Correspondent:: "iDRMRSR" Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:24:23 -0500
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Back in the late 50s, when "hifi" had just been invented, VINYL LP records
were all the rage. As I recall, for a good recording, you had to pay
something outrageous then, $3.88 maybe (at full discount), to get an hour's
decent recording of something considered then pretty swell. Like Montovani,
or maybe some Leonard Bernstein, crap like that.
Then by the early 60s, LPs were as common as dirt and always in stereo.
Mass duplication was bringing the price down, but of course, the damn
arteests still needed to make big dough, and $3.88 became $4.88 and
sometimes even $6.88, which back then was three weeks wages at hard labor.
Still, there was no stopping the lowered production costs. Chain Drugstores
(a novelty back in the 60s) began to sport racks of Hi Fi Stereo LPs, all
with the latest MicroGroove recording techniques and all that. The arteests
back then were, to say the least, lacking however.
Usually, you could only get like 101 Strings Do the Classics, or maybe
Hawaiian Love Songs, or Great Organ Works (from behind the Iron Curtain
[remember that?]). Only, the damn records were like $0.88!!!! Full
fidelity, pedestrian music for the masses of the day, for a SIGNIFICANT
DISCOUNT. They were SO CHEAP, you could buy them by the half dozen and
throw out the genuine clunkers and enjoy the diamonds in the rough. And
still be ahead a little scratch. No pun intended.
Last year, I cleared out half a house full of $0.88 drugstore LPs that were
part of my pappy's immense collection. I tried to listen to one of them,
but was hospitalized with projectile vomiting after the first 30 seconds.
So into the trash they went.
NOW>>>FAST FORWARD TO THE PRESENT DAY>>>>
When DVDs first came out, they were like $35 a pop. True, this was half the
sticker on VHS movies when they first came out. A sort of a bargain.
Improved resolution and picture, half the cost, the buzz of a new
technology.
Gradually, the price came down to $25 and under for most of the late 90s. I
mean, it's ridiculous when you think of it...You could have gone to a movie
to see Apocalypse Now, then paid $75 to buy the Beta/VHS version, then $50
to get the LaserDisc, then $35 to get the one DVD, and so on. Over a decade
you could have paid FF Coppola about $200 for that goddamn flick, not to
mention the cable companies for the thrill of watching it premiere on cable
several times along the road.
Well, here it is 2005. DVDs are so cheap, they are like the floppy disks of
yore. Hardly a buck apiece for a blank. And enter the MASS
MERCHANDIZERS!!!
Like WalMart. The other day I was going through their $5.50/DVD bin looking
for some movie I hadn't seen (an ever dwindling list BTW) when out of the
corner of my eye, I spotted a NEW rack. $3 DVDs have arrived. Packed in
CHEAP plastic sleeves.
They're back! The $0.88 drugstore LP has magically transformed into the
2005 equivalent, a shitty $3 movie!
Great stuff. Stang layed one of them on me. A Billy Dee Williams
Blaxploitation flick. Damn, I'll prolly have to wait until summer for the
selection to expand.
But I wouldn't be surprised if a $3 Apocalypse Now DVD came out, and then I
get to pay FFC some MORE fucking money to watch a movie that gets more
ridicuolouser and more ridiculouser as the years pass. Like, take that
DREAMY moog synthesizer score.
And ummm, how successful that movie was at convincing everybody just exactly
HOW HORRIBLE war is, so that the US would NEVER get involved in something
like another Vietnam.
Shit, time has transformed that movie into a camp comedy.
And double sided HD blue laser disks are just about to happen.
AIIIIIIEEEEEEEE! Praze Bob, we'll soon be able to pay TOP DOLLAR to watch
the same fucking movies we've already seen, in HD.
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Correspondent:: "nu-monet v7.0" Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:52:27 -0700
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iDRMRSR wrote:
>
> ...But I wouldn't be surprised if a $3
> Apocalypse Now DVD came out, and then I
> get to pay FFC some MORE fucking money
> to watch a movie that gets more
> ridicuolouser and more ridiculouser as
> the years pass. Like, take that DREAMY
> moog synthesizer score.
>
> And ummm, how successful that movie was
> at convincing everybody just exactly
> HOW HORRIBLE war is, so that the US would
> NEVER get involved in something
> like another Vietnam.
