It is just that kind of news day, apparently! Anyway no one worry about the economy anymore. [YouTube]
TUESDAY FUN VIDEO 1:54 pm December 22, 2009
A Video Of Darth Vader Ringing Bell Of New York Stock Exchange? Sure
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“Aren’t you a little undiversified for a Stormtrooper?”
Cheney sure has a lot of free time on his hands these days.
I find your lack of faith disturbing…
Nooooooooooooo!
It’s really nice to see that the Willy Street Co-Op in Madison gave their day shift manager some time off do this.
Vader hasn’t missed a day of work since his last dentist appointment.
Alan Greenspan came back for a visit?
Ben wasn’t kidding — Vader WAS seduced by the dark side of the Force. Shit.
Help me, Obi Wan Krugman. You’re our only hope.
Ok, so, once again tell me why I shouldn’t just keep my money under my mattress?
This reminds me of Eddie Izzard’s take on Darth Vader.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5iEK-IEzw
Darth Vader on the NYSE floor? It’s the Death Start for you!
So is that a lightsaver or are you just glad to see me?
As Vader rang the bell, Obama-Wan Kenobi was quoted as saying, “I felt a great disturbance in the Market, as if millions of shares suddenly traded in terror and were suddenly devalued. I fear something terrible has happened.”
Broker: Stock market, you are so… beautiful.
Stocks: It’s only because I’m so in love.
Broker: No, it’s because I’m so in love with you.
Plastics, my boy. Plastic helmets, plastic ray guns, plastic chest plates. Plastics!
All hail our new Alien Overlords!!!
When do they open fire?
Darth should open the market everyday. Dow is up 52 points.
I just wish that he would use the Force to twist every broker’s nut sack in the place. That’s a noise I want to hear.
Doesn’t Darth need to get back for a 3rd cloture vote?
[re=483818]Scruffy_The_Janitor[/re]: Should come as no surprise. Do you realize how much employment Death Star construction will create? Green chutes, baby!
Don’t be too proud of this economic terror you’ve constructed. The ability to encapsulate risk is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
[re=483822]weejee[/re]: The Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I have just received word that the Fascist Marxist Czar has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.
[re=483823]Snarkalicious[/re]: I’ve got 20% in evil empire defense construction. It’s called Halliburton. Stock symbol HAL.
In other news, I got my holiday email from SarahPAC today, and the title did actually wish me “Happy Holidays.” The attempt at redemption inside the email mentioned Christmas AND New Year’s, hence encapsulating two holidays and preventing Sarah from looking like she gives a shit about anyone who isn’t a Jeebus-lovin’ nutjob.
Help me, Tim Geithner –- you’re my only hope!
Meh…the only difference between Darth Vader and the usual people who ring the bell is the outfit
Storm Troopers are basically the Washington Generals.
[re=483802]Extemporanus[/re]: I hadda leave Madison for a new job a few months ago. I miss mah Co-op.
:’(
That one Storm Trooper on the right just looks fucking giddy to be there.
Clone troopers? Clone troopers? This is a job for TK455 and TK479
[re=483830]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: Why does Sarah hate Jesus-mas? How sad. Now I’m never buying anything from her ever ever again. Also.
Darth Vader opening the stock exchange. What a fitting way to end 2009. The dark side won, the forces of evil won the decade.
[re=483844]zombiedaddy[/re]: Link fail! Curses! Http://stormtroopers365.com
[re=483830]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: According to one of our clients, only atheists say “Happy Holidays”. Here’s a transcript of the actual conversation:
Old Goat Client: (As he’s leaving our office) Merry Christmas. Well, I guess we aren’t supposed to say that any more. (Smugly) We are supposed to say “Happy Holidays”.
My Boss: O’Reilly says we are supposed to say Merry Christmas, not Happy Holidays.
My Boss’ Wife: Well, I’m a Christian so I say Merry Christmas.
Old Goat Client: Only atheists say Happy Holidays.
After having to listen to that lovely exchange, I renounced any and all affiliation with so-called Christianity.
Happy Saturnalia, fuckers!
There’s a joke here somewhere about Trekkies and NASDAQ but I can’t quite string it together and it wouldn’t be funny anyway.
[re=483839]SmutBoffin[/re]: I lived literally right behind it for about a year before moving back out West.
Chad Vader caught me ransacking their compost dumpster once. I miss mah hand.
:’(
I believe in physics therefore the only real reason to celebrate is that the shortest day of the year will be past and we all get a few days off due to some quaint tribal beliefs. But that’s to long so I’ll just say “Happy Holidays.”
If I’m wrong and go to hell then I’ll at least have the satisfaction of seeing several past presidents and members of Congress burn with me.
Hell, where’s Triumph the Insult Comic dog when you need him?
[re=483799]forgracie[/re]: I find your lack of faith *in the DOW* disturbing…
[re=483851]ChernobylSoup v2[/re]: Now, the correct term is “Trekkers”, while “Trekkie” is offensive; at least, according to those sad, Klingon-speaking virgin nerds.
All your derivatives are belong to us!
[re=483855]freakishlystrong[/re]: “And which one of these buttons calls your parents to pick you up?”
[re=483850]jodyleek[/re]: I would have struck back with “you seem more like the Festivus type, what with your tired-ass grievances.”
That’s not really Darth Vader. The real Darth Vader died at the end of “Return of the Jedi” when he took his mask off. Duh.
Who’s yo Daddy?
/vader hiss
[re=483850]jodyleek[/re]: Has O’Reilly never heard of Jews? Really?
