Re: Toaster Repair

That's not a big saying, it doesn't even parse in English.

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I think this is the one you're thinking of.

Results 1 - 10 of about 451,000 for "build it and they will come".

How about, invent something useful and make lots of money!

Herc

CRUNCHY = yummy.

You will make more money by inventing a piece of crap that everyone thinks they really need ;-)

Rubics Cube, Yoyo, Frisbee, Hula Hoop, iPod etc.

Cheers TT

Croutons? ;-)

Cheers TT

The Pet Rock is my favourite.

Dave.

"Build a better mousetrap and people will beat a path to your door"

Nah, Apple made far more money from the iPod.

MrT.

Only because the pet rock didn't have a USB port. ;-)

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Oh, for the simple life! What I want is one of those old-fashioned pop up toasters with one adjustment knob and a lever on the side to lower the bread, where the lever also serves to turn it off early if you want to do that.

We had one like that for years, but it finally died. With the new one you can't turn it off by lifting the lever - none of that intuitive stuff any more. Instead you have to remember which one of the array of buttons on the side (labelled with tiny, hard to read print) is to terminate the operation. Not only that, but for some reason it takes a lot of pressure on this button to get to turn off, which means stopping it is a two handed operation - one to press the button, and the other to stop the toaster sliding away. In fact the cancel button is so hard to press, my wife has to keep a small wooden stick handy to prod it with.

Why it has to have so many buttons, I don't know. One is something to do with frozen bread. I can't remember now, or perhaps I never knew, whether this is for toasting frozen bread, for thawing it without toasting it, or maybe for freezing bread instead of heating it...

Andy Wood snipped-for-privacy@trap.ozemail.com.au

rubbish!

d:-)...

That's an imitation.

Naah, far too complicated. I like the ones with the one central rack and two flap down doors either side.

Best of all, you don't need a metal knife or fork to remove jammed toast.

Safe even for Phil to use.

(On second thoughts)

Hey Phil, here's a popup toaster that's still plugged in, and a drawer full of metal knives and forks for you to use as tools.

Go have some fun.

it was an April 1st joke. got a lot of coverage at the time.

Don...

Why am I not surprised. :-) Looks about as useful as many other USB devices on the market too.

MrT.

toast.

Too bad the toast is always burnt because you inevitably forget to remove it until the smoke starts rising! I'd never want to use one again personally, electric Jaffle irons are bad enough. I'm surprised more don't have timers at least. They continue to cook a little from residual heat, but don't burn as badly.

Maybe you guys could go back to holding the bread over a fire with a toasting fork?

MrT.

It is funny, just not the original.

Damn it! My patent attorney was just drawing up the application for that!

Dave.

Add some googly eyes.

Herc