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Etsy or Regretsy? Your Guesses and Answers

Earlier today I asked you to tell me which of the following items are real listings on Etsy, and which ones we made up. We have thoroughly enjoyed your guesses, and the tortured logic you’ve been using to make your decisions.

Here are your best guesses, and the correct answers.

1. TOILET PAPER ROLL PHOTOGRAPH



YOUR GUESSES:

“Regretsy; the patter is too perfectly precious”

“Etsy: I don’t think April or Bronc could stop laughing long enough to type up that description”

“My guess is the first is HK. The rest are too dumb to NOT be Etsy.”

AND THE ANSWER IS

2. VINTAGE CRAYOLA CRAYONS

YOUR GUESSES:

“Having seen the used pastels, I am sure the Crayolas have to be Etsy”

“Etsy. Might be wrong though, no barnwood.”

“Regretsy: This was a close call, but I think an Etsyan would try to charge more for a full set of wax sticks.”

AND THE ANSWER IS

3. ROCK INCENSE BURNER

YOUR GUESSES:

“Regretsy because i CANNOT believe someone will drill a hole in a rock and then want to call it a ‘craft’ they can sell! that’s just breaking my BS meter!”

“Regretsy, because even Etsy has gotten over barnwood, since it’s sooo 2010.”

“Etsy: HK could not have passed up the chance to glue some shit to it.”

AND THE ANSWER IS

4. DECONSTRUCTED GARDEN

YOUR GUESSES:

“Etsy- Helen is way too lazy and drunk to collect all that shit from her backyard and put it in jars.”

“The deconstructed garden could go either way. On one hand, it fits in perfectly with Etsy sellers who recently received a dictionary as a gift. On the other hand, it’s the most perfect mockery of Etsy I’ve ever seen.”

“The deconstructed garden has to be Regretsy because it didn’t go into a lengthy description of how period blood makes a great fertilizer.”

AND THE ANSWER IS

5. LUCKY HORSE SHOE

YOUR GUESSES:

“Regretsy. it’s just TOO perfect a posting, really.”

“Regretsy. It’s too well done.”

“Etsy – that story is so lame, it has to be true.”

AND THE ANSWER IS


6. ADVENTURE ON PLANET X SCREENPLAY

YOUR GUESSES:

“Helen loves Star Trek stuff and that looks suspiciously like a phaser.”

“fake. The spelling, punctuation, and grammar are excellent, and there is tense consistency throughout. No one with writing skills that good are going to post on Etsy, even if the content is crap.”

“For this money, I’d expect an actual finished movie, possibly staring Jimmy Stewart and Kathryn Hepburn. But I still think it’s Etsy.”

AND THE ANSWER IS

Thanks for playing!

128 comments on Etsy or Regretsy? Your Guesses and Answers

  1. gracejessica
    March 16, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    I need off this planet.

    Thumb up Thumb down +51

    • Dances With Lasagna
      March 16, 2012 at 9:33 pm

      Perhaps to Planet X?

      Thumb up Thumb down +27

      • cutie1991
        March 23, 2012 at 9:33 pm

        That’ll be $100,000. Thanks.

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  2. angrierthanyou
    March 16, 2012 at 6:34 pm

    Damn it, I was going to buy that garden! HELEN! Take my money and give me your jars of tap water and yard junk!

    Thumb up Thumb down +47

    • Bronc Drywall
      March 16, 2012 at 6:35 pm

      That’ll be $25.

      Thumb up Thumb down +58

    • swaan
      March 16, 2012 at 6:39 pm

      Aaaagh. I made a grammatical error in a comment about grammar. And now it’s in a main post for ever and ever.

      Thumb up Thumb down +21

      • swaan
        March 16, 2012 at 6:40 pm

        Aaaaand that was not meant to be a reply. I’ll just hand in my Regretsy commenting card and go home now.

        Thumb up Thumb down +34

      • .Rana.
        March 16, 2012 at 6:42 pm

        Welcome to the land of Muphry’s (No That’s Not a Typo) Law.

        Thumb up Thumb down +18

      • lemon_bombs
        March 16, 2012 at 7:36 pm

        It’s not an error in parts of PA, OH and WV.

        Thumb up Thumb down +12

    • afinch
      March 16, 2012 at 10:09 pm

      Me too! But not to garden. Just to keep the deconstructed bullshit on my desk and mock everyone else with their stupid tulip plants. Fuck tulips. I prefer my plants enclosed. Or dead. Preferably dead, but with a jar of dirt and water? Priceless.

