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cote finally sent us a candidate worth voting for: Joseph Fitzpatrick Fitzgerald Fitzhenry Quimby! He's anti gun control (but pro bullet control) and his tax plan is perfect! (With our first week of election coverage finally wrapped up, I needed the laugh).
Because it's humour is far too referential - every joke in it seems to be a reference to some film/book/famous person/song/whatever, which really gets on my tits.
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I must concur fully! That's what makes the episodes I listed what I would consider to be "classics". No humor that references topics that will come and go in the next 10 years.
Someone moderate this guy up!
The cause? Ian Maxtone-Graham.
Ian Maxy-Pad and the other amateur's who've been brought in to write for the Simpsons will gladly destroy characterizations built up over years in pursuit of a few laughs for poor jokes. In a 1998 interview, Graham admitted he didn't even watch the Simpson's before he was brought in to write for it. Perhaps it's worth noting that Graham also wrote for SNL, and left that program in shambles when he left.
I suggest everyone write to Fox, and demand the ouster of Fagboy-Graham and the current crop of shitty writers. Bring back Conan. Bring back the other decent writers. Even new writers who have at least seen the first four seasons are better than the assholes who are now writing the Simpsons.
You forgot to mention:
"This slashdot posting payed for by the commitee to elect Diamond Joe Quimby."
um, no I didn't.
I don't mean to slam anybody or flame anybody...And I may burn a few karma...But enough of the "Why did they post this story vs. my story"...The internet is bigger than 1 site (/.) Start your own site if /. is not covering everything you feel it should be. (I myself love a little humor mixed in with all the geek junk)
(+1 Funny) only if I laugh out loud.
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Even with Quimby being included in this next round of the debates, many candidates are being ignored by the fascist US administration, and I feel the people have the right to know about them!
BRAK, OOG, and Slashdot Cruiser are all viable candidates for the US Presidency. Personally, I was going to vote Nader, but I would much rather vote BRAK, if only to get funding for the Cartoon Network!
So, in this election, vote your conscience.
ALL HAIL BRAK!
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um, actually my Karma is frozen at 59.
(what this means, AC, is that it does not go up when a comment is moderated up. In fact, my posting it twice just increases the likelyhood that one or both will be marked "Redundant", thus reducing my precious, precious karma)
Repeating an interesting post as a topic that came up inside a thread is a common and accepted practice in usenet, you know.
The truth is, I really enjoyed the article. It's well-written (it was in the new yorker) and I thought a lot of slashdotters would like it. If you want to know what I think about karma, look at this post I made a while back.
so basically, go to hell.
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I'd disagree with you. As many outside the US [and quite afew within it] know, there's a popular perception that Americans do not have a sense of irony. It might not be accurate, but we Ausssies don't have kangarros in out back yard and haven't heard of anyone called 'Monterey Jack' either.
The Simpsons goes quite some way to crushing that notion.
The biggest problem here is that Quimby doesn't seem to realize that you can't take real money from people who don't have any real money. You might as well launch an assault against Hasbro's printers as steal Canadian dollars.
(Hasbro owns Parker Brothers, makers of Monopoly. See SatireWire for details on Hasbro's new printers.)
There's no "we" in team, only "me"
Quimby: Demand? Who are you to demand anything? I run this town. You're just a bunch of low-income nobodies!
Assistant: Uh, election in November. Election in November...
Quimby: What? Again!? This stupid country.
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These aren't the droids you're looking for.
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
The wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead.
mmmmmm... poutine...
Intolerant people should be shot.
I in fact know people who have completed minor transactions using Canadian Tire money. One of these also wanted to play poker with it...
Intolerant people should be shot.
In fact I would go so far as to say it's already over, the show died sometime last season. I've been a loyal fan since '92 but it's painfully obvious that the show has gone down in quality so severely ever since Conan left, that it is now in such a sad state I can barely bring myself to watch an entire episode without cringing. The jokes have become deadpan, predictable and witless. It's time to cancel The Simpsons and put Off to rest.
- "Hear that?! The percolations are imminent! Cease your ingress!"
and then...
