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ThinkGeek ThinkGeek ThinkGEEK!

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the this-shit-never-gets-old dept.

ThinkGeek writes "ThinkGeek ThinkGeek ThinkgEEk ThinkGeek! ThinkGeek ThinkGeek THINK geek think GeEk thinkgEek. ThinkGeek. (TG is owned by OSTG, the parent company of Slashdot, so activate all conspiracy theories now). You can also look into the new iPod accessory iCopulate which allows intimacy between mp3 players never before fantasized. And for the suit that has everything, Executve Pong. "

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  1. Move by mboverload · · Score: 5, Informative

    For the 3rd time, Nothing to see here, move along.

  2. Phew by Nifrith · · Score: 2, Funny

    [Posted at]11:59pm

    YES.

    1. Re:Phew by interiot · · Score: 2, Informative

      It's 9 hours into April 2nd here... meh. As the Wikipedia page mentions, April Fools actually lasts for 47 hours, if you count all of the time zones around the world. Just don't tell Taco this, or he'll pretend he's Japanese on March 31st and Alaskan on April 2nd.

  3. What the hell? by c0ldfusi0n · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's the 3rd story promoting ThinkGeek today. April Fools is one thing, but drop the propaganda.

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    1. Re:What the hell? by m50d · · Score: 4, Insightful

      At least they're being open about it this time.

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    2. Re:What the hell? by Shippy · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I don't see why everyone has to turn into whiny little pricks for a day. Go elsewhere for your news today if you don't like the (continued) humor. I, for one, have enjoyed the ThinkGeek (and other) jokes. And you know what? It'll be gone tomorrow so no big deal.

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  4. ThinkGeek? by suso · · Score: 3, Funny


    ThinkGeek

    ThinkGeek? ThinkGeek

    Just like Malcovich

    1. Re:ThinkGeek? by xstonedogx · · Score: 4, Funny

      +1, ThinkGeek

  5. Okay, you need to stop. by filterchild · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seriously, stop. It's not funny anymore. I want my news back.

  6. Midnight UT just passed, numskulls. by DrunkenTerror · · Score: 2, Insightful

    April 1 is now over. No mas merde postage por la editadores!

  7. Slashdot is starting to suck now. by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 2, Informative

    Stop taking the piss, Taco.

    1. Re:Slashdot is starting to suck now. by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I must respectfully disagree with you, dear sir. Slashdot started sucking years ago. :-)

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  8. PONGMECHANIK by dhart · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Okay, the Executive Pong is pretty cool, but I'd rather have a PONGMECHANIK!

  9. iPod pedophilia by calibanDNS · · Score: 4, Funny

    The two iPods in the iCopulate image are from different generations! That 3rd gen iPod could be the 4th gen iPod's father!

  10. ENOUGH! STOP ALREADY! by furry_wookie · · Score: 3, Informative

    From the Wikipedia "April Fool's Day" entry:
    Traditionally, pranks are supposed to end by noon. Those done afterwards are supposed to bring bad luck to the perpetrator.


    Curse the /. editors. for not having enought sense to stop the 4/1 torture at the appointed hour.

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  11. Re:At Least This One Knows by thebudgie · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This'll be the last April Fool's story then (12.59PM shown, please let it be true). Phew. I wonder if the Mods have a posting limit or is it just not possible for them to post them more frequently than every 3 minutes or so...

  12. Re:Fuck off by b00stA · · Score: 2, Informative

    You DO know that /. and Thinkgeek are both related through OSTG?

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  13. Re:THINK GEEK by Arathrael · · Score: 2, Funny

    This has no effect on me.

    I always find myself thinking 'geek' when I'm reading /. anyway.

    Mind you, I also find myself thinking 'geek' when I'm at work. Or at home. Or looking in a mirror. I really need to get out more. :-)

  14. Hmmm... by Twisted+Grind · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I do believe all the "waaah it's april 2nd i need my slashdot or my leprosy kicks in!" posts just goes to show how little a sense of humor the non-NorthAm /. community really has. Quit browsing /. and get back to work if it offends you so much. Or hell, go OUTSIDE! Let us with a sense of humor laugh our asses off at crude humor for another 8 hours!

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  15. This is the first story today by soupdevil · · Score: 3, Insightful

    that made me laugh out loud. Yeah, the April Fools and Think Geek thing is over the top, way over the top. Come on guys, this is performance art here. Andy Kaufman would be proud.

  16. Taco's revenge by hankaholic · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I honestly wouldn't be surprised if this is CmdrTaco's way of annoying the collective Slashdot readership in response to people nagging him about the natural-language parsing story posted a few days back being a dupe.

    If that's the case, I'm amused that he'd spend the time giving a collective "Fuck you, it's my site" to the readers. If that's not the case, I'm honestly curious. Taco and associates can't be so clueless as to think that the majority of the readership is pleased with the day's stories.

