@anon_opin US cars in the 80s had a speedo range limit of 85mph on the dial.
didn't really have the effect you consider, plus lot of new cars now have digital dashes, so wouldn't really be as useful.
Oooh, Purple Jeremy *has* been posted on Mastodon before, not long after I first joined, although the original is another 20-odd year old bit of silliness.
And just to highlight how I am in NO WAY AT ALL stuck in a rut, the above haiku was written TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO for this wee guy, called Purple Jeremy 😆
(I am aware that when I post this it is going to display far bigger than the source file & it's going to look awfully pixelated as a result - braces self)
@TarkabarkaHolgy why the heck did someone cast it on my 10yo son? :'(
Probably the highest score we’ve seen, can you do better..?
https://bsky.app/profile/cursedzebra.bsky.social/post/3mj56alisoc2f
Just checked on sales numbers for this (Lulu doesn’t do anything helpful like showing you graphs/stats, have to download a CSV), it’s at 456 copies sold
https://vole.wtf/doctype/
There won’t be a second issue, but there may be something related, and I’ve got another print project planned for autumn
Steve:
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