• (cs) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    Any time a website tells you it's "under construction", you can rest assured it is not.

    Intro page was last modified on 04/15/2003

  • (cs) in reply to campkev
    campkev:
    Code Dependent:
    Any time a website tells you it's "under construction", you can rest assured it is not.

    Intro page was last modified on 04/15/2003

    Don't mock the site; it uses frames. Remember, secure multi-mediation is the future of all webbing.

  • (cs)

    "Note that the ugly ass-babies are tasmaian devils."

  • (cs)

    That's no evil lego dude, it's an Emperor Palpatine!

  • (cs) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    Eric:
    Is there some kind of rigging going on with Amazon? All six books under the "Customers Who Bought Items Like This Also Bought" section for the WTF book were about Sarah Palin.

    I mean, it kinda makes sense - "How to survive if a complete idiot becomes Vice President" must be in the book or something. But seriously, that's slightly ridiculous.

    What do we do if a leftist jackass trolls the comments on TDWTF?
    Elect Obama. Oh wait! You already did!

  • (cs) in reply to Walleye
    Walleye:
    dpm:
    Thiago HP:
    Osno:
    I'm from South America, very close to Brazil
    Unless Geography is changing lately, Brazil is part of South America, not beside it. :)
    Clearly he meant "I'm from a part of South America which is very close to, but not actually within, Brazil". HTH.

    P.S. Thanks, now I have the John Belushi sketch stuck in my head, this time with a fake Spanish accent. "!KEE AIR OH UN OH CHEESEBURGER CHEESEBURGER!"

    Don't feel too bad, someone earlier mentioned Japan and now I am seeing him behind the counter of a greasy spoon in a samauri outfit yelling "KOKU JA NAI!! PE-PU-SI DESU!" (No Coke, Pepsi)

    Needs moar DESU DESU!

  • (cs) in reply to Jeremy D. Pavleck
    Jeremy D. Pavleck:
    Or, just put it into Google http://tinyurl.com/ourWeddingDate

    Ya, we're geeks.

    Don't know your Google from your Tinyurl, though, do ya?

    http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ourWeddingDate&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

  • (cs)
    [image]

    That is absolutely the coolest (pun intended) image I have seen in recent days. Immediately reminiscent of opening the ark in the Indiana Jones movie, it also calls to mind a far older, but no less strikingly ominous image of light framing darkness.

    Who besides me remembers Creepy comic books? Frazetta is the man!

    [image]
  • Carrier Bag (unregistered) in reply to alter3d

    errrm, no you get the 10th day of the 24th month which doesn't happen.

  • Lassi (unregistered)

    Blast! You missed the most valuable item of the randomness! The magenta thing on the foreground is an unused VIP ticket to Assembly 2008! http://www.assembly.org/

    (Yeah, ok. Time machine not included and all that...)

  • (cs) in reply to DaveK
    DaveK:
    Jeremy D. Pavleck:
    Or, just put it into Google http://tinyurl.com/ourWeddingDate

    Ya, we're geeks.

    Don't know your Google from your Tinyurl, though, do ya?

    http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ourWeddingDate&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

    That TinyURL goes to a search for "2^10" in Google...

  • Tbone (unregistered) in reply to Ricky Fine
    Ricky Fine:
    Sorry, but that wasn't the chip that started it all. Time for a history lesson from the old one. That chip was first used commercially in the Compaq luggables. The IBM PC used the 8088 chip. This was an extension to the 8086-2 that restricted the internal bus speed to match the external. If you're scratching your head as to why IBM would use a lesser chip that was actually more expensive than the more capable 8086-2, a lot of us did that. Never did figure it out.

    The 8088 was internally a 16 bit chip like the 8086 but externally worked like an 8 bit chip. This allowed use of cheaper existing 8-bit hardware components. The first PCs cost $3000 and came with 64k of ram and a floppy drive.

  • Frits Hoogland (unregistered)

    quite funny to see the dutch NEE/NEE and NEE/JA stickers! These stickers were an effort of the dutch government to reduce the amount of unwanted mail.

  • Alex Garner (unregistered) in reply to Ricky Fine

    That's interesting, because I checked around before I sent it, as I remember my first PC clone had an 8088. I never owned a genuine IBM, although my friend did. It would seem the references I used are not as accurate as they should be!

    Oh well. I knew it would come in handy one day, but I didn't realise what for!

  • (cs) in reply to Mackenzie
    The Church Brew Works is in Pittsburgh. When the Catholic Church was losing money, it closed down and was auctioned off. The buyers turned it into a brewery/restaurant. A bunch of nuns showed up outside picketing the desecration of a church.

