01/22/2006 Entry: "New Article: X-Entertainment's Freezer!"

So, I cleaned out the freezer today.

Chestnuts roasted by Warx @ 01/22/2006 09:42 PM EST

Wow. The fact that you're considering taking any of that stuff with you to your new apartment is astonishing. o.O

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/22/2006 09:43 PM EST

That Spider-Man, he's staring into my soul.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/22/2006 09:44 PM EST

I've eaten those potato smiles! They were pretty good when they came out. Even half-frozen. Can't really go wrong with potatoes though.

Chestnuts roasted by Poop_Donkey @ 01/22/2006 09:52 PM EST

I gotta wonder what people say when they see the contents of your freezer when searching for ice or whatever.
My sons daycare serves those potato smilies almost daily, along side a heaping pile of ketchup.
OH YEAH, yay SEAHAWKS!

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 01/22/2006 09:58 PM EST

Could the patty for the Scooby Doo Sandwhich builder be house shaped?

Chestnuts roasted by Karen @ 01/22/2006 10:18 PM EST

My roommate got those McCain Smiles fries a couple months ago, and hated them. In fact, he was so adamant about how terrible they were that I didn't even try one.
By the way, the pink Fla-Vor-Ices are awesome. You've got to admit that they're at least better than the green variety.

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 01/22/2006 10:20 PM EST

1) I brought my Stinkor to kindergarten one day. Some evil kid dumped him in the sandbox and ruined him.

2) I recently had football (and football related) shaped chicken nuggets stuffed with cheese. I don't care how much of an affront to nature they are. They was DEE-licious.

3) Does anyone else find it odd that Matt seems to be updating more often now than he did during December?

4) I didn't see 'hitherto' (Property of Rhino. All rights reserved.) used in the article anywhere. Maybe I missed it.

5) I'm done now.

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 01/22/2006 10:21 PM EST

Ah so, young Gozer, mayhaps you are not old enough to remember that green Fla-Vor-Ices are edible Luke Skywalker lightsabers.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 01/22/2006 10:21 PM EST

FINALLY! An article! And It was good. And my parents say I'm bad when I save everything...

One thing that stood out for me in that article? The mention of Micro-Magic Fries. You have absolutely no idea how long I ate those almost every night of the week. Yes, the boxes were kickass and since I stopped finding them in stores around here in LI some 8+ years ago, I haven't had microwaveable fries since. And I sure do miss Pop Qwiz too. Only kind of popcorn I ever ate and I'm still pissed that it's gone.

Continuing the SNL topic from the SNT...thread, here's a topic sure to rake in comments:

Who is/are your favorite Weekend Update Anchor(s)? My Top 3 consists of these 3:

-Kevin Nealon. He delivered Weekend Update like an actual newsman. Every so often he would do something that seemed to be from a real news show, like saying "And now a look at the National Picture" and a map on the US would show up on the screen. All the jokes and fake guests seemed to be treated with all seriousness, while also fending off the advances of Ike Turner. He's also the only anchor to appear on WU before and after his reign while as a castmember. (He's appeared on both Dennis Miller's and Norm MacDonald's WU sketches)
-Norm MacDonald. His dry voice & wit seemed perfect for this. At the beginning of most of his sketches, unlike Kevin, he admitted that it was Fake News.
-Colin Quinn. Another smarmy delivery of the news in his own fashion. He had big shoes to fill from Norm's departure, and in his first sketch he compares himself to the New Bartender at your favorite bar. While he too appeared on WU before and since his reign, he was long gone from the show when he appeared on Tina & Jimmy's era.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 01/22/2006 10:40 PM EST

Matt: Ah so, young Gozer, mayhaps you are not old enough to remember that green Fla-Vor-Ices are edible Luke Skywalker lightsabers.

Game. Set. Match. I have surely shamed my ancestors for not thinking of that.

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 01/22/2006 10:42 PM EST

The old Video Store you mentioned, the Easy Video Outlet on Route 9 in Woodbridge is no more. It closed within the past two weeks and the building is currently being renovated.

And the abandoned Razz-Ma-Tazz building was demolished last summer.

Chestnuts roasted by Lance @ 01/22/2006 10:42 PM EST

Choco-tacos are golden gods of ice cream, and they're not dead either. I see them all the time around here (South Carolina). There are some in a gas station a minute from my house, and some sold in a Block buster, too.

But if it's hard to find near where you live, keep it just as a reminder.

As for obviously extinct things you need to keep..

Go with the dinosaur nuggets. Simply because the T-rex on that package is too cute to kill. Seriously, just look at him, and his little arms.

Chestnuts roasted by Aristobulus @ 01/22/2006 10:47 PM EST

By the way, here's the nerdiest thing I did this weekend:
1) While watching the episode of He-Man with Molkrom the huge horse-like monster (the second episode of Disk 3 of the first box-set) I was reminded of Montaro from Mortal Kombat fame.
2) I played Mortal Kombat II on "Midway Arcade Tresures 2" disk for half an hour before realising once more how terrible I am at that game.
3) Something then made me think it would be a good idea to play Rampage World Tour for like an hour-and-a-half. I can see maybe playing that game for like 45 minutes with two friends, but alone?

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 01/22/2006 10:49 PM EST

YES!
The spoiled food articles are probably my favorites on this site, and this one was like many of those rolled into one!

Excellent! Bravisimo!

Chestnuts roasted by Tetsu Deinonychus @ 01/22/2006 10:55 PM EST

Choco-tacos are still in production, adn not as hard to find as you may think. I work at Taco-time (Western taco-hellhole, dunno if you have it back east), and we have literally, 50+ boxes of them in the freezer.

Chestnuts roasted by Black Jester @ 01/22/2006 11:01 PM EST

Matt-

I know it's probably too late, but can we get a pictorial representation of the old apartment, fully laden by your hordes of stuff, pre-cleaning and moving?

Likewise pics of the new XE National Headquarters?

Thatd be awesome.

Chestnuts roasted by Terror Claws Cole @ 01/22/2006 11:08 PM EST

Yay! Great to see some past article junk still lying around. I would definitly be putting those blue fries in a ziploc bag though. They're way too cool for trash.

Also, today I went into some crappy/stinky old grocery store and found a container of Purplesaurus Rex! It's in a metal can with the scoop and stuff, and it's not even faded or anything! It's awesome... It shall never be opened....

Chestnuts roasted by Mattman @ 01/22/2006 11:35 PM EST

I always enjoy reading your articles about food. I also like all the links to the old articles on old food.

Chestnuts roasted by Anna @ 01/22/2006 11:44 PM EST

And I thought I had a ton of stuff after I cleared out. Your freezer scares me. I'm moving in exactly a week myself, so I completely know where you're coming from on the clean-out. I've been going through the myriad mountain of junk I have for over a year now...and I still shudder to think of the amount of boxes and crates I'm going to have to get up to the new apartment somehow.

It's nice to go on an X-E nostalgia trip, though. The McCain Smiles and the Dinosaur nuggets still exist; I've seen both at the grocery store where I work. In fact, that's one of the advantages of working in a grocery store. I've seen just about everything in this article at one time or another. Eggo must have about 16,000 different flavors now, from Homestyle to Nutri-Grain, not to mention half the fruits in existance. I think there's still a SpongeBob Eggo floating around, though I'm not sure about the flavor.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 01/22/2006 11:49 PM EST

Jesus Christ, man, you scared me. I saw the 'farewell' in the title, and then that bit at the start of the article about having done X-E for 6 years, and I was sure you were shutting up shop.

Chestnuts roasted by Daniel85 @ 01/23/2006 12:04 AM EST

Iowa is swimming with Choco-Tacos. Heck, our Toys R Us sells them. Although I never tried one. I will now.

I've always wanted to try a WWF/E Ice Cream Bar but have NEVER been able to find them.

Those Spidey/Wolverine bars a scarey. I thought it was the Hulk bar until you mentioned Wolvie.

Speaking of Blue Fries, you might as well do an article on that multi-colored kethups Heinz tried to sale. Only saw the green version. I guess kids like normal looking food. I also remember those flavored ranch dressings (Pizza, nacho, super creamy, etc) that Hidden Valley tried to sale kids. Since when do kids eat salads?

The one food item that has disappeared that I DESPERATELY want back. It's Pasta Anytime. They just vanished after a couple years. Just mix pasta with the sauce, nuke it for 3 minutes, and it was just as good fresh cooked pasta.

Norbert: I HATED Norm and Colin's stint in the anchor's chair. Those were just horrible seasons in general and they didn't help.

My Fav's:
Kevin Nealon- This was the period where various cast members would do their micro-characters. I LOVED Adam Sandler's Operaman and Cajun Man. Also loved David Spade's Hollywood Minute and Nealon's Mr. Subliminal.

Dennis Miller- He was perfect with it. He's number one in my book.

3.) Anyone except Norm and Colin. I like Fey with Poehler and Fallon (although Horatio Sanz did a great job subbing for Fey). The anchors in the 80's are underrated. And of course, the orignal anchors are classic (Aakroyd, Curtain, Murray).

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 01/23/2006 12:13 AM EST

Gozer- I too spent the weekend watching that He-Man DVD set...I really loved episode 3 on disk one, where Evil-Lyn uses that changing staff to break into the castle and turn the king, Teela and Orco into animals,and then Skeletor makes FAKER- the FAKE He-Man! Wow, that was the highlight of my morning.

Just saw "syriana"- liked it, but need to see it again, because it was confusing.

Awesome Freezer Treasures, Matt- we don't get half of that cool shit up here in the sticks- quite jealous of your junk (as usual!)

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 01/23/2006 12:24 AM EST

The years when Dennis Miller was doing the Weekend Update were the only time I could tolerate SNL or Dennis Miller. Both suck without each other.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/23/2006 12:40 AM EST

Waaay off the topic of old food products, but did anyone else go into orgasmic fits today when they found out Darkwing Duck is finally coming to DVD?

::huggles Darkwing plushie::

I'm a little excitable.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/23/2006 01:16 AM EST

It DID make me excited, Mystie, but not...you know...sexually.

The Tick is coming to DVD too; don't forget. It'll be an excellent month, if I can afford it.

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 01/23/2006 02:00 AM EST

What a nostalgia trip "1 Fry" is totally one of my favorites. I can't believe you've kept all that stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 01/23/2006 02:09 AM EST

Wow oh wow-I remember many of your articles that you mentioned here....and all of a sudden i am feeling nostalgia for 2003....lol man oh man i have a paper to write....

Chestnuts roasted by Mike the Great @ 01/23/2006 02:31 AM EST

If I have a say in it, and I assuredly don't, I'd say take the blue fries. You're the only person in the world with blue fries right now. You could probably take that to Guinness.

RIP Pop Qwiz. I spent many a TGIF with you.

Norm MacDonald is my favorite news anchor from SNL, by the by. I like his delivery. Nobody could ever get me to like Dennis Miller...not sure why. Nealon was good, and I enjoy what I've seen of Chase and Aykroyd/Curtain. Since the Fey/Fallon regime, Weekend Update has gotten too giggly. I like all of the anchors, but not AS anchors I guess.

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 01/23/2006 06:54 AM EST

I just finished the last of the Hulk Hershey's syrup I had last month. My future ice cream sundaes are about to get reeeeally lonely.

Chestnuts roasted by M. Fireball @ 01/23/2006 08:32 AM EST

I sell Choco Tacos at my work. How rare are they?

Chestnuts roasted by Piscez @ 01/23/2006 08:54 AM EST

Everytime I see Kid Cuisine in the grocery store, I will think of you haha

Chestnuts roasted by Willem @ 01/23/2006 10:04 AM EST

One of the most beautifully profound things I've ever read on this site...

In its most genuine form, people who seek the trinkets of their youth see more in them than parts and plastic. Many of us do not find it easy to piece together that whats and whys of who we are.

It's so true! I've tried explaining this concept to my husband more than once and I get this look like, "I really want to understand where you're coming from, but this is just beyond me." Thankfully, my obsessions haven't extended to the freezer. I draw the line at anything perishable.

Chestnuts roasted by Lori @ 01/23/2006 10:11 AM EST

Matt, once again one of your articles has changed my life. For example, before reading this piece, my life did not include a terrible craving for macaroni and green pudding.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 01/23/2006 10:55 AM EST

They still sell Choco-Tacos as desserts at Taco Villa restaurants.

Chestnuts roasted by johnseeking @ 01/23/2006 11:07 AM EST

I found the Wolverine & Spider-Man ice pops very disturbing. They are zombie pops.

On the snl tip. Norm, was my favorite weekend-update anchor.

Chestnuts roasted by Geoffinsanity @ 01/23/2006 11:17 AM EST

Lance...

I was so upset when they knocked down the Razz-ma-tazz building...it was such a cool looking place... i was really hoping they'd turn it into something cool...even a sleazy rt.35 strip club... at least I could have went back!

I think I may have got some video footage of the building before they knocked it down...so at least i have that.

Chestnuts roasted by Lou @ 01/23/2006 11:17 AM EST

Hahha that was awesome. Dug that. We've got some terrifying stuff in our freezer - a blend of $40 worth of vegetables that was disgusting and no one wanted to eat. It's been there for a year.

Chestnuts roasted by Carl (theWAREHOUSE) @ 01/23/2006 11:24 AM EST

My favorite Weekend Update anchor would be Kevin and Norm. Closely followed by Dennis. Everyone knows Colin was a nightmare. I also liked Jimmy but although I like Tina and Amy I don't consider them near the best.
Question, Am I the only one who does NOT enjoy the first few years the best? Yes, they were funny. I just think other years, especially late 80's-early 90's were far superior. Dunno, maybe it's just me.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 01/23/2006 11:33 AM EST

A-hem, I have been informed by my 8 year old daughter that the Patty in the kids cuisine scooby doo package is supposed to be in the shape of scooby's dog tag, that is all.

Chestnuts roasted by bloodybrilliantme @ 01/23/2006 11:54 AM EST

Kid Cuisine rears its beasty head yet again! The idea of eating The Undertaker is just too much for my brain to handle..

Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 01/23/2006 12:24 PM EST

Keep that stuff frozen until the very last possible moment. Otherwise, you know they'll come to life and eat your socks. Food frozen that long just can't be up to no good.

Generalissimo Franco is still dead, by the way.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash, the Choco-TacoDile @ 01/23/2006 12:43 PM EST

Wait, wait, wait...both Darkwing Duck AND The Tick are finally coming to DVD?! And in the same month?! When did this skip by me? I check all of those sites at least 10 times a day and I've only so far discovered Dinosaurs in the past week.

Back on my topic, I thought Dennis Miller was "ok" not bad, not great, but good.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 01/23/2006 12:48 PM EST

Wow, that's a ton of old food.

Lori: I thought that line was one of the best things I've read on this site.

Favorite SNL Anchors:

Neiland, Miller, and meh, that's it. Not too fond of the Fallon/Fey team up. OR Collin.

Neiland's time was probably the funniest. Espeicially when he had the guests. Spade was hysterical, and Sandlers characters were great. I especially liked Sandlers Thanksgiving over the TV.

"COME ON OLD MAN! YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME....?!?!?"

One of the funniest things Neiland ever said, at least to me was:

"A new survey was taken today. 4 out of 5 people questioned think the 5th ones an idiot..."

Or something like. He was so serious when he said it, I think I had tears in my eyes.

Chestnuts roasted by Galvatron @ 01/23/2006 01:03 PM EST

Nice article, Matt! I too enjoy your food articles. I dunno, something about ancient, weird food just makes me smile. And I love you all the more for caring about it just as much as we all do. *hugs*

And I'm about 95% sure I have a package of those Smiley fries in my freezer right now. The boyfriend and I have been on a "buy-everything-that's-on-sale" kick the past couple of weeks at the grocery store, so our small freezer and many cupboards are well-stocked now. I love living on my own.

Best of luck moving into the new apt...I just tackled the bedroom yesterday, and we moved early this month. It wasn't pretty, but the boyfriend's family is coming to visit on Saturday for the first time, and I'd like them to think I actually know how to keep house. It's fun to delude.

Chestnuts roasted by Nicole @ 01/23/2006 02:31 PM EST

Oh, the treasures you find if you look hard enough. LOL.

In your case, Matt, looking hard would be too easy--you easily have this treasure trove of goodies before you, a plethora of frozen interests.

Ohhh, kb and Galvatron, Dennis Miller is MY fave Weekend Update anchor!!! Tina Fey comes in at a VERY close 2nd. My all-time favorite cast member honors goes to Dana Carvey. A Best Of DVD is probably never likely for Dennis Miller though--it would be all Weekend Update--not like that's a horrible thing!!! Favorite cast honors goes to the 1986-1990 regulars, they were the best together, and you can tell they had excellent chemistry.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/23/2006 02:57 PM EST

Every once't in a while, I buy a frozen snack to throw in the 'wave that is chicken nuggets and mashed potato happy faces.

Woo-hoo! Animated Tick DVDs!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/23/2006 03:32 PM EST

All those pieces in the Robots dessert look like robotic penises (penii?) anyways. Actually, so does the macaroni. Seems to me that Kid Cuisine's real goal here was to see if they could get away with making kids eat dick. Also, Choco Tacos are still out there, my campus cafeteria has them in abundance. Though that might not prove they are still being made FRESH, my school could very well have bought expired tacos in bulk and rubbed off the expiration dates.

Chestnuts roasted by Black Zarak @ 01/23/2006 03:39 PM EST

I think my alma mater's cafeteria still has Choco Tacos, too.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/23/2006 03:41 PM EST

Darth Poop, you must use the power of "DEEEK!" on Spider Man. He does look like his eyes are burning into something, I think he's reading my mind.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/23/2006 03:45 PM EST

mother of shitballs, BLUE FRENCH FRIES?!?!? I honestly have never seen anything like that before in my life. I feel so sheltered. Matt, your freezer is so tidy, all those boxes stacked in there. Mine's one of those with ice forming along the sides and scary tupperware full of who-knows-what precariously crammed in. The last time I cleaned out a freezer was during the past summer, I found a package of ground beef from three years ago (no lies, i swear), which is double weird because I'm vegetarian.

SNL Weekend Update Anchors- I LOVE Tina Fey. She's awesome at keeping a straight face.

Chestnuts roasted by Lizzy @ 01/23/2006 04:52 PM EST

I like this--first, closing logo discussions, and NOW "Weekend Update" anchor discussions. Did someone tap into my brain and figure out what I was thinking! This rocks!

DEEEEEEEEEEEK!

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/23/2006 05:06 PM EST

My favorite Weekend Update anchor is Kevin Nealon, he's so straightforward and honest that it's funny. He also had better material. Dennis Miller and Chevy Chase were good too.

Jimmy Fallon would be last on my list. He's about as bad an actor as Chris Kattan (and that's saying a lot!)

Chestnuts roasted by mjf7583 @ 01/23/2006 05:13 PM EST

Great article Matt. I've been reading for six years and they just keep on coming!

As for the SNL: it's only a matter of time before they sick Samberg on Weekend Update too. Lorne will soon see that the Lonely Island guys are the only good thing he has going for him...

Chestnuts roasted by Brad @ 01/23/2006 05:18 PM EST

Allison:
Dana Carvey had to be one of my favorite cast members of all time. Next to Eddie Murphy and him doing Black Gumbi and Buckwheat.

I think SNL started to suck shortly after that group began to depart. Dennis Miller was great also. I especially liked when Dana Carvey would impersonate him.

Chestnuts roasted by Galvatron @ 01/23/2006 05:24 PM EST

While I was up on the side of the mountain, carving Lost Poster names, I wondered what kind of noise those birds were making. "DEEEK! DEEEK! DEEE-EEEK! Rankin-Bass!"

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/23/2006 05:35 PM EST

Some of those Kid Cuisines are freaky. I'm not a fan of runny macaroni and cheese. I like cheese, but preferably not in soup form.

Favourite SNL WU anchors:

I like the anchors that actually appear as though they could be actual anchors. It just makes it a better contrast (and funnier, of course) if they end up doing something ridiculous.

Jane Curtin: She was believable as a anchor, and her interaction with her co-anchors or another character was great. As a sidenote, some people put the original SNL on this mighty pedestal that no other era can possibly reach, but I think it's too simple to say that all eras after the original suck.
Norm Macdonald: He doesn't fit with my description of a good WU anchor, but his delivery was funny and more than made up for it. I wish, just once, he did Weekend Update as Burt Reynolds.
Tina Fey : "That's the last time I suck beer out of dirt with you." I like that Weekend Update is sillier now. I think it works and now and again, there's something spontaneous that ends up being hilarious.

Chestnuts roasted by Dr. Acula @ 01/23/2006 06:10 PM EST

I was watching a "Weekend Update" the other night from May 1987, and Miller's mullet was at its peak of length. It was significantly shorter the following season--you think NBC told him to cut his hair???

You can pretty much gauge the season or year by how long Miller's hair is if you missed the opening credits. Pretty weird, but true. It was its longest in the spring of 1987 and 1988-1989. It was its shortest in late 1990, but I guess he couldn't keep it that way, b/c it was slightly longer again by early 1991, when he left.

I like Tina Fey b/c there aren't nearly enough smart, funny, female comedians. Plus, she was the 1st female head writer for SNL, and 1st female "Weekend Update" anchor (of note) since 1980. Ok, ok, I think there were two in the early 80s, but did anyone honestly care about what happened on SNL in the early '80s.

Galvatron--Dana Carvey rocks!! I was watching Critic's Choice the other night on HBO Comedy for the 1st time unedited (I've seen it plenty on Comedy Central). That show is friggin' hillarious!

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/23/2006 06:23 PM EST

I almost forgot (almost)--Dana Carvey as Dennis Miller is classic. He does Miller better than Miller could do himself. I heard he used to CRINGE at the impression Carvey did. Jeez, Dennis, its fairly accurate.

That high-pitched girlie laugh is hysterical. Miller doesn't have one of those horribly fake laughs that far too many actors have--this guy's laugh is extremely natural-sounding, though quite silly. Always sounds like he's enjoying himself. I like how he reacts on stage and on "Update" when people go "ooooooooh!"--he says it back and laughs that crazy laugh--Haha!

