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The acclaim struggles

December 29th, 2004 by mike d. in PaintBrush!, A Day In The Life...

The Acclaim to Fame is not a happy machine.

the radio has stopped working, unless you apply hard constant pressure to the on switch with your palm or foot for 5-10 seconds. Also, it no longer can safely hit speeds above 65 mph without shaking violently. And.. whenever I go over a moderate sized bump it makes a sound similar to that which one would expect to hear if a metal trash can full of marbles was thrown down a flight of stairs.

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Comment by Jon Abad |
2004-12-29 13:37:10

i would have rather seen an image of you driving while applying constant pressure on the on-switch with your palm or foot. preferably foot.

 
Comment by mike d. |
2004-12-29 14:03:59

Normally I jump at the chance to satisfy an MSPaint challenge, but I fear I don’t even know where to start in illustrating the contortions required to keep pressure on the Acclaim radio’s on switch. I think this one is better left to the imagination.

 
Comment by Tim |
2004-12-29 16:10:28

Have you considered new shocks? They’re not that expensive, Mr. Home-owner.
Or, let’s make a video of you/car and send it to my man ‘X to the Z’ on “pimp my ride” and get it turned into a slick ghetto racer with a huge spoiler and a playstation in the back. Then, instead of it being “Barely on the road”, it would be “totally off the hook”.

 
Comment by Jill |
2004-12-29 21:24:21

Tim is funny.

 
Comment by Jon Abad |
2004-12-30 03:26:09

looking

 
Comment by Tim |
2004-12-30 13:39:55

Ouch. That was ‘abad’ joke.

 
Comment by Jon Abad |
2004-12-30 17:04:51

oooh!
you zinged me good!

 
Comment by Sammy G |
2004-12-31 03:25:29

From my experience lots of things work after applying hard constant pressure to X with your palm or foot for 5-10 seconds

 
Comment by DParanoia |
2005-01-03 03:46:25

That was so intriging that I went and threw a garbage can full of marbles down my steps to hear what they sounded like. Right after I went and looked up the spelling for “intriguing”, which I still probably spelled wrong.

 
Comment by Kurt |
2005-01-03 09:55:00

My car radio is in similar trouble. It screeches and cracks like someone is draggin aneedle across a record. I find that 5 or ten good solid punches to the dashboard makes the radio calm down to a dull hissing noise.

 
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