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This is an embarrassingly simple idea, as I can find no
way to
complicate it. I apologize.
A mobile phone cover which, from the back of the
phone,
resembles a human ear, hair (or not, according to style),
and
the upper part of the jawline. When in use, said phone
gives
the appearance
of simply holding your empty hand up to
the
side of your head.
This enables an inversion of the usual situation, whereby
the invention of Bluetooth headsets enabled completely
insane people to talk to themselves in public without
attracting attention. Instead, completely sane people
can appear to be talking into a non-existent phone, and
therefore appear mad.
I'm afraid that's all there is.
http://www.amazon.c...MITED/dp/B00GY207R4
So good that Amazon started selling them even before the idea hit the keyboard. [xenzag, Nov 27 2015]
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Your mother must be so proud. |
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Your father would probably be proud too, if you knew who he was ... |
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I have the paperwork, tracing my ancestry back
through 37 generations of Buchanans. There's
really very little doubt although, just to be sure, I
have had all the family members who are either
alive or buried in accessible graves genotyped. |
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Besides, the "Buchanan navel" is only known to
exist in one bloodline, and is determined by a gene
on the Y chromosome. We did wonder, for a long
time, about the intercalary, but it turned out that
he too had the Buchanan navel, just not in the
place where we had been looking for it. |
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OK, which damned fools bunned this? |
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// I have the paperwork, tracing my ancestry back through 37 generations of Buchanans. // |
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This is known to us. The uncertainty lies in a narrow field, i.e. the person you call "Dad", various "Uncles", Colin Buchanan the Merino ram, who/whatever it is that's kept locked in that room in the South-South-West wing upper attic with the barred windows, and that curiously hirsute, short and stooping individual with the sloping forehead and astonishingly long arms that Sturton persistantly refers to as "Grandma Hermaphrodite" ... |
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You really shouldn't take Colin seriously - he may be
the black sheep of the family, but he only
does it for attention, you know. |
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That's baaaad, [MB]. The comment, I mean, not the idea. |
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The idea is clear and reasonable, and may actually turn out, at the quantum level, to be a fundamentally necessary reaction/response to rampant blueteeth. |
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//The idea is clear and reasonable// |
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I'm so sorry. It's been a bad day. |
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Grandad did our family tree, particularly the bit
where the other clan had a remarkably fine set
of our clan's heads. Cheers grandad. |
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I bunned, and I would like to donate to your kickstarter. |
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You know, it's that kind of support and enthusiasm
that has gotten the world into this mess. But thank
you. |
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Sorry it was baked. I loved the idea. |
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Well, I hate to nit-pick, but that Amazon product
does not quite convey the impression of
phonelessness I was hoping to create. As far as I can
see from the picture, the head and hand of the man
using it are simply much too small. |
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As I understood the image, you get the whole thing, so that when you are using it, you appear to be holding a man, who in turn is holding a rubber ear with a phone in it.... so it's a sort of Droste effect. (if you don't know what that is, see Wolfram Mathematica Site for a very good explanation). |
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What happened at the 38th generation back? |
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We don't talk about it. And nice people don't ask. |
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No-one's talking here, everyone is typing. So spill the beans! |
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I will say no more than to suggest you examine John
Komnenos the Fat, also known as John Bochranon,
also known (during the lattermost stages of his
existence) as John the Beheaded. |
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Oh, give it a rest ... yadda, yadda, yadda, born to the purple, direct line to Augustus Caesar ... yes, you've got the evidence, the latin inscriptions, the papyrii ... no-one's disputing it, alright ? Just stop flapping your family tree in everyone's face. It's not big, and it's not clever. So one of your ancestors had his own ziggurat. At the end of the day, it's just a big heap of mud brick, even if he was worshipped as a living god ... |
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Yes, but what counted was that he was later
worshipped as a dead god. The whole immortality
thing is a lot harder to pull off than you appreciate. |
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