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Title: 4um betting pool: How many people will be killed in altercations over flat panel TeeVees tomorrow?
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URL Source: http://www.TeeVee
Published: Nov 22, 2007
Author: Jimmy the Not-So-Greek
Post Date: 2007-11-22 19:19:50 by Esso
Keywords: I WANT!, I WANT!, I WANT!
Views: 379
Comments: 33
Looking over the sale ads while visiting Mom today, it looks like the thing to nut-up over this year is flat screen TeeVees. As psychotic as everybody has gotten lately, I'm guessing people are going to be killing each other trying to get "their fair share" tomorrow. Only deaths over TeeVees count. 12:00AM - 11:59PM Friday.
Poster Comment: I say three people get clipped.
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#1. To: Esso (#0)
I bought in early, once the old Sony started sparking out.
"Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has." - William S Burroughs
However many get whacked, they can go in the knowledge that they've helped clean the gene pool.
My old TV went kaput a few months back. Here in my new place...no TV. I ain't got the cash to get one, another luxury I can't afford in this day of prosperity and no inflation and let the good times roll. /sarc I'll live without the JewTube. In the words of Deek Jackson, "So you worthless eaters, let's keep destroying the planet, making the corporate Elite richer, and helping them do it by buying more worthless fucking shit!"
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition If the economy slows, as it now seems to be, the retailers will be begging people to take them off their hands by spring.
I believe that the panic-selling will begin well before Christmas...one of our local grocers was offering 27" LCD tv's for $199. this past week.
I found out the hard way that retailers use Christmas to dump a lot of poor quality junk on shoppers. In reality, you are overpaying for what you are getting. Best to avoid all the holiday shopping crap unless you have a pretty good idea of what you're buying.
Sounds like good advice 365.
Case in point, the $299 laptop I saw Best Buy pumping. It's pretty much the laptop I'm typing this post on...which I bought almost three years ago. Only now they are willing to throw in a $45 printer with it.
"I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price." Vir Cotto, Babylon 5
I was told last year that at the local best buy dozens of people spent thursday night on the sidewalk in front of the store to get one of those laptops. they opened at 6 am and the laptops were gone at 6:05. not everyone who spent the night got one. seems kid of pathetic, but I suppose if you really really need a laptop and only have 299.........
I buy a new one every year. I got tired of the cheap shit like the low-lifes buy. There is none available in any store that meets my standards so ordered a new one and it's special made. (grin) It was only $71,799.99 and is gold inlaid. It has a very special 159" panel designed just for me. Did I tell you people this yet? I bought Cincinatti last week.
I'm still detached from reality.
Over/Under at 3 sounds about right...
What North American Union? Have you seen THIS yet? Pass it around...
oh, I'll go with 5. the number would be much higher if there was an 'elmo' tv for the kids. I think injuries numbered in the 100s back in the *tickle me elmo* days, almost as bad as the *cabbage patch kids* craze. 'must have' stuff for kids seem to heighten the craziness of adults aroud the holidays.
Then you probably don't need a laptop in the first place.
Did I tell you people this yet? I bought Cincinatti last week. I bought China last month, and am having a TeeVee built for my wife that is so big, the FAA has to restrict the airspace over my house, which is bigger than the pentagon and built out of solid platinum, by the way. It must suck to be a pauper like you. You should've tried working for a living rather than tippy-tapping on the internut all day, every day.
First, not everyone "needs" a laptop. I have one because I wanted one because it's more convenient for me to surf the net on my dot-com sofa. By chance if someone does "need" a laptop and only has $299, then they need to be shopping on ebay. That's where I sold the laptop that this one replaced. You won't get trampled and you won't have to camp out in freezing weather to get one.
"I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price." Vir Cotto, Babylon 5
You mean you didn't lease it, like you did your used Hummer? You probably needed your wife to co-sign on the loan to get it...just like your wife had to in order for you to get the mortgage for your house.
"I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price." Vir Cotto, Babylon 5
I'm not going anywhere NEAR a store tomorrow...no way in hell. Get up at 3 a.m. so I can be at Penney's by 4??? Are you sh*tting me?
