YSaC, Vol. 1252: In which the radio star is avenged.
Sometimes, I get the feeling that an ad just hasn’t quite included enough information.
DVDs & VHS
$4 each or $50 for all
This SEEMS like it might be a good deal. But questions spring to mind: How many are DVD and how many are VHS? For that matter, how many are there? Which deal is more advantageous changes depending on whether there are 3 or 938 of these unspecified media objects. Also, have the tapes been rewound? What about the DVDs? Have they been rewound?
And it might, just might, be helpful to know what’s ON the aforementioned outdated storage media.
Need someone who can transfer you tube videos to vhs
I have a small crab business. Looking for someone who can transfer some videos on youtube to vhs tape.
interested in putting how we catch blue crabs, how to clean blue crabs and how to cook blue crabs
on one single vhs tape so it loops thru all the videos.Thanks!
You know, on second thought, never mind. I think I was better off not knowing.
Thanks Greg and Mmooney!
*looks through closet, wonders how that misjay got in there*
You know, I have enough eaches, but I think an all would be just the place to display my lacawates valtrus-suka.
But, $50 seems kinda steep. I wonder if Sparky would be interested in a trade?
I have some awesome *vintage* Crisco, and a mint green prom dress, never worn because I caught that bastid BobbyJo Bobby with my best friend, my best friend…ahem.. – let’s not go there again, I can’t afford the therapy – and…lemme see….oh yes, an entire art installation with only one chaise lounge…again, let’s not go there…sigh…
Look deeper in that closet; I bet you have some french prudential furniture and a not.a.lion!
did someone call?
On the misjay, it’s clear you followed the old saying about if you truly love something, set it free, and if it comes back to you, it was truly yours to begin with.
Either that or you’ve just mislaid your misjay.
There’s a very corner-worthy reply rattlin’ round my head right about now.
Has to do with putty…and hands…
And (mis)laid things…
But, I won’t…….
Probably need a “Unclear on the Concept” tag for these, too.
But, I’ve fielded far too many requests along the lines of
“How do I ” [action] “these pictures?”
Me: “What format are they?”
[person]: “Dunno, pitchers?”
Me: “Pitchers? You mean, like Clements, Ryan, Strawberry?” (last added on purpose)
[person]: “Strawberry’s not a piccher!”
Me: “He’s got big ears and is built like a jug.”
(This generally gets [person] to go away and bother somebody else, like the person at the Walgreens photo counter. other wise it just degenerates in to twenty minutes of [] jokes set in Castle Anthrax…)
Would you like to trade? I have some DOS games (unspecified number and content) on 5.25″ floppies. I’m not completely behind the times; some of the floppies are high-density.
Do you have King’s Quest on cassette tape?
I have a handheld Space Invaders game from 1981 (this is true) (it still works) (not parting with it)
You are all definitely my people.
Err… *definately.
My Dad still has the Atari 2600 he bought before he married my Mom, my sister and I used to play Space Invaders on it constantly when we were little. Unfortunately the game cassettes got lost when we moved 🙁
Actually King’s Quest was never sold on cassette tape. The earliest version was for the IBM PCjr in 1983 and came on a floppy disk. Sierra created the game for IBM as a kind of tech demo showing what the PCjr could do. (Something of a vintage game collector / historian.)
I could swear I had it on a cassette, but that might have been the soundtrack.
I hear that confusing the game and the soundtrack tapes was how Skrillex got started.
Until a very recent attic cleaning, I had the original Pong and Tank games from the late 70’s or early 80’s. They didn’t work, though.
I still need to pick up a new Atari 2600. Ours fritzed out when I was 8, went out for “repairs,” and never returned.
*Sniff*
I miss my Atari.
I wish we could find the games. I know you can play Space Invaders online, but it’s just not the same without the joystick and button.
“but it’s just not the same without the joystick and button.”
That’s true of so many things. *Sigh*
“some of the floppies are high-density.”
Yeah, and so are some of the Sparkys.
Oh, and I still have Commander Keene, SimEarth, Wolfenstein 3d, and all of my win 3.1 disks.
I need to get rid of all this stuff.
I only ever played Wolfenstein as a secret level on Doom. 8/
I still have all of my shareware floppy disks somewhere.
