Holy cow, where to begin…

OK, so this is legit, although I am glad they had a paragraph that starts with “What’s it good for?” All the pictures with the model in the short skirt do not help with product description, although I imagine Kingsford and Weber have had their share of crazy marketing stuff. I think I will keep my current setup, but I have been looking for a way to prepare a dozen or so crème brulees quickly.

I think I might get me a Badonkadonk to drive around the neighborhood in.

All the pictures with the model in the short skirt do not help with product description...

And your point would be...? ;-)

I think I might get me a Badonkadonk to drive around the neighborhood in.

20 grand and you, too, can play out your Star Wars fantasies!

sterilize tomatoes or vaporize them?

Well, one accomplishes the other, I suppose.

But, I agree, that's a silly use for this device. I was thinking of something more along the lines of retaliation against Super Soakers. ;-)

Holy cow! That thing is much bigger than I would have imagined. You could do a lot of damage at half the size. My daughter would love this, able to cook things on extreme HIGH, in 45 seconds or less. The clean up might get a bit messy though. I guess we'll just have to try it and see. ;-)

Tim would totally have gone for this. Sadly, I bought his gift yesterday...so he's out of luck. Maybe next year when he and Joshua can play with it together. :)

Gwynne, I look forward to a hands-on report. With oven mitts, of course.

Beth, I'm sorry I failed to bring this to your attention sooner. But I'm sure you didn't get Tim a tie.

I actually thought about getting him a really ugly tie...but decided at the last minute to get him a 1TB external drive instead. :)

I'd be amazed if someone like Geekwear doesn't make a really ugly tie complete with embedded microdisk and USB 2.0 connector.

If they don't, they should.

Tim's a lucky, lucky dad, btw. ;-)

"a silly use for this device. I was thinking of something more along the lines of retaliation against Super Soakers."

or maybe an air conditioner. Everyone needs relief from that Texas heat.

But, I agree, that's a silly use for this device. I was thinking of something more along the lines of retaliation against Super Soakers.

By definition, there is no silly use for a flamethrower.

(Picturing all 150 boys in my son's Boy Scout troop armed with one of these... the horror... the horror...)

That bad boy (the trike, not the flamethrower) adds new meaning to the term "long wheelbase".

adds new meaning to the term "long wheelbase".

True dat. If they made a tandem model, you'd need a Wal-Mart parking lot to make a u-turn.

But the design does beg to be re-decorated into a post-apocalyptic, "Mad Max" sort of recumbent thingie.

Bret, I can't picture 150 Boy Scouts armed with anything that doesn't send a chill up my spine. ;-)

“But the design does beg to be re-decorated into a post-apocalyptic, "Mad Max" sort of recumbent thingie.”

Interesting suggestion, but where to start the customization? If you're looking for ideas, you probably need look no further than the nifty steampunk-esque flamethrower with which the trike shares a post.

How right you are, amigo! There's nothing that can't be improved with the strategic addition of a flamethrower.