YSaC, Vol. 1222: The TV of Damocles

2012 April 3
by dan

TV


Sony Trinitron xbr 37″ tv with stand for sale

You know what – keep the TV. I’ll give you a thousand bucks for the stand if it can do that, and two thousand if you’ll sell me the patent.

Thanks for the link, jskay!

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  1. 2012 April 3
    Rabbit Roulette permalink

    Credit where it is due, Sparky did at least TRY to turn the picture right side up. He just clicked the wrong rotate button and forgot to hit it two more times to fix the picture.

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  2. 2012 April 3
    Ralph permalink

    I’ve heard of cystoceles, meningoceles, pharyngoceles, and varicoceles, but not damoceles. Whatever that is, it’s not a tumor. However, it can obviously give you a head injury.

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    • 2012 April 3
      CapnMac permalink

      It’s a Stoogian malady, resultant–or causative–of pendant objects threatening capital. Whether cream pie, shoe, or scimitars perched pendant aloft.

      Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

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      • 2012 April 3

        Wise guy, eh?

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      • 2012 April 4
        Windrose permalink

        Hey, Dan! No fair correcting the title after we made all these great comments about the error! Technically, of course, you can and do make any changes you wish. MBBUY.

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    • 2012 April 3
      camille permalink

      I believe dan meant “Damocles,” which is also not a tumor.

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      • 2012 April 3
        Irregular Fractal permalink

        Damoceles was Damocles’s younger, slightly more eccentric brother, who was known for bouncing up and down incessantly at very regular intervals.

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        • 2012 April 3
          funky "looking innuendo" monkey permalink

          Don’t forget their sister, Demimooreles, who was known for bouncing up and down incessantly on very young men.

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        • 2012 April 3
          Windrose permalink

          Monkey, CORNER! And give Dan a break, he’s been working really hard for us lately.

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        • 2012 April 3
          Irregular Fractal permalink

          Not to mention for SCIENCE!

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        • 2012 April 3
          funky "looking innuendo" monkey permalink

          Y’all are just haters, that’s all you are. If I were a cute little puppy, you’d rub my tummy. But, noooooo, the monkey gets sent to the corner!

          *corner bound, dragging blankie behind her*

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        • 2012 April 3
          One Moving Violation permalink

          Don’t forget, also known for bouncing up and down was Testicles.

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        • 2012 April 3
          funky "looking innuendo" monkey permalink

          I’m trying to come up with a mammary pun to go with your testicle comment, but no soap. I’m such a boob.

          PS: Hey! HEY! Oh, I see how it is! OMV makes a balls joke and HE ain’t sent to the corner! Just the monkey! Y’all are PREJUDICED!!!

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        • 2012 April 3
          One Moving Violation permalink

          That is why I said it. To prove that point FM. You are welcome.

          PS: Mammaries,
          all alone in the moonlight.
          Bouncing with such ease,
          In a tube top that’s to tight.

          There you go FM.

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        • 2012 April 3
          Windrose permalink

          One, CORNER! (I didn’t know we ever let you out of the corner!) (And I have to work sometime, okay?)

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        • 2012 April 3

          *Puts up the toddler fence in the corner*

          There, that should hold ’em.

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        • 2012 April 3
          One Moving Violation permalink

          Awww!

          *lowers head in shame*
          *head causes bucket of shame to overfill*
          *shame spills all over floor making floor slippery*
          *OMV slips and does airborn summersault*

          Aaaaahhh!

          *Summer’s military training kicks in and knees OMV in crotch*

          Summer: Get off me, you perv!
          OMV: Oww! It was an accident, I slipped.

          *doubles over*
          *Summer instrantly feels better*
          *crawls toward closet to get mop*

          Moral: Whoever you do, don’t never, without consent.

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        • 2012 April 3
          One Moving Violation permalink

          Bound for the corner,
          FM I will meet,
          I’m going there to warn her
          to cover up her teet.

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        • 2012 April 3
          One Moving Violation permalink

          I know, I’m bad, but if I was really good I wouldn’t be a violation.