      Thumb up Thumb down +10

  3. Gojira
    March 16, 2012 at 6:35 pm

    I got half of them right. I consider that a win.

    Thumb up Thumb down +4

    • Blade
      March 16, 2012 at 6:39 pm

      “I got half of them right. I consider that a win.”

      … yeah, pretty sure “I’m not demented enough to be able to fully enter the mind of an Etsian” *is* a win.

      Thumb up Thumb down +25

  4. kmeghan
    March 16, 2012 at 6:36 pm

    At least the rock with a hole in is reasonably priced.

    Thumb up Thumb down +40

    • fluffermom
      March 16, 2012 at 8:25 pm

      I was thinking the same damn thing. And isn’t that a sad commentary?

      Thumb up Thumb down +16

    • Suzabell
      March 16, 2012 at 9:47 pm

      $8 for a rock is reasonably priced? I have many to sell to you!!! I will charge more than that seller’s shipping rate of $1.75 though.

      Thumb up Thumb down +6

    • Gwill
      March 17, 2012 at 5:44 am

      But the ash will fall all over your table!

      Thumb up Thumb down +5

      • Whirlwitch
        March 17, 2012 at 3:09 pm

        As is the case with 95% of available stick incense holders, actually. So no problem there. :)

        Thumb up Thumb down +4

  5. monkey33
    March 16, 2012 at 6:37 pm

    I went 2 for 6… typical
    I hope the person who said “my money is on monkey 33″ in the oprevious post bought a MegaMillions ticket instead.

    Thumb up Thumb down +5

    • gracejessica
      March 16, 2012 at 7:18 pm

      I didn’t. No, sir. All my eggs were in your basket. And you were so careless. So very careless.

      Thumb up Thumb down +9

      • monkey33
        March 17, 2012 at 10:04 am

        So sorry – I’ll send you a check for $220 million…

        Thumb up Thumb down +2

  6. OhHowMyBrainHurts
    March 16, 2012 at 6:37 pm

    YES! My first 5 out of 5 on Etsy or Regretsy! And the crowd goes wild!

    Thumb up Thumb down +34

  7. Katz
    March 16, 2012 at 6:37 pm

    Wow, the one thing I thought was Etsy wasn’t! That deconstructed garden is remarkably clever Helen.

    Thumb up Thumb down +24

    • Polliwog
      March 16, 2012 at 6:51 pm

      I was totally thinking the background of the image would have taken too much work, but they lost me at “upcrafted mason jars.” I think even on Etsy, you’d need to glue some shit on there before calling it “upcrafted.”

      Thumb up Thumb down +14

    • swaan
      March 16, 2012 at 7:38 pm

      I bet they could make a killing selling those.

      Thumb up Thumb down +7

    • what duck
      March 17, 2012 at 10:38 am

      It’s front page fuckery if I’ve ever saw some.

      Thumb up Thumb down +3

    • somestorm
      March 22, 2012 at 9:42 am

      I guessed when the “dirt” looked suspiciously like crushed oreos. Actually, now that I think about it, even if it IS crushed oreos, it doesn’t necessarily mean someone on Etsy didn’t put them in a jar and sell it as dirt.

      Only on Etsy would delicious edible things pretend to be dirt and get MORE money.

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  8. kmeghan
    March 16, 2012 at 6:37 pm

    *in IT

    I just changed the duvet cover. I was all up in it like a pink paisley bajango. And I still can’t get the corners to stay!

    Thumb up Thumb down +1

  9. DearBitsy
    March 16, 2012 at 6:38 pm

    The crayon box holds 124 crayons according to the box. According to the seller, there are 123 crayons and none are missing. Did she count all the crayons and lie to us, or is this a typo?

    Thumb up Thumb down +13

    • NanaB
      March 16, 2012 at 6:49 pm

      Neither Bronc nor April would lie to us. Oh. wait.

      Thumb up Thumb down +15

    • Postmenopaws ™
      March 16, 2012 at 9:25 pm

      #124 isn’t missing; it simply moved and left no forwarding address.

      Thumb up Thumb down +11

      • catherder
        March 17, 2012 at 12:43 am

        If it’s that band-aidy “skin-colored” one, you don’t want it anyway. Our crayon-eating dog didn’t even like it.

