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Clear spray for your monitor. Reacts with finger oils over time to release an unpleasant smell. Comes with a sticker warning of this, to be placed on your monitor.
This product are for those who really hate a fingerprinted monitor. Sure, it'll also react with the fingerprint on your monitor,
but the targeted consumer is anal enough to have cleaned the monitor by then anyway.
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Anyone seen or read Umberto Eco's "Name of the Rose"? Anyway, who are you calling "anal"? |
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[21] Just don't display the sticker or tell them about it. They'll still touch your screen, but will always wonder why their fingers smell. It's a small victory, but better than nothing. |
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But my finger already smells funny |
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"touch my monitor and I'll make your finger smell funny" boy, this lad's really hard! |
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The punishment should fit the crime, [po]. |
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Next up: annoying disco music playing anti-theft pen alarm system. |
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Not much use in a police crime storage area then.... |
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what about "Touch my monitor and I'll make your finger
fall slightly off" ? - sound effect of descending hatchet
slicing through the air..... It's a very silly idea and fully
deserving of a reward + |
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Or go all the way using that flesh-eating virus. Perhaps a bit drastic. |
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[Absinthe] Maybe I'm not with it, but I don't see what "Name of the Rose" has to do with this idea. Have a moment to explain for us thickies?? |
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[crash] would stink and my monitor would still be filthy. |
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Dont tell them what irritates you? Hmmm... so like if I said something like... pretty women on the job waiting on me hand and foot is something that is irritating to me then I guess they will do it just to spite me.. hmmm.. good idea. |
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Use a CRT and turn up the voltage to the tube. They'll leran soon enough. |
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[PollyNo9] Part of the plot of Name of the Rose concerned a book which killed. The book (a comedy) was in the library of a monastery of a strict order of mediaeval monks. It killed those who read it because they licked their fingers to turn the page, and the corners of the pages had been poisoned by a very strict monk who thought that laughter was a sin. Though why he didn't just burn the book, I don't remember. A kind of Dark Ages whodunnit.
The analogy was that I would gladly wish agonising intestinal pains on anyone who touches my pristine flastscreen. |
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Yeah, but who wants a sticker on their monitor? |
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Maybe the monk wasn't bothered as much by laughter as by people who lick their fingers when turning pages. |
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[Absinthe] Ahhh that's right, I remember now. It's beena few years since I read it. I can't remember why he didn't burn it either, but I can't imagine that that fact was covered. Hm. Anyways, nice connection.
I should re-read that one. |
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Not a good idea if you have a touch-screen. |
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