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Rebellitor — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:20:54 EDT

@Botswana Meat Commission FC: Help is on the way.

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DigitalVersicolor — Sat, 10 May 2008 05:15:27 EDT

zomg ppl its just a show! A funny, awesome, perfect-for-chilling-and-having-a -laugh-with-your-mates show. Why are we even giving credence to USAToday's verbal diarrhea?

DigitalVersicolor

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Rebellitor — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:05:59 EDT

@jackvinyl: Lies!

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Beesley — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:19:15 EDT

I think the show is getting better in better!

Beesley

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themediatrix — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:54:36 EDT

@BeRightBack:
and
@Richard:

heheheh - yes. My humor may not always translate (apparently).
: )

themediatrix

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jackvinyl — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:08:25 EDT

@devendra4eva: hey, that was 2 years ago!

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devendra4eva — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:56:15 EDT

the Jenna/Roseanne/Tom threesome.... OMGROTFLOLOLOLOLOL

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Astroblack — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:54:33 EDT

"Starting" to suck? No.

Astroblack

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BalknChain — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:43:49 EDT

@scroll_lock: My ears ARE pinned :(

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jackvinyl — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:43:21 EDT

@Koreanish: Somewhere out there in the interworlds there is a blog filled up with straight rural home-schooled white inbred people bloggity-blog-blogging about how much they love What About Jim (or whatever that James Belushi show is) and some sassy-talking, opinionated geh is trying to ruin their parade.

And if Denton was smart he'd add that site to the roster b/c it probably gets mad page views... it's a mad,mad,mad,mad world.

jackvinyl

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scroll_lock — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:40:08 EDT

@BalknChain: Get those ears pinned back and the loose abdominal skin tucked and you're all set to live the really long life of a good looking person.

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jackvinyl — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:38:59 EDT

@djjamestaylor: I say yes - more Scott Adsit and NOOOO Arrested D did not/does not/will not suck. nuh-uh. nope.

You probably hate on Sunny In Philadelphia too?

jackvinyl

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Rebellitor — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:38:04 EDT

I'm so tired of having to stoop to conquer with creeps like this "tipster"...can't he just go watch non-stop Idol reruns and leave our 30 Rock alone?!!!!

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djjamestaylor — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:31:47 EDT

Oh, and last night's was better than any other this season. Some nice callbacks throughout.

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djjamestaylor — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:30:43 EDT

The show has started sucking since the second season. Why don't they try writing a single episode where they utilize every cast member (how many lines has Scott Adsit had?) instead of bringing in guest stars. Instead of jokes coming out of the plot and how characters interact with each other, people just talk like they're always telling jokes. I thought Arrested development sucked though.

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DonPardoCalrissian — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:45:16 EDT

@Nard38: Aviator helmet. This guy is SO steampunk.

I haven't watched last night's yet but the jokes were a bit broader and jokier last week. But still riotously funny and worth a thousand of your mortal Earth shows.

DonPardoCalrissian

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Feh Am Legend — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:33:45 EDT

Armageddon sucked? Jeeze, I wish someone would be so kind as to explain to me, scene for scene, how I missed that.

Feh Am Legend

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BalknChain — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:32:54 EDT

@scroll_lock: I got my fingers crossed! Yes, the surgery worked, with the sixth one gone from each hand I am much more dexterous.

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Bellyboop — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:08:08 EDT

I'm so glad this emailer set me straight about 30 Rock like he did in his dorm over Armageddon. He seems really qualified to tell us about good TV. Geez, Numbnuts - it's just a tv show. People enjoy it. Save your energy for something meaningful.

Bellyboop

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sassypants — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:06:02 EDT

@rubyruby: Heh. Yup. Knocks out all of the bad juju trying to get into his head. Unfortunately also derails any attempt at proper spelling, grammar or syntax.

sassypants

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scroll_lock — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:05:13 EDT

@BalknChain: I'm a shoo-in for rising 8th grader next year. Third time's the charm.

