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My second fuko shipment just arrived. I’m on my way out, but check back later (hopefully tonight) for details. Meanwhile, feel free to guess. Keep in mind, those quirky meh staffers can pack a lot of mischief into a 208 lb package.
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They must have shipped you that Christian Boyfriend… with food, water, and packaging he’d probably rate 208!
@jbartus - I ordered mine with less religion and more brains and humor. Still waiting.
We’re waiting…
/giphy impatiently waiting
I’m sure it’s a pallet of DJI quadcopters that I requested from @hollboll. The trolling continues…haha.
All seriousness though…
Im gonna go with 208 lbs of dirt.
By my count I’m the last person still waiting for my second shipment. Not sure if I should be getting more excited by its impending arrival…or more terrified!
Based on “mischief” I will guess its something that causes havoc upon opening…so I will go with high bouncy balls in easy to fall apart boxes.
@Raider You should be so lucky.
/giphy high bouncy balls
@Barney Now that would be amazing to do! I totally will have to do that if I ever received boxes and boxes of them!
@Raider That is pretty cool, isn’t it. (Truthfully, I was a little scared about what giphy was going to post.)
@Barney I totally want to do that now! Sure the cleanup will be a nightmare, but would be worth it!
@Raider I’ll help you clean up the mess.
@Raider get biodegradable ones!
@Raider Still waiting here, also.
@PurplePawprints Sorry, somehow I miss counted total notes that went out. I suck with names so I would never be able to track them using that.
We can have fun seeing who ends up getting it worse!
@Barney You can preview the giphy by posting the comment, and if you don’t like it, edit and repost. It will obediently pull up another image. If you don’t like any of the options, change a word in the giphy. Repeat until you get an acceptable gif. Or until you time out on edits.
208# of VCRs and VHS tapes!
@narfcake I still use my VCR.
@Barney @narfcake we just bought a VCR a week ago… right after we inherited some nice Japanese educational videos on VHS for the kiddos.
@luvche21 Just in time too. Funai will end production this month.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/83427/japan-will-make-its-last-ever-vcr-month
@narfcake things like this is actually a struggle in the world of archiving - in 20-30 years when there’s a resurgence in needing to digitize old family home videos or educational films, etc, there won’t be enough quality VCRs on the market to do it cheap enough!
A case of bidets?
Let me know.
/giphy two hundred VCRs
@jimmyd103 huh?
@jimmyd103 Voracious Chanting Rascals?
C’mon, you guys know meh! Speaker docks taught us that what comes around comes around again.
@KDemo - That was supposed to be a hint, but I felt guilty making you wait longer.
So, it’s a pallet.
Containing 8 cases
of 16 boxes
of 6 . . .
@KDemo irk plush toys?
Hot pink hubpeople! (I’ve only opened one case so far, assuming they’re all pink?)
@KDemo Oh dear, our worst nightmares are coming true.
@KDemo Probably all hot pink, except for one where they slipped in a $50 amazon gift card
@MrGlass omg, you’re right! I have work to do, see you in about a week. haha.
@KDemo ooh oh oh , can i have some(dead serious)
@KDemo
/giphy groans
@communist - Sure! username preceded by 333 on google. Should I make you tell us what you will do with them?
@PurplePawprints - So I guess you can start thinking about what to do with your pb&j spreaders.
@KDemo Indeed. I’m soooo glad that my husband cleaned out the garage last month so that he could get most of his car in for an oil change. Looks like I’ll be needing the storage space for a bit.
@KDemo i have a friend that LOVES my green usb hub man and really wanted one… but after searching around, i could only find over-priced hub-mans on ebay and tons and tons of hub-mans from fukus.
best part is my friend loves anything pink.
btw check your email
@communist - Done and done.
. . . and the reason I laughed so hard was this, which I swear I wrote at least an hour before the pkg arrived.
@KDemo you got the color wrong, but your nightmare still came true…
I found homes for a few, open to suggestions for the remainder.
Thank you so much, meh. The fear and anticipation was better than an E ticket to Disneyland (do they still have those?) Anyway, keep up the fun, I’ll keep playing.
@KDemo I bet you could give them all away at Defcon next week
But 768 USB hubs! Does anyone remember who got them last time? I think we should start a club.
@KDemo After a quick search, it looks like the previous winner (ha) was @zachary.
@PurplePawprints - Great research, thanks! Haven’t seen that name in a while.
@KDemo He connected all the usb hubs together in a big loop and then plugged int he first one and was sucked back in time. We’ll hear from him eventually.
@PurplePawprints It was indeed. Some say they still haunt my garage. That if you go in there late at night and stay very still you can still hear them whisper “don’t plug more than one device into me at a timeeee - or they all stop worrrrkkinggggg.”
@zachary - Time to start the Hub Club! 'Cause, if this box count is any indication, we won’t be the only members.
I was looking to see what they go for (around $2 each!) and I found this…
@thismyusername - Purple octohub?!? Dang, those are so much better. Wait, is is a quadrapus?
@KDemo officially it is a “4 Legged Octopus”
@thismyusername - I call shenanigans. Logically, there should be ten because they’re tentacles.
@thismyusername poser octopus. I’ll wait for Revision 2 with USB 3.0 and 8 legs.
