by Anne’s character & spirit. Through horrible times, she kept a positive attitude, remained hopeful and saw the good in people. Her relationship with Peter in the book is a love story. Peter was her first love, her first kiss, her first infatuation. They lived through hard times together and he remained her distraction and her hope through the turmoil. I think Anne & Peter’s relationship shows that love triumphs all. Even in the worst of times, love can shine a light in the dark. Is that such a bad message behind a wedding card?
Read the book carefully and you’ll see Anne’s hopes and dreams and beauty and love. Though sad, her timeless message reminds us to stay young at heart because we never know what lurks around the corner.
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” – Anne Frank
May 19, 2011 at 2:31 pm
I still think it’s inappropriate
May 19, 2011 at 2:46 pm
Wow. I didn’t think anything could be worse than someone doing it completely obliviously, but justifying it is worse. Yes, Anne Frank was an amazing person, but what people are going to respond to is the outcome of the book.
May 20, 2011 at 5:17 am
Particularly when you have another card with a page of the book and “Don’t Squat With Your Spurs On”. Does she care to explain how that relates to the life of Anne Frank?
May 20, 2011 at 9:24 am
Perhaps she’d like to explain how in the fuck the FART “joke” fits in with the motif she’s just painted. And, she’s fallen into the trap someone described above that is common for…little girls to fall into when reading the book. (About how sad it is when they’re arrested because Anne and Peter have to “break up”, etc.) Hardly college literature majors. Or anyone with an ounce of sense.
No, I don’t buy it, but you know what? She just made it WORSE, if that’s possible.
May 19, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Even if you buy that response…”happily ever after”? Pretty sure Anne wasn’t too happy in her post-attic days.
Plus her response just confirmed that this wasn’t a sad case of irony but yet an amazing case of stupidity.
May 19, 2011 at 2:41 pm
I think she is a fuckwit. I hate her more than I hated her before.
May 19, 2011 at 7:22 pm
I prefer “fucktard” fuckwit implies that she has some.
May 19, 2011 at 2:51 pm
I could see using that quote “Think of all the beauty…”
but I’m … I can’t think of an appropriate word… butt-founded-baffle-wounded-stymy-waffled at her choice of “Don’t Squat with your Spurs On…”
I read the book too. I spent time in Germany at age 11 and visited what was left at the camps. I’m not Jewish but I was able to GET IT.
These quotes show she doesn’t GET IT.
She obviously isn’t stupid, but she’s not getting it…
How about using Anne Frank QUOTES ….
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
“I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!”
May 19, 2011 at 5:46 pm
…and we really should post this Anne Frank quote in here somewhere…kudos to Helen of course for using a variation in the title…
“I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart….”
May 19, 2011 at 2:52 pm
So if you read the whole book really, really deeply, WHICH PEOPLE TOTALLY DO WHEN THEY RECEIVE ONE PAGE OF A BOOK ON A GREETING CARD, it’s totally appropriate.
May 19, 2011 at 2:59 pm
In other words, “I’m sorry I’ve done something that most people find horribly offensive, but it’s my interpretation that counts.” She’s the kind of idiot who could have a Holocaust survivor look her in the face and say, “This hurts me,” and she’d try to explain why they’re wrong.
May 19, 2011 at 3:24 pm
Aaannnndddd that explains the ‘Don’t Squat With Your Spurs On’ card how exactly?
May 19, 2011 at 3:27 pm
I keep hearing these strange strangling sounds and realizing it is me reacting to this seller.
1. Who studies Anne Frank in COLLEGE lit classes?
2. You don’t need to “read carefully” to see Anne’s indomitable spirit, love, wit, and humor. She was a good writer. It is all there on the page.
3. Anne’s relationship with Peter is a love story, but it is TRAGIC. “And they lived happily ever after” is inappropriate because they FUCKING DIDN’T.
4.”Stay young at heart” because you never know when you might lose your love and/or your life is STILL not an appropriate wedding message.
I feel a tiny bit better now.