        Thumb up Thumb down +11

  10. TreeHuggies
    March 16, 2012 at 6:38 pm

    Got all of them but one. That screenplay image is so awful it fooled me. XD

    Thumb up Thumb down +7

  11. TheWhiteSchnauzer
    March 16, 2012 at 6:39 pm

    I actually like the first one if it were priced properly. If it was $15 or $20 I would favorite it, but at $130 is just asshole-y.

    Thumb up Thumb down +19

  12. ManyRainbows
    March 16, 2012 at 6:40 pm

    wow, two of my guesses were quoted! I may die of happiness… it is all I have to be happy about since I was 2 for 6 in my guesses.

    Thumb up Thumb down +13

  13. thecreightonberyl
    March 16, 2012 at 6:42 pm

    You are so good at fakery, you should be a political speechwriter.

    Thumb up Thumb down +19

  14. Bethany the Martian
    March 16, 2012 at 6:43 pm

    I am really *quite* relieved that the Crayon one is not real.

    Thumb up Thumb down +9

    • Bronc Drywall
      March 16, 2012 at 6:47 pm

      Uh… about that… never mind.

      Thumb up Thumb down +24

      • Qui
        March 16, 2012 at 6:50 pm

        Oh good, I was beginning to suspect I couldn’t get lead crayons for under $100 any more.

        Thumb up Thumb down +20

        • LittleBabyDamien
          March 16, 2012 at 7:08 pm

          Just buy cheap ‘Made in China’ ones,and ignore the ‘Non-toxic’ designation on the box. It is only there to comply with labeling laws. Old, ‘Made in [insert name of western nation with child safety standards here]‘ very likely won’t have that elusive desirable lead* in any significant quantities.

          *Red crayons are most likely to have large amounts.

          Thumb up Thumb down +9

      • OhHowMyBrainHurts
        March 16, 2012 at 6:58 pm

        I can date vintage clothes, but honestly, how the hell do you pinpoint the date of a box of Crayola crayons?

        Thumb up Thumb down +6

        • KnittingB
          March 16, 2012 at 7:13 pm

          You date them by the color name……they used to be yellow, green, orange etc. Now it is school bus yellow, baby puke green, and construction zone orange etc.

          Thumb up Thumb down +19

          • Gabisimo
            March 16, 2012 at 10:23 pm

            Dead shark blue, Deconstructed Garden Green…

            Thumb up Thumb down +11

        • gracejessica
          March 16, 2012 at 7:29 pm

          If there is the politically incorrect “nude” crayon. It was renamed in the …60′s… I think. I’ll go back to my corner now.

          Thumb up Thumb down +11

          • sterling say what
            March 16, 2012 at 8:18 pm

            Flesh. There was a flesh coloured crayon. I believe it was changed to peach (or apricot).

            Me, I’d totally buy either set just to be able to get my hands on another full-sized unused lemon yellow. I have not forgiven Binney and Smith/Hallmark for retiring it. It was the best yellow there was. None of the creatively named yellows they have now are nearly as nice (although I do like “macaroni and cheese”.)

            (Is this where I admit that My First Tattoo will be a purple Crayola branded crayon? I’m only slightly addicted to Crayola products.)

            Thumb up Thumb down +10

          • catherder
            March 17, 2012 at 12:47 am

            ^^^This is the one I was thinking of further up. Ugliest Crayola in the box.

            I wonder if the metallic gold, silver, and copper ones had lead in them?

            Thumb up Thumb down +2

          • catherder
            March 17, 2012 at 12:49 am

            The “Flesh” one was the ugly one, I mean. That yellow was a good one.

            Thumb up Thumb down +1

        • dddgurl
          March 16, 2012 at 8:27 pm

          I usually start by offering them a drink.Then…wait…oops! Never mind!

          Thumb up Thumb down +6

      • EricaVee
        March 16, 2012 at 8:27 pm

        I really don’t see the problem with buying or selling vintage Crayons, but that seller probably should have taken off the “79¢” sticker.

        Thumb up Thumb down +10

      • venusenvy
        March 17, 2012 at 8:50 am

        That was the first thing I thought when I saw those Crayolas–”I know I at least got THAT one right. Those are definitely Etsy.” Was shocked to see it was a fake…then I did a search. Heh.

        What made it for me, though, was the idea of ex-pat crayons. Oh, and definite props for getting the UK pricing spot on. That’s what sold me on it being the real deal–even our 79 cent crayons have a 3824%* markup here in Quaint Ol’ Blighty.

