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    Image of labyrinthine IS DOING THIS labyrinthine IS DOING THIS
    07/05/09

    In reply to Can Harry Potter's Magic Cure John Edwards' PR Issues Or His Co-Star's Swine Flu?
    also...wow, you're right, Foster: that Gansevoort place looks positively douchetastic.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    07/05/09

    @labyrinthine IS DOING THIS: I've admittedly infiltrated it before. $14 drinks that taste like shit. A great view. Always a line in front. But maybe the worst bar in New York, all said and done. Truly.
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    Image of maude_flanders maude_flanders
    07/05/09

    In reply to Can Harry Potter's Magic Cure John Edwards' PR Issues Or His Co-Star's Swine Flu?
    I'm sorry Rumer Willis, but you're no Wallace Shawn. You just aren't."


    I'm an idiot for asking, but that's a joke, right?


    How many viewers of GG actually know that 1) Wallace Shawn is a playwright (in addition to being an actor) and 2) He was "Rex" from Toy Story (first movie from which I recognize that name...damn is Pixar good)?


    Damn right Rumer isn't Wallace Shawn...the audience demographic will have a (slightly) higher chance of knowing who the hell she is.


    Maybe the adults that guiltily admit to watching this beautiful-looking, questionably-written show would recognize him. (I'm in that group of "adults" who know the beautiful pool is tainted "meh" writing but came back to drink for both seasons...sigh.)

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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    07/05/09

    @maude_flanders: Believe me, I've seen My Dinner With Andre. It's no Gossip Girl. But The Princess Bride, on the other hand...
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    07/05/09

    In reply to Can Harry Potter's Magic Cure John Edwards' PR Issues Or His Co-Star's Swine Flu?
    Also, and I may have linked this before, but I think it still has mileage:


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    Image of onehotmess onehotmess
    07/05/09

    @Mount_Prion: Is that a dress or is she molting?
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    07/05/09

    @onehotmess: In my opinion, which is utterly unimportant, the fact that you managed to make the above image worse means you deserve your star.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    07/05/09

    In reply to Can Harry Potter's Magic Cure John Edwards' PR Issues Or His Co-Star's Swine Flu?
    Oh man, that description could only be better if it was the Crow II soundtrack.


    I snorted.

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    Image of Scout 3.0 Scout 3.0
    07/05/09

    In reply to Can Harry Potter's Magic Cure John Edwards' PR Issues Or His Co-Star's Swine Flu?
    I guess Edwards is checking how long his nose is, in that mirror.
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    Image of Oxycontin Merry-go-round Oxycontin Merry-go-round
    07/05/09

    @Scout 3.0: I thought he was checking his hairline to ensure that his deal with the devil was still intact.
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    Image of katekate is squared katekate is squared
    07/05/09

    @Scout 3.0: It sort of looks like he's gearing up to punch somebody. To me his internal monologue must go something like this:


    "Hey, what are you looking at, motherfucker? You don't like this fucking $600 haircut? I'm gonna knock you out, you handsome bastard."

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    Image of Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
    07/05/09

    @Oxycontin Merry-go-round: It's hard to appreciate that golden fiddle when your wife is beating you publicly with it.
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    Image of Private Hangnail Private Hangnail
    07/05/09

    In reply to Can Harry Potter's Magic Cure John Edwards' PR Issues Or His Co-Star's Swine Flu?
    Courtney is always welcome to stay at my house, where the rooms have already been conveniently trashed.
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    Image of katekate is squared katekate is squared
    07/05/09

    @Private Hangnail: Be careful. You'll never get the smell of desperation out of your drapes.
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    Image of britneyspearstears britneyspearstears
    12/22/08

    In reply to CNN First to Kill News 'Crawl'
    They should reserve the crawl for related information or non-news anecdotes... it's always odd when they throw something serious up there, and you only catch the last half "...hundreds dead, people living in or around the downtown area are advised to stay indoors, 'mass epidemic certain' says CDC spokesperson, stay tuned for more information."
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    Image of Dolomite Dolomite
    12/22/08

    In reply to CNN First to Kill News 'Crawl'
    Again, people annoyed by something they are perfectly capable of just fucking ignoring.
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    12/22/08