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BalknChain — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:02:46 EDT

@scroll_lock: oh Lord, no. I passed autoshop after giving the teacher treats just like mama suggested.

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scroll_lock — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:50:23 EDT

@BalknChain: Finally getting that G.E.D? Yay!

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thebeerbitch — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:49:16 EDT

"gay urban liberal art school grad white people"

WTF?! I'm a straight conservative ag school grad and only marginally white, and I love 30 Rock. So in the words of Liz Lemon: "That guy can eat my poo!"

thebeerbitch

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BalknChain — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:36:55 EDT

@scroll_lock: Speaking of Rod, he will be returning your stomach pump, well he used it as a stomach pump, after a thorough cleansing. Oh and Rip Taylor loved your guest appearance and said you were a great sport about him removing your toupee and flinging it into the audience with confetti. Happy days are here again. BTW, your toup is in the mail.
*I was cramming for finals recently and had a lot of last minute homework to complete. So I was up nearly around the clock for the past few days and some commenters helped keep me on my toes late into the night :) God love 'em! Won't be like that all the time.

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scroll_lock — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:28:10 EDT

@BalknChain: Speaking of hocking up, I heard that old Rod Stewart rumor was really about you.
Kudos for deflecting attention from the fact that you're gay by mentioning the IT probs. If further underscores your total, utter, and complete gayness. Charles Nelson Reilly and Paul Lynde famously claimed they'd love to be as gay as you, if only they had it in them.

*serious answer- I'd love to be but familial obligations/schedules do not permit my participation. I know you have kids so I'm amazed that you're able to! Mondays when I log in sometimes I see you've been on there really late. How do you do it?

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BalknChain — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:21:38 EDT

@scroll_lock: Still trying to hock up your "liquid lunch?" Like salmon swimming upstream isn't it?
*serious question:why are you not around on weekends and nights?

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scroll_lock — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:18:28 EDT

@BalknChain: *ahem* I was unable to comment for hours, HOURS this morning. I was jonesing under my desk, rocking back and forth. You know, like how you are for the better part of your workdays.

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grand_meaulnes — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:17:16 EDT

As Jesse Jackson once said on SNL, the question is moot. Now that "Supernatural" has moved to 9 p.m. Thursdays, my DVR no longer has room to record "30 Rock." (And despite the fact that he's employed by USA Today, Robert Bianco is actually one of the better TV critics around.)

grand_meaulnes

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BalknChain — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:16:07 EDT

@scroll_lock: Oh, so YOU'RE why I could not comment? Un Chien Andalu was caught up in the collateral damage as was Mike Jahn. Now we know who to blame. [scowling]

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In Other News... — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:13:22 EDT

@EddieTheDane: Sorry Eddie. You were wrong.

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scroll_lock — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:07:01 EDT

If I'd known this email would make such a fuss I would have stopped BalknChain from writing it. Attention-ho. Gay, too.

Botswana Meat Commission FC

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EddieTheDane — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:00:11 EDT

Watched my first episode since the strike last night and definitely thought it was flat. Prolly ought to keep Liz Lemon and Jack Donaghy in the same building, if not in the same room.

Still, this guy's rant was in USA Today, right?

Dunne and Donne.

EddieTheDane

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Gabberdoo — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:46:44 EDT

RAINBOW CHICKEN!
COOTER BURGER!

Gabberdoo

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cubacowboy — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:45:11 EDT

last night's episode did suck, but normally it is pure genius.

gay - nope, but homo-friendly (as method for picking up art school chicks)
urban - yes, but southern so you new yorkers still hate me
liberal - damn straight, i ain't stupid
art school grad - hell yes, and poor too
white people - yes, but i feel guilty about that (see "liberal" above)

cubacowboy

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AuntPenny — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:37:09 EDT

@Conbon: But is it Ludachristmas? Oh yes.

