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    Lex Luthor Needs A Billion Dollar Bailout

    Will The Recession Make Hollywood Epics Even More Depressing?

    Second Life Foresaw the US Banking Crisis

    The Economy Is To Blame For More Knight Rider

    Wall Street Undead Feast On New Yorkers' Brains

    Darwinian Stock Market Tanks With The Real One

    Law And Torture In Battlestar Galactica
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    Image of miss_so_unknown miss_so_unknown
    03/11/09

    In reply to Lex Luthor Needs A Billion Dollar Bailout
    That bailout plea is as convincing as the real ones being presented right now. (I wonder if Lex used his personal videographer to record that tape.)
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    03/11/09

    In reply to Lex Luthor Needs A Billion Dollar Bailout
    Superman is a Super Dick.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/11/09

    In reply to Lex Luthor Needs A Billion Dollar Bailout
    With all the money he saves on haircuts the guy should be swimming in loot...
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    03/11/09

    In reply to Lex Luthor Needs A Billion Dollar Bailout
    The only thing that sucks about The Dark Knight being so good and successful is that it won't lead to yet another reboot where they could cast this man as Bruce Wayne.
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    03/11/09

    @Garrison Dean:


    Don't think I....can handle...teh sexy...


    /head aspode

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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    03/11/09

    In reply to Lex Luthor Needs A Billion Dollar Bailout
    I LOVE JON HAMM!!!!!!!! and this has increased my love for him exponentially.


    I hate that there's so much time between seasons of Mad Men :: is this going to be forever???

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    Image of Gore-n-Bash Gore-n-Bash
    03/11/09

    @BeccaSaurus Rex: Is he done on 30 Rock too? He wasn't on last week's episode and he was missed. Him and his hair. It's comforting that the bald cap was so bad in this video because it lets you know the real mesmorizing hair is still there underneath.
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    03/11/09

    @Gore-n-Bash:

    Those 30 Rock episodes were my equivalent of watching porn.
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    03/11/09

    @Evlsushi: is it wrong that when Liz accidentally drugged him, my knee jerk reaction was, "Why didn't I think of that?"


    *eye twitch*.

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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    03/11/09

    @BeccaSaurus Rex:

    You get a heart for that.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/11/09

    @BeccaSaurus Rex: "I LOVE JON HAMM!!!!!!!!"


    I love Jon Hamm's John Ham


    "And remember the Jon Hamm's John Ham motto, if it feels like a piece of ham, don't wipe your a$$ with it."


    [www.hulu.com]

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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    03/11/09

    In reply to Lex Luthor Needs A Billion Dollar Bailout
    Oh Jon Hamm, there is almost too much to love in this.
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    03/11/09

    @Evlsushi: This combines everything I love into one video.
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    Image of salthegeek salthegeek
    03/11/09

    In reply to Lex Luthor Needs A Billion Dollar Bailout
    One of the problems I have with Superman is the Luthor Paradox.

    one of these days he's going to break down and give up

    and just say FUCK IT

    he's a man of science he should know that after a cretin while an experiment becomes invalid

    and the "trying to kill Superman " experiment is long invalid
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    03/11/09

    @salthegeek: Wouldn't Luthor have been reinvigorated by the example of Doomsday?
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    Image of Andrew Liptak Andrew Liptak
    03/11/09

    In reply to Lex Luthor Needs A Billion Dollar Bailout
    Ahahaha. Brilliant.
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    03/11/09

    In reply to Lex Luthor Needs A Billion Dollar Bailout
    LOL! Superman reverses the national debt.
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    03/11/09

    In reply to Lex Luthor Needs A Billion Dollar Bailout
    "I'm getting older and... and he isn't, and that's why I need to put your tax dollars to work."
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    03/11/09

    @Rasselas: Morrison should write for FunnyOrDie. It'd be surrealist, but still awesome.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    12/17/08

    In reply to Will The Recession Make Hollywood Epics Even More Depressing?
    Say it with me again, folks:


    "POST-APOCALYPTIC literature is not DYSTOPIAN literature."


    It's the Io9 motto for 2009. Happy New Years!

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    12/17/08

    In reply to Will The Recession Make Hollywood Epics Even More Depressing?
    Keep Zac Efron out of everything, please. We need more book reading samurai.
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    12/17/08

    @crashedpc:

    Correction, the whole world needs more book reading samurai.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    12/17/08

    @Belabras: I stand corrected. Tip of the hat to you, sir.
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    Image of YourTechSupport YourTechSupport
    11/24/08

    In reply to Second Life Foresaw the US Banking Crisis
    Yep. Good old unregulated money markets. Anyone who didn't see it as a thinly-veiled pyramid scheme deserved to have their play monies taken from them. Like 419 victims, it's hard to feel sorry for them.


    "Hey! You should put your Lindens in this here bank." alot of my slower witted (but cute) friends said.

    I tried to explain. I even put on my Captain Obvious suit, but they didn't listen.


    Months later when Ginko folded, I whapped them upside the head with a flippy pink appendage attachment and said "Told you so, dumbass!"


    It used to be a sucker was born every minute. I think now it's more like 15 seconds.

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    Image of Gann Gann
    11/24/08

    @YourTechSupport:


    There's over 6,000,000,000 people in the world.


    The world birth rate is around 20 births per 1000 people per year, which gives us 120,000,000 births a year, or 328,767 births per day, 13,699 births an hour, 228 births a minute.


    A very generous estimate would say that there are 227 suckers born every minute.

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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    11/24/08

    @YourTechSupport:


    The suckers are from all sides of the political spectrum, too. Social Security is a pyramid scheme, for example.

    -Kle.

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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    11/24/08

    @Klebert L. Hall:

    But won't collapse till 2045 unlike say Citibank which fell apart in less than a week.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/24/08

    @ManchuCandidate: you're assuming the currency won't be worthless by 2045 which isn't necessarily a given. it is fundamentally harder for the currency to fail than an individual bank to fail simply due to the scales at issue so SS has that going for it, i guess.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/24/08

    @tetracycloide: how could i have forgotten to mention that participation in SS is also compulsory by threat of incarceration. if everyone in the nation were required to invest a portion of their income in citibank i'm sure they'd have been solvent for a while longer too.
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    11/24/08

    In reply to Second Life Foresaw the US Banking Crisis
    The 2nd Life crisis was pretty funny at the time--a whole economic system based on the principles of Libertarianism sliding quickly into the shitter.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/24/08

    @ManchuCandidate: your definition of 'principles of libertarianism' could use additional research.
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    11/24/08

    @tetracycloide:

    Depends on your views of what Libertarianism means. If I had to offer a serious one, it would be the one as pushed hard by the Club for Growth and Grover Norquist.


    Individual Liberty via Limited Regulations? Check

    Reliance on Free Markets aka Blind Faith in the Invisible Hand not ass raping society? Check.

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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/24/08

    @ManchuCandidate: most mechanisms of significance in second life have been regulated by the laws that exist in the real world. second life does not exist in a vacumn and therefor does not stand up to scrutiny as an accurate model of limited regulations or reliance on free markets.
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    11/24/08

    In reply to Second Life Foresaw the US Banking Crisis
    I foresaw this economic downturn when G.W. Bush was elected in 2000.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    11/24/08

    @reddingofish: I saw it happening before then.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/24/08

    @reddingofish: yes, that's the answer to all our problems. if we never vote for a rebublican again the credit crisis will never return.


    it's a cycle, it will happen again, and who is president when it happens certainly won't make much difference. it never really has.

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