March 29, 2011
— Maetenloch Here Rachel Sequoia pitches her "Share The Air" business to entrepreneurs and VCs at the first Venture Capital Fundraising Club of Silicon Valley (VCFC) event held in Palo Alto, CA last month. And she's clearly channeling her inner Billy Madison since I definitely felt dumber after having listened to it.
But after laughing and mocking I started thinking about her plan. Clearly her initial $100 price point is too high but if she could get it down to say $5 or $10 she might have something. Because after all people do go to oxygen bars and buy Twilight crap - so why not boutique air?
Some say her pitch is real while others say it's just a clever satire and I go back and forth myself. Even if it is satire, it's still only slightly dumber than a lot of startup ideas.
Rachel may be a kooky hippie chick, but she also might be kooky like an endangered island fox.
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Posted by: bc3b at March 29, 2011 10:52 AM (+QXu3)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 29, 2011 10:53 AM (UOM48)
Get to it, Sequoia! The Schwarz is with you!
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at March 29, 2011 10:54 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: Vic at March 29, 2011 10:54 AM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: grognard at March 29, 2011 10:55 AM (NS2Mo)
Posted by: The Guy Desperate Enough to Tap Anything Short of Helen Thomas's Dead Body at March 29, 2011 10:57 AM (TCyyS)
Posted by: grognard at March 29, 2011 10:59 AM (NS2Mo)
Gotta hand it to the little hippie, she may yet get a nice vacay funded by some idiots.
Anyone willing to put up $500,000 for me to bottle water in exotic locales?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 29, 2011 11:00 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: wildwood at March 29, 2011 11:00 AM (VSWPU)
Anyone willing to put up $500,000 for me to bottle water in exotic locales?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 29, 2011 03:00 PM (UOM4
It reminds me of the woman a few years ago who took up an online collection to pay off her debts, because she was a shopaholic. And people donated. A lot.
Posted by: grognard at March 29, 2011 11:01 AM (NS2Mo)
Posted by: wildwood at March 29, 2011 03:00 PM (VSWPU)
You can braid it into guitar strings.
Posted by: grognard at March 29, 2011 11:02 AM (NS2Mo)
Was she hot? Had to be, because I can't fathom people donating a red cent to a shopaholic who looked like the love child of Godzilla and The Thing.
Posted by: The Guy Desperate Enough to Tap Anything Short of Helen Thomas's Dead Body at March 29, 2011 11:03 AM (TCyyS)
Posted by: grognard at March 29, 2011 11:04 AM (NS2Mo)
Posted by: Damiano at March 29, 2011 11:04 AM (3nrx7)
I would also hit it, then give her the post-coital "I voted for" talk to see how fast she leaves.
Posted by: fb at March 29, 2011 11:04 AM (G60Nl)
Reminds me of farting in a jar when I was a kid.
Posted by: booter at March 29, 2011 11:05 AM (w43sl)
Posted by: The Guy Desperate Enough to Tap Anything Short of Helen Thomas's Dead Body at March 29, 2011 03:03 PM (TCyyS)
Yeah. toasty, cute, and a convincing little panhandler, similar to the cute college girls selling magazine subscriptions I never bought.
Posted by: maddogg at March 29, 2011 11:05 AM (OlN4e)
Posted by: Mel Gibson at March 29, 2011 11:06 AM (oDMwn)
Posted by: joncelli at March 29, 2011 11:06 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: nevergiveup at March 29, 2011 11:07 AM (0GFWk)
Posted by: ace at March 29, 2011 11:07 AM (nj1bB)
Posted by: Goldman Sachs IPO Desk at March 29, 2011 11:08 AM (+lsX1)
Public Policy Lessons for the 2010 Census from Michael Barone
. . .
The 16 states where collective bargaining with public employees is not required grew 15 percent in the last decade. The other states grew 7 percent.
. . .
Posted by: Nash Rambler at March 29, 2011 11:08 AM (LSnhP)
Was she hot? Had to be, because I can't fathom people donating a red cent to a shopaholic who looked like the love child of Godzilla and The Thing.
