Autosell

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Revision as of 00:59, 24 October 2005 by imported>Orbrisa (References: - added hotel detective reference, Wikified some of the links, put the references in alphabetical order.)

Autoselling is the process of trading in items for meat at the item's disclosed selling price.


Autosell messages take the form:

You sell your ITEM to a(n) BUYER for N meat.

Buyers

  • anthropomorphic chicken breast
  • argonaut
  • Bugbear breeder
  • bicycling acolyte
  • Canadian telemarketer
  • caterwauling samurai
  • corrupt policeman
  • crushed dwarf with a pair of pliers
  • cycling minstrel
  • demon-eating kitten
  • drunken hemi-dwarf
  • Dutch Elm Disease-riddled Ent
  • flock of geese
  • fool on a hill
  • halfling knob polisher
  • hermetic seal
  • hotel detective
  • intelligent shade of blue
  • kitten-eating demon
  • lecherous orangutan
  • long-haul trucker on speed
  • mechanic named Mike
  • miniscule suffragette
  • monkey organ grinder
  • mustachioed popcorn vendor
  • Orcish Frat Boy
  • organ grinder
  • organ grinder's monkey
  • puddle of primordial ooze
  • stranger with candy
  • wandering hippy

References

  • The argonauts were the soldiers on the ship "Argo" in the mythological story of "Jason and the Golden Fleece".
  • "Crushed dwarf with a pair of pliers" refers to the 1970 comedy album Don’t Crush that Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers by Firesign Theatre.
  • "Fool on a hill" refers to the Beatles song "The Fool on the Hill".
  • "Hotel detective" refers to the song "(She Was A) Hotel Detective" by They Might Be Giants.
  • An "intelligent shade of blue" appears in the novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". The name of its race is [[Wikipedia:Races_from_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Hooloovoo|Hooloovoo].
  • "Kitten-eating Demons" appeared in the sixth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
  • The "mechanic named Mike" refers to the band Mike and the Mechanics.