What use is it?

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"what use is thing X (if any?)"

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

van der Graaf generator.

you know, big fuck off metal mushroom in every science classroom ever. It makes kids hair stand on end when they put their hands on it. But does it have a proper use apart from making teenagers resemble Fido Dido?

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

Name of a rockband!

― Mark G, Monday, 12 March 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

does the band make yr hair stand on end?

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 12 March 2007 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Rock band names have a use - by helping to distinguish one band from another, esp when they are both crap.

― Aimless, Monday, 12 March 2007 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

what use is it? work, that is. something in a fall song about old philosophers and savages... if I could only remember the line!

― youn, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

What deserves to be called work? What deserves not to be called work?

― youn, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

Remember that poem by Shel Silverstein?

I'd rather play pool
than go to school.

I'd rather play tennis
than go to the dentist.

I'd rather play hurk
than go to work.

Hurk? What's hurk?

I don't know, but it's gotta be better than work.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 01:51 (nineteen years ago)

he originally work "I'd rather jerk" but was pounced upon by the censor.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

why didn't he just write shirk?

― the next grozart, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

lurk?

― Ste, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

The machine is a Van de Graaff Generator
The band is Van der Graaf Generator

Any similarity is purely coincidental.

― onimo, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

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