    @Dolomite: You're one to talk - you got awful mad when I came over and poked you repeatedly with a stick. Why couldn't you just fucking ignore it?
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    Image of eatsshootsleaves eatsshootsleaves
    12/22/08

    In reply to CNN First to Kill News 'Crawl'
    Meh, the crawl is the LEAST offensive part of cable news. I'd rather read a bunch of headlines than have to listen to whatever passes for "analysis" on CNN these days.
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    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    12/21/08

    In reply to CNN First to Kill News 'Crawl'
    What CNN has replaced it with it even worse: a white panel with black text (ehich is harsher to the eye) that either summarizes the story going on above it, or something even more benign.
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    unclevanya was starred unclevanya was unstarred
    Image of Shelwood Shelwood
    12/21/08

    @unclevanya: I've been missing Pop-Up Video. Can they make it do the *ploop* sound, too?
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    Image of Moff Moff
    12/21/08

    In reply to CNN First to Kill News 'Crawl'
    Only seven years old? Really? I feel like it's been with us for so much longer.
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    Image of tunamelt tunamelt
    12/21/08

    @Moff: That's what I was wondering. There's no way it's that young! But, then again, it's not like I actually watched the news before 9/11 so really, the crawl is all I know.


    Don't take my reality away from me, CNN.

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    Image of llamalash★ llamalash★
    12/21/08

    @tunamelt: I'm thinking someone in research dropped the ball. It has to be older than 9/11.
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    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    12/21/08

    @llamalash: No, I remember it distinctly, the phenomenom popped up right after 9/11. Before that, it was only used by financial channels/shows to roll out real-time stock prices.
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    unclevanya was starred unclevanya was unstarred
    Image of badasscat badasscat
    12/22/08

    @tunamelt: Crawls existed before 9/11, but they were rarely used. They were not a standard feature of every news broadcast like they are now. They were mostly relegated to financial news and *occasionally* to breaking news, especially when there was more than one major story happening at the same time, or there were a bunch of different angles to it.


    On 9/11, they put the crawl on (justifiably) but then they just forgot to turn it off.

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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    12/21/08

    In reply to CNN First to Kill News 'Crawl'
    Life will not be worth living without animated gifs and other graphical wonders taking up the bottom third of the screen.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    12/21/08

    In reply to CNN First to Kill News 'Crawl'
    How will paranoid psychotics get their personalized instructions, now?
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    Image of Dickdogfood Dickdogfood
    12/21/08

    @Baroness: The weather report. Like, duh.
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    Image of LilyBlue LilyBlue
    12/21/08

    @Baroness: Tin foil hats. In fact, if you had a tin foil hat, it would have told you to pay no attention the crawl. It would have told you that the crawl was just something put out by your enemies to seduce you to the dark side.


    In fact, given this whole recession we're going through, I think I'm going to start a tin foil hat business. Perhaps I'll advertise on CNN. Or, if I can't afford CNN, maybe I'll advertise on Gawker.

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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    12/21/08

    @Baroness:


    Dogs.


    We're going back to the 70s.

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    12/21/08

    @Smitros: Uh-oh, not so good for brunettes if we are!
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    12/21/08

    @BookishLookish:


    I have clout with dogs. I'll try to change their minds on this one.

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    Image of LilyBlue LilyBlue
    12/21/08

    In reply to CNN First to Kill News 'Crawl'
    I love the crawl. Maybe it's just my ADD talking, but I like the crawl. I mean, thank god you get something to read while you listen. But those annoying vignette ads that pop up while you're watching something must go. If I wanted to watch "The Closer", that's what I'd be watching. All the network is doing by putting that ad up while I'm watching my show of choice is make me that much less likely to watch my show of choice.
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    Image of Alys Brangwin has a huge talent Alys Brangwin has a huge talent
    12/21/08

    @LilyBlue: I'm ADD and there's no way I can watch any of the news channels without losing my mind. The constant scrolling bothers me along with the images. One time I saw the ticker, the split screen, the time on the side of the monitor, the bug at the top left of the monitor and it made me want to lay down and take an aspirin.
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    Image of Dickdogfood Dickdogfood
    12/21/08

    In reply to CNN First to Kill News 'Crawl'
    Was it my imagination, or did CNN or Fox once have two simultaneous crawls during their non-financial-news programming?
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