This robot's welcome in my home anytime. Photo: iRobot.
Bring your most clever comment and win a Roomba!
The great Dorothy Draper said "it is just as disastrous to have the wrong accessories in your room as it is to wear sport shoes with an evening dress."
Well, we'd love to hear her thoughts on the homes on one of our favorite sites -- Lovely Listing from the Cheezburger Network (you know, the one so brilliantly brought us Lolcats). They've got the most ridiculous photos from homes for sale -- a scale by the door? A room teeming with porcelain dolls? Or with electrical outlets? It sounds nuts, but sometimes after flipping through shelter magazines and design blogs full of perfectly-placed-and-plumped ikat pillows and glossy kitchen islands, these disastrous rooms are exactly what we crave.
So we're delighted to wish them a happy second anniversary and best hopes for many more years of telephones in the bathroom and a continued obsession with white plastic chairs.
And to celebrate, we're giving away the ultimate home companion: A Roomba! As Lovely Listing says, "A robot that stops your house from looking like a Lovely Listing entry."
But that's not all it does: this thing cleans up to four rooms on a battery charge and when it's ready, recharges itself. And since there are two interchangeable cleaning bins -- one that holds enough dirt for a routine cleaning and one that holds THREE times more debris -- you can swap them out depending on the size of the job.
It also runs on a programmable schedule, which means you can come home to clean floors. And unlike a family member or roommate who cleans while you're away, the Roomba requires no thank-you and does not make you feel guilty about not helping.
To win, you must explain what is happening in the photo. This is a contest of skill, not luck. Humor counts; factuality does not.
We won't even try to caption this one. That's up to you! Photo: Lovely Listing.
* To enter, leave a confirmed comment below explaining what is happening in this photo.
* The comment must be left before 11:59 pm ET on May 3, 2010.
* You may enter only once.
* One winner will be selected based on the following criteria: humor, keenness of observation, and pertinence to the contents of the photo.
* One winner will receive a iRobot Roomba 562 Pet Series. Approximate Retail Value of prize is $399.99.
* Open to legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia and Canada (excluding Quebec) who are 18 and older.
* Click here for complete Official Rules. Winners will be notified by email, so be sure to provide a valid email address!
Reader comments (Page 5 of 7)
One way to never have to cook, position the range so that it catches the kitchen on fire. I promise he will never ask you to cook for him again!
ReplyThe dangerously right wing patriotic militia members hide beneath their kitchen, while above stove stands guard in an alcove, looking perfectly inanimate and innocent, but ready to leap and embroil its foes in a firefight should they break down the armored red & blue door. Refrigerator, meanwhile, has moved to the basement to provide the militia with plenty of ice cold domestic beer. All this while sink tries to pose innocently at the window hoping to fool passersby with the message: "Nothing to see here. No, nothing at all. Move on."
Replywhen good remodeling goes wrong
ReplyThe stove hung on the ledge, wracked with indecision. Escape from the approaching twister by leaping to the floor and shimmying into the storm cellar, or chance fate and stay above the reach of the vicious dust bunnies with a penchant for primary colors?
ReplyUp next on 'Extreme Makeover, Home edition', we bring in our guest interior designer, Smurfette, to help bring some color to the kitchen.
ReplyCaptain Range #1974 casts a watchful eye out the window as he tries one last time to rally the cabinetry. “I know Lt. Fridge has been taken, but we must exhaust all options before we surrender, and we have The Hood!”
ReplyThe stove just wait for Mario to come through the tunnel under the floor, only to inform him that his Princess is in another castle. Many Koopas wait behind the door, which will hopefully lead to the portal to get Mario to the next level, easily recognized by it's resemblance to a shower made by Crayola.
ReplyWhile Sink was a little frightened that Oven made it in through the transportation tunnel, Sink felt confident Oven would never make it past the trap door.
ReplyYes kiddies... Peewee's Playhouse does have a kitchen.
ReplyOven wanted to win American Idol s-o-o-o bad, he could taste it.
ReplyAnd Ma and Pa Kettle (bless 'em) had sprung for this practice stage.
This was Oven's final rehearsal, before a carefully chosen audience of relatives and friends. He was sure that Half-Curtain - that minx in denim gingham he had the hots for - would swoon over his artistry.
He took his place, turned up the heat and gave it maximum power. Too late - he realized: "Poker Face" was a GIRL'S song.
Half-Curtain remained starchily unmoved. And Door's expression, till now, carefully neutral, became positively sardonic.
Blushing under his orange stage make-up, Oven tiptoed off the dais.
This week on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, we have a story that has touched our hearts. Childhood icon Bozo the Clown has fallen on hard times...
ReplyIrving escaped with only a nick through the trap door in the floor after discovering that the new stove not only ate appliances, but also enjoyed human flesh.
ReplyIn the house of primary colors, Red Stove is KING! He dethroned FirePlace and rests in the hollowed out carcass of his vanquished foe! The primary colors quake with fear and obey King Red Stoves every whim. To further terrorize his subjects, he leaves the outline on the floor from where refrigerator fell and was killed. No one dares cross king Red Stove now for fear of ending up as an outline on the floor.
ReplyWhere Carni's go in the off season.
Replyhow do i post an entry
ReplyThe witch knew when she painted the kitchen with blue and red frosting the children would come. Oh yes how the little ones love color, and with her new platform stove at the perfect height for snatching and stuffing in plump little boys and girls, not to mention the ease with which she could place a large serving tray on the floor and simply let the food tumble out of the stove and into serving position, she would never be foiled by a hansel or gretel again. *evil cackle*
ReplyKnown for his incendiary sermons, the Rev. Red Range mounted the pulpit, faced his congregation, and heatedly called to them, "Repaint, repaint!"
ReplyAlien infiltration: Not gonna happen.
Replytoo little room, too many things to do. Found a way to make it work
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Stove was not very good at hide and seek, but this was primarily due to older brother Fridge always taking the "good spot" under the trap door.
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