Discuss...

Saw this video on Facebook yesterday:



Now, there was a lively discussion on whether the guy was a loon, or trolling. I think he's trolling. There's a couple times in the video where he cracks himself up, you can hear him chuckling. When he gets to the end of the first verse in "Rudolph," he has to pause to compose himself.

"Thank you lord, for the cars he did not jump in front of" - that does not sound to me like someone that's honestly upset about a deer tied to the back of a truck...

As for the transport of the deer, well, all I can say to the driver of the white suburban is enjoy your exhaust. You're out on the highway with your deer pretty much hanging right over your vehicle's exhaust pipe, so that yummy venison is getting marinated polyaromatic hydrocarbons. Yum, yum. 

So, what do you think - is the guy serious or cracking wise?

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Gotta Do It...

Is Friday. Is mandatory.



Why do I suddenly feel the urge to wear parachute pants and Chuck Taylors?

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Say Goodbye To Me in August...

Because this is happening:

What will happen when every episode of 'The Simpsons' is at your fingertips?

Every 'The Simpsons' episode is going online 'The Simpsons': FXX to air every episode in 12-day marathon.

This October, FXX will launch “Simpsons World,” a portal/wormhole that will allow viewers to access every single freakin’ episode of the series—552, at last count—through their computers, phones, or Krusty the Klown Alarm Klocks (warning: gets extremely hot when plugged in). All seasons of the animated comedy—25, at last count—will be searchable (bring me… every Barney belch????), and you will be able to both create your own playlists with the archive and share your favorite clips.

All 552 episodes of "The Simpsons" will be available online. Let's do some math, shall we? At 22 minutes per episode, that's 12,144 minutes. 202.4 hours. 8.4333 days of literally nothing but watching "The Simpsons".

If I took 6 hours a day to sleep and knocked a couple more hours a day to account for food, basic hygiene, etc., it would be 12.65 days straight. If I watched a mere four hours a day, it would take over 50 days to see the entire series.

Now, I yield to no one in my undying love for "The Simpsons" (well, at least for the first 15 or so seasons, before the writing *really* got stupid). I may very well sit down for chunks of time and watch the entire series.

Then again, the steady decline in quality might just be too depressing...

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Homer, There's Someone Here Who Can Help You...

Since I'm on a Simpson's kick, here's my favorite exchange from my favorite episode, ever.


batman's a scientist. from ruben on Vimeo.

There is, of course, a story to go with this clip. Many years ago, when I was a young man, I enjoyed going camping. And when I say "going camping," I of course mean "sleeping in a tent and drinking beer and eating meat all day long." Well, right after I graduated from college, we arranged what would come to be known as "The greatest camping trip in the history of western civilization" - an entire week at a remote campground with nothing to do but drink beer, hike trails, drink beer, swim in the river, drink beer, cook meals over the campfire, drink beer, and enjoy nature.

Oh, and drink beer.

Well, naturally, the woods can't truly be enjoyed unless there's a couple dozen 20-somethings all drinking beer and sleeping in tents. SCI-FI and I set up camp and proceeded to bounce Simpson's quotes off each other pretty much the entire week. At one point, a camera was passed around, and one of the guys was caught, axe in hand, about to cut some firewood. When we got the pictures back (this was before the days of digital cameras, kids), we took one look at the picture and knew the caption immediately.

"If I hear 'Batman's a scientist' one more time I'm gonna hurt someone"...

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Monday Larfs...

Oh sweet baby Jesus...

Voice of Winnie the Pooh reads Darth Vader’s lines from Star Wars

Jim Cummings has voiced hundreds of characters, including Winnie the Pooh and Tigger. At last year’s ConnectiCon, Cummings and fellow voice actor Lauren Landa read a few lines from Star Wars using their characters’ voices.

There’s nothing quite like hearing Darth Vader end a dark line with, “Oh bother…”

You have to see - actually, hear - this:



She must've hidden the plans in the escape pod...oh bother.

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Something Neat

Brad_in_MA sends this along. Kinda neat...



Shalom and prosper.

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Serendipity...

Since we were talking about Pixar films, and today is 3/19, here's something ... numerical.



Monsters, Inc. was TheBoy's favorite movie when he was a toddler. Both of my kids picked one movie when they were about 2 or so, and wanted to watch it over and over and over. Monsters Inc. was that movie for my son (Finding Nemo was the one for BabyGirl G.). I've probably seen it close to 50 times, and listened to it in the background on long car rides probably twice as much again.

And yet I'll still pop it in on a rainy weekend and watch it with the kids - and will gladly do so as long as they'll watch it with me...

