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Do you know what a Segway is?

Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 2:03 pm
by Alboin
Hi,

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

Re: Do you know what a Segway is?

Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 2:08 pm
by inflater
Holy cow. That was fast. :shock: 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).

Re: Do you know what a Segway is?

Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 2:58 pm
by suthers
Let me guess, inflater thinks that there will be more people who don't know what a segway is...
Sorry mate, voted yes...
Jules

Re: Do you know what a Segway is?

Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 3:38 pm
by Combuster
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') :)

Re: Do you know what a Segway is?

Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 6:37 pm
by NReed
Come on have you never heard White and Nerdy?

Re: Do you know what a Segway is?

Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 7:55 pm
by 01000101
...or ever watched MythBusters?

btw, Al is THE MAN! :D

Re: Do you know what a Segway is?

Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:27 pm
by cr2
unfortunately, yes

Re: Do you know what a Segway is?

Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:57 pm
by pcmattman
I know what it is, but I can never pull one off well. Only Today Tonight can do that :D

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 :P

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?

Re: Do you know what a Segway is?

Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 12:22 am
by JackScott
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.

Re: Do you know what a Segway is?

Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 12:55 am
by pcmattman
Aww... Everyone I've talked to used "segway" to spell it :(

Re: Do you know what a Segway is?

Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 2:05 am
by inflater
Crap. :cry:

//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... :lol: -> 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! 8) :twisted: *maniac laughs*

Re: Do you know what a Segway is?

Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 9:25 am
by cr2
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! :twisted:

Re: Do you know what a Segway is?

Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 12:02 pm
by kubeos
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.

Re: Do you know what a Segway is?

Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 1:48 pm
by Alboin
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. :twisted:

Re: Do you know what a Segway is?

Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:50 pm
by jzgriffin
Yup.

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