That or they’ve been accidentally torn off by those claws…did you see the fingernails on that chick? They’re almost impressive, but she needs to invest in a nail brush. Enough gunk under them to pot a plant.
Speaking from experience, when you have access to electroforming equipment, you electroform everything you can. Question is, why didn’t my school tell me I could sell it all on Etsy?! My education was incomplete.
Hah…if this seller had lived in Wisconsin, I could have sworn that I saw that exact bug in my metal jewelry class. The more advanced section was doing electroforming and someone thought it would be great to do a moth!
Think of all the mistakes you discarded! All the crap that got plated accidentally! You could have been selling that shit man! Instead you only turned them into supervillains!
Mystik Spiral is actually a fictional grunge band from the cartoon Daria, which is my avatar. They had songs such as “Icebox Woman” and “Behind My Eyelids.” They remind me of the bands I used to play in. Definitely not a hippie band.
And Darlene Scissorfuck is what I will to change my legal name to should I ever become a lesbian. *throws glitter into the air*
I’m gonna scissorfuck, fuck you into my life
Girl, you like to scissorfuck and that’s all right
‘Cause I’m the king of scissorfucking, let’s not fight
I’m gonna scissorfuck, fuck you every night
Who am I to stand in the way of one woman’s dream of being a lesbian? (Or having a bad-ass lesbian name.) That is pretty much the definition of a dick move and I’m better than that!
Oh well, that’s a relief. I almost didn’t buy this dead bug and it’s metal tomb for fear it was produced in a sweatshop. Now I can breath easy knowing I bought it from someone willingly selling dead bugs encased in metal for profit.
Bonus points for getting me to Google “electroforming.”
Probably, the moth just flew into the electroforming machine by accident. Like the first computer “bug” that led to the coining of the term “debugging”. The seller should call it the Grace Hopper Commemoration Moth.
Actually, the computer bug thing came from way back when punch cards were necessary to run programs. If your program didn’t run, it was often due to a bug gnawing an extra hole in one of your punch cards. Hence, debugging.
Now if only I remembered actual relevant facts from my programming class.
That moth would go well with my collection of other electroformed animals missing their signature parts, including:
-Bunny with no ears
-Centipede with no legs
-Alligator with no teeth
-Baboon with no ass
-Giraffe with no neck
-Shark with no teeth, fins or tail
-Crab with no claws
The company’s leaders Robbie and Bobby usually lobby for them. You can tell them apart because Robbie looks kind of knobby and Bobby is a sad-sack and usually sobby.
On her Facebook page she mentions that this was a moth her cat killed. If only I’d thought to electroform all the things MY cat killed. Oooo…and when the cat dies, BONUS!
Everyone felt a little creeped out brushing aside chain after chain of hanging dead insects, but as they made their way through the darkened former abode of the Etsian jeweler, none of the officers had anticipated the revenge of the moth people, who they found standing 7-foot tall and gleefully spinning liquid gold around the body of a local gas station clerk. Assembly line sweatshop free INDEED.
“Fall back squad!” shouted Sergeant McFibbons. “Protect your faces! They’re… ELECTROFORMING!”
This reminds me of when one of my high school boyfriends told me that he had been making a sculpture for me out of bug wings. Thankfully, we broke up before he ever showed it to me.
January 2, 2013 at 10:06 am
I’ve been sitting here trying to think of some sort of moth- (or general lepidoptera-) themed pun for like ten minutes and I am completely stumped.
Like…moths like to hang out on stumps…or…something….
Drat.
January 2, 2013 at 10:27 am
You said a mothful.
January 2, 2013 at 12:06 pm
As long as it wasn’t what the pupate.
January 2, 2013 at 12:20 pm
You’re instar!
January 2, 2013 at 12:57 pm
“Wockia, Wockia, Wockia…” – Fozzy Bear.
January 4, 2013 at 12:26 pm
I think that might be a cicada, not a moth. Difficult to tell from the shitty photos, though.
January 2, 2013 at 10:45 am
Next time, just wing it.
January 2, 2013 at 11:16 am
Livin’ larva!
January 2, 2013 at 11:30 am
It’s good to be back in our little cocoon here at regretsy.
January 2, 2013 at 11:41 am
Imago back to work now.
January 2, 2013 at 2:05 pm
You guys are Lunatics.
January 31, 2013 at 10:27 pm
How about “moth to the shame”?
January 2, 2013 at 10:08 am
At least the moth was loved while it was getting all Han Solo’d.
January 2, 2013 at 10:09 am
It’s last words were “I know.”
January 2, 2013 at 10:09 am
DAMN erroneous apostrophe!
January 2, 2013 at 12:13 pm
*Wookie noise!*
January 2, 2013 at 10:10 am
Alas, there’s no coming back for this poor lil’ guy. His wings appear to have melted off as well, so it would be a resurrection in vain.
January 2, 2013 at 10:19 am
That or they’ve been accidentally torn off by those claws…did you see the fingernails on that chick? They’re almost impressive, but she needs to invest in a nail brush. Enough gunk under them to pot a plant.
