Yeah. I can't wait to say to my hipster friends, "Hey dudes, let's all go to The Shack!"
Remember that sex we were planning to have, ever again?
Zoe ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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tommyrot - Aug 03, 2009 8:02:09 am PDT #10817 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Tom Scola - Aug 03, 2009 8:04:49 am PDT #10818 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
They're abandoning their core market of ham radio enthusiasts. I'm sure they'll go out of business pretty quickly now.
Gudanov - Aug 03, 2009 8:08:12 am PDT #10819 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
Hey now, I've been to radio shack a good three times in the last decade. Okay, I see your point.
megan walker - Aug 03, 2009 8:09:58 am PDT #10820 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
So Radio Shack is rebranding itself as "The Shack".
The Love Shack?
omnis_audis - Aug 03, 2009 8:40:25 am PDT #10821 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
The Love Shack?Ha! I thought the same thing. They used to be real useful. While not high quality, they had things to get you through for a show or two. Sadly the bits and parts are slowly leaving their shelves.
amych - Aug 03, 2009 8:45:50 am PDT #10822 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
They used to be real useful.
It was the same for building any kind of electronical gewgaws, and not just for show folk -- they were the one place you'd be sure to find the adapter to go between the whozymawhatsis and that freaky interface on the bit of foofaraw that only one OEM used for a while in 1985, that you just happened to have sitting in the back of the closet and you didn't want to have to replace it with a new one.
But the last few years, they've turned into a low-rent cell phone store with a few random dusty computers.
Jon B. - Aug 03, 2009 8:48:07 am PDT #10823 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I think this is where I pull out that Onion article: [link]
omnis_audis - Aug 03, 2009 9:03:23 am PDT #10824 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Ha! My fav from that article is:
"I know one thing," Day continued. "If Sony and JVC start including gold-tipped cable cords with their products, we're screwed."
Laga - Aug 03, 2009 10:22:10 am PDT #10825 of 25501
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I'm trying to remember the last thing I bought at Radio Shack. I think it was some kind of cable. There was definitely a time in my life when it was fun to go in there. I may have been 10.
beth b - Aug 03, 2009 11:00:52 am PDT #10826 of 25501
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I'm guessing 90% of the time they don't have what we need.
I'm guessing two years since we've been in one and walked out with something. It might be more like 5 years though.