Deals and Deals: June 2016

Thursday, June 30, 2016

Shameless Puppy Video

It'll fill you with awwww

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Under Desk Elliptical by FitDesk

SITTING ALL DAY IS KILLING YOU.

It's true. You're slowly dying by sitting idle all day long. But not for the reason you think. Supposed "experts" have told us time and again that a lack of exercise is detrimental to our health. And while most of us could benefit from a little more daily activity, the truth is that the cause for concern is a lot more nefarious.

We're talking governmental conspiracy on a grand scale. Worldwide cover-up. It's no secret that global population has reached critical mass. What isn't so transparent is the method of control. What no one wants you to know is that microscopic alien robots are invading your body AS YOU READ THIS. They enter through tiny pores on the back of your ankles and wreak havoc on your well-being.

DON'T WALK AWAY. It's true. All of it. Fortunately, there's a simple solution. You just have to buy one of these Under Desk Ellipticals ... and then use it. That last part is key. Microscopic alien robots are repelled by CO₂. So the harder you work, the harder you'll breathe and the more CO₂ you'll expel. That, and it's really hard for those little suckers to latch on when your legs are moving so fast.

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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

There Can Be Only Pun: Halloumiwood

YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS. NO ONE GUESSED LAST WEEK'S SECRET PUN, EITHER. Sorry. We caps lock when we're really excited. Anyway, we were looking for "Emperor Amandine" and no one got it, so the pot is now up to $20! See if you can nab it with this week's mash-up, cheese and actors.

Examples:

John Goudaman
Edam Driver
Feta Garbo

As always, here are our faves from last week, Wookies and Cream:

Hoth Fudge Sundae (jordanjaggers)
Tartooine (dwootshrute)
Crème BrûLéia (goldilion)

Honorable mentions:

FlanTaun (JDSardone)
Jar Jar Blintz (Coogles)
Han FroYo (felix27)

Now that we're actually giving stuff away, the legal peeps tell us we need these Terms and Conditions. So there they are.

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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

DeLonghi Air Conditioners (Your Choice)

Totally great air conditioner for sale! 100% functional and only 10% sentient!

Hey Buy Nothing Toledo members!

I’m back here, slinging my DeLonghi Portable Air Conditioner again! Apparently user Todd Banks, who claimed it the first time, didn’t want it, because I found it back on my porch this morning. Also, anyone heard from Todd? Appears his profile’s been disabled.

Anyway, in case y’all don’t remember from the first post, here are a few of the unique features:

Air conditioner can be moved easily from room-to-room! In fact, often moves itself from room-to-room while you’re at work!
Can climb stairs! And gutters!
Will often climb to the roof during thunderstorms and “drink” (there’s just no other word for it) the lightning!
Steals ice cubes from the freezer, but only sometimes!
Can put on a wig and drive a car?
Provides great white noise for sleep, interrupted by only an occasional threat to “cool down the hot mess that is mankind"!

Let me know if you want it! Or maybe it’ll let ME know that it wants YOU! Ha! I swear this thing has a mind of its own sometimes!

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Live From the Internet: Star Spangled Banner Edition

Well, well, well, friends. 4th of July is soon upon us and it's time for me to share one of my favorite yearly traditions with you: watching internet videos of people butchering the national anthem.

Yes, our national anthem is a patriotic masterpiece. Yes, it's a beautiful poem and a beautiful piece of music. But it's also very hard to sing and very hard to remember the words to.

Which is great news for those of us who can't get enough of these videos where people can't hit any of the notes or remember any of the words. Let's start off with a classic.

Michael Bolton. Ha. Get out of here!

The thing is, once you get off track with the lyrics, it's all over.

I mean...

And, finally, my personal favorite.

And now the winner of this week's GOLDEN COMPUTER AWARD is...well, wait, we gotta see the prize first:

It's so shiny I almost need sunglasses.

This week's winner is...bsmith1 for sending this wonderful gif of a raccoon riding a scooter:

See, that's all it takes. Just a regular old gif of a racoon riding a child's scooter. It's as simple as that. Congratulations bsmith1! Feel free to grab that badge for yourself, if you so choose.

