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  • idbruceidbruce Posts: 6,197
    edited 2012-11-03 13:06
    Jeff
    I really thought the "QuickEE" name was funny. I "LOLd", but it was voted down by my business partner. (Sorry Bruce!)

    Your partner should reconsider, because marketing and sales executives worldwide love anything that implies __x, because it helps sell goods, from beach balls to lollipops. Besides, it is catchy :)

    Bruce
  • idbruceidbruce Posts: 6,197
    edited 2012-11-03 13:11
    In order to prevent gender prejudice, you could offer both male and female versions. Blue plastic for the men and pink plastic for the women
    :)

    With (4) standoffs, the two could be coupled together for a brief period of time :)
  • lanternfishlanternfish Posts: 366
    edited 2012-11-03 13:35
    Not sure if I am too late:

    QuickMat(t) :innocent:
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2012-11-04 10:00
    The jury has returned and we have a winner!

    The CogSled

    Phil, contact me via PM and let me know where to send a Quickstart.

    I'm also putting these on sale this week while supplies last!

    Get your CogSled $4.99 at: http://propellerpowered.com/shop/?page_id=1128

    Jeff

    Mush! :)
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2012-11-04 10:45
    Grog like CogSled!
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2012-11-04 10:56
    Me? Really?!! Omigosh, I've never won a contest, and I haven't prepared a speech or anything!. Sooo many people have made this possible! I'd like to thank Jeff and Ken and Chip and Jeff, and my parents, my sixth-grade teacher Miss Wetzel, and my Aunt Emma Jean who gave me a Scrabble game, and my cat Browser, and ... and ... and [hyperventilating] I can't possibly name them all. 'Sorry, 'sorry, anyone have a tissue?

    -Phil

    Jeff, 'truth be known, I'm pretty well set for QuickStarts. Could you pick a runner-up for the prize? I'll just wallow in the glory, if that's okay. :)
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2012-11-04 11:01
    I suspected that course of action. PhiPi smokes the field, but passes on the prize!

    Now OBC must reveal second place: the first loser! :)
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2012-11-04 11:08
    Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) wrote: »
    Jeff, 'truth be known, I'm pretty well set for QuickStarts. Could you pick a runner-up for the prize? I'll just wallow in the glory, if that's okay. :)

    I suspected you might be swimming in them, but I still want one of these to go somewhere interesting.

    Any problem with a donation to Whit? (He was mentioned earlier in the thread)

    Jeff
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2012-11-04 11:08


    Well done PhiPi (click on the link above, you know you want to) and nice speech :smile:
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2012-11-04 12:19
    OBC wrote:
    Any problem with a donation to Whit? (He was mentioned earlier in the thread)
    Great idea!

    -Phil
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2012-11-04 12:25
    skylight,

    LOL! That should be the official award theme for all of Parallax's contests going forward! :)

    -Phil
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2012-11-04 12:44
    Skylight, you were warned about posting that without proper warning on MattG's last contest thread. This forum has rather liberal social etiquette rules but that violates all of them!!!! The worst part is I keep falling for it! :0)
  • localrogerlocalroger Posts: 3,452
    edited 2012-11-04 13:51
    It's too bad Jeff doesn't have a prize more suited to someone like a lot of us who already have a pile of quickstarts (my company orders them 20 at a time). Something new and unique and maybe not yet on the market, for example. Something very useful to a quickstart hoarder. It's just a shame Jeff doesn't have something like that to offer Phil.
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2012-11-04 14:11
    And @localroger points out the obvious item that was right in front of my nose! How could I miss that!??!

    @Phil: He's dead on right! PM me your address. One of these COGSLEDs are on it's way to you tomorrow!

    Jeff
  • Beau SchwabeBeau Schwabe Posts: 6,568
    edited 2012-11-04 14:30
    I would have called it "The Little Deuce Coupe"
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2012-11-04 14:34
    localroger wrote: »
    ... It's just a shame Jeff doesn't have something like that to offer Phil.

    catsled_450.jpg
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2012-11-04 15:36
    OBC wrote:
    PM me your address. One of these COGSLEDs are on it's way to you tomorrow!

    Thanks, Jeff! That I could go for! I'll send you my address posthaste.

    -Phil
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2012-11-04 15:41
    ElectricAye,

    LOL! Now Browser's cringing at the thought of wearing a harness. In the snow. With other cats! :)

    -Phil
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2012-11-04 15:47
    Congratulations to the winner.
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2012-11-05 05:55
    no... no... nooo.......... Not CogSled

    ​bigfoot.........................

    ​Am I too late?

  • JordanCClarkJordanCClark Posts: 198
    edited 2012-11-05 09:40
    And here I was getting attached to the whatchamacallit moniker... Although godiemonkey would have had a nice ring to it, too...
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2012-11-05 09:59
    Speaking of questionable name choices, was it just me who thought "Unobtainium" was a cheesy bad joke in "Avatar"?
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2012-11-05 10:15
    erco wrote: »
    Speaking of questionable name choices, was it just me who thought "Unobtainium" was a cheesy bad joke in "Avatar"?

    Yes, it did sound like a plot element from Rocky and Bullwinkle*. But it was also a likely a riff on unbipentium (atomic number 125) which is one of the theoretical elements from the island of nuclear stability. It it exists it will likely be hard to find and who knows what uses (if any) it might have.

    * The mysterious explosive "hushaboom" sounds much more realistic to me.
  • RDL2004RDL2004 Posts: 2,554
    edited 2012-11-05 11:11
    The word "Unobtanium" has been in use for decades. It was pretty dumb of them to use it as the name of a substance that (supposedly) actually existed.
  • JordanCClarkJordanCClark Posts: 198
    edited 2012-11-05 11:21
    Yep. Should at least have been Illudium for their Pew-38 Space Modulators... that would have given it some class...
  • WhitWhit Posts: 4,191
    edited 2012-11-05 12:19
    I hate it when I miss a fun contest! Congrats Phil!
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2012-11-05 13:09
    Whit wrote:
    I hate it when I miss a fun contest! Congrats Phil!
    Thanks, Whit! If it's any consolation, check posts 69 and 71. :)

    -Phil
  • Matt GillilandMatt Gilliland Posts: 1,406
    edited 2012-11-05 13:43
    skylight said:
    you know you want to:
    I thought I didn't, but just couldn't resist...
    ...and then Phil said:
    That should be the official award theme for all of Parallax's contests going forward! :smile:
    Annoyingly Brilliant.

    From this point on Every Winner in Contests (instigated by me anyway), shall be announced by...
    So it shall be written, so it shall be done!
    -MattG
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2012-11-05 14:51
    Helll must surely be standing room only, drinking warm Tab soda and watching that video loop for all eternity.
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2012-11-05 15:44
    Whit wrote: »
    I hate it when I miss a fun contest! Congrats Phil!

    Boom! There's Whit! I was worried that he was in one of those regions without power when he didn't check in.

    @Whit, PM me you address so I can get a Quickstart out to you. :) (After you read the thread, you'll understand why)

    Jeff
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