Craigslister seeks woman to sit in bathtub full of ramen noodles

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My mother told me that the emergence of art was a sign that civilization had arrived.

She also told me that people seeking women to sit in a bathtub full of raman noodles was a sign that civilization had been around too long.

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Day late, dollar short. I shot this nearly five years ago! http://www.modelmayhem.com/portfolio/pic/13022380

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Oh goody.

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I guess that is what they mean when they say, “I’d drink her bathwater”

Grossss!

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More like Nudels, Amirite?

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Hey, this is a repost of something that made best-of-craigslist 5 years ago: https://www.craigslist.org/about/best/pit/1145392897.html

I guess that makes this a… COPYPASTA!

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And after the desired “flavor” is gathered from this venture, the product development guys from either Maruchan or Nissin begin experimenting with putting together various artificial ingredients to produce a matching taste for their new flavor packets.

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I came in to this thread wondering if anyone else had considered how much ramen it would take to fill a bathtub, or what that might cost. Of all the weird things you could fill a tub with, ramen seems like a really good bang for your buck.

Do you recall how many ramen packets were used to make that shot in the pool there?

Considering it looks like quite a bit sunk to the bottom, I’d guess we’re seeing about $20 worth. Close?

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5 years ago? Yeah it would take me like 5 years to get through a whole tub of ramen. He probably needs more.

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It was six cases, and I think the case had 36 bricks in each, so something like 216 packs of Ramen? I chose it because it was absurd and cheap (around $6 per case from Sam’s Club) and I hadn’t seen it shot before. More than $20 but less than $40.

People always ask how I cooked it all, but I didn’t necessarily “cook” it. I put it all in two giant tupperware storage containers and filled them with the hottest water my bathtub faucet would make, then put the lid on for 5-10 minutes and it was actually a little overcooked. It was pretty horrendous. The other shots I didn’t post show the absurdity of it all.

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Would you be willing to share the absurd shots?

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I’ll have to track them down. I’ve got some of the shots I edited here on my laptop, but the entire shoot is on my backup drive at the office, so it’d take me a bit to dig them all up. Let me see if I’ve got a backup disk around here somewhere. How do you want me to share them? I have another random one on Flickr

but I could throw more up there.

EDIT: Just looked through some backups here and I don’t know exactly where the originals are, but I’ll shoot you a note tomorrow when I’ve got my backups in front of me and I’ll share anything you want to check out. I’ll keep looking around here for now though.

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Episode 9 of Serial Experiments Lain, I think.

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Ohhhh, this kind of thing has probably been around since some guy left anonymous pictographs inviting women to sit in the big basket of berries in his cave.

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Proof that Rule 34 is real.

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This totes reminds me of grapefruit guy from Rubyfruit Jungle.

yeah, so could I.

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Someone call the police!!! this has got to be a Copypasta.

People have been doing weird shit forever: