I know you guys might be seeing this on a lot of FF profiles today; but I want to give *everyone* a chance to watch it. And there's no harm in seeing it more than once. Letterman just puts McCain's shadiness on blast.
- Melissa
"i don't want to keep beatin' this thing" but we're going to ... letterman is my hero.
- tiffany
Yeah, resharing is OK. It gives FOAF a chance to see what they miss. It's cool! ;)
- AJ Batac
"..doesn't he know that the road to the White House goes through me!..." LOVE. IT.!!!
- Melissa
"John you want a lift to the airport" you got to love it and Olbermann is like what can I say that won't get me in any more trouble. Letterman is not done with this.
- Patrick Minze
This is the most I've laughed at Dave in awhile. I love how they cut in and McCain is being powdered up. Hilarious.
- Shawn Farner
Dave was perfect last night, classic n' oh so pure.
- Marko Bon
@Shawn: Yeah, he's really on top of that economic crisis by getting pretty for an interview. I'm not sure why this isn't being played up more.
- AJ Kohn
"....crater? I barely know her!" - Paul.
- Melissa
No idea if it really bugs him any more that he's consistently #2 in the ratings but being number 1, I think, would mean he couldn't be this on point. I wish more people would appreciate the man's genius.
- ♥patricia♥
pea - Letterman's material feeds on intelligent humor. And the circus we call the political campaign is perfect to make him shine.
- Melissa
"Wait, I can have sex AND become an engineer?! HOLY SHIT!!!"
- Nathaniel Payne
Ummmm. Ok, Q2: who -thinks- of these things?
- Jaemi Kehoe
You didn't listen to the opening statements in Engineering 101, did you? I remember it well. It went "None of you will every know a woman intimately."
- Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane
Strip out the "sex can wait!" part and this can be used for lots of other fun scare campaigns like DON'T COPY THAT FLOPPY!
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Yeah, you know what? I waited. My job is boring. I shoulda had the sex.
- Nine
Terrible ad. Do they ever proof read? Bad on more than one level.
- lelapin
Engineers don't have sex. A designer draws up a physically-impossible plan and expects the engineer to do it in a short span of time and under budget.
- Steven Cains
It's because he wants to build a sex engine first.
- ɥsıuɐʎɹ
Morton FTW! Talk about perpetuating a sterotype... don't they know geeks are sexy these days?
- Her Lindsay-ness
"An engineering student was walking across campus when another engineer rides up on a shiny new motorcycle. "Where did you get such a great bike?"asked the first. The second engineer replied, "Well, I was walking along yesterday minding my own business when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike. She threw the bike to the ground, took off all her clothes and said, 'Take what you want.'" The first engineer nodded approvingly, "Good choice; the clothes probably wouldn't have fit.""
- jcunwired
i think its more trying to hit on that having sex can lead to pregnancy and disease, which would sidetrack said plans.
- Tony Kanzia
True, especially when sex is almost a past time of the poor in 3rd world countries. So I think the ad works.
- Ron
LOL...no wonder engineers are so uptight!
- JA Castillo
...I was thinking more along the lines of civil engineers! :-D
- JA Castillo
What is the actual message? Seriously - why would waiting for sex determine whether or not he can be an engineer? What is the purpose of the wait? Is it something about grades? Are they trying to prevent black people from breeding?
- Internet's Tad
Have sex = could have a child. Have a child = costs LOTS of money = no college. I think. Pretty big leap for a billboard ad, if it is. Doubtful the intended recipients get the message.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
There's one I see on my way to work that says "Sex can wait. Your future can't." And I always think "What if my future is as a sex worker?"
- Nine
i went to an engineering school. out of all those 1000s of guys, there were probably 2 who had this problem. the rest, while not being constantly stoned/drunk and/or playing risk/D&D were actively engineering ways to get a girl within 20 ft. of them outside the classroom.
- Anika
The Neighbor only blows leaves on days of the week that end in "day". Unless there's a hideous amount of leaves (shown in pictures) at which point he goes into LeafCon 3. You don't want to be around for LeafCon 2 or 1 situations.
Ummm...we have three sugar maples in our front yard and the leaves haven't begun to fall yet. What could he possibly be blowing?