1978 - Joe Quimby reluctantly graduates from college, after his father threatens to take away his girlfriend.
I guess that Joe Quimby Sr. was a very influential man.
And who says that Joe Sr. is actually Joe Jr.'s dad?
What, you're going to believe a politician's web site?
Jay (=
... yeah, I agree, a lot of the more recent episodes are not as good ... still, there is a gem here and there ... I hadn't thought about the guest angle aspect, but I think that is a perceptive assessment ... my wife seems to think that the last several years episodes start out fine for the 1st 5-10 minutes and are a hoot, but the remainder of the show sucks ...
My favorite episodes ... here goes ... not in any particular order ...
Some of the worst episodes have been indeed recent episodes - the one where Homer and Flanders go to Vegas, I can't think of ones right now but there have been more than a few stinkers lately ...
AZspot
Could be the .475 Linebaugh, arguably one of the most powerful handgun cartridges in the world. It's based on a cut-down .45-70. While velocities don't achieve the same level as the 475 Wildey Magnum, it's loaded with much heavier bullets so kinetic energy is comparable.
"Prejudice is wrong; you should hate everyone the same."
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His body is found a decade later, marooned in a sand trap in the back nine.
;)
Weeeeeeell, it doesn't say his dead body, does it?
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You can thank Matt Groening for the early simpsons (choking, causing heads to throb, tyrant homer, the bartman, "don't have a cow, man").
The real genius behind the Simpsons is George Myer and his fellow writers from Harvard's Lampoon and Army Man. I think most of them are gone.
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Monty Python is a really bad example for your point. "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" depends completely on references to the King Arthur legend, as "Life of Brian" depends on the Gospel. Come to think about it, all humor is a reference to something else.
"Hey, who's the chick in the third row?" -- Diamond Joe, speaking on Wacking Day, Springfield
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Try lynx. It works fine from AIX. You're right about fox being moronic, though.
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"1) Their references are necessary - if you don't get the reference, you don't get the joke"
I dont think Simpons is like this at all...One of the large parts of the appeal of the Simpsons seems to be that you can not get the reference at all, and its still funny! That is why kids can enjoy the Simpsons, as well as adults.
If bullets are outlawed, only outlaws will have bullets!
It would never work anyway. I mean, why steal canadian money? It's not like it's worth anything :-)
Why is it that the proponents of "one nation under God" are so eager to get rid of "liberty and justice for all"?
Vote Vermin!!
For those who don't find anyone worth voting for, Quimby could be a good protest vote.
>br> Seems Mickey Mouse didn't fit the bill.
Worst senator ever.
If I was an American, I'd vote for Diamond Joe. I agree, forget bullets, club people with your pistols and rifles! Mwahaha!
Chris 'coldacid' Charabaruk Meldstar Entertainment
My idea of gun control is hitting what I intended to.
So, in other words, you're saying that the money is more safe in the hands of politicians (ie. the US Gov't) than in the hands of the people who earned the money in the first place ...
You can have Gore's "Fuzzy Math", Bush's "Lock Box" or Quimby's "CHOWDA!"
If you want a good candidate, Vote Quimby!
It's not for everybody
A simpsons character comes to life! All right!
Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill them right back!
You're just moaning because The Simpsons is referring to pop culture instead of something more esoteric. You're entitled to dislike the thing, but "They don't make 'em like they used to" is a tired old song.
Most comedy is "about" something. Sometimes the idea is strong enough that it will support an entire series (I'll grant you Fawlty Towers is in this category) and sometimes it's not. Hardly a terrible fault.
So is the new star trek any better or worse than the old one ? Have another look in 20 years and they'll both be better than whatever remake just hit your screens/holoprojector/neural implant.
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I filtered out "United States" so I didn't have to see this stuff. Thanks a lot.
In lieu of our recent VP candidates I think Ralph would more than fit.
"I created the Internet" - Al Gore
"Its potatoe, not potato" - Dan Quayle
"Some people have too much freedom" - George W.
"My cats breath smells like catfood" - Ralph
I like food.
