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Who Needs a Satellite Dish When You Have a Wok?

Posted by samzenpus on from the sweet-and-sour-channel dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Why pay $20,000 for a commercial link to run your television station when a $10 kitchen wok from the Warehouse is just as effective? This is exactly how North Otago's newest television station 45 South is transmitting its signal from its studio to the top of Cape Wanbrow, in a bid to keep costs down."

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  1. Alternatively by tttonyyy · · Score: 5, Funny

    More to the point, why pay to watch "45 South" when I can, more cheaply, scoop my eyeballs out with a rusty spoon from Honest Al's Hardware store.

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  2. MacGyver would be proud. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can you somehow add a ball point pen and chewing gum into making the dish?

    MacGyver would just love that!

  3. One of these will happen.. by freedom_india · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the wok thing becomes more popular here, one or many of the following is bound to happen:
    1. Prices of Wok will increase NOT due to increase in demand, but because sellers now think it serves a dual purpose.
    2. FCC will jump in the bandwagon and demand wok makers put a minute dent to make sure it does not serve as a dish.
    3. Homeland Security will jump on the FCC bandwagon and demand that woks be classifed as potentially "interesting" and "dangerous" weapons.
    4. Carlyle Group will do a LBO against the largest Wok maker...Cheney will be richer.
    5. Canada will impose a "musician's duty" on Woks since woks can be used to transmit pirated music...

    that's all i can think of now.

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  4. And what's more... by thetroll123 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can't use a $20,000 commercial link to whip up a tasty and healthy stir-fry. There's a lot of value in that $10 wok.

    1. Re:And what's more... by Actinide · · Score: 5, Funny

      You can't use a $20,000 commercial link to whip up a tasty and healthy stir-fry

      To be fair, have you actually tried this?
    2. Re:And what's more... by jayayeem · · Score: 5, Funny

      My wife can't do that with the wok either.

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  5. Re:Hire the guy who thought of it by 16384 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I work at a Big Company, where over-engineering, paying 10k where 1k would do, and endless discussion on the color of the bikeshed happen thrice before lunch every day. Could the bikeshed be in cornflower blue?
  6. Re:Silly article: by markov_chain · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're right, this thing will never wok.

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  7. Reruns Ought to do Well by camperdave · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and now the image quality is more like...err...sweet and sour? or: what about the signal being chopped?

    How about: "I know I just watched the show an hour ago, but I'm hungering to see it again."?

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    1. Re:Reruns Ought to do Well by Gryle · · Score: 5, Funny

      I've heard the biggest problem is weight actually. Supposedly a rig like this weighs wonton.

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  8. And for personal communication... by kanweg · · Score: 5, Funny

    you can use a wokkie-tokkie

    Bert

  9. Re:Silly article: by Ryatt · · Score: 5, Funny

    if the Wok setup goes down for any reason So which part of the wok do you believe will fail first?