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    The Gyrofocus Fireplace Is The World's Most Beautiful Object (Officially)

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    Image of FooSchnickens - BPH Free FooSchnickens - BPH Free
    10/13/09

    In reply to The Gyrofocus Fireplace Is The World's Most Beautiful Object (Officially)

    Looks more like the alien ship from the 50's War of the Worlds is poking in.
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    Image of LittleJon LittleJon
    10/13/09

    In reply to The Gyrofocus Fireplace Is The World's Most Beautiful Object (Officially)
    It doesn't even rate next to Bowers & Wilkin's original nautilus speakers!
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    10/13/09

    @LittleJon: Hahaha. Sweet merciful underwater Christ, those are hideous. And hilarious. Hidlarious?
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    Image of LittleJon LittleJon
    10/13/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: How can you say that! :-O

    They are the most beautiful $50,000 speakers ever made!
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    10/13/09

    @LittleJon: I think that's sarcasm. I hope that's sarcasm. I really, really hope that's sarcasm.
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    10/13/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: I honestly love those speakers! If they were 1/50th of the price I'd buy them!

    What's more the design is fully functional. Those reverse parabolic cones actually enhance the sound. The large one is coiled to prevent it from being stupidly long.

    These are some of the best speakers ever made from a sound perspective.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    10/13/09

    @LittleJon: Ooooookay well.... Just so you know from a regular-person perspective they look like ridiculous tacky shit you'd expect to see covering the tits of a 50 foot tall animatronic Ariel the Little Mermaid at Disneyworld, which you see while holding a corn dog with one hand, and your fanny pack with the other.
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    Image of Sticks Calhoun Sticks Calhoun
    10/13/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: That, or a snail with a body-mod fetish for jets.
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    Image of LittleJon LittleJon
    10/13/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: And your point is?
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10/12/09

    In reply to The Gyrofocus Fireplace Is The World's Most Beautiful Object (Officially)
    If this were real it would need to have some kind of barrier around it for our protection. Just like how our disposable coffee cups have to warn us they contain a hot beverage..
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    Image of Andinator Andinator
    10/12/09

    In reply to The Gyrofocus Fireplace Is The World's Most Beautiful Object (Officially)
    Observe the simple beauty of a clam on a stick.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/12/09

    @Andinator: The win is strong with this one.
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    Image of CustomFirmware CustomFirmware
    10/12/09

    @Andinator:

    LOL!
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    Image of Penguin4x4 Penguin4x4
    10/12/09

    In reply to The Gyrofocus Fireplace Is The World's Most Beautiful Object (Officially)
    World's Most Beautiful Object?

    BOOBIES!
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    Kaiser-Machead promoted this comment Penguin4x4 was starred Penguin4x4 was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/12/09

    @Penguin4x4: I have to agree. None on earth matter nearly as much. Those who say otherwise are filthy liars.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    10/12/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: What about the gays?
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    Image of PCDEC PCDEC
    10/13/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Actually I think all the gays like boobies. I hear the male ones do and I can't see why the female ones wouldn't.
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    Image of Anonymoose Anonymoose
    10/12/09

    In reply to The Gyrofocus Fireplace Is The World's Most Beautiful Object (Officially)
    oh really?

    *makes delicate hand table and places chin ever so gently atop of ruggedly masculine hands and smiles both seductively and innocently while cocking head ever so rakishly at a 15 degree angle*

    BEAT THAT, GYROFOCUS FIREPLACEEEEEEEEE
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    Image of bobdobbs bobdobbs
    10/12/09

    In reply to The Gyrofocus Fireplace Is The World's Most Beautiful Object (Officially)
    It's nice, but it's not, like, Lamborghini Miura nice.
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    10/12/09

    @bobdobbs: that's because the lamborghini miura isn't nice.
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    10/12/09

    @caffino54: Foul heathen. You will pay for your sins tenfold in the abyss.
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    Image of Jux Jux
    10/12/09

    In reply to The Gyrofocus Fireplace Is The World's Most Beautiful Object (Officially)
    This contest is judged by gay men?
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    psychonaut2021 promoted this comment Jux was starred Jux was unstarred
    Image of psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you! psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you!
    10/12/09

    @Jux: You tell me Jux. You tell me. Just busting yer chops fella :)
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    Image of Jux Jux
    10/12/09

    @psychonaut2021: I just feel the exclusion of women in bikinis was quite the error in judging beauty.
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    10/12/09

    In reply to The Gyrofocus Fireplace Is The World's Most Beautiful Object (Officially)
    The fireplace is beautiful. However, it's literally official: That place is the world's most hideous looking home.
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    Image of Unionhawk Unionhawk
    10/12/09

    @psychonaut2021: I wouldn't make that jump...
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    psychonaut2021 promoted this comment Unionhawk was starred Unionhawk was unstarred
    Image of zounder1 zounder1
    10/12/09

    @psychonaut2021: Agreed, rather ugly. And I'm still trying to figure out the couch in the far right with the red pillows. So, I sit in that couch to stair straight at... an ugly off-white column?? I'm guessing on dimensions but it looks like the couch is maybe 5-6 feet from that column at best. Yeah, very practical and enjoyable...
    It looks like a designer was being a wee bit too whimsical with that room.
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    10/13/09

    @Unionhawk: O RLY?! Well I jumped, hit the bottom, got up and jumped again. Only this time a la Maddox.
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    10/13/09

    @zounder1: The couch is what bothered me the most as well.
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    Image of yeptruthhurts yeptruthhurts
    10/12/09

    In reply to The Gyrofocus Fireplace Is The World's Most Beautiful Object (Officially)
    beautiful? more like pretty----pretty ugly!

    the fireplace part is nice but that long pole coming out of the ceiling is anything but beautiful! if it could just float in air would be perfect (haha) or even a shorter pole coming out of the floor would be nicer
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    10/12/09

    @yeptruthhurts: Ok, but the smoke has to go somewhere.
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    Image of bobofish bobofish
    10/13/09

    @yeptruthhurts: From what I understand, smoke poles are most effectively pole smoked when the pole is affixed to the ceiling, to facilitate more efficient smoking.
    I'm sure some people would agree with you that there is a great appeal to a free floating pole though. For example I assume that the ratio of free floating poles vs fixed poles and how they are smoked differs in SanFran rather than say Wichita.
    I am certainly not an expert, all of my knowledge comes from the authoritative collection of Tera Patrick videos that I hide in a musty shoebox.
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    10/13/09

    @bobofish: Well done, sir.
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    Image of Thorax707 Thorax707
    10/12/09

    In reply to The Gyrofocus Fireplace Is The World's Most Beautiful Object (Officially)
    All new things must pass the Frucci hump test before I will consider them.
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    Image of e-friend cuts you e-friend cuts you
    10/12/09

    @Thorax707: New viral video: "Will it hump?" iPhone: FAIL. Nalgene bottle with Jello: SUCCESS.
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    10/12/09

    @e-friend: I'm an armchair lawyer.:: Fireplace: MASSIVE FAIL. or MASSIVE SUCCESS, you know, depending on how much you like dogs with third degree burns.
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    Image of tzed tzed
    10/13/09

    @badhatharry: When an ember jumps onto that rug underneath it and sets the whole place on fire, you'll be glad you were at the vet getting your dog skin grafts.
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    10/13/09

    @tzed: Um, that was supposed to say "dong." Funny word usage FAIL.

    And even if you do substitute the word "dong" for "dog," your reply is still apt. I would rather be getting skin grafts for my dong than be caught in a bullshit minimalist Santa Fe decor housefire.
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