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posted by Astro Zombie at 3:19 PM on January 14, 2007


Skip to the 57756 thread!!!!!!!
posted by mss at 3:19 PM on January 14, 2007


Skip to my lou
posted by Eekacat at 3:21 PM on January 14, 2007


This must have been on digg or something.
posted by bob sarabia at 3:23 PM on January 14, 2007


wow
posted by Afreemind2007 at 3:24 PM on January 14, 2007


skip to "this post deleted because..."
posted by nanojath at 3:25 PM on January 14, 2007


It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
posted by foot at 3:27 PM on January 14, 2007


You owe me seven minutes and fifteen seconds of my life back.
posted by Dizzy at 3:27 PM on January 14, 2007


This must have been on digg or something.

I saw it on Boing Boing yesterday.
posted by GavinR at 3:28 PM on January 14, 2007


Am I the only one who thinks there are just some things that that we as a society need to forget? Anything on a video hosting site from the 80s should just be deleted.
posted by jeffamaphone at 3:29 PM on January 14, 2007


Huh, seems pretty cracked out right from the beginning.
posted by delmoi at 3:29 PM on January 14, 2007


It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

You have to wonder how people discover stuff like that.
posted by chrismear at 3:30 PM on January 14, 2007


My God, Dizzy, did you actually WATCH the first 7 minutes?
posted by nanojath at 3:31 PM on January 14, 2007


Did the search feature break or something? Or what about scrolling down a couple posts...
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 3:31 PM on January 14, 2007


Metafilter: I saw it on Boing Boing yesterday.
posted by vaportrail at 3:33 PM on January 14, 2007 [2 favorites]


Wow.
posted by delmoi at 3:36 PM on January 14, 2007


Plo chops!
posted by sharpener at 3:39 PM on January 14, 2007


I'm not watching that.
posted by greasy_skillet at 3:41 PM on January 14, 2007


You have to wonder how people discover stuff like that.

You've head the thing about the infinite number of monkeys banging on typewriters? Well, in this case, it's the infinite numbers of shut-ins reading the Bible over and over again...
posted by frogan at 3:47 PM on January 14, 2007


This was linked from the word "Coprophilia".

True story.
posted by basicchannel at 3:47 PM on January 14, 2007


deja wish I didn't vu...
posted by Busithoth at 3:48 PM on January 14, 2007


I'm skeeeeeered!

Make the bad 1980s people go away!
posted by miss lynnster at 3:48 PM on January 14, 2007


well, tie me up and call me Shirley.
posted by MonkeySaltedNuts at 3:50 PM on January 14, 2007


Roger that, Shirley
posted by Razzle Bathbone at 3:53 PM on January 14, 2007


Oh my fucking god.
posted by geekhorde at 3:53 PM on January 14, 2007


So that'll be two deleted FPPs in a row. Third time's the charm, no?

I wonder what it'll be. Maybe a "OMG Goatse" thing, just to blow our collective mind. Or maybe some cats in a scanner. We can live in hope.
posted by TheDonF at 3:54 PM on January 14, 2007


Skip Bo
posted by cortex at 3:54 PM on January 14, 2007


skippy the bush kangaroo
posted by pyramid termite at 3:56 PM on January 14, 2007


Is this something I'd have to have lived through the eighties to understand? And further, am I to understand that the Mission Impossible theme predated the movie?
posted by jacalata at 3:57 PM on January 14, 2007


Jacalata: Mission: Impossible was a TV show first, in the 1960's I believe.
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 3:59 PM on January 14, 2007


nanojath---
...until Ms. Freaky started with the Musical Tourette's, I thought her oversized Viva-styled Pola-Ray glasses coupled with that buttoned-up "Working Girl" Power Suit was sorta sassy.
Add some sensible lip-gloss, a carton of Verry Berry Creme Yoplait and the May '86 "Cosmo", plop her down in a Sharper Image outlet at the BurbanAcres Mall on her lunch hour;
Voila!
I gotsa chubby!
posted by Dizzy at 4:01 PM on January 14, 2007


yes, it was on cbs in the late 60s and early 70s
posted by pyramid termite at 4:02 PM on January 14, 2007


I would just like to cpntribute to the geniality of this discussion by saying "smock."

