Article About Flashaholics in the Huffington Post (Mentions CandlePowerForums!)

[visigoth]

Taken in the right spirit, I hope.

"The World's Most Dangerous Hobby."

 

[Quest4fire]

Hilarious! Wonder what his member ID is? You might have even responded to one of his posts asking for recommendations for a flashlight to appease his miffed, incredulous girlfriend! Perhaps he is still a lurker. Will the real Douglas Anthony Cooper please stand up! We welcome ya.

 

[Empath]

"But money can purchase diverse things, and why should our rent be more important than superior knurling?"

He sounds like one of us.

 

[eh4]

The article reads like he got sucked into the forums and didn't come back up until he was Dangerously close to deadline. ;-) Fun read.

 

[StarHalo]

I was going to post something about a torrent of incoming newbs, but the article has zero comments thus far; though there are a lot of lurker flashaholics..

Some interesting phraseology in there, "I now own small flashlights -- no larger than the average human ***** --" No wonder I have so many large lights..

 

[betweenrides]

Hilarious! Wonder what his member ID is? You might have even responded to one of his posts asking for recommendations for a flashlight to appease his miffed, incredulous girlfriend! Perhaps he is still a lurker. Will the real Douglas Anthony Cooper please stand up! We welcome ya.

Re-read the OP...

 

[Lou Minescence]

Mr. Cooper needs to be strobed by a TK 70.

 

[TEEJ]

In the article he mentions that he was into slide rule collecting. This rings a bell. :nana:

 

[PhotonWrangler]

That was a fun read. Good catch, visigoth! :thumbsup:

 

[visigoth]

Thanks all!

Um, what precisely happens when you're "strobed by a TK70"? Sounds ominous. (Epilepsy? Madness?)

 

[mvyrmnd]

That was a good read. I shall forward it to my wife at which point she will continue to roll her eyes at me

 

[flashflood]

In the article he mentions that he was into slide rule collecting.

Another hobby that grabs you by the Napier neck.

 

[Xacto]

Well written and funny article. And reading a sample of one of his youth books (on Amazon) he seems to be a guy with a great humor.

Cheers
Thorsten

 

[SuLyMaN]

Man that was a great read.loled.

sent from my mob. Excuse misspelling. thanks!

 

[Obijuan Kenobe]

Not sure equating our torches to pipe bombs is a good thing, though.

obi

 

[Greta]

What a fun article! I was wondering at the sudden increase in new members also... now I know :twothumbs

The scarey part is how well this guy seemed to "capture our essence"... :laughing:

 

[Greta]

What a fun article! I was wondering at the sudden increase in new members also... now I know :twothumbs

The scarey part is how well this guy seemed to "capture our essence"... :laughing:

 

[välineurheilija]

I wonder how dangerous the "normal" people will now think this hobby is after reading the misbehaving of the cells

 

[gollum]

nice article
thanks for showing...
I recall it being a few weeks after joining here until I read about venting etc
I forget how daunting everything seemed at first

but the theme I got from the article is the sense of amazement at our CPF community

CPF is awesome

 

[Cataract]

Not sure I want to show that to people I see everyday -pipe bombs and Lithium fire- but absolutely hilarious!

why should our rent be more important than superior knurling?

+1 he can only be one of us.