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Somone actually bought this?

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

23:10 / 03.01.04

That's right, you too can have a Ultimate Warrior Velvet painting.

Oh, wait, you can't. It sold. But you can look at it here. Best part to me? "This auction is for an Ultimate Warrior Velvet Painting. I have no clue where this came from or who painted it but it has been in my collection since the early 90's."

ONLY NICE THINGS

23:18 / 03.01.04

His collection of what? Of velvet paintings of wrestlers?

Truly, it is mighty.

Bed Head

23:27 / 03.01.04

You could put it in your hallway, nobody would risk burgling your house after they’ve caught sight of that. It isn’t so scary, but someone who owns it would be bloody terrifying.

How much did it sell for? That link doesn’t work for me.

Shrug

23:33 / 03.01.04

He seems to have some kind of vent or possibly gills rippling under his pants?

Bed Head

23:48 / 03.01.04

I think those ridges are a washboard stuffed down the front of his pants. About his pose, he’s flexing his arms like that because he’s just about to give us a tune. I think there’s meant to be a companion painting of another ultimate wrestler playing a ‘jug’. They’re a proper old-timey tag-team jug band, limbering up for a hoe-down. Ye-harr!

That squiggly line on the side of his pants is obviously a parasitic worm of some kind. Nasty.

fluid_state

06:06 / 04.01.04

Apparently, Sylvester Stallone would only pose for the painting if the artist included the colours of the Italian flag.

rizla mission

14:16 / 04.01.04

How to respond but with;

"Dude! Who WOULDN'T buy that??"

I mean, if you saw that at a car boot sale or something, there would NOT be a choice..

bitchiekittie

14:24 / 04.01.04

aahh, takes me back to when I was a kid. my parents had a black velvet painting, velour furniture in covered in earth toned geometric shapes, and smoked their pot with feather-adorned roach clips.

the late 70s/early 80s were so damned CLASSY

Cat Chant

14:29 / 04.01.04

There were a couple of years where me and the other people on my corridor (yes, I was an undergraduate) used to buy things solely based on the criterion of them making no sense. I have a fantastic 80's pencil-gray taffeta party dress which I still occasionally wear and which I bought because I had absolutely no idea who would have ever designed, let alone bought, such a thing - but I think this painting might be the supreme example...

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

01:36 / 06.01.04

And here you can get someone to be your internet girlfriend.

The bidding didn't even get up to $15. What a bunch of cheap bastards.

I think I could be someone's internet friend for less than that.

deja_vroom

09:00 / 06.01.04

You know, this picture would look great in a sequel to The Royal Tenenbaums. Put it up on Eli’s place!

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