It’s a tarp is part of the Akbar meme where he says like “It’s a trap!” “It’s a tarp!” “It’s a carp!” “It’s a frappe!” and various other words that are similar to trap in one way or another.
I think it’s a mistake. God knows that I can’t edit my own text. I can spot the smallest errors in what other people write, but I can’t see big mistakes in my own writing.
No, really, it’s a thing. The page she links to even touches on the intentional misspelling of ‘trap’ as ‘tarp’. Like, ‘teh’ rather than ‘the’, people do that on purpose all the time nowadays!
I can’t help but post my all-time favorite joke here: What do you get when you cross a dyslexic, an insomniac, and an agnostic?
Someone who lies awake at night, wondering if there really is a dog.
Thank you, thank you. I’ll be here all week. Be sure to tip your waitress.
calm down people. my craptastic iphone facebook app freaked out in mid-type and posted only the first 3 words of my intended post. the rest is somewhere below…
Make life take the melons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn melons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson melons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the melons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible melon that burns your house down!
It’s not a mistake, though lol. If you actually follow the link (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-a-trap) you’ll see that it’s an intentional misspelling, in keeping with the “It’s a tarp!” meme. Still horrible stitchery, of course.
I wish there were more witty wallhangings on Etsy that actually featured embroidery or cross-stitch or some other ACTUAL CRAFTSMANSHIP! My snake can stitch fancier than this!
Fuck yes, tarps are useful for so many things. But they CAN get you intro trouble, so are worth coming with a warning:
I once found what appeared to be a huge, brand-spanking-new, bright blue tarp crumpled up in the ravine behind my office building. I was like, hell yeah, free tarp!, and went to get it.
Turns out that the tarp was shoved down there to cover……the beheaded body of a small calf.
SOOOO weird! If I were gonna dispose of a body in a wooded ravine, I’d want it to go unseen (isn’t that the point?)so I’d not cover it with something blue. I also think decay would be one of my goals, so I wouldn’t wrap it in anything. Nothing about that story makes sense. But I guess I’m silly to hope for rational thinking from people who behead calves.
You’re going to lose your corvid privileges if you keep this up. A ranking member would have kept the calf AND the tarp and called in several friends to get it all back home.
That frame must have powers of distorting space to allow the piece to occupy any space, even if already occupied by other matter. I suppose it must be made from recycled Balinese Dr Who Phoneboxes.
I am picturing the sellers (The Pauly and Redd Show, if we are to believe the description) are reading this, fist-bumping, and crowing “Mission Accomplished, eh?”
I’ve been a gamer for (too long) and a few years ago we started saying ‘it’s a tarp’ because, I guess, it was funny–and yes, we meant trap lol Besides, people type so fast or say disjointed things in Vent, so we just always went for it. I’ve never seen the meme.
No, I know these guys– If you scroll down on the page that they link to, you can see that the tarp is intentional. Ive heard the tarp meme too! I think it’s great!
BWAHAHAHA!
No, it was in fact intentional. It’s a line that Pauly and I use quite a bit around the house. Memes are a hell of a drug.
I’m just grateful that most of you did in fact get the reference.
But yes, awesomeness. *bows*
Redd
I posted, but the internet fucking ate it.
Yes, it was intentional. We’re suckers for memes here in the Hynes House and this one is used quite a bit.
I’m glad that most of you got my reference.
April, how did you even find this? Why were you searching for tarps on Etsy?
Redd
If it was embroidered on a Tarp with Admiral Ackbar, I would buy it so hardcore for cub scouts camp-outs. I can see me with my son now “Oh what’s that Timmy, your tent is just sitting on a plain old tarp? Your Mother must not love you very much, because my son and I have a genuine one of a kind Star Wars Admiral Ackbar tarp!”
ALWAYS CONTINUED THANKS TO REGRETSY.
I DIDN’T KNOW WHERE TO POST THIS….PLEASE EXCUSE ME.
