Awsome

OT: And now, today's example of stupidity incarnate.

The Associated Press is threatening to sue a Tennessee radio station for . . . are you ready for this? . . . embedding YouTube videos from the AP's YouTube Channel without first purchasing a license from the AP!

AP lowers the hammer on rural East TN radio station

sadcox That sound you hear is everyone breaking their AP links at the same time. HT jacklail [Link: ow.ly...]
about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

FrankStrovel I was on the phone arguing w/ AP today. We were embedding their YouTube vids on our station's site. We're an AP affiliate.
about 1 hour ago from web in reply to sadcox

FrankStrovel They asked us to taken them down. I asked, "Why do you have a YouTube page w/ embed codes for websites?" Still... they said NO.
about 1 hour ago from web

sadcox hahaha...they put it on youtube but don't want other people to watch it. Do they know they can control that themselves?
about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck in reply to FrankStrovel

sadcox They need to address that with YouTube. They should probably read the Terms they agreed to.
about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck in reply to FrankStrovel

RELATED: jacklailRT: AP 2 sue blogs & such to overturn fair use, save newspapers. In other news: Fat, stupid dinos sue mammals [Link: ow.ly...]
about 2 hours ago from web

FYI: Here's Frank's blog. And here's Scott Adcox's. Jack Lail is here.

JorgXMcKie sums it up perfectly in the comments:

And just like those Dumb *&%6^#@s who run/own newspapers they won't have a clue about why the world is coming down around their ears.

BatGuano had inside information! He's a witch, or something.

/channeling the late LynnNZ.

I'm going to repeat this:

I want to say something about looking for "Another Reagan" as some sort of political messiah.

We called him the Great Communicator, and he was. He was brilliant at it. But why? Not just because of him, but because of what it was he was communicating. Conservatism.

Get back to the ideology, and one who can communicate conservatism the most effectively will win.

True words.

And now, some lighter fare: The Trick that Fooled Einstein!

Testing his microphone moments before a 1984 radio address, President Reagan quipped to the technician: "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."

Unfortunately, it got out to, possibly, the wrong people.

Carter at least has a Submarine named after him. although he tried to halt all naval spending. If the country last this appeasing loon named Obama, we will be lucky to have a navy.

What was that Paul Theroux said about a country not being truly backwards until there was more than one statue of it's present leader prominently displayed in public?

Aaron Copland

Fanfare for the Common Man

re: #4 Sharmuta

Reagan was also very patient. He took the time to build a loyal following, and a solid donor base. These things take time (decades even) and planning. You are quite right, he didn't appear out of nowhere.

"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."
--Ronald Reagan

re: #4 Sharmuta

I'll take that over endless backbiting and circular firing squads amongst conservatives while Hussein Dolt coasts to another four years of occupancy at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Another fine example of government-run healthcare.

Reducing health care costs by eliminating the patients.

re: #7 Dustyvet

Testing his microphone moments before a 1984 radio address, President Reagan quipped to the technician: "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."

Unfortunately, it got out to, possibly, the wrong people.

I happened to be in Leningrad at that precise moment.

re: #4 Sharmuta

I assume that you know, Sharmuta, that R.W.R. honed his skills traveling the country speaking for G.E.?

The man started as an actor. Morphed into a union rep. Morphed into a corporate flack. Became Governor. Became President.

We can all grow, given the right soil and food.

re: #8 pat

Carter at least has a Submarine named after him. although he tried to halt all naval spending. If the country last this appeasing loon named Obama, we will be lucky to have a navy.

The only sub w/screen doors.

Later Lizards, time for me to knock off.

Peas!

re: #6 gmsc

And now, some lighter fare: The Trick that Fooled Einstein!

[Video]

Relabel that as the trick that crashes FireFox.

re: #18 Slumbering Behemoth

Later Lizards, time for me to knock off.

Peas!

I'm seeing whirled peas. What a wonderful world.

Beethoven: Emperor Concerto

re: #14 SixDegrees

Unfortunately, the ones responsible for that mistake will probably get promoted, to a place where they can do less damage.

For every action, there is a law to prohibit it.

I am eating a Canadian bacon and pineapple pizza. With green onions.

re: #18 Slumbering Behemoth

And may Peas and Beans be upon you!

re: #19 Neo Con since 9-11

Relabel that as the trick that crashes FireFox.

Just watching the video? Or clicking on the link?

You may need to upgrade your Flash-plug-in.

re: #20 razorbacker

I'm seeing whirled peas. What a wonderful world.

Linda Blare harf up another demon?

/S

re: #24 Sharmuta

No anchovies?

re: #24 Sharmuta

I am eating a Canadian bacon and pineapple pizza. With green onions.

Philistine!

re: #23 calcajun

For every action, there is a law to prohibit it.

Hold on a second. Do you have a permit for that comment? //

Some Cicero

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.

The people's good is the highest law.

re: #24 Sharmuta

I am eating a Canadian bacon and pineapple pizza. With green onions.

BLASPHEMY!

Those pineapples could be harvested by Dole, made into juice and mixed with some cut-rate bargain brand vodka...

/Chilled, of course.

re: #30 Gus 802

My California State Bar card will do.

re: #33 calcajun

My California State Bar card will do.

Ah, esquire. ;)

It was the slice of the day- which cracked me up because of earlier.

re: #34 Gus 802

Shhh. Don't tell people. They have pitchforks.

re: #36 calcajun

Shhh. Don't tell people. They have pitchforks.

Pitchforks and tissues!

//sniff

re: #35 Sharmuta

It was the slice of the day- which cracked me up because of earlier.

Next, it'll be "gumbo pizza" with okra and crawfish.

re: #36 calcajun

Shhh. Don't tell people. They have pitchforks.

Don't worry- they won't use them until Glenn Beck says when.

re: #24 Sharmuta

I am eating a Canadian bacon and pineapple pizza. With green onions.

