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PC Case For Hamsters, EZ Bake Oven in a Drive Bay

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thats-the-stuff dept.

ResQuad noted that Slashdot's OSDN Sister site ThinkGeek is selling some exciting new products including a PC Case for Hamsters and an EZ Bake Oven that fits in a 5.25 drive bay. They also have a limited run T-Shirt with a s3kr1t message on it. Lots of other fun stuff too.

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  1. Bad Marketing by American+AC+in+Paris · · Score: 5, Funny
    They're both neat little toys, but ThinkGeek won't have much success selling them side-by-side.

    It's hard enough fitting a hamster into an empty 5.25 drive bay, after all...

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    1. Re:Bad Marketing by b12arr0 · · Score: 5, Funny

      They're low-carb hamsters. Atkins lists them at .2 carbs. I'm sure they'll fit.

    2. Re:Bad Marketing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Only breaded hamsters have carbs. When you saute them in WD40 they are carb free.

  2. Good... by snakattak · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I can cook my hamster in my ez-bake drive bay. Finally!

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  3. Terrible! by Chuck+Bucket · · Score: 5, Funny

    must, not reload slashdot again today! come on April 2nd!

    CVBS

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    1. Re:Terrible! by Hoch · · Score: 2, Funny

      You think thats bad, /. gave me mod points last night. Must, not moderate today! Must save. NOOOOOOOOOOOO.

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  4. EZ-Bake ovens and Geek childhood by Shakrai · · Score: 5, Funny

    Back when I was a little kid I pulled a Tim Allen stunt and decided that my sisters EZ-Bake oven needed more power. After all who wants to wait a whole 10 minutes for their peanut-butter cookie? I considered various ways of doing this (my parents caught me trying to take the propane tank off our grill -- so that option was ruled out) and finally settled on wiring the battery terminals directly into 120v AC power.

    Unfortunately the Oven didn't last very long and I got a nice electric shock for my efforts. My sister never did figure out why her EZ-Bake stopped working though. And my Dad never did figure out where his good extension cord and 3/4 of a brand new roll of electricans tape disappeared to either :)

    To this day I still think there's a market for a more powerful version of the EZ-Bake oven. Any venture capitalists out there reading this comment? It'll be the biggest thing since Google and sliced bread -- which incidentally we'll be able to toast in less then 10 seconds with the new model!

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    1. Re:EZ-Bake ovens and Geek childhood by Shakrai · · Score: 2, Funny
      There is a more powerful version of the EZBake. It's called a microwave. It's been out a good long time now.

      Ah, but Microwaves won't make my bread golden brown when I toast it. We need something that works with heat not EM. I need to reinvestigate the feasibility of the gas powered EZ-Bake oven. You could even take it camping where there's no AC power!

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    2. Re:EZ-Bake ovens and Geek childhood by Shakrai · · Score: 2, Funny
      In fact, you aren't the first person to think of this. I present to you: GE's Advantium oven.

      THOSE RAT BASTARDS!!!! I had prior art! Goddamn them!

      There's only one thing to do now. If you can't beat 'em, sue 'em!

      But, sadly, your joke has, in fact, been brought to, um, light. Sorry.

      Everybody is a critic :) I was just trying to get into the apparent /. spirit of Apr 1st. I've been ridiculed in almost every reply. Oh well :)

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    3. Re:EZ-Bake ovens and Geek childhood by Trey+Waters · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hah, that reminds me of a story a salesman at an appliance store told me....

      He was at a trade show, where some GE rep was demoing the Advantium oven. As part of the demo, he was cooking chocolate chip cookies and touting "With the Advantium oven from GE, you can cook 6 cookies in 3 minutes!"

      At one point, a lady in the crowd piped up "Yeah, well with my Dacor range, I can cook 125 cookies in 12 minutes!"

      The GE rep gave her a few coupons and politely asked her to move on. :)

      For those not in the know, Dacor is one of your high-end "pro-sumer" (I hate that term) brands. Think Viking.

  5. EZ Roast Case by zubernerd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just wait until you put an {AMD|P4} processor in it, then that case will be an EZ Roast oven for hamsters...

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  6. Meta April Fool by iCat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pity the poor souls who have to meta moderate all the April 1st threads that will show up in a day or two.

  7. Disappointed.... by MajorDick · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am horribly disappointed, not at the bad AF joke but for some reason when I try to add it to my cart it says...."Gotcha! April Fools, silly monkey! "

    I was hping to buy both and turn it into a sort of concentration camp for rodents, kill them in the case , cook em in the oven. I even had my label maker ready to print an Arbeit Macht Frei label over the drive bay, Oh well, back to using the microwave..

    1. Re:Disappointed.... by MajorDick · · Score: 2, Funny

      In a word, maybe, if you dont find it funny, well go stuff it. I am so sick of "politically correct" asswipes that tell people what they can and cant say. You forgot Hiroshima victims, ...mmmm....extra crispy....

  8. Re:I dont need an easy bake oven! by madfgurtbn · · Score: 2, Funny

    My overclocked p4 could cook a steak!

