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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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92BuickLeSabre
06/16/09

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

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

@rambo3060: And miss the elephant bone? I think not.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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92BuickLeSabre
06/16/09

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

Quality Mixtape > Everything
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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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CoH
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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92BuickLeSabre
06/16/09

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

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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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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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not_a_virus.exe.vbs
05/14/09

In reply to What's the Best USB Flash Drive?
I also bought one of those "super small" USB sticks from Sony, the one that is about the size of a dime? The security guard where I work made a stink over me bring my Cruzer in so I bought a sony one. It is so small it fits inside of my badge holder. I showed him!
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not_a_virus.exe.vbs
05/14/09

In reply to What's the Best USB Flash Drive?
The only drives I buy are the Sandisk Titanium Cruzer and the rubberized Corsair ones.
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Dr. H. F. Danger
05/14/09

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Corsair Flash Voyager 4GB worked good for two years. Thank god for the 10yr warranty. Just sent it in for an RMA, hope to get a nice new flash drive.
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Curves
05/14/09

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I need a new one, so this is good timing. Mine got fried due to excessive static electricity from a cold, dry winter.
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Nick
05/14/09

@Curves: you kids and your bump and grind dancing.
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ZLevee
05/14/09

@Curves: Computer Shopper also did a roundup last fall: [computershopper.com]
They seemed to like (talking performance only) the Imation Atom, the Kensington Data Traveler and The Sandisk Extreme Cruzer the best.
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ZLevee
05/14/09

@ZLevee: Sorry -- there were 3 Data Travelers. It's the HyperX. And the particular Sandisk Extreme Cruzer was the Contour.
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Serolf Divad
05/14/09

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The best is the one that doesn't try to install some crap front-end to manage your files on what is just another piece of removable storage... I'm talking 'bout you Sandisk!
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Keen314
05/14/09

@Serolf Divad: Google 'U3 uninstaller' to get the tool from U3 that will remove that front-end.
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Serolf Divad
05/14/09

@Keen314:

Yeah, I did that recently to make my Cruiser a bootable drive in an attempt to use it to install XP on a netbook.

But I shouldn't have to. And I definitely shouldn't have to hunt down a separate piece of software to do it, either.
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GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
05/14/09

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I like my Corsair Survivor. Something about a CNC milled aluminum exterior which is waterproof when closed makes me feel safe.
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Nick
05/14/09

@Woooot!-Offing_GitEmSteveDave: you mean like a delorean?
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GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
05/14/09

@notificating da interwebs_Nick: No no, my ignorant friend. For you see, the Delorean's skin was made from Stainless Steel. ;)
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kagekiri
05/14/09

In reply to What's the Best USB Flash Drive?
Nooo!

If only I'd seen this before going for my 8GB Sandisk Cruzer!

Sandisk is second from last on most read/write rate tests, apparently, when it's not dead-last. Laaaaaaame.
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Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo
05/14/09

@kagekiri: I think the fact that you can slide them up and down makes them worth it.
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ripfire
05/14/09

@Elijah Dukes' Illegitimate Son: Must... resist... immaturity...
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Purple Dave
05/14/09

@Elijah Dukes' Illegitimate Son:
I've got one, but I barely use it at all. My SD+USB cards get the most use, since they work in my camera and independantly as USB drives.
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