- Stephen Pierzchala
hey - i think your neighbor and mine are related, my favorite is when my lawn gets mowed (i have people for that) he rushes out and does his like its some competition - he is a "retired" landscaper and a nice though crazy old dude - leaf blowers before 10a on weekends though - not like at all ;)
- mike "glemak" dunn
The last LeafCon 1 we hit was last year. My yard guy hadn't shown up for a couple weeks in the middle of Fall. The Neighbor expressed his displeasure in a very unpleasant way (Not coincidentally it was also the last time I said more than 2 words to this...uh... character.) I proceeded to build a 5 foot high mountain of leaves as close to the property line as I could get it. I wished I had photos!
- Paul Reynolds
Yeah, my fiance was so looking forward to sleeping in for the summer. Unbeknown to her, our neighbor had big plans to renovate their house. They pretty much had people there starting in July every day at 7 am making building type noises.
- Alex Scoble
Stephen, this guy will literally blow 1 leaf (into my yard). I've got proof: http://friendfeed.com/e... I'm with you Mike, I pay a guy to do it. He does it cheap enough to where it would take me a few years to break even on buying the equipment (not counting my precious valuable time).
- Paul Reynolds
The Daily Show is the best news program on television because it's the only one that seems to have a memory longer than a goldfish.
- Eric P
It was wrong to attack Hillary because she is a woman, but it's quite ok to attack Palin because she's a Republican. I like it.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
It's not about a retort. This is comedy, pure and simple. I think it's actually satire. It points out how f*cking stupid politics are. Everyone says what everyone else wants to here to get what they want at the time. It's like the F*cking Oracle in the Matrix. What makes it worse is, a lot of people don't take the time to step back and realize how ridiculous it is. That's why we have all these dumb arguments.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Heh, you _think_ it's actually satire? This is The Daily Show! That's how they roll. And that's why they're so friggin' great.
- ronin
The content is true, but it's satirical because we all know this is just how it goes down. :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Awesome, so the next time Dems send up a woman to run for high office and the same rhetoric comes from the Repubs, then it is now OK, we are finally equal. Hooray!
- Mike Lewis
"Two of the leading candidates to be John McCain's vice presidential pick — Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney — appear to be out of the running, NBC News reported Friday."
- Carla Thompson
from Bookmarklet
CNBC is reporting it's Palin from Alaska.
- Shellee
And there it is. Interesting. Profoundly interesting. Must go research this woman.
- Carla Thompson
That's a transparent move pandering to the PUMAs.
- Cyndy
Cyndy - was just about to make that point! Great minds...
- Carla Thompson
Well, Biden is going to have to be even more careful in his debate but McCain is bound to look 20 years older every time she appears on stage with him.
- Shellee
Meg Whitman must have said "thanks, but no thanks"
- Jason Carreira
Palin came in 2nd in the Miss Alaska pageant... and we all know 2nd in a beauty pageant is the fast track to political success
- Jason Carreira
She also, allegedly, used her political position to attempt to get her brother-in-law fired because her sister was in a child custody dispute with him: http://beta.friendfeed.com/e...
- Mark Trapp
well it's certainly not going to hurt your career.
- Stefan Hayden
@mark, yes! My friend in Anchorage mentioned that story too! Nothing subtle about it. There's something risky about putting Alaska politics on the ticket but she does have girlie bits. Mission accomplished.
- Shellee
Alaska politics make Louisiana look tame... They're all nuts up there, apparently
- Jason Carreira
What’s up with Oreo Cookies? Is it their chocolate wafer that doesn’t even taste like chocolate? Is it their vanilla filling that just tastes like sugar? I don’t know, but what I know is that when you eat an oreo cookie they taste like… well, they taste like Oreo… I think what’s up with them is that they’ve created the a new flavour: the oreo flavour! And let’s face it, oreo flavour tastes good!
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
from Bookmarklet
"Barack is about to choose a running mate, and he wants you to know first. You have helped build this movement from the bottom up, and Barack wants you to be part of this important moment."
- Dave Winer
from Bookmarklet
Does this mean the VP announcement is imminent??
- Dave Winer
A master stroke -like how they get you to invite your friends and family. Brilliant
- dolores parker
isn't anyone concerned about his 3.7 trillion dollar tax hike on the middle class? or anything else he's ever said? and why we can't let him slide on all his flip-flopping? and don't say he hasn't every politician running for office does or has at some point in their political career. Why are we holding Barack H. Obama up to such messianic ideals? He's only human after all.
