March 13, 2003

The Safari Accessory Smackdown

Big things happening tonight folks, what with that gang of rhesus monkeys escaped from a research center in Louisiana. Before the monkeys destroy everything we hold dear, we are resolved to review the majority of currently available Safari Accessories. To this end, we bring you… The Smackdown!!

And now . . . entering on the left we have . . . SAFARI AQUAFIER! Raised in the family slaughterhouse, Safari Aquafier has been chewing gristle since he had teeth! Look for him to do more of the same tonight!

Facing Safari Aquafier tonight is . . . SAFARI NOBRUSH! Safari NoBrush has been removing brushed metal since his untimely entrance into this world! Let's hope he can apply his removal skills to more than metal!

The match will start in about 10 minutes folks, so sit tight, wet your pants, and--Oh! What's this! Oh my god, they're going at it! This looks bad folks, they've got folding chairs!

Oh! Oh, Safari Aquafier just urinated on Safari NoBrush! And now NoBrush is using a piece of sand paper on Aquafier! I can't look, has he got a rash? Yes, he's got a rash. This is ugly. Where are the referees?! Somebody, anybody, get down there and separate them!

You won't believe this, but the referee is a WOMBAT. Yes, that's right, a WOMBAT! Who in their right mind would appoint a gimpy wombat to ref a heavyweight wrestling match?

Well! Well, I'll be a monkeys uncle, he's done it! The wombat just separated them, folks. Now let's get the match off to a proper start! Huh huh, isn't that right, Bob? Yeah, well, same to you, Lorinda. Yes Bob, I know all about that. Yes, yes I do. I've put a letter in your mailbox Bob. I'd go get that letter pretty fast if I was you, Bob.

Okay folks, we'll leave Bob to his demons and get this party started! Safari Aquafier and Safari NoBrush are in the ring now. The wombat still doing a remarkable job keeping them separated. Looking at them now, you'd almost think this was staged, and that a replacement referee was substituted in at the last minute because the regular ref developed a severe case of crusted scabies, but no.

Apparently . . . wait, I'm getting word now . . . okay . . . we love wombats because they are very intolerant of others, making them superb referees!

They're circling now . . . and still circling . . . Safari Aquafier is armed with a turnip shaped like a thingy, while Safari NoBrush has his trusty power sander.

Still circling . . . OH, what's this! Here comes SafariMasks out of the audience! He's taken NoBrush down! And now SafariTheme is coming out, and boy is he angry! Don't sell the farm Pa, I planted a minefield!

It's a veritable melee down there, with juice flying all over the place! Holy Hyatt on a pogostick! Here comes SafarIcon, with SafariCookieCutter right behind him! This is a stab at the health of human society!

Now they're streaming out like MacWorld attendees when informed that Steve Ballmer would be doing the keynote! Good night Chet, Frank has been kidnapped, but don't tell Aunt Gertrude!

SafariSkin, SafariTabs SafariTheme and TabbedSafari are in the ring! It's pure craziness!

As if that wasn't enough, here comes JeepSafari, Lioness, Pith, Safari Debugger, Pith Helmet, and Safari Enhancer! It's a pulsating pile of pink persons down there!

Whoa! Now here comes Safari Icon Manager, Safari Menu, Safari XTra, and Safari Toolkit! It's so unbelievable, you know it must be true!

These guys are pretty disorganized . . . I don't see any evidence of any teams. The only thing that could shape up this bunch is the . . . oh my god! Look over there! It's the SAFARI LANGUAGE PACK GANG!

The Enhancers have seen them, they seem to be forming an alliance! With good reason too . . . the LangPacks have been known to smother entire villages with their sheer numbers!

Here they come, folks, get ready . . . Chinese Safari, Danish Safari, Hellenic Safari, Norwegian Safari, Russian Safari, Brazilian Safari, Catalan Safari, Czech Safari, French Safari, Dutch Safari, German Safari, Italian Safari, Polish Safari, Spanish Safari, Serbian Safari, and Swedish Safari!

Whoa! This fight is swinging back and forth like one of those pendulum things. But wait, the crowd is going wild... could it be... yes! It's SAFARI TOOLKIT PLATINUM! The crowd loves it! They're really eating up his Safari Aquafier Plus feature! Boy, look at him show off that Link Underline Remover Plus! Oh, I feel weak! The Great Documentation is overwhelming me like a mob of spider monkeys with heavy equipment!

Safari Toolkit Platinum is really strutting his stuff, and I can hear the crowd now... they're chanting...

"PLATINUM! PLATINUM! PLATINUM!"

The crowd's quieting down... he's going to speak...

"Do you want to see what STP has in his toolkit?"

"TOOLKIT! TOOLKIT! TOOLKIT!"