Posted by: The Guy Desperate Enough to Tap Anything Short of Helen Thomas's Dead Body at March 29, 2011 03:03 PM (TCyyS)
She was ok, I think. Google "savekaryn"
Posted by: grognard at March 29, 2011 11:08 AM (NS2Mo)
Posted by: maddogg at March 29, 2011 11:08 AM (OlN4e)
75% oxygen
21% nitrogen
1% "other stuff" (maybe... methane? Actually it's mostly CO2, the invisible killer)
and
6% "energy"
totals to 103%.
Posted by: ace at March 29, 2011 03:07 PM (nj1bB)
Hey math is hard. And given how the internet has connected up the world, I don't see getting air from Atlantis as an insurmountable challenge.
Posted by: Mætenloch at March 29, 2011 11:10 AM (pAlYe)
Posted by: fb at March 29, 2011 11:10 AM (G60Nl)
I'd give her a C Note to go to Tripoli and get me a jar of that sweet smell of gunfire in the morning.
Posted by: robtr at March 29, 2011 11:11 AM (MtwBb)
Posted by: grognard at March 29, 2011 11:12 AM (NS2Mo)
The irony is back then I couldn't imagine anything worse, until I graduated and starting working in a job where I was surrounded by wrinkled, cold but still as completely vacuous as ever hag monster beasts.
Posted by: The Guy Desperate Enough to Tap Anything Short of Helen Thomas's Dead Body at March 29, 2011 11:12 AM (TCyyS)
Posted by: John P. Squibob at March 29, 2011 11:12 AM (/U/Mr)
It's drifting this directionPosted by: nevergiveup at March 29, 2011 11:13 AM (0GFWk)
Posted by: grognard at March 29, 2011 11:13 AM (NS2Mo)
Posted by: nevergiveup at March 29, 2011 11:13 AM (0GFWk)
Posted by: nevergiveup at March 29, 2011 03:13 PM (0GFWk)
OMFG. KI, KI, KI
Posted by: idiots on the west coast at March 29, 2011 11:15 AM (NS2Mo)
Posted by: maddogg at March 29, 2011 11:15 AM (OlN4e)
Posted by: Dustin at March 29, 2011 11:16 AM (Q3nWV)
I'd love to take a "Montauk Fish Market" bomb into a hipster coffee shop.
Posted by: grognard at March 29, 2011 11:16 AM (NS2Mo)
I have never met a nice person who didn't use air all the time.
Posted by: Dustin at March 29, 2011 11:17 AM (Q3nWV)
Posted by: ace at March 29, 2011 11:17 AM (nj1bB)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 29, 2011 11:18 AM (54F2e)
That said, if that's her pic I'd still hit it like King Kong pwning Godzilla after getting juiced by a bolt of lightning.
Posted by: The Guy Desperate Enough to Tap Anything Short of Helen Thomas's Dead Body at March 29, 2011 11:18 AM (TCyyS)
Posted by: Serious Cat at March 29, 2011 11:18 AM (bAySe)
Posted by: maddogg at March 29, 2011 11:19 AM (OlN4e)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 29, 2011 11:19 AM (Cm66w)
I always imagined it to be something like a cross between the Elephant House at the zoo and a festering porta-john after Lollapalooza.
Posted by: grognard at March 29, 2011 11:20 AM (NS2Mo)
Call it DisastAir. $100k per unit. Top seller, I'll bet.
Posted by: Derak at March 29, 2011 11:20 AM (CjpKH)
We need to smell what Calcutta smells like or something.
Posted by: ace at March 29, 2011 03:17 PM (nj1bB)
I've been on a train full of back-packing hippies in Sweden in the summer. I'll never forget that smell.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 29, 2011 11:20 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: Damiano at March 29, 2011 11:20 AM (3nrx7)
No, but alas, even stupid people are proficient at making them.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at March 29, 2011 11:20 AM (9hSKh)
So you believe people should have to pass a written exam, rather than just a practical, to procreate?
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at March 29, 2011 11:21 AM (8y9MW)
Yeah, but you forgot the hooka smoke.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at March 29, 2011 03:20 PM (8y9MW)
Isn't that the newest Yankee Candle flavor?
Posted by: grognard at March 29, 2011 11:22 AM (NS2Mo)
I gotta admit, you're right. She is willing to present her argument, and she presents it a lot more earnestly than I could. And I even think she could make money doing this. $100 is absurd, but take an air tank from Paris to a swanky restaurant in Madison, WI, and some morons will absolutely pay $5 to breath the Paris moonlight with their sweet beau.
