So, Boring’s not-a-flamethrower finally sold. It goes for $500 a pop. Elon Musk made $10,000,000 on it. Since flamethrowers are illegal to sell, Elon simply named his not-a-flamethrower and that alone allowed his flamethrower to be sold. He’ll dump that money into his Boring tunnel digging business.
Elon made his not-a-flamethrower look like a weapon on purpose. You just need small canisters of propane (normally used for camping stoves and the like) for fuel. These not-a-flamethrowers don’t stream out flames very far...maybe 10 feet tops. Elon has asked people to use them and put up videos. So far I haven’t seen many videos yet.
I’m going to put up a longish video by a couple folks who got one of these beasts and wanted to show us how they work. They unboxed it for us then gave it some test runs. Apparently, it can be used to make popcorn.
Add booze and a marshmallow on a wire. Take it camping and roast weenies and entire forests.
That’s all I wanted to talk about today. I just find this so fascinating and so disturbing at the same time. It still amazes me that these are legal and that 20,000 people pre-paid to get one. I mean, how many times would you not-throw-flames via a not-a-flamethrower until the novelty wore off? I can tell you that for me it would take three times. Then I’d sell it on eBay or Craigslist for $1000-$2000 which is what folks are doing right now.
What do you want to talk about today?
Memorial for BruinKid
Visitation
Thursday, June 14, 2018 | 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Rose Hills Mortuary
3888 Workman Mill Rd, Whittier, CA 90601 | (562) 699-0921
Funeral Service
Friday, June 15, 2018 | 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Rose Hills - SkyRose Chapel
3888 Workman Mill Rd, Whittier, CA 90601 | (562) 699-0921
RSVPS
1. Neeta Lind, organizer (kosmail her to connect)
2. susans*
3. Meteor Blades*
4. Steve Singiser*
5. Shockwave*
6. Dretutz*
7. murphy**
8. gmats* (driving Shockwave!)
9. thalooch*
10. pico*
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Maybees:
RLMiller*
Frank Vyan Walton*
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Netroots Nation 2018
RSVPS
1. Neeta Lind, organizer (kosmail her to connect)
2. Bill in Portland Maine
3. Common Sense Mainer
4. Meteor Blades
5. vicki
6. markm667
7. belinda ridgewood
8. paradise50
9. smileycreek
10. side pocket
11. Mrs. side pocket
12. annrose
13. Spedwybabs
14. ericlewis0
15. shanikka
16. Crashing Vor
17. cv lurking gf
18. brillig
19. mik,
20. K1 (aka thatkid)
21. K2
22. loggersbrat
23. Richard Cranium
24. Jeff Singer
25. BeninSC
26. KathyinSC
27. mommyof3
28. Chris Reeves
29. DrLori
30. Will Johnson
31. Carolyn Fiddler
32. Irna Landrum
33. Drew Linzer
34. Jen Hayden
35. peregrine kate
36. Michael Langenmayr
37. Paul Hogarth
38. Rachel Colyer
39. Wagatwe Wanjuki
40. Kelly Macias
41. ramara
42. Will Rockafellow
43. Jessica Sutherland
44. Rory Morris
45. Laura Clawson
46. Arjun Jaikumar
47. Rachel Sinderbrand
48. Wes Williamson
49. Kimm Lett
50. Huiying Chan
51. Joan McCarter
52. Candelaria Vargas
53. Stephen Wolf
54. Gabe Ortiz
55. Steven Howard
56. Jessica Sutherland
57. Jonaya Leek
58. Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza
59.
MAYBEES :
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