        By the way, did you know that we spell jewellery with two L’s here?

        You’re welcome.

        *no actual math was harmed in the creation of this comment

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  15. NanaB
    March 16, 2012 at 6:44 pm

    I need more drugs. My faith and hope are bashed for the most part. So sure about the tp photo and Adventures on Planet X.

    We are doomed as a species. Cats would not do this crap.

    Thumb up Thumb down +16

  16. Patty got abducted by a Steampunk Alien
    March 16, 2012 at 6:45 pm

    I absolutely knew that toilet paper photo was real. After all the absolute shit I’ve seen being sold as “photography art” on etsy, nothing shocks me about it anymore.

    I think they should do a series of photos- show an empty roll, then two hands taking it off, then those two hands putting a new one on and the last one being that of a fresh new roll.

    Thumb up Thumb down +37

    • K
      March 16, 2012 at 6:50 pm

      Better that than showing how the roll gets empty.

      Thumb up Thumb down +8

      • KnittingB
        March 16, 2012 at 7:16 pm

        Or this could be a prequel to that collection: First picture of someone sitting down, next one the straining face, third picture, well you get the idea!

        Thumb up Thumb down +9

  17. faunablues
    March 16, 2012 at 6:48 pm

    Oh man. I only got the rock incense burner correct. Never thought HK would collect all that “garden” crap and jar it.

    Well played.

    Thumb up Thumb down +12

  18. PensEnvy
    March 16, 2012 at 6:48 pm

    I still think that deconstructed garden is Etsy gold. I’m thinking of selling deconstructed water. For $25, you get two jars, one filled with oxygen and the other filled with hydrogen. For another $10, you get a third jar filled with industrial waste.

    Thumb up Thumb down +31

    • kiki gumdrops
      March 16, 2012 at 9:55 pm

      I’d like to add a Magickal Room Fragrance kit that has separate jars of bleach and ammonia, with the suggestion they’d be so much more Magickal when mixed. Gas mask sold separately.

      Thumb up Thumb down +3

      • Gabisimo
        March 16, 2012 at 10:31 pm

        Wow…. dangerous!!!

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        • kiki gumdrops
          March 16, 2012 at 10:55 pm

          Anyone dumb enough to do so will, at the very least, fail high school chemistry. Hopefully they’d also learn that Etsy’s mostly dependent upon bullshit descriptions and gullible persons. Mostly…

          Thumb up Thumb down +2

    • gotchan
      March 16, 2012 at 11:44 pm

      I don’t think you can ship jars of hydrogen. It might get you a visit from some people with badges.

      Thumb up Thumb down +7

      • Whirlwitch
        March 17, 2012 at 3:35 pm

        But I’m getting bored with the usual visits by people in white coats…

        Thumb up Thumb down +3

  19. Snark Industries
    March 16, 2012 at 6:49 pm

    That rock incense burner looks like a real piece of schist. Oh wait, my bad, that’s one of her other listings.

    She sure has a lot of favorite rocks.

    Thumb up Thumb down +19

    • LittleBabyDamien
      March 16, 2012 at 7:09 pm

      You take a lot for granite, SI.

      Thumb up Thumb down +18

      • dddgurl
        March 16, 2012 at 8:29 pm

        Yeah! Straighten up and pyrite!

        Thumb up Thumb down +15

  20. TooManyCookbooks
    March 16, 2012 at 6:49 pm

    HALLELUJAH THE CRAYONS WERE A FAKE. My faith in humanity is temporarily restored just a little.

    Thumb up Thumb down +4

    • Babs Johnson
      March 16, 2012 at 7:08 pm

      not so quick, look at Bronc’s response above.

      Thumb up Thumb down +3

      • TooManyCookbooks
        March 16, 2012 at 8:15 pm

        Yeah, but at least those aren’t fifty bucks.

        Thumb up Thumb down +3

        • gotchan
          March 16, 2012 at 11:51 pm

          Don’t be too relieved. It’s a smaller box.

          The fakes work out to 45¢ per crayon (going by the number on the box, not in the description). The Etsy listing works out to 37.5¢ per crayon or 45.3¢ with shipping. We don’t know what the shipping on the fake would be.

          A new box of 64 Crayola crayons with built in sharpener sells for $4.62 or 7.2¢ per crayon. No shipping. You carry them home. If you walk you don’t have to pay for gas.

          Go ahead. Weep for humanity. We’ll wait.