We're still full from bircher buttock in the last thread. *burrp*

Congratulations to LudwigVanQuixote for carving up the beast.

re: #31 Kragar (proud to be kafir)

Some Cicero

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.

The people's good is the highest law.

9 Bizarre Moments in Economic History

1. Cake or Death?

In order to stop rising inflation and devaluation of the currency in third century Rome, Emperor Diocletian instituted fixed prices on most consumer goods. Anyone selling goods at prices higher than those of the emperor was put to death; this led to hoarding of goods. A law was then passed that forbade the hoarding of goods. Penalty? Death. So people just closed their businesses, then another law was passed. You guessed it: shut down your business or fail to follow in your father’s business? Death. It’s amazing the Roman Empire lasted as long as it did.

Pizza thief...BUSTED!

Image: funny-pictures-busted-cat.jpg

re: #38 calcajun

Next, it'll be "gumbo pizza" with okra and crawfish.

That'd be right tasty, too. Mmmm, mud bugs.

re: #39 Sharmuta

Don't worry- they won't use them until Glenn Beck says when.

A riot is an ugly ting!

re: #24 Sharmuta

I am eating a Canadian bacon and pineapple pizza. With green onions.

Was there a Country of Origin Label on the bacon to prove it was from Canada?

re: #44 calcajun

A riot is an ugly ting!

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

9 Bizarre Moments in Economic History

2. Gonna Barter Like It’s B.C. 99

When the Roman Empire collapsed in the 5th century, so did the Roman financial system. Part of the collapse was the disappearance of Roman coinage. Nowhere was this more evident than in England, where, according to archeological evidence, money basically disappeared, driving the British isles straight back to a barter economy. Coinage only came back centuries later when the English were forced to pay protection money (Danegeld) to the Vikings to stop the constant pillaging.

Night all. My whiskey glass is empty and I am off to bed.

On the morrow!

re: #45 Cheechako

Was there a Country of Origin Label on the bacon to prove it was from Canada?

You won't find "Canadian bacon" in Canada. We call it "back bacon."

re: #48 calcajun

Night all. My whiskey glass is empty and I am off to bed.

On the morrow!

Later. Mine is half way through where the label says "Mist."

re: #45 Cheechako

Was there a Country of Origin Label on the bacon to prove it was from Canada?

Bacon eatted teh nirth cirtifikut?

re: #42 Dustyvet

Pizza thief...BUSTED!

[Link: icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com...]

Image: funny-pictures-cat-keeps-you-from-your-pizza.jpg

re: #8 pat

Carter at least has a Submarine named after him. although he tried to halt all naval spending. If the country last this appeasing loon named Obama, we will be lucky to have a navy.

Is that the submarine that has a screen door installed?

9 Bizarre Moments in Economic History

3. 99.9% Pure

In 15th century Germany, grain shortages – acceptable – frequently led to beer shortages – unacceptable. In response, brewers in towns like Munich and Regensburg used seeds, spices, and rushes to flavor their beers. Showing an uncomfortable foreshadowing of future events, German authorities instituted purity laws stating that only water, barley, and hops could be used in the brewing of beer. The rule, or Reinheitsgebot, is still on the books today.

re: #41 gmsc

You guessed it: shut down your business or fail to follow in your father’s business? Death. It’s amazing the Roman Empire lasted as long as it did.

That was Diocletian. He was good at organising an army and a bureaucracy. An economy, not so much. The best that can be said for the fourth century emperors was that they kept the Empire stumbling along, which is more than can be said for the emperors before Diocletian or after Julian.

Diocletian was also fond of killing Christians, famously. Julian was pagan too but at least he kept his hands off it.

Can I just say the last thread's title is classic.

re: #49 Alberta Oil Peon

You won't find "Canadian bacon" in Canada. We call it "back bacon."

What about Bacon lube?

re: #40 Zimriel

I can't say I'm surprised.

Iron Fist was right. There is a point beyond which you should not post.

*It's not like anyone else is going to say, 'razorbacker, you really oughta go on to bed."*

So I'm going to say it.

I've got to go to bed.

Good night.

re: #57 Kragar (proud to be kafir)

What about Bacon lube?

I think I will stick with bacon-flavored bacon, thanks.

re: #41 gmsc

9 Bizarre Moments in Economic History

1. Cake or Death?

In order to stop rising inflation and devaluation of the currency in third century Rome, Emperor Diocletian instituted fixed prices on most consumer goods. Anyone selling goods at prices higher than those of the emperor was put to death; this led to hoarding of goods. A law was then passed that forbade the hoarding of goods. Penalty? Death. So people just closed their businesses, then another law was passed. You guessed it: shut down your business or fail to follow in your father’s business? Death. It’s amazing the Roman Empire lasted as long as it did.

re: #55 Zimriel

That was Diocletian. He was good at organising an army and a bureaucracy. An economy, not so much. The best that can be said for the fourth century emperors was that they kept the Empire stumbling along, which is more than can be said for the emperors before Diocletian or after Julian.

Diocletian was also fond of killing Christians, famously. Julian was pagan too but at least he kept his hands off it.

Yep. It sure was.

re: #56 Sharmuta

Can I just say the last thread's title is classic.

I think you were the inspiration to it. I did the other part.

9 Bizarre Moments in Economic History

4. Nothing But the Best for France

While the Sun King, Louis XIV, and his building of Versailles typically get all the credit for bankrupting France in the seventeenth century, his Minister of Finance, Jean-Baptiste Colbert deserves some kudos as well. Colbert’s tax schemes, deficit spending, and manic obsession with the production of luxury goods – to the detriment, or outright exclusion of ordinary consumer goods – emptied the French treasuries, drove the peasantry to starvation, and laid the foundation for the bloodiest revolution of the age. But, let’s face it: who wouldn’t trade the fate of an entire nation for a really, really well made tapestry?