>
> Shit, time has transformed that movie into
> a camp comedy.
At the time when it was in the theaters, I went
to see it with a bunch of war mongers, who got
off on the napalm attack, which was footage from
a real napalm attack that killed people, made in
the Phillipines.
And we got all bent out of shape because even then
there were TWO versions of the movie. One showed
the closing credits and THEN showed the B-52 strike
on Kurtz's jungle temple, and the other just showed
the credits.
It was a good scene, too. But for some weird-ass
reason, they cut it from some of the prints. And
after sitting through five minutes of credits to
see it, and then it's not there, kinda pisses you
off.
Several scenes in there are really good, as far as
direction goes.
I did a funny piece a while back making fun of "The
End", but I don't remember if anybody got it.
--
"If you can't be the head, don't be
the backside because there is nothing
there but a tail."
-- Saddam Hussein
Correspondent:: "Paul E. Jamison" Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:46:06 -0600
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"iDRMRSR" wrote in message
news:N8KdnQMfhdBqg3HcRVn-jQ@giganews.com...
[snip stuff]
>
> Well, here it is 2005. DVDs are so cheap, they are like the floppy disks
of
> yore. Hardly a buck apiece for a blank. And enter the MASS
> MERCHANDIZERS!!!
>
> Like WalMart. The other day I was going through their $5.50/DVD bin
looking
> for some movie I hadn't seen (an ever dwindling list BTW) when out of the
> corner of my eye, I spotted a NEW rack. $3 DVDs have arrived. Packed in
> CHEAP plastic sleeves.
>
> They're back! The $0.88 drugstore LP has magically transformed into the
> 2005 equivalent, a shitty $3 movie!
>
I can gho a little better. At the end of the year I went into K-Mart to
check on discount Christmas candy and found a rack of $1.99 Christmas movies
on DVD. Only they were marked half-price. I scored copies of "Santa Claus"
(the 1959 Mexican import) and "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" for 99
cents apiece. I haven't watched them yet, so I can't vouch for quality, but
could you *ever* vouch for quality on these stinkers in the first place?
Just wait until the Next Big Format comes along. Movies in said format will
start out sky-high, and - well, you got the drill down.
Paul
Correspondent:: "angelicusrex" Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:57:38 -0700
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> Just wait until the Next Big Format comes along. Movies in said format
> will
> start out sky-high, and - well, you got the drill down.
>
> Paul
I went to a big Computer Tech Con in Vegas several years back and Phillips
was developing, get this, a stacked optical disk, about one half the size of
a regular CD and about 3 inches thick. It could hold ALL THE LITERATURE IN
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS! On ONE DISK! So imagine in the future, every movie
ever made, including those stored in film canisters in Hollywood that are
now being digitalized and saved, movies NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN either ever or
for years, all movies, all tv programs, all books including precious Vatican
Library and other unseen books and documents...and all you need to buy is
three disks!
The first disk players will cost thousands. Like the first home video
equipment and be bought by universities and libraries. But eventually, we'll
get them at 299.99 then 29.99. Then they'll give them away free with any
purchace of a GDVD (Gigadvd) player/recorder. You of course use the recorder
to download EVERYTHING on the internet. And t takes 20 seconds to download!
Of course eventually they'll just feed everything into our brains from
birth.
Archimandrite Pudlevitcz
Correspondent:: HellPope Huey Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 06:44:58 GMT
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In article <353mpqF4gprh0U1@individual.net>,
"angelicusrex" wrote:
> I went to a big Computer Tech Con in Vegas several years back and Phillips
> was developing, get this, a stacked optical disk, about one half the size of
> a regular CD and about 3 inches thick. It could hold ALL THE LITERATURE IN
> THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS! On ONE DISK! So imagine in the future, every movie
> ever made, including those stored in film canisters in Hollywood that are
> now being digitalized and saved, movies NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN either ever or
> for years, all movies, all tv programs, all books including precious Vatican
> Library and other unseen books and documents...and all you need to buy is
>three disks!
>> The first disk players will cost thousands. Like the first home video
> equipment and be bought by universities and libraries. But eventually, we'll
> get them at 299.99 then 29.99. Then they'll give them away free with any
> purchace of a GDVD (Gigadvd) player/recorder. You of course use the recorder
> to download EVERYTHING on the internet. And t takes 20 seconds to download!
