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matty rich — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:29:36 -0000

cowboy troy went out like a b***h on that one. dancing and showing his teeth and shit for mccain. oof.

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raisedbywolves — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:11:09 -0000

OMG. Speaking as a white person who grew up with soul and hiphop, I hadn't quite realized the cultural differences between the Obama and McCain campaigns... or at least, I've been trying to repress all of my McCain-related memories since November.

This little reminder has officially scared the crap out of me.

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John Bigbooty — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:07:35 -0000

You had me at flux capacitor.

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Dennis Gonzalez — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:44:37 -0000

Leee,

I missed out on that one; actually, all of JLU. Time to visit iTunes!

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mars — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:22:58 -0000

I was thinking about this watching the balls last night: How if JM had won, last night would've been a festival of hillbilly music & bleach blondes.

Ugh!

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Alert — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:15:09 -0000

Gratuitous midget shot @ 0:50.

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NJP — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:06:40 -0000

For all their supposed love of flag iconography, they don't even know which way to orient the flag when it's hanging vertically.

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Jesse M. — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:45:29 -0000

Reminds me of this video from Nov. 4 of the same alternate timeline...

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Leee — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:44:14 -0000

Dennis, I took TNC to mean the animated JLU stoyrline.

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Dan — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:27:24 -0000

My eyes!! The goggles do nothing!!

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Dennis Gonzalez — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:04:50 -0000

TNC, were you referring to Grant Morrison's JLA fighting the anti-matter universe Crime Syndicate of Amerika, or the 60's era JLA vs. Earth-Three CSA?

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bread & roses — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:44:52 -0000

you're a bad man, Ta-Nehisi.

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Gecko — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:41:53 -0000

"get on the train or get out of the way"--that just about sums it all up, doesn't it?

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canuckistani — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:41:51 -0000

If I can have a choice between the video and death at the hands of Evil Spock in the Agonizer Booth, I'll take the least painful option, thanks. At least Spock doesn't try to dance.

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BrianSierk — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:36:26 -0000

You are missing a unique cultural experience with a great personality.

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Fighting Words — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:24:56 -0000

Just a quick question, am I missing anything by never having listened to Cowboy Troy?

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BrianSierk — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:19:19 -0000

Um, is that a black dude on the right at 1:30 rocking out with dance moves that are a cross between country and Michael Jackson?

That's Cowboy Troy, Homeslice.

http://www.cowboytroy.com/

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Chryss — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:52:40 -0000

I got to 0:56 before I snapped.

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andsothenshebithim — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:01:22 -0000

Um, is that a black dude on the right at 1:30 rocking out with dance moves that are a cross between country and Michael Jackson?

Bearded Spock, indeed.

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DougEMI — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:48:25 -0000

There was also a play on the Spock with a beard on South Park. Alternative Cartman had a beard and wasn't a bigoted asshole.

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Bruce — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:44:58 -0000

Wonder if MLK-day would have been in the same limelight?? hmmm... pinko...

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Vermando — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:38:49 -0000

I still haven't forgiven you for appointing him our spokesman. Oh, to be treated as a people like an object rather than a subject!

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Stacy — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:35:12 -0000

If Barack Obama was really looking to reach out, he would have invited our white spokesman to perform today. Some "new politics." Heh.

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Tony Comstock — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:33:42 -0000

The Flying V was a very poor choice in art direction.

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sv — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:31:35 -0000

message from our IT guy here at work:

"Dear ALL,

Please close internet browsing and any kind of audio & video streaming from 11:00 AM- 1:00 PM due to some technical reason , thanks for your co-operation."

hehe... could that be because of dozens of people trying to stream cnn.com, by any chance? i tried that for a few minutes at like 10 AM and it was so choppy - it would freeze every like 4 seconds and once in a while catch up, even at low quality the bitrate through to my computer seems to have been lower than even highly compressed low qual flash. i bet that website's getting at least 10x its average traffic.