I’m going there this weekend, to a mountainous county where Wal-Marts are the size of convenience stores — but that’s a pro in my book.
However, it’s a long way to go if you’re just going to watch Hoarders. UNLESS you plan to show Hoarders to your relatives-with-no-Dish. At that point you might as well pop in Squidbillies.
That would be a violation of her copyright and HK will sic her third cousin, twice removed, who is a lawyer with Dingle-Hopper-Badder-Breth (which specialises in fuckery infringements) on you and sue your image-stealing ass !
It reminds me of a certain glass blower’s work on Etsy. He has a delightful octie chillum that I’ve been lusting after for months. I’d link it, but I’m not sure of the policy on that up here.
Are we sure that a hard hat is what this octopus needs? I mean — he’s already lost two arms due to occupational hazards. I’m thinking he should trade the hat in for some steel-tipped tentacle covers.
I am still basking in the dumbest fucking find on Etsy glow, so it’s all good. That globe? It is burned forever in my mind. Enjoy your evening. And whatever April is taking, you should take two
It seemed like quite a few people on the Regretsy facebook page were offering up naked or semi-naked pics up to April since Mike gets so much love and attention from us.
Hey, who knows, maybe we have another couple of Mikes or Mike-lettas in our merry band of misfits?
Or maybe I’m just in that special drunk mood where everyone is sexy and beautiful. More whiskey, anyone?
OH MY GOD THAT HORRIFIC MOUND OF NASTY DOLLS. I started cleaning the den while I was watching that one just to work off the secondhand horror. My husband came in after I’d started and put a cup down on the coffee table, and I freaked out for a moment.
When she cuts the limbs off that one and says “THIS ONE IS DEAD NOW,” or something, and starts giggling like a crazy person, I really knew she was going to special.
I would like the octopus graphic to be an actual item used during construction! Seeing a blocked off street on my way to work with this gem would make traffic almost enjoyable.
I love Hoarders! It’s especially good when I need motivation to clean. Or it just makes me feel better about my own mess; I figure I don’t have crap piled up to the ceiling, or dead cats under piles of stuff. Although that might just be because I don’t have a cat.
Um, do people get paid to be on hoarders? Because I not only have a bunch of crap I don’t know what to do with…I also have rats! They’re pet rats, but I would let them out for the special effect.
Hoarders also motivates me to clean, although I only need to watch about 10 minutes of it before I get an itch to start cleaning up and throwing out stuff.
I wonder if you can recommend people to this show. I have a relative who’s a hoarder and could really use some help to clean up. She won’t let the family do anything because they might throw out her accumulation of old newspapers that she “might” have to read again someday.
I was taking a drink when I read your response. And yes, my mind went there. Luckily, I was able to swallow before doing damage to my computer. What? No comebacks about swallowing? Wow. We are mellowed out by opiates tonight, aren’t we?
The dolls were creepy, but the bottles of pee were a thousand times worse..and the wall of used diapers. I’m just glad that show isn’t filmed in smell-o-vision!
Okay, all I have are cans of food that were purchased before sell by dates. I’m good with throwing out the tomatoes, but I hate to part with the snails.
HELLO! NO SPOILER ALERT????
Some of us DVR our “Hoarders”! You gave away all the good parts. I always save “Hoarders” for when I need to be motivated to do laundry or clean the kitchen. Works like a charm.
I always read Don Astlett’s “Clutter’s Last Stand” to get motivated to clean and throw stuff out. It covers every possible reason for you to hang on to useless crap, with the exception of “but it might get featured on Regretsy!”
I tried reading his books, but when he got to the part about never keeping any books and taking photographs of knickknacks and them giving them away, I knew he was out of his fucking mind. No, I’m not a candidate for Hoarders, but I like my bookcases full of books and knickknacks that have sentimental value to me.
Aslett wants to live in a bare house with just tables, chairs, and a bed. Nothing personal anywhwere. Weirdo.
I read Aslett with the assumption that he’s referring to objects that are not being maintained or enjoyed. My books and knickknacks bring me joy constantly.
My memory (it was about 20 years ago) was that he didn’t like objects at all. I’d rather read books by Cynthia (Cindy) Glovinsky. She deals with WHY people keep what we do and how to understand if we’re keeping them for the wrong reasons (the last gift a dead relative gave to us, the wedding gifts we hated but you don’t throw out gifts, “but I paid good money for it,” etc.), not how to organize what you have. I love her books and I know I have them around here somewhere.