January 2, 2013 at 10:22 am
What I find funny is that the moth lacks wings- the one feature that makes the animal remarkable.
January 2, 2013 at 1:52 pm
“pot a plant”
or plant some pot!
January 2, 2013 at 10:08 am
That would be drawn to my trashcan like a moth to flame.
January 2, 2013 at 10:45 am
I only by hypoallergenic dead things anyway.
January 2, 2013 at 10:51 am
Like dead poodles?
January 2, 2013 at 1:53 pm
“Dead poodles aren’t much fuuuuuuunnn no no no”
January 2, 2013 at 3:53 pm
For some reason I read this as Dead pool and I was trying to figure out why my favorite marvel mercenary was hypoallergenic.
January 2, 2013 at 12:18 pm
hahahaha
January 2, 2013 at 10:17 am
Is there such a call for bugs covered in metal that we have to worry about sweatshops popping up?
January 2, 2013 at 10:26 am
Yes. Moths are drawn to the lights in sweatshops. Just wait- mass produced metalic moths will be mammoth.
January 2, 2013 at 10:20 am
Perfect for MOTH-ers day
January 2, 2013 at 10:21 am
Speaking from experience, when you have access to electroforming equipment, you electroform everything you can. Question is, why didn’t my school tell me I could sell it all on Etsy?! My education was incomplete.
January 2, 2013 at 11:00 am
Hah…if this seller had lived in Wisconsin, I could have sworn that I saw that exact bug in my metal jewelry class. The more advanced section was doing electroforming and someone thought it would be great to do a moth!
January 3, 2013 at 11:26 am
Think of all the mistakes you discarded! All the crap that got plated accidentally! You could have been selling that shit man! Instead you only turned them into supervillains!
January 2, 2013 at 10:22 am
Dead-Things Estyians unite. I’m seeing an unstoppable juggernaut of fashion accessories.j
January 2, 2013 at 12:14 pm
Very nice but could use a little skunk paw.
January 2, 2013 at 12:21 pm
And what couldn’t?
January 2, 2013 at 10:41 am
That description gave me a great visual of little Indonesian children in a sweatshop electroforming dead bugs into jewelry.
Its like the baby pajamas that say “Flame Retardant” – everybody pictures their baby on fire.
Also, the forums are down??
January 2, 2013 at 1:20 pm
Was “Mystik Spiral” too ambiguous a name for you?
p.s.- I like the new name.
January 2, 2013 at 1:23 pm
I also thought that was our pal Mystic. Maybe she realized that name made her sound like a hippy.
January 2, 2013 at 1:24 pm
She definitely doesn’t sound like a hippy now!
She sounds like an inmate you don’t want to fuck with.
January 2, 2013 at 1:56 pm
Or a scary art teacher!
January 2, 2013 at 3:24 pm
Matt and Zippy! I’ve returned, you bastards.
Mystik Spiral is actually a fictional grunge band from the cartoon Daria, which is my avatar. They had songs such as “Icebox Woman” and “Behind My Eyelids.” They remind me of the bands I used to play in. Definitely not a hippie band.
And Darlene Scissorfuck is what I will to change my legal name to should I ever become a lesbian. *throws glitter into the air*
January 2, 2013 at 4:00 pm
Yay Darlene Scissorfuck/Mystik Spiral! You have just given me an excuse to yell yay and scissorfuck!
January 2, 2013 at 4:56 pm
I’m gonna scissorfuck, fuck you into my life
Girl, you like to scissorfuck and that’s all right
‘Cause I’m the king of scissorfucking, let’s not fight
I’m gonna scissorfuck, fuck you every night
Sorry, it was in my brain and needed to get out…
January 2, 2013 at 8:28 pm
Who am I to stand in the way of one woman’s dream of being a lesbian? (Or having a bad-ass lesbian name.) That is pretty much the definition of a dick move and I’m better than that!
January 2, 2013 at 10:43 am
Oh well, that’s a relief. I almost didn’t buy this dead bug and it’s metal tomb for fear it was produced in a sweatshop. Now I can breath easy knowing I bought it from someone willingly selling dead bugs encased in metal for profit.
Bonus points for getting me to Google “electroforming.”
January 2, 2013 at 10:50 am
Probably, the moth just flew into the electroforming machine by accident. Like the first computer “bug” that led to the coining of the term “debugging”. The seller should call it the Grace Hopper Commemoration Moth.
January 2, 2013 at 11:20 am
Why couldn’t a grasshopper have jumped in there instead?
January 2, 2013 at 12:29 pm
Actually, the computer bug thing came from way back when punch cards were necessary to run programs. If your program didn’t run, it was often due to a bug gnawing an extra hole in one of your punch cards. Hence, debugging.
Now if only I remembered actual relevant facts from my programming class.
January 2, 2013 at 12:41 pm
That is an interesting bit of useless information! Now it has wormed its way into my head and taken the place of my mother’s maiden name in my memory.
January 2, 2013 at 12:57 pm
There goes your most popular security question answer!
January 2, 2013 at 10:55 am
This would look very nice next to my mason jar of dead bees.
