SEEMS LIKE AN EXCELLENT CONCEPT...
...uness you run into a pizza thief.
(Thanks to Steve Lancaster)
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June 30, 2004
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Does this not work?
Posted by: barely there | June 30, 2004 at 10:28 AM
Needs more cheese.
Posted by: Mike Weasel | June 30, 2004 at 10:34 AM
Page Not Found.
Posted by: MOTW | June 30, 2004 at 10:34 AM
If you carry this sideways like you would normally due with a laptop-type briefcase, wouldn't all the cheese and stuff slide off?
Posted by: Boo Augustus | June 30, 2004 at 10:35 AM
Delivered in 30 minutes or less or your next laptop is free.
Actually, a laptop would probably taste better than a Domino's Pizza.
Posted by: lurker | June 30, 2004 at 10:37 AM
Maybe this?
Posted by: MOTW | June 30, 2004 at 10:38 AM
This thing is too obviously fake. For one thing, it doesn't say "You've tried the rest, now try the Best!" with a picture of the Italian cook from Lady and the Tramp kissing his fingers. Also, no greasy stains.
Posted by: Lairbo | June 30, 2004 at 10:38 AM
I usually slip my laptop inside a copy of an impressive magazine like the Economist so people think I'm reading something intellectual . . . no, wait . . . that's how I hide my porn.
Posted by: Boo Augustus | June 30, 2004 at 10:39 AM
Why would a pizza thief want to steal a computer?
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | June 30, 2004 at 10:40 AM
Pepperoni Inside!
Posted by: Blue Meanie | June 30, 2004 at 10:42 AM
Boo - turning The Economist sideways to look at this month's fabulous fold-out spreadsheet might give it away!
Posted by: surfbunny | June 30, 2004 at 10:43 AM
For less money you can get a real pizza box, complete with pizza and stains delivered! Add your own foam padding.
Posted by: pogo | June 30, 2004 at 10:48 AM
28 days delivery for this item. At least they're trying to keep some authenticity. Remeber when it was free if it took more than 30 minutes?
Posted by: DNC | June 30, 2004 at 10:49 AM
Won't anyone wonder why you're typing on a pizza?
Posted by: Chris Cypser | June 30, 2004 at 10:53 AM
Yeah, that seems convincing. I know my pizza deliver person alway shows up in a suit & tie (to be a PC - a business suit and heels)when delivering my pizza. That won't look awkward at all.
Posted by: jilly willy | June 30, 2004 at 11:13 AM
"Each PowerPizza laptop disguise is handmade in London using genuine italian-style pizza boxes for maximum authenticity"
Get that people...GENUINE Italian-Style pizza boxes.
So what's so special about Italian-style pizza boxes as opposed to American-style pizza boxes?
Posted by: MeL | June 30, 2004 at 11:15 AM
An Italian style pizza box might contain actual Italian style pizza, which has little in common with American style pizza. However if it were an Italian style pizza box, wouldn't the printing be in Italian? (I don't remember seeing pizza boxes in Italy at all.)
Posted by: pogo | June 30, 2004 at 11:22 AM
Fact 1: Many laptop computers are used on college campuses
Fact 2: Many college students live on pizza
So don't use this disguise within a 3 mile radius of a college campus. Try a PooperScooper bag instead?
Posted by: waxwing | June 30, 2004 at 11:42 AM
(Waxwing: or a textbook)
Now you can open a pizza box and find spam inside.
This is not good.
Posted by: mudstuffin | June 30, 2004 at 11:54 AM
If you saw a pizza box sitting around, wouldn't you just throw it away? Or maybe put in the refrigerator and let it sit there for a couple weeks?
Posted by: Brad | June 30, 2004 at 11:59 AM
The "authentic Italian" pizza box would be a dead give away here on Cape Cod. Our local pizza places are generally owned by Greeks whose boxes are numbered as follows: "Pizza 1!!". This may mean pizza is highly regarded or this box contains the first pie in the history of the enterprise. After eating it, both make sense. In some rare local circumstances the places are owned by Swamp Yankees in whose..ahem..bistros you can get a clam pizza. Which makes about as much sense as a computer in a pizza box.
Posted by: Sputnik | June 30, 2004 at 12:06 PM
"Let's see, I'm finished my work. I'll just leave my computer here on a park bench in a pizza box while I go and get a drink . . . "
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | June 30, 2004 at 12:10 PM
Does anyone think they have sold a single one of these?
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | June 30, 2004 at 12:22 PM
I came here from search.
