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Tue, 29 May 2007
ultimate nerd tops even himself
If there's any hobby more nerdy than building robots, it has to be the one where old dudes scour the landscape with metal detectors in order find hidden treasure and discarded soda tabs. Apparently one ultradork has figured out a way to join these two nerdy pursuits into one obsessively geeky waste of time and energy.
Nicknamed Champion the Wonder Robot, the device has so far helped Mr Corney find 200 old coins, including three silver six pence pieces and a Second World War military medical badge. It has yet to help him find a date or anything resembling the respect of his high school rugby chums.
Looks a little like the Hijinx mascot, doesn't he? The boar, I mean...
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spell czech
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
- Author unknown