August 12, 2005

I can see why they went out of their way to give the new Apple mouse a masculine name – Mighty Mouse.

They were hoping somehow they could keep you from noticing how terribly clitoris-like it is. I'm really enjoying mine – my new mouse!

9 comments:

Telecomedian said...

I used one at the nearby Mac store - my thoughts exactly!

And, contrary to what most of my male counterparts think, you don't need to push down too hard to use it. A slight touch gives great results.

Robert said...

Your clitoris is pearly white, has an apple embossed on it, and is about five inches long?

This is WAAAAAAAAYYY more information than anyone wanted. Well, more information than I wanted, anyway.

Ann Althouse said...

Robert: The referece is to the scroll button. And everyone is noticing it.

Ron said...

That's funny, that's how I refer to the small red nub mouse that's between the keys on an IBM Thinkpad...the clitoral mouse...

Unknown said...

Wow, the Thinkpad button and... I did not realize I had some symbiotic skill development going on here.

Steven said...

Yeah, the Trackpoint has been called the "clit mouse" or "nipple mouse" since forever.

Ron said...

ross: Ohhhh...maybe I shouldn't have taken that '1984' ad so seriously...it explains a lot about my love life...thanks for the heads-up!

Ron said...

...And it's good we have no Freudians here to boringly lecture us on the "myth of the double click!"

Ann Althouse said...

If you click the [censored] you get the widgets – which could become a new slang term – but if you double click, you'll get back where you started.

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