Posted by Derek Janssen on 02/05/07 02:18

lorincantrell@yahoo.com wrote:

> On Feb 2, 11:48 am, Doug Jacobs <djac...@shell.rawbw.com> wrote:
>
>>In alt.video.dvd Neck & Red <neck...@nospam.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Looks to be that way, anyway. I don't see any Blur-Ray discs here.
>>
>>ZOMG! There's none in stock! Teh World Is EnDING!!!!!eleventy!
>>
>>Seriously, are you that desparate to slam blu-ray that you've overlooked
>>(or just ignored) the possibility that just MAYBE the things have sold
>>out?
>>
>>Using your bizzaro logic, the Nintendo Wii is dead since no one has them
>>in stock and the PS3 is the most successful console ever since EVERYONE
>>has them.
>
> I realize your comment was about bizarro logic, but I did read in the
> paper just the other day that the Wii was smacking the PS3 all over
> the place in terms of units sold. I still have not seen a Wii on the
> shelf at a store, not because they're not getting them but because
> they're selling out immediately. PS3's have been on the shelf
> everytime I've been to Wal-Mart in the last month. They're hardly
> selling any stand-alone Blu Ray players either, due to the extreme
> pricing.

Ummmm...And then again, there's the theory that the OP *might* have
simply been poking rotten-tomato fun at Sony Viral Boy with a parody
headline that WASN'T supposed to be a typo, and that he was talking
about Blur-ray disks as opposed to Blu ones that actually exist?

....Sometimes a dumb gag is *just* a dumb gag, bless their little wastes
of bandwidth.

Derek Janssen (consider the social status of anyone who needs a joke
EXPLAINED to them)
ejanss@comcast.net

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