This immediately brought to mind the old Robert Crumb poster "Stoned
Again!," in which the character gradually melts onto the table as a pile
of goo. Yeah, let's grow taproots from our asses down into our chairs
and couches, watching all that crap. Well, some of it is sublime, but
when I see people going whoopity over DVD sets of "Star Trek" and the
like, it just furthers me resolve to TRY to do more audio of my own and
leave the TV as mere support for my plastic monsters. I'm already gonna
serve enough time in Hell for watching that shitty SciFi Channel
abortion of Philip Jose Farmer's grand epic "Riverworld."
Oh Lord, if I have offended Thee... make me watch the entire run of
"Golden Girls" with all of 'em NEKKID.
--
HellPope Huey
Man oh man, am *I* ever goin' to Hell in a Yugo...
... and I've put a brick on the accelerator pedal
so I can moon people while I steer with one hand.
"We're turning into a society
that is accepting the force-feed.
I don't quite understand why
we're going for the things we're going for.
There's no process of elimination anymore in music.
They have these grooming schools
and they're turning out these clones
and the music is sounding so refined
that its not even interesting."
-Merle Haggard
"Did you know embargo backwards is 'O grab me?'"
- "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"
Correspondent:: mshotz@aol.commonkeypo (Rev. Richard Skull)
Date: 18 Jan 2005 21:06:50 GMT
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>I went to a big Computer Tech Con in Vegas several years back and Phillips
>was developing, get this, a stacked optical disk, about one half the size of
>a regular CD and about 3 inches thick. It could hold ALL THE LITERATURE IN
>THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS! On ONE DISK! So imagine in the future, every movie
>ever made, including those stored in film canisters in Hollywood that are
>now being digitalized and saved, movies NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN either ever or
>for years, all movies, all tv programs, all books including precious Vatican
>Library and other unseen books and documents...and all you need to buy is
>three disks!
Imagine Every porn movie ever made!
On one disk!
What a great time to be alive!
MSHOTZ: The Post Post Modern Man
And he wore a hat
And he had a job
And he brought home the bacon
So that no one kneeeeeeew
He was a mongoloid!
Correspondent:: HellPope Huey Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 01:55:48 GMT
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In article <20050118160650.10948.00000105@mb-m28.aol.com>,
mshotz@aol.commonkeypo (Rev. Richard Skull) wrote:
> Imagine Every porn movie ever made!
> On one disk!
Imagine setting it to "Loop" and jacking off to it until they found
your dried skin on the couch, supported only by your bones.
--
HellPope Huey
Man oh man, am *I* ever goin' to Hell in a Yugo...
... and I've put a brick on the accelerator pedal
so I can moon people while I steer with one hand.
"We're turning into a society
that is accepting the force-feed.
I don't quite understand why
we're going for the things we're going for.
There's no process of elimination anymore in music.
They have these grooming schools
and they're turning out these clones
and the music is sounding so refined
that its not even interesting."
-Merle Haggard
"Did you know embargo backwards is 'O grab me?'"
- "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"
Correspondent:: "iDRMRSR" Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:05:35 -0500
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I can just see the marketing campaign for this device:
Enrich your masturbatory experience with our new storage solution!
[*]
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Correspondent:: Artemia Salina Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:34:17 -0500
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:05:35 -0500, iDRMRSR wrote:
> I can just see the marketing campaign for this device:
>
> Enrich your masturbatory experience with our new storage solution!
I still say, although few want to admit it, that it is pornography
that drives technology. You don't think that they'll eventually
invent the Holodeck for EDUCATIONAL purposes, do you?
Correspondent:: "Paul E. Jamison" Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:26:22 -0600
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"HellPope Huey" wrote in message
news:YuckleFuckle-00E2C0.19563318012005@news1.west.earthlink.net...
> In article <20050118160650.10948.00000105@mb-m28.aol.com>,
> mshotz@aol.commonkeypo (Rev. Richard Skull) wrote:
>
> > Imagine Every porn movie ever made!
> > On one disk!
>
> Imagine setting it to "Loop" and jacking off to it until they found
> your dried skin on the couch, supported only by your bones.
