It’s not a baby elephant, it’s a FARMAL CUB!

garth — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:52:18 +0000

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.

The hen, she crows!

garth — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:31:33 +0000

Rare Crowing Hen — $5.

I haven’t been able to stop giggling since I ran across this ad. (Reproduced here in case the ad goes away)

Dropstone Farms » Craigslist

It’s not a baby elephant, it’s a FARMAL CUB!

The hen, she crows!