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    Image of rambo3060 rambo3060
    06/16/09

    In reply to Elephant Flash Drive's Junk Is Bigger Than His Trunk
    lets curb all these usb drive posts...i think we get the idea that anything can become a usb flash drive.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    06/16/09

    @rambo3060: Let's not and say we did.
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    Image of rambo3060 rambo3060
    06/16/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: let's do it and not talk about whether or not we actually did it.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    06/16/09

    @rambo3060: Let's not do it at all but keep talking about it a lot.


    (Betya a dollar that mine is the one that will come true!)

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    Image of The-Ohio-Player The-Ohio-Player
    06/16/09

    @rambo3060:


    I say round up four or five of them and put them in the same post so we can all just laugh and point and feel good about that post. One per post just leaves one slightly unsatisfied.

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    06/16/09

    @The-Ohio-Player: Agreed. Do a 'Weird USB drive' of the week, or month post.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    06/16/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake® and The-Ohio-Player: I'm really disappointed in your blasé responses to a squishy elephant with giant penis gadget post.


    *shakes head to indicate how seriously disappointed he is*

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    Image of Curves Curves
    06/16/09

    @rambo3060: And miss the elephant bone? I think not.
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    Image of The-Ohio-Player The-Ohio-Player
    06/16/09

    @92BuickLeSabre:


    Ok. Then. How about the fact that there cute squishy elephant might be carrying a virus. And the moral is you can't tell who has an STD by looking at them.

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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    06/16/09

    @The-Ohio-Player: See, but for this post you would not have developed the most humorous and effective PSA of the last five years.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    06/18/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: "I'm really disappointed in your blasé responses to a squishy elephant with giant penis gadget post."


    But he doesn't even hump, he just lays there...

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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    06/16/09

    In reply to Elephant Flash Drive's Junk Is Bigger Than His Trunk
    This strikes me as the kind of gift that somebody's aunt picks up for them as a high school graduation gift because they know that in college the kid will have to move things around on computers and they heard something about thumb drives and the aunt will see this while speed-walking at the mall and won't realize that the fact that it is for sale at Spencer's should be a big clue and say to her friend (let's call her friend Arlene) she'll say Arlene isn't that just the cutest! and so she'll buy it and give it to the high school kid in front of her whole family and the kid'll just stand there mortified and her mom won't get it either and will say oh sweetie you just love elephants and her father will be partially cracking a grin but mostly communicating with his eyes saying don't you dare react just say thank you and the HS graduate will say thank you auntie and thank Arlene for helping to pick it out and ultimately it will serve as a funny story/just naughty enough ice-breaker with that cute boy down the hall during the first week of college and lead to her first sexual experience and she'll think it meant something but he won't think so and a few months later she'll realize he hasn't called while she's home for the holidays and it will lead to her first broken heart of college.


    Moral: Elephant USB -> Broken heart

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    Image of The-Ohio-Player The-Ohio-Player
    06/16/09

    @92BuickLeSabre:


    Yeah, but can you imagine that guy who went to the college to get away from home and has to make all new friends. He doesn't like his dorm assignment and puts in for a transfer. That night he wanders down a couple of floors to borrow some notes from a classmate and sees the girl and the elephant dongle and strikes up a conversation. One thing leads to another badda-bing, yadda yadda yadda his request is granted and he's transferred to another dorm and lost her number when someone stole his phone.

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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    06/16/09

    @The-Ohio-Player: And god is it going to be awkward when they are in the same upper-level Gov class junior year when each of them turns to their friends and says can you believe oh my god, but when the last chance dance comes around senior year fireworks again! and they both end up moving to NYC at the same time and somebody needs a roommate and somebody else has a roommate leave and so they end up shacking up for a few weeks and next thing you know they're married but really she never said she wanted kids and so things start to fall apart all over again and at her aunt's funeral the next fall all she can think about is that stupid elephant dongle usb thumb drive.


    Morale: Broken Heart -> Broken Heart

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    Image of The-Ohio-Player The-Ohio-Player
    06/16/09

    @92BuickLeSabre:


    lol. That's pretty sad. Though had he just managed to make a elephant dongle mixtape of her favorite songs, she would have been knocked up at graduation.

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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    06/16/09

    @The-Ohio-Player: Ah...the ultimate moral!


    Quality Mixtape > Everything

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    Image of CoH CoH
    06/16/09

    In reply to Elephant Flash Drive's Junk Is Bigger Than His Trunk
    Maybe I'm just being too practical, but it doesn't seem like the USB will actually be able to plug into a USB port as the elephant's upper body is in the way.


