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[V-Adore]

Marc Summers always impressed me because apparently his OCD was particularly focused on cleanliness, an then he ended up hosting a wide array of Nickelodeon game shows involving copious quantities of goo being flung around. The fact that he somehow got through that, a working situation that would be vile even to non-OCD types, makes me believe that he is a very, very brave man.

[pmcd9]

howie mandel was a stand-up comic in the 80s... his most famous bit involved putting a latex glove over his head and inflating it with his nose. he stopped in the early 90s after getting a brain problem.

Some might say...

~Paul

[Hobot]

OCD is a hoot and a holler!

And I would say that Nikola Tesla is also a contender for the "bad" category.  After all, he claimed to have developed a teleforce weapon, colloquially known as a death ray.

[Doc]

Hobot: Your definition of 'bad' is so very very relative.

Why is aristotle on the bad list anyway Bobby? Are we talking bad for us or bad for him?

[Bobby Isosceles]

Hobot: Your definition of 'bad' is so very very relative.

Why is aristotle on the bad list anyway Bobby? Are we talking bad for us or bad for him?

For the world.

[CortJstr]

OCD is a hoot and a holler!

And I would say that Nikola Tesla is also a contender for the "bad" category.  After all, he claimed to have developed a teleforce weapon, colloquially known as a death ray.

Hey, without him Red Alert and Red Alert 2 would have been slightly different games and potentially less fun. That's enough to call him good in my book.

Plus I think there was a tesla coil on Mythbusters one time.

[Herr Currywurst]

Hey, without him Red Alert and Red Alert 2 would have been slightly different games and potentially less fun. That's enough to call him good in my book.

Plus I think there was a tesla coil on Mythbusters one time.

We would also not have had the brilliant vignette "Jack shows Meg his Tesla Coil" in Coffee and Cigarettes.

[Emergent_C]

But wouldn't that hair metal band named after him basically just, you know, mitigate all that good?

[Hobot]

Like most people of his time, Tesla was also a fan of selective breeding and eugenics:

"[...] man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct [...]. The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal."

- quoted from the Personal Views section of Nikola Tesla's Wiki entry

[wombat]

Those were the days.

[trouserbat]

Until he's reached this level of OCD I think he's fine.

HOLY *****. That knocked my socks flat on their asses!!

[colmore]

could you post the script somewhere?

[trouserbat]

could you post the script somewhere?

Posting the list would probably be better than posting the script, having several people running a screen scraper seperately would probably chew up quite a bit of bandwidth. 

[acoxcae]

I can do both!

The list is at:  http://edgecom.homelinux.com/alttexts
and the script is http://edgecom.homelinux.com/getalt

If I get particularly ambitious, I'll make the list update daily, but odds of that happening are extremely slim, because while I like development, I don't like maintenance.

[misterqueue]

Now we need another script that randomizes that page to make poetry.


"Dave Thomas, what language? da da da by Trio is a dick"