*peeks under pile of papers…curses when they slide off onto the floor…trips on stack of books on the floor…annoyed that Glovinsky’s books aren’t in that pile…goes for coffee*
The reclusive centenarian multimillionaire Huguette Clark just died. She left a doll collection to her nurse that is allegedly worth a million dollars.
Good thing this show was taped before THAT news broke.
A cephalopod with only six arms is a Sexapus. Of course the hard hat makes it look like it should be part of the Village People, but other people’s sexual details do not interest me. Well, unless they video tape it.
The past Hoarders is one of my favorites! Especially on pain drugs (for me it’s percocet!) If it wasn’t for Hoarders I wouldn’t clean at all.
Nooooo! But…but…Debbie Reynolds was on So You Think You Can Dance, drunk off her ass, and I wanted you to tell that story again about her and Rosanne in a fist fight. Or link to it because I’m too lazy. (She did a Woody Woodpecker impression that was spot on. Nigel seemed scared.)
Go ahead and thumb me down for watching that show, cf4l.
She just sold off a big chunk of her movie costume collection to pay the debts for the museum they were going to be displayed in. Which sounds a bit too “Gift of the Magi” to be a good business plan.
Some of the costumes, including Marilyn Monroe’s subway dress, went for millions. I think she’s entitled to a bit of celebrating.
Aww Ma, no CF post tonight? Is it because I didn’t eat my veggies?
On a serious note, it’s like HK knows that I really don’t need the extra distraction tonight. As much as I love CF, I’m working on a DIY wedding blog about my own wedding. (I’m not even engaged, but we’re getting there.) We’re doing what I like to call “Ass-backwards” wedding planning.
Hoarders? I guess. I’m more of a Verminator girl myself, though. I can’t seem to get enough of that show. It reminds me of several blind dates I had in my indiscriminate youth.
All I can think is “Man, I want to BE that guy”. Look how happy and awestruck he is! And this is why, at 31, I have been having my first desires to do drugs.
Apropos of someone mentioning the Village People, they were in Des Moines at Gay Pride over the weekend. My son and his boyfriend got their picture taken with them. I’d post it, but the little ^&$(#* hasn’t put it online yet, so I can’t snitch it.
I can’t believe that The Cop, The Biker and the Construction Worker are still the originals. Lookin’ mighty damn good for men their age.
(Des Moines Gay Pride Parade? Damn, my Iowa-living sister went to the P-Town Carnival Parade last year. “There’s nothing like this in Iowa; this is why I visit the Cape every summer”)
HiddenLowRating, I love you. You’ve added a musical soundtrack to this post. Ever see the episode of “Married with Children” where they rent the Village People for a show and all the women demand they sing “YMCA” again and again? It doesn’t get old!
Whenever I hear “Macho Man,” I think back to my senior year of high school and that was the disco hit of the year. I remember the daytime senior dance we had…and the shirtless and sweaty Bobby B, the Adonis of our year, who practically lived at the disco, in his qiana shirts and no-outside-seam pants. I have a photo. Haven’t dug it out in years, but I can picture it in my mind. Yeah, big-time crush. Sigh.
We’re left to our own devices? Well cool…. let’s talk about how quickly time has passed…. twenty years have evidently gone by since the turn of the century (2000)….
One of our own in April’s Army on fb pointed this treasure out… I am tempted to make a Treasury and stick this in it..of course, it’s already in someone’s Treasury list.. been there for two months…
Okay, let’s see. Stain on outer cover (technically known as a “slight smudge”)? Check. Cracked spine? Check. Writing on the inside cover? Check. “Book doesn’t have the glossy sleave [sic] like the slick mass produced books”? Checkity check check.
Coming soon – a unique, hand-pressed first-edition “Frampton Comes Alive”, without the cringe-inducing 1970′s cover sleeve.
First edition book selling – you’re doing it FUCK WRONG.