AuntPenny

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atltony — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:30:10 EDT

Best line ever: Hey nerds, who has two thumbs, speaks limited French and didn't cry once today? This moi!

atltony

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Lonesome_George — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:29:35 EDT

30 Rock, more like Gayty Rock.

Lonesome_George

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BeRightBack — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:27:45 EDT

@SuperBien: Thanks, but that's why I made my comment, girlfriend. I just couldn't believe that comment was made seriously, for obvious reasons.

BeRightBack

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SarahMcL — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:25:47 EDT

What is he talking about, Armageddon was amazing. Steve Buscemi as astronaut, Aerosmith ballad, Bruce Willis blows himself up. What's not to love.

SarahMcL

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Botswana Meat Commission FC — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:25:15 EDT

I'm not gay... yet.

Gawker will help you with that. It can't get you into Sarah Lawrence, though.

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Schadenfriend — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:19:40 EDT

The past few episodes have ventured into the absurd...but after the genius of "It's not a Lemon party without old Dick!", 30 Rock can suck for two seasons before I start to notice.

Schadenfriend

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Mr. Kim Gordons Panties — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:19:18 EDT

You gays are so witty!

Mr. Kim Gordons Panties

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Senor_Wences — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:18:50 EDT

@curlysue: Wasn't in Ohio, was it?

Senor_Wences

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ms.creant — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:18:35 EDT

Tipster seems to be making as many friends here as I'm assuming he did back in college. Of course, chalk me up as one of those who loved last night's episode, especially for the 'rainbow chicken' moment. I will never be able to look at the NBC logo the same way again, and for that I thank 30 Rock.

ms.creant

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xhack — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:17:16 EDT

@bellethellama: Yes! The Amadeus end to Corporate Liz was so good.

xhack

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Jill7 — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:15:02 EDT

I lurve 30 Rock, but since I realized it's an updated version of The Mary Tyler Moore, it doesn't seem all that fresh any more. Plucky, perennial bachelorette working on TV show; curmudgeonly boss-mentor, 7-dwarves-type collection of eccentric co-workers. And I'm not just saying that because I'm in Minnesota, where the men are men and so are the women.

Jill7

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Senor_Wences — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:13:08 EDT

@Nina Hagen: You have my envy by association. How good would that have been, being taken to the cleaners by Mrs. Wences?

Senor_Wences

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Dave J. — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:12:30 EDT

Well, it's still good, still one of the best shows on TV, but the last few episodes have just been missing...something. Not quite sure what it is. I feel the same way about The Office. The shows have been funny, but the overall feel of the show is just a bit off. I'm tempted to blame the strike in some way, like the extended absence from writing disrupted the writers' sense of the show. Dunno. It's kind of odd. I don't think it's "starting to suck," but it's definitely reaching for some jokes it would have avoided a season ago.

Dave J.

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Mediahohoho — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:12:08 EDT

And you know, now that we've had our world's rocked vis a vis one of the world's great cinematic masterworks, I'm wondering if our critic her would care to dispense some wisdome on the relative merits of Bad Boys with Sean Penn and Clancy Brown versus Bad Boys starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. Because I need a real cinefile's perspective here.

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curlysue — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:09:52 EDT

My gay white liberal arts school was in the middle of a corn field, thankyouverymuch.

curlysue

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SuperBien — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:09:04 EDT

@BeRightBack: @MyCubeHas3Sides: @themediatrix: Add the 30 Rock's First Season DVD set to your Netflix.

SuperBien

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Mediahohoho — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:09:00 EDT

@Conbon: Oh.

It's a numerology thing.

@AuntPenny: [www.isitchristmas.com]

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Our Lady of the Massacre — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:07:47 EDT

@HeyThatsMyBike: Sing it, sistah!

Our Lady of the Massacre

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fileunder — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:07:18 EDT

I'm gay, but not Fey.

fileunder

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bellethellama — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:06:47 EDT

@DorothyMantooth: Corporate Liz and The Hunted were two of my favorite moments of TV all season.

bellethellama

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Sigerson — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:04:57 EDT

Cooter Burger was heeelarious. I had to rewind his little fist waving joy when CC agreed to help get them fired for the "gay bomb". And the new CEO who puts a Hot Wheels car in her mouth was priceless.

