May 16, 2007
High-tech 21st Centuryism?
Bah.
Doc Reynolds has a post about cordless irons and percolators, and I have to say, color me unimpressed.
I have a cordless percolator and cordless iron that belonged to my parents, and they still work just as well today as they did when they were new. (The iron and the percolator, not my parents.)
The iron looks something like this:
And this kinda what the percolator looks like:
Oh, sure--the iron is heavy and likely to scorch, and the percolator makes coffee that tastes like burnt tires with dog poop in the treads, but both work even when there's no electricity. Why you'd need a shirt ironed or a cup of bad coffee at times like that is anyone's guess, but by Jiminy, if it was good enough for great-great-grandpa, it oughta be good enough for you bunch of young hoodlums!
Posted by Terry Oglesby at May 16, 2007 10:56 AM