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     CommentAuthorJay Kay
   • CommentTimeDec 10th 2011

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   @Mostly Harmless
   
   I laughed at bits of that trailer. I am not proud of this, but the facts are facts.
2. • CommentAuthorDavidLejeune
   • CommentTimeDec 10th 2011

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   Now I've got that same icky feeling I get when I read Sin City. Not nearly as much, of course, but... ewwww.

   I remember all the way back to the Babylon 5 days that Joe was kind of all about setting himself up as the heir to Ellison, and that being a tremendous dick was a necessary part of that.
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     CommentAuthorYaboo Chingoa
   • CommentTimeDec 10th 2011 edited

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   Okay, so this looks at first glance like hilarious ineptitude, but consider it as seen from a neighbor's window, and see if the creeping loneliness in the guy's delivery doesn't tear you up just a tiny bit.
   
   The years crawl by and the friends fall away, but he'll always have this tape.
   At times, that guy reminded me of Joe Auffricht, a guy I found out about through the Church of the Subgenius. Dude's fucked in the head. Here's a comparatively mild sample of what this guy does:
   
   I'm pretty hard to offend, but Auffricht does some goddamn creepy shit.
4. •  
     CommentAuthorderfla3101980
   • CommentTimeDec 10th 2011 edited

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   Ya know uh... ya know uhhh... then uhh ..ya know, Women love Titties and beer, lonely hearts will shed a tear, NEWSFLASH!More titties and beer, Daniel Songer!

   
   --Daniel Songer
5. •  
     CommentAuthoroddbill
   • CommentTimeDec 10th 2011 edited

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   I submit that Bruce Sterling is currently in his fucking prime as the globe engages in geological scale convulsions. Just listen to him on goddam Huckleberry Finn:
   
   (It's at 24 minutes 40 seconds. I put a transcript below, but you should listen to it because he just kills the audience this this bit.)
   
   
   
   Transcript of the best bit:
   
   

   Okay what's Huckleberry Finn about? Huckleberry Finn is a novel which is about a semi-literate underclass juvenile delinquent from a dysfunctional alcoholic family with substance abuse problems, and his sidekick who is an undocumented border crossing refugee engaged in human smuggling. That's Huckleberry Finn. That's the great American novel. They're on the river. And a Civil War is coming that's going to tear the nation apart in a bloody catastrophe. And it's a kid's book. People read that for amusement.

6. • CommentAuthorStefanJ
   • CommentTimeDec 10th 2011

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   One of Sterling's speeches -- actually, just a rant on a SF convention panel back in 1990 -- left me feeling giddy and liberated. He stomped on the notion of space colonies and ground them into the dirt. It was terrifying and hilarious, like watching a herd of Barney the Purple Dinosaurs torn apart by a velociraptor.
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     CommentAuthoroddbill
   • CommentTimeDec 10th 2011

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   He deploys humanistic disdain with hilarious abandon. He sprays compassionate ridicule as though his heart were a Gatling Gun.
8. • CommentAuthorStefanJ
   • CommentTimeDec 10th 2011

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   For a long while bruces seemed overly fascinated with Balkan gangsters and the (to me) tedious world of fashion, and I can't say I've enjoyed his last few novels at all, but this speech shows a return to classic Bruce form.
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     CommentAuthornelzbub
   • CommentTimeDec 11th 2011

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   I saw this and chuckled
   
   
   and then I linked to THIS, and I think my head melted a little!
10. •  
      CommentAuthorVornaskotti
    • CommentTimeDec 11th 2011

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    Don't give your money to Big Alt Pharma!
    
    Learn the secret that Big Alt Med doesn't want you to know! Thanks to the pre-chemistry principles of homeopathy established in the 1800's, you can easily replenish or replicate any remedy yourself. Homeopathic remedies are prepared by mixing an ingredient with distilled water, shaking the container, pouring out 90% of the contents, and then repeating the process several times. So if you don't use all of your remedy, you can make it even better than new! And to any naysayers, I challenge you to tell the difference in a double-blind test.
11. • CommentAuthorian holloway
    • CommentTimeDec 11th 2011 edited

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    head over to google and type in...
    
    define an English person
12. •  
      CommentAuthorBeamish
    • CommentTimeDec 11th 2011

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    HA
13. • CommentAuthorRenThing
    • CommentTimeDec 11th 2011

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    Google recursion
14. • CommentAuthorSoviet Rocket No. 9
    • CommentTimeDec 11th 2011

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    @ian.NICE!
15. • CommentAuthoricelandbob
    • CommentTimeDec 11th 2011

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    The Future.... in all its grimness...
    
    
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      CommentAuthorPaul Sizer
    • CommentTimeDec 11th 2011

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    Is that video about...Jesus?
    
    Jesus wept.
17. • CommentAuthorScrymgeour
    • CommentTimeDec 11th 2011 edited

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    Also speaking of google amazingness type in:
    "why won't"
    
    It's probably been in one of these discussions before but I remembered it's brilliant....
18. •  
      CommentAuthorGreasemonkey
    • CommentTimeDec 11th 2011

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    Don't watch this at work or in front of little kids.
    
    
19. •  
      CommentAuthorFoamhead
    • CommentTimeDec 11th 2011 edited

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    From 45 Cool Sinks on Now That's Nifty
    
    
    
    
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      CommentAuthorPurple Wyrm
    • CommentTimeDec 11th 2011

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    @icelandbob - That's it. I officially discard any illusions I had about understanding the youth of today. I think I'll go hide under my bed now.