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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    07/02/09

    In reply to Should Police Academy Alumni Direct Microsoft Ads? No.
    So, those two normal people got to meet both Bobcat Goldthwait and Dean Cain? Cool.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    07/02/09

    In reply to Should Police Academy Alumni Direct Microsoft Ads? No.
    I think they were trying to do something that was a little less mainstream


    Does Bobcat Goldthwait realize that that commercial was utterly, totally mainstream? It was a silly, predictable joke based on a single tired premise you could see coming at you from miles away like a forest fire.


    It was basically every episode of Two and a Half Men, but with puke.

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    Image of DeltaGuy DeltaGuy
    07/02/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: But isn't puke already in a regular episode of Two and a Half Men? Oh, no, that's Charlie Sheen's ego.
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    Image of Wrapitup Wrapitup
    07/02/09

    In reply to Should Police Academy Alumni Direct Microsoft Ads? No.
    Aw Jesus. Why, Dean Cain, why?
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    07/02/09

    @Wrapitup: I think he ate Lois.
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    Image of uncivilly obedient uncivilly obedient
    07/02/09

    In reply to Should Police Academy Alumni Direct Microsoft Ads? No.
    ....or you can continue to use Google's incognito window, like you've been doing for months.
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    Image of Mike_Hartley Mike_Hartley
    07/02/09

    @uncivily obedient: Not if you're on a mac because Google are losers.
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    Image of DeltaGuy DeltaGuy
    07/02/09

    @Mike_Hartley: But if you're on the mac, you're using Safari's private browing anyway.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/19/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Has An iPhone App
    Yeah, i've already downloaded it. As far as interfaces go, it's every bit as annoying and cumbersome as HuffPo's main webpage.
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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    04/19/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Has An iPhone App
    Meh, the Times probably swiped it from somewhere else already anyway. Newspapers aren't known for their originality.
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    Image of Worst Spelling Ever Worst Spelling Ever
    04/19/09

    @VoxPopuli: Shh. Everything posted here is from someplace else.


    I come here for two reasons.


    1) To hear you and Aaron and the rest's commentary on it.


    2) Put my dick mittens on Ryan Tate.


    So fuck where the news comes from. Bring on your noise and your funk.

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    Image of Private Hangnail Private Hangnail
    04/19/09

    @Worst Spelling Ever: Your dick has more than one mitten? I'd advise Ryan to steer clear; unless, of course, he's into that sort of thing.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/19/09

    @Worst Spelling Ever: what are dick mittens, and why does your dick, in particular, need such mittens?
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    Image of mmstk101 mmstk101
    04/19/09

    @Hydroceph: To keep the rest of us safe.
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    Image of TheMac TheMac
    11/24/08

    In reply to In Which I Try To Explain Twilight
    I once felt so irritated at the underlined sexism and religious repression in Twilight that I wrote a 3 page rant.


    But, yeah, I read all the books, and as soon as those pimply losers get their fill, I'm running to see it. Don't judge me!

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    Image of dandles dandles
    11/21/08

    In reply to In Which I Try To Explain Twilight
    Who cares if it's crap? At least bloody stupid human beings are reading something? Would you rather they watch the View?
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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    11/21/08

    @dandles: I wasn't aware that I told people not to read them.
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    Image of DorothyMantooth DorothyMantooth
    11/21/08

    In reply to In Which I Try To Explain Twilight
    Has Bulwer-Lytton perhaps started a series contest?
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    Image of minou minou
    11/21/08

    In reply to In Which I Try To Explain Twilight
    You want some insanely scary vampire fiction that is actually well written? McCarthy's "Outer Dark" is it. When I was reading it, I couldn't sleep if the book was in the same room.
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    Image of minou minou
    11/21/08

    @minou: Not that anyone asked.
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    Image of Multiphasic Multiphasic
    11/21/08

    @minou: Okay fine: could you sleep if the book was in the same room?


    Better?

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    Image of minou minou
    11/21/08

    @Multiphasic: No! Can you believe it?
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    Image of hellosunshine hellosunshine
    11/21/08

    @minou: And now I want that book NOW.
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    Image of Steverino Begins Steverino Begins
    11/21/08

    In reply to In Which I Try To Explain Twilight
    I think it's mostly #3. Most of the people reading this shit are teenyboppers who grew up with MTV Safe Sex specials playing 24/7; as a result, they're all either sluts or "good" girls who are somewhat fearful of sex now, so the whole vampire/dangerous sex thing makes sense to them. The good girls can have nice innocent parties together and play Clue and drink apple juice and talk about (ZOMG) Twilight and how that couple almost had sex and then a vampire ate them or whatever happens in these books, but it makes sense to them. (I'm basing all of that on my teenage cousin, btw.)
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/21/08

    In reply to In Which I Try To Explain Twilight
    angel, angel, angel, angel
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    Image of Dandy Darkly Dandy Darkly
    11/21/08

    In reply to In Which I Try To Explain Twilight
    Do not compare this shit to Buffy.
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    11/21/08

    @Dandy Darkly:


    Seconded and Thirded.

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    Image of hortense hortense
    11/21/08

    In reply to In Which I Try To Explain Twilight
    Sexually repressed vampires who sparkle in the sun.


    Is there anything we can't ruin anymore? Really?

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    Image of ADismalScience ADismalScience
    11/21/08

    In reply to In Which I Try To Explain Twilight
    This is a phenomenon wholly different than Harry Potter because it's for the cool kids. It's about the distant, pointless, unjustifiable feelings we have for larger-than-life caricatures of sex and sexuality. The characters have no greater cause than themselves and no sophisticated way to express their selfish, aging needs beyond the "love" they supposedly have for each other. It's the first tween book phenomenon that wholly and totally captures the empty narcissism of our modern celebrity culture.


    I'll be seeing the movie tonight at 7!

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    Image of NinaHagen NinaHagen
    11/21/08

    @ADismalScience: There Will Be Blood!
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    Image of PimpMyCouch PimpMyCouch
    11/21/08

    @ADismalScience: Dismal, are you really just a teenage girl and have been putting on this cynical banker act this whole time?
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    Image of ADismalScience ADismalScience
    11/21/08

    @PimpMyCouch:


    No. It's some form of relationship payback for my Sunday football ritual, I suspect.

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    Image of PimpMyCouch PimpMyCouch
    11/21/08

    @ADismalScience: Ah, yes. The ancient ritual of I-sat-through-your-silly-game-now-sit-through-my-beloved-movie-and-if-you-snicker-I'll-cut-you. How I adore it!
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    Image of PimpMyCouch PimpMyCouch
    11/21/08

    @PimpMyCouch: "sit through my beloved movie and if you snicker I'll cut you" got truncated. Ellipsis monster!
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    Image of DorothyMantooth DorothyMantooth
    11/21/08

    @ADismalScience: Youur review was brilliant, m'dear.

    And I'd advise you to get good and liquored up before 7:00!
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    11/21/08

    @DorothyMantooth: I just read it. It is priceless.


    "You know how reading a long book can make your limbs fall asleep because you get engrossed and sit in one place for too long? As Twilight ends you'll think you've done that at first, but it's actually diabetes."

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