Shocked, shocked I tell you

[unixronin]

It's been five days since I posted this, and not one person has bit on the blatant Spinal Tap reference.  What's wrong with you people?  Get on the job!  :)

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Well, I wasn't sure if it was 13" or 13' tall from the shot you took of it.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Heh. :)

[tomatoe333.livejournal.com]

Why not just get a 10-cup maker, with bigger cups?

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Oh, the coffee maker that "goes to 11"? Some references are sufficiently obvious that one considers them part of the normal flow of conversation and doesn't really comment on them.

[databeast.livejournal.com]

heh, that's exactly what I came to post myself.

I think people who DONT get the reference are the anomaly now.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

I remember in the early 80s there were music stores selling musical-instrument knobs that were knock-offs of the ones found on Stratocasters, Les Pauls, etc., marked from 0-11 instead of 0-10. Wish I had availed myself of some.

[cipherpunk.livejournal.com]

Have you noticed that the amp in Guitar Hero goes to 11?

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Every time I think about buying a game console and a copy of Guitar Hero, I start thinking guilty thoughts about the fact that I own a real guitar I haven't picked up in many years.

[genuine-snark.livejournal.com]

Guitar Hero has even less to do with real guitar playing than Dance Dance Revolution does with dancing.

Still fun as hell.

If I were buying for a game, though, I'd target Rock Band. It's the better implementation (by the -original- GH and GH2 developers, who specialize in music games) and has much better social appeal.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Well, see, this is exactly why I expected SOMEONE would make some kind of counter-reference. :)

[databeast.livejournal.com]

smell the glove.. and my quality footwear.. You should envy us... I envy us.

[johnkzin.livejournal.com]

Me too. I saw it, chuckled, thought "nice spinal tap reference", and didn't have anything to add, so I didn't reply. :-}

(I'm replying now, cuz, you know, I recently did that "I'm not usually a comment whore" post, and so I'm aware that sometimes those "I don't have anything to add" posts are exactly the kinds of posts where the poster DOES want comments)

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

As opposed to a slight poke for the grammar error? ;)

Um -- what was I supposed to do? Say "Nice blatant Spinal Tap reference"?

[jmkelly.livejournal.com]

Okay. "Nice blatant 'Spinal Tap' reference!"

Re: Um -- what was I supposed to do? Say "Nice blatant Spinal Tap reference"?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Heh. I was kidding. :)

[n5red.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should take up playing the drums.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

That way he can do his own rimshots.

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

bwahahahaha

[attutle.livejournal.com]

We are all, victims of something or someone
We can't ignore the things we hate for it is what defines us

[ehintz.livejournal.com]

That's rather a blatant reference really...

It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.

:P

[ehintz.livejournal.com]

(oh, and my excuse is that I didn't see it 'till now, having not been keeping up with LJ for the last week or so)

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

afaik, you've had good reason. :)