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This fraternity will be dealt with in an unmistakably firm fashion

Thank you sir! May I have another?


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 12:43 PM
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"Paul Zingg stars in College Invasion 7: Fraternity Spank Inferno"!


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 1:29 PM
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Is that a Jack Davenport reference I see?


Posted by: ac | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 1:34 PM
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But of course.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 1:43 PM
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I was once at an ice cream place where they had one flavor called "peanut butter," and another called "peanut butter fantasy." A friend asked me what I thought was the difference between the two. I said, "Peanut butter is peanut butter, but peanut butter fantasy is Jack Davenport feeding you the peanut butter."


Posted by: ac | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 1:53 PM
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Jack Davenport? Is he Lacy's husband? Isn't he like ... 60+?


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 2:05 PM
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What kind of weirdo wants a bunch of fratboys going "woo!" in his porn? I don't get the market for this.


Posted by: Brian | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 2:07 PM
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Isn't Lacy's husband long dead, after sighting the Bachman's Warbler?

The JD in question is the actor who plays Steve on Coupling -- a painfully funny BBC sitcom. In one episode, he is busted by his girlfriend with a video titled Lesbian Spank Inferno. ("It's a feminist movie, really, about a women's film collective...")


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 2:10 PM
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Coupling's kind of eh. Black's Books is quite good.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 2:14 PM
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LB:

I thought he might be, but after the flea thread, I was hesitant to either condemn or tacitly approve necrophilia. .


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 2:16 PM
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Coupling's kind of eh.

Them's fighting words -- it's about the only TV show that actually makes me involuntarily laugh out loud. Never heard of Black's Books.

(And while I adore the show, Jack Davenport the actor doesn't do much for me. The guy who plays Patrick might, in a different role...)


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 2:24 PM
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JD is pretty; Patrick is more rugged.


Posted by: ac | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 2:29 PM
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Well it's yer basic gender-balanced-group-of-pals sort of comedy that takes place in a situation, isn't it. Doesn't help that the characters themselves are pretty standard-issue.

Black's Books isn't invulnerable to that criticism (though derived from a different Ursitcom), but at least the charracter Black's misanthropy isn't all that derivative. Plus it takes place in a used bookstore in disarray! And he, like, hates his customers! How novel.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 2:29 PM
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Get it? Takes place in a bookstore? "Novel"? I should quit my day job.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 2:30 PM
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Have you ever seen This Life? I preferred JD in that.


Posted by: ac | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 2:34 PM
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Given how much I've been surfing the internet rather than working, I essentially have quit my day job. I don't mind formulaic and derivative, so long as the writing's funny.

JD is pretty; Patrick is more rugged.

Mmmmm....


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 2:40 PM
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I suppose that criticizing something for being derivative is counter to my Official Position that originality is overrated. (Formulaic is another question.) I just didn't find the writing that compelling, then.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 2:42 PM
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The episode where wossname got a gay haircut was pretty good.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 2:42 PM
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Steve: "What, specifically, did you tell your hairdresser?"

Patrick: "I said I wanted a hard man."


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 2:46 PM
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I am quite bummed to discover after some searching inspired by tis thread that they've given up on ever doing a 5th season.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 3:22 PM
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What kind of weirdo wants a bunch of fratboys going "woo!" in his porn?

Fratboys. This is all about vicarious gangbanging.


Posted by: ogmb | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 3:42 PM
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Mmhm. I should expect that the intent is to convey to the audience that "Fairy tales, could come true, it could happen to you..."


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 3:46 PM
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Oh absolutely, LB. "Pale guys eveywhere, you too can receive a mechanical blowjob from a woman pretending to like you!"

It's such a shame that none of these young men will ever be able to run for high office after this.


Posted by: Scott | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 4:00 PM
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Wouldn't a mechanical blowjob fall into an entirely different category of porn -- something about molesting vacuum cleaners?


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 4:05 PM
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Or with an exhaust pipe.

Ok, there's no suction, but that link is worthy of being disseminated.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 4:45 PM
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or is that de-semen-ated?


Posted by: Austro | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 5:05 PM
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That is the origin of the word.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 5:05 PM
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Same as "seminal".


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 5:06 PM
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Late to a thread on my own blog. Coupling, as we've noted here, is awesome and w-lfs-n will come to see that in time. Jack Davenport rates a mention here.

And, of course you're all right about the vicarious gangbang...


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 5:07 PM
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ouch. I ll just go sit in the corner, then. It's late already.


Posted by: Austro | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 5:10 PM
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As a newcomer to the blog, I should clearly read the archives.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 6:22 PM
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It's such a shame that none of these young men will ever be able to run for high office after this.

Whatev, I predict (and this can go on the prediction-monitoring-blog) that by the time I'm 45, we will have had a President who it is widely known participated in a frat orgy.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 9:07 PM
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Good thing you added the qualifier "widely known" or your prediction might've already come true.

Skanks and Boners, season 6?


Posted by: ogmb | Link to this comment | 03-30-05 9:58 PM
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