January 2, 2013 at 11:00 am
YOU STOLE MY IDEA OF USING MASON JARS TO HOLD DEAD BEES!!!
January 2, 2013 at 11:21 am
At least my idea of a mason jar full of live bees is still good after all these weeks.
*checks*
Never mind.
January 2, 2013 at 11:25 am
At least I’ve still got my totally original idea for mason jar pendant lights.
January 2, 2013 at 11:33 am
I don’t think anybody’s taken my repurposing-containers-for-bodily-fluids-and-medical-waste-as-tableware idea yet.
January 2, 2013 at 12:30 pm
And I haven’t seen any placentasols, those custom-made folding parasols made from one’s joyous extrude.
January 2, 2013 at 1:00 pm
Then that “chumbrella” I saw must have been made with some other kind of offal?
January 2, 2013 at 3:26 pm
Oh, yeah it was some kind of awful.
January 2, 2013 at 11:25 am
I am considering getting this to go with my pantry moth charm bracelet.
January 2, 2013 at 10:58 am
Perfect timing. MOTHRA VS ELECTROFORMER released next month.
January 3, 2013 at 6:55 am
Ty for the inclusion of Mothra! I was wondering why no one “went there”
January 2, 2013 at 10:59 am
That moth would go well with my collection of other electroformed animals missing their signature parts, including:
-Bunny with no ears
-Centipede with no legs
-Alligator with no teeth
-Baboon with no ass
-Giraffe with no neck
-Shark with no teeth, fins or tail
-Crab with no claws
January 2, 2013 at 11:24 am
What about
-Buffalo with no wings?
January 2, 2013 at 11:28 am
Blind Albino Cave Salamander with no external gills?
(I know what you’re thinking: that’s crazy talk.)
January 2, 2013 at 11:39 am
You’ll be hearing from the ASPCBACS over that one! (They have their own Society because they have good lobbyists.)
January 2, 2013 at 11:41 am
I hear Hobby Lobby lobbies for them, as a hobby.
January 2, 2013 at 11:48 am
But only in the lobby. The store and offices are for business!
January 2, 2013 at 11:56 am
The company’s leaders Robbie and Bobby usually lobby for them. You can tell them apart because Robbie looks kind of knobby and Bobby is a sad-sack and usually sobby.
January 2, 2013 at 12:11 pm
Bobby’s also kind of blobby. Not in a body-shaming “he’s fat” sense but rather in a gelatinous monster who engulfs his prey way.
January 2, 2013 at 5:47 pm
Or a chicken with no fingers?
January 2, 2013 at 12:12 pm
If I saw someone wearing this thing, I’d probably hit them in an attempt to kill the insect that landed on their sweater.
January 2, 2013 at 12:37 pm
I actually love this. LOVE IT!
January 2, 2013 at 1:07 pm
I do too! If the owner wasn’t on vacation, I would buy it right now
January 2, 2013 at 1:58 pm
“Theres no accounting for taste” said the frog as he ate the moth
January 2, 2013 at 2:35 pm
I kind of like it. It would be nicer if the wings were still intact and spread out and did not appear as the one that was swept from the garage floor.
January 2, 2013 at 8:20 pm
Ooh, do you think they have a “stuck to the grill of the truck after a cross-country drive” one?
January 3, 2013 at 11:43 am
On her Facebook page she mentions that this was a moth her cat killed. If only I’d thought to electroform all the things MY cat killed. Oooo…and when the cat dies, BONUS!
January 2, 2013 at 3:40 pm
Everyone felt a little creeped out brushing aside chain after chain of hanging dead insects, but as they made their way through the darkened former abode of the Etsian jeweler, none of the officers had anticipated the revenge of the moth people, who they found standing 7-foot tall and gleefully spinning liquid gold around the body of a local gas station clerk. Assembly line sweatshop free INDEED.
“Fall back squad!” shouted Sergeant McFibbons. “Protect your faces! They’re… ELECTROFORMING!”
January 2, 2013 at 4:27 pm
The real crime against nature here are those fingernails.
January 2, 2013 at 6:20 pm
I think we know what Darlene could do to those fingernails.
January 2, 2013 at 8:36 pm
Nailed it!
January 2, 2013 at 9:12 pm
But still got downthumbnailed.
January 2, 2013 at 7:17 pm
And check out those totally awesome gift boxes!!! I mean, WOW!
January 2, 2013 at 7:22 pm
Ohemgee, she’s in my hometown! Maybe I can sell her some pantry moths to use in her jewelry.
January 2, 2013 at 8:24 pm
With matching Bed Bug Earrings!
January 2, 2013 at 8:38 pm
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January 3, 2013 at 8:44 am
I’m surprised that no one on etsy has listed tooth decals of bugs
January 3, 2013 at 9:10 am
This reminds me of when one of my high school boyfriends told me that he had been making a sculpture for me out of bug wings. Thankfully, we broke up before he ever showed it to me.
January 3, 2013 at 10:53 am
I don’t know you but I’m sure you’re enjoying being alive more than you would have enjoyed seeing that sculpture.
January 3, 2013 at 8:18 pm
How I envy his next girlfriend, who he surely gave it to instead. lol