YES YES YES YES
by Robert on Feb 25, 2009 6:36 PM PST
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Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch!
Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.
Wake up - sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead. She's gone where the goblins go,
Below - below - below. Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know
The Wicked Witch is dead!
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WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
IT WORKED!! IT WORKED!! IT WORKED!! IT WORKED!!
by Matthew on Feb 25, 2009 6:40 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
I WANT TO HUMP IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION IF THIS IS TRUE
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by Robert on Feb 25, 2009 6:45 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LET ME KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON!!!! I’M THE ONE WHO PAYS FOR THE SHITTY SERVICE
by Fuzz on Feb 25, 2009 7:34 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
What the hell does this have to do with anything?
by mark sobba on Feb 25, 2009 6:48 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
BE EXTRA PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE SEX SPASMS
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by Robert on Feb 25, 2009 6:52 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Yes!
Not to the sex spasms but the other thing!
by royalcurve on Feb 25, 2009 7:01 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Uhh
I’m not a financial expert, but doesn’t Chapter 11 mean they will still be around? Like, they get oversight to reorganize and pay off their debts, but they are still in business? I think a chapter 7 would be what you’re looking for…
by appleshampoo on Feb 25, 2009 7:23 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
They'll almost certainly be bought out.
by acblue on Feb 25, 2009 7:40 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I'm with appleshampoo
I know airlines declare chapter 11 quite often and come out of it.
the other angels fan
by Eyebrows on Feb 25, 2009 7:48 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Sorry Robert,
not trying to harsh your buzz. Even if they don’t go under, you can still enjoy the schadenfreude!
by appleshampoo on Feb 25, 2009 7:52 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Unfortunately unless they burn in the flamey depths of hell then the schadenfreude is in my living room.
Soriano into deep right, Ichiro back, at the wall...Yankees win!
by Robert on Feb 25, 2009 7:54 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
The schadenfreude will show up with your first Comcast bill
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
by pdb on Feb 25, 2009 9:04 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Not my problem!
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2009/2/25/772285/yes-yes-yes-yes#12523116
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by Robert on Feb 25, 2009 9:06 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Correct
Chapter 11 is just debt reorganization. A company can issue new debt against the earnings they will make off whatever they are financing. They essentially shelve their old debt until the new debt is paid off…pretty handy.
by TheTank123 on Feb 25, 2009 10:04 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
You stole my title you SOB!
NEEDS MORE FREEDOM!
by Scruffy Lefty on Feb 25, 2009 7:34 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
My alternate title was "This is almost as good as the time I mistook a grand slam for a orgasm"
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by Robert on Feb 25, 2009 7:42 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I love this comment, especially because of your consistently adorable use of "a" instead of "an".
“I need a adult.”
“grand slam for a orgasm.”
It’s charming.
by royalcurve on Feb 25, 2009 8:24 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I don't even know what I am doing wrong :(
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by Robert on Feb 25, 2009 8:37 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Well, for basics...
When I was teaching ESL (my first job out of college), I used to make up silly rhymes and dances to help them memorize grammar rules:
When a word
starts
with a vowel sound
It takes “an”
It takes “an”…
When a word
starts
with a consonant sound
It takes “uh”
It takes “uh”
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by PositivePaul on Feb 25, 2009 9:21 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Where's the dance to go along with the rhyme?
by Wilder. on Feb 25, 2009 9:28 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Here ya go!
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by PositivePaul on Feb 25, 2009 9:59 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Leave him alone...he's from New York
We all know they can’t speak english properly
by Fuzz on Feb 26, 2009 10:37 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
*yore
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by PositivePaul on Feb 25, 2009 9:22 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Yes because clearly the resulting job losses are a good thing
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by I'm NOT Corco on Feb 25, 2009 8:22 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
You could say the same thing about the fall of the Nazi party.
by JI on Feb 25, 2009 8:28 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
When laid off Broadstripe employees come door to door selling steak knives it's going to be annoying is all I'm saying
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by I'm NOT Corco on Feb 25, 2009 8:30 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Congratulations now everybody hates you.
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by Robert on Feb 25, 2009 8:36 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I have personally never had any problems with Broadstripe and am disappointed to see them go out of business
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by I'm NOT Corco on Feb 25, 2009 8:39 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Robert has had problems with Broadstripe, and so, apparently has rc.
Thus they are happy lousy customer service has made them go bankrupt. Please stop raining on their parade.
