# Don't take any wooden iPads! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 31, 2011, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-take-any-wooden-ipads/594714 "2011-08-31T02:13:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-take-any-wooden-ipads/594714/21 "2011-08-31T17:44:16Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > You can’t cheat an honest man, as the saying goes. I also don’t get the detail of painting an Apple logo on a board though. If the mark opens the box, that’s not going to fool her, and if she doesn’t, why waste the time? > > How does the Nigerian scam predate Nigeria? What do you consider to be the starting date of Nigeria? Really. Why the hell did they go to the trouble? They even painted individual icons. Why would you bother? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-take-any-wooden-ipads/594714/22 "2011-08-31T17:57:11Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Really. Why the hell did they go to the trouble? They even painted individual icons. Why would you bother? 😕 If she opens the box and looks inside and sees a vaguely iPad-looking shape with an Apple logo on it, and it’s 10pm and she doesn’t bother to pick it up and examine it… I could see it working. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-take-any-wooden-ipads/594714/23 "2011-08-31T17:59:05Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > If she opens the box and looks inside and sees a vaguely iPad-looking shape with an Apple logo on it, and it’s 10pm and she doesn’t bother to pick it up and examine it… I could see it working. Did you see the pictures at the link? Maybe the perpetrators thought it would fool somebody but I can’t see how it could. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-take-any-wooden-ipads/594714/24 "2011-08-31T18:05:57Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > If she opens the box and looks inside and sees a vaguely iPad-looking shape with an Apple logo on it, and it’s 10pm and she doesn’t bother to pick it up and examine it… I could see it working. It also gives them an out if she calls them on it being fake. “What are you talking about? Look, right here it has the…what the hell? Oh my god this is just a piece of wood! Thank you so much for pointing this out to us! Now we have to go get our money back.” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-take-any-wooden-ipads/594714/25 "2011-08-31T18:51:16Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Did you see the pictures at the link? Maybe the perpetrators thought it would fool somebody but I can’t see how it could. The fingerprint dust doesn’t help. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-take-any-wooden-ipads/594714/26 "2011-08-31T21:12:42Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Did you see the pictures at the link? Maybe the perpetrators thought it would fool somebody but I can’t see how it could. :smack: No, I didn’t. I take it all back, lol. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-take-any-wooden-ipads/594714/27 "2011-08-31T21:19:28Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > :smack: > > No, I didn’t. I take it all back, lol. I figured you must not have. No need to slap yourself. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-take-any-wooden-ipads/594714/28 "2011-08-31T23:04:09Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Really. Why the hell did they go to the trouble? They even painted individual icons. Why would you bother? 😕 You philistines will never understand modern art. _sniff_ ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-take-any-wooden-ipads/594714/29 "2011-09-02T19:07:04Z")
[Goddamn it](http://www.thestate.com/2011/09/02/1955975/spartanburg-woman-buys-paper-laptop.html), South Carolina! ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-take-any-wooden-ipads/594714/30 "2011-09-02T19:16:26Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > [Goddamn it](http://www.thestate.com/2011/09/02/1955975/spartanburg-woman-buys-paper-laptop.html), South Carolina! See? This is what I’m talking about. Why waste the time and resources on painting, or even on wood, for that matter! It’s unneeded effort. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-take-any-wooden-ipads/594714/31 "2011-09-02T19:35:42Z")
A joke. You have to be diehard southerner to get it. What’s worse than South Carolina? North Carolina. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-take-any-wooden-ipads/594714/32 "2011-09-02T19:44:56Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > See? This is what I’m talking about. Why waste the time and resources on painting, or even on wood, for that matter! It’s unneeded effort. Hell, you could probably just take their money and tell them you’ll mail the iPad. Why even bother with paper or tape? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-take-any-wooden-ipads/594714/33 "2011-09-02T20:05:45Z")
This reminds me of guys who buy an oven door thinking it’s a flat screen TV. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-take-any-wooden-ipads/594714/34 "2011-09-02T20:12:34Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Really. Why the hell did they go to the trouble? They even painted individual icons. Why would you bother? 😕 They are scum with a sense of humor. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-take-any-wooden-ipads/594714/35 "2011-09-02T20:16:55Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > A joke. You have to be diehard southerner to get it. > > What’s worse than South Carolina? > > North Carolina. I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-take-any-wooden-ipads/594714/36 "2011-09-02T20:45:51Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > [Goddamn it](http://www.thestate.com/2011/09/02/1955975/spartanburg-woman-buys-paper-laptop.html), South Carolina! Best comment from below that article: > [@](#): > > I wonder who told these idiots that the wooden block and package of paper _weren’t_ ipads and laptops. I doubt they figured it out on their own. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-take-any-wooden-ipads/594714.md?page=1)