My In-Laws started TONIGHT! Crazy bass turds...
What North American Union? Have you seen THIS yet? Pass it around...
First, not everyone "needs" a laptop. ok, I'm chastised. I should have said "wants" not "needs". just trying to be a real american on thanksgiving.... you know, where see = want = need = borrow = buy = happiness!!!
I guess that is what I'll be doing soon. I'll be damned if I'll pay for one of those boxes to convert from analog to digital once they televise in HDTV in a year or two. I won't pay the high prices for a satellite dish nor pay those crooks for cable either. I have an antenna for UHF and VHF with a rotor that doesn't work. Screw TV anyway. The news sucks and is controlled plus you get bombarded with commercials. I got my first color tv back in 1984 wheb the old 19" black & white zenith bit the dust. It lasted since 1968 until 1984. The high prices for high speed computer are what keeps me on the slow old dial up at $12.95 a month. If and when that goes up, my computer days are over. I'm not a tightwad, just trying to get by on a fixed income and ungodly medical bills. Last year the medical bills for me and the wife were over $7,500. The only vacation I've taken the last few years has been to the spring NASCAR race at Bristol and I camp out for 3 or 4 nights for $25.00 bucks a night. I gave up my tickets to Bristol for this coming spring race because they keep going up and I can't see to drive that well to go that distance anymore. Then there is the wonderful price of gas foisted upon us by the bush/cheney crime syndicate. Then the price of home heating, natural gas went up about 12% for this winter. I won't even be doing any Christmas shopping except for the small kids, nieces's and nephew's kids. Maybe about $100/150 dollars if that much and only necessities like clothing, boots, shoes etc. It sure is great to be living the golden years or to put it in proper perspective, it is nice to be fuct. Let the fools trample each other fighting over those flat screen demon boxes. It is of no concern to me. As for Christmas decorating, we have one outside decoration that I will be putting up near Christmas which is a wire fabric covered snowman,21/2 feet tall with one bulb and inside an 18" high ceramic Christmas tree made by my late mother which also has one bulb but multi colored plastic shaped bulbs to give the appearance of a well lit tree. Frugality is a must in my household, not an option. Fools and their money soon part and they willingly hand it over to the guys who celebrate Hannucah or however you spell it. The money I save this year will buy the plants and seed for my garden come planting season.
ok.. first, you need to state, whole of USA, east coast or west coast, city/country.. With none of that information, I go with 3 east coast, 1/ 1/2 west coast and 3/4 in Canada.. wait a sec, that's right, the loonie is at 1.37 to ours, so 1 2/5's in Canada..
I saw some good clips on tee-vee with the sheep just running over each other to get to the "bargains". I always make it out to a mall or two just to get a look at how pathetic Americans have become.
Mark If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers - normally good Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free - Americans who have been lulled into a false security (April 1968).---Ezra Taft Benson, US Secretary of Agriculture 1953-1961 under Eisenhower
Of course not. When I bought Cincinatti last week, three Hummer dealers were included in the deal. (grin)
I'm still detached from reality.
I'm jealous that you bought China. I wanted all the slave laborers under my control. I also wanted to order the Chinese army to shoot anyone who dares to start a union. I can't have those people making anymore than 11 cents or working less than 80 hours a week. My stock portfolio depends on it. I also want to tear down their dorms and put them in pup tents. Those dorms are too expensive to maintain. One toilet and one light bulb per dorm cost too much in water and electric bills. I wanted to buy control but you beat me to it.
I'm still detached from reality.
133 mln Americans to hit shops on 'Black Friday': officials
Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today!
HeeHee My wife and her crazy female kin started in the middle of the night. They spend Thanksgiving afternoon with the ads spread out on the dining room table and preparing plans that would put the invasion of Europe to shame. None of the guys complain. It keeps 'em from buggin' us about watching football all day.
Republicans (Democrats for that matter) ....... HAD ENOUGH?
