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From: John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] is this crazy?
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:00:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimrHDa5E0pr4hZ0Kto-_aukYHvxdN-wYG4SQdrB@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=827OWQJKB-J=0NejrtnJi7EKtO8rT11fuzoX6@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 9:39 AM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Akshat Kumar
> <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net> wrote:
>> I have this exact thing. Direct from China.
>>
>> It has a terribly slow interface, heats up
>> during calls, and runs out of battery during
>> actual call times, like no other.
>>
>> It's good if all you care about is the "smart"
>> part of "smart phone". Not much of a phone.
>
> is it like the cinco phone? Maybe it comes with its own tube of burn lotion!
>
> http://video.adultswim.com/tim-and-eric-awesome-show-great-job/cinco-fone.html
>
> ron
>
>

The best part is that the cinco phone is basically just a pulse-dialed
system, like rotary phones... but those of us in the target
demographic for Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job haven't had much
opportunity to know those so the joke works better :)

John



      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-16 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-08 13:37 Bruce Ellis
2011-01-08 17:51 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-01-08 23:02   ` Bruce Ellis
2011-01-08 23:52     ` EBo
2011-01-09  5:07       ` Bruce Ellis
2011-01-09  0:31     ` dexen deVries
2011-01-09  5:12       ` Bruce Ellis
2011-01-15  9:42 ` Akshat Kumar
2011-01-15 17:39   ` ron minnich
2011-01-16 15:02     ` hiro
2011-01-16 20:32       ` Jacob Todd
2011-01-16 21:00     ` John Floren [this message]

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