I cannot watch this video without imagining the head of China’s central bank (also watching it) turning to his chief deputy and saying, “Tell me again why we buy dollars?”
[re=483868]norbizness[/re]: Well, exactly. What really ticked me off was that they view the greeting/salutation “Merry Christmas” as a way to announce their own religious and/or political affiliation, rather than a way to offer best wishes for the season to another person. You don’t see Jews saying “Happy Hanukkah” to people they know are not Jews, just to rile them up. (Well, at least I don’t). You don’t say “Merry Christmas” to people unless you know they are Xtians or you know they wouldn’t be offend by such. Otherwise, you are just saying “Merry Christmas” to yourself, which makes about as much sense as saying “Happy Birthday” as a greeting to everyone you see on your own god damn birthday.
Now I’ve gone and blown a nut. Where’s my cocktail?
[re=483802]Extemporanus[/re]: Ha! Thanks for that. (Former Madison person here too)
[re=483875]jodyleek[/re]: Happy Birthday!
[re=483852]Extemporanus[/re]: I lived around the corner from the Whisko for a long time. Lando Calrissian was bartending back then.
These aren’t the CEOs you are looking for.
[re=483812]Extemporanus[/re]: The NYSE’s up 50; it figures. “Vader” is a health insurance CEO.
Barak…Barak…I am your father.
“Soon the rebellion will be crushed and young Obama will be one of us.”
In less than an hour Drudge will post a screaming headline bemoaning the fact Storm Troopers were able to smuggle plastic guns past the NYSE’s metal detectors and its all Obama’s fault.
[re=483873]user-of-owls[/re]: I’m just guessing here but I reckon if Americans suddenly quit buying cheap plastic Star Wars paraphenelia, about 10 million Chinese would find themselves out of work. Until the next fad
caught our fancy, that is.
[re=483875]jodyleek[/re]: The righteous hillbillies never miss an opportunity to shove their religion in your face. For that matter, they never miss the opportunity to shove their preference for a certain brand of car, sports team, or favorite type of beer, either. Basically, if you’re different from them in any way, you’re a threat to their self-image. How dare you!
[re=483888]Sparky McGruff[/re]: The other day a salesperson told me to “have a bless-ed day”. I should have punched her.
“The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force.”
[re=483890]bitchincamaro[/re]: Ugh; I get that one way too often. It’s always from little old black ladies, so I can’t in good conscience follow through on the urge to punch.
“President Putnam, I should have expected to find you holding Vader’s leash. I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board.”
“Barack, use the force to help us get the public option!”
Obama: “But I was gonna go to the Tachi Station to pick up some power converters!”
[re=483814]proudgrampa[/re]: don’t forget plastic explosives
[re=483894]JMP[/re]: Isn’t that wierd, though. Speaking as a a whitey (Don’t get too pastier, short of Scandinavia, than a Mick-Polack mix), I’ve wondered periodically why it is that my reaction to a fellow pasty saying something along those lines is seething anger, while my reaction if the speaker is an African American (especially said little old black ladies) is more along the lines of, “Isn’t that sweet.”
And actually, to be honest, “wondered” is probably less accurated than “been somewhat troubled by.”
[re=483886]ChernobylSoup v2[/re]: 10 million? Drop in the bucket. Hell, the Great Leap probably culled that many in a month or so. And I’m talking not talking about culled from the employment roster, but culled from the Chinese herd.
[re=483904]user-of-owls[/re]: What’s annoying is an oblivious claim of entitlement for a privileged paradigm, with the understandable response — privilege THIS!
Let’s see.
One giant American flag. Check.
One oversized wreath. Check.
One galactic storm trooper. Check.
Yup. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
[re=483909]ShiningMathPath[/re]: and, of course, race, gender and class change the discursive conditions and contextual presuppositions. (harrumph)
[re=483913]ShiningMathPath[/re]: Yup. Uh huh. (*brain whir*) Anyway, since you’ve got at least a hint of MLA taint to you, please enjoy my gin-soaked take on the tragic story of a Walmart particle board table defaced by an angry but incompetent faxer.
http://wonkette.com/412864/teabagger-nearly-has-stroke-scrawling-this-four-page-threat-which-he-faxed-upside-down#comment-483928
[re=483938]user-of-owls[/re]: Provocative and stark: the [omni]scient narrator is the one who, ultimately, is trapped by the presumption of objectivity, for who’s to say what is “upside down”? And don’t we all suffer from the taint of “magic” marker? There is no natural redemption, no way out. Also.
[re=483951]ShiningMathPath[/re]: Damn, that should have been “Also, too.”
[re=483904]user-of-owls[/re]: I think it is a matter of implied intent: When someone says have a blessed day to me and is of a certain age, I intrepret this as genuine good natured behaviour. When this is done as an obnoxious “stick my religion in your face and wiggle it about so you get a real good smell of it” gesture, it is usually pretty obvious and deserves a “Well halle-fucking lujah to you too jack!” in reply. It’s usually pretty easy to see sincerity or the lack of it in people in these situations.
[re=483870]BarackMyWorld[/re]: Thanks for spoiling it for everybody.
[re=483951]ShiningMathPath[/re]: True, but the sub-altern perspective of the narrator clearly implies an exploitative relationship with the “writer”, who in using a “magic” marker has expropriated the indigenous knowledge of the victim. Plus, it’s particle board.
[re=483991]user-of-owls[/re]: Well, in that case, never mind.
Invest. Come to the dark side.
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