I’ll see that fish statue,
and raise you one ceramic elephant-foot umbrella stand
Okay, so FairyChatMom has the dirty Furby now? I was in such a hurry to get my hands on the duckbill slippers that I forgot to explain ALL about it.
My brother experimented with it for a while and discovered that Furby has trouble saying the letter “F”. So if you want it to say something that starts with the letter “F”, like “Fine”, you have to give it a different consonant to say. The letter “T” works well.
Also, it doesn’t really say the word “in”, it’s more of a loud groan, “EHHN!!”
He also rigged the eyes to roll up into its head on the “EHHN”, and it sort of quivers all over. You’d be amazed what dirty minds people must have, because everybody who saw the demonstration that Christmas had the same thought, and he had to keep telling Mom, “No, Mom, it’s really saying ‘tuck me in’”, but she wasn’t buying it, so I got custody of the thing.
Duck Duck Goose - that’s even better than a regular Furby… I LOVE IT!! 
Oh, tuck! That’s tuckin’ cool! I want a Turby that does that!
::rummages deperately thoughout the house, cursing herself for being motivated to clean the house LAST weekend::
There HAS to be SOMETHING in this house to trade for that. Even something nice!
What can I offer in purchase (Do not, I repeat, do NOT ask why I want this item! Yes, it would be a gift, albeit a serious one!)!?!
Tabithina, I would be delighted to take that Elvis painting off your hands.
welllll, I might be willing to trade…
What ya got to offer?
Sounds like a plan, I think I’ll start a thread about it.
He’s all yours!
::Picks up Frosty the menacing snowman::
Hey! I just noticed that his glowing, sparkly eyes appear to be looking straight at me, from any angle. OOOOOOoooooOOOhhh…creepy! I’ll prop him up, so he is facing the multi-eyed clown. That clown is probably hallucinating already. He won’t care.
What can I get for my clown corkscrew? New Years Eve will be here soon, and he’d make a memorable party item. :eek:
screech, how could a wolf resist? “Why do you…”
OK.
Sorry.
I won’t ask.
I promise.
I should warn you though, the bull elephant (um, you know, the one on top. With his trunk raised in glory.) has a broken tusk. I’m guessing it was either rough sex or a run-in with poachers. Big market for ceramic tusks.
FCM - I am hard pressed to find anything worthy enough to trade for such a fine piece of electronic mayhem. I’ll keep looking. Hey, maybe we can do like the NBA and broker some sort of 3-way trade with screech!
fnord - you really do like fruitcake, don’t you!
:: staring intently at fnord, tilting head left, then right. walks a circle around fnord, staring some more ::
Sorry. It’s just that I’ve never actually seen anyone that likes fruitcake!
When I was a kid, I remember taking a round fruitcake out of a tin, and using it as a puck in an impromtu ice hocky game with my older siblings. My mother, who was the original recipient of the cake, watched us and laughed her ass off.
She later told us that she had never enjoyed a fruitcake quite so much before.
It doesn’t get cold enough in Southern Missouri to pass on this tradition to my own kids. Ponds never get a thick enough ice layer to be safe to play on in the winters here. Hmmm…Maybe when I go up to Wisconsin for the holidays, I should bring a fruitcake to Grandma’s house for this purpose. Will someone take my clown in exchange for a round fruitcake? Just ONE fruitcake, please.
Tabithina -
Sorry, I already made arrangements. My fruit cake is going to fnord1966, self-proclaimed Fruitcake Depository.
Which in itself was inspired by this thread.
Which if you go to that thread, there is a link back to this thread.
Which now this thread has a link to that thread.
Which in that thread has a link to this…
I have a headache just thinking about it.
But I’ll be rid of my fruitcake.
Dire Wolf I still want the elephants, broken tusk and all.
The best I can offer right now is a beanbag of the Oscar Meyer WienerMobile (in all its orange and yellow glory). I can throw in a gen-you-whine plastic Wiener Whistle too.
::note to self - rummage around storage unit when at home. Maybe I missed something.::
And of course I messed up that url.
Talk about circular reasoning. I really have a headache now.
Oh please please, I want the weiner whistle! Um, all I have to trade is a life-size stand-up cardboard cut-out of Stone Cold Steve Austin… Can we make a deal? Huh, please, huh?
Robin
I broke that thing and threw it away about 5 years ago. You mean it has risen from the grave and is still around? Get rid of it Spider Woman, it is EVIL.
As for my offering, anyone want a lamp made out of deer hooves and antlers?
xizor,
I’d swap my soused clown for your lamp, but my son might get a bit upset if I bring the lamp home and drape mini lights over the antlers. He might think that it’s a reindeer. Oh, hell…I know someone who’d get a kick out of it. I’ll even offer you a choice: Frosty the red-eyed demon snowman, or my multi-eyed clown. Are you interested?
I have this lovely ceramic…err…fried egg holder that I made in my seventh grade art class…there’s not another one like it in the whole world.
Any chance you’d swap your bean bag Screech?
It’s only a little bean bag. It’s sitting on top of my computer at work (and I think my boss is hinting for me to get rid of it).
Still waiting to hear from Dire Wolf about the copulatory elephants. (Still looking for anything else, so far I’ve only found a beer stein from Busch Gardens Tampa Bay (ink marks in the bottom - I used it to hold pens) and an electric pencil sharperner that looks like a gorilla (eyes light up and the jaw moves while its grinding the pencil).
I might be able to dig up a couple more Wiener Whistles.
Dang, I like typing that.
Wiener Whistles Wiener Whistles Wiener Whistles Wiener Whistles Wiener Whistles
Damn. I already have a bean bag wiener…
ummm, I mean I already have the bean bag Oscar Mayer wiener, and the whistle. screech, did you get that by sending in hotdog wrappers? I think that’s how I got mine.
Now, a gorilla that eats pencils, that sounds interesting. See what else you can dig up. I’m liking that gorilla, but I’ll need something else to go with it if I’m gonna give up Jumbo and his Circus Sweety.
Oh, and thanks a lot, screech! Now I have this dopey Wiener Whistles Wiener Whistles Wiener Whistles song going through my head!
:: walks away muttering ::
Nah, the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile was at the Albertsons (grocery chain) near my work. I was chatting with the two girls who were driving it; they wanted to know about clubs and theatres in the area.
The Wiener Whistles [sub]Wiener Whistles Wiener Whistles Wiener Whistles sorry[/sub] were free; they gave me several for my co-workers (trust me, they had buckets of Wiener Whistles). The bean bag was free if you had proof of purchase of 3 Oscar Meyer products (those sodium- and fat- saturated lunchpacks, for example), but they were quite grateful for the info that they gave me one. I have to warn you, one of the stickers is on upside down, but other than that it seems okay.
Okay, the gorilla sounds good [sub](I can’t believe someone wants it but I ain’t gonna argue!)[/sub]; let me see what else I can dredge up.