The Big What?

November 23, 2004 10:19 AM

An odd category for this DVD. I was searching for a favorite film of mine, The Hebrew Hammer, when I noticed that Overstock.com had filed it under the wrong category. This made me chuckle and I hope it makes you smile too. Happy two days before thanksgiving everyone!
posted by aj100 (47 comments total)

Heh.
posted by cortex at 10:26 AM on November 23, 2004

The link works for me, you irrational citrus!
posted by cortex at 10:27 AM on November 23, 2004

Works for me. It much like me better.

One time I was flipping through the channels and "Live at the Knitting Factory" was categorized as "Sewing." Oh, if only.
posted by Sticherbeast at 10:31 AM on November 23, 2004

FYI: antepenultimate
posted by nomad at 10:34 AM on November 23, 2004

Cute.

(But it is actually in the right category. Overstock is just searching the categories list for your search terms, as well as the products. If you search for "anything Hammer" you get the same result. They should put a dividing lines between the two sections of results.)
posted by smackfu at 10:38 AM on November 23, 2004

I was in a Blockbuster once that had "Jesus Christ Superstar" shelved in comedy and "The Odd Couple" shelved in drama.

For that and many other reasons, I don't step a foot into Blockbuster.
posted by Robot Johnny at 10:39 AM on November 23, 2004

Sigh, someone posted this as a FPP to here and unfortunately the link worked for me.

[this is so trivial]
posted by DBAPaul at 10:42 AM on November 23, 2004

Great FPP. Seriously. Totally off the charts.
posted by xmutex at 10:47 AM on November 23, 2004

When all you have is a hammer...
posted by Sidhedevil at 10:48 AM on November 23, 2004

I think it was the Hebrew Hammer that killed 10,000 chickens in Israel.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 10:51 AM on November 23, 2004

Jesus, I shoulda known one of those damn newbies would do someth...

Hm? What's that? 7733 you say? Oh, uh....

never mind.
posted by soyjoy at 10:52 AM on November 23, 2004

I wonder where they file anal massage?
posted by drezdn at 10:53 AM on November 23, 2004

I don't WANT to be exposed to anus!
posted by matteo at 11:01 AM on November 23, 2004

Please, Hammer, don't hurt him!
posted by wendell at 11:04 AM on November 23, 2004

This is going to be the funniest week ever.
posted by Yelling At Nothing at 11:09 AM on November 23, 2004

soyjoy, that was my first thought, too. Alas, no.
posted by davidmsc at 11:09 AM on November 23, 2004

Nyuck!! Nyuck!!

Woo!!-Wooo!!!
posted by Balisong at 11:18 AM on November 23, 2004

Terrible FPP, but man! The Hebrew Hammer! That's is a fucking hysterical movie. Not perfect, but still hysterical. Everyone should see it. I'm pleased it's on DVD. We saw it at a Jewish film festival and have a copy due to the illegal luck of knowing the guy who was holding onto the screener tape. Er, forget I said that.

Shabbat shalom, motherfuckers!
posted by livii at 11:26 AM on November 23, 2004

This post was deleted for the following reason: um.
posted by Quinbus Flestrin at 11:40 AM on November 23, 2004

This post was deleted for the following reason: oy.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 11:46 AM on November 23, 2004

I don't understand. You mean I can't use this DVD as a home & garden tool?
posted by mcstayinskool at 11:49 AM on November 23, 2004

Coming up on FPP - pictures of my kitties!

/shakes head... *sigh*
posted by chime at 11:57 AM on November 23, 2004

I think it's totally unfair to discuss the Hebrew Hammer without also mentioning the dozens of Palestinian DVDs that have been mis-shelved on overstock.com.
posted by gwint at 12:09 PM on November 23, 2004

... not to mention the fact that no one seems able to find the Osama bin Laden DVD...
posted by mkultra at 12:11 PM on November 23, 2004

Hebrew hammer?
posted by Hlewagast at 12:32 PM on November 23, 2004

This reminds me of the time I put SYRUP in the FRIDGE! Oh man, you should have been there.
posted by tpl1212 at 12:33 PM on November 23, 2004

Standing by for deletion in 5....4....3....

.... wait: it's still here. Huh.
posted by lodurr at 12:43 PM on November 23, 2004

I don't understand. You mean I can't use this DVD as a home & garden tool

string up cds/dvds to scare off birds. used to do it to protect my blackberries. i had a couple dozen aol cds on a long string, the breeze made the shiny side flash and birds were wary.
posted by bargle at 1:04 PM on November 23, 2004

You

cortex, Stitcherbeast, nomad, smackfu, Robot Johnny, DBAPaul, xmutex, Sidhedevil, mr_crash_davis, soyjoy, drezdn, matteo, Wendell, Yelling at Nothing, davidmsc, Balisong, livii, Quinbus Flestrin, mctayinskool, chime, gwint, mkultra, Hlewagast, tpl1212, lodurr, bargle...

should be ashamed of yourselves...

for even commenting on this FPP. Couldn't you have just let it die?

