Oh, I get it. Similar to Ronco's Super Vegamatic slicer: a good idea but absolutely useless.

Hoopy: adj, hoo-pee: Cool, admirable, really really with it, guy.
"That Ford Prefect, cousin of the Galactic President, Zaphod Beeblebrox, is one really hoopy frood."

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