You can have all the Canadian script you want. It's worthless. Real Canadians use the money printed by Canadian Tire for all their purchases.
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Sorry to say, the guy's name was Roger Myers.
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Under Joe's plan, Americans will stop paying taxes altogether. We will simply send the military across our northern border every morning, and beat up the Canadians for their lunch money.
:-)
Well I'm going to write him in just for his tax plans... We should up the amount of H1-B visas for his immigration plan too
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Sounds a lot like our non-toon government. Bring us prosperity and you can have all the blowjobs in the Oval office you want! If the economy had turned sour though, I doubt if Quim^H^H er... Clinton would have survived.
I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.
No, Thursday's out. How about never - is never good for you?
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I have a theory that the reason for this is the feminisation of modern entertainment. Everything now has to be comfortable, known and within safe boundaries. Another example of this would be Star Trek (not humour, I know). It used to have people of real character - Kirk, Spock, Bones etc - and almost every episode involved travelling to new planets and having new experiences. But, in TNG, they hardly ever visit new planets! They are always getting trapped in their damned holodeck, stuck in their own minds. Everything is directed inwards, rather than outwards, towards the frontier. This inward directed cancer of self reference seems to be spreading throughout our entertainment industry, and it's really pissing me off!
Sorry, I just had to get that off my chest.
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90th Post.
I am an idiot.
Because slashdot said to submit articles about republicans. Yet when such articles are submited they are rejected.
the only reason i read the comments on this is to see how many lame posts there would be until someone posted a bitch about this. a friend pointed this out to me as he passed me the url for this (the content is great) and both agreed it we hellalame.
There's only one candidate worth voting for this year, and that's Vermin Supreme-- He may not have the worst policies, but he has worst habedashery, and the ugliest HTML! Vermin Supreme promises to make crime against the law! combat illiterates! Fight the unemployed! And stop pregnant teenagers!
Have any other candidates released their dental records to the press? I think not! Gotta wonder what they're hiding, eh?
...And if you think Vermin's a joke, you should see the other candidates!
Forgot to include my link.
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Btw, it's Meyer, I misspelled it before.
Here's a long story about George Meyer, who is a comic genius and a really cool guy. It's long, but a great read.
http://www.snpp.com/other/interviews/meyer00.ht
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1) Their references are necessary - if you don't get the reference, you don't get the joke
2) The references of older shows are to a wider, or common pool of knowledge among everyone. If not, they are subtle, and not necessary
3) Modern shows make references about other Modern shows and 'fads', which older shows just didn't
4)In modern shows these references are rammed down you're throat all the time. They seem to be the entire point of the show at times (cf The Simpsons)
Anyway, I definately think there is a qualitative difference between the two. Modern shows seem to be all pop culture and making inside jokes that will make the guy who gets it feel pleased with himself for having got it. It just gets a bit tiresome, after a while.
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
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I posted this in the "Simpsons Rant" thread, but I thought I'd put it in the main discussion thread too.
The real reason for the success of the Simpsons is not Matt Groening, but a writer from the Lampoon, Harvard's in-house humor magazine. Sam Simon, a producer, liked George Meyer's Army Man enough that he tracked Meyer down and hired the whole staff onto the Simpsons.
The rest is history.
You can read a nice long story about it here:
http://www.snpp.com/other/inte rvi ews/meyer00.html
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"Worst episode ever. Rest assured that I was on the Internet within minutes, registering my disgust throughout the world." - Comic Book Guy
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Yeah, but:
- The babes don't want anything to do with us, and
- It's THE FUCKING SIMPSONS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!! This isn't the Jetsons or She-Ra or even Transformers. It's THE SIMPSONS, at a completely separate level of importance.
Nuff said.Nothing in the second ammendment mentions the right to own bullets.
"This gun has cost me everything. Everything but my precious gun." -- Homer Simpson
The Bible also says (and I'm kinda cleaning this up to modern english) Don't judge or you risk being judged.
I'm not Christian but I think lines like this are part of what Christanity is all about..
the "Loving" and "Caring" god of Christianity is missing from todays dogma and thats really sad. A good philosophy lost to paranoia and hate.
