Comments on: Does your Qwert Shmarble juice emus?

Does your Qwert Shmarble juice emus?

yankeefog — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 03:38:53 -0800

The mystery of Qwert Shmarble--solved! If you've ever wondered how stunningly useful items like Qwert Shmarble end up on Amazon, here's the inside story, from the former Amazon temp who wrote the user manual to the NM-156 Reciprocating Emu Press.

By: yankeefog

yankeefog — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 03:45:28 -0800

Via Heaneyland, by the way.

By: farishta

farishta — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 05:31:28 -0800

good stuff

By: zardoz

zardoz — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 06:29:50 -0800

I haven't had any coffee in a while, can someone paraphrase all this, please?

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 06:49:42 -0800

Sorry Zardoz. About half way through the first paragraph, my eyes glazed like a donut, and I could read no more. With new media like this about, old media looks like it will be in good shape for some time to come. Can anyone figure out whether the author just wasn't familiar with Duchamp, or does he think that this sort of heavy-handed emulation is going to impress somebody who isn't familiar with the work of the single most important figure in the single most important strand of modernism?

By: delmoi

delmoi — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 06:51:05 -0800

zardoz: the qwert shmarble is some sort of very old test data put into the amazon database (or something, I'd know for sure if I'd click the link, I suppose).

By: VulcanMike

VulcanMike — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 06:57:14 -0800

For those who are impatient like PeterMcDermott and I, search for Amazon in the linked entry and read from there.

By: kika

kika — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 06:58:45 -0800

That emu press manual is a very good, ehrm, read. Not that I actually read it, but just glancing over it and seeing the illustrations made me almost spill my breakfast (granola, banana and yoghurt) onto my keyboard. You are forewarned.

By: Outlawyr

Outlawyr — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 07:31:45 -0800

Break this down to one sentence for me. Have it on my desk by noon. Yours, Busy Exec.

By: stenseng

stenseng — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 07:39:00 -0800

I got a Qwert Schmarble once. Fortunately, I've a quite good physician with access to top-notch antibiotics, and I got it cleared up in short order.

By: JHarris

JHarris — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 07:49:01 -0800

I get the feeling that Qwert Schmarble is a fake product, and so a ready attractor for jokes concerning hyper-capable do-all things. See: Spacom.

By: countzen

countzen — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:10:48 -0800

What the heck is a 'Qwert Schmarble'? Sorry the amazon link seem to have no description of product. Is this related to this? or this? I can't believe these were the top 2 hits for 'qwert' in google.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:26:27 -0800

Wow. Some people can't be bothered to read the linked material and/or have no sense of humor. Very funny stuff, yankeefog—thanks for the post!

By: Artifice_Eternity

Artifice_Eternity — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:46:28 -0800

Can anyone figure out whether the author just wasn't familiar with Duchamp, or does he think that this sort of heavy-handed emulation is going to impress somebody who isn't familiar with the work of the single most important figure in the single most important strand of modernism? No. It's called "having fun." Look into it.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:48:52 -0800

Some people can't be bothered to read the linked material Or glance over to the tags, for that matter. This is the funny!

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 11:44:39 -0800

I thought this was going to be about the Qbert !@#%%@$%@! utterance. (Shmarble could be a term for the exclamation, you never know.) goddam it, I'll never find out.

By: indiebass

indiebass — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 11:30:51 -0800

This makes me think of another product. The Bo-Ring. Its TOTALLY Bo-Ring. Search for it on Amazon!