Engineers Create Butt-Kicking Machine - Democratic Underground

LynneSin

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Tue May-04-04 10:02 AM
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Engineers Create Butt-Kicking Machine

http://www.nbc10.com/news/3266583/detail.html

Engineers Create Butt-Kicking Machine
Backside Booter Designed To Motivate

POSTED: 9:19 am EDT May 4, 2004
UPDATED: 10:01 am EDT May 4, 2004

The engineers at Leavitt and Associates in Idaho have developed an interesting new device designed to motivate employees.

" It's called the World Famous Manually Self-Operated Butt-Kicking Machine," said creator J. Reese Leavitt. "It is for your butt-kicking enjoyment."

Leavitt says the Butt-Kicking Machine came out of a brainstorming meeting when he and his co-workers were talking about raising employee productivity. He says this was a fun invention to work on.

Who wants to set up a paypal account so we can all chip in and send one to that idiot in the White House

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GOPisEvil

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Tue May-04-04 10:03 AM
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1. Ahhhh...the smell of well-spent R&D dollars!

That is pretty funny, though.

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THUNDER HANDS

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Tue May-04-04 10:04 AM
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2. eww, it looks like a toilet

Actually, they could probably end up calling this the shit-kicker, based on what it looks like it's supposed to do.

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Robb

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Tue May-04-04 10:07 AM
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3. Didn't Yosemite Sam come up with this?

I seem to recall a butt-kicking machine composed of a rope thrown over a tree branch. :shrug:

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ZenLefty

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Tue May-04-04 10:10 AM
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4. One-legged people all over the world will rejoyce

For years, their butt-kicking proficiency was practically nil. Now, thanks to new technology, they can level the playing field!

:think:

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Kellanved

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Tue May-04-04 10:12 AM
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5. Isn't that a patent breach?

Edited on Tue May-04-04 10:20 AM by Kellanved

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,293,874.WKU.&OS=PN/6,293,874&RS=PN/6,293,874

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LynneSin

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Tue May-04-04 10:23 AM
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6. Yes, but you have to stand for that one

and this one you can sit and have your ass kicked

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Don_G

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Tue May-04-04 10:23 AM
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7. Actually, A Burglar Recently Found One

Disguised as a "cooling unit" in the vent he tried to crawl through. The fan blades gave him a through spanking: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20040503/D82AQU100.html

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jmowreader

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Tue May-04-04 11:20 AM
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8. When do these hit the market?

I can think of a lot of companies that can use this.

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