Flutterby™! : 1998-10-01 09:00:00+02

1998-10-01 09:00:00+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

In Salon this morning, spell checkers see the truth in names. The results of the latest 21^st challenge aren't quite as funny as I'd hoped (the challenge was to come up with fictional geek gadgets), but did come up with:

Laptop Humidor

Since no one at the office is fooled anymore by your possession of a portable computer (there are techs and secretaries to do all that scut work, for Christ's sake!), you might as well keep your illegal Cubans (a REAL status symbol) close at hand ... and it still sends e-mail, plays Freecell and corrupts Excel spreadsheets as well as a non-humidor laptop.

-- Keith Welch

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