          Thumb up Thumb down +8

  21. Cried4DeadBird
    March 16, 2012 at 6:50 pm

    You had me at “Fresh Loamy Dirt.” I thought only an Etsian would write so lovingly about soil.

    Thumb up Thumb down +10

  22. butts lol
    March 16, 2012 at 6:50 pm

    50%. I’m as good as a dice roll.

    I can’t believe the screenplay is real. At that price? ffs, Manos: The Hands Of Fate was made and released for a fraction of that, and could be made again for the same nominal dollars today through the magic of television.

    Incense burner real? I guess the story was a bit too much in the way of forced rectal insolation.

    Crayons: I think I was leaning fake, but my toe was over the line, so I’ll mark it zero, next frame, and do a jay.

    Thumb up Thumb down +11

    • OhHowMyBrainHurts
      March 16, 2012 at 7:02 pm

      I’m giving you two thumbs up for the Manos reference!

      Thumb up Thumb down +8

    • catherder
      March 17, 2012 at 12:53 am

      Modern digital technology might improve Manos, too. At least you could actually edit it. Then again, the stained sofa and Torgo in HD would be even more painful.

      Thumb up Thumb down +3

    • venusenvy
      March 17, 2012 at 9:07 am

      “I can’t believe the screenplay is real. At that price? ffs, Manos: The Hands Of Fate was made and released for a fraction of that, and could be made again for the same nominal dollars today through the magic of television.

      In that case, they should try putting this on Etsy.

      Thumb up Thumb down +2

    • mamazog
      March 17, 2012 at 10:34 am

      Over the line, Donny! This is not Vietnam. There are rules.

      Thumb up Thumb down +1

      • mamazog
        March 17, 2012 at 10:35 am

        Shit. Smokey. Smokey was over the line.

        Thumb up Thumb down 0

  23. Mystik Spiral
    March 16, 2012 at 6:53 pm

    Either Helen is just really good at making this game hard, or I am slowly, and unknowingly, growing more stupid.

    Thumb up Thumb down +28

    • Whirlwitch
      March 17, 2012 at 3:31 pm

      She’s definitely getting better at the elaborate hoaxes. That deconstructed garden is amazing.

      Thumb up Thumb down +2

  24. mingamonga
    March 16, 2012 at 6:54 pm

    I LOVE that the 124-count box of crayons holds 123, and none are missing.

    But for that kind of money, I really need the one with the built-in sharpener!

    Thumb up Thumb down +10

  25. Vagrarian
    March 16, 2012 at 7:15 pm

    Not too surprised to be wrong on a few things…I think I was 50/50 this time. But I am agog that someone would try to charge five grand for an old horseshoe. What the fuck?!?!

    At least I was right about the deconstructed garden. And I may buy the rock incense burner to throw at someone who dares to try to sell an old horseshoe for five grand.

    Thumb up Thumb down +10

    • mystic_eye_cda
      March 16, 2012 at 7:25 pm

      I’m shocked that someone who thinks luck is worth 5 grand doesn’t know that if you place it upside down as pictured all the luck falls out!

      Thumb up Thumb down +14

      • catherder
        March 17, 2012 at 12:55 am

        We got a horseshoe with our name on it for about $5 at Knott’s Berry Farm a few years ago. Even allowing for travel costs from Oregon, it was a better deal than this one.

        Thumb up Thumb down +3

      • vorpalbunny
        September 27, 2012 at 8:57 pm

        Actually, there are differing views on this, each with their own delightfully goofy logic.

        The “place it upside down and the luck will run out” is the most common, but the opposite isn’t unheard of. Wish I could remember what the logic behind that one was, it was pretty fun.

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    • gotchan
      March 16, 2012 at 11:54 pm

      I’m not sure you get the horseshoe. The listing is confusing.

      Thumb up Thumb down +3

  26. keysburg
    March 16, 2012 at 7:17 pm

    All my guesses were actually correct but my faith in humanity is lost anyway.

    The best part of this game are the guesses where you all try to fathom what is going on in HK’s mind…

    … as if the fuckery from a brain constantly exposed to Etsy and Judge Judy could ever be truly understood. I mean that in the very best way, of course. Its like a natural wonder.

    Thumb up Thumb down +8

  27. KnittingB
    March 16, 2012 at 7:23 pm

    HK get that deconstructed garden listed in Etsy! I have a feeling that it would actually sell big time.

