The Leafblower: The Worst Invention in History?

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Novelty ringtones are infintely worse than leafblowers unless I have a hangover.

Leaf blowers are awesome for yard work. They just get a bad rap by the people who use them to blow shit from the gutter of the road into the middle of the street.

don weiner (don weiner), Friday, 24 March 2006 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link

WHat about the people that use them to blow old ladies down

Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Saturday, 25 March 2006 09:12 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_jan2004/LeafBlower.jpg

Who says so?

brianiast (briania), Saturday, 25 March 2006 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link

WTF!

Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Sunday, 26 March 2006 05:43 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

WTF people: a post it note that is also a pen

http://www.popgadget.net/images/belkin_pen.jpg

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link

Those things are hilarious. They should put a lip balm on top and an LED flashlight on the side.

Abbott, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link

Those are moderately useful for doing editing, especially if you do it on the run -- you mark pages and flag them without needing to carry around two items!

nabisco, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link

More useful on a blue or red pen, though, obviously

nabisco, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link

I mean geez, it's like you guys have never done copyediting on the subway

nabisco, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 20:10 (sixteen years ago) link

i wish the pen was better. and the post it note was further up on the pen, towards the non writing part of the pen.

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 20:10 (sixteen years ago) link

i have copyedited on the bus and the subway, but i don't use stickies to copy edit so maybe that's my basic problem--plus i am very picky about the way pens feel

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 20:10 (sixteen years ago) link

No, I hate fat pens like that, too. I rarely edit anything huge enough to need lots of stickies, but if you're working with a 500 page stack, or something, flagging things is ... necessary. Maybe they could wrap them around a thinner pen (with a better ball and more gel ink)

nabisco, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link

i would totally use that pen and all its functions! esp if there was also lip balm and a flashlight! and a mini taser!

rrrobyn, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link

but yeah i never use thick/fat pens like that. pencil width is ideal width but not a lot of pens are that thin. also yeah where wld the stickies go, i don't know, maybe on a wrist cuff <-- NERDDS

rrrobyn, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link

xpost to leafblowers - in college, i worked at the theater in town that showed rocky horror on friday at midnight. yeah, we used them to blow toast, playing cards and toilet paper out of the rows and into the aisles.

i hated those rocky horror fuckers.

so, yeah, useful.

molly mummenschanz, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link

also yeah where wld the stickies go, i don't know, maybe on a wrist cuff <-- NERDDS

ha like this but with stickies insteada tape

http://www.clicksitebuilder.com/home2/gs/giftwraptools.com/images/temp/handsfreewhite.jpg

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link

or like the things that hold pins when people are hardcore abt the sewing!

rrrobyn, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link

omgosh that post-it note oen is hilarious

but i have to be honest, i love leaf blowers. very invigorating

Surmounter, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link


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