It's different than an oil lamp, which is basically just a candle in liquid form with a piece of cloth or rope as the wick and which may or may not contain genies.
Do people not know what an oil lamp is?
The retelling of genie stories in various modern forms surely must make this object recognizeable in modern culture. There’s even some emojis for this. 🧞🪔
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mcSlibinas@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 31d
This mean you already have 3 wishes (or more). Now you only need genie.
oneser@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 31d
Yes, but the wishes are interpreted by an LLM and it is trained only on data relating to engines overheating.
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 30d
Sir, your lamp is horny.
farmgineer@nord.pub · 4 pts · 30d
So long as one of them is high vehicle repair/replacement cost, maybe!
InFerNo@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 30d
Haha, you wish
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 30d
Yes, but they're going to be:
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 31d
That image is more out of date than the save floppy disk 💾 icon... Yet I never see it compared or mentioned.
I can't even name the object it represents. I get it's an oil can... But is that the name? It's like an oil teapot.
P.S did some of them have a flame? They they were also torches that predate electricity?
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev · 12 pts · 31d
Oil can. That's what the Tin Man asks for.
It's different than an oil lamp, which is basically just a candle in liquid form with a piece of cloth or rope as the wick and which may or may not contain genies.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 30d
Glad I remembered something of them. Thanks.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 30d
Do people not know what an oil lamp is? The retelling of genie stories in various modern forms surely must make this object recognizeable in modern culture. There’s even some emojis for this. 🧞🪔
marcos@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 30d
People mostly don't know what an oil lamp is, or even that a wick works at all.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 30d
That's oil dripping from the spout, lol
But you pose an interesting question - even when idiot lights first appeared (1960's) - surely this would've already been an outdated icon.
By then the standard automotive oil can would've been the cardboard cylinder and oil spout
https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images2/1/0812/12/vintage-quart-oil-spout-gulfpride_1_2d919d59f8ffb24fb2697c83fa06e159.jpg
makeshift0546@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 30d
That's a you problem. That shit is used by hobbiest and pros all the time.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 30d
Did I say I had a problem with it? You sound horrible.