Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 29, 2016

Wham – oh.

Not sure that Hula Hoops or my Wabble Board made any use of batteries. So I’m not sure where the batteries come into to this subject.

I dare to ask, does that sign refer to people also?

It wasn’t battery tolerance, but rather defective lipo batteries made in China. Some of the rides burst into flames just sitting there rather than while being operated. This is an issue in the RC hobby world as well.

I bet you would never see that happen to REAL hover boards that hover. Those things were a big mistake from day 1.

Even without the battery issues, if you watch YouTube, pretty stupid idea all around. Unless you are the doctors putting the people getting hurt by them back together. Seems the largest issue, of many other balance issues, is the dismount.

I’m tired of always being on this side of the sign.

@Bilan

Trump’s not around…couldn’t pass the sign.

Then why isn’t Trump parked there?

Shouldn’t it be burning ground rather than burial ground?

I thought that was a bar in the background there for a second…..Can you imagine a bunch of people leaving the bar and hopping on those things? Yeeeeeeeee Ha!

Now I feel that I am being discriminated against by a sign.

I don’t get the reference to hula hoops, they’ve been around since 1958, still selling in toy stores to this day and AFAIK have never blown up.

hate to mention this, but hula-hoops are still around.‘course they don’t cost 59¢ any more.

I was mystified when marketers called this partial Segway a “hover” board. It doesn’t hover, it rolls on wheels. Stupid.

I can feel my pacemaker heating up now.

One year’s flop is another decade’s collectible. Take the 1958 Ford Edsel, for example. Voted one of the worst cars of all times. Hemming Motors recently sold an Edsel convertible for around $30,000. !

Pogo stick! Pet rock! Car C.B radios! Shoulder pads in women’s clothing! Neru jackets on men! Cha cha boots! Pogs,

For three years the Chevrolet Vega was Motor Trend’s small car of the year. In 1973 I bought my only new car (a Vega). Soon after, the aluminum engines in the first Vegas started failing. I have NOT bought a new car since.Actually for me, outside of the engine, the car was GREAT! It drove and handled well. It did a number of trips between Denver and San Diego in all types of weather before the engine went.

Notice the “Nothing Stupid Beyond This Point” area is void of Humans also!

Ralph Nader will have to update his classic “Unsafe at Any Speed” to cover both hover boards and all Presidential candidates

Larry Niven used it a long time ago in his tales of the Kzinti wars. His premise was that any battery powerful enough to operate a deadly weapon, would itself be an explosive if abused.

Hmm, I took Corvairs ROAD RACING on tracks, and beat Porshes with my ‘65, the 61 didn’t have enough horsepower. You just had to know, like Porsches, how to drive a rear engined car. The only truth in Nader’s book was that Chevrolet built Corvairs, all the “engineering” he reported was junk, and btw: Nader never had a driver’s license and never drove a car, last I heard, he still hadn’t. Never trusted anything he said because of that. With the Florica debacle, he did cost Gore the election, along with that SCOTUS appointing Bush.

Which, the Edsel was also a pretty good car, but there really wasn’t the right price gap between Mercury and Lincoln, to sell enough of them. The transmission buttons in the steering wheel were tech ahead of it’s time.

strictures: thought someone would get the reference sooner, guess we’re just the old fart brigade?