I think the problem here is poor English usage.
The Sparky #1 ad has a subject, but no verb or predicate.
The Sparky #2 ad leaves out the subject in two sentences; Blue Crabs are the predicate in one of them. Blue Crabs are smaller than Snow Crabs. Appropriately, they therefore have subordinate claws.
You may now rewind your brains.
One notable feature of sparkii is that, in the main, they hail without predicate nor pedigree.
The one time I tried to rewind a DVD it turned into an 8mm reel to reel black and white recording of Teddy Roosevelt on a horse.
*Snort*
Did it keep repeating, “Teddy is dead”…?
That only happens if you play a CD backwards.
Don’t try playing a clarinet backwards. That really sucks.
Playing Chess backwards is really interesting.
The most fun though is playing Twister backwards.
*plays ALL THE CDs backwards*
That’s weird, they all say “Paul is dead”.
No, wait…one of them is saying “Guess Who is on first”.
I’m going to beat Taco to the punch today. I am curious how many of those DVDs/VHSs are porn. And what subclass of porn.
:sniffs cup:
What the hell is in this punch?
Oh damn! Was I not supposed to drink that?
“Make sure to drink it all; sometimes the poison is on the bottom.”
Name that quote!
Aww, sniff Crow T. Robot.
*cries because she only has DVDs of the show, and a few VHSs to be honest
We’re slowly growing our DVD collection. We’re up to volume 7 of … what 26 now?
Too bad they don’t just sell a giant “ALL THE THINGS!” pack of the episodes. Granted only the 7 richest kings could afford to buy that pack.
This is why Netflix is your friend. A lot of the MST3K movies are offered as streaming video.
And if you haven’t tried them yet, I find that Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic are good stuff.
TacoMa’am and I saw Cinematic Titanic live last year (missed it this year because I wasn’t watching the ticket venues close enough), and it was awesome. The riffing is 1000x better live and with an audience of people to help you laugh.
It was probably one of the best dates I’ve ever taken her on*, if I don’t say so myself. And I do. She even humored me and stood in line with me for 45 minutes to get the crew to autograph the DVD cover insert to one of their shows.
*This is actually true; we had more fun at that show than at just about any other show I can think of.
True story (yes, tragically I am the world’s biggest geek):
I saw Cinematic Titanic in Boston and waited to meet them after. I was with my son who was then 12 and the line was around the building. We got all of their autographs, and every time I watch my DVDs (or Netflix) I love yelling “I met Joel!”
Sad, really.
Oh, yes – I love RiffTrax. The only reason I own the Twilight movie (yay, yard sale!) is so I can watch it with the RiffTrax on.
A thing I say to my wife when watching MST3K:
“You know, we shook hands with TV’s Frank once…”
I have 12 DVD sets of MST3K. I do wait until I can get them on sale or used, though. All my favorites are on DVD except for Puma Man and Horror at Party Beach (soooooodium!), still waiting for those. I haven’t seen any of the live shows, but did go to the Christmas special that was in theaters a few years back
In the days when San Diego ComicCon International was affordable and not filled past capacity, we would often see TV’s Frank sitting in a booth looking very bored because few people stopped to talk to him. We had lots of fun with him, but never saw any of the other cast members. Stone Brewing World Bistro shows movies in the summer out in their garden, and one time they showed a RiffTrax movie. We couldn’t make it, but it’s so cool that they did that.
Silva, I’d hatchet off my right arm for that DVD.*
*may not be entirely true
Windy, that’s yet another reason why Stone is pretty much heaven on earth. <3 that place.
We’ve concluded that: SOOOOODIUUUUUUM!
Looks like you might have some competition for that title, wanda.
IF, if you have been to Stone, you have been IN MY BACK YARD!!! Call next time, we have been trying to find an excuse to go again. 8) Got tickets to the Anniversary in August. I am the designated driver.
It was at a conference a few years back, Windy… next time we’re back in SD for one, I’ll make sure that we get together there.
Jingly squirrel-suit porn.
You’re welcome.
you can get sub-classes of porn? really? please pass the brain acid – NOW!
Oh, Tig, yes. There is that which involves chickens, and that which does not.
