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Early (1995) AOL Commercial Touts Users Ability To Send ‘Email On The Internet’
11.15.12 Written by The Cajun BoyI don’t recall how exactly I ran across this commercial yesterday, but I did, and it was around the same time Robo reminded us all that the mid-90s was the stone age of the internet. This early AOL commercial — they still referred to it as “America Online” back then — is yet another reminder. It strikes me as something that would have aired late at night, almost like a mini-infomercial at two minutes in length.
This brought back memories for me because I got my first computer around this time with leftover student loan money — I think it was in 1995 or 1996 when I first got online and began playing with the web. I’m kind of proud to say that I never used AOL — I was a Compuserve and Prodigy guy — even back then. I did not, however, ever spend any time chatting with “kayaking buddies.”
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6 Comments TAGS: 1995, AOL, the stone age
Glenn Howerton Loves Following Donald Trump On Twitter, But Would Very Much Like To Punch Him In The Face
11.15.12 Written by The Cajun Boy
Glenn Howerton is an actor best known for his portrayal of dickish “sociopathic gentleman” Dennis Reynolds on the FX hit series It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, now in its eighth season, on which he serves also as a writer, executive producer and co-creator. The sixth episode of the season airs tonight at 10 p.m EST and will be recapped here tomorrow, as always.
Additionally, Howerton claims to be “very proud” of his “beautiful small pink nips.” He was nice enough to take a few minutes out of his busy schedule recently and answer a few of our questions.
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19 Comments TAGS: GLENN HOWERTON, uproxx 20
The 5 States Most Likely To Secede From The Union, Based On Petitions On The White House’s Website
11.15.12 Written by Josh Kurp
Succession fever — WHO HAS IT? Everyone, apparently.
Angry voters from 34 states have now started secession petitions on a White House website intended to let individual citizens express their opinions about the direction of the US government.
Whether these disgruntled folks are just conservatives venting about President Obama’s reelection, or whether they really believe they’d have a brighter future in the United State of Georgia, say, is an open question. But they’ve received a lot of media attention in recent days. (Via)
If you haven’t visited the White House’s website to view all the petitions lately, I strongly urge you to do so (sadly, the “legalize crystal fucking weed. SOOOOOO $TONED F*CK MAN AW $H*T” one is gone), but only after seeing if you live in one of the five states with the highest number of secede petition signatures. And to the surprise of no one, it just so happens that the states with the most petition signatures are the ones that receive the most money from the most financial help from the federal government. Go figure!
Texas, you’re included, as if you had to ask.
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10 Comments TAGS: AMERICA, florida or ohio, PETITIONS, secede, THE WHITE HOUSE
It’s Good To Be King: A Collection Of The Funniest Mel Brooks GIFs
11.15.12 Written by Josh Kurp
There’s no wrong answer for the best Mel Brooks movie. (Well, as long as we’re limiting the selections to his filmography between 1968-1987 and Robin Hood: Men in Tights.) Whereas everyone knows that, for instance, The Empire Strikes Back is the best Star Wars film, and that House Party 3 is superior to House Party and House Party 2, if someone were to explain why they think Silent Movie is better than Young Frankenstein, I’d hear out their argument. They’d be wrong, of course, but they wouldn’t be laughed out of the room, either.
He was/is that good, to say nothing of his work on Get Smart (creator), The 2000 Year Old Man (co-writer with Carl Reiner), and The Muppet Movie and The Simpsons (actor), and his involvement with the wonderful The Producers Broadway musical (let’s not mention the film adaptation with Will Ferrell, though).
This week, Shout Factory! released The Incredible Mel Brooks: An Irresistible Collection of Unhinged Comedy, a multi-DVD career retrospective, and to celebrate the occasion, we’ve assembled a collection of some of the funniest GIFs from throughout Brooks’s film career. To quote Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, “For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius.”
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9 Comments TAGS: BLAZING SADDLES, gifs, HIGH ANXIETY, mel brooks, ROBIN HOOD MEN IN TIGHTS, SPACEBALLS, THE PRODUCERS, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
The Timeless Thanksgiving Wisdom Of Joey Tribbiani
11.15.12 Written by Maske
We’ve had close to a decade now to ruminate on Friends and two things I think we can agree that the show always did well were 1) Thanksgiving episodes and 2) Joey + food. A piece of my soul will forever be trapped in the zeitgeist of the late ’90s so I don’t anticipate a point in my life where I hear “Thanksgiving episode” and don’t think of Monica’s apartment. That’s just the way it is. I’ve learned to accept it.
To compound on that I enjoy just about every piece of random Joey Tribbiani media that I stumble across on the web a little too much. Especially anything food related. The man-whose-spinoff-never-happened’s culinary wisdom is timeless, and sitting here a week from Thanksgiving we’re in the perfect position to reflect on — and gain from — that knowledge. Not all of these lessons were taught during Thanksgiving episodes, but they all apply to the holiday. Get your notepads ready…
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26 Comments TAGS: Friends, JOEY TRIBBIANI, MATT LEBLANC, THANKSGIVING