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    1. Re:Taco's revenge by Eil · · Score: 4, Insightful


      If that's the case, I'm amused that he'd spend the time giving a collective "Fuck you, it's my site" to the readers.

      In an interview that Malda gave a few years back, he openly admitted that the worst part of running Slashdot was all the incessant complaints, questions, and suggestions from people who were under the delusion he actually cares what they thought. Someone once asked why readers shouldn't be able to moderate stories the same way they moderate comments and his response was simply that the editors picked the stories they liked and that the site would never change from that while he was in charge.

      I'm honestly curious. Taco and associates can't be so clueless as to think that the majority of the readership is pleased with the day's stories.

      People continue to read and comment in them, don't they? Most webmasters dream all day long about owning a site like Slashdot where you have this large captive user base (some with paid subscriptions) and all you have to do is hire a couple of desk jockeys to post moderately interesting stories every hour or so. Marketing? None. Improvements? Hahahah. Managing? There's nothing to manage, it's a damn blog.

      Admittedly, Slashdot April Fool's days have gone downhill every year. Next year, as an April Fool's gag, they should simply not post any April Fool's stories at all. Or even take the whole site down, not even under any humorous pretense or anything, just have a single page that says something like, "Sorry, we've all taken the day off. Why don't you update your software or flip through a newspaper if you've got extra time to kill?"

  17. Re:not only is this old news by RichardX · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ha! So you think.
    The REAL April Fools gag is that we get them all back again tomorrow as dupes.

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  18. I just tried to order by crabpeople · · Score: 4, Informative

    I just tried to order that free shirt from thinkgeek. aparently, i have to order another item more than 10 dollars as well. Ok i said, and i picked out a nice Network Security shirt. Then it came to select my shipping options and put in a credit card.

    Thats all good too, but when i put in my address, it tells me that because im in Canada, it will be 18 USD to ship!!! (that btw is the CHEAPEST shipping method)

    This is an order of two shirts with the first shirt costing 14.99. So basically, if im understanding this, I would have to pay more for shipping a light cloth shirt, than the actual shirt is worth. Obviously i would be a fool to do that as it just doesnt sit right in my head.

    So in conclusion, to fix think geek and get people to buy from there, LOWER YOUR INTERNANTIONAL SHIPPING

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  19. I AM awake, right? by Council · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This kind of thing makes me think of this part of The Eyes of Kid Midas

    Josh shook his head. "I don't think that's how the world's going to end." Josh leaned in closer as he spoke. "I think it's going to be a quieter thing. It's going to happen so that no one even notices anything is wrong. I think things are going to sort of... stop making sense... bit by bit. Things won't work right, people won't think right, everything's going to get all mixed up, until nothing in the universe works the way it's supposed to... And then, everything will just...stop."

    "The dream time," said Kirkpatrick, raising his eyebrows .

    "What?"

    Kirkpatrick took on that knowing look of a shaman -- the way he had around the campfire two weekends before. "There are some cultures," he said, "that believe in a future time when dreams cross the barrier into the real world, and the real world is dragged into an endless dream. All the laws of science, and logic break down to the chaos of nightmares. Pretty wild, huh."

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  20. Re:New poll? by KarMann · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I guess I should have included the relevant links for those stories, since they're falling below the fold so fast:

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  21. Fake ghostlike photons.... by porter235 · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/05shirt.shtml

    FOOLS SHOP AT THINKGEEK

  22. OH My by Lullabye_Muse · · Score: 2, Funny

    has the april fool's day madness ended we havent had a new topic in like 20 minutes hooray

  23. HYAX THE GIBSON by ColonelFubster · · Score: 2, Funny

    ax the lpaent hax the plabnet haxk the plenter hax trhe plane t and teh gibson ahcx the planet ehac eht ekabet agsd okeba eplanet hasx teh ahpklebnt if you mod this i will hack your face kthxbye

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  24. Re:New poll? by mrchaotica · · Score: 2, Funny
    • iCopulate with Cowboy Neal?
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  25. Now *this* is funny by Epsillon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Rob, you should have screwed all the links up in the first place. I mean ALL the links. That would have had us in uproar. Well, some of us, anyway ;-)

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  26. You silly, unobservant fools... by kureido · · Score: 3, Informative

    Am I the only one who actually moused over the links?

    ThinkGeek writes "ThinkGeek ThinkGeek ThinkgEEk ThinkGeek! ThinkGeek ThinkGeek THINK geek think GeEk thinkgEek.

    (If you don't have the linky-checky-in-brackets thing on, the links are actually to cmdrtaco.net, fark.com, randomdialogue.net, penny-arcade.com, deansplanet.com, mccarthy.vg, cowboyneal.org, homestarrunner.com, and sarcasta.net)

  27. iCopulate by Frodo+Crockett · · Score: 5, Funny

    iCopulate

    This is slashdot. Nobody believes you.

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  28. iCopulate by neckdeepinspecialsau · · Score: 2, Funny

    I would get an iCopulate but can't stand the idea of my iPod getting more action than me.