Friday, May 16, 2008

Gadgets with FACES #36: Fashionable London ashtray

It's powered by electricity, therefore is a gadget and fits the remit. It has definite potential as a Doctor Who Season 5 baddie, in an episode entitled "Thank You For Not Smoking." There would be an amusing and possibly homo-erotically charged scene in which the Doctor professes his love of "picking up a good butt."

One of the few faces in Holborn that doesn't need punching

"I don't know if this is classed as a gadget, but since it's clearly a badly disguised evil Cyberman it must be. These are the 'ash trays' provided on lampposts and railings around the Holborn area. In reality I suspect they are robot enforcers waiting to eliminate foolish earthlings who drop cigarette ends - Rick."

8 Comments:

Blogger Sponge Finge said...

What is this 'London'?

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9:36 AM  
Anonymous carr said...

Mouth's too small. Even my shrivelled up little acorn wouldn't fit in there :(

10:06 AM  
Blogger mrplow said...

powered by electricity? what the fuck are you talking about?
it's a plastic box wrapped around a lamp-post!

10:56 AM  
Anonymous Idiot said...

Well, it's eyes do look a bit illuminated. I assumed it was by battery/AC/DC means, but I guess that's just the fire burning within.

That's the nearest I've ever got to admitting I'm wrong about something in my life.

12:05 PM  
Blogger Halverde said...

"Season 5"? You mean "Series 5," surely. First The Swill Man, now this. Frankly, I'm considering cancelling my subscription altogether.

4:34 PM  
Blogger mrplow said...

I feel so... I don't know... amazing!

1:31 AM  
Blogger bilal said...

Season 5 is what happens when you download all your US telly instead of watching it.

I've been bitten by the same bug, I'm afraid :(

And last time I incurred the wrath of you Britpolice was when I put 'center' instead of 'centre' and had to resort to calling everyone twats and wankers in the vain hope that it'd somehow prove my Britishness.

As for the orangey bit, I reckon it was the same orange as the arrow above it, but has become darkened by all the butts. It just looks like an orange bit stuck inside. Also the colouration is uniform, so it can't simply be illumination from cigarette butts alone.

9:48 AM  
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