Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 2)

I wonder if they added that one as one of the crappy models you have to buy before you can buy one of the good ones?

Don’t forget the Sea Dweller and its big brother, the Deep Sea Dweller.

It’s a problem when a watch doesn’t have enough options over Time.

I’m waiting for the Dweller on the Threshold.

Indwelling Horror perhaps? Has a nice ring for the people driven by their demons to accumulate pointless amounts of money then spend it frivolously.

I’m on a budget, and waiting for the Mouth-Breather model.

Am very interested in the Cave-Dweller Rolex with a super-luminous dial and fire-starting capabilities.

But how much O’Keeffe would be in a Cave-Dweller Rolex?

/mst3k ref

One hopes they atop before releasing the Cellar-Dweller.

I also wonder what Boeing will do after the 797.

The 808, eventually the 909, and then the One After 909.

Not that it would stop the marketers, but I think Boeing has already used 8xx numbers internally for something else. 3xx were piston-engined airliners, for example. I’m having trouble searching for the specifics, but I think they had a series for bombers, and another for helicopters. It was just happenstance, at the time, that 707 was used for their jet airliner, but it caught on and they stuck with it. I found one reference that the 8xx were secret projects like the X-20. 9xx was for hydrofoils and I travelled on one of those in the '70s.

I’m sure C.H.U.D. is somewhere on the list of proposed names.

At the current pace of things I wonder if they’ll ever get to that.

Crash and burn?

Nintendo going a little on-the-nose with their latest cross-promotion.

:golf clap:

Would that be Miles O’Keefe?

Yet another American decides North Sentinel Island is on his bucket list.

He’s lucky, though; he did not get up close and personal with the Sentinelese, although he, as mentioned further in the article, did visit other restricted tribes. No word on if the Sentinelese are lucky enough to avoide exposure to whatever outside diseases he’s carrying.

Miles and miles O’Keefe.

Boeing had the 247 with 2 piston-engines, and later the 307 with 4.

So no clear scheme, except all their passenger planes end in -7. Except then there’s the 720. Arghh!