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/23/2006 06:27 PM EST

Futurama News!!!

It's confirmed that they are making FOUR direct to DVD Futurama full length movies! Holy Shit!!

Chestnuts roasted by Mattman @ 01/23/2006 06:47 PM EST

Choco Tacos are proof there is a God. I discovered Choco Tacos last summer, and I've been addicted on a nonstop eating binge since then.

Chestnuts roasted by Reid @ 01/23/2006 07:15 PM EST

McDonald, Nealon and then Miller would be my fav SNL anchors, though I couldn't sit through an episode nowadays if you paid me. Not even my love of UCB's delightfully impish Amy Poehler goes that far.
Holy shit is right! Now this is an exciting topic! I really hated the fact that Futurama ended prematurely because I'm just a big romantic softie....F/L foreva!
What are the big things you guys are anticipating this year? I mentioned The Sopranos in the other thread...I can't wait for The Animaniacs DVD set...that Clive Owen heist movie looks really great, and The Breakup looks amusing too.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 01/23/2006 07:34 PM EST

Remember on SNL last year when they did the "American Idol" parody, and Amy Poehler/Paula Abdul was crying when Constantine was eliminated, and said that everyone she loves leaves her...and named MC Scat Cat as one of them?! Talk about digging through the bottom of the nostalgic reference bin for that one! MC Scat Cat?! Just screams '80s!!!

Its gems like that they baffle me every time SNL isn't more consistent. '80s SNL always seemed consistent--perhaps everything just melded right.

Who thinks Dennis Miller should come back and host, so he can sit at the "Weekend Update" desk again? Oh the glory of it!

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/23/2006 07:43 PM EST

Hey those smiley fries are still readily available here in Australia. I'd give my left ball for one of those tacos however..

Chestnuts roasted by DarthPong @ 01/23/2006 08:39 PM EST

DarthPong? This blog isn't big enough for two Darths. I'm calling you out DarthPong.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/23/2006 09:28 PM EST

Ooooh... Dissention in the Sith. Sounds like it's time for a good old fashioned Flavor-ice lightsaber duel.

On another note...

Aren't Jimmy Fallon and Chris Kataan the same guy? (more or less)

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 01/23/2006 09:35 PM EST

Son of a bitch! I thought you were shutting the site down as well and I got a big lump in my throat.

Dunno what I would do. Nothing could ever replace this site. It's far too original and I've been reading it ever since I googled Swanson dinners and found the Breakfast From Hell article.

Thank God that this isn't the case...

Chestnuts roasted by ANdrew @ 01/23/2006 09:40 PM EST

Heh they just showed how the Smiley Fry/Mashed Potato things are made on Food Network's Unwrapped.

Check the repeat at 1:30 AM EST to see it!

Chestnuts roasted by Xevo @ 01/23/2006 09:42 PM EST

Son of a bitch AGAIN!

I just read Mattman's post about the new Futurama shows and and the post of the Darkwing Duck going to DVD. That made my night! Thank you so much guys for letting me know. You don't know what that means to me.

Chestnuts roasted by ANdrew @ 01/23/2006 09:51 PM EST

Darkwing, Darkwing DUCK? Great!

I ADORE Jane Curtin...man, she is hilarious. The chemistry she and John Lithgow had on "3rd Rock From the Sun" is great- they are both zany, over the top, and almost trying to best each other all the time...it works. I got hooked on "3rd Rock" while in Korea (lack of options) and that show (thanks in part to Jane Curtin) is now one of my most played DVD sets. But- I NEVER once got to see her on SNL!! I really feel like I missed out now.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 01/23/2006 09:57 PM EST

I'm no vegetarian either, but I too have long thought that there's something very wrong with "fun-shaping" chicken nuggets. You've said you're a dinosaur fan, Matt, so you might know that birds are DESCENDED from the dinosaurs. What would they have thought if they could know that some wimpy mammals millions of years later would be butchering their descendants and shaping their flesh into crude images of themselves? Good thing there aren't any dinosaur ghosts, eh? (Or are there?) That would be a good kiddie movie or cartoon show; ghosts+dinosaurs=you can't freakin' miss.

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew @ 01/23/2006 10:13 PM EST

So...anyone else see Strongbad in that Spider-Man pop?

Chestnuts roasted by ZB @ 01/23/2006 10:36 PM EST

my heart stopped for a second when i thought things were shutting down too. that would NOT be cool, so dont even think about it, kid.

there is a McCain plant where i live. those smiles things are awesome. not because they make them here. makes me want them less when i think about who may have touched them before they hit the bag. i've had them deep-fried at a bar around here. way better. they're like sugary mashed potatoes inside. anyhoo...enough about smiles.

you can get choco taco things here too. at "taco john's." not taco bell, taco JOHN'S. not even taco JUAN's. taco john's. that place is nasty dirty too. all the employees look like they're out on huber. not to offend any of you who may be in prison.

Chestnuts roasted by schroeder @ 01/23/2006 10:37 PM EST

oh, and i forgot...if you need a good laugh, and want to go to hell, check out the Jesus photoshop on fark.

Chestnuts roasted by schroeder @ 01/23/2006 10:39 PM EST

Funny you should mention Dino-ghosts Andrew...

When I was a kid I could've sworn I saw a big transparent T-Rex in my backyard. It roared at me and then disappreared.

Also, I'm currently writing a movie (though not a kid's movie) about a dinosaur on a quest during the time period after the meteor hit. And, one sequence is about him encountering the ghosts of dinosaurs that died horribly when the meteor hit.

Anyway, about SNL I hate Dennis Miller (he's REALLY obnoxious), and would have to go with Kevin Nealon as my favourite. And, I only watch early 90s or classic 70s episodes.

Also, I see plenty of Choco Tacos at my local Taco-Bell.

Oh, and squee, as one "romantic-softy" to another, I highly recommend Code: Lyoko. ^_^

Chestnuts roasted by Tetsu Deinonychus @ 01/23/2006 10:54 PM EST

I would be so psyched about Darkwing Duck coming to DVD if I hadn't caught a few eps on Toon Disney that completely belied my tweenie memories. Maybe I caught a bad couple of reruns because I ADORED the show as a kid.
I wish they'd made a Roger Rabbit toon...we had to make due with Bonkers, which was a sad substitute, if better than nothing.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 01/23/2006 11:08 PM EST

Thanks for the reco, Tetsu! My phone doesn't have the character so usually I can't sport animoticons here in the blog but thanks to the wonders of cut and paste: ^_~
I'm really interested in hearing more about this movie if you wish to share. Film school? Script writing software? Stop motion, 2D or CGI dinos?
How many other bloggers/aspiring filmmakers do we have here in the blog?

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 01/23/2006 11:35 PM EST

Well, I'm not in film school (or any kind of school for that matter), and I plan to do this movie in hand drawn animation possibly with CGI opening and flashbacks.
The script is right now being planned out in my head and will eventually be either typed in word or simply handwritten in my notebook.

Anyway, the story centers around a young Deinonychus named Sabrewing. Sabrewing is your typical loner with a chip on his shoulder. This is because he lived alone his entire life except for his best-friend and (love-interest) a female Deinonychus named Michiko.

Sabrewing and Michiko are among the few survivors of the big meteorite that hit and, like the other survivors, spend all their time trying to survive in the hostle barren world that came to be when it hit.

Eventually, Sabrewing gets a message from the Goddess of time telling him that he is to save the saurian races by seeking the one called "the Rider"(an alien being that litterally rode the meteor to Earth so he can bestow "the Mark" on one of it's lifeforms). After some nagging from Michiko, Sabrewing goes on his mission to the place the meteor hit where the Rider is suppossedly waiting for him.

Along the way, they meet up with Daigame the Ankylosaurus, and Sai the Triceretops, who join them on the quest. And, our heroes encounter other survivors (both good and bad), more gods, and yes the ghosts I mentioned earlier (which inhabit a forest of dead trees).

So, What'cha think?

Chestnuts roasted by Tetsu Deinonychus @ 01/24/2006 12:09 AM EST

I thought Andrew was going to have a heart attack over there. Screaming holy shit and all. Hi Andrew, you relaxed now? :-)

Darth Poop meets Darth Pong--I smell a duel. These two shall meet on the Brimstar stage of "Super Smash Bros. Melee" (for those of you who've never played, Brimstar is the Metroid stage, but you already knew that), and I guarantee there will be plenty of "In the Fray" and " Half-Minute Man" scoring to be seen. Ok, I play that game too much. Next...

Muppet Baby--fast fact for ya--Jane Curtin declined to participate in last year's "Live From New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live" b/c she doesn't like to discuss her years on SNL. Well, jeez, Jane, the show made you pretty much what you are, and biting off the hand that feeds you, well, that's just plain wrong.

But, hey, to each his own. Dennis Miller and Jan Hooks were not in "Saturday Night Live in the 80s: Lost and Found." Sad, really. They were fairly important parts of SNL's revival in 1986-1990, yet neither one was featured. It's not like either one is horribly busy to begin with, but hey, things happen, I guess.

The last one I expected to participate was Nora Dunn--she only BOYCOTTED the show and got her ass booted out. She was pretty funny at times--can e when the right part comes along. then, I saw her in that Amber Frey movie where she played Gloria Allred. Seems like her kind of part, huh?

Hey Tetsu, I like Kevin Nealon too. He's ranking at #3 on my list--he seems so nice, that if he was insulting someone, they probably would be laughing to hard to notice. I remember Jon Lovitz and Dennis Miller discussing in an interview on Miller's HBO show about how Nealon had this joke where he would walk around with a small pillow, and say "Oh, did you drop something, here let me help you!" and drop the pillow and and pretend to look up skirts. Or something like that. It was funnier when they talked about it.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/24/2006 12:10 AM EST

Odder?
Otter.

Chestnuts roasted by FangsFirst @ 01/24/2006 12:15 AM EST

Matt, you just about gave me a heart attack. I saw "Freezer Farewell" on the main page, and then you started the article with all that stuff about how long you've been doing X-E. I've been reading this site off and on for the last five years, and I gotta tell you I'd miss it if you quit. What else am I supposed to do when I should be doing something productive? Who else is doing Transformer/ GI Joe/ Thundercats/ Star Wars tribute articles that make me laugh? Most of the stuff I see just makes me feel sorry for the lame authors with no life or girlfriend, and with no prospects for either.

If you ever DO decide to quit, warn us in advance so all your regular readers can enter a suicide pact. We mindless followers couldn't take being abandoned by our fearless leader. Yes, I said fearless. Some of the crap you put in your mouth for the articles would make me want to cower in terror.

Chestnuts roasted by spaz307 @ 01/24/2006 12:52 AM EST

Heeeyy... just because I have no life or girlfriend doesn't mean I'm lame. *sniff*

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/24/2006 01:35 AM EST

How they make those smiley fries was on unwrapped tonight. And those lavender chips are funky in a bad way, I hope to see them this easter!!

Chestnuts roasted by Goob @ 01/24/2006 03:32 AM EST

I was waiting for freaky fries to end their Jimmy Neutron promotion because the art style of that show murders my appetite. Alas, that day never came hitherto...

Chestnuts roasted by RewolfJ @ 01/24/2006 05:37 AM EST

Matt, whatever happened to the old expired food you gave away as prizes?

Perhaps you could do that with this selection.

Over here in Germany at the Commissary they still have old ass Kid Cuisines...should I be worried I feed my children these?

Semper Fi,
Erik Majorwitz

Chestnuts roasted by Erik Majorwitz @ 01/24/2006 08:28 AM EST

Allison, thank you for caring, I'm fine now. But I did celebrate by watching a few of my favorite Futurama episodes last nite (Roswell that ends well, the Sting, etc.)

Matt please don't ever put the word "Farewell" in your articles, my poor frazzled nerves can't take it.

Chestnuts roasted by ANdrew @ 01/24/2006 09:02 AM EST

hey matt if you are going to throw out the powerade bottle i will buy it off you say 20 plus shipping email me back at jordinjATgmail.com

Chestnuts roasted by jordin J @ 01/24/2006 09:23 AM EST

Ok, this has nothing to do with anthing, but I must bring it up. If you scroll way up through all the comments, you'll notice that mtrox typed "by the by" instead of by the way. What in the hell is it that makes people do this?

Seriously, it's creepy. This isn't just some ordinary typo thing, there's a stronger force behind it. I notice it everywhere. Something in our brains makes us want to type an extra 'by' instead of 'way' and I just want to tell whatever it is to go to hell.

That's all... for now.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt(#2?) @ 01/24/2006 09:51 AM EST

Allison:

I guess you missed the family guy episode where they actually had the "opposites attract" video. Except, it featured Peter wearing whiskers, cat ears and a cat tail.

"I take 2 steps forward, I take 2 steps back.
We come together
Beacuse I'm dressed like
A cat"

IF the 2 Darths are going to fight it out in SSBM, you should set the items drops to only Pokeballs, and high drop rates. Pokeballs and Lightsabers....hmmmm....

Chestnuts roasted by Galvatron @ 01/24/2006 10:38 AM EST

After readong about those "fun-shaped" nuggets again I have to agree it's rather disrespecfull to chop up chickens into dinosaur shapes. I'll never look at a chicken the same way again. And chicken is the only meat I really like...

Chestnuts roasted by Adrastia @ 01/24/2006 10:40 AM EST

Darth Poop meets Darth Pong--I smell a duel. These two shall meet on the Brimstar stage of "Super Smash Bros. Melee" (for those of you who've never played, Brimstar is the Metroid stage, but you already knew that), and I guarantee there will be plenty of "In the Fray" and " Half-Minute Man" scoring to be seen. Ok, I play that game too much. Next...

IF the 2 Darths are going to fight it out in SSBM, you should set the items drops to only Pokeballs, and high drop rates. Pokeballs and Lightsabers....hmmmm....

I suggest these plus using the Brimstar Depths stage, the one shaped like a beat up asteroid and Kraid rotates it every 30 seconds or so. And do NOT forget the Screw Attack!

It seems that my topic turned out to be incedibly popular. Maybe I'll up the ante for the next blog

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 01/24/2006 11:33 AM EST

Two Darths, eh? Only two there are...no more...no less. But which one is the master, and which is the apprentice?

Matt(#2?):

It wasn't a typo as much as I always thought it was a seperate phrase. It means the same thing, but because it doesn't make sense, it tickles me. A quick Googling shows that I DID spell it wrong, by the bye. The correct spelling is "by the bye", not "by the by."

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 01/24/2006 11:37 AM EST

You know, some of my favorite articles on this site are still the old Ebay auctions. The mere fact that one can, with the help of a sufficiently entertaining description, sell a jar of dirt from the back yard for literally tens of dollars says a great deal about the world we live in. For those of you who were similarly impressed, I give you: Disturbing Auctions.

My personal favorite was the "Emotionally Scarring Toys" section, though I do find it hard to top a black velvet painting of an eighteen wheeler with Jesus in the background.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 01/24/2006 11:54 AM EST

I like that website, but I don't know what use I would have for a can with 200 pork chops inside. I'll just get one at the supermarket.

Chestnuts roasted by mjf7583 @ 01/24/2006 12:09 PM EST

To have a proper "X-E Poster Child Melee (Sith-y Boy Slap Party Edition)", not only do you need proper settings, but also some appropriate items to stash in the Pokeballs. Hulk Hands, all those twist-ties that secured Unicron in his box, the mysterious brown goo from that ice cream machine in that sucky game room, and a flock of Mare Winninghams (Mares Winningham? Mare Winnings-ham? What is the right term for a bunch of 'em?). And as a final suggestion, great background music. Click my name for a contender.

In order, my faves are Chevy, Dennis, Kevin, and Brad. You forgot about Brad Hall, didn't you?

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/24/2006 12:20 PM EST

since someone brought up SSBM, has anyone ever played with the Debug Menu?

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/24/2006 12:48 PM EST

McCains Smiles are an official staple food for British University students...we currently have 4 bags in our freezer in our flat. Awesome snack after a night out! Long live Smiles!

Chestnuts roasted by Chester @ 01/24/2006 01:26 PM EST

My grandfather lives on a farm in Idaho and for some reason has 5 large freezers. Most everything in them is atleast two years old. Packaged meat, freezer burned vegetables, tv dinners to name a few. While staying with him one summer we decided to see what the oldest thing he had in his freezers was. After searching the five we came up with a 1987 roll of pillsbury bisuits that had been in the freezer so long the aluminun on either ends was badly corroded. We laughed and put it back satisfied we had found the oldest thing in the freezer. A week later when my sister was looking in the shed when she found another freezer! This one was a long freezer you always see serial killers put bodies in. When we opened it up we saw the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. The entire Freezer was filled with old tv dinners. Most of them were adult tv dinners but a good 10 of them were kid cuisines from the late eighties. The deeper we dug the older they got until we hit the mother load three tv dinners from 1971 by a company that probably hasn't existed in twenty years. We put them all back and agreed that they must stay in the freezer for all time.

Chestnuts roasted by Homosexual Werewolf @ 01/24/2006 02:00 PM EST

To answer the question posed in the article: no, you don't capitalize the word "french" in french fries. The name was originally "frenched fries", and referred to the cut of the potato, which has been frenched. It's not a direct reference to the country of France, which makes the Congressional "freedom fries" debacle even more laughably stupid tan it already was, which was a lot.

Chestnuts roasted by Annie @ 01/24/2006 02:04 PM EST

Wait a nano.

I was pretty sure it was short for "french-fried potatoes" since french-frying is another word for deep-frying. Not sure which explanation is right here, but one of these is probably true.

Chestnuts roasted by Tetsu Deinonychus @ 01/24/2006 02:29 PM EST

Norb: As long as it's not SNL related I say go to town (kidding). I'm always flinging questions out to see if they stick.
I was going to mention that Family Guy bit...so much more inspired and funny than a random Scat Cat name-drop.
Wow Tetsu that sounds amazingly interesting! I'm a bit obsessed with those survivalist type stories, like Mad Max or Jurassic Park or Lost, but yours has dinosaurs! As the goodies! I love it.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 01/24/2006 02:29 PM EST

Thanks Squee. I'm definately going for the "post-apocalyptic" thing, and yet it's a post-apocalyptic past rather than a future.

Chestnuts roasted by Tetsu Deinonychus @ 01/24/2006 02:33 PM EST

Matt - those WWE pops got me back into the old classic wrestling through the many DVDs out. I went to the Ultimate Warriors website and found he has this special excersice program that actually looks pretty nice, but the frosting on the cake is part of the package is getting a personal 10 minute motivational phone call from the Warrior himself. Sure its 150 bucks but I think the call alone makes it worth it, since I can only imagine how much Hogan or Ric Flair would charge for somethin like that. Its definatly interesting.

Chestnuts roasted by James @ 01/24/2006 02:56 PM EST

I like Tina Fey quite a bit. People have told me I look like her. I think it's the snarkiness, the glasses, and the hair color. Though my hair's black now.

squee, I vow my neverending servitude to you now, for I hadn't heard that Animaniacs was FINALLY coming to DVD until you just said so. I'm off to bounce around insanely till I have it in my hot little hands.

Tetsu Deinonychus, you said "wait a nano"! Is it safe to assume you're a ReBoot fan? I love that show to pieces. Pieces, I tell you.

Matt, it looks like you worried a lot of people and that you have many people who'd be very, very unhappy if you ever stopped doing this site, myself definitely one of them. So you can never stop. Ever. Or we'll come find you.

Chestnuts roasted by Nicole @ 01/24/2006 03:44 PM EST

Galvatron, not only did I SEE that Family Guy ep, I have it on TAPE. You wouldn't believe how hard I was laughing over that one!! Classic stuff. That's all they need to do--flashback on something that is somewhat nostalgic, and its great stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/24/2006 03:59 PM EST

Oh, and Jedoc, why am I not suprised that you, master of dry humor, linked to that Disturbing Auctions site? Thanks for giving me a fun way to spend the rest of my workday!

Chestnuts roasted by Nicole @ 01/24/2006 04:14 PM EST

If you listen closely, you can hear Nicole bouncing around while saying, "Boingy, boingy, boingy!"
Call for Dr. Scratchansniff!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/24/2006 04:37 PM EST

Jedoc, I like that Cymbal Playing Monkey. Looks like the one in "The Devil's Gift" segment of "Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders."

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/24/2006 04:54 PM EST

Oh, and the attack puppet is quite disturbing...as is the doggy pen holder...cactus clown...oh hell, Jedoc, it's all disturbing. My dad wants to know why I look stuff like this up. Gee, I wonder...

But, really, I'm unemployed, so in between searching for jobs and getting one humiliating rejection after another (honestly, if you went for an interview, and a month later, you saw an ad in the paper for the job you interviewed at, wouldn't you be very disheartened?), I'm reading this site. It makes me feel better.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/24/2006 05:04 PM EST

The letters on your fridge spell "Dinty Chek".

Chestnuts roasted by Amanda @ 01/24/2006 05:09 PM EST

I love X-Entertainment more than bunnies.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/24/2006 05:15 PM EST

Aren't chickens or some common animal a ancester of dinos? So chickens would actually sorta make sense. Now if it was dino-shaped fish nuggets, I'd agree.

Anyone remember green kethup? That was gone by the time Freaky Fries came out so no wonder they failed.

James: don't know if you ever been to wrestlecrap.com but he inducted Warriors exercise tape. It was a Warrior vs. Chyna vs. Richard Simmons in an exercise tape showdown.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 01/24/2006 05:49 PM EST

I always liked fish nuggets--my high school served those cute ones shaped like stars and such. Call me adventurous (or just plain gross--if you went to my high school, you would have called me gross--everyone else did), but they were really tasty.

Ewww, I remember when the original "Scooby-Doo" movie came out, and there was al kinds of multi-colored ketchups flashing their bottles around. Yuckies. Don't remember blue fries though. Glad I know nothing about them.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/24/2006 06:16 PM EST

Thanks Nicole, I could use some servitude. I mustn't take full credit though, as it was another blogger who clued me in a few weeks back. I keep quite current on all the trashiest gossip and new developments (I'm not trying to brag, in fact it's the complete opposite since it's a nasty nasty habit) but I always hear about the retro eclectic stuff from peeps here on the blog.
Speaking of scuttlebutt, any of my fellow Lost fans hear the rumors about Dom and Evie? OMG cuteness!!!

