And stumbled across part # 121G. Good to know they are looking ahead.
Any other examples of this type of thing?
Link or something?
Where he’s going, he doesn’t need links.
It’s a joke flux capacitor listing.
https://www.oreillyauto.com/flux-capacitor
Dear jeebus, I hate that movie.
From that product name, I didn’t even need to look it up.
If it were part# 121GW I would have gotten the joke.
I thought it was a reference to 3G/4G/5G.
Comcast has pooped in the pool by labelling one of it’s unrelated services 10G.
I got excited until I saw the fine print:
Non-Functional Item Displayed for Entertainment Purposes Only
Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor sold separately.
Same here. Now what do I spend my 5 billion dollars on?
Wait a minute, the product info says “Gigawatts: 121”. According to the documentary I saw, the original flux capacitor runs on 1.21 gigawatts, not 121 gigawatts. What kind of shoddy product is this that requires 100 times as much power as the original?
FWIW, I recently changed the start/run capacitor on our air conditioner’s outdoor condenser unit.
Bragging shamelessly to my wife – as I do with DIY projects – I kept referring to it as ‘the flux capacitor.’
She eventually asked me if that wasn’t something from “Back To The Future.”
I married well.
Ahh, see, it’s a homograph (or heteronym) error. A “gigawatt” (pronounced with a hard “g”: GIG-uh-waht) is 1/100th of a “gigawatt” (pronounced with a soft “g”: JIG-uh-waht).
I just thought it was a typo, like in “Plutonium not available and [sic] O’Reilly Auto Parts. Please contact your local plutonium supplier.”
Oh, man, that’s just asking for trouble. Not many legal places to score plutonium, and a buyer might end up dealing with unsavory suppliers…
You also don’t want to buy too much all at once…
Well, as long as you don’t store too much of it in one place, you’re fine.
I assume by “fine” you mean, “in a sold state when you die.”
I believe that there is a legal precedent for this disclaimer.
Plot twist: he buys one on his own and strafes the Pepsi corporate offices.