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    Comparison-Shop Your Teenage Vampires: Twilight vs. Nightlight

    Girl Stalks Fake Vampire in Harvard Lampoon's Twilight Spoof

    "Night" Lights Illuminate From Above
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    11/29/09

    In reply to Comparison-Shop Your Teenage Vampires: Twilight vs. Nightlight
    So Harvard Lampoon is parodying a parody.
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    11/29/09

    In reply to Comparison-Shop Your Teenage Vampires: Twilight vs. Nightlight
    i wish io9 would stop covering twilight as its not sci-fi or urban whatever. cant jesebell cover it instead?
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    Image of Guang Guang
    11/29/09

    @GreyHammer: I disagree. How else would I know to avoid Twilight like the plague?
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    GreyHammer promoted this comment Edited by Guang at 11/29/09 3:14 PM Guang was starred Guang was unstarred
    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    11/30/09

    @Guang: i mean its pretty obvious. giving it exposure on a site like this does nothing but feed the evil.
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    Image of veeerules veeerules
    11/30/09

    @GreyHammer: So, only well-written monsters can be SF?
    I kind of like the different perspectives of Twi-hating from io9 and Jezebel. The comments are equally smart-ass and informative, but all the io9ers have read good books about paranormal entities and their relationships.
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    Image of MOP88 MOP88
    11/29/09

    In reply to Comparison-Shop Your Teenage Vampires: Twilight vs. Nightlight
    Beseech. I need to use that more often.
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    Image of CSX321 CSX321
    11/29/09

    @MOP88: Please do, I pray thee.
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    Edited by CSX321 at 11/29/09 1:16 PM CSX321 was starred CSX321 was unstarred
    Image of psychiccheese psychiccheese
    11/30/09

    @MOP88: "Why?" I query.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/04/09

    In reply to Girl Stalks Fake Vampire in Harvard Lampoon's Twilight Spoof
    I really liked DOON and loved "Bored of the Rings" (rereading the originals, I often think of the parody names), but since I've avoided this Twilight crap, I'll skip this one since I won't get the jokes.

    Maybe pick it up in paperback for the laughs at the deliberately-bad prose; some of the lines in this excerpt are pretty funny. #nightlight
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    11/04/09

    In reply to Girl Stalks Fake Vampire in Harvard Lampoon's Twilight Spoof
    soon there will be a nat.lampoon movie version i am sure. #nightlight
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    Image of atrus123 atrus123
    11/04/09

    In reply to Girl Stalks Fake Vampire in Harvard Lampoon's Twilight Spoof
    Hmm... I'm somewhat interested in reading this, but I barely know anything at all about the source material, so I don't know if many jokes will hit home. I'm also not even remotely interested in reading Twilight... maybe watching the movie would be enough. #nightlight
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    Image of booleanFTW booleanFTW
    11/04/09

    @atrus123: I've never read Twilight nor do I ever plan to, but this book has caught my eye too.
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    Image of Invisible Circus Invisible Circus
    11/05/09

    @atrus123: if you watch the movie, the book won't be any funnier because the movie in it of itself is a joke #nightlight
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    11/04/09

    In reply to Girl Stalks Fake Vampire in Harvard Lampoon's Twilight Spoof
    I have the same problem with this idea that I had with that Da Vinci Code parody that someone did a while ago.

    A parody of bad style is funny, yes, but it's also bad style. After about ten pages, when the joke's grown cold, you're basically just reading another shitty novel. #nightlight
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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    11/04/09

    In reply to Girl Stalks Fake Vampire in Harvard Lampoon's Twilight Spoof
    I think Cracked had a better parody going:

    [www.cracked.com]

    Granted it's only a parody of a couple scenes from Twilight rather than the entire book, but it has dragons! And Fisting! #nightlight
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    11/04/09

    In reply to Girl Stalks Fake Vampire in Harvard Lampoon's Twilight Spoof

    You're forgetting "Doon," published in 1984.