Oh about the "Subject" of my reply.. Tit for tat.. I don't see why Microsoft begging Linux bashers can't be called Satanists after all the insults thrown at Linux advocates.
Yes it's a tool.. and carry a tool box full of Fisher Price tools and insult Craftsmen and see if you ever get taken sereously...
I don't actually exist.
Quimby's reckless disregard for the Canadians, and the fact that he wants to come up and steal our lunch money is a horrible idea. We Canadian's won't sit idly and let you American thugs steal our poutine money. We have a formidable offense, including Bryan Adams and Celine Dion. We do not like to think that we would have to unleash such a terrible force, but if forced to, we will use such drastic measures.
Oh, yeah, and I don't your Mecha Striesand can stand up to such an aural offense.
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What about the right to bear legs?
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
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I give a fukin' hell of a fuk, and yeah -- gun control works, as shown in Australia, among other countries. It works for the proliferation of armed crimes, since they are about 95% sure that their victim is unarmed.
I don't know what you think "pansies" are, exactly, but if you mean that those polititians won't say what they're thinking and they avoid the issues, swaggering up to other candidates in threatening postures, you're right.
MAN... is this thread getting off-topic, or what?
Screw the Quimbey corruption! Vote American
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Ok, sorry to do this, but I think many Simpsons fans will agree with me.
Lately, the Simpsons has been declining in quality, there's no doubt about it. I feel the reason is rather than good content with story long shows, they're bringing in guest stars to fill the bill. Last season they had Limp Bizkit, Brittany Spears, Mel Gibson, John Goodman and others.
Don't get me wrong, making use of celeberity guests can enhance a show, but when you use them as the primary reason for viewers to tune in, overall show quality degrades.
Remember the classic episodes like Who Shot Mr. Burns Part I and II, Trash of the Titans, Mayored to the Mob, Flamin' Moe's, Dufflessness and $pringfield? Some of them (Trash of the Titans and Flamin' Moe's) had celebrity guests (Steve Martin and Aerosmith respecively), but the overall story and humor were out of this world. Trash of the Titans happens to be my personal favorite.
The other thing is that Matt Groening is now concentrating on Futurama, so he's not doing any of the writing for The Simpsons. Bring Matt back!
Well, that's enough for me. In summary we want content over guest stars!!
What do all of you folks think of the overall direction of The Simpsons (better or worse, and why)?
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1978 - Joe Quimby reluctantly graduates from college, after his father threatens to take away his girlfriend.
I guess that Joe Quimby Sr. was a very influential man.
It makes no difference who you vote for. Either way, this planet is doomed.... DOOMED!
That said, I'm voting for Kodos.
- "Hear that?! The percolations are imminent! Cease your ingress!"
Yes, Fox is still at it! If you visit Mayor Quimby's official campaign site using Netscape under Linux, you get a nice message indicating that you're a second class citizen. Idn't that special?
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!
Of course; you haven't been reading the posts by the people who earn that money (self included, albeit not much of it) for very long, apparently. ;)
Deo
Actually if you went to the site you would have seen that it isn't real. It is political satire & I was just saying that this "Duke" is like Mayor Quimby, as in being a cartoon character running for president with funny positions. You should go see his position on education...he wants to hire one teacher for each subject and give them a TV channel, lol.
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I actually knew a guy named John Patrick Frances Xavier Quigley ... strange similiarity!
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Sounds a lot like Duke, the character from Doonesbury. And I quote, regarding the surplus, "The Republicans worry that it'll all disappear in some pork barrel social program; I worry that it will literally disappear. Vanish. If you put it in the stock market or in some bank, it's just a few bytes of memory on a computer, vulnerable to hacker-terrorists, or worse, daytraders, who can take down our economy in ten seconds of panic...I think we'd better take a good hunk of it, and put it somewhere safe. Change it into small bills, drop it in a bunch of titanium cases, and bury it in strategic sites throughout the 50 states. The feeling of security we'll have knowing that we've got real cash if we need it, will more than compensate for the lost interest."
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