May 19, 2011 at 11:03 pm
Hey…colleges still have classes that teach High School themes. While most of us probably read The Diary of Anne Frank in 8th or 9th grade, maybe the seller was in WRI 10 – pre pre pre pre pre WRI 121 in college. XD
Everything else you said I agree with.
May 19, 2011 at 3:45 pm
I <3 the passive aggressive, "Read the book carefully and…"
You obviously didn't read the book carefully enough!
P. fucking S. Her explanation would be more believable if she had used the page that quote was on. Or if she hadn't made a bunch of other trite cards out of the same book.
May 19, 2011 at 3:49 pm
So–nowhere near the same level of awful–but according to her logic, you could also make wedding invitations with pages from Romeo and Juliet because their love story was so inspiring!
Also, IIRC, Anne and Peter’s relationship had already fizzled by the time they were discovered. So there goes her whole “love triumphs” bit. I can’t stand people who willfully misunderstand for their own purposes.
May 19, 2011 at 4:17 pm
Yup, because Anne questioned if her feelings were real or a product of circumstance. More happy marital tidings.
If the seller had used Romeo & Juliet I would have found the card funny. Hell, I might make my own card for one of the bajillion weddings I have coming up and use Romeo & Juliet and make a joke about how I didn’t read the end or fell asleep during the movie.
May 19, 2011 at 4:55 pm
That’s the exact same reply I got
May 19, 2011 at 10:24 pm
It’s BECAUSE we saw her hopes and dreams, etc, that we are so sickened by this (you dumb bitch). Hope didn’t triumph, and she “stayed young” because she fucking died that way. What a stupid assfuck.
May 20, 2011 at 5:02 pm
I called it above. Didn’t think there was any way this was done in ignorance. Now it’s confirmed. The seller is purposefully stupid. Yes, Anne and Peter fell for each other, but they didn’t live happily very after. They were separated and died slowly, alone and scared.
May 19, 2011 at 2:35 pm
This page explains why she’s using this book!
http://www.etsy.com/transaction/49042345
Even more horrifically-the seller has apparently read the book and still decided to use it.
May 19, 2011 at 2:42 pm
All I can come up with is this…
O.o
May 19, 2011 at 2:52 pm
Using the book – fine.
But choose quotes that honor the author, not quotes that have nothing to do with her – at best – and insult her – at worst.
I mean, WTF…..
May 19, 2011 at 2:55 pm
I want to curse, so bad…
She should render unto Oscar Wilde what is Oscar’s — use that quote on an old book of his then…
and use an Anne Frank quote on her book if she has to do that…
I feel a sudden urge to burn books…
May 19, 2011 at 5:53 pm
NO! Don’t let an oblivious, callous, snowflake bitch turn you to such hatred of books. I can’t fathom the ignorance that motivates her. Don’t let it contaminate you. She’s the type of person who would read Gone With the Wind and praise its message of how good and honest American farmers are, that women supported their men at war by doing needlepoint (what heroines!) and that Scarlet is a good role model for proper nutrition (low-fat radishes!) and recycling (the drapes dress…and thank you, Carol Burnett for wonderfuly corrupting that image in my mind before I ever saw the movie).
May 19, 2011 at 8:17 pm
Because it’s so hard to find used books to cut up for cards. Where would she get another one?
May 20, 2011 at 5:03 pm
Her shop’s gone. Good.
May 21, 2011 at 4:59 pm
This quote was what really made me go WTF? Because, you know, the entire tragedy of Anne Frank’s life is that she became her mother.
It’s beyond willful ignorance to put a joking quote about a “tragedy” of life on the page of a book written by someone who died in the Holocaust. This? This is blatant disregard for basic human decency.
May 19, 2011 at 2:36 pm
After browsing the horrible inappropriateness of using “Anne Frank” for her cards, then coming across this:
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I can’t help but wonder how Molly died…
May 19, 2011 at 2:37 pm
and why I’ve apparently been rendered unable to post pictures.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/72922784/custom-engraved-stone-pet-memorials?ref=v1_other_1
May 20, 2011 at 5:19 am
Here’s a hint, the paw print isn’t engraved…
May 19, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Seriously. The only way this could be more icky is if the seller had a “Happy Sweet 16th!” card printed up on these pages.
