Sunday, August 30, 2009

Perfect neighborhood for BASE jumpers


Ahhh. The best part of being a homeowner? Climbing the viewing platform in your backyard and surveying your property.

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Look, the Mets fan in Texas is not the part to get hung up on.


Hey, Steve.

Hey, Dylan. Hey, Chris. Oh, hey, Josh, didn't see you over there.

How's it going?

Oh, fine, fine. Too bad about the Mets, huh?

Yup, yup. So... any plans for today?

Eh, thought I'd just stick my head through this hole in the wall. You?

Same, same. Head, wall, you know how it is.

Well, good to see you. Might as well get to it.

Yup, see you 'round.

(Found by Lauren.)

Friday, August 28, 2009

Tinkle tinkle tinkle (no not that kind of tinkling)


Included: washer, dryer, art installation titled "My Feet Ow Ow My Feet," furnace.

(The house is off the market, but the information is here if you're curious.)

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Comes with matching pajamas


The problem with wallpapering is knowing when to stop. It comes on those big rolls, you've been inhaling paste fumes, maybe your mind is wandering... next thing you know you've covered the walls and the bed and you have to run get a box cutter to free the cat. Sorry, kitty!


(Found by Morgan.)

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Stay! And keep staying... and stay. Stay. Stay! Stay.


Well, yes, there's a dog sitting on the sideboard, which is sort of odd. But it's a dead dog, and that makes it all okay.

(Found by Leslie. WARNING VERY LOUD MAN SPEAKING VERY LOUDLY IN A LOUD VOICE THAT MAKES ME THINK OF THE ROAD ADVISORIES I LISTEN TO BEFORE DRIVING OVER THE MOUNTAIN PASSES DURING WINTER.)

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Do come in


I know I'm kind of uptight. Maybe a little repressed. But... I just don't think I could, ah, get anything done in there with all those dolls sitting. And waiting. Waiting. Silently waiting. Silently watching. Silently judging. Um, I mean, looking darling, absolutely darling...

I think I can wait until I get home.

(Found by Randi. MLS #757267, for those who are interested.)

Monday, August 24, 2009

Have a seat. Or a seat. Or a bath. Or a seat.



Home office with a bath tub, or bathroom with seating for ten? Which makes more sense, really?

(Found by Ellen.)

Sunday, August 23, 2009

If Jeremy Clarkson wrote real estate listings


"The majority of the basement is covered in black mold and in biblical proportions," says this listing found by Matt. And I have nothing contumelious to say about it, because they've been admirably honest in the description. "Not for the faint of heart or respiratory system!" -- well, there's just no improving that, is there?

So maybe sometimes people do things just right. And we don't mock them. We just sit back and stare at the mold in awe... and wonder how that house ever ended up submerged in a canal.

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Please give generously.


I couldn't live in this house, because I suffer from Anthropomorphisis and every time I walked in the door I would see something like this:


(For those who have not had their morning hot beverage yet: the bottom photo is not from a listing.)

Friday, August 21, 2009

Chestnuts roasting by an open... uh... hmmm.


Mantelpiece + heatsource = fireplace. Therefore it needs logs. Similarly, I have a drawing of a Jacuzzi over the puddle on my kitchen floor where the ice dispenser leaks, which I say makes it a hot tub, and therefore my "SHOWERS REQUIRED" sign makes total sense.


Oh dear. I was trying to come up with a sleazy house rule for some swinger with a hot tub, and stumbled onto this page, which includes the information that "Our complimentary buffet blows away every Swinger Club in Orlando, with entrees including items such as shrimp, oysters, chocolate covered fruits, fondues, sushi, etc." and now I'm too disturbed to continue my research. Oysters, chocolate-covered strawberries, whatever, like you can tell the difference.

(Found by Sue. And just to be clear: the pink room above is NOT from a club for wife-swappers. Or husband-swappers. Or pet-swappers. Or houseplant-swappers... as far as I know.)

Thursday, August 20, 2009

From a distance, wooah woah, from a distance


Inefficiently, God uses a periscope to keep an eye on all the little children.

(Found by Susan.)

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Please remove sharp objects from pockets


Dug up for mudslicker and jlettman2000, although I'd rather be dozing away on this air mattress, life jacket on hand (or rather, hanger). Now shhhh. Nap time. ZZZzzzzzzz.....

(No good link, but MLS #590952. Found by Danielle.)

They prefer hurdy gurdys. (Hurdie gurdies? Hurdies gurdy?)



STOP IT! STOP IT!

YOUR POPCORN MACHINE IS SO LOUD THAT IT'S HURTING THE MONKEY'S EARS

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, TURN OFF THE POPCORN MACHINE

POOR MONKEY

POOR, POOR MONKEY

NO POPCORN FOR DEAFENED MONKEY


(Found by Anna.)

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

It doubles as a garbage disposal



Included: washer, dryer, spinning portal to another dimension, stove.

(Found by Carlos.)

Monday, August 17, 2009

NOW YOU WILL BE CHEERFUL.


Sorry, sorry, listings have been grim lately. Here! Cheerful! So CHEERFUL! GRITTED TEETH CHEERFUL! BE CHEERFUL, DAMN IT! NO GROCERIES UNTIL YOU'RE CHEERFUL!