    Thumb up Thumb down +5

  28. anathica
    March 16, 2012 at 7:25 pm

    Damn, I really wanted those crayons.

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  29. EatMe
    March 16, 2012 at 7:29 pm

    And here’s this weeks present, made by me just for you (hint, it’s not REALLY what it looks like)

    http://www.etsy.com/listing/95464041/cirque-du-toilet

    And please remember to favorite the hell outta this “shit” LMAO

    Thumb up Thumb down +6

    • EatMe
      March 16, 2012 at 7:59 pm

      So you guys are TOTALLY cool with dirty dishes, but not pudding in a toilet?

      Maybe I’ll have better luck next time…

      Thumb up Thumb down +2

      • Vagrarian
        March 16, 2012 at 8:15 pm

        Disgusting, but funny.

        Back in college, we did all sorts of experiments with the food in the cafeteria. (Why not? We couldn’t eat it.) One was plopping spoonfuls of chocolate pudding into a glass of Mello Yello. We called it Shit Soda.

        The weirdest was getting a glass of plain carbonated water, then dissolving as much salt into as we could. Then we added a spoonful of the “brown gravy” that came with the meatloaf…and the liquid turned bright blue! Some sort of chemical reaction between the starch and the sodium…

        Then there was the kielbasa and the mayonnaise…but enough for now…

        Thumb up Thumb down +11

        • EatMe
          March 16, 2012 at 8:16 pm

          I’m glad someone can see my humor tonight…

          But seriously, bright blue? Wtf?

          Thumb up Thumb down +3

        • catherder
          March 17, 2012 at 1:00 am

          That makes our apple-and-fork sculptures and plate Jenga tame. I have never seen sulphur-yellow mold before/since the dining commons bread. We used to call the veal(?)cutlets Moon Patties b/c of their weird pitted surface, and suspected that the incredibly scrawny chicken breasts actually came from the flocks of crows that used to roost around our dorms.

          Dorm food. It’s character-building.

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          • kiki gumdrops
            March 17, 2012 at 8:09 am

            “Character” is possibly the best word ever to describe something burdensome. Favorite example: the beautiful crystal doorknobs in our 65-year-old home that don’t always open have character. The character of a pretty girl with a horrible drug problem, perhaps, but character just the same.

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    • fuzzypicklehead
      March 17, 2012 at 12:07 am

      Excellent–that will go nicely in the “etsyians who like poo” treasury I’ve been building…

      Thumb up Thumb down +9

  30. FlounceCat
    March 16, 2012 at 7:36 pm

    Wow. I would have bet money that Adventure on Planet X was Regresty.

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  31. randomusernameselector
    March 16, 2012 at 7:37 pm

    I think we’re all missing epic science here people-The doctor in the script has a gun that can turn broccoli into potato chips. Soooo many questions- broccoli flavour chips?

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  32. saply
    March 16, 2012 at 7:47 pm

    i got 123 out of 124 correct

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  33. sometimesdee
    March 16, 2012 at 7:52 pm

    Batting .500 here. I would have SWORN up and down the TP pic was HK’s doing.

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  34. Triscuits
    March 16, 2012 at 8:03 pm

    Jegus, that $5,000 dollar horseshit makes me think that somebody is using Etsy for money laundering.

    Oh, wait, no, my bad, we have fundraisers for poor families and Alzheimer’s research for that.

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  35. andlikeit
    March 16, 2012 at 8:20 pm

    What a coincidence! I named my first born Kreknev Bourge! I call her Krek Baby for short.

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  36. lookitsmolly
    March 16, 2012 at 8:59 pm

    Actually I take it back. The biggest tip-off that the deconstructed garden wasn’t from Etsy was not that it didn’t *recommend* period blood as fertilizer, but that it didn’t *include* an adorable little jar filled with it.

    Also there weren’t any seedlings sprouted from hemp tampons. That, however, is probably available on some dark corner of Etsy. I’m guessing 5 months before it makes its lovely way to the front page.

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  37. mamazog
    March 16, 2012 at 9:25 pm

    Well, gushing patina! Extended trip to the liquor store + a couple of unaccounted-for hours and I totally missed the test. However, I did go 4 for 6, which is like…pretty good. They told me there wouldn’t be any math, and I haven’t had enough gin anyway. Now I’m going to go drill a hole in my favorite rock. Please to excuse.

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  38. Katz
    March 16, 2012 at 10:10 pm

    There actually are a ton of vintage crayola crayons on Etsy. Which just doesn’t surprise me.