Sigerson

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NinaHagen — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:04:01 EDT

@Senor_Wences: I know someone who used to play poker with Senor Wences' wife - really. I think she was like 100 years old and a total card shark.

NinaHagen

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kennethellen — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:03:46 EDT

@themediatrix: Maybe you've never seen our little show?

kennethellen

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rubyruby — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:01:24 EDT

@sassypants: Is the hat the thing that stole all of his apostrophes?

rubyruby

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hallsoats — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:01:21 EDT

@Chaim Gnadelstein: Just spewed coffee across my desk.

hallsoats

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NinaHagen — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:01:03 EDT

@Conbon: Shoot, I thought you were our token mascot.

NinaHagen

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SarahHeartburn — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:58:42 EDT

@moff: From a mensch like you to a total shiksa like me, that is a bentching.

(Lenny was right.)

SarahHeartburn

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Conbon — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:58:35 EDT

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sassypants — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:57:13 EDT

@Nard38: Don't forget the tinfoil hat.

sassypants

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DorothyMantooth — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:56:56 EDT

@CrankYank: And also follows up any contact between himself and another dude with "No homo."

DorothyMantooth

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AuntPenny — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:55:48 EDT

I know I'm totally a "gay urban liberal blah blah something." And by "gay," I mean "very happy and excited for Christmas."

The last few episodes were so surreal, I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be just part of Don Geiss' coma dreamland.

AuntPenny

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Moff — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:55:35 EDT

@SarahHeartburn: BRILLIANT.

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Squirrelwars — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:55:20 EDT

Yeesh. When I read that email, I had flashbacks to the time I used to read the brilliant (heh) comments on YouTube and TMZ during fits of boredom. This emailer is one of those hotheads who can't express a point of view without being either racist, homophobic, or misogynistic.

By the way, I love 30 Rock. And I am not white, gay, nor an art or grad school student. (Fine, I'm mostly liberal. You got me. ) Foo on you, emailer.

Squirrelwars

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DorothyMantooth — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:54:58 EDT

@Senor_Wences: Awesome! I'll never be able to watch Armageddon the same way again.

@Clarence Rosario: Deciding between Volcano and Dante's Peak posed a real existential crisis for him, though.

DorothyMantooth

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Spirit Fingers — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:54:12 EDT

@Conbon: From Yiddish, to fall down from extreme excitememnt or abhorance. OR
To shock, surprise, take aback, astound to the extent of fainting or "shitting oneself"

Courtesy of urbandictionary.com.

But of course, in your case, you may also be right.

Spirit Fingers

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SarahHeartburn — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:53:58 EDT

@Conbon: You're SO goy.

SarahHeartburn

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MyCubeHas3Sides — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:53:02 EDT

@CrankYank: Maybe make up a new word trend for him?
Fromo = freakishly homo
Streer = straightly queer
Quod = queer in an "odd" way
G.B.N.I.A.G.W. = Gay but not in a Gay Way!
Just brainstorming here...more Coffee, Stat!

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Chaim Gnadelstein — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:52:38 EDT

I applaud Robert Bianco for being a contrarian in an ocean of diarrhea...

Quick -- which Counting Crows song?

Chaim Gnadelstein

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Nard — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:52:12 EDT

@moff: I was actually thinking orthodontic headgear, but wrestling works better. So, thank YOU for that image.

Nard

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Moff — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:51:32 EDT

@Conbon: I think it's Yiddish for "fantasize about having sex with all the other men here," plotzer.

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calculatrix — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:51:20 EDT

The sad truth is that sometimes, when a show can't book real comediennes like Britney Spears, they have to settle for "lame ass vh1/human giant/arbitrary humor/hipster" guest stars. I think it's a sign that the recession has started to hit sitcoms.