May 19, 2011 at 2:43 pm
Jaw dropped on that…
Well done, managed to shock more than the card itself.
May 19, 2011 at 2:37 pm
My mind is running riot:
Get Well Soon, hand-stencilled onto a page from Cancer Ward. Happy Anniversary – Roald Dahl’s short but touching ‘William and Mary’. New Pet – The Plague Dogs. With Deepest Sympathy – Being Dead by Jim Crace. Valentine’s Day – buyer’s choice between Enduring Love and Notes on a Scandal.
May 19, 2011 at 2:37 pm
May 19, 2011 at 2:43 pm
“Nothing will work unless you do” by Maya Angelou
May 19, 2011 at 8:42 pm
Oh goodness yeah, I saw that transaction too. I couldn’t believe it. If this woman was taking any college literature courses, she failed them miserably. She obviously missed some basic contextual lessons in literary theory.
May 19, 2011 at 2:46 pm
And they lived happily ever after… just like Anne Frank. I mean, you might as well send a sympathy card to someone who just went through a loved one’s suicide on pages from The Bell Jar.
May 19, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Wow… tasteless and disrespectful are just a few of the words that immediately came to mind. Can’t tell if trolling or just very very stupid…
May 19, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Bar Mitzvah invitations on Mein Kampf would be tasteless but would be obviously ironic. Tasteless, but clearly on purpose. Just like Wedding shower invitations on Stepford Wives. That’s funny.
This is just stupid and sad.
May 19, 2011 at 2:55 pm
Seriously…she could have at least read the SparkNotes first?
May 19, 2011 at 2:59 pm
just checking through her shop, she really has a hard on for stenciling over Anee Frank, maybe she’s got the dead Jewish girl confused with Lisa Frank. That’s the only reasoning I have behind being so crafty on the diary of a girl hiding in an attic.
May 19, 2011 at 2:59 pm
doh, Anne*
May 19, 2011 at 2:59 pm
Yeah. I just fucking hate people. Go figure.
May 19, 2011 at 3:07 pm
Not asseptable.
May 19, 2011 at 3:13 pm
“They lived happily ever after” until they were taken to Auschwitz a year later. I don’t care how bad your marriage is going, no bride and groom want to hear THAT.
May 19, 2011 at 3:13 pm
That’s over the event horizon of bad taste.
May 19, 2011 at 3:19 pm
She’s taken out the part that says the pages are from an Anne Frank book.
I don’t know how much that helps…but I guess she’s in here reading comments and maybe at least knows it isn’t cool, even if not exactly why…
May 19, 2011 at 3:25 pm
Title’s at the top of the dang page of the card. I didn’t even have to read the copy and I knew it was her diary.
May 19, 2011 at 3:39 pm
Yes, I know. She can’t change that. But she went in and edited her copy explaining what the card is.
The framed “Fly me to the Moon” doesn’t have the book title shown… although if you take the time to read the copy, you will see Anne’s words, including how she sees two Jews from her window, how miserable they look, how she she betrayed them and feels guilty
Could be argued that it’s poignant but I don’t think it was meant to be. Fly Me to the Moon.
I saw some of the books have people who have “Favorited” them… I wonder how many people are bothering to see what book the page is from and how many give it a second thought.
I need to stop posting – I get negative votes or nothing, I must be a downer here.
Maybe someone could give her a book on the Rwanda genocide – my son has a Rwandan friend who was two when it happened, maybe he knows a good diary she could use.
May 19, 2011 at 3:58 pm
“Maybe someone could give her a book on the Rwanda genocide…”
Shake Hands with the Devil by Roméo Dallaire. A truly wrenching read, for which I nominate the stencilled slogan ‘Cheer up – it might never happen!’