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 01/24/2006 08:05 PM EST

Yeah Nicole, Reboot totally rocked. Especially when I got to see the "grown-up Enzo" episodes on Toonami.

And Alison, I know JUST what you're talking about with the job hunt. Sites like this one, I-Mockery, and the Scary-Crayon are keeping my sane until I can get a job to finance my indie-comics and indie film. And, so far, NOBODY wants to hire me.

Oh and how do you do bold text and links in this blog?

Chestnuts roasted by Tetsu Deinonychus @ 01/24/2006 08:50 PM EST

Tetsu--thank you for feeling my pain. I do a Yahoo local search for Philadelphia-area advertising agencies, and any one that has a website and an email address, I just email my resume. That's how I landed an interview 2 weeks ago in Philly--I sent my resume to an info email address...5 months ago, and they contacted me!

See folks, it can happen. Though I still don't buy that "we'll keep your resume on file for 6 months crap." I'm convinced most companies will burn it (or shred it) and laugh maniacally.

That's the story of it, that's the glory of it...job hunting! LOL--I ripped that one off from the "Cranium" board game commercial.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/24/2006 09:04 PM EST

Popsicle Stick Wolverine and Popsicle Stick Spiderman visit the Hostel.

Miller, Nealon, Fey & Poehler

Dennis Miller made eye contact with me when I went to the taping of his show on HBO. It was right after he told a joke, and I was laughing. It made me feel really special after having been a fan of his for a long time.

I have Kevin Nealon's autograph from writing to him.

Speaking of saving foods of yesteryear... they have stopped production of Vanilla Coke, so stock up on your future ebay sales now.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Muppet @ 01/24/2006 09:22 PM EST

Which joke was it, Darth Muppet? I have "All In" on tape (a great special). I'll have to watch it again.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/24/2006 09:25 PM EST

First, obviously, Matt you rock, keep it up, we love it. I hardly ever write in on the blog, but I have been with this site since I started college in 2000. With Matt running about the same age I am, it really amazes me how many similarities that we grew up obsessing with. The reason I wrote in is that Target now has Jones Soda Valentine's Day Love Potion #9. Also, they had some copies of Mac and Me on DVD.

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 01/24/2006 09:37 PM EST

3 Darths now? NOOOOOOOO!

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/24/2006 09:42 PM EST

MAC & ME? That movie actually WAS a commercial for Coke and McDonald's...paid for in part by Coca-Cola and McDonald's! (the aliens need Coke to live and they go to a birthday party at McD's) I remember being so disillusioned when I found this out...I used to love that movie as a kid.

Still waiting for a Matt review of that one...

Right now the "Captain Planet" theme song popped up on my shuffled Winamp. Nice.

Allison- That "All-In" special has intrigued me, now that I am officially addicted to poker (and losing $$$ every weekend!) Is it a movie? stand up routine?

Ever have one of those days where XE is the absolute best part of your day...?

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 01/24/2006 09:50 PM EST

And...Darth MUPPET? Oh no, now this battle is affecting ME personally...

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 01/24/2006 09:51 PM EST

YAY! BATTLE TIME!!!

::begins building a fort of Pillow People::

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Mystie @ 01/24/2006 09:57 PM EST

Muppet Baby I hear ya. Sad as it sounds. When I first found this site I spent a few days too many at work laughing over old articles written years ago.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth kb? @ 01/24/2006 10:10 PM EST

Wow... Pillow people. I'm secure enough in my masculinity to admit that until I got married I slept with Thunderclap in my bed.

Hmm... I need some cool Space-type apellation to get into the fray with. Let's see... Samus Aran was a chick... Anything with 'Captain' probably makes me gay... Hmm...

I'll get back to, well, me.

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino (cool prefix/suffix TBD) @ 01/24/2006 10:13 PM EST

Actually, JLAJRC, it's the other way around; dinos were ancestors of chickens, as I stated above. BTW, I'm fine, no heart attack, just a bit shaken up by where my mind can go (wishes this board had a "whew" face).

I actually didn't think Matt was leaving us when I saw the title of this article; actually when I saw those Smiles fries I thought he was saying "farewell" to his last leftover Christmas junk. I thought those Smiles were gingerbread men, since I've never seen anything like those before!

Speaking of old food, we once found a package of lasagna shells from 1986 in our pantry back in about 1997. So it wouldn't have been as wild a find as if we'd found them yesterday, but still an interesting story. But it gets better-in 1988 we moved to California, so we would've brought along those two-year-old shells like they were just another piece of furniture! That doesn't quite beat keeping around TV dinners from when The Brady Bunch was still running, but IMHO it comes pretty close. At least Matt's bothering to check his freezer first.

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew @ 01/24/2006 10:15 PM EST

On a similar note which I should've added above, around the same time, we found an original copy of the We Are the World charity album (on vinyl), still in its wrapping! My mom says we must have bought it for one of my cousins' birthday, since he really liked Michael Jackson at the time, but she must have forgotten to give it to him. So it too was trucked cross-country along with the other, more-played record albums, and didn't see the light of day for 12 years. Jeez, how much do you think that would've gone for on eBay today-still in the original wrapping?

Now that I think about it, I think the only reason we found that stuff might have been because we were getting ready to move into our current house, so we were cleaning out the old one; deciding what stuff to keep and what to throw away. Perhaps all that good stuff might still be hidden away in our pantry and album cabinet if we hadn't moved. Scary thought, huh?

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew @ 01/24/2006 10:26 PM EST

You know, I may have mentioned this when they appeared the first time, but for a good portion of my senior year, those smiley-face fries were part of the cafeteria menu. Pretty good, really.

And Choco Tacos are the best ice-cream product since someone thought to freeze milk.

Chestnuts roasted by Timmy @ 01/24/2006 10:30 PM EST

I was TOTALLY surprised to find out "Mac and Me" came out on DVD. That's like seeing someone's home movies on DVD at target. I'd have actually been less surprised to see "Mitch's 6th Birthday" on DVD at target than Mac and Me.

Since, if Mac and Me can come out on DVD ANYTHING can. I'm wondering if Jaleel White's "Don't Diss My Heart", and "Alien's For Breakfast" (starring Ben Savage) are future DVD releases. Does anyone know where I can find that out?

Oh and YES finally SOMEONE remembers Pillow-People! Boy does THAT ever take me back. After a search here on X-E yielded no results, I had given up hope that anyone but me remembers those.

Chestnuts roasted by Tetsu Deinonychus @ 01/24/2006 10:34 PM EST

Halloween!! So awesome to see it mentioned in an article this early in the year. Those go-gurts got me really pumped to listen to monster mash and thriller. And yeah, karen, it's house-shaped. But im blown away that they would give kids 8 pieces of chocolate and icing as dessert! The other meals had 4-6 pieces of whatever, but i imagine 8 pieces of chocolate and icing would have a kid frigg'n WIRED in less than a minute. P.S. those smiley fries are really cute

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 01/24/2006 10:57 PM EST

Can someone tell me if the Matrix-branded Powerade was green in colour? NZ recently started selling green Powerade as part of their Super 14 rugby league promotion.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt (NZ) @ 01/24/2006 11:15 PM EST

PILLOW PEOPLE!! That's so wild, I had honestly forgotten about mine. I had to donate it this year during the move. I had the one with the boxing gloves and the black eye ... my sister got the girlie one with yellow yarn braids. Hers looked kinda like the one that DJ had on Full House and I am eternally jealous that I had to be the tomboy of the family.
p.s. squee, LOST FAN!! What's the rumours???

Chestnuts roasted by Lizzy @ 01/24/2006 11:37 PM EST

(NZ) ---- Matrix Powerade is green. I bought tons of it when it was out and was curious myself. Definitly green.

And Pillow People. HA. I recently accuired one that has dog features from the salvation army. What a coincidence. And DJ's from Full House had a window face... I hate myself for knowing that.

Chestnuts roasted by Mattman @ 01/24/2006 11:51 PM EST

R.I.P.
Travis Brickley

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 01/25/2006 12:06 AM EST

I don't remember Pillow People, but what you describe sounds quite a bit like those WWF and WCW Wrestling Buddies. Pillows shaped like Hogan, Nash, Goldberg, Savage, DDP, Jake Roberts, and Ultimate Warrior. Some of them even talked.

I also got a pillow shaped like Wolverine's head a few years ago. Haven't seen it for awhile but it was comfy.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 01/25/2006 12:06 AM EST

And those ones like crash test dummies that fell apart with velcro body parts.

Chestnuts roasted by Mattman @ 01/25/2006 12:39 AM EST

Those same multi-colored little tiles were somewhere in my grandmother's kitchen. In which kitchen I ate many a toasty golden box of Micro Magic fries. O the memories.

Chestnuts roasted by Jay Nickola @ 01/25/2006 01:12 AM EST

In regards to the chicken nuggets...Burger King still does form their chicken tenders, from time to time, into the inexplicable shapes of stars and lightning bolts. I have no idea what started this or why they continue it.

Chestnuts roasted by Mike @ 01/25/2006 07:15 AM EST

Well, I ended up having to work at the library till midnight, but I'm glad some of my fellow XErs got a kick out of those auctions.

They made a movie out of Aliens for Breakfast? Man, I used to love that book. Giant vegetable-shaped aliens who hate loud noises...classic.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 01/25/2006 08:22 AM EST

In regards to the chicken nuggets...Burger King still does form their chicken tenders, from time to time, into the inexplicable shapes of stars and lightning bolts. I have no idea what started this or why they continue it.

Wasn't it some sort of promotion tie in with Small Soldiers? Not that it really explains the shapes but that was the first time I remember them doing it.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/25/2006 10:53 AM EST

Speaking of saving foods of yesteryear... they have stopped production of Vanilla Coke, so stock up on your future ebay sales now.

I have (not to mention the still-in-production,-thank-Mare Pepsi Vanilla), and now Black Cherry Vanilla Coke is out. I have yet to try it, but I don't like the look of it, but I'm gonna try it anyway. (Hey, I got both Jones Soda Holiday Packs...which I have yet to even remove the wrappers from. Who wants a Super Bowl Tasting Party??)

On topic with Animaniacs, my KB Toys store recently chanced the mix cd again, and there are at LEAST 6 songs from Animaniacs on it. The most famous song on the CD is their version of The Monkey Song (the rest are either obscure or appeared on the Tapes that they released)

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 01/25/2006 11:24 AM EST

Tried the Diet Black Cherry Vanilla Coke. It's okay. Probably won't add it to the repertoire, but it wasn't awful.

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 01/25/2006 11:43 AM EST

I picked up a 12-pack of Black Cherry Vanilla Coke last weekend. I like it. Of course, I liked both Cherry Coke and Vanilla Coke too. I don't know if it's "crazy delicious", but I'd recommend it.

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 01/25/2006 12:15 PM EST

Ladies and Gentlemen, today, Live and Direct from the X-E Fighting Pit, a battle to make you sweat your socks off!
Stepping into the pit, the first, the original, the hot kiss at the end of a wet Sith, Daaarrrth Poooooooop!
Next, some new blood. The second Dark Lord to haunt these hallowed halls, he uses the Force to get all the Twix out of the snack machine in the X-E lounge, his battle cry is "Insert Coin. Avoid Missing Ball for High Score!" Boys and girls, heeerrrreeee's Daaarrrth Pooong!
And finally, number three on the Sith Parade. He's short, he's furry, he's mean, he's got a hand up his ass and he's not afraid to use it! Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Daaaarrrth Muuuuuppet!
Two rules for today's tussle:
Keep it between yourselves, if you so much as use another Poster as a projectile, all three are disqualified!
There are no other rules!
Let me away from here, and GOOO AAAPE!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash could have been the bailiff for Mentok @ 01/25/2006 12:17 PM EST

Yeah, that's right, I am now a DLOTS. AND I have a cannon on my arm....

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 01/25/2006 12:37 PM EST

Oh yeah Micro-Magic, I forgot about that, that's why I was a fat kid, plus those figgin kid's cuisines where always on the top of my lunch menu. Does anyone remember when lunchables first came out? I remember there being this one hungry man sized one that had different sauces in wierd packages. The little one meat one cheese and a few crackers dosen't hold a candle to the one I remember.

PS: Garbage Pail Kids is out on special edition DVD, probably old news

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 01/25/2006 12:49 PM EST

I'm Kevin Nealon, and that's news to me.

Chestnuts roasted by Kevin Nealon @ 01/25/2006 12:54 PM EST

Oh yeah, they also used to come with an Andies mint.

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 01/25/2006 01:08 PM EST

RIP Nice Guy Eddie.

Chestnuts roasted by Pedro @ 01/25/2006 01:13 PM EST

Vote for the above poster and all your wildest dreams will come true! Sweet!

Chestnuts roasted by Napleon Dynamite @ 01/25/2006 01:19 PM EST

Muppet Baby--"All In" was Dennis Miller's latest HBO comedy special. He's done quitea few for their network (they cancelled his show in 2002, and obviously they didn't want to lose his profitability). The reason for the title was b/c he performed it in Las Vegas.

Me? I like going to casinos too, b/c they're so centrally located to where I live (I live about 30 minutes north of Atlantic City, New Jersey). However, I'm not always that lucky when I gamble.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/25/2006 03:05 PM EST

I used to work w/this one girl who always ate, for example, Lunchables and a whole can of Pringles (not in the same sitting, but she tended to eat both in the same day). And she wondered why her stomach was always hurting. Gee, I wonder why...

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/25/2006 03:08 PM EST

Allison- Thanks, I'll have to check it out.

My brother got me the special edition of "The Garbage Pail Kids" on DVD for my 24th b-day that just passed, so I know first hand that it exists. However, I have been too scared to watch it...it will be SO BAD to my aged eyes.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 01/25/2006 03:28 PM EST

I don't know--I don't think I could stomach "The Garbage Pail Kids" DVD. Forget my poor aged eyes--those poor aged eyes will go blind.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/25/2006 03:37 PM EST

Allison-

It was his HBO show, Dennis Miller Live. It's the one with Jay Leno where they are talking about TV shows. The joke was during the monologue. Sadly, I don't remember what the joke was. If I watched the show again, I could probably tell you.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Muppet @ 01/25/2006 04:54 PM EST

I saw the Garbage Pail Kids for the first time on one of the Showtime channels awhile ago. I found it fun but in a cheesy way. They also had Mac & Me but I didn't catch it.

I watched the Dennis Miller special and it was pretty good. Certainly better than the load of angry, depressing crap George Carlin gave us in his last special (and he's my favorite comedian). Robert Klein's special was pretty good too if you can catch it.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 01/25/2006 05:22 PM EST

I wish I had more of Miller's HBO show on tape. I moronically threw out my tape w/the "Millenium Special" on it. That was a really funny and creative special. I wish HBO would put his show out on DVD. I'd get it in a sec. Just the fact that you saw DML in person is just completely cool.

If I lived in California, and was a little further along in my college career at the time (in the summer of 2002, I was between my freshman and sophomore years of college) I would have tried to obtain an internship at his show--that would have been the GREATEST experience. Not to say my internship at CBS-3 in Philly wasn't the greatest experience, but still...nothing beats interning on a TV show you like.

I aspired to intern at SNL, but found out they treat interns like slaves. Of course, if Dana Carvey told me to get him coffee, I would have in a second!!

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/25/2006 05:24 PM EST

I saw George Carlin in person at Caesars in December, and he stayed on stage for 45 minutes b/c his voice was going. thank goodness for opening acts--that was the WORST show I went to last year.

Dennis Miller was @ the Borgata last April, and his show was excellent. I like when he gets going--shouting and such.

The BEST show I saw last year was Howie Mandel. He was loads of fun, and was talking and taking pics with audience members. We had to watch this horribly funny video of a guy singing off-key on a variety show. The song is guaranteed to get stuck your head for days after...I saw him 2 months ago, and I'm still singing that song.

I also saw Jay Leno and Richard Jeni last year, and they were really good too. My boyfriend and I were so disappointed with Carlin though--we were so excited--the opening left us in complete awe, b/c he was like a machine gun firing out his "Modern Man" monologue.

If Howie Mandel is performing local to any of you, definitely try and get tickets (and if you can afford it, attempt to get within the first few rows--it allows for an incredible experience, and lots of interaction).

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/25/2006 05:30 PM EST

Carlin, I've never seen live, but I did write him for an autograph, and got a reply for that one. (He was snubbed by Danny Kaye (his idol) for an autograph once, and vowed he would always grant that request.)

I saw Richard Jeni in concert at the fair in CA. He was my favorite comedian at the time, so I was happy to catch him.

Howie Mandel I saw years ago. Before the Bobby cartoon, but he did was doing Bobby back then. It was shortly after Little Monsters had come out.

If I had been smarter about what I wanted to do with my life when I was in CA I would have tried to intern for Dennis Miller, too. Or, the Henson company.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Muppet @ 01/25/2006 05:49 PM EST

Oh yeah, was also at a taping of Seinfeld for two of the comedy club bits at the beginning of the show... but they moved me out of the shot. My friend made it in though. I still see those shows and can point her out.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Muppet @ 01/25/2006 05:56 PM EST

I went grocery shopping today and saw some of those smiley fries. I almost bought a bag of them, and now I kinda wish I had. So yeah, they're still making them.

And like Matt, I'm not a vegeterian, but I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks it's wrong to cut dead bird flesh into "fun" shapes.

Chestnuts roasted by Astro Zombie @ 01/25/2006 06:15 PM EST

I also saw Carlin live in 1998 I believe. He did the same jokes he did on his special that year and was HILARIOUS. I was SO disappointed this year with him.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 01/25/2006 06:21 PM EST

I figured out who sang the torture song on the looped video at Howie Mandel's show--it was...Lawrence Welk! A formidable foe to all youngesters EVERYWHERE!! The video had him singing "Oh Happy Day" in a yellow three-piece suit. Oh my god, no one caught on right away that the video was looped--it went on for ten minutes (after about 4 minutes, there was a sing-along going on).

Here's the catch--Howie was watching on a monitor the whole time, laughing at the reactions the audience had. the song continued for ten minutes, the stopped, and evryone cheered...until the tape rewound itself. You should have heard the "NOOOOOOOOOO!" in the audience!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/25/2006 06:49 PM EST

Hey gang--try and get ur hands on some "DiC" videos or DVDs--apparently, they are still using the infamous "Kid in Bed" logo (honestly, how dated does the video of this kid look--he's probably in his twenties now), BUT, they are showing a different DiC logo--it's now "The Wonderful World of DiC." Hey, I' just the messanger--maybe they've changed this since, but supposedly they started using it again in 2003. I hope they changed that choppy zoom out, but since they may very likely be using the 1987 logo, I bet it's that choppy zoom out.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/25/2006 07:38 PM EST

while reading about your freezer cleanup, I clicked on the link that led me to your article on Easy Video. It struck me silly, as I work at a mom and pop video store myself, only a little more rundown, and probably packed with more obscure titles. The store's in Massachusetts, not out of your way if you come by Salem any time soon.

Chestnuts roasted by Mark Attack @ 01/25/2006 10:47 PM EST

I'd just like to say that Jones Love Potion #6 is fucking amazing. They need to sell this shit by the case.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/26/2006 12:31 AM EST

So seriously, check this out. This was the mascot for Sega Saturn in Japan. If he doesn't kick any and all video game mascots ass, I don't know who will.
Go here and watch the commercial. Then type Segata Sanshiro in the search engine and be amazed by the most amazing mascot ever.

Segata Sanshiro! Greatest Sega Mascot EVER!!

Chestnuts roasted by Josh @ 01/26/2006 01:29 AM EST

Ya know what?

Half the people here are named Allison.

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 01/26/2006 01:30 AM EST

Great article, and all the linking to all the other great articles made this A WHOLE EVENING OF MAGIC.

Do you sometimes eat ass?

Chestnuts roasted by Ktulu @ 01/26/2006 02:07 AM EST

Mystie:

Just out of curiosity, because the Jones site doesn't say: Is Love Potion #6 like the Thanksgiving packs, or sugar-loaded like the Halloween offerings?

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 01/26/2006 06:21 AM EST

That is to say, is it DIET like the the Thanksgiving packs?

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 01/26/2006 06:21 AM EST

O my dear Lord... I thought everything i knew back in those days were 4gotten! I didnt have 2 much time 2 brws so i mite as well ask... Wen i was in elementary school the most popular game/toy was "Pogs" u had a bunch of round cardboard discs with almost any design u could imagine and one metal or plastic disc called a "Slammer" i still collect those darn things and i only found them 4 sale ONE TIME @ a second hand store. Where can i get more? Please visit my xanga site and let me know. Do u get paid 2 do this!? Need a cute 19 yo. co-worker? Lol! Im serious let me know. I luv 2 write nd i luv useless trivia... What more of a plus? BTW my profile on xanga wasnt updated... Im not engaged ne more. I also want 2 know about these movies... "The Argon Quest" "Scamper The Penguin" "The Blob" "Critters" 1 and 2 "Killer Bees" and last but not least... My personal fave... An old horror movie called "Slugs" a movie about killer slugs! Wat could b more classic!? :-D

Chestnuts roasted by Stacy R. @ 01/26/2006 06:35 AM EST

Stacy--your profile on Xanga is inaccessible, because you did not give your Xanga address.

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 01/26/2006 07:50 AM EST

It's so very random how the threads twist into such a different thing than how they beagan, not that I mind. . . .

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 01/26/2006 07:58 AM EST

kb:

Variety is the spice of life. So is paprika.

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 01/26/2006 09:01 AM EST

Twenty-three posts debating the relative merits and shortfalls of various spices, essences, and other flavorings to follow.

Paprika is okay, in limited contexts. However, added to any dish that is supposed to be savory, Lowery's season salt is like the mighty fist of a vengeful yet delicious God in your mouth.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 01/26/2006 09:11 AM EST

here and here

It's the Super Mario Bros. Super Show Box Set DVD. Just in time for valentines day!

I know it's off topic, but Matt, I knew you'd get a kick out of this.

