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It happens all the time, someone says something stupid and it all goes silent.
Well fill in these awkward gaps with the tumbleweed dispenser!
A small container with a button on the top, which when pressed rolls a miniature tumbleweed replica across whatever surface it sits on.
Tumbleweed Dispenser ~bz
[bristolz,
Feb 21 2005, last modified Jun 28 2005]
Tumbleweed Connection
http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/2532
[normzone, Jan 25 2005]
Tumbling Tumbleweeds by Bob Nolan
http://www.cowboyly...mbleweeds-1899.html
[Mustardface, Jan 27 2005]
Never Eat Soggy Waffles
http://www.geocitie...ssault/tumblew.html
Sorry about the poor quality, it scanned all fucked up. [AfroAssault, Feb 26 2005]
Short name, e.g., Bob's Coffee
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It doesn't even have to be a miniature, it can be stored compressed and pop out of its container and expand. |
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Interesting story: I was recently in the western prairies, although in the northern territories, and I saw a tumbleweed for the first time. I tell you no lie when I say I was nearly doubled over laughing when I saw the first one. And when a passer-by asked what was so funny, they didn't understand. |
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This is better than the sound of crickets chirping for those awkward, you're-such-an-idiot silences. Tumbleweed. Heh. |
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Thanks for a good laugh! (WTAGIPBAN) |
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That's good, you should post it on the halfbakery................. |
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........................ tumble.... tumble.... tumble..... |
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I have a feeling the one minus-er has had this happen to him/her before. |
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This made me remember a time when I lived in Wyoming; during recess, a friend told a joke that no one laughed at. Out of nowhere, a tumbleweed smacked him in the face. Irony was a foreign concept to us then, but I'll be damned if it wasn't hilarious.
Also, I suggest watching an episode of the "Clerks" cartoon series that features a Tumbleweed store going out of business due to the Quicker Mart across the street. Excellent idea. |
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shredded cellophane, the cats would go crazy for this. |
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Could it also play a sound effect of wind rustling over the desolate plain? |
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[wags] Better yet, place some of [mach]'s crickets inside, and you'll get both the tumbleweed and cricket chirp, telling the offending party they are an idiot with as many senses as possible.
Hmm... what smells idiotic.... |
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(... put them in glass cases on walls... "In case of awkward silence, break glass.") |
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Once upon a time, I was going to post the "Bad Joke Cricket" - a device for making the noisy cricket chirp in a room silenced by a bad joke. The aural equivalent, if you like, of a tumbleweed. But such things exist, and this is far better. I should have thought more ambitiously. :) |
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Japanese gardeners have special techniques for growing perfect miniature tumbleweeds, so finding a source is no problem. But what of the drifts of miniature tumbleweeds that will soon blow down our city streets, supplanting the native plastic bags from their ecological niche? |
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Oops, there goes another tumbleweed... |
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(sung:) "Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds." (see link) |
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//Japanese gardeners have special techniques for growing perfect miniature tumbleweeds// |
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Bonsai tumbleweed? Fantastic! |
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I'd love to see this with an illo. |
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Now I'm no [bristolz] or [FarmerJohn], but damn it [UnaBubba], I made one just for you in comic strip form. As soon as I get my hands on a scanner, it's on, bitch.
</chappelle>
Oh, that's why.
*UPDATE*
The pic has been scanned, see link. |
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bristolz, I love the illustration! |
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Come on, [refrigerator anatidae], turn it on. |
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Could it play the theme music from 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly?' |
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Illustrate away! I think playing the sound of chirping crickets will be a useful addition, the theme of the good, the bad, and the ugly is an idea, I shall ponder this... |
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Thank you, thank you. I give full credit to the open container of gasoline in this closet I'm typing in. Why is my hair made of scorpions? |
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A well timed *sniff* has the same effect. Pastry for creativity. |
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What a truly funny comic strip, Afro. Makes me laugh and especially at the timing which is conveyed so clearly. |
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Wonderful work, [AfroAssault]. I had to save it to my halfbaked folder. |
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Once again, many thanks. Unfortunately, it cut off the bottom half which features Bob Hope beating the guy in the hat to death with a hammer.
(cue tumbleweed) |
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I think your tumbleweed dispenser is a good idea.... but... is there only one tumbleweed provided... If this is the case then problems arise... I for one would not like to chase after this single tumbleweed... and i dont think i would be willing to lose this after paying. There should be a pack of 3 or 5 that come on purchase... maybe refill packs that can be sold seperatly. |
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Though it is not mentioned in the text or shown in the illustration, most everyone on this site site is aware of the fact that at the back of the tumbleweed dispenser is a cartridge of 24 compressed tumbleweeds that installs through the bottom of the dispenser. |
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Within the cartridge, each flattened tumbleweed is layered with a thin tabbed plastic sheet that both separates the tumbleweeds and allows the dispenser to pluck just one (by grabbing a tab) from the cartridge and ready it for rolling. |
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Each tumbleweed is laced with a very fine denier monofilament webbing that allows the dispenser to pull the flattened tumbleweed out into its natural round shape just before release. In a clever bit of engineering, the webbing has just enough elastic twang to propel the tumbleweed a short distance across a flat surface before the wind catches and carries it away in classic tumbleweed fashion. |
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Selling for about $27USD, the OEM tumbleweed cartridges are a bit expensive but third party tumbleweed refill vendors are starting to sell knock-off cartridges at greatly reduced prices. |
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I Can't Believe It's Not Tumbleweed. |
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Perfect invention, brilliant drawing and strip, fabbo annos....I can't take any more. I'll have to only allow myself small rations of this idea or I'll implode. |
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uhh...tumbleweed and plains are associated with idiocy? |
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Sure, if that's what you want. |
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Wow, that was an old [bristolz] anno tailing on this. I remember those days. |
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