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Children of the '80s Unite!

This dude has it all, seriously.



Super Mario Brothers theme on an accordion. Nintendo *and* Weird Al Yankovic in one bizarre YouTube video. The only way this could get more 1980s would be for Marty McFly to show up in a Delorean and take him back to the 1950s...

Here's your earworm for the day, BTW...

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Some Levity...

Heavy news today. In the scrambling to find video clips for Harold Ramis, I came across this:



There's something very wrooooong with us!

Maybe it's just me. Maybe I've been seeing the wrong trailers or something, but I just don't see movies like "Stripes" any more. I don't mean silly comedies; lord knows there are plenty of those. But movies that are unabashedly pro-American; movies that revel in simply NOT showing the US in the worst possible light. Not just individual Americans; yes, there are plenty of those out there.

You will be missed, Harold.

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Going Back To The Well...

This is what happens when I go on YouTube looking for a Blues Brothers video...



"Do you have the Miss Piggy?" - Classic!

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Friday Afternoon Music...

Let me set the scene. For a pasty nerd growing up in the 1980s, rap music was about as hardcore as you could possibly get - what punk was to the 1970s, essentially. From Run-DMC to the breakout Beastie Boys, it was about as edgy as a kid from the 'burbs could get.

And pair it with thrash metal? HELLS YEAH.



This was one of the songs that I firmly believe was responsible for killing the AC Delco speakers in my Jimmy...

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Just for Today...

Ah, yes, Americans injuring themselves on YouTube...

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Friday Afternoon Wayback...

Let's go back to 1983. Remember then? Some of you might not. This was a huge hit then:



Allegedly written about Marilyn Monroe, "Photograph" was Def Leppard's first big hit, rockin' the days of pastel T-shirts and white linen suits. This song caused me to do some quick mental arithmetic: It came out in 1983, some 18 years before my son was born. That's akin to songs that came out in 1953 for me, two years before Bill Haley and his Comets performed "Rock Around the Clock."

Yeah, I feel old now...

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Eine Kleine Punkmusik

After that last post and the depressing world view it entails, I find this highly fitting:



Yeah. If I'd known what being a grownup entailed - worrying about bills, your kids, your job, world stability, random strangers, water leaks, etc. - I'd have been in way less of a hurry to grow up...

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Back to the '80s...

So, at last night's New Media Meetup, the Bourbon Room at the Venetian was playing '80s hits. Hair metal '80s hits. In amongst the various forgettable pseudo hard rock were some decent songs, like "Highway to Hell" and, well, okay, that was it. It did get me to thinking about some good '80s tunes, like this:



I think one of the saddest moments of my life was hearing this song used in a TV ad for Burger King...

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Karma Hurts Sometimes...

Gerry in IL sent in this truly wonderful video of a crummy thief getting EXACTLY what he deserves.



Watch it, then watch it again. Once you've stopped laughing, watch it just one more time and take extra note. First off, the dude lived, which is a shame - stupidity that blatant should be fatal. Secondly, notice how not a single person helped the woman. He walked up to her brazenly, grabbed her phone, struggled a bit, then ran off. No one helped. Lastly, the reporter comments that he had accomplices - had someone stepped in to help, they might have found themselves also the victim of a crime.

So what's the moral of this story? There are several. First off, be aware of your surroundings. When several young predators are circling, don't keep staring obliviously at your phone. Secondly, you're on your own - if you think others are going to help you out, you're more than likely mistaken.

And lastly, let the bus handle the scumbags...

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The Danger of the WikiWander...

Okay, so here's the chain.

Looking for information on BB guns.

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Red Ryder BB Gun from "A Christmas Story"

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Crazy Earl in "Full Metal Jacket"

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Adam Baldwin as "Animal Mother"

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You'll have that in your head the rest of the day. You're welcome.

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That Time of Year...

If this isn't one of the f**king saddest songs on the gorram planet, I don't know what is.



Happy New Year, everyone. Stay safe tonight.

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'Tis The Season, Part VI

We like all kinds of Christmas music here at MArooned.



The sharp-eared will recognize this immediately as "Christmas in Hollis," by Run-DMC. Featured in one of the greatest Christmas movies of all time (DieHard, natch), it's not exactly the first Christmas music to spring to mind. Then again, you can only hear "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" so many times before you're ready to hear something different, right?

What's your favorite "non-traditional" Christmas song?

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Couldn't Resist...

In honor of KISS being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I had to do it...



Yeah, you laugh, but this is going to be stuck in your head the entire rest of the day...

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