TrainerAZ
Sep 15 2004, 11:55 PM
That's right, a Japanese company that can't figure out how to do a website in English HAS created a device to turn a floral arrangement into a speaker. The vibrations travel through the plant stems and exit through the leaves and petals.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/09/ap_091304.asp
conju
Sep 16 2004, 08:45 AM
That's exactly why I don't keep plants at my house.
~Y~
Sep 16 2004, 08:55 AM
I'm always coming home to find that my ficus threw a rave. (At least that's what the dog tells me.) I say, if they have time to party... then they have time to get a job! Damn freeloadin' shrubbery!!!
DrinkSlinger
Sep 16 2004, 08:57 AM
I hate to tell you this, but the dog's lying.
Shrubs don't pitch tents on the carpet.
Glassolalia
Sep 16 2004, 08:58 AM
QUOTE(conju @ Sep 16 2004, 12:45 PM)
That's exactly why I don't keep plants at my house.
My Dad used to swear that my Mom was training her spider plant to strangle him, so he tried to abolish all plant life from our house.
conju
Sep 16 2004, 10:05 AM
Did it work?
CelticGent
Sep 16 2004, 10:07 AM
the training, strangling, or abolishing?
Glassolalia
Sep 16 2004, 10:26 AM
None of it worked....
Oscar
Sep 16 2004, 10:32 AM
Did the Mayan "end-of-the-world prediction" for 2012 include plants?
Glassolalia
Sep 16 2004, 10:35 AM
Nope - not that I remember, anyway!
Kirk
Sep 16 2004, 10:37 AM
Woody Allen kills a man with a giant rudebega in the future though.
Oscar
Sep 16 2004, 04:47 PM
"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens".
(Death) Woody Allen
TrainerAZ
Sep 16 2004, 04:55 PM
QUOTE(DrinkSlinger @ Sep 16 2004, 09:57 AM)
I hate to tell you this, but the dog's lying.
Shrubs don't pitch tents on the carpet.
But I bet the Shrub does.
Can't we just give him to the Knights who say Ni?
conju
Sep 16 2004, 06:10 PM
No, that's too much work.
sixela
Sep 17 2004, 04:20 AM
QUOTE(TrainerAZ @ Sep 17 2004, 03:55 AM)
Can't we just give him to the Knights who say Ni?
They're no longer the knights who say "Ni!", and I doubt he can pronouce their new name.
CelticGent
Sep 17 2004, 05:54 AM
sometimes i make me giggle.
Absomphe
Sep 17 2004, 06:09 AM
No, it doesn't.
Yes, it does.
No, it doesn't.
Yes, it does.
Doesn't.
Does.
Doesn't.
Does.
This isn't an argument.
Yes it is.
No it isn't.
Yes it is.
No, you're just contradicting everything I say, that doesn't make it an argument.
Yes, it does...........
MrGreenGenes
Sep 17 2004, 07:56 AM
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to shoot both of you.
~Y~
Sep 17 2004, 08:40 AM
I'll be your back up sniper and pick off the ones you may miss.
conju
Sep 17 2004, 08:46 AM
QUOTE(sixela @ Sep 17 2004, 05:20 AM)
pronouce their new name.
2 part question: Is it sad that I know that? and if so, what can I do to avoid it in the future?
A.B. Normal
Sep 17 2004, 09:06 AM
Part 1: Yes. But I'm sure you're not the only one. At least you were man enough to admit it.
Part 2: Drink. More.
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