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Alan R.M. Jones emails: “The next time you find yourself on public transport, sitting next to someone who cannot resist chattering to you endlessly, I urge you to quietly pull your laptop out of your rucksack, carefully open the screen (ensuring the irritating person next to you can see it), and hit this link.”
Such opportunities make me wish I wasn’t allergic to public transport. Also from the e-bag ... “Hey, TB,” writes regular contributor Raff. “You KNOW you want this.”
Cat meat thick sheik is at it again.
Hell be issuing a fatwa against interperters next!Apologies if ita allready been mentioned
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 01 11 at 09:39 AM • permalinkThe blog from which comes the link to the animation, offers another practical use for it:
Display this animation full-screen when they ask you to open your laptop during a security check on the subway.
Almost as much fun as Harry’s idea.
I have a really good feeling about this thread.
Huge crowd of
20,000,2,000, er.. 20 turn out for Mohammed Dawood vigil.A Devon Tea and Chardonnay fundraiser was held in the local workers institute afterwards.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 01 11 at 09:48 AM • permalinkCountdown to virgin time! What an excellent idea; ought to wind up with the equivalent of your own private coach.
With respect to the second link, the photo looks like a shot of the Valley of Lost Lawnmower Accoutrements. Why would you want one of these, Tim? Surely there are any number of people here who would mow your lawn for you, for free, just for the honor of the thing. Look at MarkL over there, or Infidel Tiger; just waiting for a chance to police the parade ground.
Help - I couldn’t open the first link (got the lawn mower bit)
What is it?
Please explain
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 01 11 at 10:08 AM • permalinkI would do it if the public buses here had wifi and I wasn’t afraid I’d get my laptop peed on by a crackhead.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 01 11 at 12:22 PM • permalinkThough, truth be told, if I saw that on a laptop next to me I would kill the person.
I’m not kidding.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 01 11 at 12:35 PM • permalinkthe most pain-in-neck, body-cavity-search
Now that’s a thorough search.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 01 11 at 12:57 PM • permalink#17 Coffee’s just brewed, give me a minute…
Posted by MentalFloss on 2007 01 11 at 06:11 PM • permalinkThe text on the countdown thingy says:
“Seconds remaining to premature ejaculation”
Posted by closeapproximation on 2007 01 11 at 06:14 PM • permalinkWell, paco, that didn’t take too long.
I’m going to go on record and say that not only is it gibberish (my software will not even correctly join these Arabic consonants and vowels), its poorly constructed gibberish. The letters themselves aren’t even written correctly—diacritical marks are all wrong. You simply can’t make some of the letters without an image editor like photoshop.
There is no way anyone could have typed it and have it come out that way; my software tried (and failed) to connect the letters and tried its little heart out to change them to their proper forms.
What a shame. What a missed opportunity for a dig. Should have said “Your Al-Qaeda employee benefits terminate in…” or something.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2007 01 11 at 06:36 PM • permalink#6 - Last time we offered to do his lawn, Paco, he made us cut it with nail scissors. If that wasn’t bad enough, Drill Sergeant Emery yelled very mean things at us about our mothers.
Tim prefers to do the lawn by slash n’ burn. It’s excessive, but it’s the only way to get your carbon footprint Yeti like.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 11 at 07:37 PM • permalink#3,#18. Ferntree Gully is just up the road from Bogan Central here, and I need a new catcher for my lawn mower hahaha!
That catcher won’t fit mine, though, so I guess I’ll pass.
Mind you, if anyone wants to shoot an ep of Bogan’s Backyard, by all means give me a hoy. Plenty of bogans around here.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 01 11 at 09:11 PM • permalinkAre you anywhere near my childhood home in East Burwood, Nilknarf?
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 01 11 at 09:49 PM • permalinkSo now you’re hangin’ with the Raff riff?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 01 12 at 12:56 AM • permalink#25 I’m in the Dandy area. The Heart of Bogan Central, I call it, Swinish. I did live in Chaddy for a while.
And a lot of other bogan paradises.
#26 Good point, rebase lol.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 01 12 at 03:31 AM • permalinkDo catchers breed? Looked like a little colony of them, with the proud alpha male sunning himself on the rock.
Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 01 12 at 10:02 AM • permalink#21: Well done, Mental Floss. You’re right; the author of this joke missed an opportunity for an even bigger gag.
#22: Yeah, Tim’s pretty fussy about that yard. I think he insists on nail scissors because the last time MarkL cut his grass using the Paco III Turbo Swath-Cutter, he was distracted by a lovely young thing walking down the sidewalk and collided with the birdbath, seriously injuring a rare rufous bristlebird.
#15: What does the text on the countdown thingy say? - paco
#21: I’m going to go on record and say that not only is it gibberish ... - MentalFloss
Oh gee whiz. Can’t you tell. It’s Elvish. It reads “one ring to bind them all”. I see it all the time when Karl gestures and waves his hands around.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 01 12 at 04:05 PM • permalinkAchillea, academically speaking of course, it would be disgustingly simple—such is the weakness of MSIE.
The only hard part would be the delivery of the payload. For the most part, only complete e-diots would be vulnerable.
Wait a minute…I see what you mean.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2007 01 12 at 08:39 PM • permalinkFeh.
Come to Oakleigh South—Hughesdale Primary, for example—and I’ll show you 5 year-old bogans hustling lunches and using standover tactics on the preppies.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2007 01 12 at 08:58 PM • permalink
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Wouldn’t it be funny, if the dude selling it started receiving hundreds of enquiries via eBay, asking detailed, specific questions about his wares!