>
This reminds me of Natalie Wood's last movie "Brainstorm". She and
Christopher Walken invented a doohickey to record a person's sensory
impulses so that other people could experience them. Someobdy recorded
himself having sex with his girlfriend, and some old fart set up the
playback machine in an endless loop and put the headset on. Someone found
him hours later, twitching, his eye rolled back in his head. Later this old
guy took up organic gardening; I shit you not.
Paul
Correspondent:: König Prüß, GfbAEV Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:36:33 GMT
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"Paul E. Jamison" wrote:
>"HellPope Huey" wrote in message
>news:YuckleFuckle-00E2C0.19563318012005@news1.west.earthlink.net...
>> In article <20050118160650.10948.00000105@mb-m28.aol.com>,
>> mshotz@aol.commonkeypo (Rev. Richard Skull) wrote:
>>
>> > Imagine Every porn movie ever made!
>> > On one disk!
>>
>> Imagine setting it to "Loop" and jacking off to it until they found
>> your dried skin on the couch, supported only by your bones.
>>
>This reminds me of Natalie Wood's last movie "Brainstorm". She and
>Christopher Walken invented a doohickey to record a person's sensory
>impulses so that other people could experience them. Someobdy recorded
>himself having sex with his girlfriend, and some old fart set up the
>playback machine in an endless loop and put the headset on. Someone found
>him hours later, twitching, his eye rolled back in his head. Later this old
>guy took up organic gardening; I shit you not.
>
>Paul
>
>
There was a sci-fi sort of book called "Syndic" i think
that was about when the Syndicate had taken over and
everything was legal and everything was for sale. I think
this story had the phone company leasing-out stimulus boxes
that you could clip onto a wired gromet in the back of your
head to kick your pleasure center, but there were "bootleg boxes"
that you could leave it on as long as possible, they'd find people
sitting and drooling who'd left the box switched-on for days!
Correspondent:: HellPope Huey Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 03:07:10 GMT
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In article ,
König Prüß, GfbAEV wrote:
> There was a sci-fi sort of book called "Syndic" i think
> that was about when the Syndicate had taken over and
> everything was legal and everything was for sale. I think
> this story had the phone company leasing-out stimulus boxes
> that you could clip onto a wired gromet in the back of your
> head to kick your pleasure center, but there were "bootleg boxes"
> that you could leave it on as long as possible, they'd find people
> sitting and drooling who'd left the box switched-on for days!
Spider Robinson wrote a great book in that same vein called
"Mindkiller," wherein the all-too-popular practice of "wireheading" is
described, similar to the above. With those Gibsonesque jacks in your
skull, well, you know.
The units include a timer and a governor (IIRC) "easily defeated by
anyone with the intellect of a 5-year-old child and a butter-knife."
Certain folks naturally sit there with it humming away until they
dehydrate and die.
Now we know what to get purple for Xistmas, yuk yuk.
--
HellPope Huey
On Star Trek, you can get lost,
but someone always comes to GET you.
"If we can stand up
while all else falls down
we'll last through the winter
we'll last through the storms"
- Peter Gabriel, "Ovo"
"There's a lot of kids and a lot of junkies
out there right now who are countin' on me."
- "Death To Smoochy"
Correspondent:: König Prüß, GfbAEV Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 04:47:29 GMT
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HellPope Huey wrote:
>In article ,
> König Prüß, GfbAEV wrote:
>
>> There was a sci-fi sort of book called "Syndic" i think
>> that was about when the Syndicate had taken over and
>> everything was legal and everything was for sale. I think
>> this story had the phone company leasing-out stimulus boxes
>> that you could clip onto a wired gromet in the back of your
>> head to kick your pleasure center, but there were "bootleg boxes"
>> that you could leave it on as long as possible, they'd find people
>> sitting and drooling who'd left the box switched-on for days!
>
> Spider Robinson wrote a great book in that same vein called
>"Mindkiller," wherein the all-too-popular practice of "wireheading" is
>described, similar to the above. With those Gibsonesque jacks in your
>skull, well, you know.
>
> The units include a timer and a governor (IIRC) "easily defeated by
>anyone with the intellect of a 5-year-old child and a butter-knife."