I think that's a great quote, and it perfectly describes the path the US has been on for years...something slightly out of control, not sure how to handle it, don't LIKE something? Legislate! Write a new law! Outlaw it - or, if the situation fits, inlaw it. Want more of something? Make it required. Less? Make it illegal. Something hurting someone's feelings? A policy will fix that right up. Someone annoying someone nearby? A new regulation will do just fine. How about if something just annoys your sensibilities? Let's just enact a new code to ensure it doesn't happen again. Someone in your neighborhood making too much money for your taste? We can fix that - and grandfather it, even!
Call it what you will, everytime someone gets the slightest bit off the reservation in this country, we want to legislate it. And the reservation is getting smaller and narrower every day.

re: #24 Sharmuta

I am eating a Canadian bacon and pineapple pizza. With green onions.

With green onions? Blasphemy!

re: #3 Alberta Oil Peon

BatGuano had inside information! He's a witch, or something.

/channeling the late LynnNZ.

What information do I have? And who is lynnNZ?

Mmmm Bacon!

Image: mmm-bacon.jpg

9 Bizarre Moments in Economic History

5. Adjustable Rate Mortgage, Archduke Ferdinand?

In the 1860s, the rulers of the newly-formed Austro-Hungarian Empire encouraged their bankers to be more free with their lending standards. Their goal was to encourage growth in the empire. The result (this is going to sound eerily familiar) was over-speculation in building, massive default on borrowed funds, and economic collapse throughout Central Europe. The worldwide depression reached all the way to the United States and triggered the Panic of 1873. On the bright side, many of the most beautiful buildings in Europe come from this period of “irrational exuberance.”

re: #67 Dustyvet

Mmmm Bacon!

[Link: icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com...]

Bacon catz!

excellent quote, should be made into a bumper sticker

re: #40 Zimriel

We're still full from bircher buttock in the last thread. *burrp*

Congratulations to LudwigVanQuixote for carving up the beast.

you got a grid for that?

/wanna see the wreckage

9 Bizarre Moments in Economic History

6. Mississippi Burning

John Law, a Scottish banker and businessman, took control of a French enterprise called the Mississippi Company in 1717. In just a few years, he turned the company into the main economic force behind the French colonies throughout the world. The share price for the company went from about 500 livres in 1719 to 10,000 livres in 1720. Just one year later though, in a rather Enron-like turnaround, the stock price collapsed, Law fled France, and the French government (as the primary shareholder) was forced to cancel a significant portion of its debt obligations leaving lenders throughout the world ruined. Economists refer to the episode as the “Mississippi Bubble.”

re: #71 redc1c4

you got a grid for that?

/wanna see the wreckage

I think it's located in that other country with a shape like a boot.

re: #67 Dustyvet

Mmmm Bacon!

[Link: icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com...]

Seen on a public washroom hand dryer.
;)

re: #66 BatGuano

What information do I have? And who is lynnNZ?

Your comment on the previous thread, re the overnight Open Thread, appeared at the exact moment that the Open Thread itself did, thus making you appear privy to secret knowledge. //

And earlier in that thread, LynnNZ got the stick for promoting a Bircher conspiracy theory about how FDR knew pearl harbor was about to happen, but did nothing to prevent it, in order to provoke a war.

So a conspiracy theorist would obviously conclude that you had some hidden knowledge of the open thread, simply based on a coincidence of time.

So it was an attempt at an "in joke."

re: #74 gmsc

Seen on a public washroom hand dryer.
;)

Creative graffiti WIN

9 Bizarre Moments in Economic History

7. The Mason-Dixon Bottom Line

Many have read about the effects of hyperinflation on the German Weimar Republic. From 1920-1923, prices in Germany increased as much as 3.25 million percent. People burned their old currency for warmth, since it was less costly than buying wood. But, few know that the same type of hyperinflation, albeit to a lesser extent, affected the Confederate States of America. From 1861 to 1864, the commodity price index rose as high as 10% a month. By the end of the Civil War, the cost of living in dear old Dixie was 92% higher than before the war.

re: #71 redc1c4

Not much wreckage after this.

re: #61 gmsc

Yep. It sure was.

Good night lizards, sleep well

re: #77 gmsc

9 Bizarre Moments in Economic History

7. The Mason-Dixon Bottom Line

that was all Lincoln's fault: if he hadn't blockaded their ports, things wouldn't have gotten so bad.

re: #79 Zimriel

Good night lizards, sleep well

Have a good one.

re: #79 Zimriel

Good night lizards, sleep well

Sleep well, Zimriel

9 Bizarre Moments in Economic History

8. Prayer Pays

In 1943, due to shortage of raw materials like paper and leather, and an increase in wartime piety, there was an actual Bible shortage in the United States.

re: #2 gmsc

The AP essentially are the dummies who own the newspapers -- a cartel of those dummies.

9 Bizarre Moments in Economic History

9. Tokyo Falling

Japan had one of the most meteoric economic rises of the twentieth century. By the late ‘80s, property values had risen so high that all the land in Japan was worth four times the value of all the property in the United States. The real estate value of Tokyo alone was valued at more than that of all America. By the end of the century, however, the Tokyo stock exchange was off 60 percent of its 1989 high, and property values had fallen as much as 80 percent. Some blame over-speculation, others blame Michael Crichton’s novel Rising Sun.

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re: #78 Fenway_Nation

Not much wreckage after this.

well, *that* was a career limiting move...

re: #80 redc1c4

that was all Lincoln's fault: if he hadn't blockaded their ports, things wouldn't have gotten so bad.

The failed policies of the Lincoln administration?

///

re: #75 Alberta Oil Peon

Got it! The question I posed was, "how awesome is BatGuano", as response to the perspicacios gmsc.

re: #88 BatGuano

Got it! The question I posed was, "how awesome is BatGuano", as response to the perspicacios gmsc.

