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strider_mt2k
01/23/09

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I can say that Adult Swim hosting a handful of "Venture Bros." episodes cemented the deal of me buying seasons 1 and 2 on DVD.

What an incredible show. I'm still watching through season 2. Wow. Gotta get the wife to see this.

I'm almost ready to buy the Monty Python Collection at this point.

That and "Faulty Towers".
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GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
01/23/09

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I wish shows like The Simpsons and Family Guy would allow things like 30sec-1min max clips to be posted. I think we can all agree here that there were times we wish we could have posted a clip rather than the quote. It's like free advertisement, b/c people will want to see the episode after seeing it on screen on demand rather than maybe catching it in syndication.

So hear this FOX: I want Simpsons and Family Guy Clips under 1 min allowed on You Tube! Also a stick of Khlav Kalash and a crab juice.
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Ehrich Blackhound
01/23/09

@55378008_GitEmSteveDave: There are plenty of Family Guy, and I think The Simpsons clips on Hulu.
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GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
01/23/09

@Ehrich Blackhound: But you have to deal with ads and crap there. and you can't embed them here.
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Segador
01/23/09

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Just the 23,000% jump in sales makes me want to buy their DVDs. If that many are flying off the shelves, better get them while they last!
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AmishJohn
01/23/09

@Segador: It also helps that the last time I checked, Borders had the box set on sale for $100. IIRC, it was originally $250.
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strider_mt2k
10/30/08

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O-commenter who until recently said "nee"...
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mrtallbones
10/30/08

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Best Gizmodo post and thread.
Ever.
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strider_mt2k
10/30/08

@mrtallbones: Agreed.

Great reading here, and good for a few larfs, which is exactly what I need right now. :)
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bobdobbs
10/30/08

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Did you dudes know the witches on broomsticks thing came about because some lonely, single women, at one time, were found using brooms for masturbating, possibly with herbal concoctions (potions) to enhance the experience?

That's your sexy-time-fun-fact for the day.
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auslander
10/30/08

@bobdobbs: No matter how great of an image that puts into my mind, a quick googling reveals different:

[www.pantheon.org]

"Take the old broom, for instance. A witch never really rode it through the air, of course. Where did this bizarre story come from?

The answer is surprisingly simple. Witches used long, dark wooden poles to perform a special fertility dance. They rode the pole as if it was a hobbyhorse, and jumped as high into the air as possible. They believed that the higher they jumped, the better the crops could grow. Sometimes they "rode" the poles to their nightly gatherings, jumping up and down all the way."
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twoeightnine
10/30/08

@auslander: Sounds like the same exact thing to me.
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bobdobbs
10/30/08

@auslander: We can have a google-fight, if you want.

[bxrrebellion.blogspot.com]
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Curves
10/30/08

@bobdobbs: I am a neat freak, and single, but not once has my broom appealed to me in THAT way.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
10/30/08

@bobdobbs: They weren't masterbating. They were multitasking, sweeping the floor while engaged in other tasks with their hands..
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
10/30/08

@Curves: Yeah but at least it's already domesticated...
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
10/30/08

@Curves: BTW, good to see you up and about and feeling better..
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auslander
10/30/08

@bobdobbs: I'm all about the google fight. I raise you wikipedia:

[en.wikipedia.org]

The generally accepted theory about the origins of witches and flying with their brooms is based in a ritual involving a psychoactive drug trip. The witches would prepare a flying ointment to aid them in their journey. There are many recipes for this ointment all having a base of either Atropa belladonna or Mandragora officinarum, both highly psychoactive drugs producing visions and encouraging astral projection.[1] The ointment was rubbed all over the body using the broom with a personal account given by one witch who described the act of rubbing the ointment on her hands and feet which gave a sensation of flying. [2]

Witches mounted broomsticks and would leap around the fields, smeared with the flying ointment, to "teach" the crops how high to grow. The ointment would give them imaginary "trips" so they thought they flew distances.
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zenpoet
10/30/08

@bobdobbs: Every time I see a post from you, I can't help but think of Del the Funky Homosapian. "Mr. Dobalina, Mr. Bob Dobalina."

Carry on.
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Curves
10/30/08

@Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...: Thank you. I have discovered a good way to get coworkers/bosses to leave you alone is to be sick. They keep backing away and looking at me like I am a typhoid Mary. (Usually I keep them away by letting them just think I am nuts, but this is a nice change.)
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
10/30/08

@Curves: I wish that worked for me. Even my sickness fails to keep them at bay.
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Giz Has Lost It
10/30/08

@Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...: I'm not even gonna ask what your 'sickness' is.

(He posted, knowing full well that he'd ended with a preposition, but not giving a damn!)
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
10/30/08

@EricAlder: Nothing serious, just a cold.
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bobdobbs
10/30/08

@auslander: If I wasn't so lazy, I'd edit wikipedia with my version of the story which is way better. That would show YOU!
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AmishJohn
10/30/08

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Harry Potter and the Amnesiac Concussion
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Curves
10/30/08

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Perfect gift for your favorite witch, er um, mother-in-law.
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strider_mt2k
10/30/08

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Very small rocks!
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