So when you crap in a basket and put it in a "cutting edge" galleryit's art, but when I do it for free at somebody's house it's suddenly a felony? Where's the justice in that!?

It was nice of him to leave a DNA sample behind though.

*sigh* tony shalhoub really needs help.

That's sort of my opinion of Longaberger baskets as well.

TommyymmoT: It was nice of him to leave a DNA sample behind though.

I doubt the police are going to bother DNA testing some poop.


/poop

queezyweezel: TommyymmoT: It was nice of him to leave a DNA sample behind though.

I doubt the police are going to bother DNA testing some poop.


/poop

He called the shiat poop! Heeheehee!

How to turn a Nintendo DS into a Nintendo BM.

Gawd! I got invited to a farking longaberger basket "party" where they try to sell you that shiat, by my bosses wife. So I kind of feel like I have to go, ugh it's going to suuuuuck, I'm going to have to drink, like, four drinks before it gets cool.

/ugh

to attend a local function and returned about 10:45 p.m....

to find a Captain's log...

Apparently the kid owns some pretty crappy Nintendo DS games.

am I the only one sitting here thinking "WTF is a Longaberger basket?"

Azyraphyle,

There's a fine line between art and tolerated vandalism, isn't there?

Lusiphur: am I the only one sitting here thinking "WTF is a Longaberger basket?"

No, I am too. I sort of assume it's one of those dark wood woven baskets, but am debating bothering to google it.

Lusiphur: am I the only one sitting here thinking "WTF is a Longaberger basket?"

The Longaberger basketmaking tradition started in 1918, when John Wendell Longaberger took a job with the Dresden Basket Factory. Known as "J.W.", John would lay the foundation for the Longaberger Company as it exists today.

/Google, is there anything it can't find?

Who among us can truly say they've never shiat in a Longaberger basket?

It'll take an epic shiat to fill that basket.

It looks like a picinic basket

Sounds like the dad got drunk, looked through his bills, then took a dump in what he thought was his toilet. Case closed.

Driven past Gore Orphanage Road many times, but this is the first time I've ever seen it in print.

LittleSmitty: The Longaberger basketmaking tradition started in 1918, when John Wendell Longaberger took a job with the Dresden Basket Factory. Known as "J.W.", John would lay the foundation for the Longaberger Company as it exists today.

Well, that explains EVERYTHING. Still too lazy to google it. I'll just keep hitting refresh till someone posts a picture. Until then, I will pretend that it is some sort of trans-space pocket universe storage device capable of storing untold mountains of poop.

Lusiphur: am I the only one sitting here thinking "WTF is a Longaberger basket?"

My curiosity got the better of me. Apparently it's an Ohio company that makes baskets as pictures ^^^ that are popular enough there's actually an entire secondary resale market around them. And such scarily named sites as basketdude.com

/wtf, basket dude?

atomic-age: That's sort of my opinion of Longaberger baskets as well.

I do not see the big deal about the Longaberger stuff. We knew someone who would spend craploads of money ($10K!) on that, much to the husband's chagrin. She went crazy and left him. He married a saner woman.

The more I encounter Longaberger fan-girls*, the more I doubt their sanity.

/*the "fan-girls" are actually late middle aged women.

I bet a lot of people have shiat in this Longaberger basket.

1. Wake up in the middle of the night to relieve yourself
2. ???
3. Profit!

Laoise:
My curiosity got the better of me. Apparently it's an Ohio company that makes baskets as pictures ^^^ that are popular enough there's actually an entire secondary resale market around them. And such scarily named sites as basketdude.com

On the one hand... the vintage ones would date back to a time when North Americans actually MADE things, quality goods out of materials that might last longer than a few years. A noble thing to appreciate.

On the other hand... yuppie interior-design fanatics probably don't really give a crap about that stuff, they just want them because they saw them in some swank, glossy decor mag.

Having someone else go through your things while you're away is the worst goddamn feeling in the world.

/3 weeks ago
//TV, laptop, video games and DVDs, even the stuff in my freezer
///$5000+

Bo Najeh Davenport pics?

The Dude empathizes.

/It tied the room together.

Laoise: And such scarily named sites as basketdude.com

THATS a Longaberger basket? Well, I now know who comitted the crime. I would wager the $1000 in reward money that it was this....man...

It is a company started in Dresden Ohio. Little town of a couple thousand. The old man, Dave I think, started remaking his dad's baskets, and selling them. Came up with the idea of only selling them at home parties. After he died, daughters took over and priced the suckers right out of sight.

Used to employ 4-5 thousand, and in SE/East Central Ohio, that makes you God. Built the office to look like one of their baskets, that is the picture above. Story is, they couldn't decide on a design, and Dave walked in and put the basket in the middle of the table, said "build this" and walked out.

I have no skills, so here is a link to google page of baskets, you may have to C&P. Link (new window)

/wife has a bunch of the overpriced dust catchers
//live about 45 minutes away
///been there more times than I can count

Shoulda refreshed first... tim2028 beat me. But(t) still... similar idea, different conclusion.

osdrcomputers: Bet there's an Xbox 360 in there somewhere.

What the ... do I even want to know?

Nanje Davenport!

"Really personal service"?

What, do you get a handjob with every television you buy?

Azyraphyle: So when you crap in a basket and put it in a "cutting edge" galleryit's art, but when I do it for free at somebody's house it's suddenly a felony? Where's the justice in that!?

Maybe that'll teach you to not be derivative, asshat.

Maybe that's why they sell old 13 channel TV's? LOL

The giant basket is the pride of Newark, Ohio.

(_\_) . o 8

/emotipoo

Well, here's something to laugh at. Years ago, my ex-wife used to sell these. It was just one of the many things she sold. Partylite candles, Fashion Fantasy lingerie, Avon...the list goes on.

Anyway, when she told me that some of her friends were selling Longaberger, that she was interested in selling it too. I said "WHAT??" "Longaberger", she said. I swear I heard Lama burger, thinking she's gonna sell meat. Freaked me out until she spelled it out for me.

Everytime I hear the word Longaberger, I think about that moment.

/you know how your ears hear one thing when someone says something else?
//thank you for laughing at my pain.
///at my expense!

jenkem?

SR117Nighthawk: I swear I heard Lama burger, thinking she's gonna sell meat.

Mmmm... Llama.

Now I'm hungry.

"...15 Nintendo DS games..."

Sounds like the basket was already pre-loaded with feces.

Lincey

Jenkem? Damn near killed him!

kilgorn: to attend a local function and returned about 10:45 p.m....

to find a Captain's log...

There's probably a log in the basket.

the kid did it.

Lusiphur: am I the only one sitting here thinking "WTF is a Longaberger basket?"

Longaberger baskets are hand made wooden baskets. They're high end baskets, kind of like Prada shoes and Gucci bags, but baskets. All their office buildings and factories are shaped like different baskets actually. I went on the tour when I was 12.

lol epic win

Azyraphyle: So when you crap in a basket and put it in a "cutting edge" galleryit's art, but when I do it for free at somebody's house it's suddenly a felony? Where's the justice in that!?

someone crapping in a basket and putting it in a gallery isn't art. it's only 'art' when people come in to look at it. otherwise, without them, it'd only be a deuce in a basket.

atomic-age: That's sort of my opinion of Longaberger baskets as well.

yeah, maybe there's some subtlety of basketry of which I'm unaware, but is there something that sets them distinctly apart from the kind of thing that you can buy at Michael's for $10 or so? Cause if there is I am just missing it.

/of course, I'm a guy
//and there *is* a difference between Snap-On and Craftsman, dammit