    Sadly, Harvard Lampoon's stuff has gone down considerably in quality since then. #nightlight
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    Image of BigTiki BigTiki
    11/04/09

    @bluehinter: He who pours without foam! #nightlight
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    11/04/09

    @bluehinter: Arruckus -- men call it Doon, the Dessert Planet. It is a sugar covered wasteland entirely devoid of entrees, patrolled by a terrifying species of giant pretzel. This savage world is the setting for an apocalyptic drama. On one side is the evil baron Vladimir Hardchargin -- ruthless, voracious, extremely fat. Opposing him: Pall Agamemnides, the teenager who may {or may not} be the messiah, the Kumquat Haagendasz. Pall's only allies are the planet's nomadic tribes, the fiercely religious, sweatsuit-wearing Freedmenmen. These forces clash in a deadly contest over Doon's one precious resource, a substance found nowhere else in the universe: the mind-altering liquid known as BEER. #nightlight
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/04/09

    @LittleDragon: My friends and I still refer to things/people we've forgotten or can't pronounce the name of as "Kumquat Haagendaz". #nightlight
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    11/04/09

    In reply to Girl Stalks Fake Vampire in Harvard Lampoon's Twilight Spoof
    I read Bored of the Rings, it wasn't that bad. #nightlight
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/04/09

    @ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.: I still call the elf Leg o' lamb and my wife has no idea why.

    I don't know that this will do well. I think you have to know the source material to enjoy satire and I think the venn diagram of people who would appriciate this and those that like Twilight don't intersect much. Bored of the rings is another story. Geeks have been dissecting and poking fun at what they love for generations. #nightlight
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    11/04/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: My dad still does that too. Clearly, I'm a 2nd generation geek. #nightlight
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/04/09

    @MargaretMoony: Thanks for making me feel old, whippersnapper. #nightlight
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    11/04/09

    @ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.: Ah, yes... Goodgulf and Dildo... #nightlight
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    11/04/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: No prob, Pops. #nightlight
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    11/04/09

    @MargaretMoony: I found it on my dad's bookshelf. Frito bugger. #nightlight
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/04/09

    @Chip Overclock: Farahslax! #nightlight
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    Image of Davio Davio
    11/04/09

    In reply to Girl Stalks Fake Vampire in Harvard Lampoon's Twilight Spoof
    Well, I'm buying that for my twilight obsessed sister for christmas. #nightlight
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    11/04/09

    @Davio: DON'T TELL HER IT'S A PARODY! Report the findings of your study to us. #nightlight
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    Image of Davio Davio
    11/04/09

    @ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.: This could actually be rather interesting... #nightlight
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    11/04/09

    @Davio: It's what I'd do in that situation. SCIENCE! needs you. #nightlight
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    11/04/09

    @ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.: I'm going to do that with two of my friends who love Twilight. #nightlight
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    11/04/09

    In reply to Girl Stalks Fake Vampire in Harvard Lampoon's Twilight Spoof
    "Imagine if you took every woman's idea of a hot guy and averaged it out into one man. This was that man."

    Hee! I read that line in Movie Trailer guy voice. #nightlight
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    Image of Tre-Zombie Tre-Zombie
    11/04/09

    In reply to Girl Stalks Fake Vampire in Harvard Lampoon's Twilight Spoof
    i eat books. #nightlight
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    11/04/09

    @Tre-Zombie: There not just for breakfast anymore! #nightlight
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/04/09

    In reply to Girl Stalks Fake Vampire in Harvard Lampoon's Twilight Spoof
    But was he grizzly? Grizzly and... tough? #nightlight
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    11/04/09

    In reply to Girl Stalks Fake Vampire in Harvard Lampoon's Twilight Spoof
    Oh Please tell me this is at Borders already. It is. It is.

    Bad Dragon, no book.

    Hi. My name is LittleDragon and I am a bookaholic.
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    Edited by LittleDragon at 11/04/09 9:42 AM LittleDragon was starred LittleDragon was unstarred
    Image of acrobatic rabbit acrobatic rabbit
    11/04/09

    @LittleDragon: come to the dark side Dragon. You can smell it... the smell of crisp paper, of leatherbound beasts of literary burden, and the sweet sultry sound of spines cracking upon opening a fresh new book. Join ussssssss #nightlight
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/04/09

    @acrobatic rabbit: BOOK ARE GOOD #nightlight
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    11/04/09

    @acrobatic rabbit: Whoa. Book porn! #nightlight
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    11/04/09

    @crashedpc - Haifisch: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...! #nightlight
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