Will Anyone Buy My 1300 Chinese Pope Hats?
One of the fun side-effects of Craigslist is that the lack of an editorial gatekeeper means it lets the crazy blossom. The newspaper Telegraph has assembled 20 of what they consider the wackiest Craigslist ads, including over 1300 Pope hats (sorry, they're just replicas), diapers for incontinent dogs, and 300 stuffed penguins. Naturally we assume every one of them is really about sex, but maybe we're being too jaded about Craigslisters.
Ad #3 actually sounds like a pretty good idea, if you're into sad drunk clowns:
"We need an Adult Drunk Clown who is good at getting drunk and stupid. No need to do any clown tricks, just hang out and drink a shit load. We will be hopping around to different bars and want a clown to tag a long and drink heavely. He doesn't even need to socialize with anyone, just drink."
The ones at Telegraph are mostly just fun, but if their list whets your appetite for Craigslist stupidity, go spend some time on You Suck at Craigslist and marvel at the dimmer side of humanity.
"20 most bizarre Craigslist adverts of all time" [Telegraph]
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So a lazy writer just scanned the Craigslist Best-of section?
Duck Mask remains my all time favorite. It's a classic.
While I can think of some great things to do with 1,214 pope hats, I think 1,300 is just plain ridiculous, and can never be funny.
cheating!
I'm pretty sure I recognize all of these from 'best of' Craigslist. Not that that's not valid, just that it doesn't take much journalistic investigation to read ads that others have already nominated as being weird.
just sayin'.
I'd rather have that Howard the Duck mask.
@GitEmSteveDave_HazGreenLEDNameTag: 1214 would be enough to outfit your underground army of Fake popes? Or are you planning like an improv everywhere skit?
I think I saw one on there once looking for someone to ejaculate on spiders while wearing a spider man costume. Freaky, freaky.
I read that post 5 times before realizing it said Chinese, not Cheese.
@dougkern: I had to laugh at the OJ one, as Elon is literally right around the corner. I coulda made a couple of bucks, dammit.
My uncle once gave me a prophylactic that had its time crowned by a rooster head. Err, a rubber representation thereof. BIG rooster head.
If he only gave me a gross (heh) of them, I could have very well had my wares proudly featured on this list.
Although posting a picture of their intended use might have been tricky.
My personal favorite is the man who found that he was turned on by Miss Piggy, and was searching for a 300 pound woman who would dress up as Miss Piggy, complete with pig mask and blonde wig.
He said he'd be willing to don a green latex bodysuit and frog mask for the right girl.
That, my friends, is a gentleman.
Only in Manhattan could this ad appear:
7) I have a huge bathroom
"I am a female in my mid 60's and I am looking for a room mate. Times are tight and I need some extra money. I am willing to rent out my bathroom in my 1 bedroom east village home. My bathroom is large. You can easily put a twin air mattress in there. I only ask that when I need to use the bathroom, you or your air mattress are not in it. I do ask that when you are in the apartment, you confine yourself to the bathroom. I do not feel comfortable with a stranger walking around my living room. This might change as I get to know you better."
On the Regular Guys in Atlanta, they regularly post ads searching for ridiculous sexual partners, the responses they get are quite often hilarious. Of course, I guess the number of men willing to buy into the idea of a woman searching to have her fantasy of being made love to by a man in full Star Trek : DS9 regalia is pretty sad.
This makes me doubt the veracity of the majority of those posts, however.
drmk here, from You Suck at Craigslist. I'm a regular Consumerist reader, so I'm thrilled at the mention!
I can assure folks that my site doesn't just reproduce the "Best of" Craigslist -- in fact, I won't post anything that appears in that section! (Some things I've posted have eventually ended up there, but they weren't there when I posted them.)
I also try to weed out the ads that are obviously people just screwing around; I'm interested in the least successful Craigslist posts, for a variety of flavors of (and reasons for) "least". In the interest of shameless self-promotion, here's a link to one of my favorite posts: [www.yousuckatcraigslist.com] .
Thanks!
@Trai_Dep: Could have been just the right place if they had left Bernie Madoff out of jail but on house arrest.
I can see the Barbara Walters Interview now... Barbara on the john, and Bernie in the tub. Sitting on the air mattress, of course.
I don't know about the spaghetti but I'd consider filling the tub with oatmeal. It's good for cholesterol reduction.
Ah, the pope hats. I ran into that post on best of craigslist a little while ago and it was a true lol moment. I could not read it aloud to my boyfriend and friend because I could not stop laughing.
@GitEmSteveDave_AteABadCerealBar: 1,213 is where I draw the line. What are you possibly gonna do with that 1,214th one?
@GitEmSteveDave_AteABadCerealBar: @NinjaMarion:
1213, 1214? You people are just not creative. Not one iota. Still, I will not be making a purchase, as I would require exactly 1373 fake pope hats.
Seriously, if someone had hired a drunk clown for my 30th birthday, I think I would have had to reconsider my friends. Jesus.
@NewsBunny: And you can bet that somewhere out there on the inter-webz, there is an obese woman who is fantasizing about hooking up with a Kermit the Frog impersonator...
I want that ferocious attack kitten and a room of stuffed animal penguins!
One of my favorite things to do when I'm browsing for something on Craig's List is to pass along the postings that are especially amusing.
One of my favorite posts was a desk someone wanted to sell. The person spent a lot of effort to clean it off, and set the desk in an area in which it could be seen very well - but then didn't bother to take a second photo when the family dog wandered into the shot. The first photo was of the dog's head and torso peeking into the shot, and the second photo had the dog actually in the shot in its entirety, but with its butt to the camera.