    Maybe it's squishy and just scrunches out of the way?

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    06/16/09

    @CoH: Okay, I'm so bored I've investigated ... It IS Squishy! The elephant is made of silicone (squishy or removable according to the GeekGadgets link) and comes in four colors, black, blue, pink, and brown.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    06/16/09

    @CoH: Ohhh yeah. Say more about that!
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/16/09

    In reply to Elephant Flash Drive's Junk Is Bigger Than His Trunk
    Looks like this Flash drive has elephantiasis.... Which is rather swell for a USB drive, but not so much for a guy.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    06/16/09

    @Lite:

    "Dude. Has. Got. Some. Serious! Balls."

    "Right on!"

    "No, I mean it's like some crazy illness. They're the size of grapefruits. He has to wear special underwear and stuff."

    "Oh."
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    Image of exploded exploded
    04/27/09

    In reply to The 10 Most Confusing Terms in Tech Are Mostly Unneeded Anyway
    One thing that I have encountered as very confusing to tech newbies is the word "flash".


    There are at least 3 different meanings.


    Flash memory
    Flash a BIOS
    Adobe Flash

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    Image of Nick Nick
    04/27/09

    @exploded: just don't use it with "elementary school"
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    Image of elementary elementary
    04/27/09

    In reply to The 10 Most Confusing Terms in Tech Are Mostly Unneeded Anyway
    I get a lot of offers for cookies, and I always accept. I mean, who wouldn't? Anyway, I have yet to receive any. I must need to update my address or somthing.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    04/27/09

    @elementary: nah, you just have to get in the van. it's ok. you're mother sent us to come get you. wanna see a dongle?
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    04/27/09

    In reply to The 10 Most Confusing Terms in Tech Are Mostly Unneeded Anyway
    What I concluded after reading this list are: 1) People are confused about everything tech-related, 2) Therefore, this list is just comprised of the most common tech-related words.


    I mean, "Desktop"? "Ethernet"? Seriously?

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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    04/27/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: The ethernet is that thing you use to catch the etherbunny
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    04/27/09

    In reply to The 10 Most Confusing Terms in Tech Are Mostly Unneeded Anyway
    Confusingly enough the PC Suite isn't just a nokia thing, they just linked to the nokia wiki for it.


    Theres LG ones, Sony, etc.

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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    04/27/09

    @tande04: Yeah most phone manufacturers that include PC/Mac software will refer to that software as their "PC Suite", I even got a "PC Suite" with my Sprint Touch Pro, all it really included was a user manual pdf, an outdated copy of ActiveSync, and the Win98SE USB driver...


    sheesh.

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    Image of frigg frigg
    04/27/09

    In reply to The 10 Most Confusing Terms in Tech Are Mostly Unneeded Anyway
    Of course, these are only the 10 most confusing terms in tech out of a total sample of 11 terms, that also included "television set." I guess most people know what that means.
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    Image of DeadWriter DeadWriter
    04/27/09

    In reply to The 10 Most Confusing Terms in Tech Are Mostly Unneeded Anyway
    Anti-malware programs have my father believing that cookies were as bad as viruses.
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    04/27/09

    @DeadWriter: They seem to know where I keep my cookies...


    We need a lock for the pantry...

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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    04/28/09

    @DeadWriter:
    Some are, but it's pretty much impossible to surf many sites without letting some sort of beningn cookie land on your system, particularly if you want to submit information by some sort of posting system (such as this). The only site I can think of where you can post sans cookies is Lugnet.com.
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    Image of drewheyman drewheyman
    04/27/09

    In reply to The 10 Most Confusing Terms in Tech Are Mostly Unneeded Anyway
    i'm not telling my grandma what a dongle is. she'd wash my mouth out with soap.
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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    04/27/09

    @drewheyman: "It... it ...it was... soap POISONING!"
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    04/27/09

    @Xeno wishes there was a preview button: You'll shoot your eye out, kid.
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    04/27/09

    @drewheyman: Grandma, your incontinence doesn't have anything to do with hitting "Ctrl+P" to print that email...


    No grandma you don't have to apologize to me for not being able to control your pee... Do you want me to help you print that email? Then stop talking about your pee.


    That's it, I'm hanging up...

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    Image of Cordfucious of Tech Clan Cordfucious of Tech Clan
    03/25/09

    In reply to T-Mobile webConnect 3G/Wi-Fi USB Stick Hands-On
    ohhh peppermint schnaps....


    I just re-uped for another year and got myself a 8900. Now T-Mo is slowly stepping up their game. Might have to check this out

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