May 19, 2011 at 4:12 pm
No..you aren’t a downer..you are righteously indignant.
May 20, 2011 at 6:04 pm
I just want to say that “cheer up, it might never happen!” is the sort of smart-arse phrase I detest the most. Usually used by middle-aged men towards young women who are complete strangers to them, the former wanting to appear to have a sense of humour but actually showing they are morons. Well, a couple of complete strangers said it to me at a particularly low point in my life, and I really wanted to reply to them, “well fuck you, because it already has!!”
Thank you, I feel a bit better now!
May 24, 2011 at 7:04 am
A lot of people ‘heart’ something in order to keep track of it. I have ‘hearted’ the Nazi flag way back when that was on Regretsy in order to see whether or not Etsy would do something about it.
May 20, 2011 at 10:46 am
How horrified would you be if you bought this, thinking it would honestly be a good wedding present, then upon receiving it realized it was on a copy of Anne Frank?! I would be mortified and angry and offended. Taking down that they’re on Diary of a Young Girl makes it WORSE.
May 19, 2011 at 3:20 pm
Haven’t read the other comments yet, but I foresee a sizable amount of butthurt resulting from this.
May 19, 2011 at 6:01 pm
I was thinking that I can’t wait for the butthurt from this moron.
I wonder if she’ll call in her Aryan brotherhood and fellow skin heads for backup.
May 19, 2011 at 3:24 pm
I sincerely apologize for offending everyone. I am a complete idoit.
May 19, 2011 at 6:03 pm
Ya’ think?? Really, learn something from this. You should be ashamed.
May 19, 2011 at 6:24 pm
It’s not so much offensive as it is horribly, horribly inappropriate. “The Diary of Anne Frank” is a wonderful book, and is full of important messages, it’s just that “And they lived happily ever after” isn’t one of them.
Now, if these were done on, say, a Jane Austin book, or Alice in Wonderland, or something with a happy ending, they’d be adorable.
May 20, 2011 at 9:44 am
I found it horribly offensive.
Considering that she justified it so strongly first, I don’t think she gets it at all. Sort of being sorry they’re being so harshly criticized but not knowing what they did to earn the criticism. Gah. Whatever.
May 19, 2011 at 6:43 pm
Though you may not deserve it, I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt that you’re making a sincere apology. That’s good. An apology is a good start.
Now here’s what I think you should do next:
1) Make a donation — the amount is up to you, but it should be a lot more than however much you’ve made selling these grotesque cards — to a nonprofit organization that advocates for Holocaust victims, or the victims of a more recent or ongoing genocide. A quick search of charitynavigator.org turns up some highly rated ones. Or send a contribution to a Holocaust museum. Or buy up some copies of “The Diary of Anne Frank” and donate them to local schools that could use them for their libraries. Whatever. Just make some kind of tangible donation to a worthwhile cause.
2) For fuck’s sake, don’t ever do something like this again.
May 19, 2011 at 7:29 pm
If you’re sorry, pull them.
If you’re not, stand behind them and don’t apologize.
May 20, 2011 at 9:46 am
Thank you.
May 19, 2011 at 3:25 pm
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May 19, 2011 at 7:20 pm
This is not about a spelling error. None of us gives a shit about spelling in this case.
May 19, 2011 at 11:20 pm
Troll?
May 20, 2011 at 9:47 am
Looks like.
May 19, 2011 at 3:32 pm
When I saw the photo I wondered what was wrong…Then I recalled where I had seen ‘Dear Kitty’ before. OMG.
May 20, 2011 at 9:48 am
Yeah, same here. Disgusting.
May 19, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Obviously the design was utterly and implicitly inspired by Anne Frank’s (debatable) masterpiece entitled “The Diary of Anne Frank”…
May 19, 2011 at 3:58 pm
That was in reference to this post: http://www.regretsy.com/2011/05/01/weekend-flashback-literally-awful/ about another Etsy seller who didn’t read the book she based her item off of.
May 19, 2011 at 3:35 pm
May 19, 2011 at 3:38 pm
Awww, this cat makes me feel better!
