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The Dellfire Club


Nice beard, dude! A photo from The New York Times, which they captioned with “A Dell notebook computer in Thomas Forqueran’s pickup truck caught fire in July, igniting ammunition in the glove box and then the gas tanks.”

If you’ve got a Dell Laptop, you just might want to look at dellbatteryprogram.com to see if your batteries are the on the recall list. They have a tendency to ignite, sometimes with spectacular results such as depicted in the photo above. For more, here’s the New York Times’ story.

I must admit that looking at the photo of the guy above, I couldn’t help but think of the classic Bugs Bunny cartoon titled Hillbilly Hare, in which Bugs deals with a couple of hillbillies by acting as a square dance caller and telling them to do things like club each other with fenceposts. Here’s the script for the sequence, here’s a writeup of how the cartoon was produced, and I can’t not mention the Hillbilly Hare ytmnd site.

I also couldn’t help indulging in a little Photoshoppery. Inspired by Hillbilly Hare, I decided to Reuterize the original New York Times pic:

Joey deVilla

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