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by **mesherm** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 2:09 pm

Or the poor trapped serpent was thirsty all those years...

by **Hollow Fate** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 9:23 pm

On the topic of marketing-dictated name changes one of my favourites presented itself years ago when I lived in Sydney Australia. The Sydney Fish Markets was a favourite haunt of mine. One fish on sale was "Snotty-Nosed Trevally”. I never bought it.

http://www.sydneyfishmarket.com.au/Info ... fault.aspx (look under "other names")

They re-named it "Sea Bream" while I lived there and presumedly it sold. But maybe not, because they have now re-named it (like, again already) "Warehou" which sounds vaguely Aboriginal I guess.

My favourites to eat were "Leather Jackets", "John Dory", or "Balmain Bugs" which were known at the market as "Green Bugs" if bought uncooked (a kind of lobster that looks like a bedbug on steroids).

http://www.bay-keeper.com/2009/05/28/sh ... -werribee/

“Balmain Bug” now seems to be in the process of a name change as well, now being referred to as “Shovel-nosed Lobster”. (What’s with the seafood and ‘noses’ down there?)

For the record “Green Bugs” that are boiled, grilled, or BBQ’ed taste good but are no match for the lobsters we get from the cold waters off the eastern coast of North America. The closest thing to the taste of Canadian lobster in ‘OZ’ is Western Australian scampi. C’est magnifique! BTW, most Australian scampi is shipped to France.

Donald.

by **Vince** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:50 am

Thanks Donald!! Interesting post. Vince

by **EWBrown** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:35 pm

More snake oil, this one caused a rather serious hiss problem...

/ed B

by **Geek** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:27 pm

0_o;

You're getting the cleaning bill for my keyboard for that one :-p

Cheers!

by **WA4SWJ** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:56 pm

Ed,

He finally found a pit to hiss in!

by **EWBrown** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 1:44 pm

Some more "graduate level" audiophoolery and snake oil:

The Blackbody is a high-tech audio accessory which greatly enhances your audio playback experience by addressing the interaction of your audio gear's circuitry with ambient electromagnetic phenomena and modifying this interplay. The Blackbody takes advantage of the quantum nature of particle interaction, and is therefore able to permeate metal, plastic, wood, and other barriers to affect the circuitry inside your components. This altered electromagnetic influence results in profoundly improved sound quality.

http://www.lessloss.com/blackbody-p-200.html

Does it look like it's really worth $959 ?!?!?!?!?!?

Howzabout "less loss" from your wallet....

/ed B

by **nyazzip** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 3:36 pm

it's a box full of magnets.
"more is merrier" according to the website. i think i'll probably build an entire listening room with them, stacking them like cinder blocks. who needs drywall?

by **EWBrown** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 8:27 pm

As far as I'm concerned, a freeze-dried "pasture pattie" would have the same "sonic effects", at a much lower cost, and in addition, it would be a truly unique conversation starter (as in "get that piece of $#!+ out of here!" )

As I often say, the two most common elements in the Universe are Hydrogen and Stupidity.

/ed B

by **soundbrigade** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 2:54 am

nyazzip wrote:it's a box full of magnets.

NO!! It's full of Protons or Ozons or Orsons or something similar. Frotons??? When the Fortons are all used up you have to fill in a new load, and does anyone know how much a package of oftons cost??

by **Geek** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 5:41 am

How on earth did they find out my design for the antiproton moleculizer? >_>

Cheers!

by **soundbrigade** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 6:13 am

How????!!!!!

You have, for heaven sake, started at least 17 threads in here describing your iditic projects of transferring vacuum from a parallell universe to this one and use it in your modified KT88's ....

The question is, what are we to do with the green slime from your experiments. It is covering half of Sweden by now!!!!

by **EWBrown** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 7:41 am

How on earth did they find out my design for the antiproton moleculizer? >_>

They stole it from the MiB. Agent K was a double-agent spy for the RCMP. ;-)

From Space Oddesy 2001:

"Oh my God, it's full of stars!!!"

The question is, what are we to do with the green slime from your experiments. It is covering half of Sweden by now!!!!

I dunno, maybe gather it up, dry it out, roll it up and smoke it... '-)

/ed B

by **soundbrigade** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 7:45 am

Calm down. We've got rid of it, but now the whole place where I live has been invaded by photons ....

by **EWBrown** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 7:58 am

Aaahhhh, another lovely balmy day in Scandinavia... Just call it "liquid sunshine".Strange, it looks like almost the same conditions in southwestern North Carolina, rainy, foggy and about 50 degrees F (or 10C). Yeah, it's also a lot less "urban", around here, where the entire county population is about 10K.

Traffic jams, ? only when the herd of cows from the farm down the road make yet another "jail break" from their pasture and go walkabout on Downing Creek Road...

That cold foggy season is why Odin and his Band of Merry Vikings invented Akvavit (and Lutefisk) , in order to keep warm and happy, between pillagings and lootings ;-) .

How does one say "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year" in Swedish?

/ed B

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