    I was just there this summer, at a political rally. How funny to see it on wtf, especially next to all the Australian stuff. There's a story there somewhere.

  • (cs) in reply to Doug
    Doug:
    What a coincidence, I use genuine Ax-Man parts too!

    Like fireworks with fire damage ?

  • (cs) in reply to Jivlain
    Jivlain:
    That's no evil lego dude, it's an Emperor Palpatine!

    I believe you'll find that it is our good friend, Snape, Severus Snape.

  • (cs)

    Even this wombat thinks that Tasmanian devils are cute.

  • Dan (unregistered)

    The tassie devil is in danger of being made extinct.

    Check out the tassie devil appeal: http://www.tassiedevilappeal.org/tda/landing.php

  • Jônatas Aimbiré (unregistered)

    It's weird, 'cause even here in Brazil some teachers insist in Portuguese being similiar to Spanish.

    I Don't think so, and for real i didn't get the sarcasm on the: "some kind of spanish", it's pretty rare some people understanding that we speak PORTUGUESE over here.

    In portuguese: É diferente pra caramba de qualquer espanhol que vocês irão ver na terra.

  • Jarrod - Tas (unregistered)

    TasmaNian Devil :P

  • grammernazee (unregistered)

    "This TFT-screen cleaning towel and a two-euro coin is from Matthias Leeb (Wien, Austria)."

    I bet you think Wien is some small town in Austria, right? That's why you printed it as Wien, rather than Vienna, which is what most English-speaking people would call it. Making USAians look as ignorant as they are.

  • flaggy (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Of course, they spoke some kind of Spanish, so I repeated myself a few times very loudly and slowly. I'm pretty sure those burgers will be on their way soon.
    Um, you do realize they speak Portugese, not Spanish, in Brazil, right? Thanks for making us USAians look even more ignorant than we usually do.
    Portuguese is some kind of spanish, you fool.
  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    Hey everyone, let's fight and complain and bait each other over these images. It is, after all, another day at TDWTF.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous

    Portuguese sounds like "some kind of Spanish" to me.

  • LEGO (unregistered) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    Eric:
    Is there some kind of rigging going on with Amazon? All six books under the "Customers Who Bought Items Like This Also Bought" section for the WTF book were about Sarah Palin.

    I mean, it kinda makes sense - "How to survive if a complete idiot becomes Vice President" must be in the book or something. But seriously, that's slightly ridiculous.

    What do we do if a leftist jackass trolls the comments on TDWTF?

    Well, obviously FLAME them mercilessly over and over again! It's just the way we do things around here...

  • nmcafee (unregistered) in reply to Martin

    TRWTF is that Martin didn't visit Unibroue.

  • (cs) in reply to grammernazee
    grammernazee:
    "This TFT-screen cleaning towel and a two-euro coin is from Matthias Leeb (Wien, Austria)."

    I bet you think Wien is some small town in Austria, right? That's why you printed it as Wien, rather than Vienna, which is what most English-speaking people would call it. Making USAians look as ignorant as they are.

    Hey there, geographic hotshot: write us the correct phonetic pronunciation for these locales:

    Nacogdoches Natchitoches North Zulch Bedias Mexia

    Be sure to look 'em up first...

  • Clayton (unregistered)

    That's so perfect that the steak was shared with the lawyers. That's exactly what happens, too--You use lawyers to protect your property but they get most of it anyway.

  • John Dalton (unregistered)

    Mad props to whoever sent the LCA2009 fridge magnet, featuring a Tasmanian devil pretending to be a penguin. ;)

  • grammernazee (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    grammernazee:
    "This TFT-screen cleaning towel and a two-euro coin is from Matthias Leeb (Wien, Austria)."

    I bet you think Wien is some small town in Austria, right? That's why you printed it as Wien, rather than Vienna, which is what most English-speaking people would call it. Making USAians look as ignorant as they are.

    Hey there, geographic hotshot: write us the correct phonetic pronunciation for these locales:

    Nacogdoches Natchitoches North Zulch Bedias Mexia

    Be sure to look 'em up first...

    You're right, I've never heard of these sh*tholes, and wouldn't know how to pronounce them. So what? The point is, Vienna is the capital city of Austria (that's in Europe, in case you didn't know). It's quite a big city, and we even have our own name for it in English, so calling it "Wien" is either pretentious or ignorant. When Natchitoches becomes famous for its art, music, opera, literature, boulevards, dynamic financial market and coffee shops, I'll be sure to look it up...