Chestnuts roasted by Quiet Thunder @ 01/26/2006 09:37 AM EST

I'm quite fond of Mrs. Dash.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 01/26/2006 10:00 AM EST

Is it wrong that Stacy R.'s contention that she loves to write, couched in a post of that quality, made me want to cry?

Just curious.

Also, besides seasoning salt for general use, Lawry's Chicken Seasoning is the best.

Chestnuts roasted by ZiZak @ 01/26/2006 10:02 AM EST

For those of you who love spicy things, Lawry's makes a Tabasco seasoned salt as well. It's really good (not too hot or I wouldn't be able to eat it.) I've only ever seen it on the Tabasco website. By the way, if you love Tabasco and have never visited the Tabasco Country Store (countrystore.tabsco.com), you're missing out. My husband LOVES Tabasco, so I get him stuff all the time. For Christmas, I got him three bottles of the new Sweet 'N' Spicy Flavor that I believe is currently only available on the website. (Well, obviously, that's not all I got him.) Plus, I always give him a bunch of those miniature bottles in his stocking. That's because if he doesn't have them, he'll seriously lug his full-size bottle anywhere he anticipates wanting to use Tabasco (restaurants, friends' dinner parties...it can get embarrassing.) Anyway, just a tip for pepper sauce fans.

Chestnuts roasted by Lori @ 01/26/2006 10:23 AM EST

Oooh I went to the Lawry's Prime Rib in Beverly Hills for a friend's bday recently...Most expensive place I think I've ever been, but the food! Incredible.
Lizzy, it's still unconfirmed but the rumor is that Dom M. and Evangeline L. (Charlie and Kate) have gotten engaged in real life.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 01/26/2006 10:29 AM EST

My favorite spice is that stuff that turns your eyes blue and allows you to fold space with your mind.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash is NOT the Kwisatz Haderach @ 01/26/2006 11:53 AM EST

Nice random Dune reference, kingklash.

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 01/26/2006 12:13 PM EST

Don't worry, ZiZak...I too was struck nearly blind by Stacy's post. As someone who writes and edits for a living, it made me rather nauseous. Though I felt better when I thought of the laugh it must have given Matt. Snerk. I'm getting mean in my old age.

Chestnuts roasted by Nicole @ 01/26/2006 12:29 PM EST

Thanks for the support, Nicole. I'm glad I wasn't alone in my reaction. I neither write nor edit professionally, but do believe in proper communication. That post was just a little far out for me, even by the relaxed standards of an internet blog.

Furthering the spice topic: I cannot stand Chinese 5-spice powder. The anise in it just makes everything taste like licorice. At lease, I think it's the anise. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Chestnuts roasted by ZiZak @ 01/26/2006 12:44 PM EST

Saffron is the most expensive food by weight on earth. It is derived from crushing the stamens of a particular species of crocus. The cultivation and processing of up to 100,000 flowers is required to produce one pound of saffron. It has been used as paint pigment, a fabulously expensive flavoring, and a spurious cure for the Black Death.

And now you know.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 01/26/2006 01:25 PM EST

My fav spice mix is the Louisiana staple: Tony Cachere! It's great on burgers, chicken, steak... the flavor is just delicious. Hard to get outside of LA though, I have relatives that will ship me that + more of the obscure Zatarain's mixes like Creole Chicken.

Chestnuts roasted by Kittycatgirl @ 01/26/2006 01:58 PM EST

I like pepper because it's married to the salt.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/26/2006 02:20 PM EST

oh...I thought the spice thing was a joke. But I'm so glad it's not. Jedoc, you're my hero.

I'm caught between cinnamon and rosemary. I love the scent of cinnamon and cinnamon buns are my reason to live, but I can't say no to some rosemary potatoes action.

squee - did you love the Driveshaft diaper commercial last night?

Chestnuts roasted by Lizzy @ 01/26/2006 02:26 PM EST

I'm Pennsylvania Dutch, we don't typically eat spice. Taco powder is about as fancy as I get. I hate spicy food.

mtrox - It's actually a good, consumable soda filled with 47g of sugar. Hate to site-whore, but I did a brief review last night for anyone curious.

I, for one, liked Stacy's post. It reminded me of the way I used to type on BBSes back when pogs were actually popular. As for finding pogs, Goodwills and old comic book shops are a good place to find them by the bucketfull.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/26/2006 02:31 PM EST

My favorite spices?

Sazon and Adobo. I can pretty much eat anything that has Sazon and/or Adobo on it. Even a hat.....

Cinnamon gives me a headache. I absolutely cannot stand anything that even remotely tastes or smells like it.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 01/26/2006 02:32 PM EST

I'm becoming addicted to those new McCormick's Spice Grinders, especially the pizza ones.

You know what I found to be funny? On PBS, they have a kids show called "Between the Lions." that teaches kids how to read and sound words. You know who's a cast member on it? Famous Sex Therapist Dr. Ruth. They changed her name to Wordheimer due to the nature of the show. I just found that funny.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 01/26/2006 03:14 PM EST

I like salt. I'm pretty dull.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/26/2006 03:16 PM EST

You guys had that coming.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/26/2006 03:29 PM EST

DOHOPOKI I GONA BREK YO FINGAS SO U CANT TYP U FREEK!

Chestnuts roasted by Stacy R. @ 01/26/2006 03:38 PM EST

I still have my pogs, they're packed away somewhere. The card shop we use to by them from would sell one of those large zip-lock bags filled half-way with pogs for like 25 bucks. My brother and I both bought a bag with christmas money, we were in pog heaven.

Chestnuts roasted by Geoffinsanity @ 01/26/2006 03:54 PM EST

I, too, still have my Pogs. Good memories. I can probably look at them and still tell stories about how I won some of them.

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 01/26/2006 04:01 PM EST

I have all of my pogs in a zip-lock bag in the basement. I never really learned to play, I just got them because of the pretty pictures. And whats up with all the hateing on Stacy R. and Stacy R. threatening people. This is a blog of love.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/26/2006 04:10 PM EST

Well, ZiZak, I wouldn't exactly say I'm professional...I write and edit online copy for a few big retail stores. I was recently switched over to the Software and Games team, so I get to write and read about video games all day. Yay! Except that I've been editing for several weeks now and still haven't been officially offered an editing position, which would entail more money. Booo.

I had quite a few pogs in my day as well. I believe I found all mine at the dollar store. In fact, I still have a black one that features purple lips and vampire fangs. Somewhere. I just saw it while packing.

Stacy R., I'm sorry if I offend, but netspeak makes my brain bleed. It's not you, it's me.

As to the spice debate: I've always been partial to Baby Spice.

Chestnuts roasted by Nicole @ 01/26/2006 04:16 PM EST

Nicole, I know you apologized but it took me a while to write this and ZiZak, for shame. This is the internet and that is internet speak. I to dislike it when people type like that but X-Entertainment has a very diverse fan following and we should let everyone go nuts. Now I know that I should be the one to talk but when you outright insult someone’s post like that it aint cool. I enjoy every post and for you to disgruntle people from posting, that’s just sick. And ZiZak, don’t break people’s fingers.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/26/2006 04:21 PM EST

Oh the drama on Matt's blog!

But I will say that I included a winky face on my comment to clarify that I was simply joking around.

*hugs*

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/26/2006 04:22 PM EST

And by ZiZak at the end I mean Stacy R. I always make at least one mistake DAMNIT!

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/26/2006 04:23 PM EST

I'm pointing my broken finger at all of you. You all did this to me.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/26/2006 04:25 PM EST

It's alright Darth Poop. We still love you, even with all your flaws.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/26/2006 04:26 PM EST

Lizzie: Yeah, I thought it was a joke, too. You know, playing off the two posts directly before mine. If I'd have known that my pre-coffee comment would send the blog careening down this dark spicy path, I'd have... well, I'd have done the same thing, but I'd have been chuckling knowingly while I did it.

Nicole: While I applaud your decision to drag defunct British teeny-bop into the conversation, I'd have expected you to go for Pepsi Holiday Spice as your favorite.

And while we're on the subject of pogs, here's a chance to buy a collection of about three thousand for twenty bucks. Apparently, it's been up for three days and nobody has bid on it. What kind of a world do we live in, anyway?

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 01/26/2006 04:47 PM EST

Oh, great. Darth Poop's got a crooked finger now. If he 's going to Force-choke somebody, it'll probably go around the corner and throttle me instead. I never did send off for that "Learn To Be A Jedi In Ten Easy Lessons" book.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/26/2006 04:52 PM EST

Hey Mars--nah, it's just me. I just have alot to say.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison (the one and only) @ 01/26/2006 05:15 PM EST

Nicole, you're obviously getting cynical in your old age too! I'm only 23 (I think we're the same age, right), and I am so world-weary it's unbelievable. I have this burning need to pick EVERYTHING that bothers me apart (except for everyone on here). I'm known for it. Really--you should have seen some of my manifestos from college--analysis has always been my best area. As a writer, Nicole, I can agree that things that are hard to read are impossible on the eyes and brain.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/26/2006 05:24 PM EST

Jedoc, I completely forgot Pepsi Holiday Spice. I hang my head in shame. I am not worthy of finding a year-plus old bottle now. *sniff*

Allison, you're right, I'm completely cynical. But the thing is, I've been that way as long as I can remember. And yep, I'm 23 too. I just have this inherent dislike for the majority of the human race, and it only grows over time.

Again, I apologize to Stacy for being the Grammar Nazi, as I am known in certain circles. I of course meant in no way to discourage her from posting. Post to your little heart's content, dear. I'll just avert my eyes.

Chestnuts roasted by Nicole @ 01/26/2006 05:34 PM EST

You guys/gals have gone totally insane. I have no clue what's up in here? Who needs some sense knocked into them?

:Walks around carrying a nerf bat:

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 01/26/2006 05:37 PM EST

Haha, I knew it--it seems cynics always have radar for other cynics. "Grammar Nazi"--I like that. I'm suprised that wasn't my nickname at one time--I used to tear apart my brother's rough drafts for college essays b/c I found "discrepancies" in them.

Nicole, did you work in retail at one time? Retail makes one cynical. I worked in a clothing store and a video store at one time, so I know where it comes from.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/26/2006 05:41 PM EST

JLAJRC, we're turning the X-E blog into a chat room, can't you tell?

ASL PLZ K THX!

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/26/2006 05:46 PM EST

Did you guys here about that pirate movie? It's rated Stacy R.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/26/2006 05:50 PM EST

dohopoki--rrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Kidding, kidding.

Mystie--I just took a look at that Jones Soda for Valentine's Day--looks decent. We braved it on Christmas Day w/the holiday pack, but I think I may have to try the Valentine's Day stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/26/2006 05:54 PM EST

Apologies in advance for a long post. I just want to explain my position. Hope no one hates me for it!

Darth Poop
I can understand the point you're making. I lurk here much more often than I actually post, and so I am aware that you're pretty much a vet, and I respect you as a poster. Respectfully, though, I must disagree with you. I don't feel that I outright insulted anyone, as I am certainly capable of it. If that was my intention, my post would have said something more like "Hey, it looks like the 9 year old AOLers found X-E!" My point was that Stacy R.'s post contained some major irony, and not the delicious variety.

I am fully aware of what net speak is. I grew out of it around 13 or 14, when I realized that it's really not helping anything if it takes people twice as long to decipher what you're trying to say simply because you want to save a few keystrokes. You think me inconsiderate for pointing out my lack of patience with those unwilling to even attempt to fit in a little bit with a well-worded and properly typed post, but I find those people to be guilty of a greater inconsideration. Of what are now over 200 posts in this thread, exactly 3 are in net speak. The other 197+ are composed in more-or-less proper English. Analogously, if one were to travel to France and insist on speaking English no matter what, then become outraged when the French expected you to at least attempt their language, which of these parties would you find to be more inconsiderate? I think you can guess my answer.

I'm not out to start a flame war or anything like that. However, saying "liek OMG I luv 2 liek rite n shizzle!!1!!" is a sad, sad ironic statement. It is considered common courtesy to put at least a little bit of effort into adopting local custom when visiting a strange community. That applies in both the real world and the cyber one.

I'm not claiming that I don't use the occasional acronym, and I love emoticons. These usually serve to enhance communication, though, whereas net speak generally serves to inhibit it, especially among people who choose to communicate clearly.

I'll climb down off of my soapbox now. I hope you can see where I'm coming from, and realize that I don't want to make any enemies, especially among you regulars.

oh, and uh... X-E iz liek ttly k3w1.

Chestnuts roasted by ZiZak @ 01/26/2006 05:55 PM EST

My favorite spice is Old.

I'd introduce my "new topic" here, but I'm always thinking that Matt's gonna post a new blog about 3 hours after I post it.

Until then, let the devolution from Blog to Chat Room commence!

ALL J00 SEXxxY PLAYAS HERR3/! TYP[E 158 iF DERE ANY SAXYU MOmAS INZ DA HOOUSE/?/!!1!

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 01/26/2006 06:02 PM EST

*quietly inching over to turn on his shiny, new, multiple-volley rapid-fire billiard cue launcher in case he needs to defend himself.*

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash, harbinger of indifference @ 01/26/2006 06:16 PM EST

PILLOW/WRESTLING BUDDIES FIGHT!!!!

"Runs around clobbering everyone with my Hulk Hogan Wrestling Buddy."

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 01/26/2006 06:47 PM EST

Zizak, I respect what you have to say.

K3w1? k3w1.

*Joins in the fight, w/my "Big Boss Man" wrestling buddy*

That's right--a girl who at one time owned a Big Boss Man Wrestling Buddy (it was 1991--I was 9--in 3rd grade--it can be excused). I also wanted Macho Man, but I got BBM. You guys must really like me now!! LOL!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/26/2006 07:08 PM EST

*begins wildly swinging an oversized Care Bear*

YOU CAN NOT DEFEAT ME! I AM THE BEST THERE IS, THE BEST THERE WAS, AND THE BEST THERE EVER WILL BE!!

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/26/2006 07:09 PM EST

Ohhh, Invader Norbert--I forgot!

158!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/26/2006 07:09 PM EST

*Kills Allison*

I... thought she was one of them. You guys where here, I couldn't have known. I didn't know. I DIDN'T KNOW!

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/26/2006 07:16 PM EST

After seeing everyone beat each other with various stuffed objects I began to cry. Then I soiled myself which made me cry even harder.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/26/2006 07:19 PM EST

Poor Darth Poop. Here's my Big Boss Man Wrestling Buddy--take a whack at dohopoki for me.

Hence, dohopoki, I'm alive!!! HAHA!

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/26/2006 07:23 PM EST

The boarders are fixed... MATTS HERE everyone run!

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/26/2006 07:42 PM EST

Oh fuck what are we going to do? What are we going to do? He'll know the awful things that we've done! Oh, the awful things that we've done!

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/26/2006 07:47 PM EST

231-ish replies...that's gotta be a record in recent blogs.

*attacks with stuffed Pikachu & Poliwhirl*

Yes, out of all those Pokemon out there that could be made into giant stuffed buddies, there is a Poliwhirl one, and I have it.

I also have a giant stuffed Calamity Coyote from Tiny Toons too.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 01/26/2006 08:19 PM EST

Well, now we know where Darth Poop got his alias

*runs for the hills*

Chestnuts roasted by ZiZak @ 01/26/2006 08:27 PM EST

I would just like to say that you are all, every one of you, insane.

Oh and you can get the Tabasco flavored Lawry's at Wal Mart.

Can't use the Foreman without Tabasco flavored Lawry's.

Chestnuts roasted by weirdozworld.com @ 01/26/2006 09:06 PM EST

Haha, me getting my fingers broke was too classic to remove? I'm cool with it.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/26/2006 09:55 PM EST

There is no replacement for Frank's Red Hot sauce (not a spice but still) and for steaks: Dale's, like liquid crack addictive!

GI Joe wouldn't be happy with the lack of team work and friendship that has hit. Cause knowing is half the battle; GIJOOOOEEEE!

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 01/26/2006 10:14 PM EST

There is no replacement for Frank's Red Hot sauce (not a spice but still) and for steaks: Dale's, like liquid crack addictive!

GI Joe wouldn't be happy with the lack of team work and friendship that has hit. Cause knowing is half the battle; GIJOOOOEEEE!

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 01/26/2006 10:14 PM EST

Takes the battle to the next level by filling his Super Soaker Cannon with Green Ketchup. Pumps it and sprays EVERYONE!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 01/26/2006 10:18 PM EST

I'm a timid rhino. I actually dislike confrontation quite a bit. And though I am generally inclined to agree with ZiZak, I think I shall refrain from outright comment. I was the new guy on the blog not too long ago and you all welcomed me with open/indifferent arms. I think indifference is the least we can extend Stacy R. I say give the girl a freebie and don't come out swinging until the next thread.

And that's all I have to say about that.

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 01/26/2006 10:19 PM EST

I have Wal-Mart-brand condiments. I'm obviously not very picky.

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 01/26/2006 10:20 PM EST

Rhino I still feel new, am I?
On another note, I just watched the office. I liked the end the best. I'm not getting oer my Jim obsession yet.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 01/26/2006 10:32 PM EST

NICE ONE dohopoki Ana Lucia love! And Lizzy, that bit was funny but my fav was the dream sequences...I was having flashbacks to Sopranos and Carnivale. Too bad it's back to reruns again already...damn you Lost!
kb, you mean that sideways look Pam gives Jim in the elevator? Can't wait to see where they go with that...anybody know how many eps left in the season?

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 01/27/2006 12:33 AM EST

Oops I was thinking about last week's episode kb. I forget sometimes that everyone sees things earlier. That new episode ending was quite cute...another storyline derived from the Brit version but they pulled it off well.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 01/27/2006 01:21 AM EST

Just thought I'd let you know - McCains still makes Smiles, and they're easily available in most of the grocery stores around here (Ottawa, ON). Such tasty happy bites of potato-y goodness, and my kid loves them.

Chestnuts roasted by Foder @ 01/27/2006 07:42 AM EST

KB I honestly don't know if you're new. I don't know how long you've been posting. I myself have only been doing so for a few months, so compared with most of the folks on this blog I'm brand spanking new. [ow] Anywhatsit, perhaps you should ask a more qualified assessor of such things. Doho?

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 01/27/2006 08:27 AM EST

Michelina's makes a dinner that has "Formed Mashed Potatoes" that are similar to the Smiles.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/27/2006 09:22 AM EST

I think I'm thankful I never hae seen the Office UK style. I might judge it more.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 01/27/2006 09:24 AM EST

SORRY! last post I swear.
squee The end where he listened to his messages and they were all from Pam who missed him. I am the higest sucker I know, but I also watch every romantic comedy that gets filmed.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 01/27/2006 09:27 AM EST

Holy balls, this post went crazy.

Allison: I had the macho man wrestling buddy, actually Big Boss Man was the only one I didn't have.

Also, The Office was great last night. It seems to get more gooder every week.

Stan: That's not a hate crime.
Michael:Well, I hated it.

Also, when Michael Scott was staring at the temp, Ryan, it reminded me of my office. Here, at my work, I also have some creepy dude who stares at me, actually two, and I'm a dude!

Chestnuts roasted by Geoffinsanity @ 01/27/2006 10:28 AM EST

Yup, that ending was quite heart warmy. There's an ep of the UK version where someone in the office creates a naughty picture of the boss and Gareth (the Dwight equivalent) is charged with investigating it. They actually based two different US episodes off it: the most recent one and also the one where Dwight gets put in charge of the health insurance...It's fun to watch the US version and look for the little bits of inspiration they pull from the original.
Any of you ladies out there watching Project Runway? If so, what the heck do you think is going on with Nick and Daniel?
My take on the "new poster" thing is that there are a bunch of names that I recognize and think of as newer, but that only comes after seeing it enough times that it stops being anonymous and I start knowing the style and personality of the writer. That would be my 2¢.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 01/27/2006 10:51 AM EST

That's right, no fights going on here. Just people talking about TV shows. We don't know how the pit got filled with ketchup and plush toys. Uh, anyone watch Pom Poko on TCM last night?

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/27/2006 11:54 AM EST

I haven't seen Pom Poko yet, but it's inevitable. Since it's a Miyazaki film, my wife will buy it sooner or later. Right now she's barreling her way through the Twelve Kingdoms anime series. She's watched 22 episodes in about 3 days. It's a 45-episode series. Kind of frightening, but it gave me time to finish Destroy All Humans and start Stubbs the Zombie, both on XBOX.

Chestnuts roasted by ZiZak @ 01/27/2006 12:25 PM EST

Whoa- crazy blog

Haven't seen the American "Office" yet...I lived with someone from the UK, and they showed me the BBC version. Loved it so much I bought the whole show on DVD (You can get it all in one box set- only two seasons :0( ) I am SCARED to see the US version, honestly- scared it will tarnish my great memories and not live up to the half-assed expectations I have of it.

Chestnuts roasted by Mupet Baby @ 01/27/2006 12:57 PM EST

Rhino I still feel new, am I?

perhaps you should ask a more qualified assessor of such things. Doho?

Kb has been here longer than I have actually and I dont' consider myself new, so...

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/27/2006 12:57 PM EST

Allison, I was a minion at both Wegmans and Price Chopper (local grocery store chains) in my high school and college days. I think you're exactly right...having to basically lick people's boots no matter what happens just so they won't throw a screaming fit and leave the store, getting you in trouble, tends to make one hate his fellow man. Damn you, fellow man. Damn you.

Chestnuts roasted by Nicole @ 01/27/2006 02:12 PM EST

I like watching BBC America comedies, but I never could get into the UK Office.

My favs:
Coupling- FAR superior to the quickly canceled US version.

My Hero- Just think of the Superman comics/shows as a comedy and you got it.

Kumar at 42- A combination talk show/comedy show hosted by Punjab immigrants. HILARIOUS!

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 01/27/2006 02:20 PM EST

My first real job was at Carvel.

Biggest job hazard there was frostbite....

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 01/27/2006 02:52 PM EST

Most of my jobs have dealt with keeping consumers happy - convenience store clerk, 3 different call centers(hardware support, software support, and credit card cust. service), and now I handle payroll for the 100 or so employees at the credit card call center, so I have to keep them happy with their time while still adhering to policy.