May 19, 2011 at 7:13 pm
Yep. Needed this.
May 19, 2011 at 6:04 pm
Me, too. Seriously, this makes me feel so much better that I scrolled down and am keeping the screen on this photo while I finish work. I wish I had a cat to cuddle right now.
May 19, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Considering today’s political events…oh forget it. I need alcohol.
May 19, 2011 at 3:40 pm
I’m so depressed by this, especially the ‘farter/father’ card that sold. I’m also proud that Regretsians can mock the shit out of terrible crafts, yet they also understand when something is just straight-up uncouth/repulsive. Like these cards. This seller’s entire line of cards offends me as a human being and I doubt the Kupkake Faktory at Etsy is going to do ANYTHING about it despite that. DON’T CALL OUT A SELLER FOR DISRESPECTING THE MEMORY OF A JEWISH GIRL KILLED IN THE HOLOCAUST, THAT’S DISRESPECTFUL.
May 19, 2011 at 10:02 pm
Maybe Etsy’s NO CALLING OUT rule is actually inspired by Anne Frank. I can see it in their offices, the words “no calling out” stenciled onto a page from her diary. Perfect!
May 19, 2011 at 10:04 pm
And honestly that joke is about where I draw the line personally. It’s shocking to see that some people draw it so so so so so much farther away. I think that shock is what this thread is really about.
May 19, 2011 at 3:41 pm
This seller transcends moronic, punches through the smog of bad taste and sets up housekeeping in the guts of insult.
May 19, 2011 at 3:41 pm
May 19, 2011 at 3:45 pm
I cringe at the thought of decent vintage books being ripped apart to make crappy cards. :-S It’s like when your grandma cuts up your original school photographs for “scrap-booking” and you don’t have the negatives anymore!
May 19, 2011 at 5:17 pm
Bad enough Etsy sellers with collections of books with hardcovers all the same color (for that coordinating decor) or “secret hideaway” books, where the pages are carved out and the exposed sides glued so you can safely stash your cash and jewelry where no one would think to look.
No, the worst has to be a project (online and not Etsy) where you take about 3 dozen hardcover books and tear off the covers (throw away the pages…or repurpose into inappropriate greeting cards). Then arrange them decoratively with edges touching (think “cubist”, but don’t think too hard), depending on their color or paint them to suit. And to create what? A headboard for a bed.
Sadly, I’m not kidding.
May 19, 2011 at 10:31 pm
The only project that would be appropriate with books is if you are working with “strips” anyway – mass market paperbacks that can’t be sold because the bookstores have to tear off the covers at the end of the run, and the covers (with the barcodes) were sent back. We sent such books out for recycling, but you could also take strips home to read since they couldn’t be sold.
May 20, 2011 at 8:47 am
Good point! We have advance readers’ copies without bar codes and we end up recyling the extra copies. (I’m happy to see people at our Dumpsters loading up with those copies.)
May 20, 2011 at 8:00 am
…Wow. Link?
May 20, 2011 at 9:04 am
http://womantribune.com/upcycle-books-check-crafty-headboard
May 19, 2011 at 4:03 pm
Oh, if only you could rewrite life by stopping the story before it ends and slapping “and they lived happily ever after” on it.
May 20, 2011 at 2:18 pm
Anyone recall the episode of ‘The Simpsons’, where Marge protects Lisa from finding out what happens to Joan of Arc by tearing the page out of the book, eating it, and then telling the kids that Sir Lancelot rode up on a white horse, rescued Joan, and they got married and lived happily ever after?
May 19, 2011 at 4:47 pm
Don’t forget her festive series of Hanukkah cards, lovingly handcrafted from pages of “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.” And if you’re looking for that perfect Kwanzaa gift to say “I care”, what better than a Kwanzaa card printed on original script pages from “Birth of a Nation?”
May 19, 2011 at 4:58 pm
I wonder if part of Auschwitz can be rented for the reception?