P.S. I wrote a script that compiles the names of everyone who posts in a thread. No really, I did.
posted by mic stand at 1:14 PM on November 23, 2004

Help Wanted:

Code writer for quick assignment. Contact me for details.
posted by mic stand at 1:15 PM on November 23, 2004

POH-TAY-TOES!
posted by naxosaxur at 1:16 PM on November 23, 2004

PAN-KAKES!
posted by shawnj at 1:24 PM on November 23, 2004

You...
should be ashamed of yourselves...

Lighten up, Francis.
posted by lodurr at 1:32 PM on November 23, 2004

FRANCIS! FRANCIS! Are you some childhood foe haunting me? The only thing worse you could have called me would have been Neal...and I'm sure glad THAT didn't happen.

btw, how did you do it, really!
posted by mic stand at 1:37 PM on November 23, 2004

How could I let it die? It's the fucking Hebrew Hammer!

...really, I'm not joking - see this movie. It totally freaking rocks.

(Normally I wouldn't do this all over a thread, but I assume it's being deleted as soon as Matt sees it, so, y'know.)
posted by livii at 1:43 PM on November 23, 2004

underwhelmed isn't the right word.

bit noisy 'round here eh?
posted by moonbird at 1:47 PM on November 23, 2004

PAN-KAKES!

That's PAN-KIKES, you insensitive clod.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 2:07 PM on November 23, 2004

LOLOLololoLoloLOLOl

poor-quality lexical data mining is so ROFOLarious!

H-to-the-E-to-the-BREW! Thas right yo!

HUH!
posted by scarabic at 2:18 PM on November 23, 2004

This post was not deleted for the following reason: Fuck Ryvar.
posted by soyjoy at 2:19 PM on November 23, 2004

Look for your Real People t-shirt in the mail.
posted by HifiToaster at 2:20 PM on November 23, 2004

Trust me, I know what I'm doing.
posted by notsnot at 2:35 PM on November 23, 2004

notsnot wins!
posted by lodurr at 3:07 PM on November 23, 2004

Hlewagast's link:
http://www.cnn.com/US/9908/31/ny.police.shooting.02/

Police say man with hammer attacked officers

August 31, 1999
Web posted at: 10:33 a.m. EDT (1433 GMT)

NEW YORK (CNN) -- There's new outrage over police conduct in New York after officers say they shot and killed a man -- described by his family as emotionally disturbed -- who attacked a sergeant with a hammer.

Monday night's shooting in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn -- a close-knit Orthodox Jewish neighborhood -- brought hundreds of protesters out onto the street. [...]

Very interesting. Around here cops shoot Black men who aren't shooting back several times a year; 2003's incident involved a guy who had his hands cuffed behind him but still (the two cops said) managed to scare them with a box cutter so bad they shot him 12 times from two feet away. It's getting so most people (this city is 70% white) seem willing to give the cops carte blache to shoot anybody for anything just so they never have to hear/see another news article about subsequent protests. But if the cops ever shot a Jew under questionable circumstances I think the reaction would be stunned disbelief -- people would check to see if the reporter meant "Black Hebrew" instead; the few hundred Jews we have here are suburban, centrist, solid citizens one almost never hears anything about, and I don't think there's an Orthodox or even Conservative shul within the old city limits. (We had a City/County merger recently that I'm still not used to.)

But anyway. I'm not sure what I mean by this post except to show Hlewagast that somebody paid attention.

By the way, maybe somebody will post to metatalk explaining how to do that "more inside" thing.
posted by davy at 3:12 PM on November 23, 2004

-------------Breaking in with this special News Report from I- Witness Snooze Team--------------------------

John, here at Overstock it is utter chaos. I have never seen anything like it! They've stocked the "Hebrew Hammer" in with the hammer dept, "Tales of the Taliban" in the deodorant section and "After the Rapture" in the Eminem section. There are unconfirmed rumors that there is Uranium in with the Geraniums, in which case we are very, very scared. Back to you, John.
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 4:03 PM on November 23, 2004

hehe
posted by euphorb at 8:26 PM on November 23, 2004

In our local Yellow Pages is the headline:
"Drilling Engineers".

It then says:
"See under 'Boring' "

Well, I thought it was funny!
posted by JtJ at 4:26 AM on November 24, 2004

In our local Yellow Pages is the headline:
"Drilling Engineers".

It then says:
"See under 'Boring' "

Now that's just getting personal - what did I ever do to these people? Bastards!
posted by thatwhichfalls at 5:39 AM on November 24, 2004