The answer is, obviously awesome enough to have inside knowledge of the timing of the creation of the overnight thread!

re: #87 gmsc

The failed policies of the Lincoln administration?

///

those damn republicans

Traffic backup during Baghdad rush hour...

Image: Funny_Money_Mule.jpg

re: #91 Dustyvet

Traffic backup during Baghdad rush hour...

[Link: www.ultrascan.nl...]

Aw, that's just a drag donkey doing a hoofie.

re: #91 Dustyvet

Traffic backup during Baghdad rush hour...

[Link: www.ultrascan.nl...]

Looks like the Democratic Party congress.

re: #91 Dustyvet

That's a traffic front-up. The back is down.

Wow, I go away for a few hours, come back and check the last Beck thread... it seems quite a few interesting things came out of the rafters.

Charles has been on quite the pace the past couple of days. Maybe he is in the mood for some spring cleaning?

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
P. J. O'Rourke

I suppose next the pizza purists won't let me get peanut butter on my chocolate.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
P. J. O'Rourke

re: #97 Sharmuta

I suppose next the pizza purists won't let me get peanut butter on my chocolate.

You have whatever you want...:)

re: #97 Sharmuta

I suppose next the pizza purists won't let me get peanut butter on my chocolate.

no, but you can put chocolate on your peanut butter.

re: #97 Sharmuta

I suppose next the pizza purists won't let me get peanut butter on my chocolate.

As long as you don't put coconut on it. Coconut is a non-food.

re: #97 Sharmuta

I suppose next the pizza purists won't let me get peanut butter on my chocolate.

Begrudgingly- only because you got chocolate all over my peanut butter.

re: #97 Sharmuta

I suppose next the pizza purists won't let me get peanut butter on my chocolate.

That's acceptable. Whatever you do never put mayo on liverwurst.

re: #97 Sharmuta

You mean, you defile the Food Of The Gods with... peanut butter?

re: #101 Alberta Oil Peon

As long as you don't put coconut on it. Coconut is a non-food.

you're supposed to put the lime in the coconut.

re: #97 Sharmuta

You may have peanut butter on your chocolate, but you may have neither on your pizza.

"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."

re: #104 freetoken

You mean, you defile the Food Of The Gods with... peanut butter?

Like with pineapple on pizza, only on occasion, to give life a little variety.

re: #97 Sharmuta

I suppose next the pizza purists won't let me get peanut butter on my chocolate.

No worries.

Let the pizza purist stew in their own conformity.

There's will be a very boring perdition with nothing to eat but card-board flavored frozen pizzas.

re: #106 BatGuano

You may have peanut butter on your chocolate, but you may have neither on your pizza.

No dessert pizza? :(

re: #95 freetoken

Its just a spring clean for the may queen.

{Syrah}

truly disturbed...

re: #97 Sharmuta

I suppose next the pizza purists won't let me get peanut butter on my chocolate.

re: #110 Sharmuta

None. Sorry.

I have tried vegan pizza.

It was that or nothing since I am severely lactose intolerant.

It wasn't that bad, but it wasn't pizza. I would say it was really just a cracker with toppings.

But it just isn't pizza without the cheese.

_sigh

Syrah- how's the reading going?

re: #114 gmsc

I'm really old. I remember that.

re: #113 redc1c4

truly disturbed...

That was a fun video. I always did like that song, kind of hypnotic in its simplicity.

A Mom comes to visit her son John who’s living with a female roommate named Samantha. John’s mother doesn’t like the idea of her son living with a woman, as he’s in college and doesn’t need any distractions. To ease his mother’s worries, John invites her to stay for dinner.

During the course of the meal, his mother couldn’t help but notice how pretty John’s roommate was. She had long been suspicious of a relationship between the two and this had only made her more curious.

Over the course of the evening, while watching the two interact, she started to wonder if there was more between John and his roommate than met the eye. Reading his mom’s thoughts, John volunteered, “I know what your thinking Mom, but I assure you, Samantha and I are just roommates.”

About a week later, Samantha came to John saying, “Ever since your mother came to dinner, I’ve been unable to find the silver peanut butter jar. You don’t suppose she took it, do you?” John said, “Well, I doubt it, but I’ll email her, just to be sure.”

So he sat down and wrote:

Dear Mother,
I’m not saying that you ‘did’ take the peanut butter jar from my house, I’m not saying that you ‘did not’ take the peanut butter jar. But the fact remains that it has been missing ever since you were here for dinner.

Love,
John

Several days later, John received an email from his Mother which read:

Dear Son,
I’m not saying that you ‘do’ sleep with Samantha, and I’m not saying that you ‘do not’ sleep with Samantha. But the fact remains that if she was sleeping in her OWN bed, she would have found the peanut butter jar under her pillow…

Love,
Mom

You know. I was searching for chocolate pizza and came across Sponge Bob. Never watched it before. Are they serious? Am I looking at the wrong videos or is Sponge Bob actually that psycho?

re: #118 BatGuano

I'm really old. I remember that.

I'm old too. I even remember this one, which I call "An American Pepper in London":

re: #117 Sharmuta

Syrah- how's the reading going?

Slow.

These last four weeks have been a little rough. I am still adjusting to the new job and and a different commute. I don't have as much time alone as I would like or that is necessary for reading this type of book.

I just posted a few thoughts on the issue of Time that was brought up on page 79.

re: #110 Sharmuta

No dessert pizza? :(

but of course there is...

and a long thread with some "how to" info.

And now for some Junior Brown. It don't get any better than this.

re: #124 redc1c4

I'm still recovering from you last fruitcup...

/The doc says in a few weeks I'll be able to tell the difference between red and green again.

re: #121 Gus 802

You know. I was searching for chocolate pizza and came across Sponge Bob. Never watched it before. Are they serious? Am I looking at the wrong videos or is Sponge Bob actually that psycho?

