Mega Super Ultra Goods

[Ladyazh]

This must be fun one

Shopping lately i found that I am wasting my time trying to make my choice of lots of product based on

Extra
Ultra
XXL
Mega
Super
Balder then ever


and I am never sure if Mega superiour to Ultra or vice versa?

 

[mjldba]

pinkgecko: you forgot the fastest speed of all .... ludicrous speed!

 

[pinkgecko]

So what about gigantic? Isn't gig a billion?

Tera?

How about hyper?

What is Bolder? Is it so big that I can't comprehend it?

And don't forget Ginormous - that's the max out here in my neck of the woods.

[blue]Never listen to your customers. They were dumb enough to buy your product, so they have no credibility. - Dogbert[/blue]

 

[IknowMe]

To bad expletives make for bad advertising. Am I the only one who'd buy "A (insert favorite expletive here) big box of Cheerios."

Wow, I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
I think I've forgotten this before.

 

[Maquis]

Well there's always Helluva Good Dips

Maq
<insert witty signature here>

 

[johnherman]

I'm waiting for Turbo-Internet and Uber-Cola

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[sha76]

For example try ordering anything "small" from a fast food restaurant.

I always order my coffee/hot chocolate as small, medium or large, they generally understand.

"Your rock is eroding wrong." -Dogbert

 

[Ladyazh]

Not here we don't have smalls...medium that is smallest one they have.

 

[AnotherHiggins]

I noticed that recently at a fast food joint.

The cashier looked at me straight-faced and explained that there isn't a small. The smallest size they have is medium.

How can they "medium" be the smallest!?!? By definition, that is not medium.

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[stackdump]

As an aside, I think it was Packard cars who identified five names for their different models (around 1930).

Light
Coupe
Sport
Super
Delux

All were chosen to be appealing and all were deliberately five letters long, so the same press could be used (Deluxe had to become Delux). Other choices were Elite, Extra and Ultra.

If anyone can remember whether it definitely was Packard then let me know because its driving me nuts. I read this in a book recently and now I can't remember which darn book it was...

 

[IknowMe]

I think it's fair to point out that the Cell companies are trending the other direction.

Fast Food

Small = medium
Medium = large
Large = super something or other

Cell Phone

Regular = Super size (anyone remeber these big baddies? see image below)
Medium = Razor
small = Sliver

of course I could be wrong with the names here I'm not familiar as to which model names truly smaller.

The Regular Cell phone (as it was the first) sure looks super sized to me

Wow, I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
I think I've forgotten this before.

 

[SantaMufasa]

Right on with the "cell phone" issue. Our first "cell phone" was a luggable version that you carried around in a shoulder-strap case the size of a large (old) VCR-camera case. The bag held the base unit, which included the "brains" of the phone to which the hand set was tethered with a curly cord, and it also included the battery (which was about the size of of a phone pictured above).

The phone cost $10 if you signed up for a year's-worth of service which was analog (digital wasn't around yet), so the per minute costs alone were about $.50 per minute.

Needless to say, after picking ourselves up off the floor from reading the first month's usage bill, we didn't use it anymore (but still had to pay the monthly charges for the remaining 11 months).

Geez, even the worst plan nowdays is better than those types of plans.

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]

 

[p5wizard]

Geez, even the worst plan nowdays is better than those types of plans.

You forget the gargantuan roaming charges for foreign users of mobile networks (in Europe more than €1.00 per minute is not exceptional!)

p5

 

[SantaMufasa]

...the gargantuan roaming charges for foreign users of mobile networks...

Yes, I'm aware that such can happen, but with the correct network and plan, you can use your phone internationally with without any surcharges, provided that there is a network signal in the foreign travel area (which, again, is a function of the correct network).


So, if one plans to travel outside their normal usage area, caveat emptor, and simply call your provider before to leave to ask their advice on the best-possible plan that they offer while you are gone. For those that cannot get a decent "off-shore" plan for their phone, I've had colleagues that acquire the use of a cell phone at their foreign destination (at normal local rates), and call-forward their regular cell phone to the more-reasonably rated foreign cellular.

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]

 

[flapeyre]

I don't know about those roaming charges; in 2004 our choir took a trip to Ireland. We brought along my wife's recently purchased Motorola V400 cellphone (deliberately chosen because it would work on the Vodafone GSM network in Ireland), and we were constantly calling home (and letting other choir members do the same). Not one roaming charge appeared on the bill, even though I had expected it to be pretty substantial. Maybe Vodafone never sent the billing record back to Cingular.

Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas.

 

[MeGustaXL]

flapeyre: does your signature:

Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas

mean "My leg bone thanks you for not smoking"?


<snicker>

Chris

When his pin is pulled, Mr Grenade is not our friend - USMC Infantry Manual

 

[p5wizard]

(off topic)

with the correct network and plan

These days most european operators even charge roaming at $1.00/€1.00 per minute or thereabouts to dial a *toll-free* access number (e.g. AT&T calling card 0800 numbers)

p5

 

[Ladyazh]

That answers my question (please, someone insert that rolling laughing thingy

 

[p5wizard]

[ rofl ]

but without the spaces

 

[p5wizard]

In the message box, click on the words Emoticons/Smileys
Then, in the pop-up window, click on the link Animated Smileys
... and all will be revealed.

 

[flapeyre]

The signature means, "Thank you for not smoking". "Tibi" = "to you".

Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas.