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Pong and BSOD belt buckles

David Pescovitz at 2:49 pm Wed, Mar 24, 2010

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  • Dewi Morgan

    Yeah, don’t like the canvas belts, but I like the price on those buckles. Nice to see near-affordability leaking into the Bazaar.

    PayPal is definitely my preferred online payment gateway: I don’t want to give my credit card details to every single company I deal with. Sticking to PP lets me reduce that exposure.

  • Rob Cruickshank

    As awesome as the Pong buckle is, I have to be “that guy” and point out that the numbers for the scores don’t actually look like that in Pong. If your target market is geeks, you have to realize that they’re ridiculously picky about that sort of thing.

  • mdh

    the BSOD is a bit of self-fulfilling prophecy, no?

  • Anonymous

    It’s 2010, I would think we could play Pong on a belt buckle for $15.

    • MichaelMIM

      LOL, how about this instead? Such a perfect fit to the Pong belt buckle: http://www.tqualizer.biz/flashwear/flashwear-pong-flashing-tshirt.html

  • Anonymous

    To unclasp the BSOD buckle, use three fingers.

  • Terry

    I’m sold. BSOD for me, please.

  • Anonymous

    The Pong buckle is definitely cool, but I’m not so sure I’d want a BSOD so close to my privates.
    The last thing I want is the Blue Balls of Death…

  • Rob

    It’s 2010 and it’s a Windows 9x Blue screen???

  • Anonymous

    The BSOD paperweight is even funnier:
    http://finalscoreproducts.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=964

  • Xenu

    Was about to buy one, then I saw my browser get redirected to PayPal. No thanks.

    Is there somewhere I can buy this from a legit vendor?

  • Anonymous

    *pants fall to the floor*
    “Oops! Sorry ’bout that. My belt buckle crashed.”

  • Xenu

    Oh never mind, I Googled it and found it elsewhere.

  • bombertherigpig

    I agree with anon #2. And anon #4, it would still be BSOD, Blue Scrotum Of Death.

  • Gilbert Wham

    Neat idea, but I have a special hatred for those style belts. When they’re not gradually loosening themselves so my pants fall down, the buckle is ripping out hairs from my midriff. Doubleplus ungood…