Here, when CDs were first introduced, commercials showing a dog fetching a CD, then the guy putting it into the player, were shown, with words like 'indestructible'.

Frankly, after finding out just how wrong that was, I wished someone had sued!




>Seems ANOTHER science programme has given me "duff gen" (bum info). You get this "expert" on telly telling you things and think that's the case for the rest of your life, or until someone disabuses you!
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>Way back when CDs 1st came out, similar progs were telling us how CDs are better than vinyl in that they don't scratch and you don't need worry about fluff and dirt on them. The demo'er then put marmalade on a CD and put it in the m/c to show that it still worked. She didn't ask what'll happen to the innards of the player, or how useful and accurate the laser is when diffused through marmalade! Nor did she have MY kids, who never put a CD/DVD away, to disabuse HER that they can't get scratched. :-)
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>Anyway - at least the reverse baked Alaska worked!
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>>http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mmicrowave2.html
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>>>We've discussed the mars bar deep fat fried thing before, much to the Americans' incredulity. I didn't know you could also get them in Ireland.
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>>>Did you know, BTW, that using a microwave you can have something coated in ice-cream, but hot pastry on the inside, sort of a reverse baked Alaska. This is cos microwaves cook from the inside out.
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>>>>don't forget that you can also get a mars bar deep fat fried!
>>>>golden crisp is tasty but i taken to tiffen lately but you can't beat fruit and nut, i'm off to the shops now to get one.
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>>>>>>>Is the Cadbury chocolate in the UK different from what you can get here? Cadbury chocolate bars practically have their own shelf at the local Walgreen's.
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>>>>>>My friend brought back a Cadbury Golden Crisp chocolate bar, and it tastes much better than the Cadbury candy bars I have tasted here. I like Cadbury here, but this tasted much better.
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>>>>>We can even get Cadbury's and Mars ice cream bars here. Do you have them over there? If not, imagine a Mars Bar then imagine instead of the usual innards you have the same only made of ice cream.