NOT A DAY GOES BY, I DON’T REMEMBER WHAT APRIL WINCHELL AND THE GOOD FOLKS HERE DID FOR MY DONKEYS AND I.
WE STILL USE THE STOCK WATER TANK YOU RAISED MONEY FOR.
AND….PAID OFF “RUFUS” DONKEY’S SURGERY BILLS.
RUFUS PASSED AWAY IN OCT 2010, BUT WE GAVE IT A GOOD FIGHT.
I WANT YOU TO KNOW……….I DON’T FORGET. AS LONG AS I HAVE A MEMORY, YOU’LL SURELY BE IN IT.
OVER HERE AT DBL\AA/ DONKEY SANCTUARY……WE REMEMBER AND SAY THANK YOU!
WHERE DONKEYS WEAR CROWNS AND GOODNESS FILLS YOUR SOUL….
WE THANK YOU FOLKS….THAT’S HOW WE ROLL!
A soulful purpose in life.
I thank you……..everyday.
Wishing you peace and love…….
Ady
pomegranite80 on Etsy
DBL \AA/ Donkey Sanctuary
Housing rescued donkeys.
June 25, 2012 at 3:51 pm
Just the fact that the listing is the same misspelling says to me that they stand behind their mistake. I applaud you, sir or madam.
June 25, 2012 at 3:54 pm
The meme they have linked to is spelled “trap”, so I think it’s a double-shot of unchecked spelling
June 25, 2012 at 3:58 pm
Well, it is also a meme to switch letters or words within existing memes, like turning “Gentlemen” into “Mentlegen”.
June 25, 2012 at 4:28 pm
There’s like a meme of the it’s a trap meme that goes, it’s a tarp. check urban dictionary, or know your meme.
June 25, 2012 at 6:41 pm
Yep. The blurb I found says it’s an offshoot meme about 4y/o. New to me, though, so I got a laugh out of this post.
June 26, 2012 at 1:17 pm
Intra-word Spoonerisms are a meme?
June 26, 2012 at 10:51 am
It’s a tarp is part of the Akbar meme where he says like “It’s a trap!” “It’s a tarp!” “It’s a carp!” “It’s a frappe!” and various other words that are similar to trap in one way or another.
June 25, 2012 at 4:00 pm
It’s not misspelled. It’s a joke.
June 25, 2012 at 4:17 pm
Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
June 25, 2012 at 4:30 pm
No, it’s intentional. Click the link in the listing.
Here’s the pic that you get on that page:
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/012/812/tarp-30198.jpg?1251490663
June 25, 2012 at 4:33 pm
Damn!
June 26, 2012 at 8:07 am
Gee, I thought it was another stupid bailout.
June 25, 2012 at 4:33 pm
No, really, it’s a thing. The page she links to even touches on the intentional misspelling of ‘trap’ as ‘tarp’. Like, ‘teh’ rather than ‘the’, people do that on purpose all the time nowadays!
June 25, 2012 at 6:42 pm
Perfect example.
June 25, 2012 at 10:18 pm
Or “whimsicle.”
June 26, 2012 at 4:24 am
Whatchutalkinbout Willis?
June 26, 2012 at 8:42 am
I read that like a hipster indian name
June 25, 2012 at 6:46 pm
We stand behind all of our mistakes.
June 25, 2012 at 3:51 pm
Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
June 25, 2012 at 6:51 pm
Oh my DOG!
June 26, 2012 at 5:38 am
Oh Long Johnson!
June 27, 2012 at 9:18 pm
Oh Don Piano!
June 26, 2012 at 12:11 pm
I can’t help but post my all-time favorite joke here: What do you get when you cross a dyslexic, an insomniac, and an agnostic?
Someone who lies awake at night, wondering if there really is a dog.
Thank you, thank you. I’ll be here all week. Be sure to tip your waitress.
