Tag: Facebook Marketplace

MEMernet: Holiday Shopping on Facebook

Post author By Flyer Staff
Post date December 18, 2024

Memphis on the internet.

Holiday Shopping on Facebook

Looking for unique gifts this giving season? Here’re a few posted recently on Facebook Marketplace Memphis.

“Homemade Iron Throne chair. Made for a murder mystery party and used during that night. It is crafted from a plastic Adirondack chair, wood supports, and different types of foam. $100.

One of two oil paintings on offer; $150 for both.

Banksy Keep It Real graffiti sign original, 2004. $3,000.

“A holy grail piece for any street art collector.”

Autographed photo of Dr. Phil with the quote: “Walking around with a stick up your butt will not make you a corndog!” $20.

Tags Banksy, Dr. Phil, Facebook Marketplace

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MEMernet: Big Ass City, Spooky Marketplace, and Spooky IG

Post author By Flyer Staff
Post date October 25, 2023

Posted to Facebook by Bruce VanWyngarden (Photo: Marcus Jones | Adobe Stock)

Memphis on the internet.

Big Ass City

Our own Bruce VanWyngarden stirred the MEMernet last week in sharing his column, “Big Ass City,” on Facebook. His take on the Tom Lee Park situation drew comments like Liberty Park draws a barbecue team.

Fitz Dearmore asked Bruce, “Who got to you?”, suggesting some riverside conspiracy. Another suggested the park renovation was “intentionally evil.” However, a long line of luminaries jumped in the thread, too, like Tom Jones, Ron Olson, Geoff Calkins, Virginia McLean, George Abbott, Shea Flinn, and more.

Spooky Marketplace

The local Marketplace was a bit spooky last week. As you can see above, someone in Southaven was selling, basically, fancy Freddy Krueger gloves. In Memphis, someone was selling a five-foot posable skeleton with a hat that read “Make Racists Afraid Again,” and a devil-themed mechanical bull was up for $9,000.

Spooky Instagram

Check our Instagram for short walking tours of some of the city’s best Halloween decorations. So far, we’ve been to the mean streets of Harbor Town, Central Gardens, and Cooper-Young.

Please send suggestions to toby@memphisflyer.com.

Tags Big Ass City, Facebook Marketplace, MEMernet, spooky

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MEMernet: Jennifer, Tough Tuohy Time, and a Chair?

Post author By Flyer Staff
Post date August 23, 2023

Memphis on the internet.

Jennifer

Memphians mourned the passing of food writer Jennifer Biggs last week. Friends, family, and colleagues remembered her in photos, stories, and videos. They wrote of her love of people, food, and laughter, all of which were evident in her many columns in The Commercial Appeal and The Daily Memphian.

Tough Tuohy Time

“This is everyone on Memphis Twitter today sharing their personal bad experiences/stories about Leigh Anne Tuohy,” Melvin Purdy tweeted last week. Indeed, the MEMernet buzzed with such stories in the wake of a Memphis lawsuit filed by Michael Oher. The football star claims The Blind Side family tricked him into a conservatorship — rather than adopting him — to profit from his name, likeness, and image.

“As a Memphis bartender who has had to serve the Tuohys before: I hope they are treated by the media and/or courts in the coming weeks/months with *exactly* the same amount of dignity, respect, and kindness that they show service industry workers when they go out,” tweeted @campari_queen_.

Chair?

Memphian Titus James offered a “civil rights chair” for sale on Facebook Marketplace last week for $12,695. Nope. No more information.

Tags Civil rights chair, Facebook Marketplace, Jennifer Biggs, MEMernet, Michael Oher, Tuohy

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MEMernet: Lemon for Sale, Worst Place to Sh*t

Post author By
Post date March 5, 2020

Lemon

Want to buy a guaranteed “lemon edition” 2020 Lemon? Head on over to the Memphis section of Facebook Marketplace. Facebook user Drakkor Washington has it on offer for only $4,000.

Chicken Shit

Instagram’s ever-vigilant Memphis bathroom connoisseur memplops gave a rare look into the facilities of one very special chicken last week.

If you read the Flyer, you know Hernando’s Hide-A-Way offers Chicken Shit Bingo every Sunday night. Haven’t been? Well, have a look at the board.

As for a review, memplops gave the bingo chicken coop a 0/10 on ambiance as “hundreds of people are going watch you take a shit.”

King Flop

Lebron James gave a stunning performance in Memphis Saturday in a loss to the Grizzlies at FedExForum.

Griz shooting guard Dillon Brooks tapped James on the chin; no question about that. But “replays caught The King executing an Oscar-worthy flop” in exchange, according to the Clutch Points sports blog.