@KDemo Oh! Oh! I love purple.
Oh my LOL. These are USB 2.0 aren’t they. VERY slow sales on ebay. Only 6 sold (of the hubman brand) since June 1. So likely that would be out. On the other hand if you are willing to deal with craigslist you might be able to sell them cheap right around when the back to school sales are going on.
I’d suggest calling schools, libraries, etc. and see if they could use some. Maybe the boys and girls club, school athletic department, etc. might be able to use them for a fund raiser. Perhaps some teachers might like some.
@Kidsandliz I would just call the local colleges’ admissions departments and see if they want them to throw in as a freebie at freshman orientation.
@Kidsandliz - “4 USB 2.0 hi-speed ports” haha.
My neighbor teaches at an elementary school, I was going to see if she’ll take some.
Get a big battery and go to a pokestop with a lure and offer people to recharge phones for 5 dollars for pokemon
@CaptAmehrican - Ooooh, brilliant! Only the charging speed might be a little pokey.
@KDemo don’t you mean Poké?
@KDemo the charging would be slow…poke.
Too bad trading places is no longer on tv… can’t you just see Hilde hot gluing those to a wall and decorating a child’s room in Hot pink USB women? Talk about em-powering!!
@mikibell - I remember a room with vinyl records glued to the walls, and a feather room. I really miss that show!
@KDemo I don’t remember the feathers, but the records yes… imagine scraping off feathers… oy!!!
768 PINK HUBMEN
Sorry, must still be sinking in.
@KDemo You are set for stocking stuffers for the next 150 Christmases or so.
@KDemo @sligett
Year 1: Oh, HOW COOL! THANK YOU!
Year 2: Oh. Yay. Thanks.
Year 3: hooray.
Year 4: uh.
Year 5: Isn’t this the same thing?
Year 6: Enough!
…
Year 35: WHY ARE YOU STILL GIFTING ME THESE FUCKING PIECES OF SHIT?! NOBODY WANTS THIS OUTDATED CRAP ANYMORE!!
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Year 144: THIS was all my parents left me in their will?!? These USELESS relics from the year 2016?! FUUUUUUUCCCCKKKK!!!
@sligett - Maybe if I switch to Hanukkah they’ll go 8 times faster?
@narfcake - I’m sure by then pink plastic figures from China will be mysterious and valuable antiques!
eBay?
@MzSooze they don’t sell.
@jbartus bundle them with other stuff. ex: crockpot with free usb hub man / micheal jordan rookie card with free usb hub man / etc…
@brhfl - Oh, stupid me, I should have known it was you!
Hahaha - that is so great. If you shake them do they dance?
@KDemo I think so! Actually, gives me an idea… I bet if you strategically linked them together, you could make one heck of a Christmas tree decoration!
@kdemo @brhfl What about Halloween costume, decorations and “treats” (snickering still here)
@speediedelivery - Halloween treats! I like it!
@KDemo that’s a good handout for Halloween. I would think it was pretty cool to get something like that in my bag. If the kid is too young, the parent would probably make use of it.
@KDemo I could use a couple hundred. A local megachurch drops busloads of their kids into selected neighborhoods, maps their assault and picks them up to hit the next lucky area. It’s not the kids’ fault they all look like Honey Boo Boo and her father.
@OldCatLady - Honey Boo Boo hah! I’m lucky if I get one group of kids - no one wants to trudge up my hill. And I’m the one that gives full sized candy bars and glow sticks ('cause I only have to buy a few).
I see a giant pink flamingo craft project in your future.
@sammydog01
@sammydog01 @kdemo I’m seeing this a week late, but hubman crafting was my first thought. At the very least, we should see a rough recreation of @brhfl’s goat picture.
Oh you know those charity christmas tree decorating contests yeah you should enter on behalf of some kods tech teaching charity and decorate a tree with garlands of hubmen and hubwomen (or are the hubmen all just ther hubands )
Update - my neighbor is interested in taking a couple of cases for her school. Just waiting for the tech person to respond, it’s summer vacation. That would be 192 down, a hellofalot to go. Oh, and I am definitely interesting new customers about meh with stories of my windfall.
Progress - The school district took a case, and I’ve doled out another case to friends and strangers. Six cases to go, I’m thinking of donating a case to the combined fund drive charity for their book sale. This is fun! Hey, I should call the library . . .
Every recipient gets the meh story, then they tell two friends, and they tell two friends, . . .
@KDemo Guess what I found at Target? That made me think of you?
@sammydog01 I’ll go buy a pallet worth of them!
@sammydog01 - 'scuse me, I’ll talk to you later. I’m, on my way to Target. If they won’t buy some, maybe I can sneak them onto their shelves!
omg, they still have hubpeople? I saw some in the fuko reveal thread.
Everyone at my dentist’s office is now rocking a new hot pink hubperson (and likely joining meh). I always travel with a few boxes in the trunk of my car. Yesterday I stopped a stranger in the Costco parking lot and made her take a box of six.
@KDemo I seriously can’t tell if you are joking or not here about ambushing a stranger and having them take a case off of your hands.
@dashcloud - It’s true! She was suspicious until I said they were free.
@KDemo I can’t stop watching that gif.
@sammydog01 - Not sure what it is, but it’s most certainly betrayed.