http://www.littledee.net/?p=2332 Mon, 06 Jun 2016 05:11:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.littledee.net/?p=2332&cpage=1#comment-3806 pbarnrob Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:29:04 +0000 http://www.littledee.net/?p=2332#comment-3806 The Somebody-Else's-Problem Generator is a small device, powered by a single flashlight (or 'torch') battery, which was used in Douglas Adams' <i>Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy</i> to convey practical invisibility to, for example, a stolen starship parked on a cricket pitch. Everyone saw it, but it was up to someone else to deal with it.This is quite separate from the Somebody-Else's-Problem <i>Machine</i>, AKA a leaf-blower, one of those noisy gadgets gardeners are expected to use to make their employers' lawn look neat, while blowing the dust and rodent droppings into the neighbors' windows. Los Angeles County banned them for a little while, but it just didn't catch on. Turning them around to <i>suck</i> everything into a bag for compost would have made more sense. The Somebody-Else’s-Problem Generator is a small device, powered by a single flashlight (or ‘torch’) battery, which was used in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy to convey practical invisibility to, for example, a stolen starship parked on a cricket pitch. Everyone saw it, but it was up to someone else to deal with it.This is quite separate from the Somebody-Else’s-Problem Machine, AKA a leaf-blower, one of those noisy gadgets gardeners are expected to use to make their employers’ lawn look neat, while blowing the dust and rodent droppings into the neighbors’ windows. Los Angeles County banned them for a little while, but it just didn’t catch on. Turning them around to suck everything into a bag for compost would have made more sense.

]]> http://www.littledee.net/?p=2332&cpage=1#comment-3799 Frank Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:41:11 +0000 http://www.littledee.net/?p=2332#comment-3799 Alida is protected by an SEP field! Alida is protected by an SEP field!

]]> http://www.littledee.net/?p=2332&cpage=1#comment-3793 War Pig Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:33:42 +0000 http://www.littledee.net/?p=2332#comment-3793 Reminds me of the cartoon about the little elephant who wanted to go to America. He was rejected until he was told by a wise, old, bird to paint himself pink, whereupon everyone would deny they saw any such thing. Worked, too. Reminds me of the cartoon about the little elephant who wanted to go to America. He was rejected until he was told by a wise, old, bird to paint himself pink, whereupon everyone would deny they saw any such thing. Worked, too.

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