- John Blanton
Yes, but he's the master of social media, so we don't care. ;-)
- Brent Logan
"I could ruin you with a word...no, make that 6 words...Don't you think he looks tired?" - Doctor Who
- Cheryl Allin
from NoiseRiver
Brent I do agree with you that either Obama himself or someone in his crew is a master of social media for sure.
- John Blanton
Barack Obama All the Way Baby!! Good Riddance Bush + Brainwashed Flock! ;)) Peace*
- Billy Warhol
Hey, Billy, you realize that you're just another sheep from a different brainwashed flock, don't you?
- Akiva Moskovitz
Wow, a 3 second head start on Friendfeed and a 12 second head start on CNN. Sign me up. It's important I get my news milliseconds before others
- Nicholas Molnar
JohnB: I'd really like for you to define "middle class" and show precisely where that "3.7 trillion dollar tax hike" is going to hit. Just out of curiosity, you understand.
- David Worrell
An awful lot of us aren't so much voting FOR Obama as voting against the party of unnecessary war, torture, intolerance, luddism, fear, uncertainty and doubt. I'd strongly consider voting for the 2000 McCain, but the 2008 McCain seems almost no different at all from W. At this point I don't give a flip if Obama is a European style socialist. I feel strongly that McCain will continue with the torture, intolerance, luddism, etc, but I don't know about Obama. That's good enough for me at this point.
- Internet's Tad
Tad, voting for the unknown then? Seems dicey.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Not at all Akiva - the known is completely detestable. I feel a moral imperative to vote against the Republicans this go around. I hope they eventually get their shit together and kick out the moralist/stasist groups that are making them contemptable. The last time we had a Democratic president, I hated him, but the country was much better off than we are now under the Republicans. The GOP had 6 uncontested years to show their true colors... and they did.
- Internet's Tad
Tad, I will refute your logic by pointing at you and laughing and then running away like a little girl [was: re: I still have no idea how I'm going to vote].
- Akiva Moskovitz
so I guess Akiva removed their comment - can someone give me an idea what it was?
- R. Ferguson
All signed up and ready to go ... can't wait to see all the tweets that will ensue after the announcement.
- James
He's already following me. Why can't he just DM me?
- Cyndy
Cyndy, probably those limits that are designed to inspire our creativity. ;-)
- Joanmarie
First you're prompted to sign up, then to share, then to donate. These guys know what they're doing. "Own a piece of this movement." Nice.
- Angel Galloway
Akiva did not remove his comment. There are several, Ruth.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Wow, this makes the Obama campaign look just like a reality TV show. Is it more "Who wants to marry my dad," or "Paradise Hotel"? "Who will be the winner of the ULTIMATE PRIZE? Stick around for the BIG REVEAL, after these messages."
- Nathan Rein
Angel, I signed up via sms. No additional prompts or requests for $$. Although I wonder if I'll start getting such messages in the days that follow. That's how most campaigns work I think. A month or two ago, I donated to Jeanne Shaheen's campaign (signing up for their list in the process) and within a week of making that donation I got an email asking me for.... wait for it.... another donation.
- Joanmarie
I sent that "VP" the minute I got that text.
- Brandon Titus
I'm telling you right now: I will not accept the VP nomination.
- ComicList
If Obama picks Evan Bayh, am I going to feel the same way that I did when Bush 41 chose Dan Quayle?
- Thomas Ho
from fftogo
oh you are cruel to send that to him in sweden. don't forget the free refills on the strawberry lemonade and those thick, salted, steak fries. I'm just saying.
- R. Ferguson
I didn't know Red Robin was other than in Tacoma, WA - how cool is that!
- Cheryl Allin
from NoiseRiver
Hmm... Red Robin for dinner... they're <5 mins from me.
- Louie
OH Dude, that's close! Actually, it's a lot faster to get to Clifton from Hackensack than it is from the Holland Tunnel! Jersey is THE most confusing place EVER
- Mona Nomura
we just own all the highways... and they all connect
- Stefan Hayden
Wait, have you heard of the place in Jersey that serves the 12lb burger? I went and tried to eat it... LOL brb w/ pictures
- Mona Nomura
I work in midtown on 35th if anyone ever wants to get lunch
- Stefan Hayden
12lb burgers? not fuddruckers? I hate that place
- Stefan Hayden
I'm no longer in the east =(. But one of my FAVORITE Korean restaurants is on 36th and Ave. of Americas.. omg I miss NYC
- Mona Nomura
hmm.. which one.. I don't remember a korean resturant
- Stefan Hayden
Mona: Jeebus!! I could probably kill the patty, it's the other stuff that would kill me. Starving children in Africa could live off of that thing for a month.