May 20, 2011 at 8:49 am
They can decorate with helium balloons for atmosphere and to bring back those romantic memories.
May 19, 2011 at 5:28 pm
Face…palm.
Nothing says have a happy life together like a passage from a book about a girl who’s killed by Nazis that features a city burning to the ground after a German Blitzkreig.
L’chaim!
May 19, 2011 at 5:29 pm
And here I was thinking that the wedding I attended where the Bride’s *FRIEND* sang Saving All My Love for You, by Whitney Houston to the ‘happy’ couple was tacky…
This… this is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO beyond tacky!
Gobsmacked. Yup, that sums it up nicely. I’m truly gobsmacked.
May 19, 2011 at 5:29 pm
Ooh Ooh! Can I get my baby announcements on a page from Brave New World please?
May 19, 2011 at 5:40 pm
OMFG! This is on a page from Diary of a Young Girl, too! Now I don’t know which is more offensive!
May 19, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Actually, these are too. ALL of her stupid cards are on Anne Frank pages!
May 19, 2011 at 5:47 pm
There’s one that says I love you, and one that says fly me to the moon, too. ALL on Diary of a Young Girl pages. Talk about your unfortunate contextual mishaps…
May 19, 2011 at 6:09 pm
and don’t forget the words olive juice stenciled onto a set of 8 gift tags…with Anne Frank pages as background…
Not yet figured the why out on those…
May 19, 2011 at 6:12 pm
…and I do understand that mouthing the words “olive juice” looks like “I love you..” … but.. um…. somehow….
May 19, 2011 at 6:23 pm
…and I know the lip sync-ing thing about Olive Juice and I love you…just doesn’t make sense this way, but then none of this does… (sorry if this is a double post, the first one seems to have vanished into space).
May 20, 2011 at 10:07 am
There’s no mishap – she allegedly studied the book in literary “college” and thought it was such a grand “love story” that it was great for a marriage card. Even one that says “happily ever after”. And for “funny” cards like the spurs and farter/father jokes. For some unknown idiotic reason.
May 20, 2011 at 10:35 am
Why would she use the book for funny cards?! What the fuck?! I’m really offended right now. Obviously, she NEVER studied this book because using it as a ‘love story’ is a slap in the face. A complete and utter disregard to what the subject matter really deals with! These are the kind of people who decide that the Holocaust “was a really long time ago and we shouldn’t really care about it anymore because what does it have to do with society now?” And let me be the first in line to curb stomp any of the bitches who think that the Holocaust is something we should A. laugh at B. find romantic C. forget about
May 19, 2011 at 5:55 pm
yeah pretty much counters her explanation eh?
May 19, 2011 at 5:59 pm
She has an explanation? Point me to its general direction.
May 19, 2011 at 6:51 pm
The greatest attempt to use multipurpose EVER!!!
May 19, 2011 at 6:06 pm
Not only is this one contextually repugnant…it’s fucking meaningless.
What difference does it make if you are wearing spurs or not if its the boots that get covered in shit?
I hate these. I truly do.
May 19, 2011 at 8:23 pm
I thought it was because you might spur yourself in the behind if you squat with them on.
May 19, 2011 at 5:45 pm
Thats it. I’m opening a shop and stenciling wedding invites on old book pages torn from the V.C. Andrews classic Flowers in the attic. Nothing says I love you like incest.
*I would like to add that this seller is fucking moronical*
May 19, 2011 at 6:11 pm
Oh, that is a great idea. I was thinking more along the the lines of “Push” ( made into the movie Precious) Wedding invites.
May 19, 2011 at 6:19 pm
See i think the Push Line would be EXCELLENT for Mother’s Day, or children’s birthday cards.
May 19, 2011 at 8:16 pm
But nothing beats “Happy Mother’s Day” stenciled on pages torn from “Mommy Dearest”.
May 19, 2011 at 6:05 pm
You know at first glance I found this kind of hilarious, but the more I think about it, the more it pisses me off.