Smock. Smock. Smock.
posted by moonbird at 4:03 PM on January 14, 2007


But I don't WANT to be reexposed to the Eighties...
posted by konolia at 4:05 PM on January 14, 2007


? ummm.... skip this post all together.
posted by petersn1 at 4:05 PM on January 14, 2007


I'd like to take this opportunity to point out how cool it is that you can skip around in Google Videos and it just starts downloading from there instead of forcing you to prebuffer all the stuff you don't want to watch. That feature needs to end up in YouTube.
posted by Partial Law at 4:06 PM on January 14, 2007


Doubly painful.
posted by bluedaniel at 4:10 PM on January 14, 2007


Perfect Date:
I'd like to buy her a coupla Bartles & Jaymes TropicalPassiofruitMedleys, play my bootleg 12" clubmix of "Seven and the Ragged Tiger", and show her my Ralph McQuarrie "Art of Empire" Portfolio in it's Deluxe Foil Slipcase.
After enjoying some SaraLeeFrenchBreadGourmetPizzaBites, we'd head down to the SEGA Arcade for some Centipede, stopping by TCBY on the way home...
Later?
I'll never tell.



(Ok, I jerk off, in shame, to some Donna Dixon look-alike pictorial in Club magazine.)
No one will see this, right?
posted by Dizzy at 4:13 PM on January 14, 2007


Last Post!
posted by Balisong at 4:14 PM on January 14, 2007


I skipped to the 6:59 mark, and it was so totally worth it.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 4:25 PM on January 14, 2007


Was that Bob Saget? Also it looked like there was something sexual going on between him and crazy rapping lady. Did this actually encourage people to use windows in the 80s? I am so confused.
posted by weretable and the undead chairs at 4:29 PM on January 14, 2007


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posted by Frank Grimes at 4:34 PM on January 14, 2007


Everyone's missing the key point that this was a video designed to promote Windows/386 to the people who were going to sell Windows/386. Hence the closing scene.
posted by chrismear at 4:36 PM on January 14, 2007


The use not of the "Mission: Impossible" theme music but of the underscoring from the original show made this video for me. It's like hearing the fight-scene music from Original Star Trek decontextualized, as I believe it was in an early "Simpsons" episode.

So, to recap: the music. And a rappin' flow on that '80s Foxx that makes Debbie Harry sound like Sarah Jones.
posted by the sobsister at 4:36 PM on January 14, 2007


windows does it again ... matt can't close this thread
posted by pyramid termite at 4:38 PM on January 14, 2007


am I to understand that the Mission Impossible theme predated the movie?

Oh dear lord. People are starting to forget that MI was a TV show first? I am feeling so old right now...and I wasn't even alive when the original aired!
posted by redbeard at 4:41 PM on January 14, 2007


do you actually read the FPP's on MetaFilter or are you too busy searching the deep regions of the internet
posted by Holy foxy moxie batman! at 4:42 PM on January 14, 2007


MetaFilter: Busy Searching the Deep Regions
posted by loquacious at 5:20 PM on January 14, 2007


redbeard---
'tis sad but true:
there are two kinds of people--
those born B.S.W. (Before Star Wars)
and those born A.S.W. (After Star Wars).
The rest is but commentary.
posted by Dizzy at 5:22 PM on January 14, 2007


Crazy Rapping Lady's entry on IMDB.

Alas, none exists on allmusic, unless she went under a musical nom de plume.
posted by Flunkie at 5:23 PM on January 14, 2007


That's pretty harsh when that guy asks her out and she says "I have other plans... I hope."
posted by banished at 5:24 PM on January 14, 2007


banished
That's pretty harsh when that guy asks her out and she says "I have other plans... I hope."
I interpreted that to mean "Assuming I can get this crazy project done in time. Save me, Windows 386!"

But yeah, it's at best ambiguous, between that and "Wow, that's one cold bitch."

I guess I just have a soft spot for Crazy Rapping Lady, and would like to give her the benefit of the doubt.
posted by Flunkie at 5:27 PM on January 14, 2007


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