Comments on: Putter Mayhem

By: Lucas

Lucas — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:41:27 +0000

I did NOT admit it was a sausage. You can “read between the lines” all you want, although I think we’re talking about different lines

By: Albert Bloomfield

Albert Bloomfield — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:39:28 +0000

Lucas, I’m glad you’ve finally admitted that it’s a sausage. I know you haven’t said it in so many words, but I can read between the lines. I knew you couldn’t really be that far removed from reality.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:34:03 +0000

Al: Ignorance is bliss, and I am happy not knowing what materials make up the “sausage”

Ben, I have not seen one in person, only in pictures, therefore it is NOT a sausage.

Regardless, I like giving you guys a hard time, as I’m sure the opposite is true…good times.

By: Benjamin Bloomfield

Benjamin Bloomfield — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:39:19 +0000

I am reminded of this painting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
Except in this case, from all the information that I have seen, it is not a painting or representation of a sausage, but a real bona fide Korean sausage about which Lucas is repeatedly exclaiming: “This is not a sausage.”

By: Albert Bloomfield

Albert Bloomfield — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:33:32 +0000

OK, I certainly don’t care, but you have yet to tell me what you think it’s made out of. I’m satisfied that it’s meat. But it is certainly really something. What do you think it is? Why do they call it sausage? At least I have arguments on my side, what do you have but ignorance and superstition?

By: Lucas

Lucas — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:29:40 +0000

I guess we’re deadlocked until one of us takes the initiative to prove to the other that it is or isn’t actual meat.

“Frank”-ly, I don’t care too much, so we should both “goetta” life & stop “scrapple”-ing about such trivial things.

By: Albert Bloomfield

Albert Bloomfield — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:24:57 +0000

I want proof that it isn’t. Is it really easier to believe that it’s not made out of meat? I think it would be harder to believe. We all know that meat works with capacitive touch screens and other stuff is usually more expensive — even a cheese stick might probably be more expensive than cheap meat. Plus the third comment on that link that I posted said that they’re the same as the ones sold for consumption — why would he lie? And why do they call it sausage if it isn’t? Explain how that would ever make sense.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:20:19 +0000

For the record, TUAW isn’t my favorite website…but it’s up there

I still hold that it is not made of meat. I want proof.

By: Albert Bloomfield

Albert Bloomfield — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:17:22 +0000

First of all you betray yourself when you only say “I doubt this is made out of meat.” If you only doubt that it’s made out of meat you must also admit the possibility that it is made out of meat. Anyway, that’s the whole point — it is made out of meat. Low quality meat to be sure. That’s why it’s so cheap. If you would have read up on your favorite website, you’d have seen this http://www.tuaw.com/2010/03/05/sausage-stylus-comes-to-the-us/ which makes it quite clear that it is made of “dubious-quality meat” which is why you shouldn’t eat it. Anyway that’s why they call it the sausage stylus, not because it shares some properties of sausage but because it truly, authentically, and indubitably is sausage. If it weren’t sausage why would they call it sausage?

By: Benjamin Bloomfield

Benjamin Bloomfield — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:14:58 +0000

The whole point of the thing is that it is made out of meat…this is why it works with a capacitive touchscreen. It’s not some marketing gimmick like any of these things that look like other things http://thingsthatlooklikeotherthings.tumblr.com/