4 posts tagged “mail order”
TT Pack
Restroom Kit
Link: TT Packs
Are We Related?
Trevor from Sebastopol, Australia was glad to hear that both Dick and Leo are watch junkies. So is he. He's got loads of watches, most of which have flat batteries.
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair has done a special on Mad. See the article, with early Mad covers, online.
Spork Commercial
At Dick's request, Leo plays the Spork TV commercial.
Listen to Episode 558
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Loc8tor Plus
Tracking Device
Link: Loc8tor
Put a Homing Tag on any object you want to protect or track and authorise the tag with the Loc8tor Plus. When you want to locate the item, find the item on the LCD menu, press a button, the tag will flash and beep and the LCD screen will show you directions to the item. The Panic Tag adds a further feature. Put a panic tag on your child and a press on the button on the tag alerts you.
You can also set a "safety zone" so that if the tag gets outside the allowed range, you will be alerted on the main unit. Works within a maximum range of 600 feet.
Collyer Brothers
Listener Danny has made subtle changes to the Collyer Brothers Wikipedia entry, so that at one time, the Collyer Brothers' house contents included the Hayes SmartModem (Episode 245).
Listen to Episode 248
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Microsoft Bob
User-Friendly Computer Interface
Link: Wikipedia
Released in 1995, Microsoft Bob was intended to provide a user-friendly interface to computers. One of Microsoft's more notable failures.
Dick thinks that along with the Audrey (Episode 120), Microsoft belongs to the "I didn't want it" classification in the Gadget Warehouse catalogue.
However, Dick and Leo are sure that someone will write in to say how much he loved Microsoft Bob.
Mail Order Rip-Offs
There
is a market for everything. Dick showed, in the Mail Order Rip-Offs
feature on Regis, a set of 3 designer mirrors on a mail order catalogue
(pictured in a living room), which turned out to be a miniature set.
People wrote in to ask where they could get them.
Welcome to the Social
A 23-year-old listener writes, in response to Leo's request in Episode 202, about the meaning of "the social" in the Zune Slogan. He has absolutely no idea what Microsoft means.
Party Effects
Elaine King from Bloomington, Illinois write in to tell Leo to get a grip on his party sound effects, and the word "Netcast".
Napoleon Dynamite
Leo accidentally plays a sound clip, "What the heck are you guys doin'? Tryin' to ruin my life? Make me look like a friggin' idiot?" It's the voice of actor Jon Heder in the film Napoleon Dynamite. Another "ghost" sound clip after Episode 170.
Listen to Episode 215
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WowWee Alive Chimpanzee
Animatronic Bust
Link: WowWee Alive
A chimpanzee bust from Wowwee Alive with infrared vision that detects movements and makes its own sounds and movements, complete with remote control.
World Temperature Index
World News Now used to have a world temperature index. Learn what it was about, and the London Bus Count, from Dick.
April Fools
Dick played an April Fools joke live on TV on a World News Now anchor, using a car battery, which turns out to be the Interstate Car Battery (which Dick covers in Episode 160). Listen to the full story in Episode 13.
Dumb Gadgets
No gadgets are too dumb to find a buyer. Dick used to do a Dumb Gadgets section on Regis but there was always someone who loved what was on show. Dick once did a mail order rip-off on Regis, about some "designer mirrors" which turned out to be miniature ones. Mail came in asking Dick where to get them.