What's really jaded me, though, is what seems to be most peoples' belief that the relative anonymity granted by operating a motor vehicle is license to abandon courteous behaviour. I can't stand jerks on the road.

Chestnuts roasted by ZiZak @ 01/27/2006 03:08 PM EST

Try dealing with tourists. Nothing lets me practice my Chuck Jones' "You Gotta Be Kidding Me" look like some misguided vacationer asking "Where can I find some real Indians? With the feathers and loin cloths and war paint and all that?" I love Humanity, I just wish it didn't have to involve so many people.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/27/2006 03:53 PM EST

This has to be the longest discussion to ever take place spurred simply by the sentence "So I cleaned out the freezer today."

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 01/27/2006 05:05 PM EST

So I finally tried Black Cherry Vanilla Coke earlier today. I thought it tasted....iffy. That's the word I have to describe it.

First I tasted the vanilla coke for a about 10 seconds before the barrage of Black Cherry attacked me. I really hate regular Cherry, but Black Cherry seems more bearable.

All in all, Coke: PLEASE TAKE THE BLACK CHERRY OUT OF THE GODDAMN VANILLA!!! IF IT AINT BROKE, DON'T FIX IT!!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 01/27/2006 05:06 PM EST

Haha, my first job was working in the kitchen at a retirement home. This one time we ran out of prune juice for a week! Oh my god were those old people pissed!

I also worked at the Customer Service Desk at Wal-Mart for a long time. A lot of getting screamed at by Rednecks. Weirdest return excuse I ever heard, "Well, I was wondering what's been making my crotch itch lately!" Apparently she didn't realize you're supposed to take your yucky bath mats OUT of the tub if you're taking a bath. Ewe.

As far as Pom Poko, I've been meaning to see that for the past 10 years! My bff in high school had a copy, and I never got around to watching it. I have the soundtrack, though. Bought it from the TokyoPop Shop clearance a while back. Way before they were doing manga.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/27/2006 05:42 PM EST

norbert, I am right there with you. I love love love diet vanilla coke and that has been my saving grace in trying to loose weight. I caught wind of the change before it happened and luckily my local grocery store Giant Eagle had a sale for 1.97 a 12 pack. No limit! Needless to say I bought the store out and now have a mini mountain of diet vanilla coke in the garage. I think I have about 20 packs. Ahhh it feels great to be queen!

Chestnuts roasted by brookelynn @ 01/27/2006 06:08 PM EST

Remember, Pom Poko is the film that inspired the term "Baffling Number Of Raccoon Scrotums." Have you hugged your Tanuki today?

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/27/2006 06:09 PM EST

Mystie, Nicole, and kingklash--great stories. Prune juice, irate customers, and tourists looking for "real" Indians is classic stuff. Bath mats?! Oh my god!!! Obviously they couldn't return the bath mats...please say they couldn't, Mystie...for the love of God! Please SAY they couldn't return the bath mats!!!!

I was blessed with a job interview today that turned into a quickie hiring! I went to Boscov's this morning after being called in regard to a resume I submitted regarding a job posting in the paper. It is a Employee Customer Relations position, and it is just me, attempting to provide incentives for employees to push credits, and to take different approaches for customers to open credits if any approaches fail. It is also to make the job fun for the employees. I have little experience in this type of work (I have 2 1/2 years experience in retail, but that's about it...), and I was still hired. Hey, I'm a blank slate--they can teach me what they want!

And, Mystie, baths don't exactly make you clean. Maybe that's why her crotch was itching...ewwwwww!

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/27/2006 06:20 PM EST

Ahhh, Tanuki. God do I miss those classic Super Mario days.

I have DDR Mario Mix (after the boyfriend nabbed it on Ebay). There is this great version of the Super Mario Bros. underwater song--it has this one part that sounds like elevator music, and Mario does the "Running Man" during it.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/27/2006 06:24 PM EST

Oh yeah, we returned the bath mat. My Wal-Mart took EVERYTHING back. Opened DVDs, used PS2s, vaginal cream, eaten food, air conditioners someone used all summer, used Halloween costumes. One time we had a customer take a vacuum cleaner right off the shelf, bring it up to customer service and ask for their money back on it. Management approved the return because no one actually saw him take it up, but the alarm tag hadn't been deactivated on it. I was pretty much told by them to give the customers whatever the hell they want, regardless of if they deserve it or not.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/27/2006 06:28 PM EST

as I scan the talky, I keep thinking people are referring to me when they say Pom Poko.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/27/2006 06:33 PM EST

I can't imagine what inventory must have been like.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/27/2006 06:34 PM EST

Last year I was there it was nearly $1.5 million in shrink. Then they had another inventory a few months later, the store manager padded it, they found out, and she was demoted to assistant.

Terrible store. Once the overnight assistant manager was caught on tape screwing one of the girls from grocery in the back office. Doubled her hours on payroll, too. They fired him, he threatened to sue for there being no sign about the camera, and they gave him his job back and transferred him to another store. I could go on for hours about bad Wal-Mart stories. @_@

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/27/2006 06:41 PM EST

You can get like 5 pounds of cheese for a dollar though. Karma... yep.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/27/2006 06:58 PM EST

www.customerssuck.com is really the best place for retail horror stories. I do cs for the people responsible for getting everyone's tax forms in the mail so it's been quite the month. I'd regale you with tales but I kinda come here to escape all of that. Congrats to Allison on the job though!
Hi me! Nice to see you back...now if ME would just turn up we'd really have a party.
Muppet Baby, let go of your fears! They compliment each other beautifully (UK and US).

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 01/27/2006 07:44 PM EST

At my local Wal-Mart I can get 1 pound of pastrami for $3. Then all I need is rye bread, swiss cheese, sauerkraut, and mustard, and I can make one badass reuben sandwich.

... this might get expensive.

Chestnuts roasted by ZiZak @ 01/27/2006 07:44 PM EST

Mystie, the way you tell a story, I'm not surprised you have many more.

squee4242--I'll check out that site. Thanks!

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/27/2006 08:37 PM EST

Has anyone noticed that we are just over a tenth of the way toward surpassing the Nathan Bitner/Fearless Photog blog incident? Let's do it guys... only 2000 replies and some change to go!

Chestnuts roasted by Bludge @ 01/27/2006 09:30 PM EST

I did notice that, Bludge.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/27/2006 10:15 PM EST

I gotta figure Matt will update before we hit 2k. Although I do think It's cool to have so many posts on such a random thread.

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 01/27/2006 11:00 PM EST

Besides, we're real close to the SNT.

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 01/27/2006 11:01 PM EST

You said it, Rhino.

This is probably up there as one of the most commented blogs ever on X-E, and we're not even 1/10 of the lenght of the Photog Blog!

*as He's typing this, notices Bludge's post*

Darn you!

Anyways, new Monk on earlier, and I just thought it kicked ass. Funny as hell as well as the usual crime drama, as well as the emotional drama with Stottlemeyer.

"The mouse...was in...my pocket."

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 01/27/2006 11:27 PM EST

What's the Nathan Bitner/Fearless Photog Blog Incident?

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 01/27/2006 11:28 PM EST

Ahh, the PHOTOG/NATHAN BITNER fiasco...that's the saga that burned my eyeballs out as I read for hours, and that did it- I was hooked on XE.

FNT Anyone?

I'm glad Wal-Mart gives $$$ back for anything- they sell lot of crap, and its good to get some payback. I mean, I have junk I am too lazy to return- if they wait in line to return something, they deserve their money back!

...Is anyone else hooked on Texas Hold 'Em or am I the only one? Poker and XE are what I DO on weekends now.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 01/28/2006 02:35 AM EST

Oh that Shrek meal looks so delicious I may just have to order one up on ebay, along with Smurf Berry Cereal and a rotten 2 liter of New Coke. It's gotta be better then Cherry Vanilla Coke. NAZ-T my friend. Naz-t.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeremy @ 01/28/2006 03:44 AM EST

I'm not much of a gambler, but my eldest brother is a Texas Hold 'Em freak. Thinks he's God's Gift to poker and goes to AC every chance he gets. I've never been as I don't even have the $20 for the bus ticket there let alone the extra cash to be gambling away. @_@

I really like Diet Black Cherry Vanilla Coke.

Also the Christmas stuff is down! Yay! Kool-Aid and cereal 4EVA!

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/28/2006 05:14 AM EST

This should become the SNT just so we can squeese as much out this thread as possible.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/28/2006 08:02 AM EST

I have nothing to say except who would have thought this session would yield 280 posts???

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 01/28/2006 09:03 AM EST

I know I'm usually last to find out these things. But I just discovered Google Earth. I found my house, it was cool. And, my car was sitting outside the last coffee house I worked at in Seattle. I'm gonna go look some more.
(SMT) yeah

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 01/28/2006 10:08 AM EST

The Manimal- you are obviously a non-believer! Blasphemer!

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/28/2006 10:11 AM EST

Uncanny. I had the urge, about a hundred posts back, to write "That's so Bitner" for no apparent reason. The spirit of Photog has truly touched this thread.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 01/28/2006 10:56 AM EST

(Another) Completely random question, but does anyone know if they still make Sweet Breath? I was hooked on that stuff in its various incarnations in high school and college.

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 01/28/2006 11:20 AM EST

Oh my god, I didn't thought that it can't exist in the diet human these food. Its a really frankensteinen-food. It's the same plastic of barbies doll ! XD

Sorry for my grammar, I'm from Barcelona.

Chestnuts roasted by adrià @ 01/28/2006 11:55 AM EST

I checked out Google Earth before, and it was cool. I like Neave.com's Flash Earth. It lets you switch between G-Earth and MSN Virtual Earth. I found all the places I used to live in California. Somebody ought to give an intersection in their town, and the rest of us look it up and give the lat and long of the location. Or the other way around. Clicky da namey to check out Flash Earth.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/28/2006 11:56 AM EST

Hmm, Customerssuck.com doesn't seem to be running. Could it be The Man shut it down to keep us from airing our complaints?

Nah. Still would've liked to see it, though. Anyone have any pot? Though perhaps eating some of those TV dinners from the Nixon administration would get you pretty high.

Wanna pretend to be stoners and babble on nonsensically so this post CAN get the most "hits", so to speak?

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew @ 01/28/2006 01:29 PM EST

Saturday afternoon... It's all up to Matt now...

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 01/28/2006 02:30 PM EST

Help us, Obi-Matt Kenobi, you're our only hope!
*sskkkrrttt*
Help us, Obi-Matt Kenobi, you're our only hope!
*sskkkrrttt*
Help us, Obi-Matt Kenobi, you're our only hope!
*sskkkrrttt*
Help us, Obi-Matt ....

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/28/2006 02:47 PM EST

If the majority of the posts in this entry don't qualify as babbling nonsensically, Andrew, then you have braved brutal frontiers of nonsense which I shudder to imagine.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 01/28/2006 02:59 PM EST

I can take a shower twice as better than anyone here.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/28/2006 03:37 PM EST

I just woke up. That's all.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/28/2006 03:43 PM EST

Yeah, well I can type "twice as better than anyone here", twice as better than anyone here.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/28/2006 04:13 PM EST

Did a bunch of post just dissappear?

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/28/2006 04:24 PM EST

I don't think any are missing. At least all my 4580932 are accounted for.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/28/2006 04:27 PM EST

I know the last post I made vanished. No big loss. It was rather banal. Should've stuck to the spice.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 01/28/2006 04:51 PM EST

Hmm... Perhaps our random-topic post explosion has overloaded Matt's supply of dilithium crystals...

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 01/28/2006 05:03 PM EST

C'mon 300 posts, c'mon 300!

There once was a man from Nantucket...

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/28/2006 06:02 PM EST

Come on 300 posts! Wooooo!

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/28/2006 06:04 PM EST

And yes, some posts did disapear. 300th post wooo!

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/28/2006 06:05 PM EST

Woot 301 post!

Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 01/28/2006 06:42 PM EST

Damn...just my luck that the one weekend I take off from work is the one weekend in which SNT is a bust. Yargh.

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 01/28/2006 08:27 PM EST

I have never seen philosophical meanderings of such caliber called a bust before! And by philosophical meanderings I mean insipid drivel...

Chestnuts roasted by Bludge @ 01/28/2006 08:37 PM EST

Hey Poop--

Did you notice that your initials are "dp"?

Chestnuts roasted by Chupacabra @ 01/28/2006 08:57 PM EST

Holy fuck.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/28/2006 08:59 PM EST

I'd often wondered at the draw of the dark side...

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 01/28/2006 09:00 PM EST

Aw, poor mtrox. Maybe the SNT is just really late. Here, let me pour you a comforting bowl of Chocolate Peanut Butter Cap'N Crunch.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/28/2006 09:01 PM EST

Hey Mystie--

I checked out Zern's and the place kicks ass!!

Chestnuts roasted by Chupacabra @ 01/28/2006 09:04 PM EST

I've been trying to copy images from my Akira DVD to my computer but it doesn’t work. I press fn then print screen and put on a paint document. After I save it to my computer the image goes black. Any ideas?

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/28/2006 09:08 PM EST

What format are you saving in? I've often found my pictures get all screwy if I don't save them as .BMPs

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 01/28/2006 09:10 PM EST

Rhino- Monochrome, 16 color, 256 color, or 24 bit .BMPs?

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/28/2006 09:21 PM EST

24bit. I think it goes wonky because it can't process the colors otherwise

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 01/28/2006 09:25 PM EST

I just tried every single one and none work. It did work a couple times but when I saved a new image the previous image saved would become the new image so I would have two of the same image. Is the DVD designed to fuck with me like this? Does it want to keep its thumbs?

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/28/2006 09:26 PM EST

SNT! SNT! Come forth!

In Living Color marathon is on, I guess that's my night. =P

Chestnuts roasted by Matt(#2?) @ 01/28/2006 09:27 PM EST

For most DVDs, Windows Movie Maker should work fine. The Print Screen key doesn't work most of the time because the DVD layer doesn't go through the GDI on many systems.
If it doesn't work in Movie Maker, you'll need to download a third-party screencap program. And good luck with that.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 01/28/2006 09:28 PM EST

Sorry my dark stinky Lord. I tried.

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 01/28/2006 09:30 PM EST

Thanks all for the help.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/28/2006 09:31 PM EST

Oh, and one more thing: the program you use to play the video is more important than the program you use to capture the image, because Windows Media Player, Quicktime, and several other video players are specifically designed to disallow screen shots. Because they hate.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 01/28/2006 09:32 PM EST

Yeah, it takes a capture of the stream of the video. If you pushed play again you'd notice the video will start to play in paint. I usually wind up running my videos through TMPGEnc to get screen grabs. There's a way to mess with wmp to allow the print screen thing, but I can't recall how it's done. Maybe try videohelp.com?

Chupacabra! I almost went back down to Zern's today, it's only like a 30 minute drive for me. Maybe next weekend. If you ever see a girl walking around that's 5'9" and looks like a cross between Kirsten Dunst and Miss Piggy, that'd be me.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/28/2006 09:52 PM EST

Wait wait wait...Kirsten Dunst doesn't already look like Miss Piggy? I was under the impression she does (facially, at least).

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 01/28/2006 10:10 PM EST

All I had to do was right click and capture the image. I was trying to do all of this complicated stuff and in the end the solution was a click away. Needless to say I now have some great animation cells saved on my computer.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/28/2006 10:19 PM EST

heyoohh! SNT, biatch! I like how someone way up there said we should "pretend" to be stoners...yeah, I'll get right on that!!

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 01/28/2006 10:48 PM EST

Come on people! Let's get with the SNT feel! Wooo! Wooooo! Anyone rent any good movies lately? I don't care about the ones in theaters, we've talked enough about the wonder that is King Kong. How about some old vhs tapes? Anyone?

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/28/2006 10:52 PM EST

Helooo! Anyone posting? What was that? I have a gun! No! Stay away! No! *BLAM! BLAM!* Ahhhhhhh!

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/28/2006 11:04 PM EST

I've been watching the old VHS tapes of the Disney princess-type movies lately. Wanna talk about that?

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/28/2006 11:14 PM EST

Ugh UT lost to OU just now in b-ball

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 01/28/2006 11:27 PM EST

I've been watching a triple feature of movies on HBO's and IFC:

Beastmaster
Road Warrior
Bill and Ted Bogus Journey is on in about 20 minutes.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 01/28/2006 11:41 PM EST

Hmm it figures the one saturday night that I'm home and think to stop by and theres no "offical SNT lol. I spent most of my day playing Megaman X ollection. I've been a megaman fan for years but was always partial to the traditional version. Now I dunno if the X series was just way harder than I remember I just suck really really bad at them. I 5-6 hours playing and only manage to kill ONE boss.

Anyways kids my sleeping pill are kickin in so I'm gonna bail befor I wake up with a keyboard tatoo on my face.

Chestnuts roasted by The Krypt Angel @ 01/28/2006 11:41 PM EST

Yeah I don't know what's up with the no official SNT. We all know Matt was on earlier on account of some posts being deleted. But, hey, he did just clean out the freezer last weekend. Maybe D-Day for the move is approaching.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/28/2006 11:53 PM EST

Well, SNL is on again, and its the Dane Cook one. I for one, liked this episode and I really can't wait for next week: Steve Martin & Prince

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 01/28/2006 11:53 PM EST

well, I just got Police Academy 2 & 3 on 1 DVD at Wal-Suck for $7, so that's all good! Otherwise, the last movie I watched was BASEketball, which, IMO, is not as good as Orgasmo. Obviously, any movie with Luke Skywalker and Ron Jeremy as Jizzmaster Zero will be better than a sports-related movie, unless you could Unneccessary Roughness, which is a really kick-ass movie! hehe.

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 01/28/2006 11:53 PM EST

No SNT.....grr. I had an announcement to make there, and I'd rather make it at the top of a page, not at the bottom. I'll be back tomorrow, and there better be a new topic there....

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 01/29/2006 12:30 AM EST

I've never had a drink in my life, but I accompanied my friends to the bar tonight...what a waste of time. I would have been better off watching a flick or something.

Watched Planes, Trains, and Automobiles last night. I remember the days when Steve Martin was still cranking out worthwhile material. Ahhh...

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 01/29/2006 01:00 AM EST

#334!

a George Carlin special, George Carlin on Campus, is on Comedy Central's Secret Stash right now. It's hilarious.

"Here's a message from the National Pancake Association: 'Fuck Waffles.' So think about that when you go to Denny's later on in the evening."

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 01/29/2006 01:15 AM EST

oooohhh, shit! Planes, Trains, & Autos is one of my most favorite movies ever...I love the scene where Neal and Del wake up in bed together, and the part where they ride in the back of the rednecks truck, with the psycho dog!!

Tommy Boy ripped off so much shit from this movie, it's not even funny. They should have put a disclaimer in the credits.

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 01/29/2006 02:03 AM EST

I love each and every one of you THIS much.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/29/2006 02:16 AM EST

is that a lot, or not that much, doho?

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 01/29/2006 02:25 AM EST

Yes kidneyboy, YES.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/29/2006 02:30 AM EST

Awww... two creepy love confessions over the internet in one week! Boy do I feel special.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/29/2006 02:40 AM EST

i remember on New Year's Eve (well, I don't really remember, but I saw myself say it on the video the next day) I told Pat Benetar I love her, and that everyone else was just a bunch of fucking assholes.

But, that's neither here nor there. I gotta go smoke a cig and pass out!

Anyone like Cake? Besides "The Distance" I mean...the whole Fashion Nugget album is one of my all time faves, and I've been listening to Motorcade a lot, R&R Lifestyle, Jesus Wrote a Blank Check, Mr. Mastadon Farm...good shit, and it's got trumpets too.

Good night doho, Mystie, and Matt, cause I know you're still up reading this shit!

oh just because I have'nt been posting a lot lately doesn't mean I've left...and I saw someone got me mixed up w/kingklash the other day...that made me laugh!!

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 01/29/2006 02:59 AM EST

Awesome. Don't you love when you wake up after about four hours of sleep, and then just lay there for an additional hour until you give yourself a headache, and then end up just getting up at 2:30 AM and resigning yourself to feeling like the inside of your skull is coated with used cotton swabs for the rest of the day? Just awesome.

So much joy in life
So many pleasures all around
But the pleasure of insomnia
Is one I've never found
With all life has to offer
There's so much to be enjoyed
But the pleasure of insomnia
Is one I can't avoid
~Barenaked Ladies, "Who Needs Sleep?"

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 01/29/2006 03:45 AM EST

Yes! BNL! I'm still pissed that the iTunes Original album is full of crackling, popping, and other unpleasantries, but I can survive without it for now.

I've never been a part of a Saturday night thread before. Yay?

Chestnuts roasted by The ORIGINAL Paul @ 01/29/2006 03:54 AM EST

SWEET! Those smiley fries were on Food Network's Unwrapped show.

Chestnuts roasted by Devin @ 01/29/2006 05:24 AM EST

Hey kidney have you seen Cannibal! The Musical? I've always enjoyed it the most of the Parker/ Stone live action hits. It's funnier than Orgazmo, and of course it's way better than Baseketball. If you listen to the commentary track you can totally tell it cuts off for 10 minutes because the weedman shows up...same thing happens on Orgazmo too, actually.
If it's SN and there are people posting in the T than it's the SNT. What more do you need?

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 01/29/2006 05:58 AM EST

kidneyboy:

I love Cake! I have and enjoy all of their albums, although I was initially hesitant with how electronic their new one sounded. I just bought their cover of Mahna Mahna from the Muppet Show on iTunes. Great stuff.

Squee:

Cannibal is one of my favorites. I can't even count the number of lines and phrases I've coopted from that movie and inserted into my regular life. Of course there's "Shpladoinkle," but there's also my typical "Your life isn't so bad" response. "At least you didn't get your head stuck in that thing."

