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Turn Your House Plants Into Speakers
thermopile writes "According to this story, your everyday houseplants could be turned into room-filling speakers. Called Ka-on ('Flower Sound' in Japanese), the machine consists of a donut-shaped magnet and coil at the base of a vase that hooks up to a CD player, stereo or TV. Prices range from $46 to $460. I don't know about you, but I'd hate getting fragged by that plant over there while playing Doom 3..."
...the first post and first DUPE call.
man this windows xp box i got just told me it synced the time to some date in 2005. 2:30 am pst is when i noticed. Couldn't this kind of thing mess a whole bunch of stuff up?
Star Wars = Allegorical Tale of Coming to Terms with Homosexuality
In anticipation of Attack of the Clones, I've spent several days watching and rewatching the original trilogy. After about my 90th viewing I realized Star Wars fans have entirely missed Star War's secret sub text! It is clearly an allegorical tale of a young man coming to terms with his homosexuality. Luke Skywalker subconsciously realizes he's gay yet he cannot come to terms with his sexual orientation. When one examines the symbolism George "What are you hiding with that beard!" Lucas lays out before us, it is clear. Consider:
* Luke lives on a desert world. The dry planet is symbolic of an unaroused woman. Try as he might, Luke cannot bring himself to devoting a life time to arousing her. The locals (the straights) spend all their time working their phallic-shaped vaporators in hopes of drawing out the moisture. Luke is not at all interested in this activity.
A moisture vaporator in use
* Luke surrounds himself with phallic symbols: lightsabers, X- wings (take a look at the front of an X-wing, it's clearly the head of a penis), R2 Units, and blasters.
IT'S AS CLEAR AS MY LEGO MODEL!
* Luke is enamored with a swarthy, dark-haired, older man with a mustache and a phallic name like Biggs. Biggs, of course, is a sailor.
I mean come on the guy is wearing a cravat!
* Luke accepts his lightsaber (e.g. takes a penis) from an older sexual mentor (Ben, another sailor).
* If you rearrange the letters in Luke Skywalker you get "Luke, we Skylark". Skylark was gay Vegas showman character Chris Elliot used to do on David Letterman.
* The head of a gaffi stick is clearly symbolic of an emerging clitoris. Luke gets beaten severely by a couple gaffi sticks. Sandpeople (notice how Lucas doesn't call them "Sandmen" but "people", playing the pronoun game to hide their sex) are not really men at all. They're mad women, beating the emotional crap out of Luke because he can not satisfy their needs!
Tuskan Raider or blow up doll? You decide!
* Remember what Ben says about the Sand People: "The Sandpeople are easily startled but they will soon be back and in greater numbers." This is just like women at bars! They are easily frightened and they travel in large numbers to the washroom.
* Luke befriends a 3rd sailor he picks up in bar named Han Solo (hand solo?).
* Han, of course, has Chewbacca, his life partner. Clearly the bandolier that Chewie wears is bondage symbolism.
* Stormtroopers are symbolic of sperm. The sperm have clearly penetrated the Death Star, which is symbolic of the woman's egg. Luke destroys the egg.
* Luke, captured by the egg, requires Ben (a sailor) to release him from the egg's grip.
* The trash compactor walls are symbolic of vaginal walls. They're closing in on Luke. While Han works the walls, Luke calls on his gay friends C3PO and R2 to get him out of this sticky situation.
* The Force is a reference to the force one requires to achieve anal penetration. "Let go, Luke" is clearly a reference to relaxing the muscles to allow anal penetration.
* In Ben's bachelor pad on Tatooine, Ben makes a pass at Luke. BEN: Learn about the Force, Luke. LUKE: Look, I can take you as far as Anchorhead. Translation: Ben wants to bugger Luke but Luke isn't ready for a top. He can only offer Ben oral.
* No pilot looks forward to launching his torpedoes against the exhaust port or the "chute". Luke can't wait to send his torpedo up the chute. If you doubt the chute is the anus then recall that the exhaust port is "right below the main port" (i.e., the vagina).
* Luke gets his jollies abusing space gerbils known as womp rats.
* Luke fights against wedge-shaped Star Destroyers. The c*** word used for a woman's sex organs is related to the term "cuneate" which is defined as "Wedge-shaped: Used especially to describe a leaf or petal base that is narrowly
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Why is the parent OT? Concern about what affects this might have on the plants seems to be perfectly on topic to me.
You can always increase your karma by re-posting all the comments modded +5
Hey!
I posted this same comment in a previous dupe story! (And it was modded +5)
You must be new around here.
Hey! I posted this same comment in a previous dupe story! (And it was modded +5)
Your right, but I never saw that one, and with the way the karma system works you dont get karma for funny posts anyway.
5 funny? Can someone help me figure out where parent is funny.