"Um...No...I don't want the stove over here under the range hood. I think the fridge should go in that specific nook so that all my cereal boxes can be sucked outside when the exhaust fan is turned on."
Think how lovely it would be to cook by moonlight under that big ole sky light. LOL It's not just you, I see it too. Although I admit I looked at the floor to see if it was covered in popcorn then I checked out the ceiling then, aha! I saw it too. Kind of an ink blob test and I passed... well on the 3rd try. *ahem*
It has an "unwarranted family room." Huh? I suppose if you are single and don't entertain, like me, then a formal dining room would be "unwarranted," but I'm not sure about a family room.
And yes, I saw it too.
April 23, 2009 at 8:50 AM
Anonymous said...
Oh, and by the way, before the microwave era, and also before the health food era, electric popcorn poppers had to have butter or oil in them. Much tastier. My hot air popper never quite makes the popcorn as crispy as it should be, so even with butter added it's just not the same as an electric popper or microwave popcorn. Maybe I just need a better air popper.
Before electric poppers, of course, you had to just do it on the stove.
April 23, 2009 at 8:56 AM
burhanistan said...
STOVETOP POPCORN WITH A BIT OF OLIVE OIL, SEA SALT, AND SPICES IS THE ONLY WAY TO SNACK SALVATION
April 23, 2009 at 10:14 AM
Anonymous said...
I totally got it. So either it was a pretty normal thought, or I am also a complete weirdo. At least then there are two of us.
I love the capitalizing in the listing. You can Spent Time with Your Loved Ones. and maybe even your loved ones, lower case. and if they're really special, YOUR LOVED ONES.
April 23, 2009 at 1:36 PM
Anonymous said...
When I read your comment, I knew exactly what you were referring to without having to scroll down. My family had one of these poppers and we used it at least weekly, if not more often. In fact, it just occurred to me that the reason I no longer like popcorn is that I only get the microwavable stuff anymore. Hmm. Anyway, I was allowed to make it, and I just loved measuring out the corn and the clackity-cinks as they all fell down in the bottom.
April 25, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Anonymous said...
aww. that is so brilliant. could not see at first came back minute later and viola! I see it. Just brilliant man!
July 1, 2009 at 7:44 PM
[Image] For the family that likes popcorn. Really, really likes popcorn... Okay, wait, time for a sanity check. This probably makes no sense to anyone other than me. Here, this is what I'm thinking of:
[Image]See it? See it? It's not just me, right?
Huh.
Oh dear.
I'm going to go lie down in a nice dark room until this passes. I may be some time.
"Included: butter, salt"
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Don't worry, Sara, it's not just you. This listing is meant to evoke odd responses. From the description:
Subject features Hardwood FloorsIt's not so much a listing as it is a monitored test to psychological stimuli. Tell me, how does that make you feel?
April 22, 2009 at 10:39 AM
"Um...No...I don't want the stove over here under the range hood. I think the fridge should go in that specific nook so that all my cereal boxes can be sucked outside when the exhaust fan is turned on."
April 22, 2009 at 10:58 AM
Think how lovely it would be to cook by moonlight under that big ole sky light. LOL It's not just you, I see it too. Although I admit I looked at the floor to see if it was covered in popcorn then I checked out the ceiling then, aha! I saw it too. Kind of an ink blob test and I passed... well on the 3rd try. *ahem*
April 22, 2009 at 11:16 AM
I saw it right away. Way back in the dark ages before people had microwaves this is how people made their popcorn.
I mean with small tabletop popcorn makers not with giant fridge-sized ones!
April 22, 2009 at 11:26 AM
It's not just you! Now I've got a popcorn craving...
April 22, 2009 at 11:32 AM
That's still how I make popcorn, Alissa. Then I put butter and nutritional yeast on it, thus betraying my hippie past.
April 22, 2009 at 11:47 AM
ummmm..........little bit of a stretch here.
April 22, 2009 at 12:08 PM
You make me so sad, anonymous. But Alissa's with me!
April 22, 2009 at 12:10 PM
"Look Helen, I really like M.C. Escher's art, but this let's never ask him to remodel our kitchen, okay?"
April 22, 2009 at 12:11 PM
We're all beginning to be chronic matrixers!!!! Make it stop!
April 22, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Only your mind would go to a popcorn popper.
Mine went to a coffee grinder.
April 22, 2009 at 12:30 PM
I totally see it! Man, now I'm all craving pop corn ...
April 22, 2009 at 1:21 PM
Vagaries of photographic perspective. Buttery, fluffy, crunchy snack vagaries.
April 22, 2009 at 2:17 PM
I see it too.
My husband uses one of those, pretty much daily. (I hate popcorn, but at least the popper doesn't smell as nasty as the microwaveable stuff.)
April 22, 2009 at 2:48 PM
OK... Now I want popcorn too!
Argh.
April 22, 2009 at 3:01 PM
On a completely different tangent...does anyone else get annoyed by non-matching appliances? To me it's like fingernails on a chalkboard.
Might just be me.
April 22, 2009 at 3:38 PM
I saw it immediately!
April 22, 2009 at 5:20 PM
This blog is a hoot!
April 22, 2009 at 5:38 PM
huh.
are you feeling better after your nap?
April 23, 2009 at 8:16 AM
Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, MistyQ!
April 23, 2009 at 8:26 AM
It has an "unwarranted family room." Huh? I suppose if you are single and don't entertain, like me, then a formal dining room would be "unwarranted," but I'm not sure about a family room.
And yes, I saw it too.
April 23, 2009 at 8:50 AM
Oh, and by the way, before the microwave era, and also before the health food era, electric popcorn poppers had to have butter or oil in them. Much tastier. My hot air popper never quite makes the popcorn as crispy as it should be, so even with butter added it's just not the same as an electric popper or microwave popcorn. Maybe I just need a better air popper.
Before electric poppers, of course, you had to just do it on the stove.
April 23, 2009 at 8:56 AM
STOVETOP POPCORN WITH A BIT OF OLIVE OIL, SEA SALT, AND SPICES IS THE ONLY WAY TO SNACK SALVATION
April 23, 2009 at 10:14 AM
I totally got it. So either it was a pretty normal thought, or I am also a complete weirdo. At least then there are two of us.
April 23, 2009 at 10:42 AM
I love the capitalizing in the listing. You can Spent Time with Your Loved Ones. and maybe even your loved ones, lower case. and if they're really special, YOUR LOVED ONES.
April 23, 2009 at 1:36 PM
When I read your comment, I knew exactly what you were referring to without having to scroll down. My family had one of these poppers and we used it at least weekly, if not more often. In fact, it just occurred to me that the reason I no longer like popcorn is that I only get the microwavable stuff anymore. Hmm. Anyway, I was allowed to make it, and I just loved measuring out the corn and the clackity-cinks as they all fell down in the bottom.
April 25, 2009 at 9:14 PM
aww. that is so brilliant. could not see at first came back minute later and viola! I see it. Just brilliant man!
July 1, 2009 at 7:44 PM