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 01/29/2006 06:40 AM EST

Well, that didn't turn out so bad. I ended up reading an article about WWII era pin-up art, colloquially known as "cheesecake." I then developed a fierce craving for cheesecake and found an interesting recipe for overnight slow-bake one-pot Italian cheesecake in my cookbook and drove to the super Walmart to purchase a springform pan and several pounds of cream cheese. Though the recipe was fairly simple, it did indirectly cause me to lose still more faith in my community. I discovered that if a disheveled, unshaven, wild-eyed man wearing pajama pants stumbles into the liquor store down the street at three AM and demands a liter of brandy, they will sell it to him. God Bless Texas.

Anyway, in six to eight hours, I am certain that I will be enjoying the best insomnia-induced slow-bake cheesecake in the history of the world. Hooray for sleep disorders! And, I mean, at least I didn't get my head stuck in that thing, right?

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 01/29/2006 09:42 AM EST

Heh, if you think this is weird, you should see some of the stuff on the Adult Swim messageboard. I think they even have a "no-rules" section.

Sorry Mystie, but that revelation about Wal-Mart's return policy just convinced me never to shop there! That and the fact that the Waltons are grade A a-holes.

Heh, now I'm sure people who work the night shifts at liquor stores have some especially good stories to tell.

Now I'll shoot-what was probably the unhealthiest kids' breakfast cereal EVER? (I certainly wouldn't know off the top of my head; my parents NEVER would dream of buying us stuff like Lucky Charms or Cookie Crisp, though they did occasionally get some Cocoa Puffs or Cinnamon Toast Crunch.)

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew @ 01/29/2006 12:06 PM EST

Anyone still alive out there?

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/29/2006 03:46 PM EST

I'll Poop on you and Vader.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/29/2006 03:48 PM EST

Post #350!!!!

I think that the unhealthiest cereal ever was the short-lived "Admirable Diabetes Sugar-Crusted Cyanaide Mashings" that came with marshmallows that were made from remnants of people that survived the Chernobyl incident and could only be ingested by injection or by being bitten by the "Admirable Diabetes Sugar-Crusted Cyanaide Mashings" Monkey.

Sadly, It only lasted for 3 weeks back in 1983, and was quickly taken off the market because it was proven that it was what killed the Fruit Brute.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 01/29/2006 03:53 PM EST

The second post up there isn't me, the one about pooping on people. WTF?

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/29/2006 03:59 PM EST

Hello yall i know im not on subject and i rush in my condolencies, but do any of you watch the A-team and if so do you know when the next season boxed DVD set comes out??

Chestnuts roasted by B.A. Bartcus @ 01/29/2006 04:12 PM EST

I was once punched in the jaw by Mr.T, I never washed my face again. That's why it got infected and my jaw had to be amputated. I now eat through a curly purple straw.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/29/2006 04:17 PM EST

Ha Darth Poop you lie! We all know that if you get hit in the jaw by Mr.T you would be killed instantly...no one can survive a swing from the Great Mr. T sucka!

Chestnuts roasted by B.A. Bartcus @ 01/29/2006 04:20 PM EST

squee, I've never actually seen Cannibal!, but I do enjoy the wonderful Troma film by the name of REDNECK ZOMBIES!! That is by far my most fave Troma film, followed by Sgt. Kabukiman, NYPD. Although I like to be on hard drugs when I watch Kabukiman, Redneck Zombies has the 'baccy man that comes, as well as knockers.

"Ah lahk knockers"

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 01/29/2006 04:23 PM EST

For you Parker and Stone fans on the thread, I'm sure you're probably already aware of it, but there is a pretty funny telling of the infamous Aristocrats joke in the movie/documentary of the same name. If you haven't seen it yet, I recommend renting it. It's pretty good, but I'm not sure it's worth buying on blind faith.

Chestnuts roasted by Bludge @ 01/29/2006 04:31 PM EST

I should probably add that the joke is told by Cartman. Sometimes I'm not so smart.

Chestnuts roasted by Bludge @ 01/29/2006 04:33 PM EST

hey B.A., don't you know your last name isn't "Bartcus"? Isn't it really "Baracus"? hehe, maybe you hit yourself a little too hard....foo'.

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 01/29/2006 04:38 PM EST

Maybe "Bartcus" is a pseudonym. ...and a bad one, at that. You know, an assumed name. He is on the lam, after all.

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 01/29/2006 04:45 PM EST

I can pseudonym twice as better than anyone here.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/29/2006 06:34 PM EST

I can use twice as many pseudonyms as anyone here.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/29/2006 06:45 PM EST

man your freezer is a treasure trove of goodness^.^ wish my freezer was like that

Chestnuts roasted by dark-jem @ 01/29/2006 07:05 PM EST

I use to keep little plastic army men in my freezer and have winter batlles during the summer. Then my mom made me take them out.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/29/2006 07:18 PM EST

So... are we pushing for 400 comments before Matt gives us a new update?

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 01/29/2006 08:16 PM EST

Amazing...I missed SNT last night, but it doesn't matter- we are still on the freezer thread! In the words of Inspector Gadget- "Wowzers!" ...That IS was he said, eh?

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 01/29/2006 09:39 PM EST

Now we have 1 comment for each day of the year (and with this one, leap year too)

It was indeed "Wozer" that Inspector Gadget said.

On a sadder note, both the 3rd Season Pete & Pete & YCDTOTV DVDs have been shelved for now...click on my name for info.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 01/29/2006 10:10 PM EST

After finally polishing off season 1 of Fraggle Rock today, I am eagerly anticipating the release of season 2. And Dinosaurs don't come out until May. I NEED MUPPETS!!!!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 01/29/2006 10:29 PM EST

I feel that, Rhino. They need more Henson stuff on DVD. It'd save me a lot of time designing special cases for my conversions of Hey Cinderella and such.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/29/2006 10:37 PM EST

I'm disappointed about the Petes and YCDTOTV. I had my Season 1 of the Petes in today... that was a damn fine show, they should have all the seasons released by now.

Inspector Gadget - Wowzer! That was one show I never really bought into. I LOVED the concept, the gadgets, the dog Brain, and IG himself... but I never cared much for the cartoon.

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 01/30/2006 01:33 AM EST

I never buy shows on DVD unless ALL off the series is already avialable on DVD. A lot of shows just don't do good enough to warrant that many releases so then you get stuck with half the series which is worse than nothing at all.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/30/2006 04:58 AM EST

Now I feel weird for instinctually knowing that when he said "Freezer Farewell" he was talking about cleaning out his freezer prior to moving.

Chestnuts roasted by Silkenray @ 01/30/2006 07:50 AM EST

On this day in 1969, the Beatles made their last public appearence in a rooftop concert in London. Several neighbors complained about the noise, prompting the police to break up the concert. Man, wouldn't you hate to be one of the bastards who broke up the last Beatles concert because you couldn't hear freaking "Coronation Street" on the telly?

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 01/30/2006 09:33 AM EST

I don't think it was actually broke up and whatever did happen I know at least Ringo wanted it to be more dramatic as they were filming an end to their Let It Be documentry. I could be wrong.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/30/2006 09:52 AM EST

Wow, I can't believe this has become a near-400 post thread. Awesome jawsome, as my old Biology teacher used to say. God I hated that bitch.

kidneyboy, I love Cake! Cake the band, not the food, I hate cake the food. Fashion Nugget is indeed one of my favorite albums of all time, and I really need to get some more of their stuff. mtrox, you say they covered the Manamana song?! I must find this. Damn me not having Internet at home...I really need to call the cable guy. And if Jim Carrey shows up at my house, I'm going to scream. Because that movie was awful.

Mystie, the boyfriend and I just watched Disney's Aladdin on VHS last night, because I finally figured out how to hook up the VCR. Then we had a good laugh over the people who think one of the towers on my The Little Mermaid cover is supposed to be a penis. God, people are such idiots.

Wal-Mart is my favorite place on earth. I know, I know, it's the seventh layer of hell, but honestly people...the savings. The savings! I picked up Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (which is by far my favorite David Lynch film, even though I never watched the actual series) on DVD for $3.88 yesterday! You can't beat stuff like that with a stick.

Chestnuts roasted by Nicole @ 01/30/2006 10:35 AM EST

Nicole: watch the series of Twin Peaks. It's different from the movie (a little more light-hearted, quirkier), but it's pure gold.

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 01/30/2006 11:28 AM EST

Sheesh, I take my usual Sunday off and find the Freezer Thread still going strong when I come back. And still going weird.
Welcome to my nightmare Darth Poop, the one where my Bizzarro-World counterpart shows up and posts in my name, but not my style. Those of you who were here a couple years ago know what I'm talking about. I've got my Portal warmed up the next time your goatee-wearing evil twin shows his evil goatee again.
Hmm, Dunst/Miss Piggy combo? Have you seen Miss piggy lately? Hubba-hubba!
"Peter Jackson's Donkey Kong" sounds like a good idea, don't it?
C'mon 400! 400 posts, 400 posts, let's get to 400 posts!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/30/2006 12:04 PM EST

I noticed the changes to the main page. So, does that mean we get more Kool-Aid soon? I've been missing that lately.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 01/30/2006 12:16 PM EST

OMFG I used to work at an Easy Video in Hightstown nj, crazzyy place. Mine went out of business too. But I know of another Easy Video that still exsits(may be the last one) in NJ. If you want I'll let you know I don't think you live to far.

Chestnuts roasted by K in NJ @ 01/30/2006 12:24 PM EST

I actually wear a goatee. Does that mean my good twin will start posting in the name of the Rhino? The infamy... The infamy...

P.S. I'd play/watch Peter Jackson's Donkey Kong. And God help Mario...

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 01/30/2006 12:26 PM EST

Wow, you guys are still going?

It's gotta be some kind of record.

Some info:

On this day:

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement, is assassinated in New Delhi by a Hindu fanatic.

I'm so bored at work. I'm watching Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

Pardon me....(you're balls are showing...)

Bumblebee Tuna!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 01/30/2006 12:41 PM EST

P.S. I'd play/watch Peter Jackson's Donkey Kong. And God help Mario...

I for one, think that a movie adaptation of Tetris would be one of the most hilarious things to ever be put on celluloid.

20 More to 400!

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 01/30/2006 12:42 PM EST

Sad thing is, A movie adaption of Tetris would probably be better than Street Fighter and Doom combined.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 01/30/2006 12:47 PM EST

Was Doom really that bad? I had intended to go see it, but never got around to it. I heard such bad things about it, but c'mon. It's freakin' Doom!

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 01/30/2006 12:49 PM EST

You ever have someone hit you in the back of the next with a rubber band? I'd much rather have someone do that to for the duration of Doom than watch it again.

Yeah, the part where they try to make it seem EXACTLY like the video game? Ummm....yeah...complete and utter failure...

This is just my opinion though, so....

Actually Live Action Tetris would beat those 2 out ALONG with the Super Mario Bro.'s movie...

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 01/30/2006 12:58 PM EST

The only video game movie that I ever really thought was any good was the first Mortal Kombat movie. I'm afraid to watch it again, though, because I would probably have to remove it from my list of good video game movies. The second one was absolutely horrible, though. They're supposedly making another one that will have continuity with the first and pretend the second one was never made. I may or may not give it a chance.

I picked up two greatest hits albums this weekend: Queen and Stone Temple Pilots. The Queen one isn't the same one I remember my dad owning in the late 80s. It doesn't have Boehmian Rhapsody or Flash on it, which kind of sucks. The Stone Temple Pilots one is good stuff, except it makes me kind of sad that bands I listened to in middle/high school now have "greatest hits" compilations. Awfully convenient, though. They were $10 each at Best Buy.

Chestnuts roasted by ZiZak @ 01/30/2006 01:08 PM EST

Sorry for the double post, but I also wanted to mention that I saw an Alanis Morissete compilation this weekend. The sticker on the front said "Contains Alanis Morissette's most recognizable hits". I thought that wording was hilarious, as opposed to just "greatest hits". It's almost insulting, really.

Chestnuts roasted by ZiZak @ 01/30/2006 01:11 PM EST

ZiZk - I'll have you know all my tunes are hits! Their greatness is beyond the ability to sort!!! I used the wording "recogniable hits" because I didn't want to belittle those great songs which the public is too stupid to love.

Chestnuts roasted by Alanis @ 01/30/2006 01:22 PM EST

Alanis

I applaud you belittling your entire catalogue so as not to single out individual songs. You are a stand-up artist.

... IF that's who you really are. O_o

Chestnuts roasted by ZiZak @ 01/30/2006 01:35 PM EST

The heads for the Dinosaurs characters are (or they were when I was there some 6 or 7 years ago) located in the Disney prop wherehouse in Burbank. They were up near the ceiling. Robby's head was missing, though. They also had the arcade sign from Tron, Simon Birch's Tombstone, and a mask from Scream.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Muppet @ 01/30/2006 01:40 PM EST

"Dinosaurs"...Is that the show that was like the Flintstones, and had that annoying as hell baby that had the catch phrase "not the baby..." or something like that?

Sweet Jesus and Baby Jesus, that show was mind numbingly annoying....

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 01/30/2006 01:58 PM EST

*smacks Darth Galvatron upside the head*

Not the mama! NOT THE MAMA!!!

... meh, I never cared much for the show, either.

Chestnuts roasted by ZiZak @ 01/30/2006 02:02 PM EST

ZiZak I happen to be a Queen fanatic (although their current tour, I think, made me physically ill) and I would like to shed some light on your Greatest Hits dilemma.
Ok.
Queen put out Greatest Hits many years ago, then subsequently released GH Vols. 2 and 3.

About, oh, seven or eight years ago they released "Queen's Greatest Hits" and "Classic Queen" which have almost the same songs as GH Vol. 1&2, but are different albums.

Favorite band or no, I really hate it when groups do this. Hope I was able to clear up some confusion.

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 01/30/2006 02:20 PM EST

mtrox, I've seen the pilot episode of Twin Peaks, and I liked it. It is a little more light-hearted than the movie. I wonder if the series has made its way out onto DVD yet? Have to check Amazon, I guess...

Can't remember if it was this thread we were discussing Black Cherry Vanilla Coke on or not (and I ain't rereading 390+ comments to find out, heh)...but I got a bottle at my friendly neighborhood Rite-Aid today. I like it. It's kinda weird at first, because I could taste the black cherry and the vanilla and the Coke and it was too much for my taste buds to process. But I like it. Which means it'll probably go the way of my beloved Pepsi Holiday Spice. *sigh*

Chestnuts roasted by Nicole @ 01/30/2006 02:20 PM EST

Queen have a current tour?

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/30/2006 02:23 PM EST

"*smacks Darth Galvatron upside the head*

Not the mama! NOT THE MAMA!!!

... meh, I never cared much for the show, either. "

And THAT'S exactly why I'd rather have someone hit me with a tack hammer in the scrote for 26 minutes.....

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 01/30/2006 02:23 PM EST

Rhino

Thanks for the explanation attempt. I could have saved myself the trouble by just looking at the song list before purchasing, and it's really not THAT big a deal. I still like it, but I miss those two songs I mentioned.

Nicole

You can get Twin Peaks season 1(minus the pilot) on DVD. You'll be better off finding it used(do you have a Movie Trading Company near you?), though. Season 2 has been in limbo for a few years now, but will hopefully see release by the end of the year. There have been a lot of problems with rights, schedule conflicts(I believe David wants to oversee the transfer to DVD himself), this and that. As far as all of his films go, I'd have a hard time choosing between Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, and Mulholland Dr as my fav. You know he's currently working on a new one called Inland Empire, right? I think it should also be out by the end of the year, and I can't wait.

Chestnuts roasted by ZiZak @ 01/30/2006 02:25 PM EST

Queen (or, more accurately Brian May and Roger Taylor) are touring right now with Paul Rodgers (of Bad Company and Free 'fame') as frontman. They opened the concert by broadcasting that Eminem 8 Mile song over the PA system. For a second I contemplated jumping from my Upper Deck seats to make the pain stop. (sigh)

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 01/30/2006 02:59 PM EST

I guess that's better than opening for Eminem like I thought I read at first.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/30/2006 03:05 PM EST

A move about me WOULD be so awesome! Too bad it would be in Russian...

Chestnuts roasted by Tetris @ 01/30/2006 03:15 PM EST

#400!!!!

I just thought of another game that would make a "good" movie: Dr. Mario.

This actually sounds cool. Mario + House-esque plot, the Viruses, adding to the Tetris theme, AND that kickass backround music!

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 01/30/2006 03:17 PM EST

I guess I'll always be the only who thinks the ps2/xbox/cube game "Spider-man - The Movie" would translate really well into a movie.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/30/2006 03:24 PM EST

Blades of Steel would make a good movie. Well, if it was a horror movie. If it was a horror movie I would change the title to Blades of Death, or Blades of Blood. . .or simply, Snakes on a Plane.

Chestnuts roasted by Geoffinsanity @ 01/30/2006 03:42 PM EST

Any of you ever have to write a manual detailing step-by-step everything you do in your job? Crikey, this is boring, and I have to complete it by tomorrow. Nevermind that it was assigned around Feb or Mar last year; I'm a horrible procrastinator.

Chestnuts roasted by ZiZak @ 01/30/2006 04:08 PM EST

I remember seeing the rarely seen series finale of "Dinosaurs" on the Disney Channel a couple of years back. It was one of the saddest endings I've ever seen for a comedy. Historically accurate maybe, but still sad.

I would want to see Super Smash Bros and Mario Kart as movies. Same goes with A Boy and His Blob, Earthbound, Battletoads, Ghouls & Ghosts, Big Nose the Caveman, Grand Theft Auto, the Sims, and ANY sports film that features the majority of it's casts in bikinis or naked.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 01/30/2006 04:19 PM EST

DOA Extreme Beach Volleyball: The Movie? I'd buy that for a dollar!
I have MK on DVD. I liked it in the theater, and I crank the bass at home. I also amp the low frequencies, too. Why should the fish have all the fun?

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/30/2006 04:32 PM EST

I think an Earthbound movie would be fan-freakin-tastic

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 01/30/2006 04:36 PM EST

Earthbound: The Movie... I could get behind that.

I'm still praying for a US GBA release of Mother 3(re-titled Earthbound 2, of course).

Chestnuts roasted by ZiZak @ 01/30/2006 04:52 PM EST

I think both mother 1 and 2 have been released in the US through some gameboy system so it wouldn't be renamed from 3 to 2.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/30/2006 04:56 PM EST

You seem to come across alot of crap that boasts it will turn your tongue green. Do kids really want that? I always thought that was a dead give away that you've allready had enough candy? Did that Halloween episode of Rugrats really leave that big of an impression on us? Has anyone else ever seen that episode of Rugrats? Should I have even ended the enough candy sentence with a question mark? Did I spell tongue right? Am I really so lazy that I can't ask Smarter Child to spell check?

Chestnuts roasted by Lucky Vs Redlightbulbs @ 01/30/2006 05:26 PM EST

I'm not happy unless the candy turns shit green the whole way through. I want my entire mouth green, green throat, green stomach lining, green colon -- I even want my green poop to turn the toilet water green!

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/30/2006 06:02 PM EST

411 and still counting...
Could PHOTOG have met its match???

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 01/30/2006 06:31 PM EST

how many photog post are there? YES I know i could check with ease but this site crashes fire fox for me as it is, i can't go around looking at blogs that are too long.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/30/2006 06:43 PM EST

Nah, Matt's gotta be around here sooner or later. Hopefully. Cuz the internet deserves a good Valentine Jones Soda review.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/30/2006 06:44 PM EST

Photog is at 2365.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/30/2006 06:55 PM EST

Lucky Vs Redlightbulbs- I love that episode of rugrats. Stew was frankenstein and DeeDee was a vampire right?

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/30/2006 07:01 PM EST

Someone may want to swing by Matt's to make sure he wasn't eaten by cats. You hear about that all the time on the news: old lady discovered eaten by her 40 cats when a neighbor investigates the smell... so whoever Matt's neighbor is: investigate that smell!

Chestnuts roasted by A Concerned Bystander... @ 01/30/2006 07:13 PM EST

No! We have to make it to 500 posts! No new updates! Noooo!

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/30/2006 07:31 PM EST

Something strangely aggravating just happened...for the first time ever, my neighbor pounded on my front door and demanded that I turn my stereo down. Admittedly, I had it cranked a tad loud, but I've been living next to this guy for about 18 months and he's never griped at me before. He was obviously angry, speaking to me in a pissy tone and even holding what appeared to be a wooden stick in his hand. He must've been expecting some sort of physical confrontation, but happily it didn't come to that.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 01/30/2006 07:45 PM EST

By the way, the song that I had playing so loudly was Iron Maiden's "The Wicker Man". Maybe my neighbor just has a problem with kick-ass power metal.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 01/30/2006 07:47 PM EST

The burger patty in the scooby frozen dinner looks like ET howling in pain.

Chestnuts roasted by Big @ 01/30/2006 07:53 PM EST

They have some of those Smile face fries in the A&P on Westfield Avenue in Clark NJ, Matt.

Chestnuts roasted by Garrison @ 01/30/2006 08:03 PM EST

K in NJ--I live near an Easy Video (in Little Egg Harbor, NJ). I worked for the competition. I think Easy is going out of business though.

I've heard of "Redneck Zombies," but I've never watched it. The video store I worked at had a copy of Caution...Children at Play on VHS eons ago (they pulled it due to inactivity eons ago as well). I don't do drugs, but I can't keep a straight face when I watch Bordello of Blood--that is a nightmarish guilty pleasure. I may watch it tomorrow night b/c I already have my 1st day off from my new job on Wednesday!

That's right--I started working @ Boscov's today--Customer Employee Relations Manager!! I really liked it so far. I have to pick songs every Tuesday for Tune Tuesday, and trivia questions for Trivia Thursday. I help put together a newsletter for Fridays, and have to keep track of credits and motivate employees to push for credits. I have this kickass huge office (w/a fridge that the PR Manager shares with me--but its ok--we work hand in hand on some projects) all to myself, and I gotta decorate it.

I put up this Garfield tear-off day calendar day from last year, and he is dancing with Pookie, and says at the end "Enjoy the small things, and the big things will take care of themselves." I also plan on taking my stand-up comedy day calendar with me for my desk, and I need pics. I may also get some of those coloring pages of cartoons characters for my walls. LOL.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/30/2006 08:08 PM EST

I don't even have anything to say but I just had to add to the ridiculous amount of posts, and that the 80's and early 90's ruled

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 01/30/2006 08:39 PM EST

Photog only had 400 comments during its first week. See, we're right on target, we can bust its ass right here, right now!