June 26, 2012 at 12:44 pm
calm down people. my craptastic iphone facebook app freaked out in mid-type and posted only the first 3 words of my intended post. the rest is somewhere below…
June 25, 2012 at 3:52 pm
Dyslexics of the world…UNTIE!
June 25, 2012 at 4:21 pm
… And this dyslexic read that as “Unite”.
FML
June 25, 2012 at 4:47 pm
so did i hahaha
June 25, 2012 at 6:04 pm
When life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic.
June 25, 2012 at 7:50 pm
Free MELONS!
Free all the melons.
June 27, 2012 at 10:01 am
Make life take the melons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn melons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson melons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the melons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible melon that burns your house down!
June 25, 2012 at 3:52 pm
It’s a PRAT!
June 25, 2012 at 5:24 pm
It’s a PART!
June 25, 2012 at 6:29 pm
Trap as it!
June 25, 2012 at 9:36 pm
I’m rapt, go on.
June 26, 2012 at 8:21 am
A tarp, it is
June 25, 2012 at 3:53 pm
Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
June 25, 2012 at 3:53 pm
You are going to sell so many fucking tarps with that ad!
June 25, 2012 at 3:54 pm
Of course then you’ll get sued by lucasfilm…
June 25, 2012 at 4:18 pm
What you really need to go with are some old wooden boats from Bali.
June 25, 2012 at 3:57 pm
For a Tarp, 4″x6″ isn’t very useful. It doesn’t even look waterproof.
June 25, 2012 at 9:38 pm
It’s a Spinal Tap Tarp Trap!
June 25, 2012 at 3:59 pm
I would buy one of those tarps and make a trap!!!
June 25, 2012 at 4:00 pm
It’s not a mistake, though lol. If you actually follow the link (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-a-trap) you’ll see that it’s an intentional misspelling, in keeping with the “It’s a tarp!” meme. Still horrible stitchery, of course.
June 25, 2012 at 6:06 pm
It’s the spacing that gets me. And the font…
June 25, 2012 at 6:09 pm
Yeah, definitely not their best work. Though, I do think Geekopolis carries some awesome products.
June 25, 2012 at 6:18 pm
I agree. I’ll remake it <3
June 25, 2012 at 9:17 pm
Awesome, Redd! : ) Might I add, I’m very impressed with the number of Doctor Who items you carry. Keep on stitchin’! You have a lot of fans.
June 25, 2012 at 6:46 pm
I wish there were more witty wallhangings on Etsy that actually featured embroidery or cross-stitch or some other ACTUAL CRAFTSMANSHIP! My snake can stitch fancier than this!
(*I lied. I have no snake. It just seemed funny)
June 25, 2012 at 6:58 pm
(of course, this IS fairly priced for the effort. Stuff like I dream of would be more like a hundred bucks)
June 26, 2012 at 1:18 pm
The simple font I chose is clearly not a winner with you guys
That’s why it’s so much cheaper than my other work. I’ll make it again and extra fancy.
June 25, 2012 at 4:09 pm
Fuck yes, tarps are useful for so many things. But they CAN get you intro trouble, so are worth coming with a warning:
I once found what appeared to be a huge, brand-spanking-new, bright blue tarp crumpled up in the ravine behind my office building. I was like, hell yeah, free tarp!, and went to get it.
Turns out that the tarp was shoved down there to cover……the beheaded body of a small calf.
True. Story.
We called the cops but nothing ever came of it.
So beware of free tarps.
June 25, 2012 at 4:13 pm
wow, how awful.
June 25, 2012 at 6:23 pm
So the tarp was a trap?
June 25, 2012 at 8:50 pm
Alas that it is not in my power to award CotD.
June 25, 2012 at 6:50 pm
SOOOO weird! If I were gonna dispose of a body in a wooded ravine, I’d want it to go unseen (isn’t that the point?)so I’d not cover it with something blue. I also think decay would be one of my goals, so I wouldn’t wrap it in anything. Nothing about that story makes sense. But I guess I’m silly to hope for rational thinking from people who behead calves.
