Do you know what a Segway is?

Alboin · Post by **Alboin** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 2:03 pm

Hi,

Just a quick show of hands: without looking anything up, do you know what a Segway is?

inflater · Post by **inflater** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 2:08 pm

Holy cow. That was fast.

Okay, let's see.

VOTE WITHOUT GOOGLING please.

This poll is officially closed at 4. October 2008, 22:16 UTC, to determine the winner: Alboin or me (inflater).

suthers · Post by **suthers** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 2:58 pm

Let me guess, inflater thinks that there will be more people who don't know what a segway is...
Sorry mate, voted yes...
Jules

Combuster · Post by **Combuster** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 3:38 pm

When I saw this I initially thought someone bumped an old thread, since it has been discussed here a while back.
Sorry inflater, wrong place to make that bet (and of course I voted 'yes')

NReed · Post by **NReed** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 6:37 pm

Come on have you never heard White and Nerdy?

01000101 · Post by **01000101** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 7:55 pm

...or ever watched MythBusters?

btw, Al is THE MAN!

cr2 · Post by **cr2** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:27 pm

unfortunately, yes

pcmattman · Post by **pcmattman** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:57 pm

I know what it is, but I can never pull one off well. Only Today Tonight can do that

EDIT: Today Tonight is a current affairs program we like bagging out. Ever since the Chaser boys got on board...

EDIT 2: The Chaser boys are... If you don't know who they are, Google them. APEC stunt, hehe

EDIT 3: And if you don't know what Google is...

EDIT 4: Back on topic after the previous edits... We are talking about a conversational segway, aren't we?

JackScott · Post by **JackScott** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 12:22 am

AFAIK, no. A conversational segue is spelt differently. I think we're talking about a two-wheeled vehicle.

That said, English is so bastardised these days we could be talking about a breed of cats.

pcmattman · Post by **pcmattman** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 12:55 am

Aww... Everyone I've talked to used "segway" to spell it

inflater · Post by **inflater** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 2:05 am

Crap.

//EDIT:
In yer face! Now, spit it out: who voted "yes" or "no" for the two-wheeled vehicle? because that was the point of this poll...

-> http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?p=137438#p137438

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segway - "not to be confused with segue".

I'm sure that most of who voted hadn't the electro vehicle in mind. I win!

*maniac laughs*

cr2 · Post by **cr2** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 9:25 am

inflater wrote:In yer face! Now, spit it out: who voted "yes" or "no" for the two-wheeled vehicle? because that was the point of this poll...

Inflater, you lose!

kubeos · Post by **kubeos** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 12:02 pm

I swear on my cat's grave that I did not look this up.

I believe a segway is a two wheel umm... vehicle that people ride on.. I think they had one in Wierd Al Yankovich's "White & Nerdy" song. Okay, now I'm gonna do a google and see if I was right.

Alboin · Post by **Alboin** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 1:48 pm

kubeos wrote:I swear on my cat's grave that I did not look this up.

I believe a segway is a two wheel umm... vehicle that people ride on.. I think they had one in Wierd Al Yankovich's "White & Nerdy" song. Okay, now I'm gonna do a google and see if I was right.

You are correct. Inflater's just trying to rationalize his terrific loss.

jzgriffin · Post by **jzgriffin** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:50 pm

Yup.

I seem to recall Good Morning America talking about, and demonstrating, Segways back when they were new a few years ago.

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