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 01/30/2006 08:52 PM EST

I will poop on you fox we don't care about your cares!

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/30/2006 08:53 PM EST

Did anyone ever see the infamous "Birth of Photog" picture???

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/room101/images/Photogbirth.jpg

People who create things like this are nothing short of genius.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/30/2006 08:53 PM EST

Just so you know, Matt won't be returning to this site again. I ate him.

Chestnuts roasted by Chuck Norris @ 01/30/2006 08:53 PM EST

Allison, you still there?

I'm sick of waiting; I'm telling you NOW. I turned the discussion about scary corporate logos from last week into an article, because I thought the subject was interesting enough. Get to it through my site. The large splash picture in the middle should make its location obvious.

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 01/30/2006 08:55 PM EST

Hey Suckas! I kno that its pose to be Baracus do you think im stupid!..I aint no Murdock that fool crazy,....a nut case someone need to lock that sucka up.

Chestnuts roasted by B.A. Bartcus @ 01/30/2006 08:58 PM EST

Hey Mars, sorry busy weekend. I am going to read that article!!! Thanks dude!

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/30/2006 09:01 PM EST

Oh my god! Mars, that was really funny!!!!!!!

I honestly don't get the scariness behind Screen Gems' S From Hell. Viacom V of Doom is creepy, but the scare factor is removed once you experience this video of the V of Doom sped up--it zooms out and in twice before it zooms out to that ominous music. I need to see this one on TV, but its not even possible.

I'm a purist when it comes to older movies, and its really sad when movie companies remove the outdated logo. Thank goodness for Encore--they still leave logos intact on most movies.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/30/2006 09:14 PM EST

That's not nice poop, I care about your cares. And shhhhh 24 is back on.

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 01/30/2006 09:28 PM EST

Huh. I didn't know Chuck Norris liked Italian food.

Then again, I'm just now realizing that today is Monday and not Sunday like I thought it was. Gotta put a new commercial up on the site...

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/30/2006 09:35 PM EST

Is it still January? Good gravy, this has been the longest month in recorded history.

And by recorded I mean remembered by me.

And by remembered I mean largely forgotten.

And by largely forgotten I mean stuff it, kid.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 01/30/2006 10:00 PM EST

God, Mystie- I love that feeling of not knowing what day it is...unfortunately when you're a teacher you don't have that luxury anymore; especially not about MONDAY!

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 01/30/2006 10:02 PM EST

Is it still January? Good gravy, this has been the longest month in recorded history.

This is true because everyday is a fraction longer. But you're right, in a very noticable way this month has been slow as hell.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/30/2006 10:02 PM EST

If I recall correctly, Mother 1 & 2 was released for Gameboy in a-Japan. But my sister would sell her soul for an Earthbound sequel, and I would pay a pretty sum for one as well.

Til then, we'll just have to beg for a movie. I mean come on-- There is a kid named Poo. The movie markets itself.

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 01/30/2006 10:09 PM EST

Rhino- I agree! Earthbound got me through some hard times in my teenage years...love that game. And it DOES have movie potential!

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 01/30/2006 10:42 PM EST

I caught some puff piece on CNN last weekend about how January 24th is the most depressing day of the year. I totally forgot about it until the day of...Then I felt a little better, because at least I had an excuse.
My original submission for the Photog art contest was a picture of the statue The Thinker with a movie camera superimposed over the head...makes me wonder if Matt still has all those pics on some hard drive somewhere.
Hey Matt, buddy, how's the big move going? Must be just about done by now. Keep on keeping on over there in the real world. Hopefully we won't make too much (more) of a mess here in cyberspace.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 01/30/2006 11:35 PM EST

Holy crap this is long as hell.

Chestnuts roasted by Mara @ 01/31/2006 01:50 AM EST

Happy B-day to my mom!!! She made me, and did a pretty good job...ain't all my organs that failed, so here's to you mom!!

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 01/31/2006 02:27 AM EST

Woo boy! Happy birthday kidneymom.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/31/2006 02:59 AM EST

Kidneyboy happy bd to your mom. Welcome back it seems as I haven't seen you post in awhile, it could be me though.
One more day of the retail hell known as January. Hey, it's nearly groundhogs day!

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 01/31/2006 07:44 AM EST

I was bored and made a movie poster for Sam Jackson's up coming movie snakes on a plane, enjoy.

http://tinypic.com/mvthz7.jpg

Chestnuts roasted by Geoffinsanity @ 01/31/2006 08:01 AM EST

dohopoki, I was going to say that nobody likes a pedant, but that is a very cool factoid, and I'm going to steal it. Also, I had planned on not crediting it to you, but then I realized that I would be missing out on a chance to say "dohopoki" in casual conversation every time I did so.

You win this round, dohopoki.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 01/31/2006 08:23 AM EST

Geoffinsanity:

Hilarious picture! I heard about that movie, and it seems like just the silly thing I need.

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 01/31/2006 08:48 AM EST

A bit of research into the Earthbound/Mother situation confirms that Mother 1 & 2 were released together on a single GBA cart in the Japanese market in 2003. I doubt we'll see that here, so I don't see why Mother 3 couldn't be released in the US as Earthbound 2.

Yeah, I know, late to the party, as always...

Chestnuts roasted by ZiZak @ 01/31/2006 08:53 AM EST

Realistically, I think the GTA games would make the best transitions to movies; and probably will someday, what with all the popularity of the hip-hop culture. Jeez, I sound like an old fogey, don't I?

On an manga note, does anyone read Inuyasha at all? What do you think of the recent battle between Naraku and Moryomaru? Do you think Naraku might be gone for good and the gang will have to face him for the grand finale or do you think Naraku is just pulling another disappearing act? Or do you think HE'll absorb Moryomaru from within? Tune in next week, and remember to drink your Ovaltine! Collect box tops to win a Shippo decoder!

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew @ 01/31/2006 09:12 AM EST

449, and no, we will never be able to post as many posts as Chuck Norris

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 01/31/2006 11:17 AM EST

450, and I think Chuck Norris is a pansy boy. Jack Bauer all the way!

http://www.notrly.com/jackbauer/index.php?topthirty

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 01/31/2006 11:19 AM EST

Anyone have the links to the Advert Calendars and the Halloween countdowns, I'm in the holiday spirit. What about a Valentines Day countdown? St. Patricks Day? I need a holiday to look forward to!

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 01/31/2006 11:20 AM EST

I did hear that Chuck Norris counted to infinity once, but Jack Bauer counted to infinity twice, and then interogated Chuck Norris until he learned the location of the most powerful WMD ever, Chuck Norris' roundhouse kick.

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 01/31/2006 11:23 AM EST

dohopoki, I was going to say that nobody likes a pedant, but that is a very cool factoid, and I'm going to steal it. Also, I had planned on not crediting it to you, but then I realized that I would be missing out on a chance to say "dohopoki" in casual conversation every time I did so.

You win this round, dohopoki.

I forget what I said but I'm sure that I won as I always do. And everyone loves a pedant, I like mine with eggs.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/31/2006 11:45 AM EST

They need to make a movie out of Kid Niki: Radical Ninja.

Then my life would be complete...

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 01/31/2006 12:00 PM EST

How about a movie out of this thread?
Vin Diesel as Matt.
Galvatron as Darth Galvatron.
Gozer as Gozer.
Daria as Mystie.
Zaphod Beeblebrox as kidneyboy.
Wreck-Gar as kingklash.
Master Tang as Darth Poop.
Betty Boop as Allison.
Strongbad as Rhino.
Squee as Muppet Baby.
Muppet Baby as the little flower girl on the corner.
And special guest star, Nathan Bitner as Jedoc.
Of course, thats just a partial list, pending negotiations with the agents of the other posters.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/31/2006 12:30 PM EST

Video game movies? Katamari Damacy or bust.

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 01/31/2006 12:41 PM EST

You can't cut me or Stacy R. out of this thread's movie! The conflict, the action, the secret love, me getting my fingers broke... it's all so crucial.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/31/2006 01:09 PM EST

Wheelie as dohopoki and The Yeti

You can never have enough Wheelie

But if Wreck-Gar starts babbling in that TV Speak, I'm going to split his chest plate open....

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 01/31/2006 01:10 PM EST

You're all way off. They need to make a movie about Rainbow Island.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/31/2006 01:12 PM EST

I demand a Kickle Cubicle/Princess Tomatoe in the Salad Kingdom double feature!

Chestnuts roasted by ZiZak @ 01/31/2006 01:38 PM EST

Pixar Presents Custer's Revenge the Movie.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/31/2006 01:45 PM EST

I can't decide which version of Galvatron to use. Although, the image of RID Galvatron in GigaClaw mode typing at a keyboard is highly amusing to me.
I was considering Ling-Ling from Drawn Together as doho. Or one of the Tanukis from Pom Poko. doho-Poko.
Tension, Romance, and a touch of Mobster Justice, the keystone of the whole film. Which can only lead to;
Ms. Monday from One Piece as Stacy R.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/31/2006 02:11 PM EST

Everyone always forgets me in these casting calls

Anyways, I would be played by no one other than Flavor Flav.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 01/31/2006 02:15 PM EST

I just wandered onto your site today, and I think I'm in love with you, if only for the fact that you went ahead and built the Robots-themed strawberry log dessert, and took pictures so we could all see.

As a side note, in case you might actually read this stuff, I was a child of the 80s, and my father was a frozen food salesman. That meant that we had an extra freezer in our basement so that he could sell the stuff that he smuggled out of work to the neighborhood women. I've had my fair share of Kids Cuisines, Hungry Man dinners and oddly conceived novelty ice creams.

God Bless you for what you do.

Chestnuts roasted by Stacy @ 01/31/2006 02:17 PM EST

Woo hoo! I found a grocery store a shelf lined with cases of Pepsi Holiday spice cans. It was the prettiest thing I ever did see.

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 01/31/2006 02:18 PM EST

Kinglash:

You can use both RID Galvy and Devil Galvy. Have G1 Galvy controlling them both from a remote location. That way he would have the speed typing advantage of BOTH hands. I wonder if they're both right or left handed....? hmmm...I'll have to check...

However, if this movie contains 2 hours of raccon scrotum...count me out...

Oh man, another Stacy....this is getting interesting....

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 01/31/2006 02:34 PM EST

Ralph Machio as me

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 01/31/2006 02:44 PM EST

kingklash

You left the raving madman off of your cast list... I should like to be played by Station, of Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey fame. The big fat combined one, not the twin-stations mode.

Chestnuts roasted by ZiZak @ 01/31/2006 02:46 PM EST

Invader Norbet yeah me too. . .
I would like to be played by Martha Plimpton, aka the girl with the glasses in Goonies.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 01/31/2006 02:46 PM EST

Fox- that wasn't me. Just asume if it says that I will poop on something that it isn't me.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/31/2006 02:52 PM EST

No harm done. And forget Ralph Machio, I'm Leonardo, because he wears blue, uses deadly swords, and is the leader, so I call dibs on Leo

Or maybe, no it's too crazy, or is it....I'll be played Ralph Machio from the Karate Kid playing Leonardo, I just blew a blood vessle

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 01/31/2006 02:56 PM EST

Or Corey Feldman, choose your poison

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 01/31/2006 02:57 PM EST

could I be in the movie? If so, I would like to be played by TMNT's very own Michelangelo. He was my favorite turtle growing up, and I think he could handle such a challenging role. Challenging, because I am not a ninja nor a turtle.

Chestnuts roasted by Geoffinsanity @ 01/31/2006 03:37 PM EST

If my likeness is going to be appearing in the filmed adaptation of this thread, I'm going to have to insist upon my character being portrayed by Toshiro Mifune (circa 1961).

As far as movies inspired by video-games go, I agree wholeheartedly that the first "Mortal Kombat" film is the only halfway decent vg-flick ever produced. I understand that "God of War" has recently been optioned as a movie script, which would have huge potential given the game's story and visuals. Of course, Hollywood is notorious for taking a sure thing and fucking it up six ways from Sunday.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 01/31/2006 03:40 PM EST

after reading this through.
fun freezer
fav spice candaian steak marinade
fav troma type movie tromeo and juliet
is doom as bad as stealth?
customers are people too even if they are idiots
dynasty warriors would make a good movie, one guy goes around slaughtering hundreds with his weapon.
I watched some old X-men and Tick episodes, they were great. Still waiting for animanics on DVD. I think I watched more cartoons through high school then any other time.
I'd be played by that kid that is in all of the year book pictures from tiny toons and when Plucky and Babs when competing for most times in the year book.

Chestnuts roasted by RAS @ 01/31/2006 03:41 PM EST

I would most definitely be played by Oprah. No explanation necessary.

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 01/31/2006 03:43 PM EST

If this was a movie we need plot twists, love interests, explosions, comedy, car chases, etc.

I'll start it off by throwing a bottle of moltive cocktail Jones Soda out of the sliding door of the A-team van while my driver speeds away from a burning lab with prototype transformers chasing us.

Where are we going? Why are we running? What is in the breif case that is hand cuffed to my wrist? Who is the mysterious driver? You choose the adventure............

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 01/31/2006 03:45 PM EST

I've heard that the latest rash of video game movies have been horrible. Not that I've seen any of them. I'm mildly intrigued by the thought of the Dungeon Siege movie that's coming out, however...I've recently been trapped back into that game. I had forgotten I have a guide for it, so now I actually get to find everything instead of only randomly hacking and slashing.

In other news, the cable guy is coming on Saturday to hook up the digital cable and cable Internet for a mere $69.95/month. I shall have to restrain myself from licking his probably gross boots in sheer glee. And that means, I can actually participate in SNTs again. Yay!

I don't know who'd play me in this thread-movie. I'd only have a bit part. Oh, hell, let's go for Angelina Jolie.

Chestnuts roasted by Nicole @ 01/31/2006 03:47 PM EST

The driver's gotta be matt, in his shades. . .

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 01/31/2006 03:51 PM EST

And he's bleeding.....but why?

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 01/31/2006 03:57 PM EST

Oh, and Jack Bauer and Chuck Norris are fighting ninjas at some point, but this might have to be in slow motion so the audience does not go into seizures or spontaniously combust

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 01/31/2006 03:59 PM EST

The Wizard II: Revenge of the Power Glove.
The only direct-to-iPod feature length movie.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/31/2006 04:00 PM EST

There has to be a huge explosion that destroys an entire city.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/31/2006 04:12 PM EST

By the way, I mean the Mark Wing-Davies Zaphod from the TV Show.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/31/2006 04:13 PM EST

King Kong: The Official Movie of the Official Game of the Unofficial Remake of the Orginal (Though Not Necessarily Official) Movie.

Starring Jack Nicholson as Jack Black (archive) as Robert Armstrong as Carl Denham.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 01/31/2006 04:18 PM EST

Matt’s bleeding because some Night Creepers have gone rouge. The rouge Night Creepers are now systematically killing off Cobra agents who have been placed in seats of power in governments throughout the world. Cobra Commander has hired a select few to hunt down these rouges two of these mercenaries of mayhem being Fox and Matt. In the heat of the battle Matt took a shurikan to the chest.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/31/2006 04:26 PM EST

And now some prototype transformers, constructed by a rouge Autobot, who has stolen the creation matrix, are after Fox and Matt as they speed away. I'm not sure why the Autobot has joined forces with the Night Creepers, most likely to help kill off the Cobra agents. Then he will probably turn on the Night Creepers.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/31/2006 04:30 PM EST

Oh and the brief case handcuffed to Foxe's wrist contains the creation matrix and the Ninjas that Jack Bauer and Chuck Norris fight at some point can be the Night Creepers. Sorry for the 3 posts in a row but I just keep getting good ideas.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/31/2006 04:33 PM EST

Congratulations on your up-coming cable internet connection, Nicole! I know mine almost always treats me right.

Chestnuts roasted by ZiZak @ 01/31/2006 04:43 PM EST

10 more to 500!

And then, all of a sudden, Scott Baio shows up and feeds Jack Bauer with some expired Chocodiles that he got through the mail.

Baio then summons up 10 Puddies from the original Power Rangers Series, but are easily thwarted by Norris. This event then summons a few of those creatures from Tremors who hunger for the souls of those who have not read the Photog Blog.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 01/31/2006 04:51 PM EST

Don't forget that along the way, they pick up a cooler with a vital organ (never explained which one, just adds to the mystery) for the little orphan girl to save her life via an experimental operation to be performed by a defrocked rebel surgeon, using an advanced technique that requires Silly Putty, nanotech Lego blocks, and a Carpenters album. Either it succeeds, or she explodes. The organ is to be played by Danny DeVito, the surgeon by Ronnie James Dio.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/31/2006 04:52 PM EST

Cobra has surreptitiously installed itself in seats of power to bring about the genesis of the greatest video game movie adaptation of all time: Gyromite

Such pure distilled awesomeness must me averted at all costs to prevent the breakdown of society as we know it.

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 01/31/2006 04:53 PM EST

Their next point of contact:

A midget on a tricycle wearing a cowboy suit. He's an undercover agent with an secretive intergalactic agency that operates here on earth. His cover is an adopted 8 year old boy to a family of professional Mongolian Throat Chanters in Tupalo, Mississippi.

Oh and Chuck Norris knows about the agency, which is why he was fighting the Ninjas's to help them get away....

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 01/31/2006 04:53 PM EST

Perhaps Chuck Norris works for the intergalactic agency.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/31/2006 04:57 PM EST

RAS: IMO, Stealth was better. But that's not really saying much...

I would love to know why anyone needs to be played by Oprah...?

And if you're looking forward to Dungeon Seige, God help you. Apparently Bols recent movie, Bloodrayne, did horribly...

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3147602

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 01/31/2006 04:57 PM EST

Hold up! I just found a spot for me in the movie. Darth Galvatron had that midget on a tricycle wearing a cowboy suit idea. The midget is me, Darth Poop. I could be played by Warwick Davis.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/31/2006 05:02 PM EST

Actually, I think he was a truck driver for Vampire Wines. Somehow, he gets caught up in this whole wacky conspiracy while making a delivery stop at Bunghole Liqours....

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 01/31/2006 05:02 PM EST

^^^^^^^ Chuck Norris that is ^^^^

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 01/31/2006 05:03 PM EST

Darth Poop - If you're a midget, and are willing to wear a cowboy suit, I want a picture....

And now, on with the story....

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 01/31/2006 05:05 PM EST

I don't have a cowboy suit.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/31/2006 05:06 PM EST

Sweet Jesus, 500 comments? When oh when is Matt coming back?

Chestnuts roasted by Wenthral @ 01/31/2006 05:07 PM EST

Lets make it 600 comments! Who's with me?!

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/31/2006 05:08 PM EST

Darth Galvatron:

If you need to know why I'd be played by Oprah, click on my name.

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 01/31/2006 05:09 PM EST

Darn, i'n NOT post #500...

Maybe it IS Scott Baio and the Tremors that have Matt hostage and can't update...

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 01/31/2006 05:10 PM EST

If you shaved your hair you'd look like former Queens of the Stone Age bassist Nick Oliveri.

Chestnuts roasted by mjf7583 @ 01/31/2006 05:16 PM EST

Holy Cow of David over 500 posts im amazed can somebody tell me how many posts does the Photog entry has because we just may beat it!!

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Pop @ 01/31/2006 05:16 PM EST

Darth Poop:

2365.

We have a ways to go.

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 01/31/2006 05:18 PM EST

Cobra, Scott Baio, and R.O.B. are all working together to to help bring in the greatest evils of there worlds. And the entry point:

Castle Dracula in Wildwood, NJ.

See, that's the "reality anchor" for every other reality. Every reality has there very own Castle Dracula, which is actually a gateway to other realities. In every reality, that exact spot looks exactly the same. Cobra Commmander, Baio (that scumbag) and R.O.B. want to be able to create more of these and be eable to bring themselves and whatever they want at any point, at any time.

The only thing capable of stopping them is Danny DeVito, or rather, the organ. The Surgeon knows this, but no none else does. Stacy's shorthand was a way to distract the X-E Blog posters so we'd be pre-occupied with that instead of payind attention as to what REALLY was going on....!

Of course, we don't find this out until about an hour into the movie. Well after a ton of explosions, some Kuse on Mare action, and an entire Banana factory goes up in smoke....along with a major city....

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 01/31/2006 05:20 PM EST

mtrox: it's all clear to me now, thanks!

P.S. I missed my train!! YES!!

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 01/31/2006 05:22 PM EST

Soon to be unearthed from their dark prison under the worst game room ever are the three vile monsters from the Inhumaniods, pateintly they wait for blood....

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 01/31/2006 05:34 PM EST

If you shaved your hair you'd look like former Queens of the Stone Age bassist Nick Oliveri.

He'd have to be willing to do nude scenes then.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 01/31/2006 05:40 PM EST

The major American city that goes boom: Barstow.
No hate for Barstow, I've been through there. I just want it to be mentioned more often.

Barstow.

And since Bobo-bo was mentioned wwaaaayy up there:
Wild Challenger

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/31/2006 05:53 PM EST

X-Entertainment is proud to present.... the Tuesday Night Movie Roleplay?! o.O

/rolls 20 for weapon

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/31/2006 06:07 PM EST

A skirmish has broken out between student protestors and riot police on the X-E blog.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/31/2006 06:20 PM EST

Since you've all lost your minds I might as well come up with a new topic, also SNL-related.

What are/were your favorite and least favorite recurring characters or sketches? Pick 3 for each:

Favs:
Operaman
Waynes World
Toonces, the Driving Cat

Least Fav:
Dieter, the German talk show host: Never understood the point.
Bill Murray's Lounge Singer: Not funny
Horatio Sanz's Carol- Whatever.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 01/31/2006 07:04 PM EST

Off topic but I must comment on this and need to know how you guys feel. I read today that some lady that was a "former" postal worker went to her old job and shot and killed 7 people and then herself. Is the postal service that bad to work for????? Seriously dont we have enough bad jokes about going "postal" !!!!!! Help me out on this!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by brookelynn @ 01/31/2006 07:18 PM EST

The movie's theme song will be "We Built This City" from the Starship album "Knee Deep in the Hoopla." During the opening credits we'll all stand there in utter curiosity as a giant dice rolls down the street of a unnamed major city.

