The electric dog delights and astounds

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Recapping ‘The Jetsons’: Episode 04 – The Coming of Astro (Via Nerdstink)

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saint_al

If it doesn’t poo, it’s not a dog. Unless it’s electric poo…?
/rules rewrite needed
- Preston Sturges
  
  “Electric Poo?” I’m totally naming my band that!
MikeKStar

Hey buddy, don’t take this the wrong way but that’s one ugly mutt you got there!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

Page 496? That’s some magazine.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  I guess that you don’t read Vogue. The September issue was over 900 pages.
  - niktemadur
    
    Yikes! Also probably the only magazine in which readers don’t complain about the 80% ad content.
    
    EDIT: To be honest, I enjoy leafing through all those fashion ads.
    - Antinous / Moderator
      
      In pretty much any kind of design magazine, the ads are at least as interesting as the articles.
http://www.geekman.ca GeekMan

But… can it love me?
Preston Sturges

Miles Monroe:
Is he housebroken or will he be leaving little batteries all over the floor?
-Sleeper
- niktemadur
  
  Then he probably comes back after a while and eats those little batteries.
acerplatanoides

I prefer the british version
- Felton / Moderator
  
  Danger, Mistress!
- http://www.nothinginside.net mindysan33
  
  Good show! I was actually was going to post that if someone had not already done it… but I believe in the happy mutants that haunt these comments. You guys always come through!
http://twitter.com/writebastard Ian Wood

That kid looks happy that he’s found a new dog to take apart.
- http://twitter.com/jondean jondean
  
  Right?! That “child” is horrifying.
  - http://www.genreville.com/ Josh Jasper
    
    http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbl3djayeJ1rv227po1_500.jpg
    - http://twitter.com/writebastard Ian Wood
      
      Ding!
  - KBert
    
    I think he suspects…
    there’s so much to be suspicious of!
  - Guest
    
    I think he might be electrical, too. And look at that “women’s” gesticulation.
    - http://twitter.com/beep54orama B E Pratt
      
      That’s a flapper nun blessing Our Electric Pooch in order to banish the demon which has obviously possessed the child. The man, as usual, is clueless.
  - huskerdont
    
    Little dude’s like a cross between Angus Young and Frank Sinatra.
Bob Webb

Do android dream of electric dogs?
rattypilgrim

You mean that 3 wheeled green box with a black line drawing on the front that has vague references to a canine face isn’t a dog?!
Wow, do I feel stupid!
http://twitter.com/Theranthrope Theranthrope

Color me unimpressed…

This primitive electric dog of 1929 is clearly no match for the ATOMIC DOG.
- Preston Sturges
  
  Bow-wow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeah
Preston Sturges

I’m not sure the magnetic steering mechanism (I assume the cane has a magnet) would work if it relies on a “sheet iron magnetic shield.” That is a classic feature of perpetual motion machines.
- hacky
  
  that shield is there to prevent the flux from the motor and solenoid and relays from deflecting the needles.
hacky

See, if someone were to make this dog nowadays it would be audrino powered and use cameras to track the end of the cane. There’s something to be said for analog simplicity.