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The auto chip-holder.

And people get paid to (a) design (b) manufacture (c) market
these things.

We're doomed, DOOMED I tell thee.

(HT to CK.)

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You didn't think it was a warning of even bigger proportions that the item is located under 'outdoors equipment' ?????

sure... you use a ..car (?) to get outdoors... huh? ;)

As my mate CK put it,

You know what bothers me most? In a couple of thousand years some archeologist digging around in our detritus is going to find this thing. Not the Large Hadron Collider, not an Apollo module, not a Mclaren F1, but a sodding chip holder. Probably perfectly preserved along with gangsta rap cd.

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