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  3. 2012 April 3
    CapnMac permalink

    But, failed to clean the, whatever, off of the screen, or even find a nicer spot in the basement to take the picture.

    Said cellar might be under construction, though (or demolition–it can be a fine line to cleave).

    So, there may not have been any stairs down into the lair. So, intrepid Spark’ had to perch, bat-like, over the lip of the staircase to capture the elusive image.

    So, to Spark’s, well, no other word suits, “imagination” that is the correct orientation for the photo–inverted and full of terror xbr! xbr!

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    • 2012 April 3
      Digitalaxis permalink

      Cellars are always under construction AND demolition simultaneously. It’s the quantum theory of storage spaces.

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    • 2012 April 3
      Rabbit Roulette permalink

      From the lighting and the tape on the floor I figured it was in the garage.

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  4. 2012 April 3
    grumpy grammy permalink

    I especially like the two different surfaces on the ceiling and the masking tape that separates them and the pipes coming out of the walls. All in all, a very classy lab where this amazing TV stand was invented.

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  5. 2012 April 3

    Spider-Stand, Spider-Stand, does whatever a spider can…

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    • 2012 April 3
      Digitalaxis permalink

      Can it watch, all your soaps?
      Yes but you’ll, hurt your neck…

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    • 2012 April 3
      P-rex permalink

      We jumping spiders don’t use stands, we actively hunt. Although I have been known to ride on the end of a human finger following prey, then pouncing.

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      • 2012 April 3
        funky "looking innuendo" monkey permalink

        Ew. Kind of like a booger.

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        • 2012 April 3
          P-Rex permalink

          P gets no respect. Cute little spiders get squashed. Along with our dreams of world conquest.

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        • 2012 April 3
          P-rex permalink

          Boogers don’t pounce.

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        • 2012 April 3
          funky "looking innuendo" monkey permalink

          Are you sure about that?

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        • 2012 April 3
          One Moving Violation permalink

          An ounce of booger is worth a pound of lost lunch.

          A pounce of rex is worth a lunch on the fly.

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        • 2012 April 3
          P-rex permalink

          Yes, boogers just stick to one place and wait for their prey to come to them, like those lazy shiftless weavers that build those totally awesome orb webs.

          I’m joking about weavers being lazy and shiftless. They are real touchy about bad vibes like that.

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  6. 2012 April 3

    The Eschers finally upgraded to HDTV and listed their old set for sale.

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    • 2012 April 3
      Irregular Fractal permalink

      Please Escher, Don’t Break the Laws of Physics was my favorite album of his.

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  7. 2012 April 3

    ¡¡ʌʇ

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  8. 2012 April 3

    Wow! I have seen stalagmites and stalactites, but never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I’d live to see an actual telegmite!

    This. Is. Epic.

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    • 2012 April 3
      CapnMac permalink

      “Telegmite”? Isn’t that the horrible sandwich spread popular in antipodean climes?

      (Men At Work Earworm some how apropos and all . . . )

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      • 2012 April 3
        funky "looking innuendo" monkey permalink

        I though that was ear mites.

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      • 2012 April 3
        tigprincess permalink

        Cp’n you wouldn’t be insulting the wonderful Vegemite or its famous UK cousin Marmite, would you? Both are brilliant and wonderful on toast. If you ever can find it check out the Billy Connelly sketch of eating toast and V’mite in a hotel in bed and the reaction of the butler when he finds that some has landed on the sheets. A classic!

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    • 2012 April 3
      mud "" slicker permalink

      If it’s hanging from the ceiling, it would have to be a telegtite.

      {deleted Australian comment}

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  9. 2012 April 3

    Simple explanation. This photo was taken in Australia.

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    • 2012 April 3
      ghostcat permalink

      Or Sparky has an Australian camera.

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    • 2012 April 3
      funky "looking innuendo" monkey permalink

      Hey, see Cap’n’s above comment. This is starting to come together….