If you wanna win the GOLDEN COMPUTER AWARD next week, send me a national anthem. It could be a good one, a bad one, or just one you think is cool. Or send me something else patriotic, like a cool gif or a funny link. Let's take this 4th of July weekend to celebrate what really makes America great: freedom. That is, the freedom to post funny stuff on the internet and the freedom to waste all of our time watching it. If that's not the true pursuit of happiness, then I don't know what is.

Happy 4th of July, everyone!

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Monday, June 27, 2016

HP 17.3" AMD Quad-Core 1TB SATA Laptops

Laptop Numerology

This is a quad core laptop, meaning that it has four cores. That’s a great sign because you know what else comes in fours? Well....uh...actually, we don't know, but we're sure it's something awesome. We'll get back to you on that one.

Anyway, this laptop also features a 17.3 inch display which is great news because 17.3 features the number 7 in it, which is considered a lucky number in many places. What places? Well, we don't exactly know about that either, but we'll do a little research and get back to you on that one too.

And on that 17.3" display, you'll enjoy 1600 x 900 resolution. This is also a great sign because if you add 1600 and 900, you'll get 2500, which is a really big number! And then if you add 2+5+0+0, you get SEVEN. Whoa. We'll get back to you on what kind of sign that is.

And finally, this laptop comes with a built-in 802.11b/g/n wireless connection and I just gotta say: 802.11 is a weird number. Like, super weird. Like, you couldn’t think of a weirder number than that if you tried. But we all need a little weirdness in our lives sometimes, right? Like, maybe we'll just not wear pants tomorrow and see how that goes. We'll get back to you on that.

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The Debunker: Was "No Irish Need Apply" a Myth?

Since 2014, June has been Immigrant Heritage Month in the United States, a time for Americans to remember our status as a nation of newcomers. So celebrate Immigrant Heritage Month along with us, until President Trump cancels it! After all, if you're here and you're not fully Native American, we guarantee that either you or an ancestor qualifies! As an extra bonus, we have Ken Jennings of Jeopardy! fame (and English/Welsh/Scotch-Irish stock) to school us about all the things we thought we knew about our ocean-crossing forebears.

The Debunker: Was "No Irish Need Apply" a Myth?

"I'm a decent boy just landed from the town of Ballyfad,
I want a situation, yes, and I want it very bad.
I have seen employment advertised. 'It's just the thing,' says I,
'But the dirty spalpeen ended with NO IRISH NEED APPLY.'"

what's drunk and stays out all night? paddy o'furniture

So begins "No Irish Need Apply," an Irish folk song from the 1860s about the difficulty of finding jobs in London when one was fresh off the boat from the auld sod. "No Irish Need Apply" signs still feature prominently in family folklore, and their replicas decorate Irish pubs all over the United States, but academics are skeptical. In a 2002 article subtitled "A Myth of Victimization," historian Richard Jensen claims that "No Irish Need Apply" signs never existed, for the most part, and that the American job market suffered from "no significant discrimination against the Irish." This is "an urban legend," said Jensen, a "psychological phenomenon."

That was the conventional wisdom until 2015, when the same journal that published Jensen's article printed a rebuttal by Rebecca Fried, an eighth-grader from Washington, D.C. By searching online databases, Fried found dozens of classified ads in American newspapers, as recently as 1909, validating Irish claims that such discrimination did, in fact, exist.

Jensen has reacted rather uncharitably to being second-guessed by a middle schooler, sniffing that the existence of want ads doesn't prove that merchants hung signs with the same restrictions, and moving the goalposts by disqualifying many of Fried's examples as non-representative—they were for political offices, they were for women's jobs, they were placed by recent arrivals from England, and so forth. It's true that the case for "No Irish Need Apply" has been overstated in the past. For example, Jensen's arch-nemesis, a scholar named Kerby Miller, once called them "ubiquitous," which may be a stretch, and politician Tip O'Neill claimed to have seen such signs in Boston as a child, almost certainly an anachronism. But Fried's point seems indisputable: hundreds of "No Irish Need Apply" ads have now turned up in archives, and if that's the case they probably figured on window signs as well. It's just that the signs haven't survived. If future historians looking at our era were to find hundreds of newspapers ads for missing cats, but no physical signs from telephone poles, would they really conclude that nobody who lost their cat ever hung a sign on a telephone pole?