I'm sorry, but the Alec Baldwin/Matthew Broderick stuff last night was pure gold. I am installing a pen closet at work immediately.

calculatrix

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In Other News... — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:51:18 EDT

@Don Is: I'm with you. And when we're done, we're gonna send him off with the DVD set of "Quarterlife" he's always wanted.

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DorothyMantooth — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:51:07 EDT

@moff: That hit a bit too close to home, eh, Daredevil-lover?

The Office and 30 Rock is by far the wonderful-est hour of television. Tipster can go to hell.
And should really, really look into what his selective use of apostrophes says about his own gayness.
(Yeah, I don't know what that last part mean, either.)

DorothyMantooth

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Clarence Rosario — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:50:34 EDT

Ironically, he thought Deep Impact was brilliant.

Clarence Rosario

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BalknChain — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:49:36 EDT

@moff: well, I do like men@Bell County: it's good to be home
That is angry letter writer who needs to calm the hell down before I bring it down to his level and get all "I'm rubber you're glue" on his ass.

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Conbon — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:49:25 EDT

@Spirit Fingers: I don't know what plotz means. It sounds gay.

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CrankYank — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:48:33 EDT

@MyCubeHas3Sides:
Yes, but can you do that in reverse? Just like you can't use queer now without having a "gay" undertone, you can't say gay without some inference to sexuality. Harumph!

CrankYank

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HeyThatsMyBike — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:47:41 EDT

Ahem, "gay urban liberal art school grad white people" AND THEIR HAGS, thank you.

HeyThatsMyBike

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Don Is — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:47:27 EDT

Can you let this JFPesque fuckstick comment here? At least for the day? Imagine the fun! Imagine it!

Don Is

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Spirit Fingers — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:47:13 EDT

@Richard: I knew Conbon was gonna plotz. He just got us to stop doing it, and here you go.

I also have a feeling no one left any erasable messages on this guy's dorm room door.

Spirit Fingers

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In Other News... — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:46:59 EDT

Richard - WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?

Can I vote "No" more than once please? Like 10,000 TIMES?

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MyCubeHas3Sides — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:46:35 EDT

@CrankYank: Should be using the word "queer" I think, right?
Queer = odd, strange, etc. Only later in its life turned toward meaning a sexual orientation.

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roodles — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:46:29 EDT

@moff: ...but its like the time back in college when everybody on my dorm room floor thought Armageddon was good...I basically made it my project to explain to each individual scene by scene why it was so absolutely terrible."

holy shit, i did that too. Did I write this e-mail in a drunken stupor last night? nah too many of his insults about Tina Fey's jokes apply to me: urban, grad school, artsy, liberal, friend of geighs...

roodles

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Clarence Rosario — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:46:12 EDT

Also, it looks like someone needs to lay off the fiber.

Clarence Rosario

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Bell County — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:45:48 EDT

@BalknChain: Welcome back!

Bell County

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lawyergay — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:45:21 EDT

@moff: Right...of all my college memories, the ones I'll cherish most are those all-nighters we pulled listening the guy on the floor whose name no one was quite sure of telling us why movies we liked actually sucked.

lawyergay

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Moff — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:45:01 EDT

@BalknChain: It went through! So you're gay!

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CrankYank — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:44:44 EDT

I bet this guys is like my irritating friends who say "gay" as a derogatory term, and insist that is has nothing to do with sexual orientation. "It just means stupid and freakish, it has nothing to do with being gay." Uh huh, tell me another one.

CrankYank

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Conbon — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:44:43 EDT

@Mediahohoho: 11 or 00. Not 10.

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BalknChain — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:44:28 EDT

@BalknChain: woo hoo!!

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Moff — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:44:17 EDT

@Nard38: Wrestling headgear or orthodontic headgear? I'm going with wrestling. And thank you for the awesome image.

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BalknChain — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:44:16 EDT

test

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angelheadedhipster — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:44:06 EDT

Um . . . is it a problem that "gay urban liberal art school grad white people" literally describes me to a T? No wonder I love this show!

angelheadedhipster

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Clarence Rosario — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:43:47 EDT

@MyCubeHas3Sides: First season.

