As I was scanning the on-screen TV schedule I noticed an HSN segment called "As Seen On TV". The description read "Items originally marketed through your television"
Feel free to add your own odd, stupid and/or intelligence insulting stuff. :)
lucy24
2:28 am on Aug 23, 2011 (gmt 0)
Through MY television? My own personal little 13-inch Toshiba? Wow. I had no idea. So that's why the monitor is so fat.
:: rushing over to pat TV on the head ::
Still haven't found anything to top the recent insurance-company ads touting their "online website". If I go three years without a claim, can I get the website on a floppy* instead?
* In South Africa they distinguish between floppies and stiffies. I don't make this stuff up, you know.
johnhh
11:03 pm on Sep 26, 2011 (gmt 0)
In South Africa they distinguish between floppies and stiffies
made me LOL given usual definition of stiffies !
lucy24
12:08 am on Sep 27, 2011 (gmt 0)
I learned the word from a South African on another forum who asked about things to do with old stiffies, since she had hundreds of them.
:: tweet, tweet :: :: chirp, chirp ::
My TV just died. Silently, in the night, without a peep of warning. It was only seven years old, according to the sticker on the back. The one it replaced lasted 16 years.
:: sob ::
Just when I was getting hooked on the Western Sky loan-sharks ad. Only in the US. The one with the good-looking Dakota-ish guy saying "You stole our land, so now we're going to steal your money." I may not have the wording exactly right, but that's the general sense. Or maybe it was "If you persist in calling us 'Sioux',* it's going to cost you."
* This is really true. I looked it up. Apparently they can set their own interest rates but are powerless to rename the reservation.
g1smd
12:17 am on Sep 27, 2011 (gmt 0)
The local library has a huge button for wheelchair users to push, and then some electronics opens the door.
There's a big arrow pointing at the button and the signage reads "button for automatic door".
If it is automatic, why's it need/have a freakin button? Question is lost on library staff.
Leosghost
12:32 am on Sep 27, 2011 (gmt 0)
Someone has to say it..
Why does the GUI button on the taskbar that you click on to stop/restart/sleep windows say "start"...( "start" windows being what it specifically does not do ) ..as windows has to have already been started for the GUI and hence the start button to appear.
I lit a valve and said three toshibas and a hail samsung for your TV...I would advise against burial at sea or cremation..my portable tvs are saying kaddish for it on the veranda
johnhh
10:09 pm on Sep 29, 2011 (gmt 0)
North Dakota ? or is
Dakota-ish
somewhere else ?
Been to North Dakota , and South Dakota. North Dakota seemed boring, and full of missile silos, firework factories and sunflowers ( if I remember correctly)
Error: No keyboard Please Press F1 to continue ... um...
lucy24
10:48 pm on Sep 29, 2011 (gmt 0)
:) I meant the tribal designation. The business is run by the Cheyennne River Sioux Reservation, which is about as confusing a name as you can get. Further looking-up tells me it's the Lakota Nation, so I was actually right. (Thanks to the operation of wholly predictable phonetic laws, there are three groups: Dakota, Lakota and Nakota.)
When I tell the library computers to shut down, I get a message asking what I want to do, with Shut Down as one of several options. Hellooo? Which part of "Shut Down" did you not understand?
Shutting down the Mac is historically interesting. At first there was a window saying to click such-and-such if you really mean it. Otherwise, the window will stay there forever-- and this was in the days when the window content eventually "burned" into the display. Hence the real need for screen savers, not only to keep co-workers from snooping when you were in the bathroom.
Later you had two minutes to change your mind, with an extra "Yes! I'm sure! Do it right now!" option. Vague analogy here to Chief Executive's three-way option: sign, veto or do nothing. Then, when I wasn't paying attention, it quietly changed from two minutes to one. Does this have something to do with all those boring surveys saying that computers have made people react faster?
johnhh
9:59 pm on Sep 30, 2011 (gmt 0)
When we used to travel the USA we found it funny ( i.e odd ) that the road was tarmaced up to the border of the reservation, then it was dirt or gravel until you left the reservation.
No idea if it is the same now, but hey, this is Foo
Essex_boy
8:56 pm on Oct 2, 2011 (gmt 0)
Last night I was out and stopped by a policeman and was told it was illegal to drink in the street. To rectify this, take one step back into the pub and drinking is legal, which I did.