>Certain folks naturally sit there with it humming away until they
>dehydrate and die.
>
> Now we know what to get purple for Xistmas, yuk yuk.
>
>--
I read so much scifi so long back that it seems to have fermented into
a Oxaca Mezcal
Correspondent:: HellPope Huey Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 03:01:07 GMT
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In article ,
"Paul E. Jamison" wrote:
> "HellPope Huey" wrote in message
> news:YuckleFuckle-00E2C0.19563318012005@news1.west.earthlink.net...
> > In article <20050118160650.10948.00000105@mb-m28.aol.com>,
> > mshotz@aol.commonkeypo (Rev. Richard Skull) wrote:
> >
> > > Imagine Every porn movie ever made!
> > > On one disk!
> >
> > Imagine setting it to "Loop" and jacking off to it until they found
> > your dried skin on the couch, supported only by your bones.
> >
> This reminds me of Natalie Wood's last movie "Brainstorm". She and
> Christopher Walken invented a doohickey to record a person's sensory
> impulses so that other people could experience them. Someobdy recorded
> himself having sex with his girlfriend, and some old fart set up the
> playback machine in an endless loop and put the headset on. Someone found
> him hours later, twitching, his eye rolled back in his head. Later this old
> guy took up organic gardening; I shit you not.
That's EXACKLY where I got the idea. That was a pretty damned good
film, with one awful flaw: Natalie was allegedly on tranks or some such,
fell off her cabin cruiser and drowned prior to completion of the film,
so the ending is a terse, clipped-together blip of cinemus interruptus.
A nicely fleshed-out concept (for the time), but with a badly damaged
bumper.
--
HellPope Huey
On Star Trek, you can get lost,
but someone always comes to GET you.
"If we can stand up
while all else falls down
we'll last through the winter
we'll last through the storms"
- Peter Gabriel, "Ovo"
"There's a lot of kids and a lot of junkies
out there right now who are countin' on me."
- "Death To Smoochy"
Correspondent:: mshotz@aol.commonkeypo (Rev. Richard Skull)
Date: 20 Jan 2005 19:48:32 GMT
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> That's EXACKLY where I got the idea. That was a pretty damned good
>film, with one awful flaw: Natalie was allegedly on tranks or some such,
>fell off her cabin cruiser and drowned prior to completion of the film,
>so the ending is a terse, clipped-together blip of cinemus interruptus.
>A nicely fleshed-out concept (for the time), but with a badly damaged
>bumper.
I remember Hustle had a "ad" for the Natalie Wood inflatable life saving night
gown and the William Holden Bar Drinking crash helmet.
MSHOTZ: The Post Post Modern Man
And he wore a hat
And he had a job
And he brought home the bacon
So that no one kneeeeeeew
He was a mongoloid!
Correspondent:: "Rev. Ivan Stang" Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:49:00 -0500
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In article <47YGd.21938$ql2.12372@okepread04>, Paul E. Jamison
wrote:
> >
> I can gho a little better. At the end of the year I went into K-Mart to
> check on discount Christmas candy and found a rack of $1.99 Christmas movies
> on DVD. Only they were marked half-price. I scored copies of "Santa Claus"
> (the 1959 Mexican import) and "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" for 99
> cents apiece. I haven't watched them yet, so I can't vouch for quality, but
> could you *ever* vouch for quality on these stinkers in the first place?
Two different folks sent me that $1 Santa Claus conquors the Martians
for Xmas!
>
> Just wait until the Next Big Format comes along. Movies in said format will
> start out sky-high, and - well, you got the drill down.
>
Oh yes.
Somebody somewhere spent $89.95 for a 45-minute Betamax soft core porn
video. Several somebodies in several somewheres. Just couldn't wait the
25 years for it to show up on Giganews.
When we first started selling ARISE!, it was on Betamax for $80, just
like any other movie you'd buy then. And it didn't even have narration
or a music score! (We only sold a few of that version. BUT THINK WHAT
THEY'RE WOTH NOW! These are the versions that end with tENTATIVELY, a
cONVENIENCE's short video "Pee on "Bob's" Head.")
--
The SubGenius Foundation, Inc.
