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UPDATE

The Bullshit Detector Watch has found it's way into our offices and we can confirm that it is real!

Thousands of years from now, when current human society and all its advancements (computers, airplanes, George Foreman Grills) are nothing but a faint memory, a wristwatch of epic proportions will still live on, flashing, pooping, and mooing. The Universal Bullshit Detector Watch is perhaps the greatest technological feat since the slicing of bread. Fitting this engineering marvel of modern technology onto a standard watch, media satirist Joey Skaggs has created the Bullshit Detector watch to empower the everyman with the ability to counter the daily doses of crap that are so prevalent. Joey Skaggs is known for his fabricated news stories that are often widely reported as fact, and has apparently harnessed his own experiences in this invention.

The secret behind this technology is a speaker that spouts mooing and defecating sounds, which are elicited by a button the watch wearer presses. If these foul-sounding emissions don't convey the bullshit detection well enough, the watch also has a flashing light. Both the sounds and light continue for up to 8 seconds but the website is vague and doesn't explain if you can choose what sounds come out, and if there are any different lights. The watch also requires 2 separate batteries (one for the watch, the other for the light and sound effect) and is not waterproof.

When faced with day-to-day bull, we are often without a quick and witty retort. This BS detecting watch seeks to fill that void and provide instant response for all those pompous, arrogant, and dishonest folks out there who seek to use you as a waste receptacle for their comments. The watch will run you about $49.95 plus shipping and handling, but the ability to stop bullshit artists dead in their tracks may be priceless.

Oh, and it tells time too.

Post by Andre Bermudez


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Posted by: phoenix
November 15, 2006 4:04 PM

I...I think this might be a life changing product. :D


Posted by: Jim Van Damme
November 16, 2006 7:44 AM

Useless!

It needs to have enough power capability to run the detector at high levels for near continuous periods, otherwise it will run down the first day where I work (U.S. Air Force).

Perhaps an alternative energy source, such as hot air.


Posted by: kevin
November 16, 2006 10:50 AM

hi,
how you doing.i want to know on how i can get of you productor


Posted by: phoenix
November 16, 2006 2:36 PM

Jim wins. :D


Posted by: trackermc
November 17, 2006 4:19 PM

I wish I was wearing this watch as I read this article.


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