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"Oh my god, I killed Kenny!"

The poster was a picture of Kenny (having just been electrocuted) and glued to the lower corner was a small electric device with a button. Pressing the button caused a catch-phrase to be spoken (it alternated between, "omg, killed kenny" and two variations of Kenny mumbling). I really liked the absurdity of using this high sound-reproduction technology to accurate reproduce Kenny' unintelligble mumbling.

Anyway, I rediscovered this poster in my basement and found that the "non-replaceable" batteries were dead. I cut the unit off of the poster and discovered that it was powered by three "watch" batteries (4.5vDC). It was trivial to wire it to 3 AAs to get it working again. I started shorting circuits out, here and there, and finally had a good sound: putting a 46uF cap in parallel with one of the resistors made Kenny's mumbling very, well, distorted (less than noise, but more than speech).

I was into the final process of breadboarding it (to replace the speaker with a line out) when it just stopped working. Drat! Probably another fried IC. Perhaps because I was powering it with 3 AAs rather than the lower current supplying "watch" battiers? Perhaps. If it doesn't start magically working, it, too, is destined for the trash.

Current status: non-functional, possibly ruined
Audio probably not coming.