Get Your New Handheld...in Butter. 167
Wow. That's about all I can say to the 50 pound PDA made out of butter currently on eBay. Obviously, the Dairy Council got to them.
Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine. -- Andy Warhol
Great! (Score:4, Funny)
$50 for 50 lbs of butter? (Score:1, Funny)
Who knows how high the bidding will get, but it's a good deal at the moment.
Plus butter goes great with hot grits.
Hrm.. (Score:5, Funny)
Misunderstanding (Score:4, Funny)
Ahem.
Re:What's scarier (Score:2, Funny)
It melts in your mouth, and in your Palm ©
I mean really... (Score:5, Funny)
only at the MN state fair... (Score:4, Funny)
Top Ten Lame Jokes about the Butter PDA (Score:5, Funny)
9. Runs so smooth... it's like butter.
8. Stupid character recognition... I wrote "butter", but all it will say is "Parkay".
7. Gives a whole new meaning to "butter fingers".
6. And to think, they said my computer would be no substitute for a girlfriend. Boy, were THEY wrong.
5. First ever computer with a "best used by" date.
4. Would you like your PDA salted or unsalted?
3. Gives a whole new meaning to "memory churn".
2. I think heat dissipation is going to be a problem.
And the number 1, absolute LAMEST joke about the Butter PDA:
1. I think I've milked this long enough.
Re:Hrm.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yeah, but... (Score:2, Funny)
I know where it came from! (Score:2, Funny)
The Butter PDA is a Fake! (Score:5, Funny)
- The picture shows the words "Palm VII x" across the top, but there is no antenna visible on the right side of the unit.
- The unit itself seems to be out of proportion with real VII x's by nearly 7 millimeters width.
- The "Login" button on the front screen is missing the "send information" icon (looks like waves moving out from a point) that is the staple of almost all Palm Portal online applications.
- The front panel buttons seem to be positioned wrong. The real up and down buttons on VII x's are centered approximately 3.5 mm farther down.
- The "cradle" this unit is sitting in is cleary missing the Palm logo on the front, as well as any visible HotSync button.
- The entire unit seems to be yellow in color and made of butter. This may be a result of a bad picture, but real VII x's are made of plastic and are black in color, with the distinctive "Palm green" monochrome screen.
Cleary this is the work of someone very skilled in Photoshop. I wonder if this is a retaliation by Palm after the recent FCC screwup [palminfocenter.com] with their new i705, to try and generate more interest in the VII x? Or perhaps it is the work of Palm-knockoff pirate organizations in Tailand or China, eager to flood the PDA hungry US market with cheap, imitation Palms.
Re:Great! (Score:2, Funny)
And either way it's frozen, must be all that cholesterol in the wiring...
Butter. (Score:5, Funny)
"Rather than see the world's first, largest, and most beautiful, Butter PDA go to waste, we recognized the market demand for such an item [Emphasis personally added]and now offer it to the public in a charity auction."
Who was polled in this market study, a tub of Parkay?
Interviewer: "What sort of changes or enhancements would need to be made to handheld computers of today to make you more likely to purchase one in the future?"
Small Plastic Tub: "Butter."
Marketing Department: *ding*
Homer says: (Score:2, Funny)
Homer: Quiet Marge! I'm trying to work. And now to write another delicious memo.
Mmmmmmmmm...memo.
Re:Whats the point? (Score:1, Funny)
This is... (Score:5, Funny)
Many pundits have had a cow over this thing, some going so far as to declare it udderly ridiculous. Others believe it will saturate the market as readily as this reporter's pants and shirt. If the producers stick to their plans, this device should pound the competition within the next quart-er. Of course, that's provided they don't let this opportunity slip through their fingers. There is some concern about keeping up with demand and they may have to farm out some of the manufacturing to avoid a melt-down if things begin to heat up.
Re:Yeah, but... (Score:2, Funny)
It's Interesting, but not original... (Score:2, Funny)
Prior to that, I understand NEC had managed to create a dried-apple head version of a cash register, but the disturbing pop-up No Sale key frightened young children.
not a fake. a facsimile (Score:2, Funny)
A New Hope (Score:1, Funny)
A NEW HOPE
Top ten uses (Score:2, Funny)
Lunch for my highschool gym teacher
Pack a dozen m80s in the middle during the M$ presentation at comedex...
Leave it in the hotel lobby at Defcon. Nuff said.
Tell Condit there's a cute intern in the middle.
Carve a Windows CE startup screen on it, and sacrifice at in a satanic ritual by slowly lowering it into the fire
Feed it to the neighbor's rotweiler- Give em diarrea for life.
It's for the children!
Tell Micheal Jackson theres a little boy in the middle.
Cowboy Neal