If you're referring to this video, no. Somebody took SpongeBob footage and edited it in a psycho manner.

Here are some legitimate Spongebob Squarepants episodes for comparison.

re: #123 Syrah

It's alright. I've not read any for the last 24 hours. I'm kind of allowing it to sink in so far and pondering many things. I'll check that comment out though.

re: #126 Fenway_Nation

I'm still recovering from you last fruitcup...

/The doc says in a few weeks I'll be able to tell the difference between red and green again.

well, if it helps any, most greens are just reds in disguise.

re: #128 Sharmuta

It's alright. I've not read any for the last 24 hours. I'm kind of allowing it to sink in so far and pondering many things. I'll check that comment out though.

what are you two reading?

re: #129 redc1c4

well, if it helps any, most greens are just reds in disguise.

Cross dressing?

re: #131 Fenway_Nation

Cross dressing?

politically speaking...

re: #130 redc1c4

what are you two reading?

A Conflict of Visions, by Thomas Sowell.

Syrah- that was an excellent observation. +1

re: #127 gmsc

If you're referring to this video, no. Somebody took SpongeBob footage and edited it in a psycho manner.

Here are some legitimate Spongebob Squarepants episodes for comparison.

OK Thanks. That was one of them. Seems to be a few of those on Youtube. Never saw it before and was wondering if they actually let children watch that kind of thing. Whoever edits those for Youtube must be out of his mind.

re: #130 redc1c4

what are you two reading?

A Conflict of visions.

After the pressure of dealing with the anticipation of the 7 millionth post, the LGF server hamsters have decided to upgrade their equipment:

re: #135 Syrah

A Conflict of visions.

We'll have to put up another spinoff on Friday.

re: #134 Gus 802

OK Thanks. That was one of them. Seems to be a few of those on Youtube. Never saw it before and was wondering if they actually let children watch that kind of thing. Whoever edits those for Youtube must be out of his mind.

SpongeBob is psycho in its own way, but it's a lot more of a fun psycho.

re: #132 redc1c4

I remember my uncle calling them 'Watermelons'- green on the outside, red on the inside.

re: #137 Sharmuta

We'll have to put up another spinoff on Friday.

7 times 7 if necessary.

There is much in the book. It is not a light meal.

re: #138 gmsc

SpongeBob is psycho in its own way, but it's a lot more of a fun psycho.

Like off the wall. That's OK for kids to a certain extent. When I saw the edited versions my jaw dropped and I started thinking that maybe they should stop looking at mercury and MMR vaccines if you know what I mean.

re: #140 Syrah

7 times 7 if necessary.

There is much in the book. It is not a light meal.

49!

(Sorry, habit.)

re: #141 Gus 802

Like off the wall. That's OK for kids to a certain extent. When I saw the edited versions my jaw dropped and I started thinking that maybe they should stop looking at mercury and MMR vaccines if you know what I mean.

Hmmm . . . I wonder . . .
;)

Damn it! Keyboard is fucked up. Wife spilled Vodka red bull on it!

re: #140 Syrah

7 times 7 if necessary.

There is much in the book. It is not a light meal.

It's already the most dog eared book I own. More than my Shakespearian Sonnets, I think.

re: #143 gmsc

Hmmm . . . I wonder . . .
;)

They should do that of course but that's like talking to a wall. There's no doubt that some of the hyper media has a physiological and neurological effect on kids. I've been away from TV for years now so I don't know what's going on there. I do watch some video online which is different. We have a TV in the game room of this building and frankly it's rather hectic -- probably seizure inducing.

Just pondering these things. Not like it's a crusade for me or anything like that.

re: #145 Sharmuta

It's already the most dog eared book I own. More than my Shakespearian Sonnets, I think.

I can only imagine what it must have been like to be one of his students. It must have been a maddening avalanche of data with every class.

from my teenage years. On the same album as coanut was this:

re: #141 Gus 802

Like off the wall. That's OK for kids to a certain extent. When I saw the edited versions my jaw dropped and I started thinking that maybe they should stop looking at mercury and MMR vaccines if you know what I mean.

I blame Sesame Street for ADD, or ADHD or whatever. It trained a generation to think in 30-60 second increments.

re: #149 Sharmuta

I blame Sesame Street for ADD, or ADHD or whatever. It trained a generation to think in 30-60 second increments.

they can think?

i'm reading "Southern Storm", which is about Sherman's "march to the sea"

My single most favorite song of all time is Peter Criss' Beth. I think I was always amazed how such a short song could evoke so much emotion.

I like this version, where Peter Criss is backed by a symphont orchestra, each member of which is made up to look like one of the members of KISS:

re: #149 Sharmuta

I blame Sesame Street for ADD, or ADHD or whatever. It trained a generation to think in 30-60 second increments.

Good point. What year did that come out? I never watched it.

Something like that should be studied but don't count on it. Sesame Street is a sacred cow for liberals and they're the ones that usually get the grants for those kinds of studies.

re: #153 Gus 802

I love Sesame Street Muppets as much as the regular Muppets.

re: #151 redc1c4

The last book I read re-read was Mark Bowden's Killing Pablo to see if I could draw any parallels between Pablo Escobar's war against the Colombian government and the current narcoinsurgency in Mexico.

A fun and silly song about limes and coconuts for the lizards, and a goodnight.

Back tomorrow - See you all then.

re: #147 Syrah

I think it would be amazing to hear him give a lecture or speech. I've been working some of it into my comments already, and jaunte gets one I'm talking about. I hope others will pick up the book.

re: #156 Syrah

Bye!

re: #154 Sharmuta

I love Sesame Street Muppets as much as the regular Muppets.