It's the kind of idea that is obvious, yet takes guts because it's also quite stupid.
Posted by: Dustin at March 29, 2011 11:22 AM (Q3nWV)
Posted by: grognard at March 29, 2011 11:23 AM (NS2Mo)
Posted by: Dr Spank at March 29, 2011 11:24 AM (1fB+3)
It's the kind of idea that is obvious, yet takes guts because it's also quite stupid.
Wel, stupid has quite a track record in America. She may be tapping into the almost limitless "stoopid energy" in California.
Posted by: maddogg at March 29, 2011 11:24 AM (OlN4e)
Posted by: Waterhouse at March 29, 2011 11:25 AM (pbCk0)
That would be preferred.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at March 29, 2011 11:26 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: joncelli at March 29, 2011 11:27 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Tesch at March 29, 2011 11:27 AM (1qfCl)
Posted by: Dallas at March 29, 2011 11:28 AM (Hb5CK)
Because nothin screams "I'm a professional" more than going barefoot.
Posted by: Dr Spank at March 29, 2011 11:29 AM (1fB+3)
speaking of smells...
introducing the...Cushionator® the airplane and train seat filtration system!
My pitch:
People travel. And people fart. You don't want to mix the two together while on an airplane or on a train. So my seat cushions have fans in them that draw air from the top and pass it through an air freshener. The days of smelling other people's gas are over!
Posted by: Soothsayer the inventer at March 29, 2011 11:30 AM (uFokq)
Posted by: Soona at March 29, 2011 11:31 AM (mXRya)
Listen to a R. Sequoia, thank blame a public school teacher with a strong union backing.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at March 29, 2011 11:32 AM (pLTLS)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 29, 2011 11:33 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: laceyunderalls at March 29, 2011 03:24 PM (pLTLS)
That is such a classic movie scene. LMAO!
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at March 29, 2011 11:33 AM (YVZlY)
Posted by: polynikes at March 29, 2011 11:33 AM (iRWGZ)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 29, 2011 11:34 AM (UOM48)
I'd think that was stupid too, but I'd be wrong. That idea makes tons of money.
I'm just not stupid enough to come up with the next big thing.
Posted by: Dustin at March 29, 2011 11:35 AM (Q3nWV)
But there's nothing more potent than stupid people, with stupid money to spend.
Posted by: Tesch at March 29, 2011 11:35 AM (1qfCl)
Posted by: grognard at March 29, 2011 11:35 AM (NS2Mo)
Posted by: laceyunderalls at March 29, 2011 11:36 AM (pLTLS)
Posted by: SeeYaAtSanO at March 29, 2011 11:36 AM (tkxUK)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 29, 2011 03:34 PM (UOM4
Yes! Yes! This is the air that we've been waiting for!
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at March 29, 2011 11:37 AM (YVZlY)
i wish i could go back in time and bottle air
Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 29, 2011 11:37 AM (Cm66w)
Posted by: motionview at March 29, 2011 11:38 AM (zRbkQ)
Posted by: grognard at March 29, 2011 11:38 AM (NS2Mo)
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at March 29, 2011 11:38 AM (YVZlY)
Posted by: polynikes at March 29, 2011 11:38 AM (iRWGZ)
Posted by: polynikes at March 29, 2011 11:41 AM (iRWGZ)
As an expected increase in the cost of raw materials looms for late summer, consumers are beginning to encounter shrinking food packages.
With unemployment still high, companies in recent months have tried to camouflage price increases by selling their products in tiny and tinier packages. So far, the changes are most visible at the grocery store, where shoppers are paying the same amount, but getting less.
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at March 29, 2011 11:41 AM (Z1jiu)
Posted by: Waterhouse at March 29, 2011 03:25 PM (pbCk0)
You missed out on the hairy armpit at the 1:39 mark. It adds a certain flavor to the entire presentation.
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at March 29, 2011 11:41 AM (YVZlY)
Posted by: Soona at March 29, 2011 11:41 AM (mXRya)
Looks like she mispelled her last name on her Power Point presentation and had to correct it - which tells me this probably fake.