June 25, 2012 at 9:13 pm
Damn it, this is important … did you keep the TARP?
June 26, 2012 at 11:46 am
I’m not gonna lie…I still really considered it. Cause yeah, it was BRAND NEW. They must have bought it specifically for….whatever the hell they did.
June 26, 2012 at 12:54 pm
You’re going to lose your corvid privileges if you keep this up. A ranking member would have kept the calf AND the tarp and called in several friends to get it all back home.
June 25, 2012 at 4:10 pm
I don’t get it.
I mean, I get it, but I don’t get it.
Stitch it on a bit of blue tarp, I’d get it. Throw in an outline of Ackbar, I might really get it.
Maybe ize just old.
June 25, 2012 at 4:32 pm
I agree. It dramatically loses the lolz with the removal of Ackbar and tarp imagery. Like a punchline without the rest of the joke…
June 26, 2012 at 11:47 am
“So the woman looks at her husband and says, ‘Honey…this one’s eating my popcorn!’ “
June 25, 2012 at 5:59 pm
If it was stitched on blue tarp with an admiral ackbar I would buy it so fast!
June 25, 2012 at 4:10 pm
I don’t have to worry about where I will put it??!! Thank goodness!
June 25, 2012 at 6:53 pm
That frame must have powers of distorting space to allow the piece to occupy any space, even if already occupied by other matter. I suppose it must be made from recycled Balinese Dr Who Phoneboxes.
June 25, 2012 at 4:27 pm
Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
June 25, 2012 at 4:30 pm
It’s perfect!
Just one question…what’s a frame?
June 25, 2012 at 4:30 pm
I am picturing the sellers (The Pauly and Redd Show, if we are to believe the description) are reading this, fist-bumping, and crowing “Mission Accomplished, eh?”
Could April have fallen for a Regretsy tarp?
June 25, 2012 at 5:21 pm
Of course it’s on purpose.
June 25, 2012 at 5:32 pm
Feeling properly chastised by Bronc. Props to you or April for the Canvas Emporium mock-up though.
June 26, 2012 at 5:44 am
yeah yeah, that’s what my cat says whenever she falls off a table and she’s trying to look like she meant to do that.
June 26, 2012 at 12:15 pm
And afterward she went behind the couch and said “fucking MEOW”!
(quoting George Carlin)
June 26, 2012 at 8:25 am
The tarp’s on porpoise…
June 26, 2012 at 12:16 pm
The guy on the right is slapping his forehead in response to your pun.
June 25, 2012 at 4:56 pm
I’ve been a gamer for (too long) and a few years ago we started saying ‘it’s a tarp’ because, I guess, it was funny–and yes, we meant trap lol Besides, people type so fast or say disjointed things in Vent, so we just always went for it. I’ve never seen the meme.
June 25, 2012 at 4:58 pm
No, I know these guys– If you scroll down on the page that they link to, you can see that the tarp is intentional. Ive heard the tarp meme too! I think it’s great!
June 25, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Geekopolis is great! I bought a knitted Firefly hat from Redd for my boyfriend, and he loves it.
June 25, 2012 at 6:03 pm
Obscure 4chan fuckery will get you everywhere.
June 25, 2012 at 6:07 pm
Who you calling “obscure”?
June 25, 2012 at 6:09 pm
Pity it’s not a booby tarp.
June 25, 2012 at 6:54 pm
Isn’t that just called “a shirt”?
June 26, 2012 at 7:10 am
Or in the spirit of this thread, maybe called a “shrit”?
June 25, 2012 at 6:12 pm
BWAHAHAHA!
No, it was in fact intentional. It’s a line that Pauly and I use quite a bit around the house. Memes are a hell of a drug.
I’m just grateful that most of you did in fact get the reference.
But yes, awesomeness. *bows*
Redd
June 25, 2012 at 6:13 pm
Can I use that photoshop fuckery in my listing now?
