Generation Y. I don't remember the First Gulf War, but sneer at people who never used floppy disks.tin wrote:Ooh, and Guns and Roses and Bob Jovi.bigglesworth wrote:Ah, the famous musician born Robert Bongiovi, better known as Bob Jovi.
It was 9:00 PM on a Saturday night and people were watching Shutter Island in a Lancaster movie theater when a man started whining that a woman seated near him was talking on her cellphone. He thought his concerns were well-received when he noticed the woman and her two fellows get up and leave. The next thing he knew though, he had a meat thermometer sticking out of his neck, courtesy of one of the men.
The complainer has been hospitalized and the stabber has not been caught. So be careful about what you say in a movie theater. [LA Times via Boing Boing]
You know what I'm interested in? Copyright lawsuits.
And profanity.
Lucky for me, Google and Viacom have provided both today, in the form of a series of emails released through the discovery process in Viacom's billion-dollar lawsuit against YouTube. In these emails, the two companies take turns cussin' and spittin' and swearin' about each other. Hilarity ensues. Ars Technica rounds up some of the highlights.
# Viacom complains that YouTube employees "sneered at rights holders as 'copyright bastards' and 'a-holes.'
# Google retorts that Viacom can't complain about this language, and it quotes numerous Viacom execs to make its point. Sample outbursts include, "fuck you, you Google bastards," "bastards at Google are harassing me," and the eloquent "fuck those mother fuckers."
# A Viacom VP even complained about the "fucking assholes" at YouTube--because the company "enforced its repeat-infringer policy concerning a Viacom marketing account that had received multiple take-down notices from Viacom's legal department." The lulz, they are here in spades.
# Viacom top brass wrote e-mails with more exclamation points than my niece would even consider decent. They also had what Google calls an "obsession" with buying YouTube.
# Case in point: "I WANT TO OWN YOUTUBE. I think it's critical, and if it goes to a competitor.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" That was from MTV Networks head Judy McGrath.
# Viacom CEO Tom Freston wrote, "If we get UTube... I wanna run it." McGrath responded, "You'll have to kill me to get to it first."

I don't quite understand how anyone can stay a Christian after reading the Bible. It's badly written Jesus fan-fic, co-authored by Abraham Z. Brite and Moses Pacione. I'd call it slash-fic, except there isn't enough sex in it.
God's chosen and righteous man, Lot, having drunken sex with his two daughters not hot enough for you?
Check out Ezekiel 23:20-21.
"There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.
It's not exactly a Mills & Boon romance, but I reckon it's enough to get a priest's wang wobbling.
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