"Overhead projector"

[ciphergoth]

This is a Zeiss STARMASTER ZMP star projector - $3M of the most advanced star projector in the world. It reproduces the positions, colours and magnitudes of stars with stunning, unprecedented fidelity, and is so precise that it can project deep sky object images which are only visible with binoculars (yes, binoculars inside the planetarium).



This is an overhead projector.

It seems John McCain can't tell the difference.

Comments

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

What's an OHP cost? A ton, tops? So if I give him, say, $250, will he get me the Starmaster ZMP? That'd get him my vote. If I had one.

Anyway, be fair to the guy - in the current financial turmoil, it's easy to slip up in money terms by four orders of magnitude or more. I've cocked up by three myself recently, getting my millions and billions confused. (In my defence (and his) it was a context where you'd normally expect millions but billions had turned up.)

Got to admire the guy's chutzpah, too, simultaneously campaigning as the Candidate of Experience and against the Federal debt that's recently topped $10 trillion. (Or some other figure with a lot of zeroes.)

[topbit.livejournal.com]

There's a counter of the US national debt in Times square - which stood around 8 years ago at $5 Trillion.

Now it's reached $10 T,and they've had to hack a '$' sign onto the front of the number - they'd run out of room on the actual display for it. On the bright side, it's now good for $99,999,999,999 - though they'd have to move the new $ sign left a bit to see all of the first number.

[en-ki.livejournal.com]

...and when hyperinflation hits, they can just put a "$10^" in front of it.

[alan1957.livejournal.com]

...will he get me the Starmaster ZMP?

Woz gonna post exactly the same comment. It would look as good in my living room.