If you’re worried about jobs, I’m very certain that the competent employees that Broadstripe currently has will be able to find employment suited to their skills elsewhere. This is a meritocracy, after all.
by seattlebruin on Feb 25, 2009 8:44 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
!
Soriano into deep right, Ichiro back, at the wall...Yankees win!
by Robert on Feb 25, 2009 8:44 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
I ask TWO FUCKING THINGS out of a cable company
High definition hockey.
High definition baseball.
Not only do they fail to provide these things, they fail to provide high definition anything without a BIG FUCKING GREEN BOX over the screen, and in recent days their cable has provided us with absolutely no signal. And they won’t replace it because FUCK YOU THAT’S WHY.
by Graham on Feb 26, 2009 7:57 AM PST up reply actions 5 recs
The cable company that serves McCall doesn't even have HD availability
and the cable company in Laramie has very limited offering.
Click! Network in Tacoma was similarly bad with the big green box, so I guess my experience with HD has only been non-existent or bad so I don’t know what good HD is like
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by I'm NOT Corco on Feb 26, 2009 7:58 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
If I lived as far out as you, I'd have different expectations from my cable company
But I live in DOWNTOWN SEATTLE for fuck’s sake.
by Graham on Feb 26, 2009 8:08 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
So.... I'd never heard of broadstripe before; can you not GET Comcast in Seattle?
I’m with pdb, I don’t know how to operate in a world in which Comcast is NOT the worst possible option.
(Tacoma municipal cable: HD hockey, HD baseball, Fox Soccer. It’s cheaper. An appropriate service for Gov’t to provide? Ehhhhhhh, but HD sports….)
by marc w on Feb 26, 2009 9:36 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I cannot get Comcast and my apartment doesn't have a Direct TV satellite in view.
by Graham on Feb 26, 2009 9:39 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
At least Comcast offers a dozen HD channels
Both of which air HD baseball and HD hockey.
by JI on Feb 26, 2009 9:43 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
You can get Comcast everywhere but downtown, the CD, Capitol Hill and the south end.
by acblue on Feb 26, 2009 12:14 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Tell me about it.
The other annoying thing is that because most of downtown, the Hill and the CD is super dense, you’re pretty lucky if you’re able to live somewhere that can get a DirecTV signal.
by acblue on Feb 26, 2009 1:39 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
That's fine
I just didn’t realize how big of an expectation HD was- in my mind it’s still some fancy new fangled technology in experimental stages
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by I'm NOT Corco on Feb 26, 2009 10:08 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Uh
Many stations have stop broadcasting in analogue.
by JI on Feb 26, 2009 10:35 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Digital broadcasting is not the same as HD broadcasting though
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by pdb on Feb 26, 2009 10:40 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Although there are many HD shows broadcasted digitally.
by Jed MC on Feb 26, 2009 10:43 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
All HD is digital, but not all digital is HD.
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by pdb on Feb 26, 2009 10:47 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
What you said
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by I'm NOT Corco on Feb 26, 2009 10:57 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, but pretty much all prime time DTV is in HD
by JI on Feb 26, 2009 10:57 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
That's just not true
If you have an HDTV it might default to it, but at least where I’m familiar (eg over the air broadcasting in Tacoma), there will be a channel then an HD subchannel.
In Tacoma, FOX is channel 13 and FOX HD is channel 13.1 when you go all digital
In Laramie, where we get a lot of Denver stations, FOX is channel 8 and FOX HD is channel 92 or something
Idaho’s FOX is FOX 12, and the HD station is somewhere in the 60s
You can get it in HD, but the non HD version still exists fully. In Tacoma I didn’t have an HDTV, cable, or a converter box but had a newer TV with digital capabilities and was able to pick up the digital feeds just fine
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by I'm NOT Corco on Feb 26, 2009 11:18 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Here's a handy link from the United States Government
http://www.dtv.gov/whatisdtv.html
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by I'm NOT Corco on Feb 26, 2009 11:26 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Not here
Many stations eliminated their analogue channel on the 17th, so there is no more channel “13”
XX-1 is the digital/HD network channel
XX-2 is the sub channel with bad programming no one watches
While it’s true that XX-2 is digital, almost no one is a going out to get a digital set to watch XX-2, they’re getting it to watch the network (NBC/ABC/CBS/FOX/CW/PBS) channel, and all those stations broacast almost all of their network programming + local news in HD.
