Now I love Craig’s List. I love what the site does, I love the architecture/usability of the site, and I love that the founder has stayed true to the vision of an accessible community site. And a measure of the success of Craig’s list in being an accessible community site is the number of posters who are clearly not what some corporate types refer to in “webinars” as “Young Digital Natives.*” As a result, there’s a lot of humor both intentional and unintentional. My current Craig’s List obsession is with the True Tale Of The Farmal Cub. For best results, pronounce “Farmal” to rhyme with “caramel” if you’re from Wisconsin and Harm’ll if you speak standard American English (EN-us).
There was an ad for a Farmall Cub tractor on the Craig’s List but, due to a typo, it was listed as a FARMAL CUB. So I clicked through based on equal parts fondness for tractors and amusing typos and what did I find? The following.
It's a Farmal Cub
Or the full ad:
Not to be confused with a baby elephant.
So that’s kind of weird. That someone would typo Farmall in such a way that it sounds like they’re selling a baby farmal. It does sound very cute. I want a baby farmal! And then the next day the following shows up:
Note the text. “Today’s ad should include a picture of the tractor instead of the baby elephant picture on yesterday’s ad.” Why!? How did this happen? I’m haunted. I don’t understand. And yet I love it. I love the tiny farmal cub.
*Have I lately mentioned how glad I am to not have that job anymore? Seriously.
Hilarious! Did you know that I inherited my grandfather’s Farmall Cub last year? My uncle even got it to run. Now I just have to figure out how to get it from Minneapolis to Seattle…
Oh man, I’m jealous of your tractor. I don’t know how much the Farmall Cub weighs, but we’re hoping to make it to eastern Montana this fall and, being as that’s spitting distance (Dakotas notwithstanding) from Minnesota, we might be able to haul the tractor back with us. Depending, of course, on whether it’s small enough to be hauled by a Toyota pickup with no trailer brakes.