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Well, after much consideration I thought it was time to finally get an iPod. I'm getting the 60 GB one that plays videos. I'm looking for ideas of a good saying to engrave on the back. So far I've thought of:

"I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell."- one of my favorite quotes from a song.

"What would you do if I sang out of tune."- I'll be singing to myself while listening, and probably out of tune so I thought this might work.

Those are just a couple of the thoughts off my list. If you have any good ones, post them here.

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"Sucker."

[Wink]

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"Property of Noemon"
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"Pithy sentiment costs extra."
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"Dude, I'm getting a Dell"
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If you want to avoid scratches, it's going to be in a case almost all the time. As such, I don't think engraving is necessary.

On the other hand, I bought both of my iPods used.

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"Property of <yourname>"

I would think the things are pretty often stolen. Would help identify it as yours if someone was busted with it.

"If found, return to <your name, address, phone number>"

Since the suckers are small enough that they could get lost easily.

But, I think the best possible thing to engrave:
"This is not an iPod."

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If you engrave it with your address and it gets stolen, you've given criminals the location of a residence that presumably contains some valuable consumer electronics. [Wink]
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I chose not to get mine engraved for the simple fact that, if I ever wanted to get rid of it, I'd have a considerably harder time getting rid of it.
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I didn't engrave mine because I didn't think there was any advantage to it.

It's so scratched now it wouldn't be visible anyway.

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"my other iPod is a nano"
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"The One iPod to Play Them All"
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You know what's horribly sad? The fact that up until very recently my computer hard drive was smaller than this ipod.

O.o

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"Your face just exploded."
"Property of Bill Gates...
For three more seconds."
"He so PRECISE, he piss on
an iPod and never splash."

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"Defying Gravity"
"The enemy's gate is down"

Actually, it's my mission to get a green iPod with the Wicked logo and "Defying Gravity" engraved on it.

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Lyrhawn
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"All your iPod are belong to us."

Alternately..

"All your mp3 are belong to us."

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Joldo
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No. No. No "all your base" jokes.

Serenity jokes, however, are awesome.

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Lyrhawn
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No "all your base jokes"?

Alright:

"Illegal Downloaders go to the Special Hell."

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If you are a Mac user, you may wish to engrave 'Turn over to operate' on the backside.
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Swing and a miss on the funny, I guess.
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Lyrhawn
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I thought it was amusing.
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TheTick
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I should've followed it with a 'j/k [Wink] ' of course.
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"If found drop in any mailbox. Return postage guaranteed"

"Who said you could read the back of my iPod?"

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Thanks for the ideas. A few others I heard were:

"Goonies never say die."

"My precious."

"Don't Panic"

"Limited Edition: 3 out of 250"- incase I ever sell it. heh

I might just take twinky's advice and not get anything on it. I didn't think about it being in a case all the time.

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Wasn't there a whole website about this?

My favorite:

Thou shalt not steal

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How about engraving your phone number and 'Thou shalt not steal' for when you LOOSE THE STUPID THING!

Ha, ha. Just wanted to give you a hard time for losing your pod little bro.

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I would put your name on it, cuz where I live iPods get jacked like all the time.
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I like either "My Precious" or "Don't Panic" myself. Also good:
"Inconceivable!"
"Anybody want a peanut?"

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Haha I love all of these suggestions.
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I'd put something like "I compensate with an H2", but that might be too long.
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I had my brand new 60 gig (when 60 was brand new) engraved with "This is how God must feel when he's holding a gun."

Ippy and I had some great times, until someone recently stoles my precious. I've been checking eBay for one with that engraving, beyond that there's not much I can do about it. [Frown]

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"iPod now with cream filling!"
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Bumping a one-year-old thread just to gloat over his misfortune.

Brotherly love is AWESOME! [Roll Eyes]

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Woah, I didn't even notice this thread was old. Man.
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While it's true that it's harder to get rid of if it has your name on it, you can definitely engrave something not so personal... mine says "'Without music, life would be a mistake.' -Nietzsche"

[Smile]

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"will only play Jethro Tull" because it might act as deterrent to would-be thieves (if they're not too smart). Plus it's a lovely reference to a recent WAY song. And most importantly: everything looks better if it has the words Jethro Tull on it somewhere. [Wink]
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Obviously it's got to be:

"Cover your butt. Bernard is watching. -God"

[Razz]

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