Half a croissant, on a plate, with a sign in front of it saying '50c'
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Ego-Alert
For people who like themselves too much
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This would be a simple button you wore to keep track of how often the person you're talking to says the words I, me, my or mine. If they go over a certain limit (number of times per minute or ratio to other words) then it begins to glow, yellow at first and then bright red if the speaker doesn't take the hint. It would have to be able to keep track of different speakers of course, and also be able to apply a different algorithm to stutterers. Seeing their egotism glaring back at them might be just the thing some of these people need to stop and listen to what you have to say. In the event that you're the one with the big ego then the button could vibrate at increasing levels until you figured out there were other real people around.
longshot9999, Dec 15 2004


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       twit! to whoo!
po, Dec 15 2004
   

       po - Not sure what you mean.
longshot9999, Dec 15 2004
   

       'tis easier for me to deal with people who begin each sentence (especially requests) with 'I' than with any other pronoun.
reensure, Dec 15 2004
   

       I bbbbbbbbbbbbleeeep baah de baa bdaaa....
neilp, Dec 15 2004
   

       neilp thinks this is an interesting idea.
neilp, Dec 15 2004
   

       Aye, mine at an eye mine with a menial minority.
Ling, Dec 15 2004
   

       Is the HalfBakery babelfish broken? I haven't understood a single anno in this bleeble narg fro. Tregum plenk, porgles. Tregum NEDDLEAN porgles a storink.
not_only_but_also, Dec 15 2004
   

       "Porgles" has a nice sound. It ought to mean something.
Ling, Dec 16 2004
   


 
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