38 thoughts on “Geek humor of the week”

  1. PCC(E) tells no lies – many of the comments are ingenious and very funny. My fave so far:
    “Read description carefully!
    This is NOT, repeat, NOT a woman from the Ukraine. Very disappointed but can only blame myself. Please read description when sober.”
    Chris G

  3. Even as a physics teacher, I don’t dare read the comments at work. The Net Nanny program would flag it and I would be trouble with The Powers That Be again.

    1. Set a homework task of “explain two comments”, then get the principal dominaie heidj’un to allow one of the pupils to tell everyone how to get round the net nanny.

    1. Ah, you beat me to it! Even better than some of the reviews.

      ” However, attempting to purchase a Little Boy on the Internet would be extremely unwise, particularly if you ask for it in kit form.”

  6. I forgot about the reviews and comments sections, but my first thought was “there should be a date on that activity figure.
    I knocked some tens of thousands of dollars off a tool rental invoice once because the tool-source combo had gone out of it’s activity validity window. Still usable, but the kit went from premium rate to regular rate.

      2. My favorite of the reviews I read.

        “Using these cables, and only using these cables, I was finally able to hear an auditory gem that has been long rumored among music connaisseurs – Aretha Franklin’s stress-fart just prior to her high A in her recording of “You’re All I Need to Get By”.

        Worth every penny.”

        That is funny! But, I’m left wondering. Is the Aretha stress-fart rumor true?

      3. You sure that was accidental? When it comes to audiowoo the sky’s the limit.

        That top comment is indeed magnificent, as are many of them.

        One short enough to quote (and hey! it’s On Topic for this site:)
        ‘My cats chewed on this cable and now they can both speak. One of them is gay and the other wants to kill me. I would have rather not known.’

        cr

      1. That is magnificent. He’s got The Raven perfectly.

        Some of those Amazon comments show considerable literary talent.

        cr

  9. Great comments, especially:
    5.0 out of 5 stars I got a free cat in the box with this ...
    By Ellya on August 23, 2014

    I got a free cat in the box with this purchase but I'm not sure if I should open it to see if the cat is ok.

  10. Holy Cow Jerry, you weren’t kidding. You can buy anything on Amazon. I clicked through to check out Chris Lang’s How to Avoid Huge Ships link and one of the “Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed” selections was this . . .

    Semenology – The Semen Bartender’s Handbook

    The reviews are pretty much what you would imagine they might be.

  11. I was with a nerd friend while he was changing the oil on his car. He read the label on the oil can and said ‘this is no good. It says the expiration date was 30 million years B.C.’.

  15. I presume the can does contain genuine uranium ore of one type or another. Wkipedia: “A large variety of secondary uranium minerals are known, many of which are brilliantly coloured and fluorescent.”

    So if it’s one of those, it could look quite striking on the mantelpiece. A good talking point to startle guests with. “What’s that?” “Oh, just uranium ore. Don’t worry, it’s only mildly radioactive”.

    cr

    1. People used to make beautiful green and yellow dishes out of uranium-compound infused glasses. There were (in 1999) a collection of these in the Science and Industry museum in Kensington. Anyone been there recently? Are they still there?

  16. “Some of the other comments are also funny.”

    That has to be the understatement of the week.

    cr

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