# Ok. Call me quirky **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 10, 2024, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-call-me-quirky/1002712 "2024-06-10T21:46:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2024, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-call-me-quirky/1002712/1 "2024-06-10T21:46:21Z")
I want Taco Bell art. Saw a news story about people stealing the art off the walls of Taco Bell. Apparently you can buy them from online sellers. I’ve always liked those weird paintings. Apparently they are all prints. But I don’t care. I WANT!! ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2024, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-call-me-quirky/1002712/2 "2024-06-10T22:03:32Z")
Thanks for that, @Quirky. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2024, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-call-me-quirky/1002712/3 "2024-06-10T22:14:26Z")
You are quirky. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2024, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-call-me-quirky/1002712/4 "2024-06-10T22:19:00Z")
Write to Taco Bell, tell them what you just told us, and ask them how you can buy legitimate prints from them. Supposedly some of the art was created by [Mark T. Smith](https://www.marktsmith.com/) a legitimate artist with a legitimate website, who also sells through [legitimate galleries.](https://www.artsy.net/artist/mark-t-smith) Happy hunting. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2024, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-call-me-quirky/1002712/5 "2024-06-10T22:40:38Z")
# [Call me quirky](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-call-me-quirky/1002712) Hi quirky! Do you have a link? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2024, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-call-me-quirky/1002712/6 "2024-06-10T23:32:37Z")
No link. It was local news. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2024, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-call-me-quirky/1002712/7 "2024-06-10T23:38:20Z")
One of the prettiest paintings I ever saw was at a Wendy’s. Some sort of modern-deco art with a weird hue of early morning blue sky and some sort of swimming pool and white house furniture. It was the 1990s so it couldn’t have been AI, but it looked totally like today’s AI art. For some reason, it just did it for me. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-call-me-quirky/1002712/8 "2024-06-11T00:41:28Z")
Fast food art. It will soon have gravitas in the art world. I just know it. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-call-me-quirky/1002712/9 "2024-06-11T00:52:46Z")
Hey Quirky, you can call _me_ Fishmeal (Mad Magazine, 1956) ---
**Author:** ![DaveUnknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@DaveUnknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveUnknown)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-call-me-quirky/1002712/10 "2024-06-11T00:54:41Z")
go to a taco bell and take a phone-photo of the piece and print it out? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-call-me-quirky/1002712/11 "2024-06-11T01:05:00Z")
I’ve thought of that. Might do it just cause. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-call-me-quirky/1002712/12 "2024-06-11T03:11:43Z")
And post it here. I’m genuinely interested in the art that moves you so. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-call-me-quirky/1002712/13 "2024-06-11T03:25:51Z")
Here’s an article about the Taco Bell art thefts: [https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/taco-bell-ebay-mark-smith-paintings-19464177.php](https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/taco-bell-ebay-mark-smith-paintings-19464177.php) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-call-me-quirky/1002712/14 "2024-06-11T03:31:16Z")
Personally, I want a picture of pastoral Wisconsin farmland – and cheese curds! – from the wall of a Culver’s. And, hey, they have an entire art store where you can order it! [https://www.culversdecor.com/](https://www.culversdecor.com/) ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-call-me-quirky/1002712/15 "2024-06-11T13:37:05Z")
> [@DaveUnknown](#): > > go to a taco bell and take a phone-photo of the piece and print it out? I was at the Museum of Fine Art in Boston and saw a picture I really liked. [![](https://vitruvius.museumseven.com/render/600-600@2/dp-476803-30.jpg) ](https://vitruvius.museumseven.com/render/600-600@2/dp-476803-30.jpg) _Calm Morning_ by Frank Weston Benson. I took a picture with my phone, tweaked it a little in Photoshop, had it printed poster size, framed it and hung it in my kitchen. Turned out great. Now, this one is from 1904, so in the public domain. Art on the wall of TB is almost certainly copyright. The right thing would be to find out the artist and buy a legit copy that benefits him/her. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-call-me-quirky/1002712/16 "2024-06-11T14:15:43Z")
@commasense After looking at that picture, an entire story popped into my head! Three little kids, their families had returned from church (note the Sunday clothes) and while the mommies gathered in the kitchen, the daddies were grouped together discussing “man stuff,” and nobody was watching the kids. They got bored and went down to the lake, and one of them got the bright idea to go fishing. One of the girls pulled a loose thread from the bottom of her petticoat, and they managed to scrounge up two safety pins. The boat drifts further and further from shore, and finally one of the mommies says, “Where are the kids?” ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-call-me-quirky/1002712/17 "2024-06-11T14:25:03Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > The boat drifts further and further from shore, and finally one of the mommies says, “Where are the kids?” ]continuing] And then they find out they boat was in for repairs, and it starts leaking in the middle of the bay, and the water is cold. They call 911 but, being kids, are incapable of giving their location. They all drown. The parents sue the boat yard, 911 service, the company that made the dress, and accidentally, each other. [end] The local McDonalds used to have Robert McCall space art. That was pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-call-me-quirky/1002712/18 "2024-06-11T14:31:49Z")
The three kids were sacrificed to the **Lake Demon** to guarantee prosperity to the village. They must be fresh. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-call-me-quirky/1002712/19 "2024-06-11T19:23:37Z")
I thought this thread was going to be about the Springfield Isotopes moving to Albuquerque. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-call-me-quirky/1002712/20 "2024-06-11T20:42:13Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > You are quirky. But you can also call me fairly sure they don’t have a chance against me. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-call-me-quirky/1002712.md?page=2)