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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    12/03/09

    In reply to Comcast Buys a Bunch of Awesome Cable Networks and Some Broadcast Thing Called 'NBC'
    Yes. Grow like a creeping, ancient, underground fungus, o slimy, inevitable Comcast!

    My plot to grow rich selling silkscreened "FUCK COMCAST" shirts to frustrated midwestern college students trying to torrent indie rock/(indie?) porn at 3kbps is coming to fruition!

    Remember, in case of emergency, do this:

    [www.washingtonpost.com]
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    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    12/03/09

    In reply to Comcast Buys a Bunch of Awesome Cable Networks and Some Broadcast Thing Called 'NBC'
    Is this what those Time Warner "roll over or get tough" ads are about? Are they making a pre-emptive strike against Comcast trying to rape them over USA & Bravo? Or is this just their own usual evil saber-rattling?
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    Image of daveyjonesisdead daveyjonesisdead
    12/03/09

    In reply to Comcast Buys a Bunch of Awesome Cable Networks and Some Broadcast Thing Called 'NBC'
    A regional cable player owning national entertainment properties? how is that synergistic? They still have to sell the shows to other cable companies and Verizon and AT&T in the rest of the country. Are those other companies going to want to pay top dollar for A&E or Bravo when they know that money is going to a competitor (granted, in the case of cable companies, not a territorial competitor, but a competitor in the potentional purchase of other cable franchises). How does a cable company support TV Anywhere, when it's a product that invariably will cause people to question the value of paying a cable and internet bill?

    Basically, this makes no sense at all.
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    12/03/09

    In reply to Comcast Buys a Bunch of Awesome Cable Networks and Some Broadcast Thing Called 'NBC'
    Comcast is the most vile company ever. Bunch of thieves.
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    12/03/09

    In reply to Comcast Buys a Bunch of Awesome Cable Networks and Some Broadcast Thing Called 'NBC'
    I'm fairly certain Jeff Zucker can roast a human baby on a spit in the middle of Times Square, gnaw on it like a corndog and still not get fired.
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    Image of Anne Boleyn Anne Boleyn
    11/19/09

    In reply to The Vampires Are Coming! Lock Up Your Checkbooks
    Personally I can't wait until the last Twilight book comes out as a movie. I will be watching it just for the epic lulz and WTF-factor.

    I have to give Stephenie Meyer props, she may not be a good writer (she should be much chagrined at that chagrining notion) but she did manage to relate an experience of childbirth that it infinitely more disgusting and horrifying than actual childbirth (teeth and sparkles!!), which takes some talent in my opinion.
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    sarrible promoted this comment Anne Boleyn was starred Anne Boleyn was unstarred
    Image of sarrible sarrible
    11/19/09

    @Anne Boleyn: Oh my god, me too. I am embarrassed to say that the fourth book is totally my favorite, because shit gets real. Also the Stephen King–y birth sequence is just so gross and awesome. I cannot wait to see how they try and get that a PG-13.
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    Image of TheUptightMidwesterner TheUptightMidwesterner
    11/19/09

    @Anne Boleyn: I tried to work in some subliminal Mormon thing with that scene, but I was at a loss.
    It was was just that fucked up for absolutely no reason.
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    Image of eatsshootsleaves eatsshootsleaves
    11/19/09

    @Anne Boleyn: Oh Jesus, ME TOO. After that book came out, I was content to read the wikipedia summary, and it is CLASSIC.

    I'm just looking forward to seeing them handle the hot werewolf falling in love with a newborn child. Gotta love the Christian values in this book.
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    Edited by eatsshootsleaves at 11/19/09 1:59 PM eatsshootsleaves was starred eatsshootsleaves was unstarred
    Image of jessica.ann jessica.ann
    11/19/09

    @TheUptightMidwesterner: It exists! Part of the pro-life message. The mother is willing to undergo massive amounts of pain and potentially die for her freakish, stomach tearing offspring. She does whatever is needed to preserve the life of the baby! She knows it is going to kill her to give birth but she is totally pro-life.