IT HAS A GODDAMN PRINT DATE RIGHT IN THE FRONT OF THE BOOK. ARE THESE FUCKERS UNABLE TO COUNT. ARE THEY JUST THAT LAZY. DO THEY REALLY BELIEVE OTHER PEOPLE ARE THAT STUPID. IS IT ALL THESE THINGS AND MORE SON OF A BITCH I HATE THESE PEOPLE.
I couldn’t hold back. I had to send the seller a message:
“Book doesn’t have the glossy sleave [sic] like the slick mass produced books,”
Are you claiming this is a rare edition? Why–because it doesn’t have the jacket and is in crappy condition with writing inside?
Do you honestly think that this book is NOT mass produced? Shat constitutes “mass produced” to you? Do you have any idea how many (millions) of copies were printed?
And by the way, the “glossy sleave [sic]” is called a dust jacket. For a reason. It’s also a way of attracting someone in a bookstore to the book, showing them artwork, and telling the them what the story is about.
—I’ll post a reply when/if I get one. (Crap–just saw my typo of “shat.” Yup, Freudian slip!
She may be mentally deficient–and I don’t say that lightly. I explained the purpose of those “mass-produced” dust jackets (to match the mass-produced books) and how people have jobs creating those jackets. Also that there’s nothing special about a 10-year-old book without a dust jacket (but I’d be surprised if a book published in, say, 1938, did have one). Her replies (two–and then I gave up) included comments such as “I don’t care if people have jobs because of the covers” and “This book wasn’t published in 1938 and you’re retarded!”
June 22, 2011 at 10:03 pm
But…what else am I supposed to do with my night, other than refresh Regretsy, longing for a new post?
June 22, 2011 at 10:05 pm
Two letters: KY.
I leave the rest up to you !
June 22, 2011 at 10:12 pm
KY and viewing Mike can go…um..hand in hand.
June 22, 2011 at 10:46 pm
Ba-dum psh.
June 22, 2011 at 10:26 pm
I’d rather not go to Kentucky, it’s a long drive.
June 22, 2011 at 10:26 pm
Just bring lots of KY for the trip.
June 23, 2011 at 2:25 am
I lived in Kentucky for 4 years. I do not want to go back. Ever.
June 23, 2011 at 5:55 am
I’m going there this weekend, to a mountainous county where Wal-Marts are the size of convenience stores — but that’s a pro in my book.
However, it’s a long way to go if you’re just going to watch Hoarders. UNLESS you plan to show Hoarders to your relatives-with-no-Dish. At that point you might as well pop in Squidbillies.
June 23, 2011 at 6:39 am
Now where’s that picture of Bronc sunbathing???
June 23, 2011 at 8:19 am
Kentucky? Oh, Bourbon!
June 23, 2011 at 10:47 am
*looks quizzically at monitor* What does Kentucky have to do with anything?
June 22, 2011 at 10:06 pm
You could go stare at Mike …
June 22, 2011 at 10:07 pm
I was going to suggest that. Damn you telepathy.
June 22, 2011 at 10:48 pm
Tonight’s Regretsy is brought to you by the letters K and Y and the number 9!
June 22, 2011 at 10:05 pm
Might have to to use that on my website as the holding page – it’s awesome!
June 22, 2011 at 10:10 pm
That would be a violation of her copyright and HK will sic her third cousin, twice removed, who is a lawyer with Dingle-Hopper-Badder-Breth (which specialises in fuckery infringements) on you and sue your image-stealing ass !
June 22, 2011 at 10:44 pm
I believe that cousin is a layer…which gets interesting, when you think about him being twice removed…ew.
June 23, 2011 at 4:50 am
Yeah, she’ll send you a crease and desist order faster than you can say “whimsikle fuckery”!
June 22, 2011 at 10:10 pm
It reminds me of a certain glass blower’s work on Etsy. He has a delightful octie chillum that I’ve been lusting after for months. I’d link it, but I’m not sure of the policy on that up here.
June 23, 2011 at 1:20 am
link away!
June 23, 2011 at 2:15 am
Yes, please do link! I adore good glass!
June 22, 2011 at 10:08 pm
Rest up and come back at us with more fuckery as soon as you feel better!
June 22, 2011 at 10:08 pm
Are we sure that a hard hat is what this octopus needs? I mean — he’s already lost two arms due to occupational hazards. I’m thinking he should trade the hat in for some steel-tipped tentacle covers.