Didn't know there was a difference. Bert and Ernie could have gotten their own show.

re: #156 Syrah

A fun and silly song about limes and coconuts for the lizards, and a goodnight.

Back tomorrow - See you all then.

[Video]

G'Nite Syrah.

re: #152 gmsc

My all-time favorite song.

re: #156 Syrah

A fun and silly song about limes and coconuts for the lizards, and a goodnight.

Back tomorrow - See you all then.

[Video]

there's an echo in here... short & silly

re: #159 Gus 802

Didn't know there was a difference. Bert and Ernie could have gotten their own show.

Homicide: Life on Sesame Street?

/stole that from Family Guy

Here's a treat – Margaret Hamilton (The Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz) on Mr. Rogers, helping kids not to be scared of her character.

re: #163 Fenway_Nation

Homicide: Life on Sesame Street?

/stole that from Family Guy

Ha, that's a good one. You ever watch Homicide? Was OK before it turned into another hour long liberal instructional video. Same thing like NYPDF Blue. Two shows they turned into a grown up Sesame Street crime drama.

that's it: i'm for bed...

enjoy the fruitcup: i kicked it up a notch or two, just for Fenway!

hasta, y'all...

L8r!

re: #166 redc1c4

that's it: i'm for bed...

enjoy the fruitcup: i kicked it up a notch or two, just for Fenway!

hasta, y'all...

L8r!

Good nite, red!

A Bert and Ernie spin off would be more like the Odd Couple, except on drug.

Speaking of Muppets and drugs:

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lodi (1969)

The Band don't want to.

re: #168 Sharmuta

A Bert and Ernie spin off would be more like the Odd Couple, except on drug.

Speaking of Muppets and drugs:

"Bear left."
"Right, frog."

I haven't seen the full movie in a looong time.

re: #165 Gus 802

I thought it was pretty good until they started introducing all the impossibly pretty/pretty-boy detectives.

The episode where Robin Williams guest-starred pretty much spat in the face of some liberal platitudes so prevalent in Hollywood.

/I heard that Yaphet Kotto went out of his way to make sure that he got killed in the TV movie becuase he was tired of being typecast as the autoratarian, by-the-book cop.

The last Beck thread downstairs is still alive...

I would say "alive and well", but IMO all is not well in Lizardville...

re: #170 Alberta Oil Peon

The Band don't want to.

I always wondered if names like The Band, The Who and Yes didn't cause at least some confusion:

re: #171 gmsc

I own a copy on DVD. It's a classic.

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OMG it works again!

re: #172 Fenway_Nation

I thought it was pretty good until they started introducing all the impossibly pretty/pretty-boy detectives.

The episode where Robin Williams guest-starred pretty much spat in the face of some liberal platitudes so prevalent in Hollywood.

/I heard that Yaphet Kotto went out of his way to make sure that he got killed in the TV movie becuase he was tired of being typecast as the autoratarian, by-the-book cop.

That pretty-boy thing was part of the demise and the central premise of both shows. Turned into a soap opera.

re: #176 Piglet-U93

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re: #177 Piglet-U93

OMG it works again!

Congrats!

I wonder if I say: I like Glenn Beck. Will it still work?

re: #174 gmsc

A shameless ripoff of the Abbott and Costello "Who's on First" routine, but funny nevertheless.

I like Glenn Beck. He may be kooky but he is my kind of kooky.

CCR - Green River

Great F-14 Tomcat footage on this one.

re: #181 Alberta Oil Peon

A shameless ripoff of the Abbott and Costello "Who's on First" routine, but funny nevertheless.

Of course it is! I like all of the variations.

Ever seen the Ronald Reagan version performed by Johnny Carson?

re: #173 freetoken

The last Beck thread downstairs is still alive...

I would say "alive and well", but IMO all is not well in Lizardville...

I wandering over to that thread.

I like New York in June.

re: #184 gmsc

Carson had so many great little skits.

CCR was the most underrated group ever.

re: #188 BatGuano

CCR was the most underrated group ever.

Seemed like they were rather popular for a while there. They're were a very reliable band.

This is downright amazing:
All Rockabilly and Rock stars plays together Blue Suede Shoes, a rock and roll Classic:Brian Setzer from Stray Cats,Eddie Van Halen from Van Halen,Steve Miller from Steve Miller's Band,B B King,Les Paul,David Gilmour from Pink Floyd,Stanley Jordan,Jon Hammer,Waylon Jennings plays all together:Blue Suede Shoes.

re: #186 Sharmuta

I like New York in June.

Take the "A" Train!

re: #187 freetoken

Carson had so many great little skits.

I was watching the episode of Cheers last night where Cliff writes a joke and submits it to Carson so they head out to LA...great episode!

TV isn't what it used to be. But it is an idiot box. More people should shoot their TVs.

Instead of earth hour, imagine TV Free Week.

re: #187 freetoken

Carson had so many great little skits.

I always like Carnac the Magnificent. So many great lines . . .

Answer: "A first baseman's glove, an outfielder's glove, E.T., Star Wars and Dolly Parton."

Question: "Name 2 big mitts, 2 big hits and . . . er . . . a country singer."

---

Answer: "Dippity Doo."

Question: "What forms on your dippity in the morning?"

---

Answer: "Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior."

Question: "Who was Freshman Sophomore Junior Junior's father?"

re: #194 Sharmuta

Instead of earth hour, imagine TV Free Week.

But I do love my spectator sports...since I can't go to all the games, TV or radio is the next best thing.

re: #194 Sharmuta

Instead of earth hour, imagine TV Free Week.

Practically the only TV I watch is when I'm at some place that has it on. Pretty hard to avoid it completely.

It's April and Obama still has no church and no puppy.

/although he did visit a mosque yesterday

re: #197 Alberta Oil Peon

Practically the only TV I watch is when I'm at some place that has it on. Pretty hard to avoid it completely.