Good NIGHT! He's just used his Safari Debugger Plus feature to fix problems with online banking sites! The other boys are running away like sheep from a backhoe, but it's not good enough! STP has got Safari XTra, and he's really squashing him! I shudder to think what that Link Underline Remover Plus is doing to XTra. Now he's charging Safari XTra $8 for his services!

Oh! The other contenders have fled the ring! It's all over folks, Scifience Studio's Safari Toolkit Platinum is the winner and CHAMPION!

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Posted by jan at March 13, 2003 02:29 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Epic.

Posted by: Jordan on March 13, 2003 04:00 PM

absolutely gripping

Posted by: dude on March 13, 2003 04:52 PM

But where are the links to all the software mentioned? How am i going to fill my hard drive with all these safari enhance...oh wait, i don't have safari...

nevermind.

Posted by: John Dough on March 13, 2003 05:02 PM

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

Posted by: Simon on March 13, 2003 05:41 PM

OH GOD IT BURNS

Posted by: pigdog on March 13, 2003 05:43 PM

Actually, I'm glad they didn't include links for these accesories so I won't be tempted to waste my time downloading this crap.

Posted by: michael on March 13, 2003 05:52 PM

Well, he could have made a link to the search results for safari on VersionTracker.

I mean i had to think for something like 1-2 seconds, and THEN i had to go to another web site and type something else in.

I don't have the time to all that.

Posted by: John Dough on March 13, 2003 06:40 PM

Then again, i don't have the time to download all of these either.

But maybe it would help me brush up on my Catalanese. (Catalaney? What is the word for the act of speaking the language of Catalan. Now do you see why i don't have time, i have to figure out these very important matters. I also have to figure out where Catalan is spoken. I blame the California school system)

Posted by: John Dough on March 13, 2003 06:42 PM

Catalan, French, Russian, Serbian... no Esperanto?

Posted by: PICxpert on March 13, 2003 07:29 PM

John Dough, I’ll tell you the word for the act of speaking Catalan if you tell me the word for the act of speaking English.

Posted by: mpt on March 13, 2003 09:27 PM

Three point deduction for illegal Black Adder reference.

Posted by: Turnip on March 13, 2003 11:35 PM

Wow. Excuse me...I need to go boil my eyes.

Posted by: Ken Sjoquist on March 14, 2003 09:55 AM

This would have been funnier if could somehow manage to NOT POST MY MESSAGE 20 BAZILLION TIMES>

Note: the staff is very unethical, and is probably already thinking of ways to edit my comment.

Posted by: Randy on March 14, 2003 10:05 AM

Notice that Dutch Safari has an evil twin posted on versiontracker only weeks after Safari Dutch on macupdate. Which features totally different spelling errors than the original and managed to make the bookmarksbar and menu empty, quite a nice feat for only a translated package containing no executables.

Posted by: on March 14, 2003 11:09 AM

Hey, if you don't buy Safari Toolkit Platinum, they won't be able to continue creating compelling applications like... uh... Safari Toolkit Lite! Safari Aquafier! Safari Debugger! SafariTheme! And blessed Allah forbid the creators of Chex Quest should have to starve on the streets.

Posted by: d on March 14, 2003 12:37 PM

I think the descriptive for English is like the plural of Mice...the same.

Although, I personaly think Englishese has a nice ring to it.

Englishey sounds to wishy washy.

Posted by: John Dough on March 14, 2003 01:40 PM

Boy. What are you smokin', guys?
I want some...

Posted by: me on March 14, 2003 03:17 PM

ROTFL You guys crack me up!

Posted by: edward scissorhands on March 14, 2003 06:21 PM

Hey, umm....some of these tools are actually useful. I don't think some of them deserve to be listed on this site...:)

Posted by: Some Dude on March 14, 2003 07:22 PM

I don't understand why just Safari tools are being mentioned - go do a search on VersionTracker for Chimera (most of the tools have not been renamed to be called Camino). Plus, there are a few tools for Internet Explorer.

Posted by: on March 14, 2003 08:44 PM

Oooh, I know! I know this one!

Because it is SAFARI smackdown, not CHIMERA smackdown.

I confess my inability to speak Catalan.

Posted by: helllllooooo on March 14, 2003 09:17 PM

Well, then, there's an opportunity for another set of apps to be unfairly criticized :)

Posted by: on March 14, 2003 09:46 PM

Great analysis of Safari hysteria, but there was no poop. Really. There was not one damned poop. Urinating is for light weights. This... this is crap. Or it would be -- if there was poop.

But there isn't.

Posted by: Bogrh on March 14, 2003 10:59 PM

> ROTFL You guys crack me up!

I second that. Now, why don't you have normal hands any longer?

Posted by: Sören Kuklau on March 15, 2003 07:01 AM

Papa, is it getting dark outside? I'm so cooooold ...

Posted by: stickman67 on March 24, 2003 05:46 PM
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