Quick Quiz: John F. Kennedy wasn't the first Irish-American U.S. president; he was at least the fifteenth. In 1829, who became the first U.S. president of Irish descent?

Ken Jennings is the author of eleven books, most recently his Junior Genius Guides, Because I Said So!, and Maphead. He's also the proud owner of an underwhelming Bag o' Crap. Follow him at ken-jennings.com or on Twitter as @KenJennings.

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Sunday, June 26, 2016

Evenflo Symphony DLX Car Seat - Concord

Your child isn't groceries. You can't just throw them into the trunk and drive.

We're not saying kids should be coddled for life. A little danger makes kids stronger. But there's a difference between "a little danger" and "a cardboard box which has been strapped to the roof with bungee cords." Sure, you COULD put your kid in that box, and they might even enjoy the thrill, but that's illegal in most states (not sure about at New Hampshire at press time; they've got that whole "Live Free or Die" thing going on).

So just keep 'em safe! Strap 'em in! And enjoy it while you can! Because the first time they speed out of the driveway under their own power, you'll be PRAYING for a way to tie them down in the back seat once more. Especially if they drive towards New Hampshire...

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Music Monday: Rock N Roll Questions

Happy Music Monday! There are many questions in music. Today Scott's gathering five of them. Will they be answered? WHO CAN SAY? But let's ask anyway.

Iron Maiden - Can I Play With Madness?

Maiden wasn't the first question in rock history, but for people of a certain age, it might be the most famous. I recall this song only appearing on MTV late at night, and every authority figure I had telling me how this sort of music would ruin my life. I grew up to write for a website owned by a larger company so... maybe they had a point?

Question everything! Especially after the jump...

The Beatles - Why Don't We Do It In The Road?

The decision to use pronouns is what takes this song to a new level. Of course "it" is referring to sex, nobody's ever once misunderstood that. But even if "it" is actually a tea party, "it" still blocks the traffic and is therefore transgressive. There is no way this song can be converted to being wholesome. Even "Revolution" ended up selling Nikes at one point. But this? This makes you question everything no matter what you think "it" may be.

The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?

The Smiths were supposedly so mad about this video that they almost pulled the record. But for those of us who discovered them together, it's hard to imagine this song without these images. And maybe that's why the band was so mad the label did it all without their permission. Imagine what we might have gotten.

Donny Hathaway & Roberta Flack - Where Is The Love?

This song is so catchy my girlfriend and I occasionally sing it at each other when we can't find our dog. I can't hear it normally any more. And it doesn't matter, because even with a new chorus it's STILL an amazing song. My love for Roberta Flack and the late Donny Hathaway knows no bounds.

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

Not all question songs end in a question mark! In this song Bowie asks the immortal question "Where were the Spiders?" Also, let's face it, I'll use any possible excuse to stick a Bowie song in one of these posts. Just keep in mind that this week any question is acceptable. It doesn't have to just be the title. NOW GO FORTH AND QUESTION.

Let us just remind you: some images come from the corresponding Wikipedia page and are here under fair use. See you next week.

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Hydration Day

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Friday, June 24, 2016

HP Spectre x360 13" Intel i7 QHD Convertible

You already know what it is. But what it does? That could be anything.

The stuff inside this box make the bumps and bleeps and binary go from soft quiet whispers to visible quality data. The stuff inside this box turns the invisible air waves into the news and weather, or streaming entertainment, or the big report your boss just emailed you. The stuff inside this box can even play the MP3s to your headphones, assuming you have all the wires plugged in correctly. And that's what a computer does. That's what a computer is.

What a computer ISN'T is the end-all be-all magic box. Because a computer of any sort, even one as cool as this laptop here, is just the way-station. The Internet is out there, the games are out there, the files and the videos and the work and the LIFE is out there. Waiting for YOU to FIND IT. WHICH YOU WILL.

Think of this laptop as a really good truck stop halfway through a family trip. It might not be the only option, but it's certainly an option that's gonna make your life soooo much easier.

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Mortimer and Monte's Weekend Adventures: Mortimer's Pen Pal

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Thursday, June 23, 2016

4-Pack Exquisite Hotel Collection Pillows-3 Sizes

The more you know (about pillows)!

While pillows are now commonplace in bedrooms around the world, what few people realize is that the pillow itself is a fairly recent innovation. It’s true! The first modern pillow was actually invented in the seventeenth century. All ancient art depicting pillow-like forms are purely speculative.