Yes, Anne and Peter had a brief romantic relationship (though Anne herself questioned whether their feelings were real or merely a product of their confinement), but “…and they lived happily ever after” is a slap in the face to everything that Otto Frank hoped to convey by allowing his daughter’s diary to be published.
The Diary of Anne Frank is not without hope, but Anne and Peter didn’t live happily ever after. Anne, her mother, her sister, and Peter van Pels died and were buried in mass graves only weeks (and in Peter’s case, days) before their camps were liberated by Allied forces. This isn’t a fairy tale. These were real people, and they died real, horrible, gruesome deaths, and it happened because human beings are capable of unthinkable evil. And if we forget, even for a minute, the reality of this, it could happen again.
May 19, 2011 at 7:49 pm
What Obama said.
May 19, 2011 at 6:16 pm
This is so perfect for my Nazi themed wedding!
May 19, 2011 at 6:25 pm
Hitler in Springtime in Germany wedding themes are too mainstream. I prefer mine in underground bunkers.
May 19, 2011 at 11:17 pm
We were thinking more along the lines of Auschwitz in Winter.
May 19, 2011 at 11:44 pm
…and instead of removing your garter after the ceremony and throwing it to the waiting bachelors, your new spouse could remove your armband!
May 19, 2011 at 7:37 pm
Yah, I don’t think any story that ends with a family getting shipped off to a concentration camp could ever constitute happily ever after:-/
May 19, 2011 at 7:49 pm
Um, her other stenciled pages are also from Anne Frank.
Like the “fly me to the moon” one: http://www.etsy.com/listing/73001357/fly-me-to-the-moon-stenciled-on-yellowed
It doesn’t say it’s Anne Frank, but the writing on the book page mentions Jews, peeping through windows and Margot, who if I recall, was her older sister (I think…?)…
I guess Anne Frank would have preferred to be on the moon, instead of the attic…
May 19, 2011 at 8:21 pm
I would say maybe report this to Etsy – but I’m sure those tarts would consider that to be “calling out.”
Etsy: crafting one swastika one thread at a time.
May 19, 2011 at 8:25 pm
Why hasn’t she pulled them?
May 19, 2011 at 8:34 pm
Maybe she’s ginormously clueless?
May 19, 2011 at 9:08 pm
Well she can’t be ginormously clueless; she even expressed how deeply sorry she is further up in this thread. I mean, can’t you tell how sorry she is? By the fact that they’re all still up?
May 19, 2011 at 10:14 pm
I think that post was made by a troll and not the real mainecoastengraving.
May 19, 2011 at 8:40 pm
And the card sold, meaning she’ll go off and make more insensitive cards out of other pages… I wonder if she even realized how terrible this makes her look?
May 19, 2011 at 8:49 pm
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May 19, 2011 at 11:11 pm
Oh BRING it, flouncetard!
May 20, 2011 at 12:01 am
You’ve won your 15 minutes of fame, congrats.
May 20, 2011 at 12:06 am
I think it’s funny how people think regretsy is mean XD
As someone who sells stuff on Etsy, I haven’t found one regretsy entry that wasn’t genuinely humoring and made me laugh. In todays society, anything that can make me smile is appreciated! If I ever had something picked apart by a site like regretsy, I’d probably laugh at the joke too.
May 20, 2011 at 5:26 am
Y’know what, this is not the post to get all high and mighty on. Please tell me what world you live in where it’s a good idea to print “And They Lived Happily Ever After” on a page of “The Diary of Anne Frank”.
May 20, 2011 at 9:02 am
Regretsy is our form of expression. Who are you to judge what we write, you fucking bitch? See, bullshit arguments cut both ways.
May 20, 2011 at 10:27 am
You’ve GOT to be shitting me. See, I think this is far more likely to be the seller than the person above who expressed regret.
Pduron you’re a fucking maroon. This is the most classless thing I’ve ever seen here – and I’ve read the whole site back to front. So as someone above said, that includes the vulva art. Yeah, Anne Frank was a great love story with a…hurk…happy ending. Get the fuck real.