But it looks like she had fun which is really all the matters in her little world.
Posted by: Roadking at March 29, 2011 11:42 AM (yT2v7)
Posted by: curious at March 29, 2011 11:42 AM (k1rwm)
Fucking brilliant - I'll give the 500k right now.
This "air" will look great on the shelves next to my "Tigers Blood" in Charlie Sheens Emporium of Winning.
Posted by: Charlie Sheen at March 29, 2011 11:44 AM (yT2v7)
Posted by: Shepard "honest, I don't wear mascara" Smith at March 29, 2011 11:44 AM (YVZlY)
this is awesome. i'd say it's most likely a good ol joke because it's so perfectly done.the odd thing for me is that she looks clean, especially her feet. no hippy has clean feet. and she has no tattoos.
but no, i wouldn't hit it.
Posted by: dudeinsantacruz at March 29, 2011 11:45 AM (o9LEY)
Posted by: A.G. at March 29, 2011 11:45 AM (oAVyq)
Posted by: joncelli at March 29, 2011 03:27 PM (RD7QR)
A real attention getter would be something like Rachel Tree Mohammad.
Posted by: Soona at March 29, 2011 11:46 AM (mXRya)
Thank you.
Posted by: ParisParamus at March 29, 2011 11:46 AM (bN5ZU)
Posted by: FlaviusJulius at March 29, 2011 11:46 AM (qIHlG)
All those people watching so seriously reminds me of that old Dana Carvey "Choppin Broccolah" skit from SNL.
Posted by: eleven at March 29, 2011 11:46 AM (7DB+a)
Posted by: dudeinsantacruz at March 29, 2011 11:48 AM (o9LEY)
Posted by: Nash Rambler at March 29, 2011 11:48 AM (LSnhP)
What about the armpit hair?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 29, 2011 11:48 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: maddogg at March 29, 2011 11:48 AM (OlN4e)
What about the armpit hair?
No armpit hair. Clean shaved. In fact she is squeaky clean and so are her clothes.
Posted by: maddogg at March 29, 2011 11:50 AM (OlN4e)
Posted by: Nash Rambler at March 29, 2011 03:48 PM (LSnhP)
Two key words are in your statement: California/stupid. This is a serious pitch.
Posted by: Soona at March 29, 2011 11:51 AM (mXRya)
Dnyamic? Kinetic? Methinks this girl couldn't even begin to comprehend these concepts.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at March 29, 2011 11:52 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: curious at March 29, 2011 03:42 PM (k1rwm)
If I had city water, I'd buy water in those little plastic bottles.
We went to restaurant awhile back and I asked for a water. Deer golly, it was awful. It smelled like bleach and tasted like Obama piss.
Posted by: momma at March 29, 2011 11:53 AM (penCf)
We went to restaurant awhile back and I asked for a water. Deer golly, it was awful. It smelled like bleach and tasted like Obama piss.
Posted by: momma at March 29, 2011 03:53 PM (penCf)
Want some bad water? Go to Midland Texas. You can't even make coffee with that alkaline shit.
Posted by: maddogg at March 29, 2011 11:55 AM (OlN4e)
Posted by: nevergiveup at March 29, 2011 11:55 AM (0GFWk)
The first I'll grant you. How do you know about the second?
-=or=-
"Pics, or it didn't happen."
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at March 29, 2011 11:55 AM (8y9MW)
Sweetwater. That has to be the biggest joke of a name for a town EVAH.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at March 29, 2011 11:56 AM (8y9MW)
We went to restaurant awhile back and I asked for a water. Deer golly, it was awful. It smelled like bleach and tasted like Obama piss.
Posted by: momma at March 29, 2011 03:53 PM (penCf)
Momma. The moron question that'll be asked next should be obvious.
Posted by: Soona at March 29, 2011 11:56 AM (mXRya)
There most definitely is pit hair.
And we need a new thread.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 29, 2011 11:56 AM (UOM48)
Well yeah, but that $10,000 air oughta have extra energy in it, or it's just not worth 10k.
Posted by: Dave in Texas at March 29, 2011 11:58 AM (WvXvd)
My mother who loves dogs has a little jar on her shelf labeled "puppy breath"
So yeah, people will buy air.