June 22, 2011 at 10:29 pm
But their heads are pretty squishy and he still has six legs left.
June 23, 2011 at 4:37 am
*octopational*
June 23, 2011 at 12:40 pm
You made a typo — “occupational hazards” should be “delicious.”
June 22, 2011 at 10:08 pm
I am still basking in the dumbest fucking find on Etsy glow, so it’s all good. That globe? It is burned forever in my mind. Enjoy your evening. And whatever April is taking, you should take two
June 22, 2011 at 10:08 pm
Everybody get naked.
June 22, 2011 at 10:24 pm
too freaken cold ova this side of the hemisphere to do that mate!
June 22, 2011 at 10:46 pm
Sorry, I’m pretty sure it’s best if nobody but Mike gets naked. No one wants to look at a bunch of naked fat jealous losers.
June 23, 2011 at 12:07 am
It seemed like quite a few people on the Regretsy facebook page were offering up naked or semi-naked pics up to April since Mike gets so much love and attention from us.
Hey, who knows, maybe we have another couple of Mikes or Mike-lettas in our merry band of misfits?
Or maybe I’m just in that special drunk mood where everyone is sexy and beautiful. More whiskey, anyone?
June 23, 2011 at 8:21 am
How about April’s Army doing a pinup calendar of Mike?
June 23, 2011 at 2:27 am
You had me at naked Mike
June 23, 2011 at 9:56 am
I’m relatively new around here so this recent episode of Naked Mike was my first time. He was so gentle with me.
June 23, 2011 at 5:33 am
Already there.
June 22, 2011 at 10:10 pm
What, no blinking, animated gif of the octopus flailing about?
June 22, 2011 at 10:13 pm
I don’t think it needs to move That way it’s more like the real flag people that I see.
June 23, 2011 at 8:21 am
Ouch! My union layer will be after you for that.
June 22, 2011 at 10:10 pm
This week’s Hoarders is the most memorable one since the guy with the rats. I wish I had doubled up on my medication before I saw it.
June 22, 2011 at 10:15 pm
That episode was true fuckery.
June 23, 2011 at 5:35 am
I always wondered why they don’t let the Pickers guy get in on the hoarding before the cleanup. that way everybody comes out with cash.
June 23, 2011 at 7:57 am
OH MY GOD THAT HORRIFIC MOUND OF NASTY DOLLS. I started cleaning the den while I was watching that one just to work off the secondhand horror. My husband came in after I’d started and put a cup down on the coffee table, and I freaked out for a moment.
June 23, 2011 at 9:58 am
When she cuts the limbs off that one and says “THIS ONE IS DEAD NOW,” or something, and starts giggling like a crazy person, I really knew she was going to special.
June 23, 2011 at 10:33 am
So, this is what people with cable pay $50 a month to watch?
June 23, 2011 at 10:43 am
It’s sort of an investment in self-esteem and perspective.
June 23, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Never heard of Hulu or Netflix, Postmenopaws?
June 24, 2011 at 1:33 pm
WTB SARCASM FONT, NOW.
June 22, 2011 at 10:11 pm
The octopus in a construction hat doing it for me. This counts as a post.
June 23, 2011 at 5:04 am
The rest of the Village Octopi are just as awesome.
*cue YMCA*
June 23, 2011 at 11:01 am
If the octopus tries to do that song after he’s been drinking, he’ll get his six remaining legs tied in knots.
June 22, 2011 at 10:11 pm
not Toddlers & Tiaras?
June 22, 2011 at 10:17 pm
I wouldn’t think there’s enough opiates in the world…
June 22, 2011 at 10:16 pm
I would like the octopus graphic to be an actual item used during construction! Seeing a blocked off street on my way to work with this gem would make traffic almost enjoyable.
June 23, 2011 at 1:22 am
got a construction site nearby?
I think you know what you need to do.
June 23, 2011 at 6:52 am
While April is away the fatuglyjealouslosers will play!
June 22, 2011 at 10:34 pm
I love Hoarders! It’s especially good when I need motivation to clean. Or it just makes me feel better about my own mess; I figure I don’t have crap piled up to the ceiling, or dead cats under piles of stuff. Although that might just be because I don’t have a cat.