Posted by: shemp | June 30, 2004 at 12:29 PM
shemp - well, how was search?
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | June 30, 2004 at 12:31 PM
Wouldn't a hefty bag full of dirty laundry make a better disguise for you laptop? It would be cheaper, and you could actually take it to the laundromat and work while your clothes are washing.
Posted by: Rayfast | June 30, 2004 at 12:46 PM
um....this is a fictional product. Are
we gullible? Go back and check out the other
'fictional products'...
Posted by: chucke | June 30, 2004 at 12:54 PM
chucke - guess so.
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | June 30, 2004 at 12:57 PM
Please note, whether or not anything in any posted article is true or not is completely irrelevant to any the discussion on this blog, expect perhaps for what's his name's wife's ramparts.
Posted by: Boo Augustus | June 30, 2004 at 01:15 PM
Huh?
Posted by: Rayfast | June 30, 2004 at 01:17 PM
"Does anyone think they have sold a single one of these?"
yes, mine arrived yesterday, 30 minutes late, and damaged on one corner, but well worth the investment.
Posted by: gullible in seattle | June 30, 2004 at 01:22 PM
chucke, i bet you were the kid at the 4th grade birthday party where the parents hired a magician who picked up one of the magician's tricks and showed all the other kids that his "magic" was fake.
Posted by: Brad | June 30, 2004 at 01:24 PM
magic is NOT fake!
take it back!
Posted by: david copperfield | June 30, 2004 at 01:28 PM
Ramparts ...
Is that like horns, and tails and little hooves?
Posted by: Rayfast | June 30, 2004 at 01:28 PM
No. Ramparts like . . . um . . . headlamps, ta-tas, bazoombas, mellons, etc.
Posted by: Boo Augustus | June 30, 2004 at 01:32 PM
Sounds like a funny looking ram.
Posted by: Rayfast | June 30, 2004 at 01:36 PM
correct. I was that kid, except it was 3rd grade.
And it was Santa, not a magician, and I could tell his beard was fake.
Posted by: chucke | June 30, 2004 at 01:43 PM
Chucke - do you have your own miserable pizza place, and is your last name Cheese?
Posted by: pogo | June 30, 2004 at 02:05 PM
...& I was just going to say 'Now I know what to get the boyfriend for his birthday! He loves pizza AND computers...it's perfect!' Then I put '& I was just going to say' in front of it.
Posted by: kay | June 30, 2004 at 02:09 PM
Somebody fixed the clock?!?!
No! Really! LOOOOOK!!!
Posted by: kay | June 30, 2004 at 02:10 PM
yeah...okay...and since when is Pizza Delivery a SAFE job? They get robbed more than taxi drivers!
Posted by: Erika | June 30, 2004 at 02:12 PM
It's true. Pizza Delivery guys have the second highest mortality rate for occupations. Sadly, I am one.
Posted by: SlickRick | June 30, 2004 at 02:28 PM
Kay - the clock is only "fixed" for those of us in the Eastern time zone. It might not have been wrong before - for all we know the server is in Kansas (or Calcutta).
Posted by: pogo | June 30, 2004 at 02:38 PM
If you steal the laptop in my pizza box, don't forget to leave a tip!
Posted by: SlickRick | June 30, 2004 at 03:39 PM
Maybe the Miami Herald is actually based out of Miami County, KS. They just want us to think they are in Florida. And it would explain why Dave makes fun of midwest towns so much...
Of course, it also could be that they ask to be made fun of.
Posted by: Bismuth | June 30, 2004 at 03:56 PM
pogo - no, I don't have a miserable pizza joint.
(and I suppose it is miserable. Never been there.)
Why attack a handle? Want me to change it? It'll
still be me.
Posted by: Walt Kelly | June 30, 2004 at 04:16 PM
Last?
Posted by: chucke | June 30, 2004 at 05:07 PM
What the does uness mean?
Posted by: Drew | June 30, 2004 at 07:40 PM
It's a variant of "Eunice," which of course is a name which, in Old English, meant "unicorn." As in, "John Kerry has Smurfed more than one uness."
Posted by: Doug Brockmeier | June 30, 2004 at 07:57 PM
Mille grazie, Signore Munger. Arrivederci!
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | July 01, 2004 at 04:54 AM
What would THE NOID do if he is foiled by one of these?
Posted by: Mike B. | July 02, 2004 at 06:57 AM
First!
Posted by: Bismuth | September 10, 2004 at 01:02 PM