The Totally Wrong Name

I was reading gizmodo today and I came across the gadget called the Sno-Baller. When I saw the headline, I could only think of one thing . . .

Sno-Baller Snow Ball Maker

Fortunately (or unfortunately?), the device had nothing to do with where my mind went. It’s a nifty Snow Ball maker for making Balls of Snow that you would then throw at your friends. I think I might like this gadget. Too bad I live in Austin where there is no snow. Click the image to see the full Gizmodo article.

2 thoughts on “The Totally Wrong Name”

  1. Maybe it’s just me, but I find that there’s something inherently wrong about perfectly spherical snowballs. I grew up in Indiana, where we would occasionally get enough snow for snowballs, and the ones I always used to make would kind of stick to the wool of my gloves, or be indented by the creases of my gloves of other fabric (or skin, for that matter), and therefore, they would never be perfectly round. This gadget strikes me as something that takes the character out of snowballs. Meanwhlile, living in TX, such a gadget would be relatively useless, except after Zamboni runs at the rink I work for.

  2. Maybe it’s just me, but I find that there’s something inherently wrong about perfectly spherical snowballs. I grew up in Indiana, where we would occasionally get enough snow for snowballs, and the ones I always used to make would kind of stick to the wool of my gloves, or be indented by the creases of my gloves of other fabric (or skin, for that matter), and therefore, they would never be perfectly round. This gadget strikes me as something that takes the character out of snowballs. Meanwhlile, living in TX, such a gadget would be relatively useless, except after Zamboni runs at the rink I work for.

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