What Reminds you of Futurama: Fit the 3rd

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The Finglonger, sort of:

Tesla recently canceled production of right-hand-drive (RHD) variants of the Model S and Model X in the UK and other countries. Its solution for customers in Britain who still need to reach out of the right-hand side of the car is both comical and questionable. It’s called The Reacher and it’s exactly what you think it is… but with Tesla branding.

https://www.carscoops.com/2023/06/tesla-seriously-gives-uk-owners-reacher-stick-after-cancelling-right-hand-drive-cars/

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It's getting tough to distinguish reality from parody. Perhaps Tesla will adapt an Xbox controller to the CAN Bus so you can sit in the right seat and drive with your thumbs. "C'mon, you can 360 no-scope that drive-through!"

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Wait, the wheel uses a CAN bus? So I could possibly control one with the directional controls on one of my Agilent control interfaces for chromatography equipment. Nice to know.

No idea when I'll ever get to put that into practice. But, nice to know.

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I don't know, but I'd assume so since there's a clutched low-speed, low-torque motor connected to the steering gear, used for the assisted lane-keeping function.

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I have acquired one art that reminds me quite pleasantly of Futurama—more so SP3K/Monkey Fracas Jr. than AOI II, but both associations are good'ns...

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Hard not to read one of today’s New York Times mini-crossword clues/answers as a helpless claim made in Fry’s desperate voice:

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The other night, I caught an episode of this new show on Hulu, and it was what reminded me how Futurama?

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One time I was watching Futurma, and that reminded me Futrama was on!  Because it was literally on the tv I was watching at that moment!  What are the odds at any given moment it's on the tv whenever the tv is on and I am watching it?  I thought it only aired on Sundays on Fox until they switched its showing time to Tuesday or whatever after the PJs?

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I can't believe she didn't know that Jake the Dog has the same voice as Bender.  They sound exactly the same.

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Don't they both stretch too?  I assumed Jake the Dog was who Bender dreamed himself as when he recharges his batteries; that and electric sheep.  Adventure Time is probably his post kill all the humans reoccurring dream.

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A dear friend of mine took a spill on her bike earlier today, and unfortunately her face broke her fall. She took that facial trauma like a champ, though, and I was reminded of Leela’s line to Fry in TKOS (which I quoted to my friend, a fellow Futurama fan): “Your face can take a lot of punishment—that’s good to know.”

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I heard that in 2021 a beer company attempted to induce ads for itself in people's dreams…

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Yesterday I was reading and saw someone with the last name Neidlinger, which caused a double take since I--of course--read it as Nerdlinger.

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Well, anyone with that name has probably been called "Nerdlinger" at least once at some point.

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For some odd reason, I always hear that word in Katey Sagal's voice when I read it.

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Saw this storefront last night and was immediately reminded of Leela:



I figure after ordering her intimates from Bulk Underpants Outlet she heads over to Boot Barn to peruse the boots with crazy green stripes before just settling on her usual black ones. Alternately, this store must carry crates of boots in various quantities (perhaps procuring them from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean).

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That gave me a good smile and a chuckle

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To put a little twist on it, the main trio of Futurama´s characters always reminded me of protagonists of old adventure game Feeble Files.

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I can't imagine that I'm the only person to hear a certain song in their head upon seeing and reading this headline today?

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I feel like this is a bit cheating, because the opening is a direct modification of a Futurama quote, but it's also a good quote.  I can't wait to have a drawer with assorted lengths of wires.

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I have two such drawers. To be fair, though, one also contains a large number of non-wiry objects.

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Pocket Pal:



Edit: Flipped 180*

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I used to have one of those.

Fan art of Airani Iofifteen as the other kind of mermaid.  (Possibly not safe for work.  Definitely not safe for your mental well-being.)

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A quote I came across, from the early 1960s, talks about alternatives to land-based missiles in Europe being "less likely to provide a symbol which Communist or neutralist propagandists could use to create public opposition in some Western European countries."

At one level absurd, at another an indication that the caricature of military bombast in Brannigan, Begin Again may have been closer to reality than I'd thought.

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I see Brannigan references (and tactics!) every other day in some reddit threads I follow.

And I can't recall if I read it or dreamed it, but I'm thinking someone mentioned that Zapp was modeled after Captain Lincoln F. Stern from the '80s movie Heavy Metal"?

Pocket Pal:

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Are all those polygons metric? I just looked for mine from college drafting class (no AutoCAD back then!) but all I could find were a few French curves and a broken triangle. :-/

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And I can't recall if I read it or dreamed it, but I'm thinking someone mentioned that Zapp was modeled after Captain Lincoln F. Stern from the '80s movie Heavy Metal"?

I haven't heard that before.  I always assumed he was just a caricature of William Shatner playing Captain Kirk (and that the character was written for the late Phil Hartman to play).

Are all those polygons metric?

It says that they are.  Why would the folks at Rapidesign lie about that?

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Are all those polygons metric?

It says that they are.  Why would the folks at Rapidesign lie about that?

Quite so. The numbers next to the shapes give the size in millimetres (hexagon from bottom to top, triangle along one side, etc). It's the true measurement, with no compensation for lead thickness, so the inner diameter would be the measured size minus twice the lead thickness.

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My partner and I have taken to calling our new puppy “Nibbler” because he is an inveterate biter. So at least I can be pleasantly reminded of one of my favorite TV shows whenever this lovable beast attempts to rend my flesh from its bones.

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Another dog-related Futurama reminder: there is a stump in our backyard that the pup has taken to gnawing on, and every time I catch him doing so I think of Petunia in "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" and warn him not to lose his teeth pulling out that stump.

Last week I also noticed a workman's truck in the neighborhood advertising "Professional Stump Removal" and was similarly reminded of that Petunia quote...