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Timmy O'Riley By L. Hadron and the Colliders

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shameless-self-promotion dept.

Making music has never been quite this awesome! Using only ThinkGeek products (Bliptronic 5000, Guitar Shirt, Drumkit Shirt, Stylophone, and Otamatone Electronic Instrument) the ultra-geeks over at ThinkGeek have created this ultra-cool cover of The Who's Baba O'Reilly. This also qualifies as a full blown shameless plug since ThinkGeek shares a corporate overlord with Slashdot.

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  1. AWESOME by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now order all their stuff. ALL OF IT !!!!!

  2. Re:Idle by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Perhaps you got lucky and the part where they beat "ThinkGeek shares a corporate overlord with Slashdot" into your head completely missed your skull.

  3. Shameless plug? by oodaloop · · Score: 4, Funny

    One man's shameless plug is another man's conflict of interest.

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    1. Re:Shameless plug? by toastar · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'd like to meet this One Man fellow, He seems involved in everything

    2. Re:Shameless plug? by b4dc0d3r · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I work with a guy who bought the guitar shirt, so I can amend your statement to be

      One man's shameless plug is another man's conflict of interest, is also another man's coworker's inspiration for being more retarded than he usually is.

      Here's how the internet works. You can choose not to click on some links - it's not like Pokemon. Or Garbage Pail Kids. It's pretty clearly labeled...

    3. Re:Shameless plug? by Chris+Burke · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Yeah well another man is an idiot.

      "Conflict of interest" is when you're a Judge, with a duty to administer impartial justice, but you have a material or personal investment in seeing a particular outcome. Or any similar case where official and personal interests conflict. That's what it means.

      Slashdot's official interest is to make money for itself and its parent company. Slashdot is not a civil servant. Whatever duty to impartiality you imagine Slashdot has is simply that -- your imagination. But in reality, Slashdot has never been impartial, and barely ever tried to appear as such.

      In short, shameless plugs are not a conflict of interest, they are entirely within Slashdot's interests. At least they are upfront about it.

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    4. Re:Shameless plug? by sconeu · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, Noman is an island.

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  4. Re:Idle by Dunderflute · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, yes it did.

  5. Awesome! by Altus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    All it lacks is a witty one liner by someone who is putting on a pair of sunglasses!

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    1. Re:Awesome! by Arthur+Grumbine · · Score: 5, Funny

      David Caruso: In order to solve this rape of The Who, we're gonna have to learn to act, talk, and even think... *puts on sunglasses* ... "geek".

      YEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!

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  6. Re:This is gonna be big guys by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your meme hasn't truly gone viral until the WHO (the health guys, not the band) has issued an unnecessarily alarming pandemic alert that causes politicians around the world to go crazy and buy huge amounts of untested vaccine.

  7. Thought I had ads turned off... by garethw · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Meh.

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  8. Saw this on Hwil Hwheaton's blog by Pojut · · Score: 3, Informative

    He talked about it early this morning.

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  9. BMI Clearance by KnowlerLongcloak · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wonder if they purchased performance rights through BMI. If not, will the RIAA come down hard on ThinkGeek?

  10. Re:Idle by Arthur+Grumbine · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is stupid, and not surprisingly NOT news.

    Wait, so it is , surprisingly, news?

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