I’d like to thank everyone who wrote in with their recommendations regarding coconut peelers. There was a lot of sentiment regarding the Toshiba model, but in the end I settled on the Cocomatic Z708 from The Sharper Image, here. The motor’s actually made by a subsidiary of Fuji, and it got good reviews. Also, my better half likes the way that it can go from fresh whole coconut to pouch of flavored chewing tobacco in 2 hours and 15 minutes, much more quickly than the Toshiba. $450 was more than I’d planned on spending, but it does come with a remote control. I’ll let you know how we like it in a few days.
Oh, and thanks to BoZ for the inscribed ass’s jawbone. Very nice. Thanks as well to McGehee for the Kraftwerk B-Sides collection and to The Sanity Inspector for The Three Tenors with Special Guest Rod Stewart DVD and the CD of William Shatner narrating Peter and the Wolf with the London Symphony Orchestra. And a thanks to MayBee for the Bhutan butter. Yum.
Dan,
You were just trying to find a reason to post that crazy picture weren’t you?
Melissa–
If I said yes, I’d be lying.
Dan-
Did you get the butter I sent you from the Kingdom of Bhutan? At first I picked out Bintan butter, but then realized Bhutan butter is better.
MayBee–
Thanks, yes! There was no note, so I didn’t know whom to thank. I did get the better Bhutan butter. My brother likes the Bintan butter better because it’s a bit bitterer, which reminds him of when he lived there. But I agree that the Bhutan butter’s better, as yak butter generally is.
– Butter, Butter, Butter, yak, yak, yak
– Bhuntan is better than Bitan to snak, snak, snak
– Bhuntan is better butter because it softens with a whack
– Better Butter through Bhutan living, dats the fax Jack…
– Sung lustily to the sounds of your arteries slaming shut in time to the beat…
– Next week: Shredded cocconut, mixed in Bhutan butter, spread on garlic bread… Colesterol paradise in your kitchen….(and it keeps the Vampires at bay)
Foolish dirtman, you have posted an unauthorized image of the sacred “device” and must now die, as must all humans who glimpse the “device”, even by chance. Fool.
Do you prefer vaporization or being tossed out an airlock?
The vaporization–is it fresh?
Dan, do a little reseach on that “Bhutan butter” before you eat it.
Just sayin’.
How did you know it was me? And why are you thanking me!? Dang, you sure know how to ruin a good prank.
Next time I’m mailing you a banjo, an accordion, and bagpipes. Thank me then!
Heh.
TW: Indeed.
(Now THAT is scary. All your Turing word generators are belong to Glenn.)
– With Christmas right around the corner, (and allowable once again by dictate of WalMart and Macy’s), wonder if Glenn will find a Tuba in his stocking, becaus4e you know, nothing say’s holiday stockingpuppet like a Tuba.
The only peeler I know…er….knew was a twenty year old named Destiny Gazongas.
You knew her when she was twenty!?
To what do you attribute your longevity, sir?
Genetics.
Good northwestern European mongral genotype.
That and massive beer consumption.