Skip, skip, skip to iLoo!
Humor 05/05/2003 |Y’know, for all the times I’ve been tempted to toss Windows where it belongs — into the toilet — I never figured that Microsoft itself would feel the same way! It appears I was wrong, however — at least, according to this MS UK press release…
The UK’s most popular website msn.co.uk is creating the world’s first ‘Internet Loo’. The iLoo will be mobile and is part of MSN’s mission to allow instant logging on ‘anytime and any place’.
In time for the summer festival season, MSN is in the process of converting a portable loo to create a unique experience for surfers looking for an alternative to the bog-standard festival loo experience. Users will be able to sit down, undock a wireless keyboard and conveniently access the first ever WWW.C. A plasma screen will be located directly in front of them which can be adjusted to a desired height level. MSN is also in talks with toilet paper manufacturers to produce special web paper for those in need of URL inspiration.
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p>Um…yeah. The only problem with a story like this is that all the really good jokes are already taken.
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Michael Hanscom
May 5th, 2003 at 11:51 am
uhm, i thought the idea was to AVOID touching things while you were in a public bathroom… now, in so many disgusting senses of the phrase - you won’t know who or what has touched that keyboard.
May 5th, 2003 at 2:45 pm
It’s all too easy for me to picture walking into one of these ‘iLoo’s and see a porn website on the screen — and you can be damn sure I wouldn’t be touching the keyboard then!
May 5th, 2003 at 4:00 pm
I forget at the MS toilet humor and for the time being just stick to facts.
You cannot and will not catch anything from a keyboard. This is not in dispute. This from both the CDC, and WHO. You can and WILL catch something from yourself if you don’t wash your hands after using the loo. The advertising world has abused their power and made us afraid to touch anything. Spraying crap like Lysol or other “germ killers” do nothing but ease the worried mind of mothers everywhere. The show 20/20 did a wonderful story about the germs they picked up from money. E-Coil, Salmonella, Hepatitis. All of which they said they found. They warned of the dangers to mothers little one putting the money in their mouths and catching something. Scareing Mothers ! what a scam. Yes they found the germs. In very VERY small amounts. Children have been putting everything ( including money ) in their mouths for hundreds of years, you would think all the little rug rats would be dead by now? You and I and everyone we know are exposed everyday to hundreds of different virus and germs, and every day we live with it. You can solve 90% of it with these nine words.
Wash your hands Wash your hands. Wash your hands.
Don’t worry about the other Guy/Gal…. You get most of it from yourself… From not washing your hands.
Ok now for the cheap shots ! So they found a place where MS fits right in eh ? and don’t worry about me. I’m so safe I wear a rubber glove when I do myself.
May 13th, 2003 at 10:29 am
Whoops-iLoo!
CNN reported today that the iLoo was a hoax. Microsoft recently stated that it was planning on making Internet-ready portapotties…