Strange Conversations: Part One Hundred and Thirty-Nine

While Nick and I discuss Duke Nuken Forever, the video game that was in development for ten years, until the company collapsed last week:

NICK: It won Wired magazine’s Vapourware aware something like seven years in a row.
ME (With accompanying sound effects and hand gestures): Vapourware being things things that go pouf!
NICK: Products that are announced but that never appear.
ME (With accompanying sound effects and hand gestures): As in, they go pouf!
NICK: Yes.
(Pause)
NICK: What is it now?
ME: Well, “things that go pouf!” is essentially the same as “products that are announced and never appear.”
NICK: And?
ME: You could have just said, “That’s right, Treen. Nice sound effects!”
NICK: I suppose they were quite good sound effects.

(Normal programming to resume tomorrow (now my marking is finished) with a Eurovision-inspired “Cheesiest Items on my Bookshelf” post.)