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The Underwear Boiling System

Rory posted on the Underwear Boiling System from Samsung:

I [Rory] wish I could have been the person who pitched this to management.

Me: I have this great idea for an underwear boiling system...

Boss: An underwear what?

Me: Underwear boiling system - UBS. So that people don't have to boil their underwear the old fashioned way. It's the 21st century, and it's time we gave our customers the right to boil their underwear the way they've always wanted to.

Boss: Always wanted to? Is there any marketing data to support this?

Me: SCREW THE DATA! Look in your heart of hearts - You know that I speak the truth. Ask anybody on the street - anybody, I tell you - how they'd like their underwear boiled, and the answer will arrive with such uniformity that you'll come to realize that there is an underlying bond between all of humanity, and that it is the desire to have a system with which to boil underwear. People are sick of waiting for the pot to come to a boil, they're sick of throwing their dirty undies in with the vegetables, and they certainly don't want to rely on the microwave to do this. The key here is to provide the long sought-after one-stop underwear boiling solution to the masses that they've craved since the beginning of time.

Boss: You're brilliant. I feel like boiling my underwear in it right now.

Me: Well, you're going to have to take a number.

And then we would laugh together while riding the wave of success all the way to the top...

What I (Darrell) like is the fact that it is fully automated... no manual intervention necessary.  It even has a before and after picture comparison.


Posted Fri, Nov 7 2003 8:22 AM by Darrell Norton

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Chris wrote re: The Underwear Boiling System
on Mon, Nov 10 2003 3:15 AM
Wow, that guy must have had a good 23-24 years of experience to come up with something like that.

Now is it some subtle message the manufacturer is sending that the thing looks like a cross between a toilet and a trashcan?
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