I'm turning more and more to online TV. You can find almost everything, and since it's easier to find the older shows online, you can usually find better entertainment.

Plus, if there are any commercials, they're only 15 to 30 seconds at a time. You can also pause and continue later anytime you want!

must replce keybord guno out!

re: #198 Killian Bundy

Nevermind that! Where's my unicorn, dammit...!? I'm getting hungry!

re: #198 Killian Bundy

It's April and Obama still has no church and no puppy.

/although he did visit a mosque yesterday

Does he even have a full Cabinet yet?

re: #200 BatGuano

must replce keybord guno out!

Nite, Guano!

/World's worst superhero name?

re: #198 Killian Bundy

It's April and Obama still has no church and no puppy.

/although he did visit a mosque yesterday

...no Treasury...

re: #194 Sharmuta

Instead of earth hour, imagine TV Free Week.

For some people it's actually a big part of their life. Rather odd I think. I've been around people like that and they actually get upset when you start to chide the television culture. They glorify the TV stars to the point of obsession. Some people even go as far as trying to emulate their favorite characters.

Ah, the wonders of the modern world. Out with jazz, reading, good music, and replace it with reality television.

re: #204 gmsc

...no Treasury...

Uh oh. Geithner is forgetting to do his taxes again. ///

re: #202 Sharmuta

Does he even have a full Cabinet yet?

I'm waiting for himself to fill his brain. Could be waiting a while on that one, though.

My favorite part of the TV culture people. You go to visit them and even though you haven't seen them in a couple of weeks all you get is...

"Shh! Shh! Be quiet! This is my favorite show!"

I've experienced that first hand. Rather pathetic if you ask me.

re: #205 Gus 802

For some people it's actually a big part of their life. Rather odd I think. I've been around people like that and they actually get upset when you start to chide the television culture. They glorify the TV stars to the point of obsession. Some people even go as far as trying to emulate their favorite characters.

Ah, the wonders of the modern world. Out with jazz, reading, good music, and replace it with reality television.

I doubt any such movement would have support. I can dream though.

re: #205 Gus 802

I do watch my share of TV...some say more than my share. However, most of my watching seems to consist of sports (ESPN/NESN/ the NHL & MLB Networks), finance (Bloomberg/CNBC) or the History Channel along with (decreasingly) Cartoon Network...

re: #202 Sharmuta

Does he even have a full Cabinet yet?

/at the very scary Secretary level

Hen lays green eggs

[Link: rpc.blogrolling.com...]

re: #212 Dustyvet

Hen lays green eggs

[Link: rpc.blogrolling.com...]

All I see is the Hot Air front page.

re: #209 Sharmuta

Likely most of us here are not TV people... otherwise we wouldn't be here!

I must now force myself to do taxes (yes, I owe...), instead of venting on the Beck-crowd downstairs... If I only had a TV to watch I could escape this dilemma!

re: #209 Sharmuta

I doubt any such movement would have support. I can dream though.

Yeah, one can dream. Or as I like to think: it will only get worse. People will become more obsessed and the shows will get weirder. The reality shows might get rather strange(r) in the near future.

re: #213 gmsc

All I see is the Hot Air front page.

Nuts!

re: #213 gmsc

All I see is the Hot Air front page.

[Link: www.ananova.com...]

re: #210 Fenway_Nation

I do watch my share of TV...some say more than my share. However, most of my watching seems to consist of sports (ESPN/NESN/ the NHL & MLB Networks), finance (Bloomberg/CNBC) or the History Channel along with (decreasingly) Cartoon Network...

Sports TV is different since it's more of a live cultural/sports event. Since it's based on a real event it isn't drowning in a fantasy.

re: #217 Dustyvet

[Link: www.ananova.com...]

Hen Lays Green Eggs?

Trivia: There are only 50 different words used in the book Green Eggs and Ham. How many of them can you name in 10 minutes?

re: #218 Gus 802

Sports TV is different since it's more of a live cultural/sports event. Since it's based on a real event it isn't drowning in a fantasy.

So does COPS, when they not playing up to the camera...:)

Obama highlights his Muslim roots in Turkey speech

Obama, who downplayed his own family ties to Islam during last year’s presidential campaign, found them of greater use in the Turkish capital, telling a gathering of the Grand National Assembly that “the United States has been enriched by Muslim-Americans.

“Many other Americans have Muslims in their family, or have lived in a Muslim-majority country,” Obama said. “I know, because I am one of them.”

Oh, so now he's proud of his Muslim heritage.

/remember back during the campaign when any Republican who pointed out his Muslim ancestry or even dared to utter his middle name was liable to be burned at the stake for political witchcraft?

re: #215 Gus 802

Don't get me wrong- there's interesting stuff on TV. I guess, for me, TV kind of died with Arrested Development. And I don't miss it.

Speaking of:

It's time for another Fenway's Nightly Shiny Stuff Update:

Gold- $887.70 an ounce (up .07%)
Silver- $12.28 an ounce (up .05%)
Platinum- $1148 an ounce (down 1.3%)
Palladium- $223 an ounce (unchanged)

Looks like trading for Rhodium is suspended- plus it wasn't that shiny in the first place, so I'm striking it from the update until the price moves from $1010 an ounce.

re: #223 Fenway_Nation

Looks like trading for Rhodium is suspended- plus it wasn't that shiny in the first place, so I'm striking it from the update until the price moves from $1010 an ounce.

Rhodium? Doesn't he work with Iron Man?

re: #221 Killian Bundy

Obama highlights his Muslim roots in Turkey speech

Oh, so now he's proud of his Muslim heritage.

/remember back during the campaign when any Republican who pointed out his Muslim ancestry or even dared to utter his middle name was liable to be burned at the stake for political witchcraft?

re: #221 Killian Bundy

Thanks, I was looking for that.