May 20, 2011 at 10:50 am
HOLY MONKEY BALLS. I just finished reading the M.O.P. and came back to read through the new additions to this post … THIS IS THE POST WITH THE COMPLAINT ABOUT MEANNESS? I thought it must have been from one of the earlier posts where the product was only offensive in its poor quality. The seller’s defense of the product is bad enough but at least the seller’s defense seems to spring from a fundamental failure in reading comprehension. Sad, but the world is full of stupid people and I don’t think the seller is malicious, just simple.
This turd sniffer grasps why people find the card tasteless/offensive and still defends it.
Who do I think I am to judge other people’s expressions? I am a thinking human being. Ideas have consequences. The seller put her work, her “expression” out into the world. People are reacting to it. Reactions, good and bad, are a result of putting your ideas, good and bad, out into the world.
Go put your private parts in your amphibian. (I get a cookie!)
May 19, 2011 at 8:49 pm
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May 19, 2011 at 8:59 pm
What you don’t see are the matching reception invites on a page of “Mein Kampf.”
May 20, 2011 at 12:23 am
I’d love to see the wedding favors at the tables.
May 19, 2011 at 9:06 pm
I’ve heard she’s making a series of Get Well Soon cards from the left over pages near the end.
May 20, 2011 at 12:50 am
In the words of the horse on Ren and Stimpy, “No sir. I don’t like it”!
May 20, 2011 at 10:24 am
The bunnies do not approve either.
http://www.disapprovingrabbits.com/
May 20, 2011 at 1:31 am
A big kiss to anyone who can think of a book that’s WORSE than this for one for such a purpose.
May 20, 2011 at 6:40 am
@zombee: The Koran would be worse… Not necessarily for the impropriety, but for the risk of violent death…
May 20, 2011 at 10:42 am
Slaughter House 5?
May 20, 2011 at 2:21 am
I am genuinely shocked and horrified. This may be the most tasteless thing I’ve ever seen.
May 20, 2011 at 6:38 am
MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYBE this n00b hasn’t actually READ the book, but knew that it was “a classic” and thought that it was like a Jane Austen chick flick or something..?
I never thought I’d be hoping that someone was illiterate, but that’s honestly the least disturbing possibility here…
May 20, 2011 at 6:55 am
Okay, never mind, I just read those quotes at the top, and she did read the book… Is it wrong that I’m kind of hoping for the May 21st crowd to be right, now? ;_;
May 20, 2011 at 6:57 am
Oh, that reminds me! I’ve got to finish tearing out pages from Fight Club to make invitations to my niece’s third birthday party.
May 20, 2011 at 7:16 am
I guess she already ran through her yellowed copies of The Heart of Darkness and American Psycho.
May 20, 2011 at 9:20 am
Let’s face it, even if she DID put this on a page from a more appropriate piece of literature, it’s still crappy stenciling.
May 20, 2011 at 11:23 am
oy vey
May 20, 2011 at 11:39 am
Her whole shop just disappeared. Guess she deleted it.
May 20, 2011 at 11:41 am
“How moronic” is all I can say about this listing. =_______=
May 20, 2011 at 12:06 pm
I’m not going to say anything else about the choice of book, but I just have to say that my poor bookdealer’s heart is bleeding at the thought of cutting apart a book for crafting purposes. Even if it was falling apart. If I knew how to do weepy icons, I’d be pasting them all over the page.
But since I can’t, I’ll just keep sitting here and shake my head. Anne Frank. Happily ever after. How can this NOT be seen?
I give up on humanity.
May 20, 2011 at 12:47 pm
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May 20, 2011 at 8:34 pm
In 7th grade I read almost the entire book out loud to my English class. Mostly because I was really good at reading out loud, but also because I was the blonde haired blue eyed girl with the Jewish grandpa born in Austria.
I think this card is tasteless and bad and stupid and definitely not art. Controversial =/= art. That’s like saying Jackass 3D is art. Actually, I’d say that Jackass is more artistic than this.