Clarence Rosario

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MyCubeHas3Sides — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:43:39 EDT

@BeRightBack: I'd be interested in his scene-by-scene dissection of that newer s(h)it-com "Up in the House" (I think that's the name) starring Flava Flav.
eeeww, I couldn't sit through the first 5 minutes, terrible; and I am usually forgiving/less hatey on sit-coms in general.

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Senor_Wences — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:43:25 EDT

Hey, lookit me! I can comment on this gay blog! Gayity gay gay gayyyy!

And, sadly, since I did go to a gay liberal art school, I missed the experience of living in a dorm where everyone on the floor loved 'Armageddon'. And the added treat of some Wile E. Coyote (Supergenius) patiently sitting each of us down and deconstructing it scene by scene...

"Look, asteroids are gay and NASA is for fags. Bruce Willis, see here, look how gay he is looking when he looks at Ben Affleck, who is gay. Oh, man, look at that gay spacesuit. Gay!"

Senor_Wences

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Mediahohoho — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:43:03 EDT

Wait! How exactly did he mean "gay"?

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Nard — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:42:57 EDT

@moff: I'm picturing him wearing headgear giving his door-to-door "Armageddon" talk to his floormates.

Nard

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kjack — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:42:32 EDT

sir:

just because there's no laugh track doesn't mean there are no jokes. I know you've been conditioned to rely on the soothing rhythm of such comic gems as "two and a half men" and whatever other crap shows are keeping the average USA today reader glued to his lay-z-boy every night, but us "gay urban liberal art school grad white people" can be entertained without Pavlovian cues.

kjack

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Conbon — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:41:57 EDT

You're gay.

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MyCubeHas3Sides — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:40:59 EDT

@Richard: Really? when?

(and I totally love your avatar pic, is that you, you swanky Rat Pack looking noirish cool person!)

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BeRightBack — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:40:32 EDT

@MyCubeHas3Sides: I know! Where's his ire for Ugly Betty? Or maybe I shouldn't ask.

BeRightBack

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Bell County — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:40:15 EDT

Guy's got a point about the nerdiness. Let's keep Tina as the lead but let the writers from King of Queens take a hand.

Bell County

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Moff — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:40:00 EDT

@Richard: Whatever, racist.

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Moff — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:38:31 EDT

"...but its like the time back in college when everybody on my dorm room floor thought Armageddon was good...I basically made it my project to explain to each individual scene by scene why it was so absolutely terrible."

Well, that sounds pretty cool and socially adept. We nerds have been schooled.

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Clarence Rosario — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:38:07 EDT

Oh, and I'm not gay, but I'm willing to learn. Will they send me someplace special?

Clarence Rosario

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MyCubeHas3Sides — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:38:05 EDT

As a hetero, state school grad, born and raised in a small town (but now Chicagoan) person...I find the show funny and endearing.
Tina Fey is beautiful, smart and funny.
Alec Baldwin cracks my crap up.

And this person seems to be projecting a little latent self-loathing homosexuality, as well as general hating on people on not-really-important issues that should get a body this riled up.

Simmer down, sonny-boy!

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Richard — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:37:38 EDT

@themediatrix: But that's from the show!

Richard

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Clarence Rosario — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:37:11 EDT

"Help me Liz Lemon, you're my only hope."

Clarence Rosario

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BeRightBack — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:37:11 EDT

@themediatrix: Is this a joke? Tell me that this is a joke.

BeRightBack

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contradicto — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:37:04 EDT

You know I don't like the word "gay." I'd rather think of myself as "inflamed."

contradicto

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hypocriteoath — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:36:35 EDT

@Hiphopopotamus: jumping into a shark tank with TWO jetskis. brilliant.

hypocriteoath

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Mediahohoho — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:35:33 EDT

John Bolton wants to comment on Gawker?