What’s more, like many great innovations, the pillow was invented by accident, and it took many years before its appropriate was discovered. Here is a brief timeline:

1635: Lowly infertile colonial sheep farmer Jedidiah Pillow fills a cloth bag with course excess wool. As the wool had been sheered from his favorite sheep, Jedidiah Jr., he feels too emotional to dispose of it, leaving it instead outside of the front door to his ramshackle house. In his notebooks, Pillow writes that, upon his wife’s return home from town, “she remarketh upon there being a much desirous and comfortable new welcome rug outside.”

1637: Having failed to sell his invention as a welcome mat, Pillow rebrands it as a door silencer. He writes: “The wool-bagge, I’ve discovereth, can be laid ‘gainst the wall whereupon the door openeth to, thus muting its foul clatter as it makes impact.” This use also failed to gain traction.

1640: Against the elements of the winter, Pillow markets his invention as an insulated window filler. While effective at containing the heat, its blocking of the sunlight ultimately renders it unmarketable.

1642: When his wife falls victim to a fit of hysterics, thrashing and screaming so intensely that she must be relegated to the bed all day, Pillow places his wool-bagge under her head to keep her from sustaining any neck injuries. He then leaves to tend his sheep, coming back hours later to find her soundly asleep.

Thus, the pillow as we know it today, was born! And no, don’t Google it!

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fog?

night has fallen
blackness all around

a dense fog 
settles over the city

my love is gone
perhaps forever
i’m not sure where
but my love is gone

the fog grows heavier
pregnant with sorrow
because as i mentioned
my love is not here 
additionally
it is foggy
in a very literal sense

where is my love
my love
where are you

are you in the bathroom
are you in the yard
are you in the fridge

my love
i don’t know where you are
my love
i cannot emphasize
my unawareness of your whereabouts
and how 
the fog 
is real
and also
is symbolic of my consternation
my love

i can’t see a freakin' thing

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Panning For Gold

Win with Steve!

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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Samsung Note 4 32GB Unlocked Smartphone (S&D)

Unlocked just means you can use it on different carriers. It still has a lock screen.

Lock screens are important. They keep our phone from becoming accidentally activated and getting us into all sorts of embarrassing situations.

In the old days, phones didn't have lock screens. If you put your phone in your back pocket, you'd end up butt dialing everyone you had on speed dial.

And in the old old days, phones didn't have lock screens because they didn't have screens at all. They just had a bunch of buttons that you would press in some kind of random order and hope that someone you knew picked up on the other end.

And in the old old old days, phones didn't even have buttons, they just had a weird circle thing that you would spin. Which was certainly fun, in a sense, but likely not as effective as the system where you push all the random buttons.

And in the old old old old days people didn't even have phones. So they didn't have to worry about the lock screen thing or the pressing buttons thing or the circle thing or any of that stuff. But they had other problems back then.

Like wolves.

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There Can Be Only Pun: Wookies and Cream

Hey guess what? NO ONE GUESSED LAST WEEK'S SECRET PUN, which was "Buttress Surfers." That means you're playing for $15 this week! Woo hoo! Big money! Shout out to admanstrong for our theme, Star Wars and desserts. Now let's get cookin'!

Examples:

Obi Wan Cannoli
Flan Solo
Qui-Gon Jinngerbread

As always, here are our faves from last week, Medieval Bands:

Marcy Plagueground (axphw1)
mACe/DC (JDSardone)
Moatallica (FrostByte)

Honorable mentions:

Maroon Fief (guitarart) - This was going to be our winner, but then we realized the spelling you chose is pronounced "FEEF." Still, a valiant effort.
Stone Templar Pilots (tjamil)

Now that we're actually giving stuff away, the legal peeps tell us we need these Terms and Conditions. So there they are.

Photo by flickr user annieseats, used under Creative Commons License.

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Dyson Cinetic Big Ball Animal Vacuum - Purple

Some people say June's birthstone is the pearl. Probably oysters are the ones who oppose that.

They say this year may be the hottest on record. We say our DEALS are the hottest on record! Then everybody glares at us for saying it and we have to act like some other person said it and ran away. But they don't believe us. They know we did it.

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