- Louie
this is the best friendfeed comment thread ever
- Stefan Hayden
@Mona...Kum Gang San? I freaking love that place if thats what you are talking about...
- Carlos Ayala
Carlos: the lunch place, is actually the supermarket that sells cold bibimbap! And my FAVORITE Korean place is actually in Fort Lee, NJ LOL
- Mona Nomura
Louie: I challenged that on my own. If the bun wasn't so gross, I would've TOTALLY killed it.
- Mona Nomura
yeay NJ... i love this place so much... I love the thai food place in downtown hackensack
- Stefan Hayden
@Mona I want that burger! And the bibimbap! I have a huge jar of kimchee smelling up the fridge too! Damn, I'm hungry!
- Josh Haley
@Mona 12lb burger? Pfft, next time go to PA and try to tackle this 123lb monstrosity. Or even their 50+lb one. ;-) http://dennysbeerbarrelpub.com/
- ronin
there is a point where it stops beng food, Larry
- Stefan Hayden
There's a sushi-go-round there too, called damn.. I forgot the name. But they have half off tuna mondays. Cheap edible sushi that don't give you the runs FTW!! http://flickr.com/photos...
- Mona Nomura
Oh man, the Royal Red. It's a farm on a bun ... burger, egg, and bacon. It's heaven. It's the best clogged artery that you'll ever have. It's amaaaaazing.
- ::Kristen::
boooo... some one should come eat with me
- Stefan Hayden
I'd try to eat one of those big burgers but you have to eat all of the toppings and I'm a meat & cheese kinda guy. (plus the lactose would destroy me before I finished the burger. lol)
- Louie
Mona, Stefan, after you finish your Gus Burger, have a grillswith for dessert (http://is.gd/1j8k). The Spot serves those too.
- Larry Huffman
Stefan, it's an article about a youtube video -- which seems relevant to this discussion. I should've just linked to the video, and now have switched so it just links to youtube
- Robert Seidman
thanks for all the help Mona... good night everyone!
- Stefan Hayden
My bad Stefan, I confused you with a buddy that moved to Sweden b/c of work recently [yes he is on FF]. So I thought Mona was teasing you about missing american food.
- R. Ferguson
I think I'm in love; what else could it be that makes my heart race so?
- Derrick Burns
lotsa of .swf to ipod converters ,, not free though !
- johnpiercy
Oh wow, thanks Mike! fotographic: I actually tried with an online converter (free) http://media-convert.com/ followed instructions from googling (my results: http://www.google.com/search...)... fortunately, I have a friend who does video editing, who offered to convert it to hi-q for me. She uses Snap-X Pro, I think? (Not free)
- Mona Nomura
just tried Jing.. it's really great, but a 5 minute time limit :(
- Tim Hoeck
It kept crashing on me, like crazy. Took me like 2 hours to record that ONE clip LOL! Btw, please watch on Youtube since the embedded video doesn't show the annotations, plus it's low quality! Thank you :)
- Mona Nomura
thanks @mona .. I have Snaps Pro and IshowU , I'll try the free mediaconvert.com
- johnpiercy
fotographic: If you have Snaps Pro, then record the clip play back from Jing, and when saving the file, compress to mp4, save, then directly upload to youtube! :)
- Mona Nomura
Or you can just record directly from Snapz Pro X.
- Andrew Trinh
Totally, but in the video I mentioned JingProject, since I didn't have the software (yet) :)
- Mona Nomura
Hey Russel, you too ran out of Likes after edythe? ;)
- Yuvi
No - I prefer comments but sometimes i have nothing to say.
- Russellreno
That'd be awesome if it didn't look like a bloody mess. Gross.
- Louie
I have a pair of shoes (Dustin Dollin VANS) that are viewed two ways: kids see paint drops, adults see blood drops dripping down the side (can't find a pic)
- Eric Rice