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

Fruitcup is on the buffet --->
Help yourselves!

re: #222 Sharmuta

Don't get me wrong- there's interesting stuff on TV. I guess, for me, TV kind of died with Arrested Development. And I don't miss it.

I know. I'm not completely anti-TV. I just think it messes things up when it's the only form of entertainment. The reality shows killed if for me as well as the loss of show like "Victory at Sea" and Cosmos which were replaced by entertainment versions on PBS no less. I had my favorites on commercial television: Magnum PI, Rockford Files, and Simon and Simon. They just rarely make those anymore.

{littleoldlady}:-))
Thanks! You're a sweetheart.

re: #227 littleoldlady

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

Fruitcup is on the buffet --->
Help yourselves!

Running in the front door for fruitcup and out the back...>

Thanks {lol}

re: #226 BignJames

Thanks, I was looking for that.

/I have more

re: #227 littleoldlady

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

Fruitcup is on the buffet --->
Help Fend for yourselves!

at my house

Simon & Simon

UncleRancher! :-)

Erik! :-)

BignJames! :-)

And now, it's time for another chapter of "Originality in Hollywood":

Ice Age 3-D
Fast and Furious
The Taking of Pelham 123
Hannah Montana the Movie
Where the Wild Things Are
Tyson
Terminator Salvation

re: #227 littleoldlady

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

Fruitcup is on the buffet --->
Help yourselves!

Yummy! And with a new avatar!

re: #227 littleoldlady

/Delurk for fruitcup !

Interesting TV debate. How would you fancy being forced by law to pay for the drivel and propaganda , like I do ?

Discuss

Good mornin!

A Rabbi and a Priest were sitting together on a train, and the Rabbi
leans over and asks, "So how high can you advance in your organization?"

The Priest says "If I am lucky, I guess I could become a Bishop."

"Well, could you get any higher than that?" asks the Rabbi.

"I suppose that if my works are seen in a very good light that I might
be made an ArchBishop" said the Priest a bit cautiously.

"Is there any way that you might go higher than that?"

"If all the Saints should smile, I guess I could be made a Cardinal"

"Could you be anything higher than a Cardinal?" probed the Rabbi.

Hesitating a little bit, the Priest said "I supose that I could be
elected Pope, but..."

So the Rabbi says "And could you be anything higher than that?,
is there any way to go up from being the Pope?"

"What! I should be the Messiah himself!?!"

The Rabbi leaned back and said "One of our boys made it."

gmsc! :-)

/I refuse to suffer alone... ;-)

Pass The Moonbaticide! :-)

Matrix! :-)

Thank you, {lol}

Magnum P.I.

Out of interest , LoL , where do you get that TradeMark thingy ?

BRB. Must check stove.

/...probably bad form to burn down the house one week after one has switched insurnace companies.

Two aliens landed in an outback desert of Queensland near a petrol station
that was closed for the night. They approached one of the pumps and the
younger alien addressed it saying, "Greetings, Earthling! We come in
peace. Take us to your leader."

The petrol pump, of course, didn't respond. The younger alien became angry
at the lack of response and the older alien said, "I'd calm down if I were
you."

The younger alien ignored the warning and repeated his greeting. Again,
there was no response. Annoyed by what he perceived to be the
pump's haughty attitude, he drew his ray gun and said impatiently,
"Greetings, Earthling. We come in peace. Do not ignore us this
way! Take us to your leader or I will fire!"

The older alien warned his comrade saying, "You don't want to do that! I
don't think you should make him mad."

"Rubbish," replied the cocky, young alien. He aimed his weapon at the pump
and opened fire. There was a huge explosion. A massive fireball roared
towards them and blew the younger alien off his feet and deposited him in a
burnt, crumpling mess about 200 yards away in a rabbit burrow.

About a half hour passed. When he finally regained consciousness, he
refocused his three eyes and straightened his bent antenna and looked
dazedly at the older, wiser alien who was standing over him shaking his big,
green head.

"What a ferocious creature!" exclaimed the young, fried alien. "He damn
near killed me! How did you know he was so dangerous?"

The older alien leaned over, placed a friendly feeler on his crispy friend
and replied, "If there's one thing I've learned during my intergalactic
travels, you don't want to mess with a guy who can wrap his penis around
himself twice and then stick it in his ear."

re: #227 littleoldlady

Ah... a friendly face, and bearing fruit!

Sharmuta! :-)

re: #230 Erik The Red

Running in the front door for fruitcup and out the back...>

Thanks {lol}

Who was that masked man?...:)

re: #243 Pass The Moonbaticide

I bought it at the html store!

& trade ; (take out the spaces.)

I just had two burgers and two orders of fries from In-N-Out...yikes.

And now for Fenway's Overseas Market Update:

Australia's All Ordinaries- down 2.22%

Shanghai Composite- down 3.76%

KOSPI Seoul Composite- down 2.93%

Johannesburg JSE Limited- down 1.04%

Hang Seng- down 3.04%

Mumbai's SENSEX- up 0.38%

New Zealand's NZSE50- down 1.67%

Singapore's Strait Times- down 1.33%

Nikkei- down 2.29%

Taiwan Weighted- down 2.39%

Tel Aviv's TA100 is closed due to the Passover holiday

So basically...not a good start to the trading day.

re: #246 freetoken

freetoken! :-)

re: #235 gmsc

And now, it's time for another chapter of "Originality in Hollywood":

Ice Age 3-D
Fast and Furious
The Taking of Pelham 123
Hannah Montana the Movie
Where the Wild Things Are
Tyson
Terminator Salvation

X-MEN Origins: Wolverine
17 Again (Tell me this isn't Big or 13 Going on 30)
Star Trek
Watchmen
Dragonball Evolution
Mutant Chronicles
Monsters Vs. Aliens
Race To Witch Mountain
Land of the Lost
G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

re: #250 TheMatrix31

Did you bring enough for everyone, young man?

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