And kingklash, I'm played by Betty Boop???? LOL. Can I be played by Rainbow Brite instead? LOL. Betty Boop is fine though. I'm not picky. :-D

I still like my "We Built This City" idea.

Oooh, @ work today, my second day, we had "Tune Tuesday," in which I had to pick 5 songs to play over the PA system to get everyone revved for the workday. I played "Baby Elephant Walk," "Volare," "Come On-A My House," "The Entertainer," and "Oh Happy Day" (a cheesy 50s song sung by Lawrence Welk, not to be confused with the religious song of the same name). I got laughs from the Lawrence Welk song. My boss was hysterical laughing the whole time (Tune Tuesday is an exclusive thing to the Atlantic City-area Boscov's). Co-workers in the store have to call three different numbers in thestore managers office to guess to songs--the prize is a free lunch--too bad it's at Gyromania, not that I've been there, but the Shore Mall has a crappy food court.

kidneyboy, welcome back!!! Where ya been?

And why is everything italicized?? I remember this happened one other time.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/31/2006 07:35 PM EST

brookelynn, it's crazy, I know. You don't exactly hear about postal workers packing heat and shooting up a post office all that often, but its crazy. Stuff like this definitely doesn't make being a postal worker look like a great job. Sorry about that to anyone who is, but do you ever fear for your life????

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/31/2006 07:39 PM EST

Can we add atomic dog to the soundtrack?

AND

3 fav
Massive Headwound Harry
whenever Steve Martin Hosts (yes, this week!)
Wayne's World
ok 4 Jeopardy

3 non-favs
anything with Horatio Sans
the shark thing
That dumpster guy from a few years ago

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 01/31/2006 08:36 PM EST

Kingklash- Loving your XE movie idea, as well as 'The Wizard 2: Revenge of the Power Glove'; where Lucas is a fat old bum determined to get his glory back and Jimmy is pimped right out ever since his big win in LA. I'D buy it.

I guess I should be played by Jenny Lewis 'cuz I love her attitude and she's just cool since she was in 'The Wizard' or I would be played by Kerri Green, who was Andi in 'The Goonies', since those two movies WERE my life when I was younger....except I don't have red hair.

Shit. I wish I was a boy. Then I could be played by Corey Feldman. He is the center of my childhood universe. ('The Goonies', 'Gremlins', 'Stand By Me', 'TMNT 1 AND 3' and 'The Burbs') Wow. Man, I should write him a fan letter. I STILL LOVE HIM.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 01/31/2006 08:46 PM EST

FIRST!!!

Chestnuts roasted by WonKa @ 01/31/2006 08:49 PM EST

oh... sorry.. I didn't notice the 520 entries before mine..

Is Matt dead?

Chestnuts roasted by WonKa @ 01/31/2006 08:50 PM EST

JLAJRC

Damnit, you stole my topic! (one of them, anyways) Only 3?! Screw that!

Personal Favorites:
the Bill Brasky Guys
the Superfans
Wanye's World
Toonces
Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Pat
Brian Fellow's Safari Planet
Jarret's Room
Celebrity Jeopardy
The Continental
The Coneheads

Ones I Don't Like:
-Carol (ick)
-The Spartan Cheerleaders
-Salley o'Malley (the 50 year old woman played by Molly Shannon)
-the Jimmy Fallon sketches where he did all the voices for a radio talk show.

and I liked Sprockets mit Dieter. He was supposed to be one of those late 80s East German Modern Expressionists (and based on someone Mike Meyers actually knew)

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 01/31/2006 08:51 PM EST

Who plays me?

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 01/31/2006 08:53 PM EST

KB: Awesome list that I agree with.

Norbert, I just listed three because my Fav list would be just as long as yours, probably longer.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 01/31/2006 08:56 PM EST

JLAJRC
you could be Corey Haim-I think he's gonna be evil in this film.
I FORGOT TOONCES! maybe my favorite ever

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 01/31/2006 09:02 PM EST

Favorite SNL sketches:
Dennis Miller's Weekend Update

Wayne's World (1990 on)

Celeb Jeopardy

Long Island Girls--commercial parody w/Alec Baldwin

Iron Chef (that one w/Charlie Sheen)

Dateline (when Rob Lowe played Stone Phillips--"The
Trampoline...harmless plaything or backyard danger?"

Buddy Precisely (wait at the bar...)

Sex Tonight (Kevin Nealon and Jan Hooks play characters hosting a sex-esque Entertainment Tonight--Hooks plays Jessica Hawn)

The Stand-Ups

The Anal Retentive Guy (especially the Chef one--I do impersonations of this--my mom thinks its hysterical)

Land Shark (when I was 16, my dad got me hooked on 70's reruns by buying me a Saturday Night Live video for 1975, and I LOVED Landshark)

Church Lady (probably b/c my mom hates this character--I'm just a sap over anything Dana Carvey does)

The Crosby Bunch (I honestly haven't seen this rerun since I was 15--Phil Hartman plays Bing Crosby as the abusive daddy his kids claimed he was--Dana Carvey, Jan Hooks, and Dennis Miller played 3 of his children--Miller was Nathaniel and Hooks was Mary, can't recall who Carvey was--I heard the kids Miller and Carvey played died (Nathaniel died by suicide, I think, and Carvey's character I think had cancer)--this sketch was a take-off of the Cosby Show when Malcom Jamal Warner hosted in '86, and Theo dreamed he was part of another family--great for the fact that Hartman takes Carvey, Miller, and Hooks into another room and whips them w/a belt.

I, for one, love Carol!!!! My boyfriend goes hysterical every time I do a Carol impression, "I'M CAROL!"

Barry Gibb Talk Show (the boyfriend and I sing the song)

Master Thespian

Debbie Downer (my boyfriend loves the Thanksgiving one, with the feline AIDS line--the cat meow)--I really shouldn't like this, it's not exactly hysterical, but it's kind of a guilt pleasure)

Jarrett's Room--I ALWAYS loved this!

Jingleheimer Junction--don't tell me everyone forgot this!!! My dad watched it w/me, and we kept cracking up when Horatio Sanz was Umberto Union and tried to get in after the "F." Those censor screens were hysterical!

TV Funhouse--particularly the 25th Anniversary one.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/31/2006 09:07 PM EST

Haim? I don't know if that's a priviledge or an insult here.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 01/31/2006 09:16 PM EST

oooh, I almost forgot:

Dolly's Story--the one where Dolly Parton tells her "mountain stories," but they turn out to be synopses for popular television shows--the casts' staged reactions to her stories are hysterical--the conversation they had afterward was really funny. They weren't reading cue cards, so I wonder if they were free to ad-lib on this one. Aired in early 1989.

Drill Sgt.--Phil Hartman plays a R. Lee Ermey-esque, Full Metal Jacket-type drill sgt. who screams and gives his cadets new nicknames--classic stuff--Kevin Nealon's character was supposed to laugh during this, but Nealon looked like he was BARELY holding on. Classic to see Carvey flinch when Hartman screams in his face--he kept blinking. Dennis Miller isn't much of an actor but he managed to stare straight ahead--probably what kept him from laughing.

Nude Beach--the classic controversial sketch that was the predecessor to Canteen Boy (which was good the 1st time). Even more ironically, I have the Best of Tom Hanks, and this was a dress rehersal sketch that was cut--it resurfaced several eps later recasted (Dennis Miller replaced Hanks, Nealon remained in character, Carvey remained as his character, Matthew Broderick played Jon Lovitz's characer in the recasting)

The 5 Beatles--classic! I just absolutely love this sketch from '88! Matthew Broderick played John Lennon, Dana Carvey played Paul McCartney (naturally), Dennis Miller played George Harrison, and Jon Lovitz played Ringo Starr. The "5th" Beatle was Phil Hartman as a balding trombone player.

Family Ties flashbacks--from 1988--Jon Lovitz played Nick, and Kevin Nealon's beard falls off--classic.

Choppin' Broccoli--Dana Carvey looks like he's putting his heart and soul into something that's so, well...rediculous. this is so funny!

The political sketches.

TV Funhouse's "Spot the Black People at the Knicks Game."

Sinatra Group.

Napster hearings (I was watching this tape recently)

And...my favorite guilty pleasure sketch...

Moleculo...the "Molecular Man!"

I really didn't mean to add this many--I have lots of faves!

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/31/2006 09:19 PM EST

Well Feldman was taken

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 01/31/2006 09:20 PM EST

Who will play Bizaro Darth Poop aka my evil twin in the movie. Should Warwick Davis play both of us?

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/31/2006 09:20 PM EST

Invader Norbert--the Jimmy Fallon radio sketches are for Z105 in Saugerties New York (I remember this from the beginning of the sketches)--And we're BAAAAAAAACK!

Ok, I'll zip it now.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 01/31/2006 09:22 PM EST

From the top--

Dear Nicole,
I found Fire, Walk With Me at Family Dollar today for $5, and now I hear it's at Walmart for $3.88??? I could've gotten a coffee at the gas station with that $1.12. And I would definitely recommend watching the show, BUT, as someone said, wait till the whole thing is out on dvd. It gets very confusing and suspenseful and if you cant watch to the end you might go mad. I used to be in love with Kyle MacLachlan--15 years ago before his face sagged ala Sex and the City and that new sucky show. I'd still hit it.

Which leads us to:

Dear Whoever said they didnt like Sprockets,
I loved Sprockets! My favorite was the one with Kyle MacLachlan. It can be seen on Mike Myers' Best of DVD. It was only my favorite because of my love and devotion to him at the time. But it's still good.

Dear Allison,
Your new job sounds like soooo much fun. Think of all the weirdness you can bring to that place! I like the Barry Gibb talk show song too, and Debbie Downer makes my boyfriend and I choke with laughter. At least it did the first couple times. Stuff like that gets played out pretty quickly.

My other favorites are the ones where Will Ferrell and Rachel Dratch are in the hot tub calling eachother "lover" and eating weird meats and talking about orgies. Just creepy. In a funny way.

And I think Carol is stupid, but for some reason it still makes me laugh.

And last but not least, is this the same thread that was discussing tabasco? Tobasco Cheez-its (crackers) are like my favorite thing in the world.

Chestnuts roasted by schroeder @ 01/31/2006 09:37 PM EST

Heck, "We Built This City" could be the friggin' NAME of the movie. Do you think we'd film in Canada? It seems like every movie is being shot in Canada these days, especially lower-budget ones and horror flicks.

Speaking of Canada, I think I'd be played by Rick Moranis, in a role similar to the ones he did in both Ghostbusters.

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew @ 01/31/2006 09:51 PM EST

This blog has gone crazy. I really really like it.
Really.
Best xe thread ever.
Yeah, i lurk.

Chestnuts roasted by dork @ 01/31/2006 09:54 PM EST

Anthony Michael Hall can play me sitting in the corner.

Chestnuts roasted by dork @ 01/31/2006 09:57 PM EST

Well, MY topic was actually NOT Reocurring SNL Sketches, but rather, for ones that ran one-time. Allison basically took up the whole topic on that.

My favorite one-time sketches:

-Jimgleheimer Junction (each censor card depicting a train wreck getting progressively worse)
-the Crystal Gravy ad (the MOST Disturbing ad EVER)
-Moleculo: THE MOLECULAR MAAAAN!
-The Sinatra Group
-James Brown In The Hot Tub
-Canteen Boy Goes Camping (Canteen Boy makes an appearance in a later episode with Jason Alexander hosting)
-the showdown of Partridge Family & the Brady Bunch
-Behind The Music: Fat Albert (Tracy Morgan as Fat Albert and Tim Meadows as Mushmouth)
-Behind The Music: Blue Oyster Cult (the famous Cowbell Sketch)
-the Drunken Asses (the ad where a bunch of drunk singers sing your favorite bar songs, and because they're all tanked, none of them are able to sing the complete song)
-the 1st Debate of Al Gore & George W (strategery)
-Hi-C and Turkey (a sketch about an insurance broker played by Danny Aiello not leaving a house because he wanted Hi-C & Turkey)
-Colonel Angus
-the LI Girls ad as well, because it relates to me SO much, being from LI and all. And yes, they do talk like that.
-The Chippendales Audition with Chris Farley & Patrick Swayze

-Wake Up & Smile (where a talk show celebrates its 20th anniversary show when the teleprompter breaks. Everyone in that sketch is Just. Freaking. Brilliant.)

Possibly my favorite Dana Carvey sketch can be summed up in 3 words: Massive Headwound Harry.

and one of my all-time favorites: the sketch where all of the Recurring SNL Characters in the early 90s (save for Tim Meadows) did a We Are The World-esque song about "Fire Bad!" (it was titled by Phil Hartman's Frankenstein). It had just about every major reocurring character: Cajun Man, the Superfans, Pat, David Spade in Hollywood Minute mode, Frankenstein, Wayne Cambell, Matt Foley, Queen Shaniqua, Nat X, Richmeister, Hanz & Franz and the rest of the casts' characters except for Tim Meadows, who didn't have one at the time

Forgot some more favorite reocurring characters:

-Matt Foley, motivational speaker
-Astronaut Jones, if not for his X-E-like cheesey theme song
-Master Thespian
-The Herlihy boy
-The Ladies Man
-Debbie Downer (the ones this season were actually funny)
-Church Lady
-Dog Show (Mr. Bjangles is really a girl! Mr. Bojangles is really a girl!)

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 01/31/2006 10:01 PM EST

Bizaro Darth Poop should be played by Verne Troyer. He can drive his scooter over to the corner dork is in and pee in it.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 01/31/2006 10:02 PM EST

SNL wasn't such a huge deal in my life until the Celebrity Jeopardy sketches...those clips circulated around the dorm like wildfire in University. (Our dorm was networked, so we could all access each other's computers...God, I wish I had a good computer at the time so I could have stocked up!High speed and free files! Damn my crappy piece of shit. It's in the trash now.)

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 01/31/2006 10:16 PM EST

Favorites:
Any Will Ferrell, Jeopardy, Terrance Maddox (the homeless nude sketch model), the "I am going to punch you in the face" dad, the one were he learns to go down on himself in yoga class...Wow, I really miss Will Ferrell. Oh, and Jack Handy's Deep Thoughts, and any commercail spoof.

Least Favorites:
the musical guests, takes like 30 minutes from the show with commercials.

All of the sudden the A-team van flips over throwing the bleeding Matt from the driver's seat, Fox clutchs the steel brief case, they lie motionless in the street as the van explodes and three large transformers hover over them..........

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 01/31/2006 11:14 PM EST

I was hoping for either Scott Baio or Willie Ames. But if I have to have Haim I'll take him.

Still can't stand Sprockets. I prefer either Simon, who drew in the bathtub, or his character where he got strong and hyper after eating chocolate.

Fav one-time sketches:
Cast and Aersosmith explaining Clintongate to the audience via singover.

Steve Martin singing with the entire cast " After the show, I'll drink till I spew. It's my promise to you the viewer.

Steve Martin dancing with Gildna Radner.

Crystal Clear Gravy.
Crazy Fun Ball
Colon Blow
Rob Lowe doing a Shaggy impression.
5-timers Club
Vincent Price 1958 Thanksgiving Special
Phil Hartman/Jan Hooks singing a sweet song in one of those sweet mini-movies they used to do.
Chronicles of Narnia Rap
The Home Alone parody in the opening.
The Planet of the Apes opening with Charleston Heston.
Canteen Boy
Clucking Chicken Restaurant commercial
John Belushi as the Hulk
Richard Pryor/Chevy Chase sketch
The Nudist Beach sketch described above.
Dan Aakryod as Julia Child
The Sharing Chapstick sketch

Others too numerous to mention.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 01/31/2006 11:26 PM EST

Allison, hi! I don't know where I've been, but I'm in the right here and now...now. Right now.

kb howdy!! I just want to tell you that I love Martha Plimpton...so hot! Lots of people hatin' on her in her imdb thread...not cool!

kingklash I laughed out loud when you said Zaphod would play me, but then
By the way, I mean the Mark Wing-Davies Zaphod from the TV Show. was the icing on the cake...the only Zaphod that I would approve of playing me!!

"They Live" with Rowdy Roddy Piper is on Sci-Fi right now!! Yay!

See you all in the next thread!

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 01/31/2006 11:58 PM EST

Damn, that Robots gimmick was a ripoff!

Chestnuts roasted by Sixi @ 02/01/2006 12:18 AM EST

I'm taking my "recurring SNL Charatchers" post to the new Blog so we can discuss it there! Feel free to repost your responses there!

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 02/01/2006 12:35 AM EST

Here's a pretty topic for ya. You've heard of whale songs, but did you know mice sing too? Read all about it and then have a listen. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8237

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew @ 02/01/2006 09:14 AM EST

I meant to say "pretty trippy", not just "pretty". I dunno what human would find this pretty, although there certainly are worse sounds in the world. Fingernails scraping over rusty metal, for one. (Worse than nails over a chalkboard in my opinion.) Pass the hookah my way, please.

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew @ 02/01/2006 09:16 AM EST

Darth Galvatron, I didn't say I was looking forward to the Dungeon Siege movie...just that I'm intrigued. I'd never pay to see one of Boll's movies, though. On the other hand, I tend to love crappy movies, so who knows.

schroeder (et. al.): Thanks for the Twin Peaks DVD tips. I'll wait a bit and keep an eye out before I start watching. Oh, and I have this theory that Kyle MacLachlan always plays Coop. Case in point: The Hidden. If you haven't seen this little piece of cinema holy-crap-what-in-the-fuck, you must go rent it. So there's Kyle, who's Coop all over again, and an alien slug who likes sex, guns, blowing shit up, rock n' roll and fast cars, some weird laser thing, oh, and a stripper who sucks at stripping. Yes. All this can be yours. At least there's music by Concrete Blonde. And there was a sequel, which I have yet to see/scar myself with. And I don't watch Sex and the City, but the one commercial I saw with Kyle, he had the Coop suit on, just with a pink shirt and tie. I don't know whether he's typecast or he's just really Coop. Also, my FWWM DVD may have been cheaper because the plastic wrapper was ripped. Because you know, that totally ruins the DVD experience. *eyeroll*

Chestnuts roasted by Nicole @ 02/01/2006 10:39 AM EST

I love your Freezer!! I love magnets, I have almost a hundred magnets in the freezers in my house (we have 3)

Chestnuts roasted by Yelinna @ 02/01/2006 09:38 PM EST

Mystie: I actually drank like half a bottle of blue food coloring (colouring if you're British!) to see if it would turn my colon sausage blue. It didn't. It turned green. ???

Darth Poop: To be honest, I barely remeber that episode. I though Stu was Tarzan and Drew was King Kong. That could have been another episode though.

I do remeber the little kiddies seeing a bowl of spaghetti and saying, "Worms!" In another episode, however, they saw worms and called it, "chocolate spaghetti." Oh the incontinuity.

Kind of like when Homey the clown tried to balloons instead of condoms and condoms instead of balloons.

Yeah, I'm so cool.

Chestnuts roasted by Lucky loves his Redlightbulbs @ 02/01/2006 10:09 PM EST

Just to make this an even 550.

Chestnuts roasted by ZiZak @ 02/02/2006 09:33 AM EST

I should look in my freezer now. You're an inspiration to us all Matt!

Chestnuts roasted by Double G @ 02/03/2006 11:19 AM EST

Those Micro-Magic products? They were made by a company called J.R. Simplot, which I knew better as a phosphate mining company (my father's family grew up in the Simplot company town of Conda, Idaho). Kinda turned me off to their stuff when I realized who was making this food; I didn't know then that they were an agribusiness company and I had some strange ideas about how mining and junk food were connected.

(Anyone remember their microwavable shakes? That's when I knew we were in the End Times. Microwavable MILKSHAKES, for crissake!)

Chestnuts roasted by Pere Ubu @ 02/04/2006 12:38 PM EST

I remember Smiles! They were flippin' nice. They used to sell them at lunch at school, which was none too long ago.

In Australia, we don't have any colour changing pudding. None of that crazy stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by celia @ 02/04/2006 10:25 PM EST

Well, now I know that if I ever under some circumstance am invited to your apartment, I should not eat any of the food. Which brings up the question, do you actually have anything edible in your house?

Chestnuts roasted by TME @ 02/05/2006 12:30 AM EST

Choco-tacos are available at Los Hermanos Grocery 176 Grand St, Brooklyn NY.

Chestnuts roasted by OSB @ 02/06/2006 12:45 AM EST

So, what'd people think of the Super Bowl? I just wish the Seahawks had played a bit better. Yeah, I was rooting for them. I still recognize sloppy play when I see it.

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew @ 02/06/2006 09:01 AM EST

You know Smilies are available in pretty much all supermarkets in the UK! Mmm post night out snack...

Chestnuts roasted by Sourav @ 02/06/2006 05:20 PM EST

Choco Tacos are sold in mass at my Highschool, beat that.

Chestnuts roasted by Matthew H @ 02/07/2006 12:10 AM EST

Also, Smiley fries are served regularly in my Highschool's cafeteria. Disgusting.

Chestnuts roasted by Matthew H @ 02/07/2006 12:19 AM EST

Those blue fries were possibly the most revolting thing I've ever seen.

Chestnuts roasted by Cat @ 02/09/2006 03:42 PM EST

Speaking of fishtanks, and forgotten brine shrimp in the freezer; on my last visit to american Science and Surplus in west chicago, I bought a remote controled sub to chase the fish around in the tank and I'm here to tell you that will never fail to entertain!

http://www.sciplus.com/itm_imgs/92396.gif

a picture of the sub. Chasing a blue crayfish around on the bottom is the best! Sometimes he'll try to fight it but mostly he runs. We also have a smaller 30gal tank with a 14" largemouth bass in it, when I threw in the sub, he tried to eat it.

Chestnuts roasted by Metal @ 02/12/2006 04:10 PM EST