    But if you're specifically referring to the teeth gnawing through her stomach as some kind of metaphor, well yeah, you've got me there!
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    TheUptightMidwesterner promoted this comment jessica.ann was starred jessica.ann was unstarred
    Image of eatsshootsleaves eatsshootsleaves
    11/19/09

    In reply to The Vampires Are Coming! Lock Up Your Checkbooks
    No offense, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, but I don't think you're the reason the Harry Potter franchise makes billions of dollars.
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    Image of blix blix
    11/19/09

    @eatsshootsleaves: It's magically auspicious.
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    Image of RonMwangaguhunga RonMwangaguhunga
    10/20/09

    In reply to The Peter Chernin-Comcast Conspiracy Is Revealed
    How does Jeff Zucker keep keeping his job? I don't get it. Does he have, like, secret photos of God or something? #peterchernin
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    10/20/09

    In reply to The Peter Chernin-Comcast Conspiracy Is Revealed
    You, sir, are a keeper.
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    Edited by Uncle_Billy_Slumming at 10/20/09 2:53 PM Uncle_Billy_Slumming was starred Uncle_Billy_Slumming was unstarred
    Image of Clare Clare
    10/12/09

    In reply to Jeff Zucker's Great Escapes
    Where does the Natalie Portman rap (0:34) fit into this timeline?
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    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    10/12/09

    @Clare: Nowhere. Lorne Michaels is a universe unto himself. (Classic bit!)
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    10/12/09

    In reply to Jeff Zucker's Great Escapes
    So, is Zucker a douchebag who sucks at his job or a nice guy who sucks at his job? If he's a nice guy, bully for him!
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    Image of John Cook John Cook
    10/12/09

    @Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: Jeff Zucker is definitely not a nice guy. But having met with him, I have to say his bravado and arrogance can come off as rather charming, in a dickish older brother kind of way.
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    10/12/09

    @John Cook: There's something to be said for the "dickish older brother" vibe. Maybe he stays afloat based on the hope that he'll get what's coming to him?
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    Image of MattLauerthePharmacist MattLauerthePharmacist
    10/12/09

    @Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: I used to work in corporate and met big Z a few times... he's a child working in the costume of an ugly, sad man. He hasn't been fired because he's a great puppet of the GE mafioso and delivers the $$ that they crave, session C after session C (GE Speak). CFO Lynn Calpeter really runs the show and big Z just vomits out the same sad message of his corporate puppet-masters. If you really want to have fun pointing fingers for the NBC spiral, look upwards to Don Immelt.
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    Richard Petty Bourgeoisie approved this comment MattLauerthePharmacist was starred MattLauerthePharmacist was unstarred
    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    10/01/09

    In reply to What Would a Comcast Purchase of NBC Universal Mean?
    Why hasn't Comcast denied that it raped and murdered a girl in 1990?
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    Image of Magister Magister
    10/01/09

    In reply to What Would a Comcast Purchase of NBC Universal Mean?
    My worry would be Hulu and online TV in general.

    I'm sure Comcast would prefer people to use their subscription service (cable) and Murdoch has been making noise about charging fees. So if Comcast were to get a chunk of Hulu and become the source for a large segment of licensed online video content, it'd only be a matter of time until we're all paying a nickel, whenever we want to watch tee-vee.
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    Edited by Magister at 10/01/09 2:24 PM Magister was starred Magister was unstarred
    Image of dirtydeer dirtydeer
    10/01/09

    In reply to What Would a Comcast Purchase of NBC Universal Mean?
    But what does this all mean for the Sheinhardt Wig Company?
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    Image of daveyjonesisdead daveyjonesisdead
    10/01/09

    In reply to What Would a Comcast Purchase of NBC Universal Mean?
    A purchase would mean Comcast is doubling-down on it's bleak future - tv will be via the internet, internet will be wireless. revenues won't support big productions, etc.
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    ModestProposal promoted this comment daveyjonesisdead was starred daveyjonesisdead was unstarred
    Image of ModestProposal ModestProposal
    10/01/09

    @daveyjonesisdead: Comcast delivers the internet. If video goes away, they just charge more for broadband.

    Internet will be wireless, but only as an add on to wireline. Capacity and throughput of wireless are simply not enough, even in 4G, to have 100 million households watching video. Wireless supplement, but not replace, wireline.

    Ask ATT how the data usage from iPhones is treating their wireless network.
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