(4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath of Dobbs Yeti,
Resurrected, Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
P.O. Box 181417, Cleveland, OH 44118 (fax 216-320-9528)
Dobbs-Approved Authorized Commercial Outreach of The Church of the SubGenius
SubSITE: http://www.subgenius.com PRABOB
Correspondent:: HdMrs. Salacia the Overseer Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:23:22 -0600
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:49:00 -0500, "Rev. Ivan Stang"
wrote:
>In article <47YGd.21938$ql2.12372@okepread04>, Paul E. Jamison
> wrote:
>
>> >
>> I can gho a little better. At the end of the year I went into K-Mart to
>> check on discount Christmas candy and found a rack of $1.99 Christmas movies
>> on DVD. Only they were marked half-price. I scored copies of "Santa Claus"
>> (the 1959 Mexican import) and "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" for 99
>> cents apiece. I haven't watched them yet, so I can't vouch for quality, but
>> could you *ever* vouch for quality on these stinkers in the first place?
>
>Two different folks sent me that $1 Santa Claus conquors the Martians
>for Xmas!
>
>>
>> Just wait until the Next Big Format comes along. Movies in said format will
>> start out sky-high, and - well, you got the drill down.
>>
>
>Oh yes.
>
>Somebody somewhere spent $89.95 for a 45-minute Betamax soft core porn
>video. Several somebodies in several somewheres. Just couldn't wait the
>25 years for it to show up on Giganews.
>
>When we first started selling ARISE!, it was on Betamax for $80, just
>like any other movie you'd buy then. And it didn't even have narration
>or a music score! (We only sold a few of that version. BUT THINK WHAT
>THEY'RE WOTH NOW! These are the versions that end with tENTATIVELY, a
>cONVENIENCE's short video "Pee on "Bob's" Head.")
Which brings me to wonder when is that geek gadget site going to offer
the USB betamax doohicky? There I just invented it. You all can market
it.
Money making schemes just drop off me like ripe fruits.
Problem is..my money making schemes cost me a fortune.
Salacia
Correspondent:: "Rev. Ivan Stang" Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:50:13 -0500
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In article , HdMrs. Salacia
the Overseer wrote:
>
> Problem is..my money making schemes cost me a fortune.
>
I hear ya.
--
The SubGenius Foundation, Inc.
(4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath of Dobbs Yeti,
Resurrected, Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
P.O. Box 181417, Cleveland, OH 44118 (fax 216-320-9528)
Dobbs-Approved Authorized Commercial Outreach of The Church of the SubGenius
SubSITE: http://www.subgenius.com PRABOB
Correspondent:: "Paul Casino" Date: 17 Jan 2005 17:23:11 -0800
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It's too bad hookers haven't come down in price like that. I'm not
gonna pay a lot for my V.D.
Correspondent:: "Rev. Ivan Stang" Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:51:31 -0500
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In article <1106011391.366255.214440@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
Paul Casino wrote:
> It's too bad hookers haven't come down in price like that. I'm not
> gonna pay a lot for my V.D.
>
VDs used to be at least $29.95 for the latest, now they're like 88
cents at Walgreens.
--
The SubGenius Foundation, Inc.
(4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath of Dobbs Yeti,
Resurrected, Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
P.O. Box 181417, Cleveland, OH 44118 (fax 216-320-9528)
Dobbs-Approved Authorized Commercial Outreach of The Church of the SubGenius
SubSITE: http://www.subgenius.com PRABOB
Correspondent:: Artemia Salina Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:42:24 -0500
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:24:23 -0500, iDRMRSR wrote:
> They're back! The $0.88 drugstore LP has magically transformed into the
> 2005 equivalent, a shitty $3 movie!
If you see "Blood, Guts, Bullets, and Octane" on the self, GRAB IT!
Correspondent:: "angelicusrex" Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:48:02 -0700
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Actually I got a whole slew of DVDs at the 99 cent store...Jerry Lewis and
Dean Martin. Old cartoons, etc. Fun stuff. Stuff you couldn't find back in
my day except on 16mm film at 18 or 20 dollars a pop. And get this they now
are marketing a automated coin operated machine that churns out a special CD
or DVD that plays like four times, then self-destructs! Disposable Movies
and Music! No late fees, never bring it back to the store! They will be
coming to some Pizza Joint in your town soon!