Plus, now it is nearly impossible to buy a new tv set that isn’t an HD set. So if my cable company or local station were having trouble providing HD programming I would be pissed off and rightfully so.
by JI on Feb 26, 2009 11:46 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
If you don't HAVE an HDTV you still get traditional standard def programming though, I'm positive of this
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by I'm NOT Corco on Feb 26, 2009 12:04 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Well yeah
If you have a digital connected to an analogue tv, but that’s neither here nor there.
by JI on Feb 26, 2009 12:33 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
That's what lots of people have, myself included
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by I'm NOT Corco on Feb 26, 2009 12:42 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I doesn't mean it's not being shown in HD
it means you do not have a television that shows it properly.
by JI on Feb 26, 2009 12:47 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
It's still not the "default" offering
and not all stations have it yet, hence my perception that it’s “new fangled stuff that’s still in experimental stages”
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by I'm NOT Corco on Feb 26, 2009 12:51 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Huh?
I have no idea what “default offering” is supposed to mean. I will say this, digital is the primary format now, and the overwhelming majority of network tv is broadcast in HD. Take from that what you will
by JI on Feb 26, 2009 1:08 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Digital is the primary format
The overwhelming majority of network tv is broadcast in both standard and high definition, but ALL is broadcast in standard definition
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by I'm NOT Corco on Feb 26, 2009 1:23 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Also the majority of the country is still using standard definition television to view TV
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by I'm NOT Corco on Feb 26, 2009 1:30 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
That's neither here nor there.
That would be like saying in 1990 the majority of the country still has their music collections on vinyl so who gives a crap whether the local music store carries CDs.
by JI on Feb 26, 2009 1:42 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I think you need to reread the initial context of my first comment
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by I'm NOT Corco on Feb 26, 2009 1:47 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I don't think so
I’m saying your expectations are 2-3 years out of date.
by JI on Feb 26, 2009 2:07 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Nope
I’ve just never spent much time (except Tacoma) where people really even know what HDTV is let alone expect it.
If you polled the city of McCall I’d wager that at least 50% wouldn’t even know what it was and less than 5% would think it is something they want to have.
It’s an expectation in Seattle and in large urban areas but HDTV is just not expected in rural America
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by I'm NOT Corco on Feb 26, 2009 2:14 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Approximately 25% of Americans live in rural areas.
For the vast majority of Americans, access to HDTV is expected.
by acblue on Feb 26, 2009 2:25 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I think this goes back to Kermit's comment from long ago
about how growing up in the middle of nowhere was like living in a time perpetually 20 years beforehand. They’re just getting dialup…
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by Faux on Feb 26, 2009 2:29 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I spent a large portion of my childhood in a rural area.
I understand.
by acblue on Feb 26, 2009 2:35 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Also
http://www.q13fox.com/pages/main
Q13 FOX still exists and is still on channel 13, they just broadcast digitally instead of analog. But those without an HDTV still get television provided in standard definition, just digital standard definition
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by I'm NOT Corco on Feb 26, 2009 12:06 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Congratulations.
I do not know the story behind this, though. Must be a horrible cable service.
by Wilder. on Feb 25, 2009 8:24 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Broadstripe can't be any worse than Charter (what I have here in Madison, WI)
consistently the worst everything ever.
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Juuuust a bit outside!!
http://www.rightfieldbleachers.com
by Jack Moore on Feb 25, 2009 10:02 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Charter is our provider in McCall
and I’m happy to concur that their customer service definitely lacks but their channel offerings are good and the price isn’t bad
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by I'm NOT Corco on Feb 25, 2009 10:07 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Their internet connections here are awful.
That’s my main beef with them.
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Juuuust a bit outside!!
http://www.rightfieldbleachers.com
by Jack Moore on Feb 25, 2009 10:14 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Ah
I don’t use them for internet
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by I'm NOT Corco on Feb 25, 2009 10:39 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Broadstripe's warehouse:
61/755: KGJ's homer totals, or Rosie O'Donnell's age/weight in 2019?
by kevin_ess on Feb 26, 2009 9:05 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
Now you see why they yanked my forklift duties at my old job...
…and my karma reward is helping create training like this.
(yes, in real life I nearly did just this — crashed my order picker into the shelving)
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by PositivePaul on Feb 26, 2009 9:12 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
ACH MENSCH!!!!
Nicht der Krankenwagen!!!!
Our special effects crew isn’t nearly as well-budgeted… Also. Poor Yorick…
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by PositivePaul on Feb 27, 2009 11:58 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Would love to have heard how he broke that to his boss
by OlSalty on Feb 26, 2009 9:15 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
BAHAHA, look at him run away.
That’s the best part.
I fucking hate you Mariners
by kentroyals5 on Feb 26, 2009 9:31 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
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