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Inventor of Low Tech Fridge Wins Award
juju2112 writes "Mohammed Bah Abba of Nigeria won a Rolex award for his pot-in-pot invention. Here's how it works. You take a smaller pot and put it inside a larger pot. Fill the space in between them with wet sand, and cover the top with a wet cloth. When the water evaporates, it pulls the heat out with it, making the inside cold. It's a natural, cheap, easy-to-make refrigerator."
For some reason, I read "pot-in-pot" as more of a smuggler's invention. Ingenious! I'll hide the _REAL_ pot inside this _FAKE_ pot, so they'll never find it!
~i = an imaginary being~
Give a man a rolex, and he's more or less late for a lifetime. Give a man a stick, and he's on time at least once a day.
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I heard this guy needs someone to transfer the award money for him.
Remember at school/university when we use the same principle to keep our beer cold.
Well of course it's obvious, and everybody knows the trick, but this is a perfect example of how some people can be taken by the most outrageous nigerian scams. This time it was the Rolex award judges. Perhaps they expect 20M to be wired from some bank account in Nigeria or something...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
In other news: Man from Nigeria sells Rolex award, buys fridge.
I'm sure some of us geek's will be confused by this "sand" thing they're using in between the pots. This "sand" they talk about is actually just our friend silicon. Just thought I'd throw that out there to avoid some confusion.
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A liquid, excreted from the skin when hot, whose evaporation helps to maintain an organism within a certain temperature range as well as serving to eliminate certain waste materials from the body.
This process may be, but is not necessecarily, augmented by a seperate device composed of a number of curved blades, fitted to a central hub and rotated at high speeds by an electric motor in order to create artificial air currents. some form of material support apparatus keeps the device elevated above the ground, either by providing a stand or attaching to the ceiling of the room, or by mounting the device inside some form of automotive vehicle. Also, a guard device may be used to keep sundry items from coming in contact with the blades.
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
Happily it turns out that the joke is on the "inventor" since it wasn't really the "Rolex award judges", but a cheap knock-off panel of judges from Thailand.
And I thought Nigerians were the most honest people on earth!
=Smidge=
This is obviously untrue.... have you ever heard of a student with a clean sock? ;-)
> Sure, someone in a developed country might have come up with something more innovative, but they probably don't need the money as much as this guy would.
Hmm.. my inbox tells me they have milions of dollars just lying around there..
Dear Sir,
Please kindly permit me to express myself to you. My name is Mohammed Bah Abba from Nigeria. I recently won money from Rolex watch company that mandated me to search for good and reliable company/individual person who can assist me to safe keep some amount of US$100,000 dollars. This fund is paid into a fixed deposit account with coded secret account number and my coded name in a bank in Europe.
Now, I am wanted by the NIGERIAN SCAMMERS who have mandated that all my assets, bank account home and abroad be confisicated to pay for their email fraud schemes.
I need trust worthy investor who can go to bank in europe to receive money either through the transfer system for certified draft in his or her name to redeposit this money in your country for good investment. If you can handle this process myself or my attorney to have meeting with you anywhere in europe to go to the bank with legal letter of administration to change beneficiary to your name as investment proxy and investor to our family investments.
This is very confidential handling if you can be able to handle it with us, I have mapped 20% for you and new fridge that not need electricity. You should contact me urgently on my email: mohammedbahabba@gmail.com.
This is 100% risk free and demands absolute secret and confidentially.
If you are being good to good I pray we succeed. respond urgently.
Mohammed Bah Abba
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