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Don’t Buy: Quirk

Scene: A family, ripped literally in half by divorce (he LITERALLY ripped his head off!), sits around a dining room table. The catch? The father works in latex, the family is kosher, and they keep half their silverware in condoms.

No wait–too dirty/unPC. The mother only speaks around words from her word-a-day calendar, and the daughter is wise to her mother’s irritating vocab pattern. Daughter spits wet tic tacs into her mother’s purse at each utterance when the family’s round the dinner table. The father works in asbestos. Add the word “loneliness,” resolve word with smooching or more quirk. This is their quirky life; it’s indie time.

The currency of quirk is rising at an alarming rate–and I know nothing about goods/services. Rather jerks than quirks. Give it away now.


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5 Comments, Comment or Ping

  1. I’m not saying this because I’m interning at The Atlantic, but mostly because I’m taking a “Legal Aspects of Communication” class right now. You should probably think twice about using photos that you don’t have permission to use. Magazines pay hundreds for the right to print these photos (and sometimes separately to post them online) and listing the source and artist doesn’t make you any less liable for copyright infringement. :(

    Sorry to be a party pooper, but better than you getting sued!

  2. Caroline
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    Mar 4th, 2009

    You’re right–I guess we’ve enjoyed freely using any photo or drawing we’ve wanted, relying on our under the radar hit count. I’ll replace it with something I made in Microsoft Paint. It’ll be pretty quirky!

  3. max baumgarten
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    Mar 5th, 2009

    wait, what wes anderson movie is that scene from?

  4. Eric C
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    Mar 9th, 2009

    Remember the facebook phenomenon “25 Things (Quirks) About Me”?

  5. Sara
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    Mar 9th, 2009

    @Eric That was a don’t buy.

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