Thursday, July 30, 2015

The importance of being earnest in room-for-rent ads on Craigslist


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Spotted on Craigslist:

$750 Large Room East Village (East Village)

Spacious Room — fit for Oscar Wilde.

Sleigh bed, new mattress.

$750. Six months minimum, first/last mos. to move in.

Wilde's real-life home in London sounds a little roomier than this.

5 comments:

  1. The playwright Oscar Wilde spent two years in Reading Gaol (jail) in London after being convicted of sodomy, maybe that's what they mean!

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  2. Congrats, Gojira ... beat me to it!

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  3. This room and Wilde's former home are probably more spacious than this offering in South London... for £700

    http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/mattress-with-walls-flat-in-south-london-is-yours-to-rent-for-700-a-month-10384522.html

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  4. So, it's a good room to die in? "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has to go."

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  5. The only caveat is you need not be there when the room is being used by your roommate to conduct their Dominatrix work.True story, happened to a friend.

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