• Joe (unregistered)

    792 Octillions ! Wow, that must be worth, like, Millions !

  • Joe (unregistered)

    792 Octillions ! Wow, that must be worth, like, Millions !

  • Farmie (unregistered) in reply to domingl
    domingl:
    One-JILLION dollars!! (gasp!)

    Sir, that's not a number. (gasp!)

    Oh. Then 50 million.

  • (cs)

    That answering machine runs off of an Excel spreadsheet?

  • (cs)

    I wonder how many times someone has set up auto pay and it turned out to be some insane number like that. What would the bank do? What could the bank do?

    Hope everyone has overdraft protection... a really good overdraft protection.

  • Cognashene (unregistered) in reply to Da' Man
    Da' Man:
    Cool! IKEA invented the Do-It-Yourself Billboard(TM)

    Let's all invent IKEA-style names for it. What do you think about "Tömmatavla" (look it up in your handy Swedish dictionary ;-)

    Or how about "Nøstrøm" :-)

    As we found out when we re-did our kitchen, "IKEA" is Swedish for "back-ordered".

  • (cs) in reply to zzo38
    zzo38:
    Can you please post a description of the answering machine, in case I cannot see the video, or want to print it out, or something like that?

    When the person holding the camera presses a button on it, the answering machine's synthesized voice says: "You have Sunday, 18:50 PM messages."

  • Garrett Fitzgerald (unregistered)

    You gotta admit, the logo under that sign just makes the picture. :-)

  • Garrett Fitzgerald (unregistered) in reply to dcardani
    dcardani:
    I like how the sign is apparently made or leased by a company called "SmartSign." Yep, real smart!

    Darn, you beat me to it. :-)

  • no name (unregistered) in reply to Mike Dimmick
    Mike Dimmick:
    blah blah COM blah blah...blah blah Apartment blah blah ....message pump blah blah blah...

    You know I've spent years trying to forget that junk. It's probably going to take the better part of a case to forget the memories you just brought back. :>(

  • (cs) in reply to Steve
    Matt:
    Why can't people re-read their posts before they hit Submit?
    Speaking of which...
    Steve:
    Probably the same reason we don't capitalize RADAR, which is an acronym for RAdio D[ /b]etection [b]And Ranging. . . through use, it's become a word in and of itself
  • (cs) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    rd:
    Trying to remember that 18 is AFTER 12, and hence PM, does sound quite confusing. I wonder what Britney Spears' answering machine says.
    "The big hand is on the 10, and the little hand is on the six!"
    Acme::Time::Baby
  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Pope

    "I wonder how many times someone has set up auto pay and it turned out to be some insane number like that. What would the bank do? What could the bank do? "

    I once had the bank insisting we were $9,999,999,999.99 overdrawn after cancelling a check, they even had the balls to ask when we were considering paying it back.

    It turned out that their 'cancel a check' process was; change the amount to '99,999,999,999.99' and mark it as having been paid, if you're going to do it that way though, please make sure your staff can type.

  • mookers (unregistered)

    The reason the IKEA image isn't showing up is because they haven't found someone who can figure out how to put it together yet.

  • (cs) in reply to NaN

    Verizon does it again!

    NaN:
    (I don't get reverse charge calls. Instead of saying your name to the robot, you could read out the phone number of the phone box, the robot would call the person you wanted to speak to, give them the number. They could hang up and call you back without paying the charge for the reverse call.)
    Payphones haven't been able to receive calls in ages. Where have you been?
  • (cs)

    Sounds like a certain phone company is aiming to take on the likes of Reynholm Industries... They only have to beat last years record of "1800 billion billion pounds".

    As for the answering machine... That's Numberwang!

  • (cs) in reply to ysth
    ysth:
    Hmm, if you put 'warez' as the language, it outputs in... 'l44+'??? laatspeak?
  • workaholicus (unregistered) in reply to dcardani

    You know how IKEA is trying to save your money, this time they just disabled loading images to save on traffic.

  • pedantry>senseofhumour (unregistered) in reply to operagost
    "The big hand is on the 10, and the little hand is on the six!"
    I think that would be more like 17:50. At 18:50 the little hand would be closer to the 7.
  • Bram (unregistered)

    But think of all the frequent flier miles you'll get on that credit card!

  • Paolo G (unregistered) in reply to Steve
    Steve:
    Nick:
    . . . someone used the word laser in their post and this just occurred to me why do people use laser instead of LASER, the capitalized version is correct because it is an acronym. </random></rant><geekyness continue="continue">
    Probably the same reason we don't capitalize RADAR, which is an acronym for RAdio D[ /b]etection [b]And Ranging. . . through use, it's become a word in and of itself

    Yeah, Nick, you answered your own question - the lower case version is correct because it "laser" is an acronym and a common noun. An acronym is a word made from the initials of some phrase, and as if that word is a common noun, then it is not capitalised. Hence "laser", but "NATO".

  • TDDPirate (unregistered) in reply to Someone You Know

    Another reason to request a description (or, better, captions in the video): There are hearing impaired persons (at least me) among your readership, and they, too, would like to know WTF is going on.

  • jayh (unregistered)

    "Click here to shop for prostate cancer"

    I encountered a similarly bad taste instance:

    I was reading an article about a a corrupt judge and got:

    Buy judges online at Ebay.

  • Anony (unregistered) in reply to Someone You Know

    18:50 PM? So 30:50 on a 24 hour clock? My friend's employer's also think there's 32 hours in a day!

  • Deiwos (unregistered)

    TRWTF is 'This video is no longer available.'

  • bchip (unregistered)

    God that video reminds me of a "smart" fridge I used to have. After a storm it was glitching out saying random messages, but the one that stuck with me the most was "It's time to replace crushed water"

  • Mark (unregistered) in reply to Anon

    I don't get it...is there a difference? I mean, I'm no mathematician, but...

  • Marinated Smurf (unregistered)

    Can you hear me now?

  • R3ap3R (unregistered) in reply to Someone You Know

    Hate to call it, but the sign is photoshopped >.< Use gimp and take apart the layers ;)

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