Nope, he was videotaped, and then it was shown in some markets. Not a live feed.
He’s drunk.
I do agree that posting obsessively to a messageboard is a bit cyber-geeky. I’m guilty of that. But personally that’s only one facet of my character. I actually knowl I lead a full life. I’m a relatively interesting (albeit not ‘normal’) person who does a geeky thing. Different from being defined by it, I hope. The SDMB is a bit of fun that fills in the parts where I could be keeping fit, practising my instruments or writing that novel. Hmm.
puts dick in fruitbat
Seriously?! I was a kid, so I don’t remember details…I would never have even imagined that they’d actually air it at all at the time if it hadn’t been unexpected and live.
Of course it is, you never had any respect to lose.
Yes, that’s right. Some of us aren’t obsessive about every little whiny bitch on every little message board they frequent and really don’t want to spend the time trying to figure out what said whiny bitch is on about.
Let’s see, you blab on some more about … whatever … Oh, this is good:
Heh. Right.
Nope.
I think what the OP really means to say is:
I recall, vaugely, hearing about fruitbats becoming addicted to fermented fruit, like peaches. Maybe it was a Zelzany novel. Any truth to it?
In other news, Terry Pratchett informs us that multiple punctuation is a sure sign of insanity.
But more directly to the point of the OP, I understand that some people eat two, or even three times a day! Surely this is a sign that they are addicts. Get a life! And what’s with all that breathing? You don’t need to do that constantly. And then, some people even close their eyes and do nothing for six or eight hours. They can’t get along without it. If you keep them moving for more than two days, they may even become physically violent. Talk about addicts.
Get. A. Life.
Or, you know, not.
Eric the fruitbat?
More importantly, does he have a license? Those folks at the Ministry of Housinge are sure to track him down if he doesn’t!
Roger the fruitbat!
Well there’s your furry. Roger the fruitbat indeed.
If someone’s expecting me to start rogering fruitbats, it’s gonna take a hellava lot more than 14 bucks.
You are precisely right, Ghanima! You win the prize! You get to choose either a plastic pocket protector for your shirt pocket, tape for taping your glasses when they break, or a free rehemmig of your pants to at least four inches above the shoe! Plus one month rent-free in your parents’ basement.
A few years ago, an American journalist living in my hometown of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, North America, Planet Earth (stop me when I get to one you have heard of) wrote an article about what a pathetic hole Ottawa is. She was right of course.
But then about 300 letters to the editor attacked her and attempted to refute her claims. Even the mayor and city council got into the act. Do you know what she did? She laughed and said that they had proven her point 300 times over.
Write an article blasting New York or Paris or London as hick towns and people will smile and shrug. Do it about Ottawa and people will jump down your throat because THE TRUTH HURTS!!!
Of COURSE that is what it was meant to say, Ghanima, and you guessed it right. I held up a mirror to all the cybernerds and cybergeeks who frequent SDMB, people who are willing to pay actual money for the right to spend hours and hours of their lives arguing and discussing with other cybernerds about why there is so much air in a sack of potato chips, or some such shit.
I made it clear that I count MYSELF as a leading cybernerd and one of the worst offenders. But that did not stop them. They looked in the mirror, got enraged at what they saw, and within 24 hours 150 of them had responded. Maybe not a record, but pretty impressive, huh?
One moderator told me I was not allowed to “set traps” (I was speaking metaphorically, for Chrissake!
I have been called an “attention whore”, mentally ill (one person seriously said that using more than one !!! or ??? was a sign of mental illness. I have been called a piece (or pile) of shit, sick. . . . . . . It is hard to remember everything I was called over 150+ responses, but check it out. nOT ONE OF THESE INSULTS BOTHERS ME. iF YOU WERE A SICK ATTENTION WHORE, WOULD THEY BOTHER YOU???
So now that looking in the mirror has made so many people enraged (I admit it is not ALL of the posters, but a great many), now that I have proven that TRUTH HURTS, I will go back to my regular postings. With apologies to Tennyson:
"And on *Straight Dope * he still delights
To weave the mirror’s magic sights
For often in the silent nights
Cybernerds in cyberfights
Will shoot the shit anon.
Or when the moon is overhead
He reads the endless, endless thread
“I am full sick of bullshit” said
The nerdy Valteron.
Bless all those who helped me prove my point.
Housinge?
Dude, try getting out more. Carry an umbrella if need be. Whole fuckin’ world out there to get so wound-up about a bitty snipe on a MB.
Just so I’m clear, the point was to get us to admit that we pay 15 dollars a year (7.50 for charters members) to get access to posting on the boards to talk about whatever we want and then spend time doing so?
Well, yes, but you are oversimplifying it. It is more like getting a guy who is a 35-year-old virgin who weighs 500 pounds, is unemployed and lives in his parents’ basement to take a good look at himself.
Why do you think so many of the 150+ got so insulting and abusive with me?