Shoddy PresentsI have an aunt who for many years would send me the same christmas present every year. A Biro. Each year I wrote inevitable "Thankyou so much for the Biro. I am using it to write this letter" letter, each year a new one arrived.
Tell us all about the rubbish that has been foisted upon you over the years.
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chthonic, Thu 23 Sep 2004, 10:14)
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something one of my people got for xmas quite a while back:A radio. But not just a normal electrical/battery-operated radio. Oh no.
This radio had a hand crank. It ran off of kinetic energy. It was 1/8, meaning that in order to listen to one minute of music, you had to crank it for eight minutes. No, I haven't got this backwards. So considering that most songs are about three-minutes long...yeah.
This radio also had solar panels.
We talked about it for a while and we figured out that the only use for this radio (besides giving you carpal tunnel syndrome) was listening to it while laying out.
This guy needed a tan in the way that I need an artificial nose extension.
I wouldn'tve believed him about the radio, except that I was at an after-christmas sale at the JCPenney and there, sitting on the table, marked down fifty percent, was the exact radio that my friend had described.
(, Thu 23 Sep 2004, 18:30, Reply)
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