You complete me
Recently I purchased some new dishes. I bought them at Winners (TJ or TK Maxx to you Americans and Brits).
I have 13 of the large and small plates and 12 bowls. I had to go to three stores to get them. I can’t find any more anywhere. We have 15 people coming for Christmas. See a problem? I didn’t until I looked for them on this here interweb.
When I did a search on Royal Stafford Earthenware, guess what came up? Female Viagara cream, free poker online, cheap Nicorette gum and Ford Explorers. Apparently it’s not enough to be simply spammed by these bastards. All I can say is, fuck you, you fucking fucks. Fuck.
December 3rd, 2004 at 5:12 pm
I am surprised to see such language from one who has Royal Stafford earthenware, reads books (without many pictures) and tends to a suburban garden– for shame!
December 3rd, 2004 at 5:14 pm
Shocking, isn’t it? Actually, not really, see little Miss Bossy for more information.
December 3rd, 2004 at 5:40 pm
Try replacements.com. I can’t promise that they’ll have it, and I think that you’ll have to pay in spades to get it in 3 weeks, but it’s worth a shot.
December 3rd, 2004 at 6:47 pm
You are hilarious. Simple. I must come back. Must. Fuck.
December 3rd, 2004 at 8:07 pm
You’re the second person to mention interweb. I had never heard of that until this week.
I had mentioned my Calvin Klein sheets replaced my irregular Polo ones plus I mentioned name brands of the china on our register and the spam was horrible. I intentionall mispell drug name on my blog now.
December 4th, 2004 at 10:14 pm
So, did you buy any Viagra cream or not?
December 4th, 2004 at 10:19 pm
Of course. It makes great stocking stuffers.
December 5th, 2004 at 11:52 am
Little Miss Bossy indicated that you are “much more polite [on this website than you are] in real life”, so I can only conclude that I should be afraid, very afraid of ever running afoul of Little Miss Bossy.
December 6th, 2004 at 10:16 am
I don’t see a problem. Go to the dollar store and buy a whole new set of dishes. Assuming you feed them right, nobody’ll care. But then I never thought place settings had to match.
December 6th, 2004 at 10:41 am
For the love of god. I SCOURED Winners for those dishes… it was you!! Fuckety fuck.
December 7th, 2004 at 4:05 pm
Here in the great state of Oklahoma, we eat on those fancy paper plates that are divided into sections so your gravy doesn’t run over into your Dr. Pepper Jello salad. You can buy them by the gross as Sprawl-Mart.
December 7th, 2004 at 4:09 pm
I must not forget to add Dr Pepper Jello salad to the Christmas dinner menu
December 10th, 2004 at 9:05 am
The problem is easily solved, break one of the large and one of the small plates. Go on! Toss it from the roof. Smash it agains the dining room wall. This is your opportunity to break a dish like you have always dreamed of doing!
December 10th, 2004 at 11:03 am
I like Shawn’s idea of breaking a set of plates, and this is why:
You will then have an even amount for 12 (not unreasonable in the pre- and post- holiday world) and won’t have a missing bowl irking you. You can then go out and find 3 sets of cheap alternative dishes somewhere, the uglier the better perhaps. Then you tell your guests that whoever is sitting at a place with mismatched orphan dishes doesn’t have to help clean up…or eat Dr. Pepper jello salad. They feel like they’ve won something, and you can just throw out 3 sets of dishes after instead of cleaning them.
Ta daa.
January 19th, 2005 at 5:01 pm
I just stumbled on your blog while doing a search for a movie line “you complete me” that I can’t, for the love of God, remember the title of. Anyway, I have a blog (actually like 5) elsewhere but danged if this isn’t highly entertaining (I’d love to steal the pic of the moment idea if I may…), AND you have traffic… am so jealous. Well, I’m with the last poster, give them orphans with incentive. And would someone send me the recipe to that Dr. Pepper Jello Salad… I’m highly intrigued! Fuckity Fuck… that’s a new one on me, but I’m from Indiana. Most stuff is.
July 12th, 2005 at 11:49 am
Jen saw your message here on the site. Have you checked out the
Royal stafford site in the UK? See http://www.royalstaffordshop.co.uk
Id also like to know which site came up with the wierd listings.
I have done a search on google and nothing like this came up for
Royal Stafford Earthenware. All the Best from the UK!
July 12th, 2005 at 1:28 pm
Hi Amanda,
Thanks for your comment. I have since found more of the pattern we bought, so I am very pleased about that.
Hmm, it was such a long time ago, I don’t remember what happened with the searches other than some really strange spam-type sites came up.