I wanted to buy control but you beat me to it. While you were busy jerking off to the little boy's channel on your puny 159" TeeVee last night, I closed the deal and now own the entire universe. The disposal units are en route to your location now.
I'll ponder it. I'm glad you limited it to TeeVees. I fear there'll be a high number of deaths from mothers taste-testing Chinese toys.
Republicans (Democrats for that matter) ....... HAD ENOUGH?
A very wise decision.
My wife and her friends did the same; but my wife decided there weren't any real bargains out there, so she is staying home. (I was only interested in a free hot tub, but I didn't see any available.)
LOVE the one comment under that story...
Sounds like you're one of the 0.1%ers, the 1 in 1000 that still have common sense. With the average houshold net worth in this country being a staggering NEGATIVE $77,000, everybody should be frugal, but no, they gotta have every doo-dad that comes down the pike and ensure that they will always be a slave to the money lenders.
lol!
Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today!
#2. To: Esso (#0)
#3. To: Esso, lodwick (#0)
(Edited)
"There is no 'legitimate' Corporation by virtue of it's very legal definition and purpose."
-- IndieTx
#4. To: Esso (#0)
#5. To: Arete, IndieTX (#4)
If the economy slows, as it now seems to be, the retailers will be begging people to take them off their hands by spring.
#6. To: lodwick (#5)
#7. To: Arete (#6)
Best to avoid all the holiday shopping crap unless you have a pretty good idea of what you're buying.
#8. To: Arete (#6)
I found out the hard way that retailers use Christmas to dump a lot of poor quality junk on shoppers. In reality, you are overpaying for what you are getting.
#9. To: orangedog (#8)
Case in point, the $299 laptop I saw Best Buy pumping
#10. To: Esso (#0)
#11. To: Esso (#0)
Don't wait - send Ron Paul 2008 some FRNs right NOW!
#12. To: Esso (#0)
#13. To: kiki (#9)
but I suppose if you really really need a laptop and only have 299.........
#14. To: Weekend Badeye (#10)
(Edited)
It was only $71,799.99 and is gold inlaid. It has a very special 159" panel designed just for me.
#15. To: kiki (#9)
...but I suppose if you really really need a laptop and only have 299.........
#16. To: Weekend Badeye (#10)
It was only $71,799.99 and is gold inlaid. It has a very special 159" panel designed just for me.
#17. To: Esso (#0)
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#18. To: who knows what evil (#17)
Don't wait - send Ron Paul 2008 some FRNs right NOW!
#19. To: orangedog, esso (#15)
Then you probably don't need a laptop in the first place.
#20. To: IndieTX (#3)
I'll live without the JewTube.
#21. To: Esso (#0)
#22. To: Esso (#0)
#23. To: orangedog (#16)
You mean you didn't lease it, like you did your used Hummer?
#24. To: Esso (#14)
I bought China last month
#25. To: Esso (#0)
#26. To: FOH (#18)
My In-Laws started TONIGHT! Crazy bass turds...
#27. To: Weekend Badeye (#24)
I'm jealous that you bought China.
#28. To: Esso (#0)
Only deaths over TeeVees count
#29. To: LACUMO (#20)
The money I save this year will buy the plants and seed for my garden come planting season.
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#30. To: iconoclast (#26)
They spend Thanksgiving afternoon with the ads spread out on the dining room table and preparing plans that would put the invasion of Europe to shame.
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#31. To: robin (#25)
133 mln Americans to hit shops on 'Black Friday': officials
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#32. To: LACUMO (#20)
Frugality is a must in my household, not an option. Fools and their money soon part and they willingly hand it over to the guys who celebrate Hannucah or however you spell it. The money I save this year will buy the plants and seed for my garden come planting season.
#33. To: who knows what evil (#31)
What a crock of shit. I can't wait to see the numbers and then watch the CEO's jumping off buildings. Fuck them. They brought this on themselves and if they think the American people who they have been fucking by sending our jobs overseas and looting the public with high prices are going to bail their evil asses out, they better think again. The gig is up. Next up: The oil companies. Rotating boycott, a different company every week. Watch those prices drop immediately.
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