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[jaydub]

Good bad or bad bad?

Wrong and evil, like Chucky.  Or perhaps Bjork.  Who I have an unrequited crush on.

Speaking of avatars, Jough, if yours is a picture of you from small times, you were an absolute spitting image of my best friend from 1st through 6th grades.  When I first logged onto TOUAMB I was astonished that I would reconnect with him after all these years - but it soon became apparent that you are 1) Younger than me (although perhaps not substantially) and 2) Not Australian.  I wonder if 38-year old Stephen Cross looks at all like you.

[hammish]

Wrong and evil, like Chucky.  Or perhaps Bjork.  Who I have an unrequited crush on.

Yessssssssss

:: does the clenched fist draw back/pump thing with eyes closed in awe of my own coolness ::

[jough]

Bad is the new good bad.

[dejavroom]

This has nothing to do with the current conversation, but David Foster Wallace is a professor at my college. Unfortunately, I've never seen him walking around or talked to him.

A can for you, sir, me envy you long time. Also, you can find what he looks like when he talks on the 'tubes. Google video has him on Charlie Rose, and I find him very endearing speaking, all cringing because the words he speaks do not match the world in his head.

And as for the Sgt. Peppers thing, for what I gathered from old people around here looks like it depends on the model of the record player? Apparently only those w/out automatic something would keep spinning forever?

[chuanoplast]

I know where David Foster Wallace's office is, so if anyone has a message for him, I'll slip it under his door and run for my life before he sees me.

[theinevitable]

I checked on wikipedia: apparently non-us copies had a cut in the groove so it would re-play that one groove forever.
awesome.

[dejavroom]

I know where David Foster Wallace's office is, so if anyone has a message for him, I'll slip it under his door and run for my life before he sees me.

Haha, that would put his little gears a-whirring, wouldn't it? "Do I dare disturb the Universe?" Don't tempt me.

But really, I might try to think of something... something of course very clean and nice with maybe a twist of surrealism, like "there are people from brazil watching you" or something ^^.

[AugustWest]

TOUAMBIE Category: Best use of formatting to drive home the joke.

Aw shucks, that's low lying fruit.

[Victoria Waterfield]

I checked on wikipedia: apparently non-us copies had a cut in the groove so it would re-play that one groove forever.
awesome.

Not quite - all records have a run-out groove, the circular part of the groove at the end of the record where the stylus will keep circling unless your record player has an automatic tonearm return. On the British record, the run-out groove had that collage of sound recorded in it, so it would constantly repeat until you took the record off your record player. The US version simply had a silent run-out groove, like any other record.

The other difference between the two versions is that, just before the run-out groove, at the end of the spiral, there's a high-pitched, almost inaudible tone on the UK version which isn't there on the US version. John Lennon wanted it there to drive dogs crazy.

[theinevitable]

ah, I didn't realize it was on the run-out groove. That is clever.

[RMJ12345]

Sadly, the only fibrous item I've ever discovered that can actually stop my brain from churning renders me useless for anything other than listening to Pink Floyd for the rest of the day, is illegal and is mostly out of my current budget range.

I have much the same problem as LFM in Real Life. That thing he is alluding to there is pretty much the only reason my relationship is as functional as it is. Actually, that's pretty much what taught me to stop analyzing all the freaking time and just enjoy shit. Also, booze.

[theinevitable]

damn, I need that. To what are you referring? I'm looking up what is strong in fiber... beans? Do you mean beans?

[pmcd9]

damn, I need that. To what are you referring? I'm looking up what is strong in fiber... beans? Do you mean beans?

So innocent.  They are talking about marijuana.

[theinevitable]

damn, I was really hoping that beans would solve all of my awkward-white-boy problems.

[Bobby Isosceles]

damn, I was really hoping that beans would solve all of my awkward-white-boy problems.

They are the magical fruit.