On the cover of my new Nokia 6010 cell phone User Guide is a photo of an arm and some sort of blue thing with strings on it. Nobody I know can figure out what the blue thing is. Opinions vary on whether the arm is flinging the blue thing into the air or fending off an attack from the blue thing.
Here’s a link to a copy of the cover. It’s PDF – sorry, that’s all I could find.
Any opinions on what the blue thing might be?
It’s a shawl or pashmina or something like that.
What it has to do with a cell phone, I don’t know.
No clue, but I just e-mailed Nokia customer support to ask them. Hey, you never know, somebody might answer.
It’s obviously the plasmoid eructation of our tenth-dimensional Overlords, who use cellphones and wireless networking and the Internet to control our thoughts. The new Billboard ringtone chart is just the latest manifestation of our servitude.
Tinfoil will soon be made illegal.
That idea has been considered and rejected. It’s just possible, however, that the blue thing is a small model of the Sydney Opera House covered by a pashima.
From the source:
Now that’s customer service!
I could tell it was a shawl (scarf, whatever) right off. It’s a bit bizarre-looking, though.
Antigen, Would you write back and ask them what the picture has to do with a cell phone? Also ask if they intentionally chose a double-jointed hand model. I’d like to see how far you can push John the E-mail Specialist.
No, no…the shawl is attacking her. Can’t you see she is using her arm to fend off the evil shawl and using the other hand to call for help? Sheesh. I thought it was obvious.
Working on it…
…and maybe John the E-mail Specialist will inadvertently let something slip, like the location of the Overloards’ home planet, or the winning lottery numbers for next month (not that far away when you can use the tenth dimension).
She’s being a-shawl-ted? :eek:
BOOOOOOOO! Hiss
Looks to me like it’s a woman flinging off her dress. I have absolutely no trouble associating that with their motto: Connecting People.
You think that’s bad, wait until you see the cover-up surrounding it.
[TMBG]What’s that blue thing / doing here?[/TMBG]
I’m ashamed that this is the first pointless They Might Be Giants reference.
I think you should email John and tell him you don’t believe him.
I have to admit that after I saw John the E-mail Specialist’s reply to Antigen I wrote to customer service asking about the blue thing. I wanted to see if I’d get the same reply and if it would be from John. So far no one has responded. Maybe that’s because I told them that my name was Mokia Fone.
I don’t believe it’s a scarf. What is the stiff fin-shaped thing sticking out of the top and what are those rigid folds at the bottom?
It’s a scarf, one corner of which has flapped out into a fin while the rest is still folded…it’s one monent in time, after all. The scarg/pashmina thing is obvious to me. The relevance to cell phones is not.
C’mon guys. . .
Obviously, it’s a blue-tinted Portugese blue-tinted Portuguese Man-o-War attacking a defenseless swimmer.
Jeez, get with the picture.
Tripler
It’s an metaphor for the corporate structure wrapping it’s tentacles around double-jointed consumers.