Somewhere over the years I picked up the habit of saying “like a million” (yes I know the comic uses “billion”, but generally I go with “million”). “Like”, in that sense, is meant to mean “approximately”. So for instance I’ll say “Man, I watched that movie like a million years ago” or “We’re already like a million hours late so let’s go!”
I bring this up by way of an explanation for the third panel, which probably didn’t need explaining but guess what I’m doing it anyway. What happened is that the people buying my idea have said “We’ll give you, I don’t know, like a billion dollars or something” and then whoever was in charge of printing the oversized novelty cheque just ran with that exact phrasing. It’s probably about a billion and fourteen, plus some change. [November 14, 2011]
It’s called… I “BED PAN”. Yes, it even has “BED” in the name!
You bed pan?
The solution must be more elegant! Less cold! No cultural stigma! Make it marketable, like an Apple product!
Where the heck did that “I” come from… must be one of my other personalities sabotaging my endeavours again. I guess we’re back to square one now…
it’s the “iPan” from apple, available in the 2G and 4G models. G=gallons
Tommers, all your idea needs is more exclamation marks.
And a stylish ad campaign with silhouetted people using the product and a hip tune in the background
I searched for “iPan” on youtube and found some weird things, no actual bed pans though.