  • (cs) in reply to grammernazee
    grammernazee:
    You're right, I've never heard of these sh*tholes
    If you've never heard of them, how can you say they're shitholes?
    grammernazee:
    The point is, Vienna is the capital city of Austria (that's in Europe, in case you didn't know).
    I know where Austria is. I went to see the Vienna Boys Choir last night in Fort Worth (that's close to Natchitoches, in case you didn't know).
    grammernazee:
    It's quite a big city, and we even have our own name for it in English, so calling it "Wien" is either pretentious or ignorant.
    It's about the size of Natchitoches.
    grammernazee:
    When Natchitoches becomes famous for its art, music, opera, literature, boulevards, dynamic financial market and coffee shops, I'll be sure to look it up...
    Best get looking, then. And get over the idea that your little acre of the world is all of it.
  • (cs) in reply to Eric
    Eric:
    Is there some kind of rigging going on with Amazon? All six books under the "Customers Who Bought Items Like This Also Bought" section for the WTF book were about Sarah Palin.
    Really? All I saw was "I hope they serve beer in hell."
  • Andre (unregistered) in reply to flaggy
    flaggy:
    Portuguese is some kind of spanish, you fool.
    Actually, it is the result of an organic evolution of Vulgar Latin. This means it is related to, but not "some kind of", other romantic languages, including spanish, italian and french.

    Also, english is not some kind of american.

    Trollo ergo sum :o)

  • grammernazee (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    grammernazee:
    It's quite a big city, and we even have our own name for it in English, so calling it "Wien" is either pretentious or ignorant.
    It's about the size of Natchitoches.
    Oh right. So Nacho city has a population of 1.6 million, has it? No. I don't think so. More like 15,000. Now, I obviously have no problem with that, delighted for the place. But I've never heard of it before, and probably never will again. Unless the Nacho Boys Choir suddenly makes it big. Oh and the Christmas festival sounds truly awful. See, I did look it up. Oh and I'm not from Vienna btw, in case you thought I was. So you can still go there and be nice to Austrians. Oh but you don't know where it is or what it's called. And you probably haven't got a passport. Never mind, they won't miss you.
  • (cs) in reply to grammernazee
    grammernazee:
    Code Dependent:
    grammernazee:
    It's quite a big city, and we even have our own name for it in English, so calling it "Wien" is either pretentious or ignorant.
    It's about the size of Natchitoches.
    Oh right. So Nacho city has a population of 1.6 million, has it? No. I don't think so. More like 15,000. Now, I obviously have no problem with that, delighted for the place. But I've never heard of it before, and probably never will again. Unless the Nacho Boys Choir suddenly makes it big. Oh and the Christmas festival sounds truly awful. See, I did look it up. Oh and I'm not from Vienna btw, in case you thought I was. So you can still go there and be nice to Austrians. Oh but you don't know where it is or what it's called. And you probably haven't got a passport. Never mind, they won't miss you.
    Made you look.
  • Andre (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    doesnntmatter:
    Doug:
    What a coincidence, I use genuine Ax-Man parts too!
    Website fail:

    To get the most out of this site, set your monitor's resolution to 832 x 624, and view the site in IE 4.

    Any time a website tells you it's "under construction", you can rest assured it is not.

    No shit.

    META NAME="copyright" CONTENT="©1998 A.Farrell"

  • Calli Arcale (unregistered) in reply to Andre
    Andre:
    Code Dependent:
    doesnntmatter:
    Doug:
    What a coincidence, I use genuine Ax-Man parts too!
    Website fail:

    To get the most out of this site, set your monitor's resolution to 832 x 624, and view the site in IE 4.

    Any time a website tells you it's "under construction", you can rest assured it is not.

    No shit.

    META NAME="copyright" CONTENT="©1998 A.Farrell"

    My company's nanny-filter doesn't let me look (probably because of the scary word "ax"), I must admit to being a long-time fan of Ax-Man. Oh, you don't get really useful stuff there too often, but it's a blast seeing what kinds of weird and wacky stuff they have, and the crazy labels they put on the bins to hype up simple stuff like pencil erasers, filter canisters for gas masks that nobody makes anymore, and so on. I'm still miffed at the city of Bloomington for eminent-domaining the one here so they could build the new city hall. Yeah, it's way better than their old facilities, and is good for the city, but I miss having Ax-Man in town. It's a fun place to shop. And great for art students. When I was taking my sculpture class, we all went on an Ax-Man expedition, which proved very fruitful. ;-)

  • wizztick (unregistered)

    Just to help place one item of the small pile of random souvenirs. The Stickers with two times the orange 'NEE' on it are used to stop spam through mail. The first 'NEE' is to say no to folders, the second is to say no to free newspapers. Put it on your mailbox, It works in the Netherlands. :)

  • Sam (unregistered)

    "the ugly-ass babies are tasmainian devils"

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