June 25, 2012 at 6:16 pm
I posted, but the internet fucking ate it.
Yes, it was intentional. We’re suckers for memes here in the Hynes House and this one is used quite a bit.
I’m glad that most of you got my reference.
April, how did you even find this? Why were you searching for tarps on Etsy?
Redd
June 26, 2012 at 5:46 am
oh i don’t think tarps are anywhere near the craziest things our April has searched for on Regretsy
June 25, 2012 at 6:32 pm
I kind of like this shop. It’s filled with geekery. Not so much fuckery, but with time and FJL exposure that could change.
June 26, 2012 at 5:48 am
lemonbombs, thank you!! i am going to use the word “geekery” as much as possible, it’s my new word of the week!
June 25, 2012 at 6:38 pm
June 25, 2012 at 9:10 pm
Hey, Tursiart, if I pan to the interior of that toilet will I see a carp? Oh, God… I kill me.
June 25, 2012 at 6:49 pm
If it was embroidered on a Tarp with Admiral Ackbar, I would buy it so hardcore for cub scouts camp-outs. I can see me with my son now “Oh what’s that Timmy, your tent is just sitting on a plain old tarp? Your Mother must not love you very much, because my son and I have a genuine one of a kind Star Wars Admiral Ackbar tarp!”
June 25, 2012 at 6:56 pm
I too immediately saw the potential for camping decor!
June 25, 2012 at 7:16 pm
PS. Redd your store is the amazing
I had better get this as a present from my fiance for our wedding: http://www.etsy.com/listing/75045450/a-nerds-love-poem-framed-embroidery
June 25, 2012 at 7:46 pm
hint hint!!
thanks!
June 25, 2012 at 8:52 pm
Hell with tarps – let’s see a scratch & sniff version of “the cake is a pie.”
June 25, 2012 at 10:23 pm
Yo dawg
I heard you like memes.
June 26, 2012 at 1:19 pm
To be honest, I crack up every.single.time I read those Yo Dawg memes.
June 28, 2012 at 2:59 pm
Agreed!
June 25, 2012 at 10:27 pm
OMG helo 2008, thought I left you behind
*puts time traveller helmet back on*
next stop, 2004!
June 26, 2012 at 7:42 am
https://www.etsy.com/listing/102781814/donkey-poohhide-a-keywhen-ya-gotta-get
ALWAYS CONTINUED THANKS TO REGRETSY.
I DIDN’T KNOW WHERE TO POST THIS….PLEASE EXCUSE ME.
NOT A DAY GOES BY, I DON’T REMEMBER WHAT APRIL WINCHELL AND THE GOOD FOLKS HERE DID FOR MY DONKEYS AND I.
WE STILL USE THE STOCK WATER TANK YOU RAISED MONEY FOR.
AND….PAID OFF “RUFUS” DONKEY’S SURGERY BILLS.
RUFUS PASSED AWAY IN OCT 2010, BUT WE GAVE IT A GOOD FIGHT.
I WANT YOU TO KNOW……….I DON’T FORGET. AS LONG AS I HAVE A MEMORY, YOU’LL SURELY BE IN IT.
OVER HERE AT DBL\AA/ DONKEY SANCTUARY……WE REMEMBER AND SAY THANK YOU!
WHERE DONKEYS WEAR CROWNS AND GOODNESS FILLS YOUR SOUL….
WE THANK YOU FOLKS….THAT’S HOW WE ROLL!
A soulful purpose in life.
I thank you……..everyday.
Wishing you peace and love…….
Ady
pomegranite80 on Etsy
DBL \AA/ Donkey Sanctuary
Housing rescued donkeys.
I salute you! Keep up the good work!
June 26, 2012 at 8:39 am
“Hooray! Glad to see you back!” was supposed to go here
June 26, 2012 at 8:39 am
Hooray! Glad to see you back!