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  39. AFussyCussyHussy
    March 17, 2012 at 1:48 am

    “I’ve written six feature-length screenplays and 15 short screenplays. I won a competition for one of my shorts, and it was produced. I’ve been told my dialog is superb. I guess some people have trouble with that” – J. Simon, ScreenWriter

    It makes total sense that someone would fork out 100,000 dollars for a screenplay sight unseen written by an unknown whose only credit is winning an unspecified competition. Total sense if you’re so far up your own ass that you can tickle your tonsils.

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  40. slovaksiren
    March 17, 2012 at 5:18 am

    Apparently the guy who wrote the Planet X play also wrote one about some guy that checks into a mental hospital just so he could get free room and board.

    As someone who has actually been to a mental hospital (yes, I am crazy, I know) I am sure that he knows everything about what they do in a modern day mental hospital and has done research about what people with mental illnesses are actually like…

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    • slovaksiren
      March 18, 2012 at 7:18 am

      I think I actually take that back, I think he does know how mental hospitals work, he probably had first hand experience in one.

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  41. invisa
    March 17, 2012 at 7:16 am

    What does it mean that I want the deconstructed garden?

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  42. kiki gumdrops
    March 17, 2012 at 8:25 am

    First off, you get an up vote for also being Slovenian. Second, I hope that’s sarcasm in re: calling yourself crazy. You do realize that most of us here would have been labeled as such only a generation ago, be it for being gay or bi, or even just an outspoken female. I like to remind myself of that on the bad days.

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  43. SlySevSteph
    March 17, 2012 at 9:05 am

    All but one! The screenplay totally fooled me. I guess there are douchebags just that big out there.

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  44. Trickster
    March 17, 2012 at 12:30 pm

    Helen is too good at this. I thought they were all etsy. :P

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  45. Whirlwitch
    March 17, 2012 at 3:22 pm

    If I had cash to burn, and/or the price were more reasonable, I would so buy the toilet paper roll photo and sneakily hang it in the bathroom of my best friend. The recently, expensively and conventionally-tasteful-in-beige remodeled bathroom of my anal-retentive, persnickety, control freak best friend. Just to see her expression.

    Bonus facts:

    I once entered my ferret in a costume contest dressed as this friend. Friend was at the event dressed in her unchanging ferret-event outfit (which I had carefully duplicated in miniature and ferretized form). Her reaction was so worth it.

    I also once, with the help of her roommate, secreted myself unexpectedly in her bedroom to be found sitting on her pillow when she got home from work.

    Being friends with me is interesting. :)

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    • OriginalsbyJeanene
      March 17, 2012 at 3:30 pm

      Instead of an over-priced photo (from a whiny seller who bitched in the forums about being on Regretsy), I suggest making a shadow box. Have different rolls in different states of paper-ness, going from a full roll to an empty one. Preferably out of order. And in neon colors (to must upset the tasteful beige).

      And yes, being friends with me can be interesting too. lol

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  46. Chicken Slammer
    March 17, 2012 at 11:26 pm

    I am really behind the times, both by my early ‘getting drunk on an acceptable day at an unacceptable time’ (10am)

    I never understood the barn wood thing. Like it was the just super hip like skinny jeans I guess?? But after watching the only horrifying episode of cupcake wars with vegan cupcakes (travesty) I see the barn wood reasoning.

    RECLAIMED WOOD. First cause of the carbon footprint thing, and now because of the it’s hip use barn wood thing. I have educated and drunk in the same day.

    That is all.

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  47. Addy
    March 18, 2012 at 2:20 am

    This is the best I’ve done yet! 3/6.

    The crayon one was a giveaway when you referred to it as America, not the States like us Brits do. I’m still counting it as a point to me though.

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  48. CaityCat
    March 19, 2012 at 12:45 pm

    Oh, so close. It was the screenplay that got me.

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  49. Molly Earl
    March 21, 2012 at 7:01 pm
  50. rthoneatbugs
    March 23, 2012 at 2:09 pm

    I’m kind of jealous I didn’t come up with the selling screenplays idea. Charging $2,000 for some stupid bullshit and then I can turn around and sue for plagiarism or copyright infringement and get even more money!

    That’s the one I thought was fake.

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    • rthoneatbugs
      March 23, 2012 at 2:11 pm

      *once someone else decides to turn my shitty screenplay into a shitty movie. Seriously, if these were any good why aren’t they movies yet?

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