Wanna see something UGLY

[rikk]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Beatles-Rickenbacke ... dZViewItem

[ben_brown]

Copyright issue? It will probably be removed.
RICKENCLOCKER

[Scastles]

A copyright issue is likely right, but a bad one. Man!! But it has quartz movement. There is some kind of movement involved, but I don't know if it's quartz.

[edski]

What do the knobs do?

[mikes123]

the knobs adjust the time of course

[BobKat]

OMG. That is hideous.

[beatlefreak]

It's been removed.

[rikk]

It's been removed.

Take it out of it's misery.

[rickenmetal]

Speaking of clocks and their kin, I've seen a watch advertised in some old guitar magazine. It had 2 Ricks in a yin-yang pattern. Does anyone know what I am talking about? It wasn't ugly at all though.

[jingle_jangle]

Somebody puke on that board?

[blazer]

Ooh, spatled maple! Let me at that thing, I'll rip out the clock, rout it for a neck put some toaters in it and have myself a cool exotic wood 360-ish guitar.

Seriously, why do you guys think it looks ugly?

[rikk]

Ooh, spatled maple! Let me at that thing, I'll rip out the clock, rout it for a neck put some toaters in it and have myself a cool exotic wood 360-ish guitar.

Seriously, why do you guys think it looks ugly?

My eyes say it's UGLY.

[ben_brown]

Maybe POP ART!

[jingle_jangle]

Nope. Kitsch of the most offensive variety.

This is a category of stuff that I call, "stuff that's made to look like other stuff". Why should a machine that tells time look like a de-necked guitar body? Why should an espresso machine look like a basketball? Why should a golf cart look like a football helmet, or a cigarette lighter look like Jesus Christ?

These are things that have their purposes, around which they were originally designed. To appropriate the look of one thing for the purpose of another which has no relation to the original thing's purpose, is stupid, dishonest, and, well...ugly.

[ustabawannab]

Darn, I was going to list my day old cheese sandwich that looks like the Modonna.