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Thread poster: Dan Dascalescu
Dan Dascalescu
Dan Dascalescu  Identity Verified
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Nov 15, 2005

Warning: not directly offensive but may be perceived as so.

Read the first customer review of the following amazon.com product:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001AGNUA/002-3843397-7057616

If the page above was censored, I put a copy ... See more
Warning: not directly offensive but may be perceived as so.

Read the first customer review of the following amazon.com product:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001AGNUA/002-3843397-7057616

If the page above was censored, I put a copy of it here:
http://home.arcor.de/dandv/concrete_vibrator.htm

Dan
http://fotki.com/harwons
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Rosa Maria Duenas Rios (X)
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Local time: 15:59
Thanks Dan... Nov 15, 2005

You've made my day...
Did you read the first "customer review"?
P.S. Walls and footings must be having a heck of a time!

[Edited at 2005-11-15 17:28]
 
Ana Cuesta
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Spain
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English to Spanish
I vividly recall my shock Nov 15, 2005

when some years ago I saw in a tube station and advert for "the first mobile phone specially designed for women" and one of the features highlighted was a "vibrator". I was in Paris and for a while I thought I had to be getting my French all wrong.
 
Valentina Pecchiar
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Is concrete used as an adjective or an apposition? Nov 15, 2005

CONCRETE:
(...) 2. Existing in reality or in real experience; perceptible by the senses; real. (Bartleby.com)

I really wonder what the product dept had really in mind when they came up with the denomination...
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CONCRETE:
(...) 2. Existing in reality or in real experience; perceptible by the senses; real. (Bartleby.com)

I really wonder what the product dept had really in mind when they came up with the denomination...





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Tony M
Tony M
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Happiness is a shop in the South of France... Nov 15, 2005

I was tickled pink when I came across a large frontage brazenly advertising its sales of 'Industrial Vibrators' --- nearly had an accident driving by as I did a double-take!

 
Dan Dascalescu
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United States
Local time: 12:59
Romanian to English
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Amazon censored the comment! Original version back online Nov 17, 2005

Dan Dascalescu wrote:

Read the first customer review of the following amazon.com product:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001AGNUA/002-3843397-7057616


The day after I posted this message, I checked the address above and, lo and behold, Amazon had censored the juciy comment!

So here is the original version from my browser's cache:
http://home.arcor.de/dandv/concrete_vibrator.htm

Enjoy,
Dan
 


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