    My water cooled p4 could chill wine!

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  9. Hamster Havoc by leroybrown · · Score: 5, Funny

    I once had a hamster named Forest that would hours and hours running in his little habitrail wheel. He loved that wheel so much that he drug some of his bedding into it to sleep there. Then he decided to start using it as his bathroom, too. So when he'd start running, there would literally be a shit storm in his wheel. Hamster poop and bedding flying everywhere. And, of course, all the flying debris would make its way out thru the airholes and onto my desk. I had to clean my desk of hamster shit at least once a day.

    Can you imagine the havoc this would've caused inside a computer case? Little poop pellets landing on the cpu and causing quite a stink from the heat, or hitting the cpu fan and being thrown everywhere... no thanks, I like my cat who is scared of my computers.

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    1. Re:Hamster Havoc by mark-t · · Score: 2, Funny
      Our hamster did that too... she had a smaller wheel inside her cage, but she really liked the new big wheel that we got her that we had mounted on the exterior of her habitrail, so she started sleeping in there and putting bedding, etc....

      Every day, I had to clean around it because it made such a mess outside the cage, but I eventually got tired of it, so I took the whole darn wheel off, and left it off for a few days, putting a little plastic window at the end of the tube where the wheel had been connected so she wouldn't be able to suddenly get out. She did not seem impressed. A week later I put the wheel back on.

      We haven't had a problem with her doing that since... and she still excercises in the wheel as much as she ever did.

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  10. Re:Rejected Stories by Endive4Ever · · Score: 2, Funny

    Based on practical observation, I would say that not a lot of legitimate stories were rejected. This, however, is crowding the usual anti-Microsoft and trumped up 'Your Rights On Line' drivel off the main page.

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  11. almost by AnonymousCowheart · · Score: 2, Funny

    Almost as good as 2001's USB George Foremans iGrill
    The grill is still up at think geeks website

  12. Re:Rejected Stories by Catbeller · · Score: 2, Funny

    Based on practical observation, I would say that not a lot of legitimate stories were rejected. This, however, is crowding the usual anti-Microsoft and trumped up 'Your Rights On Line' drivel off the main page.

    Ashcroft? Izzat you?

  13. Ez-Bake oven... by cant_get_a_good_nick · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do they have a Pentium-4 without a heat sink?

    Anyways, here's a story I know.
    Long time ago, back in the original Pentium divide bug days, some guy had a Pentium machine with the bug, and wanted to replace the CPU. Since the CPU was hundreds of dollars, he had to send in the bad one before he could get the new one. No problem, since they just came out with the new Zero Insertion Force sockets. He tries to pull it out, but he can't. Turns out the manufacturer had glued it in. Seems that people in the loading dock found out that Zero Insertion Force meant also Zero Removal Force and stole the chips, necessitating the glue. What to do, what to do...
    Then he remembers, "Hey, this is a Pentium isn't it". He removes the heatsink, and runs his computer. CPU gets so hot it melts the glue, and he pulls it out. Don't have to worry about thermal failure anyway, since it's destined for the scrap heap. Sends it back, gets his CPU.

  14. hey thinkgeek! by holzp · · Score: 2, Funny

    you want to see something funny? here is a slashdotting.

    "ha-ha"

  15. Re:T-shirt super secret message by wawannem · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't even see the encoding anymore, I just see blond, brunette, redhead...

  16. Re:Bad site design by Sepper · · Score: 2, Funny

    And a link to those HTTPanties' which are FOR REAL...

    With Customer Action Shot!... I still can't believe they... with a camera.. to... %/%!T2E$"/"/!% BUFFER OVERFLOW

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  17. they've crossed the line! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    yeah look at all the funny little products you can bye hahahahahaa... I laughed at them.. I saw the funny side...

    THE AD BANNER SAYING "DOOM 3 RELEASED CLICK TO ORDER" ON THE OTHER HAND WAS *NOT* FUNNY!

    my poor bleeding fingers... clicking and clicking but it just wouldnt load... I thought this was it.. finally after all this time.. but no those bastards steal it away from me disguising this down right evil scheme as some sort of funny april fools prank.

    I'm not laughing.

  18. Re:T-shirt super secret message by RLW · · Score: 2, Funny

    Weak, just read it. It's only binary. I bet you use a compiler to write your device drivers.
    Real geeks key it in with cat con > driver! phf33r m3!
    please? pretty please, at least a little fear? Just so the kids don't laugh at me?

  19. Dear ThinkGeek ... by merdaccia · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dear ThinkGeek,

    Your little ploy was rather clever! We are very gullible here at Slashdot, and we all clicked on those links to see your lovely Hamster Case and EZ Bake oven. So, we humbly admit that you got the better of us toda...

    ...wait...

    ... we all clicked it?? The millions upon millions of us?!? Ummmm, you did host these pages and pictures on a different webserver than the one you use for commercial purposes, didn't you? You know, the one you use to sell stuff? Otherwise, your just obliterated your own ...

    You idiots

    Love, Slashdot

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  20. Already have one by myov · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... Removable drive rack + Athlon = mini pizza oven!

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