Archimandrite Pudlevitcz
Correspondent:: "Rev. Ivan Stang" Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:48:59 -0500
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In article , iDRMRSR
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> Well, here it is 2005. DVDs are so cheap, they are like the floppy disks of
> yore. Hardly a buck apiece for a blank. And enter the MASS
> MERCHANDIZERS!!!
>
> Like WalMart. The other day I was going through their $5.50/DVD bin looking
> for some movie I hadn't seen (an ever dwindling list BTW) when out of the
> corner of my eye, I spotted a NEW rack. $3 DVDs have arrived. Packed in
> CHEAP plastic sleeves.
>
> They're back! The $0.88 drugstore LP has magically transformed into the
> 2005 equivalent, a shitty $3 movie!
Yeah, I dunno what to think of this exactly. On the one hand, I could
pick up a huge load of old cartoon DVDs that thrilled my dad for a buck
apiece at Walgreen's. On the other hand, I'm looking at these $1 pieces
of shit in a cardboard sleeve and thinking, Now are the SubGenii going
to expect me to sell the $1 ARISE! in a paper sleeve?
Even in bulk a decent blank DVD costs 50 cents, and a color printed
sleeve costs another 50 cents unless you're cranking out 20,000 of
them.
For now the $1 ARISE in a paper sleeve is the one you download from the
Internet.
>
> Great stuff. Stang layed one of them on me. A Billy Dee Williams
> Blaxploitation flick. Damn, I'll prolly have to wait until summer for the
> selection to expand.
I hope the guy who gave me that DVD for Xistlessnessmess isn't reading
this ng.
>
> But I wouldn't be surprised if a $3 Apocalypse Now DVD came out, and then I
> get to pay FFC some MORE fucking money to watch a movie that gets more
> ridicuolouser and more ridiculouser as the years pass. Like, take that
> DREAMY moog synthesizer score.
>
> And ummm, how successful that movie was at convincing everybody just exactly
> HOW HORRIBLE war is, so that the US would NEVER get involved in something
> like another Vietnam.
>
> Shit, time has transformed that movie into a camp comedy.
Like Thus Spake Zarathustra.
>
> And double sided HD blue laser disks are just about to happen.
> AIIIIIIEEEEEEEE! Praze Bob, we'll soon be able to pay TOP DOLLAR to watch
> the same fucking movies we've already seen, in HD.
Or, we'll soon be able to spend ALL WEEK downloading the same fucking
movies we've already seen, in HD.
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Correspondent:: "Assco" Date: 19 Jan 2005 07:18:53 -0800
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Rev. Ivan Stang wrote:
> Yeah, I dunno what to think of this exactly. On the one hand, I could
> pick up a huge load of old cartoon DVDs that thrilled my dad for a
buck
> apiece at Walgreen's. On the other hand, I'm looking at these $1
pieces
> of shit in a cardboard sleeve and thinking, Now are the SubGenii
going
> to expect me to sell the $1 ARISE! in a paper sleeve?
Beware! I bought one of those (ol' Superman cartoons) thinking
all the text on the box was true ("remastered!") and it's worse
than my old VHS version of the same shit -- like a fuckin'
shot-off-the-screen with a Sony BOOTLEG! And Wallmart is selling
them like they're hotcakes -- shouldn't they be culpable in a copyright
infringement lawsuit? I'd report them to Time-Warner but Time-Warner
ought to be able to figure it out on their own.
As far as the $1.00 Arise, it's probably available for 30 baht (75
cents)
at Pantip Plaza in Bangkok.
Correspondent:: "nu-monet v7.0" Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:28:12 -0700
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Assco wrote:
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> Beware! I bought one of those (ol' Superman cartoons)
> thinking all the text on the box was true ("remastered!")...
By "remastered", I think they mean that they burned off
the Cartoon Network screen bug in the corner. Some of
these public domain movies are so cheaply produced, you
can see the glitches when they chopped out the commercials.
--
"He's just screaming out
'Neuter Me!'"
-- some guy about his dog
Correspondent:: "Assco" Date: 19 Jan 2005 08:07:10 -0800
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Yeah, I think I saw a wrinkle in the
projection screen rippled by someone
walking behind it.
The Xmas-giftie Popeye collection,
however, wasn't bad, but it didn't
come in a cardbord sleeve either.