• Steve (unregistered)

    That Japanese house reminds me of one in Del Mar, California, which is built in a tiny trangular patch of land that would normally be an unoccupied "gore point" (no, not the one at the top of the former Vice President's head).

    Here is an Google Maps view, though it doesnt' quite do justice to how tiny the house is. I doubt that it is more than 500 square feet but I'll bet that, being Del Mar, it would sell for in the middle to high six figures. Someone was desparate for a Del Mar pied `a terre.

    Cute is about the only word I can think of for it.

  • JL (unregistered) in reply to Kemp
    Kemp:
    I've seen a few when I was on checkouts. "Large On" was large onions of course, but I seem to have forgotten the rest. I really should have written them down as we had some classics and I'm sure some were deliberate. There was one something like "Spread Butt" for spreadable butter. The best thing is we got a new till system that allowed sensible length names for things, but whoever controlled the entry still obsessively abbreviated.
    Not too long ago, I bought some "vitamin-fortified homogenized skim milk", and the abbreviation on the receipt wasn't "skim milk" like you'd expect, nor "vit milk", nor "fort milk". No, someone decided the appropriate description for this product is: "homo milk". There's a product name you don't want to think too hard about.
  • (cs) in reply to Steve
    Steve:
    That Japanese house reminds me of one in Del Mar, California, which is built in a tiny trangular patch of land that would normally be an unoccupied "gore point" (no, not the one at the top of the former Vice President's head).

    Here is an Google Maps view, though it doesnt' quite do justice to how tiny the house is. I doubt that it is more than 500 square feet but I'll bet that, being Del Mar, it would sell for in the middle to high six figures. Someone was desparate for a Del Mar pied `a terre.

    Cute is about the only word I can think of for it.

    Better view (yeah, microsoft is evil, but you have to admit it's a better view)

  • (cs) in reply to A. Nonymous
    A. Nonymous:
    Strider:
    batasrki:
    exdevlin:
    Nazlfrag:
    The REAL WTF is the comments on Amazon..

    (7 votes, five stars) This is one of my favorite press releases! I've worn out more than one copy of it over the years! It's amazing how the author (unknown!) manages to weave such a compelling story in so little space. I won't give away the ending except to say that more gentle readers should keep a Kleenex box near!

    (2 votes, five stars) I have read my share of press releases, but nothing that could have prepared me for this. Make sure you have some free time when you start - you're not going to want to walk away until you've read every one of the nearly 400 words.

    Can you say "paid-for comments"?
    Can you say "sarcasm"?
    hehe, they're hillarious whoever did them. Look at the dates (same as wtf post), they were obviously added by WTF readers.
    Finding bizarre items in the Amazon catalog and posting fake reviews for them is a well-regarded pastime; anyone remember the personal tank they were selling (which I can't find at the moment)? Even people inside the company get into it... not that I know anything about that.
    The funniest reviews I can remember were for The Oozinator, a super-soaker that shoots white goo. Amazon deleted most of the reviews, but this site has them archived. While you're at it, check out the commercial on YouTube.

  • (cs)

    Glad to see that theyve renamed some of their SKUs to GPS-HOL.

    Fortunately you can still be a winner with a Wintec unit:

    http://www.a-power.com/product-2992-548-1

    ASS-WIN

  • Ant32bit (unregistered) in reply to Nazlfrag

    I read the article. It's not that great.

  • Random ASUS user (unregistered)

    I was once looking in a cd that came with a ASUS motherboard, and I found a rather...interesting...filename.

    Originally, the file was likely called "ASUS Stuff Setup.exe".

    For some arcane reason, the makers decided to make the name MS-DOS compatible.

    They removed the "Stuff", and the spaces, but they were still one character away.

    Guess which one they removed.

  • Joe (unregistered)

    Talking about shitty names... There is some sports sponsoring company in austria called ASS-Team... I always have to laugh when I see a car with the ASS-Team logo on it! Sounds more like some porn-guys than sportsman! www.ass-team.at

    captcha: muhahaha... yes, that's it!

  • DeathToVikingSpammers (unregistered)

    Moderators, please delete this and the previous two spams.

  • usfife wow gold (unregistered)

    dsdfsdfsdf

  • Ken (unregistered) in reply to Kemp

    I'm betting I'm way late on this reply, but a lot of grocery stores sell "LOL Butter", similar to the ASS-HOL GPS device and your "spread butt" butter spread. Gotta love Land 'O Lakes for having such an awesome acronym.

    Also... OMG, that is a huge amount of spam. Someone want to delete it? and possibly change the captcha type to something a little harder, like answering questions such as "enter the max value of an unsigned char"?

  • af (unregistered)

    ffffffffffffffffff

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