June 22, 2011 at 10:48 pm
Um, do people get paid to be on hoarders? Because I not only have a bunch of crap I don’t know what to do with…I also have rats! They’re pet rats, but I would let them out for the special effect.
June 23, 2011 at 5:19 am
Hoarders also motivates me to clean, although I only need to watch about 10 minutes of it before I get an itch to start cleaning up and throwing out stuff.
I wonder if you can recommend people to this show. I have a relative who’s a hoarder and could really use some help to clean up. She won’t let the family do anything because they might throw out her accumulation of old newspapers that she “might” have to read again someday.
June 23, 2011 at 5:42 am
Yes and no. Their mental treatment and the house cleanup is paid for by the show.
June 23, 2011 at 5:44 am
Go dammit. I did it again. I gotta wait for the page to finish loading before clicking reply.
Nesting fail
June 22, 2011 at 10:36 pm
Construction octopus, KY and naked time? I’m so turned on right now! If this doesn’t turn into an orgy, I’m pretty sure I’m justified to sue someone.
June 22, 2011 at 10:38 pm
It’s ok. We’ll still respect you in the morning.
June 22, 2011 at 10:38 pm
Well, there’s a drunk guy cleaning my kitchen* right now, so maybe I’ll just grab something from the medicine cabinet and join you.
*Not a euphemism.
June 23, 2011 at 2:29 am
I was taking a drink when I read your response. And yes, my mind went there. Luckily, I was able to swallow before doing damage to my computer. What? No comebacks about swallowing? Wow. We are mellowed out by opiates tonight, aren’t we?
June 22, 2011 at 10:38 pm
DON’T DO IT. Especially if you have an HDTV. Hoarders is bad news. I sit there wiping myself with a Handi-Wipe the whole episode.
ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLS.
TEN TRUCKLOADS OF DOLLS.
Sweet Jesus, that’s not right.
June 22, 2011 at 10:46 pm
The dolls were creepy, but the bottles of pee were a thousand times worse..and the wall of used diapers. I’m just glad that show isn’t filmed in smell-o-vision!
June 22, 2011 at 10:49 pm
Okay, all I have are cans of food that were purchased before sell by dates. I’m good with throwing out the tomatoes, but I hate to part with the snails.
June 23, 2011 at 7:59 am
Yeah, I had to look away for parts of that and I’m not really a squeamish person.
June 23, 2011 at 3:48 am
HELLO! NO SPOILER ALERT????
Some of us DVR our “Hoarders”! You gave away all the good parts. I always save “Hoarders” for when I need to be motivated to do laundry or clean the kitchen. Works like a charm.
June 23, 2011 at 4:36 am
I always read Don Astlett’s “Clutter’s Last Stand” to get motivated to clean and throw stuff out. It covers every possible reason for you to hang on to useless crap, with the exception of “but it might get featured on Regretsy!”
June 23, 2011 at 11:06 am
I tried reading his books, but when he got to the part about never keeping any books and taking photographs of knickknacks and them giving them away, I knew he was out of his fucking mind. No, I’m not a candidate for Hoarders, but I like my bookcases full of books and knickknacks that have sentimental value to me.
Aslett wants to live in a bare house with just tables, chairs, and a bed. Nothing personal anywhwere. Weirdo.
June 23, 2011 at 11:27 am
I read Aslett with the assumption that he’s referring to objects that are not being maintained or enjoyed. My books and knickknacks bring me joy constantly.
June 23, 2011 at 12:13 pm
My memory (it was about 20 years ago) was that he didn’t like objects at all. I’d rather read books by Cynthia (Cindy) Glovinsky. She deals with WHY people keep what we do and how to understand if we’re keeping them for the wrong reasons (the last gift a dead relative gave to us, the wedding gifts we hated but you don’t throw out gifts, “but I paid good money for it,” etc.), not how to organize what you have. I love her books and I know I have them around here somewhere.
*peeks under pile of papers…curses when they slide off onto the floor…trips on stack of books on the floor…annoyed that Glovinsky’s books aren’t in that pile…goes for coffee*
June 23, 2011 at 6:38 am
And she didn’t sell them to a horror movie prop house? Shame.
June 23, 2011 at 11:15 am
The reclusive centenarian multimillionaire Huguette Clark just died. She left a doll collection to her nurse that is allegedly worth a million dollars.