(From a listing found earlier by Solvi.)

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Escape from Hamster Hoosgow


"So long, suckers!" cried the hamster, knowing she could escape prison while the jailers battled the fire she'd set.

(Found by Sara. A different Sara.)

Saturday, August 15, 2009

When spin art goes very, very wrong. And zombies are involved.


Ahhhhh! I warned you about the zombie Chair mob, but did you listen to me? Nooooo!


(Found by Johnathan on seattlebubble.)

Friday, August 14, 2009

Brains..... plastic braaaiiiinnnnssss.....


Help! It's just like Night of the Living Dead here. But in the day. And in a real estate listing. And with the part of Zombie Mob being played by Chairs.

But other than that, they're indistinguishable.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Flush that sadness away



I feel bad about how depressed the eleven mattress, one bathroom listing below seems to be making everyone this morning. So here! Found by Pascale (and Mid-C Frank, I see you there) on Curbed: one cheerful* listing. Two seats, no waiting!


* Cheerfulness not guaranteed.

Because Jon spent all the money on smokes and sunglasses



Life just wasn't the same for Aaden, Alexis, Collin, Hannah, Joel, and Leah after the divorce.

(Found by Meghan.)

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

All day, all night


No, I don't know why I have insomnia. I just sometimes get this feeling like someone's... watching me.


Yeah, them...



Specifically, that guy right there. A little privacy, please? Jesus!


(Found by Nicole.)

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Cleanliness Helps Prevent Foodborne Illness


Fridge, please remember to wash your hands before returning to the kitchen. Thank you.

Monday, August 10, 2009

You'll feel a slight pinch

 


You dance divinely, my dear, simply divinely. One and two and three and dip! Wait, wait, come back! I didn't mean that kind of dip... Sorry, sorry, sorry. It won't happen again. No need for you to be so crabby... oh, crap.

(Found by Snoskred Avalanch.)

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Aww, who's a cute little enormous car-eating monster? Who? Who?



I HAVE EATEN YOUR CAR
IT WAS NOMMY
thank you


(Found by Emily.)

Saturday, August 8, 2009

The chairs GATHER toGETHER...


    Things I have had in basements of various house I've lived in:
  • a woodshop
  • a motorcycle
  • an enormous tank of heating oil
  • a man building guitar amps out of coffee cans
  • a recording studio
  • a magazine's office
  • a washer and dryer (booo, boring, booo)
  • a flood
    Things I had not previously considered having:
  • a chapel
(Found by Erin.)

Friday, August 7, 2009

Taking pride in one's ethnic heritage a tad too far



What you can't see: the Scottish ninja camouflaged on the ceiling, waiting to drop on the next person to walk through the swinging doors.


(Found by Chris. Warning: music. The kind of music they play on the TV while showing "Weather around the USA!")

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Estonia is known for its decorated eggs.


Estonia finally has a lovely listing, thanks to Laura... and it requires the use of the Modesty Chair. Shame, shame, Estonia.

(Immodest version here, for those of you who don't mind encouraging such behavior.)

The headless cowman


Moooo.



Oink?



Mooooooooo.



(Cow hiney found by bARRY; pig found by Thomas or Susie; hanging cow-thing found by David.)

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Long Time No See


Oh, how sad. I've been neglecting poor Chair, and now Chair has to try to sneak into photos that are weird all on their own -- like this one Mandy found. Sorry, Chair!

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Fixer, fixer, fixer!


Sure, this house Heather found looks cool at first glance. But do you know how much it'll cost to get a contractor to repair the laser damage from the Y-wing? And I thought getting popcorn ceilings removed was going to be bad...

(Thanks to burhanistan for stopping me from really embarassing myself with a spacecraft misidentification. X-wing? What was I smoking?)

Included: thirsty terrier


Decisions, decisions...

MLS #20920891
$1,449,000

Monday, August 3, 2009

Imagine them tap dancing. *tippety tippety tippety*



You show people in listings, and I complain. You don't show people in listings, and I complain again. Clearly this listing Liz found is an attempt at compromise, and I'm a jerk for not being satisfied. Pfft! Me.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Oh, just leave them to soak.



(I lived in NYC for seven freaking years and I never saw the famous Kitchen Tub. I don't know what I was doing wrong.)

So you might think showing that the tub is in the kitchen wouldn't really be a selling point. But no! The real estate agent has actually shown great restraint in this listing Cory found (click here for the photos). "Claw tub in kitchen," the listing sez... "and toilet in public hallway." Just think of the photo they could have used. Or don't, if you're the sensitive type. Anyway, here's to you, real estate agent with restraint!


Rental; $1,995 a month.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

INCLUDED: WARMER OVEN DRAWER, FREESTANDING RANGE, DIRECT LINE TO GOD



I used to live in former convent that had been turned into a hippie commune (which I first typed as "hippie commute," an intriguing -- yet unpleasant -- idea). We'd done very little to change the house, and one day a resident pointed out to me that we were still using the nuns' old toilet seat. "Nuns' buns," he said. "Nuns' buns!"

So sure, the real estate agent can write "Home has been blessed by God's servants" in the listing. But to me? All this photo makes me think of is... how refreshing that glass of lemonade looks.

(Found by Lydia. MLS #11237950.)