“laptop”

My company organized a lucky draw for some charity event and a mail has been sent out to inform everyone about it. In the mail, it stated the following :

1st prize : Perodua Kelisa
2nd prize : Honda Motorcycle
3rd prize : Lap Top computer

My eyes were fixed at the 3rd prize. Lap top. Since when do people still refer portable computers as “lap tops” ? It used to be known as lap tops … because some idiot felt comfortable putting their notebooks on their lap and called it “lap top”.

I wondered what if the idiot happened to put that notebook on top of his wife’s cunt … and he happened to feel comfortable at that time ? Would a portable computer will thus be known as “cunt top” ? “pussy top” maybe ? or perhaps “beaver top” ? Man, it was such a shallow name.

If names are suppose to be created like that, then it would be a disastrous world. Rob would be born to the name of “decomposed corpse”, or maybe “leprechaun pervert”. Or named after the place he was conceived — “backseat of a garbage truck”. Cars would be known as “road tops”. And Barney would be known as the “purple lardass lizard who was born with merged teeth”. Ahaks.

Nowadays, notebooks are made so powerful that some of them were even installed with a desktop P4 processor and a 64MB VGA card. Putting it on your lap would meant instigating skin diseases on your legs. Think of bak kua (barbequed dried meat). Kidding. But really, they are so hot that it’s not really practical to put it on your lap anymore. *The only thing that’s practical on our laps would be those strippers from men’s club. Heheh..

So, why still call it laptop ? Wouldn’t it be better to simply call it a portable computer ? or notebook ? why a low tech name for a high tech device ? Weird world.