I do have a soft fuzzy feeling for fishermen and people in general who try to run small businesses by the sea. I’m picturing an old salt trying to improve his establishment while obviously not having a high falutin’ Ivy League MBA.
I’m picturing a 30-something, tall, tanned, guy with longish salt and pepper hair. And a beard. And tattoos. Standing out on deck of a crab boat. With blue eyes.
*lights a cig, exhales*
I’m watching too much “Deadliest Catch”.
Yup. We all do. Or Quint. He always comes to mind as summer approaches.
Another anecdote from The Life and Times of Irregular Fractal:
I once starred in a musical called The Last Waterman, written about the crabbing industry on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
It was performed on Tilghman Island, home of the smallest elementary school in the state of Maryland and connected to the mainland by a drawbridge that, up until the 1980s, they would reportedly haul up when they heard a person of color was coming down the road.
I was recruited into this endeavor by my small-town dentist, who thought he was Bob Dylan (for a while, I thought this was a metaphorical claim on his part…) and wrote the entire thing himself.
And to bring it all full circle, I actually transferred the video of this piece of musical theatre history from VHS to digital form not too long ago. (Not on Youtube though. Yet.)
Quint…OMG…Quint!!
Or Romer…
Or Mr. White/Black/Green….<<<whatever 'color' he was in The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3
Or, well…anything. Such a yummy, yummy Irishman.
And to bring this full circle, as the cool kids are doing today, Jaws was the first title I bought when I switched from VHS to DVD.
I have never seen a crab boat with blue eyes!!!
*usually they’ve got brown eyes and barnacles
I can forgive a misplaced modifier when we’re chatting about sea men.
You my brown eyed boat.
Doughnuts make my brown eyes blue.
Y’all are just jealous that the boat in my daydreams (or “dreamboat”) has blue eyes. And can cook. And remembers anniversaries.*
@ Wanda: “Sea men.” I see what you did there.
*This actually describes Hubby Monkey pretty well. Bless ‘im.
The Last Waterman is IF’s The Band final concert tribute show.
Robbie Robertson showed up wearing a Popeye the Sailorman costume and Kris Kristofferson was just, well, a sailor who fell from Grace (whoever she is) from the sea. Gorton’s fish ‘n chips was enjoyed by all.
B.S. makes my blue eyes brown.
Awww! Bless his heart. Is he a sea monkey?
🙂
How about a fishing spider, Wanda? Wanna watch me cast my net?
Um…wait! Fish have net-o-phobia I believe.
Ok, then check out my rod… Fishing that is.
“Blue Crab Tapes” – A new series coming to TLC.
Submitted without comment.
I’m so disappointed it’s sold out. The reviews are incredibly persuasive!
I’m curious as to why one of the suggested products that other customers have viewed is Maybe You Touched Your Genitals hand sanitizer.
And Squirrel Underpants!
Complete with warning about choking hazard due to small parts.
“May contain nuts.”
“May contain traces of nuts.”
Poor squirrel.
EDIT: Dammit, Taco – get out of my brain!
Well that explains just what kind of DVDs they are rewinding
I want so badly to combine a squirrel-nut, crab-man, sea-men joke right now, but I may never be allowed out of the corner again.
All of the rest of us are here, Wanda, so that may not be a bad thing.* Go for it!
*Or, that could be a really, really bad thing.
Well now I have just have performance anxiety. Or lack of razor-sharp wit. Probably the latter.
*cracks knuckles…OUCH!! dammit…can’t do that anymore*
Squirrel-nut, crab-man, sea-men;
Jokes right now!
Jokes right now!
Squirrel-nut, crab-man, sea-men;
Jokes right now!
Jokes right now!
That’s what squirrel-nut, crab-men, sea-men do!
And C””J in for the assist! Bless you!
Off topic: After innumerable crew announcements that all the overhead storage was full and bags would have to be checked, the last person on my Dallas to Phoenix flight this morning was carrying a LARGE red duffle bag and wearing a “Sparky’s Cafe” t-shit.
Now tell me that for just a tiny moment you didn’t consider running up the jetway?
D/DM and HamCan, please present your cards for updating. Punchity Punch Punch!
Good Morning, Squirrel Nut Zippers!