Paddy Mc'Funnington's Flashin' Fun Pin, retail $1.99 (www.partycity.com)*
Manufactured by (Unknown) for DM Merchandising (www.247dm.com)
Last updated 01-24-13
The Paddy Mc'Funnington's Flashin' Fun Pin is a nifty novelty pin that you pin to clothing that not only looks nice, but it catches the eye with flashing LEDs (two brilliant green LEDs that rapidly and alternately flash).
This product appears to be disposable; e.g. there appears to be no way inside the unit without damaging or even destroying it.
* Product was not found on the Party City website, so the URL leads to their "front door".
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To use the Paddy Mc'Funnington's Flashin' Fun Pin, pin it to your shirt using the included pin (already installed) -- careful; this pin is sharp and can cause minor injury if it is misused!!!).
To turn it on, press & release the button on the back of the unit located just below the pin.
To neutralise it, just do the same thing.
This product appears to be disposable; e.g. there appears to be no way inside the unit without damaging or even destroying it.
Therefore, I don't have to tell you which part to remove, discreetly drop into any handy punchbowl at a St. Patrick's Day party, and then rather emphatically tell you not to.
If you love shiny, blinky things, you'll love the Paddy Mc'Funnington's Flashin' Fun Pin.
The Paddy Mc'Funnington's Flashin' Fun Pin is meant to be used as a blinking novelty item, not as a flashlight meant to be carried around, thrashed, trashed, and abused, so I won't try to drown it in the toliet tank, bash it against a steel rod or against the concrete floor of a patio, let any of our "citty" "kats" go to the litterbox or let my mother's big dog's ghost piddle (uranate) on it, run over it with a 450lb Celebrity motorised wheelchair, stomp on it, use a small carpenter's hammer (claw hammer) in order to bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoñata, drop it down the top of Mt. Erupto (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piñata" too much again (yes, I have a number of episodes of this program on DVD!!!) - candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout (located at Piñata Central), with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; the cannoñata (also located at Piñata Central) is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata Island, and Mt. Erupto is an active volcano on Piñata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, or perform other indecencies on it that a flashlight might have to have performed on it. So this section of the web page will be ***SIGNIFICANTLY*** more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.
Photograph of the product lighted.
Spectrographic analysis of the green LED in this pin.
Spectrographic analysis of the green LED in this pin; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 510nm and 530nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is exactly 522nm.
Spectrographic analysis of the slightly but very noticeably shorter wavelength green LED in this pin.
Spectrographic analysis of the slightly but very noticeably shorter wavelength green LED in this pin; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 500nm and 520nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 514.444nm.
***NSFW*** This video shows the Paddy Mc'Funnington's Flashin' Fun Pin in action.
That music you hear is zax from the Commodore Amiga demo, "Software Make the Dance Foam Oil" by the Amiga demo group, "Ephidrena".
This product is not sound-sensitive; the zax may be ignored or even muted if it torques you off.
I added, "***NSFW***" (Not Safe For Work) because the 'singer' drops the F-bomb two times.
O boy, a blinking light!
So thrilling!!
So pulse-racing!!!
Actually, it kinda makes you want to kick over one of those Penal-Ware® suicide-resistant prison combys and then proceed to "bete" "thuh" "livengg" "tweadle" "owt" "uv" "itt" "withh" "uh" "noo "toliet" "brusch" doesn't it?
This video is approximately 14.0083432349 megabytes (14,374,463 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
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TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased at the Party City store in Federal Way WA. USA on 01-18-13.
UPDATE: 00-00-00
MANUFACTURER: Unknown
PRODUCT TYPE: Holiday-themed (St. Patrick's Day) flashing LED pin
LAMP TYPE: 3mm LED
No. OF LAMPS: 2 (one ea. green & slightly blue-green)
BEAM TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Pushbutton on/off on back of product
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
BEZEL: N/A
BATTERY: 3x unknown-type button cells
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: Very light splatter-resistance at maximum
SUBMERSIBLE: SNIETY MIKOLAJ ZA POMOCA SZCZOTECZKI DO ZEBÓW, KTÓRY SPADL W TOALECIE, NIE!
ACCESSORIES: Button cells (already installed)
SIZE: 40mm H x 43mm W x 23.50mm D (incl. pin)
WEIGHT: 8.60g (0.310 oz.) incl. batteries
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated (presumably guaranteed against DOA)
PRODUCT RATING:
This is a seasonal novelty item (St. Patrick's Day), so it will not receive the usual "star" rating for that reason.
Paddy Mc'Funnington's Flashin' Fun Pin *
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go to the litterbox or let my mother's big dog's ghost piddle (uranate) on it, run over it with a 450lb Celebrity motorised wheelchair, stomp on it, use a small carpenter's hammer (claw hammer) in order to bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoñata, drop it down the top of Mt. Erupto (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piñata" too much again 
