Subtlety.

I think I have talked before about how many catalogs we get at the house, as a result of both the guy who we bought it from who must have collected the damn things and also of online shopping. We got one today and I am SO not telling you which one because they have copy-protected their pictures, presumably so I can't copy them for the purposes of mockery, so I'm going to tell the same story with pictures stolen from Google.

So imagine this hoarftastic extravaganza only with a blue and white pattern that claims to be a descendant of "Oriental china" but actually looks more like the flower garden you come up with in elementary school art classes in inner cities where they have run out of all but blue paint. Plus an area rug that matches the comforter. The main thing is the overwhelming matchy-matchiness, ok? So in the description, these people opted to employ the word "subtle."

SUBTLE?

First of all, it's only subtle if you don't swathe every single surface of a room in the same fucking pattern! No! Fail!

Second of all, once you put an animatronic, roaring, light-up mounter tiger head in your catalog for $29.99, you pretty much lose all rights to ever so much as THINK the word "subtle."Just remember, people, it's on sale because someone wants it.