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Hard plastic with cardboard insert 2 12.50%
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Old 04-10-2006, 02:17 AM
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It has been suggested that keychains would be a cool item of merchandise, but a friendly discussion regarding the design has arisen. What's your opinion?

The appearance would be basically the same for all. A circular keychain. One side is the black 5M.net clock with a red five-minute wedge.
The other side has the phrase "Got five?" and the web address fiveminute.net
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I thought that the design would just be the clock with a white wedge, just like in my avatar if it had no text.
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Red wedges are cooler! I'm not gonna create another poll, so this is just a general discussion topic.

You other guys agree, right? Red wedges forever!
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I think we should have a black wedge :wink:

Where it says "Got Five?" will it have the web address on the bottom? We could subliminally induce people to go to the site just by sticking the keyring in their face!

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I vote for soft, rubber-esque material, because the design would rub off the metal, and the cardboard one sounds... :?

Also, I motion we keep the clock just like the official site one
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The paint eventually would chip off of metal, I've seen it, but with rubber-esque (come on, a real name, please! Soft plastic?) the paint gets rubbed off. With hard plastic the casing just chips off a bit, but the design is still okay.

And what's so weird about cardboard in a hard case? I have a bunch of them, and they look fine! My only real problem with them is that if you abuse them too much they tend to break off at the loop end. Maybe other people don't abuse keychains like I do. :wink:

Wandering around the site, I start to wonder where I ever saw a 5M.net logo with a red wedge. Is that like a really old logo, or something? As long as the red rim is preserved I guess white's fine, too.
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Also, I motion we keep the clock just like the official site one
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Maybe other people don't abuse keychains like I do. :wink:
I don't abuse them at all...mine get stolen ops:

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The paint eventually would chip off of metal, I've seen it, but with rubber-esque (come on, a real name, please! Soft plastic?) the paint gets rubbed off. With hard plastic the casing just chips off a bit, but the design is still okay.
It'll rub off metal too.

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abuse them too much they tend to break off at the loop end. Maybe other people don't abuse keychains like I do. :wink:
Meh. I just think they look a bit cheap, personally...
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Note to people who haven't read this post: read that post.

Funny this subject should come up, because the only thing I've ever seriously collected is keychains. And headphones, but that's more a function of how quickly I break them.
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And headphones, but that's more a function of how quickly I break them.
Do you break them, or do they just break? I swear they don't make things to last any more...
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And headphones, but that's more a function of how quickly I break them.
Do you break them, or do they just break? I swear they don't make things to last any more...
My in-ear headphones last an average of a month a pair...listening to around eight to nine hours of music a day. :roll:

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Sheesh, there should be an avatar for "I derailed the true topic of a discussion thread and I don't care!"

Okay, so are you saying that you don't want any keychains whatsoever? What do you guys put your keys on? Those chains and blocks of wood like the bathroom keys in gas stations? Are they chained to your wrists? Are you all secretly members of the Q Continuum so you can just telekinetially open your doors?
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I have a Tomb Raider keychain.

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Well, I don't know if you have it over there but we here in Germany have to put coins into the supermarket-purchase-cars (if you know what I mean)...there is a complete industry that makes little coin-like round metal plates that fit into the cars...so you don't have to use a coin for it....

I would vote that we do that

I have an image of a plastic one



we could do a metal one with the clock logo as detatchable coin-like plate
would look nice I guess...and it will be useful too :wink:
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Sheesh, there should be an avatar for "I derailed the true topic of a discussion thread and I don't care!"
People do that here. I have no problem with it. To get a thread back on topic, just make an on-topic post, but don't be snarky about it.

My only preference about keychains is that the kind with a locking mechanism are better than the kind with just metal loops.
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Sheesh, there should be an avatar for "I derailed the true topic of a discussion thread and I don't care!"
People do that here. I have no problem with it. To get a thread back on topic, just make an on-topic post, but don't be snarky about it.

My only preference about keychains is that the kind with a locking mechanism are better than the kind with just metal loops.
Except when they unlock in your pocket
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Okay, so are you saying that you don't want any keychains whatsoever? What do you guys put your keys on? Those chains and blocks of wood like the bathroom keys in gas stations? Are they chained to your wrists? Are you all secretly members of the Q Continuum so you can just telekinetially open your doors?
I rope mine to my purse so that if I loose my keys I'm........screwed.

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I rope mine to my purse so that if I loose my keys I'm........screwed.
Keys, thou art loosed!

Though I don't quite see why disconnecting your keys from your purse makes you screwed....
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