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 7 of 7)
(Sorry if this is a duplicate, I can't find my comment or the confirmation e-mail)
ReplyDear Time Travelling House Hunter,
To some of you from before 2110 this may look like a kitchen, this is in fact a mud room/transportation room. The very large cupboards under the counter are for storing personal hover craft.
The large platform with the stove on it is a teleportation pad. I just bought this stove at auction, I just love retro, which is why I’m selling this house and looking for a more retro house to house my retro furniture and appliances (maybe even your old house!). I am so excited about this new stove that I had to include it in the picture, I told my realtor that it was a good example of the size of objects this teleportor can move. All of the retro appliances are not being sold with the house, but if you go over to the kitchen you will see the appliances are about 3 years old and in top shape.
Sincerely,
The Seller
PS Check out the bomb shelter, door seen here, it was redone last year with all the latest gear.
Carol Brady: "Alice! What have you done with my kitchen!?"
Reply*Alice pops out of the oven with her face painted the same color as the cupboards and says: "The light really does stay on when you close the door"*
*Carol Brady Faints*
Tacky: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire.
ReplyArt Clokey's home, constructed entirely of modeling clay, is newly on the market, though realtors are not expecting many interested parties. The late claymationist had some plasticine skeletons in his closet. The remains of human and animal inspirations for Gumby and Pokey and other characters were found in a dungeon beneath the house, the trap door to which was under a festive kitchen rug. A kitchen range was installed hastily to disguise the site of a removed crematorium furnace, but police were not fooled. Police captain Play-Doh said, "We only wish we had suspected Clokey earlier as the 'Stop-Motion Maniac'. Lives could have been saved."
ReplyLIttle Oven sometimes couldn't believe he'd landed such lovely owners, after the horror stories he heard from some of the jaded old Returns at the Store where he'd started his life. Why, the lovely folks who'd taken him home had outfitted his kitchen in his favourite colours, put in a trapdoor for his friends to come in through and even built him a replica Holodeck from Star Trek!!
ReplyHe was the luckiest little Oven in the world.
With that lift up door in the floor it looks like they are going to bury bodies under there and cover it up with a rug. That or their guns!!
ReplyWe've found the perfect kitchen for somebody who is color blind. On second thought, they might need to be completely blind.
ReplyAnd now for contestant number 3... "Number 3," you can choose to walk away with the deluxe retro-stove featuring authentic 1950s timer, clock, and temperature sensing technology by Fridgidare or you can choose to give up your stove for the chance at the fabulous prizes behind door number 2 or door number 3. But remember, there are only prizes behind one of the doors. If you choose incorrectly, opening door number 2 might simply cast you out into the snow and freezing wind or opening door number 3 might simply reveal a trap that drops you into a dark and moldy basement. So what will it be "Number 3?"
ReplyThe oven knew this day would come. Long had the other appliances been jealous of its rich, orange hue. The toaster, dishwasher and coffeemaker were younger and had been built in the era of bland, white plastic. In a kitchen of such bright colors, they looked plain and uninteresting. But the oven, oh the oven had more in common with the muscle cars of its day. A rich, burnt orange covered its sides and front, and chrome accents gleamed when the sun came through the windows. The plastic appliances could not enjoy the sunlight, for it brought only yellowing. They had been plotting for weeks, nay, months, to bring about the demise of oven. When the family left for the night, the plastic bunch would attack. Toaster would have a new shiny, chrome dial. Dishwasher would get the orange plate from oven's front. Coffeemaker merely wanted the brand badge as a trophy. The remains would be hidden in the trap door by the sink. Long a home for mice, no one would ever look there. But the oven was no fool. He had heard the plastic conspirators whispering in the night. And as they readied themselves on the other side of the kitchen, he knew something they didn't: Dishwashers can't climb even small ledges.
ReplyWhen the world switched to color in the 1940s, it was almost universally hailed as a great boon to humanity. However, not everyone was pleased with the change: take, for example, Mr. and Mrs. Flenderson of St. Paul, MN, whose home is pictured here. Despite the ongoing economic depression, they had saved enough money to remodel the kitchen in a palette of perfectly coordinating grays and sepias; and though they could scarcely afford it, they were so proud of their new electric oven (in an eye-catching shade of "Robin's Egg Gray") that Mr. Flenderson built a dais to display it on. Contemporary accounts had called the kitchen "gorgeous" and "very tastefully done", but after the transformation, even Mrs. Flenderson was compelled to admit that her now burnt-ochre oven was an eyesore.
ReplyOops, I made the comment at 11:58, but didn't find (and reply to) the confirmation email until 12:04. Oh, well. Good luck everyone, I enjoyed reading everyone's captions!
ReplyTesting testing one two three
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