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      • 2012 April 3

        Little trick to save money: If you want to take authentic looking Australian pictures, you don’t need an Australian camera! You just have to stand on your head when you take the pictures!

        It won’t work with every camera. Some of them have region encoding on them and if you try to take a picture like that it won’t have any sound when you play it back.

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  10. 2012 April 3

    I understand that kelli will be cutting the cheese in the box later today. . . Oh, don’t wine!

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    • 2012 April 3
      One Moving Violation permalink

      Imbribery!

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  11. 2012 April 3
    Digitalaxis permalink

    DO A BARREL^H^H^H^H^H TV ROLL!

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  12. 2012 April 3
    Digitalaxis permalink

    The joke’s on you, Dan… the TV levitates, and they perched the stand on top of that.

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    • 2012 April 3
      One Moving Violation permalink

      It’s HAUNTED!!
      That’s an ectoplasma screen.

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      • 2012 April 3
        Digitalaxis permalink

        The picture is scary good.

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        • 2012 April 3
          Digitalaxis permalink

          A man of 256 mixed emotions, Taco is.

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      • 2012 April 3

        Hey, OMV – if you get an FB friend request from a strangely-bespectacled dog named Violet..don’t ignore me it, please.

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        • 2012 April 3
          Tankerbell permalink

          And the friend request from a South Park character named Jd is from me.

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        • 2012 April 3

          I’m as much 8-bit in real life as I am in person.

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        • 2012 April 3
          One Moving Violation permalink

          Do all of these FB friend requests mean I’ve been vetted now? What, no snipe hunt?

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        • 2012 April 3
          Tankerbell permalink

          Well, I wanted to make you get the official tattoo. But nOoooooooo. Taco had to go and invoke parliamentary procedure and block the floor vote. So instead, you’re just going to get branded on the flank. When you least expect it.

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  13. 2012 April 3
    DGiovanni permalink

    I think that it was a failed attempt at something like this- http://imgur.com/MxnTb

    I am going to go now and search craigslist for someone who can teach me how to hyperlink… and teach me how to Dougie…

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    • 2012 April 3

      Ask and ye shall receive. It just may not be the one you really wanted.

      To hyperlink, type the following:

      [a href=”linkgoeshere”]words you want to be a link[/a] , except replace the [ ] with < >.

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  14. 2012 April 3

    Ahh yes, I remember well the time I used to spend dancing on the ceiling with the TV stand and the terracotta bust.

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    • 2012 April 3
      funky "looking innuendo" monkey permalink

      Hello?! I’ve been known to do that all night long.

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  15. 2012 April 3
    Tankerbell permalink

    This is brilliant! Now, hoarders can get even more busted, stain-on-the-screen TVs into their houses, with the new Acme TV of Damocles. No more room on the floor or the piles? No problem! Just peel off the protective backing and stick that TV to your already-collapsing-from-the-weight-of-accumulated-crap-upstairs ceiling! Never have to say no to a great TV spotted on the curb again! YES, YOU CAN fit it into your hoard, with new TV of Damocles.

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    • 2012 April 3

      My TV of Damocles is through-bolted to the main support of the house with 20 1/2″ bolts and a pair of emergency support chains. I sit under it all the time; it’s great!

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      • 2012 April 3
        funky "looking innuendo" monkey permalink

        You didn’t trust the horse’s tail hair?

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        • 2012 April 3
          One Moving Violation permalink

          Horse feathers!

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        • 2012 April 3

          Horse Hair is just a sign of cut-corner workmanship. I say bolt that sucker to the ceiling and be damned with natural building products!

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  16. 2012 April 3
    Tankerbell permalink

    But with all that bolty-structural stuff you said, the TV is almost certain not to fall on your head. Where’s the fun in that? I much prefer the adventure of the peel ‘n stick. You never know what kind of cranium-obliterating hijinks might ensue.

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  17. 2012 April 4
    Windrose permalink

    kelli, your virtual cheese is on its way to your glowy box. Punchity Punch Punch!

    Good Morning, Hercules meets the Three Stooges!

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