Good thing this show was taped before THAT news broke.
June 22, 2011 at 10:49 pm
A cephalopod with only six arms is a Sexapus. Of course the hard hat makes it look like it should be part of the Village People, but other people’s sexual details do not interest me. Well, unless they video tape it.
The past Hoarders is one of my favorites! Especially on pain drugs (for me it’s percocet!) If it wasn’t for Hoarders I wouldn’t clean at all.
June 23, 2011 at 5:09 am
Sorry, I didn’t read all the replies before I left a Village Octopi comment.
*cue YMCA*
again
June 22, 2011 at 11:04 pm
Nooooo! But…but…Debbie Reynolds was on So You Think You Can Dance, drunk off her ass, and I wanted you to tell that story again about her and Rosanne in a fist fight. Or link to it because I’m too lazy. (She did a Woody Woodpecker impression that was spot on. Nigel seemed scared.)
Go ahead and thumb me down for watching that show, cf4l.
June 23, 2011 at 4:03 am
I saw that too, and thought she was drunk like Paula Abdul…
June 23, 2011 at 4:40 am
She just sold off a big chunk of her movie costume collection to pay the debts for the museum they were going to be displayed in. Which sounds a bit too “Gift of the Magi” to be a good business plan.
Some of the costumes, including Marilyn Monroe’s subway dress, went for millions. I think she’s entitled to a bit of celebrating.
June 22, 2011 at 11:10 pm
Aww Ma, no CF post tonight? Is it because I didn’t eat my veggies?
On a serious note, it’s like HK knows that I really don’t need the extra distraction tonight. As much as I love CF, I’m working on a DIY wedding blog about my own wedding. (I’m not even engaged, but we’re getting there.) We’re doing what I like to call “Ass-backwards” wedding planning.
June 22, 2011 at 11:59 pm
Likewise – I appreciate the ‘Hey get your butt back to work’ signal this gives. One well-stocked shop, coming up!
June 23, 2011 at 1:29 am
ooo, link to blog?
June 22, 2011 at 11:10 pm
I very much like the Construction Octopus. It’s mesmerizing.
June 22, 2011 at 11:15 pm
Hoarders? I guess. I’m more of a Verminator girl myself, though. I can’t seem to get enough of that show. It reminds me of several blind dates I had in my indiscriminate youth.
June 23, 2011 at 12:30 am
I’m sorry, what was that you were saying?
I was too busy trying to figure this out:
June 23, 2011 at 3:49 am
I’ll help you: Drugs
June 23, 2011 at 6:35 am
All I can think is “Man, I want to BE that guy”. Look how happy and awestruck he is! And this is why, at 31, I have been having my first desires to do drugs.
June 23, 2011 at 12:56 am
I’ve got my BF creating every possible uncomfortable/awkward coupling in DragonAge: Origins, so for the moment this will suffice.
Hopefully the sextopus will get back to work soon!
June 23, 2011 at 1:02 am
Apropos of someone mentioning the Village People, they were in Des Moines at Gay Pride over the weekend. My son and his boyfriend got their picture taken with them. I’d post it, but the little ^&$(#* hasn’t put it online yet, so I can’t snitch it.
I can’t believe that The Cop, The Biker and the Construction Worker are still the originals. Lookin’ mighty damn good for men their age.
June 23, 2011 at 5:22 am
Village Octopi reference.
*Cue YMCA*
Yet again.
(Des Moines Gay Pride Parade? Damn, my Iowa-living sister went to the P-Town Carnival Parade last year. “There’s nothing like this in Iowa; this is why I visit the Cape every summer”)
No shit. “Parade” is capitalized.
June 23, 2011 at 11:21 am
HiddenLowRating, I love you. You’ve added a musical soundtrack to this post. Ever see the episode of “Married with Children” where they rent the Village People for a show and all the women demand they sing “YMCA” again and again? It doesn’t get old!
Whenever I hear “Macho Man,” I think back to my senior year of high school and that was the disco hit of the year. I remember the daytime senior dance we had…and the shirtless and sweaty Bobby B, the Adonis of our year, who practically lived at the disco, in his qiana shirts and no-outside-seam pants. I have a photo. Haven’t dug it out in years, but I can picture it in my mind. Yeah, big-time crush. Sigh.
