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Title: A new era
Post by: BizB on January 20, 2009, 07:10:04 PM: Well, now that Obama is our new president, I wanted to keep a collection of things that I've noticed as different or changed in this new era. So far, I have found the following:

People literally stopped using 'literally' incorrectly at 12:07pm, today.
So far, irrespective of what you might believe, 'irregardless' is ok to use.

What have you noticed?
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: ivan on January 20, 2009, 07:15:58 PM: Global warming has ended. After a record-setting warm week here in SoCal, today we're down to normal almost-as-warm-but-a-little-cooler-than-last-week temperatures. Glaciation may now resume.
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: xolik on January 20, 2009, 08:19:00 PM: My uncle started screaming for an emancipation retraction.
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: Novice on January 20, 2009, 09:16:22 PM: This thread literally made me shit my pants.
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: BizB on January 20, 2009, 11:03:56 PM: No, they just renamed it to Obamasm and the entire media has been having one all day.
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: 12AX7 on January 21, 2009, 03:09:36 AM: "Teh Big O".

:-( Somehow that phrase has been tainted now... and not the good 'taint'...
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: HeavyJay on January 21, 2009, 10:23:15 AM: I wanted to clean my pistols this morning, but they've been turned to candy canes.
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: BizB on January 21, 2009, 10:55:50 AM: Candy canes don't give you cavities any more!
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: BizB on January 21, 2009, 01:39:59 PM: Nobody litters any more.
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: BizB on January 21, 2009, 01:47:22 PM: Drink all you want! Hangovers are a thing of the past.
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: ivan on January 21, 2009, 01:56:04 PM: I must have the flu, then.
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: pbsaurus on January 21, 2009, 02:27:20 PM: I'll just wait for the heavily consolidated media to tell me what to think about this new era.
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: 12AX7 on January 21, 2009, 03:32:59 PM: Quote from: pbsaurus on January 21, 2009, 02:27:20 PM
I'll just wait for the heavily consolidated media to tell me what to think about this new era.

Wow. You really HAVE been tuned out recently, huh?
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: HeavyJay on January 21, 2009, 03:37:52 PM: Cars emit rainbows as exhaust now! Yay!
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: 12AX7 on January 21, 2009, 08:17:57 PM: There will be no more spam. READ MY LIPS.

NO MORE SPAM
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: 12AX7 on January 21, 2009, 08:46:23 PM: That's not real spam, though.
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: Wunderkind on January 21, 2009, 08:50:40 PM: This is real spam.
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: HeavyJay on January 21, 2009, 08:59:43 PM: Real SPAM has mechanically separated chicken in it. Yum!
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: 12AX7 on January 21, 2009, 09:29:25 PM: So why is everyone fucking with MY contribution? I figured everyone would say "yay".

Fine then.

From now on, there'll be so much fuckin spam; you'll have to connect to your webmail and start downloading when you wake up so it'll all be finished by bedtime.

and a full two-thirds will be old, still circulating Obama Campaign ads. :x
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: 12AX7 on January 21, 2009, 11:42:18 PM: SPAMTASTIC

http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1185304443 (http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1185304443)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ2I0t_Twk0&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ2I0t_Twk0&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0)

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1772825856/bclid1780606223/bctid1846660108 (http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1772825856/bclid1780606223/bctid1846660108)
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: HeavyJay on January 22, 2009, 12:05:29 AM: There's a can of "SPAM With Bacon" in my cupboard.

I'll bet if you eat it, you see God.
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: HeavyJay on January 22, 2009, 12:10:36 AM: Quote from: bananaskittles on January 22, 2009, 12:07:20 AM
I hate bacon... Or any product made from pig or cow... I just can't eat it. 5 moar years till I get my baby pig ^_^ *oink oink oink*

Farmer Skittles had a pig! EIEIO
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: 12AX7 on January 22, 2009, 02:17:41 AM: Quote from: HeavyJay on January 21, 2009, 08:59:43 PM
Real SPAM has mechanically separated chicken in it. Yum!

LOL! As opposed to . . . ? Naturally separated? Court-ordered separated? Explosively separated? Vehicularly separated?

* I know it says that (mechanically separated) on the can...*
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: Wunderkind on January 22, 2009, 11:42:13 AM: As of 9:53am today, migraines are no longer headaches, but a new and scientific word for a rainbow that ~~bleeds~~ "shines" out of your nose.
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: Joe Sixpack on January 22, 2009, 12:04:39 PM: Quote from: bananaskittles on January 22, 2009, 12:07:20 AM
I hate bacon... Or any product made from pig or cow... I just can't eat it. 5 moar years till I get my baby pig ^_^ *oink oink oink*

Don't be so sure.

http://www.browniepointsblog.com/2008/01/20/homemade-bacon-vodka/ (http://www.browniepointsblog.com/2008/01/20/homemade-bacon-vodka/)
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: HeavyJay on January 22, 2009, 01:15:06 PM: Quote from: Joe Sixpack on January 22, 2009, 12:04:39 PM
Don't be so sure.

http://www.browniepointsblog.com/2008/01/20/homemade-bacon-vodka/ (http://www.browniepointsblog.com/2008/01/20/homemade-bacon-vodka/)

I like bacon, but a lot of them there intarweb people take it to ridiculous extremes, like the spirit described in that link.

StumbleUpon delivers me tons of pages like that. Bacon vodka, bacon chocolate, bacon bacon....it's crazy. They're all accompanied by variations on, "LOL bacon is teh ultimate f00d! LMAO." It seems to be one of the new cultural things (pirates vs. ninjas, Mentos and Diet Coke, etc) that isn't that amusing, but won't go away. It bugs me.

Don't mind me. I'm cranky.
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: 12AX7 on January 23, 2009, 02:35:14 PM: BACON!
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: HeavyJay on January 23, 2009, 04:23:44 PM: Quote from: bananaskittles on January 23, 2009, 04:02:57 PM
Awh! That piggy is so cute! It has booties!!!

The pig was actually scared of mud, so her owners gave her wellies. Link (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1025428/Pig-Boots-The-worlds-porker-afraid-mud.html)
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: Leonidas on January 24, 2009, 03:28:08 AM: Quote from: BizB on January 20, 2009, 07:10:04 PM
Well, now that Obama is our new president, I wanted to keep a collection of things that I've noticed as different or changed in this new era. So far, I have found the following:

People literally stopped using 'literally' incorrectly at 12:07pm, today.
So far, irrespective of what you might believe, 'Regardless' is ok to use.

What have you noticed?

I've noticed that now we have a, ahem, darker-than-myself president of these United States. When the hell did that happen?
Title: Re: A new era
Post by: xolik on January 24, 2009, 12:24:34 PM: Quote from: Leonidas on January 24, 2009, 03:28:08 AM
I've noticed that now we have a, ahem, darker-than-myself president of these United States. When the hell did that happen?

bu$h