June 23, 2011 at 1:55 am
We’re left to our own devices? Well cool…. let’s talk about how quickly time has passed…. twenty years have evidently gone by since the turn of the century (2000)….
One of our own in April’s Army on fb pointed this treasure out… I am tempted to make a Treasury and stick this in it..of course, it’s already in someone’s Treasury list.. been there for two months…
June 23, 2011 at 1:57 am
oh crud I hope I didn’t start something leaving that open
June 23, 2011 at 4:08 am
From the item description: “Book doesn’t have the glossy sleave like the slick mass produced books, there’s a bit of a smudge on the front.”
1. It’s “sleeve”.
2. Jacket missing somehow makes this ‘vintage’?
3. Said jacket was intended to prevent smudges.
June 23, 2011 at 4:58 am
Okay, let’s see. Stain on outer cover (technically known as a “slight smudge”)? Check. Cracked spine? Check. Writing on the inside cover? Check. “Book doesn’t have the glossy sleave [sic] like the slick mass produced books”? Checkity check check.
Coming soon – a unique, hand-pressed first-edition “Frampton Comes Alive”, without the cringe-inducing 1970′s cover sleeve.
First edition book selling – you’re doing it FUCK WRONG.
June 23, 2011 at 8:02 am
IT HAS A GODDAMN PRINT DATE RIGHT IN THE FRONT OF THE BOOK. ARE THESE FUCKERS UNABLE TO COUNT. ARE THEY JUST THAT LAZY. DO THEY REALLY BELIEVE OTHER PEOPLE ARE THAT STUPID. IS IT ALL THESE THINGS AND MORE SON OF A BITCH I HATE THESE PEOPLE.
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June 23, 2011 at 1:22 pm
God, I love Lewis Black….I thought of him immediately, before I read the last line!!! LOL!
June 23, 2011 at 1:53 pm
He helps me channel my neverending misanthropic rage.
June 23, 2011 at 11:33 am
I couldn’t hold back. I had to send the seller a message:
“Book doesn’t have the glossy sleave [sic] like the slick mass produced books,”
Are you claiming this is a rare edition? Why–because it doesn’t have the jacket and is in crappy condition with writing inside?
Do you honestly think that this book is NOT mass produced? Shat constitutes “mass produced” to you? Do you have any idea how many (millions) of copies were printed?
And by the way, the “glossy sleave [sic]” is called a dust jacket. For a reason. It’s also a way of attracting someone in a bookstore to the book, showing them artwork, and telling the them what the story is about.
—I’ll post a reply when/if I get one. (Crap–just saw my typo of “shat.” Yup, Freudian slip!
June 23, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Or just compare and save, if you don’t mind not having a dust jacket: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0439139597/ref=olp_page_3?ie=UTF8&shipPromoFilter=0&startIndex=30&sort=sip&me=&condition=used
June 23, 2011 at 1:54 pm
I can’t wait to see what horseshit the seller trots out as an excuse for being a mis-listing asswaffle.
June 23, 2011 at 8:14 pm
Oh my God, I’ve lived too long without the phrase “asswaffle”. It’s perfect. I don’t know how to thank you!
August 1, 2011 at 2:24 pm
She may be mentally deficient–and I don’t say that lightly. I explained the purpose of those “mass-produced” dust jackets (to match the mass-produced books) and how people have jobs creating those jackets. Also that there’s nothing special about a 10-year-old book without a dust jacket (but I’d be surprised if a book published in, say, 1938, did have one). Her replies (two–and then I gave up) included comments such as “I don’t care if people have jobs because of the covers” and “This book wasn’t published in 1938 and you’re retarded!”
June 23, 2011 at 9:34 am
Whelp, I have a few eps of Judge Judy and Judge Alex to get caught up on.
June 23, 2011 at 9:51 am
Wait–wait, an episode of Judge Judy hearing cases of rental damage by hoarders….I just got shivers
June 23, 2011 at 1:12 pm
How the hell does a construction image and a “no post today” message get 97 – (ok now 98) comments? *stares in awe*
June 23, 2011 at 1:26 pm
We talk amongst ourselves…
June 23, 2011 at 11:40 pm
O_o I’ve been watching Hoarders all day… I’m getting ready to go back to it -_- at least I’m crafting at the same time!