Posted by: Truman North at March 29, 2011 11:58 AM (G5JPI)
DOOMED!
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 29, 2011 11:59 AM (swuwV)
Posted by: Mel Gibson at March 29, 2011 03:06 PM (oDMwn)
Seems to me, you got that backwards there, winner.....
Posted by: © Sponge at March 29, 2011 11:59 AM (UK9cE)
BTW, I sent this vid to Ace on Sunday, slow on the uptake?
Posted by: Tom at March 29, 2011 11:59 AM (MWXXs)
Posted by: The Chap in the Deerstalker Cap at March 29, 2011 12:00 PM (qndXR)
Posted by: Soona at March 29, 2011 12:00 PM (mXRya)
Patrons at a Bremerton tavern complained and a security man was "shocked and horrified" when a woman outside repeatedly bared her breasts and asked for donations early Saturday
Posted by: momma at March 29, 2011 12:00 PM (penCf)
Posted by: A.G. at March 29, 2011 12:01 PM (oAVyq)
Did she say she needed $500k for crystals that would be used to bless the air?
Also liked the suggestion to go to her google map app and tag the places where you have breathed.
Posted by: Lowell Mather at March 29, 2011 12:01 PM (lW95N)
Anyone know if the resident AoSHQ Honey Badger has a twitter account? That damned escaped NY cobra is tweeting.
Posted by: robtr at March 29, 2011 12:01 PM (MtwBb)
Posted by: Will Folks at March 29, 2011 12:01 PM (YVZlY)
Anyone know if the resident AoSHQ Honey Badger has a twitter account? That damned escaped NY cobra is tweeting.
Please tell me the cobra is searching for the nearest mosque.
I denounce myself again.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 29, 2011 12:03 PM (UOM48)
And we need a new thread.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 29, 2011 03:56 PM (UOM4
I disagree. I went full screen and stopped the image several times. Can't say I saw any pit hair. I did see a shadow, but no hair.
Posted by: maddogg at March 29, 2011 12:04 PM (OlN4e)
Did y'all ever hear of "The Onion"?
Posted by: Jokin' in Hoboken at March 29, 2011 12:04 PM (pzqji)
Posted by: Harry Reid at March 29, 2011 12:05 PM (swuwV)
Posted by: nevergiveup at March 29, 2011 12:05 PM (0GFWk)
It would have to give a shit to open a twitter account. And, we all know, Honey Badger don't give a shit.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at March 29, 2011 12:06 PM (8y9MW)
Hell, they sell water from France.
Posted by: huerfano at March 29, 2011 03:13 PM (2pEj7)
Yeah but it's bottled in patterson NJ
Posted by: nevergiveup at March 29, 2011 03:13 PM (0GFWk)
They just reconstitute the dehydrated water in NJ. Saves on shipping costs from Europe.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 29, 2011 12:06 PM (9daa6)
166 Ever since watching this.. I am racking my brain.. what is the dumbest thing I could sell to liberals and become a millionaire?
I would suggest a clue, but they ain't buyin'.
Posted by: maddogg at March 29, 2011 12:07 PM (OlN4e)
This has Hank Johnson's fingerprints all over it. I'll bet he'd buy some air.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 29, 2011 12:07 PM (UOM48)
Maybe, but I wouldn't take a check from himPosted by: nevergiveup at March 29, 2011 12:09 PM (0GFWk)
Hand me the hair clippers, then I'll hit that.
But dear, please tell me this is satire. If it isn't, after hitting you, I'd have to mock your mathematical skills - your percentages come up to 103% - and for your notion of the composition of the atmosphere, as well as the complete bastardization of the term energy. Pollution isn't energy, good bad or indifferent. It is usually a particulate suspended in a fluid.
I'd much rather celebrate your ability to satirize than mock you. I'm just afraid she's a standard illeducated illibereral who'll cheerfully tell me that 2+2=6 and that 2+2=4 is just artificial claptrap forced on us by the Patriarchy.
So mock it is.
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie © at March 29, 2011 12:09 PM (1hM1d)
Posted by: joncelli at March 29, 2011 12:10 PM (RD7QR)
Collectible Obama plates and coins?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 29, 2011 12:10 PM (UOM48)
OT: John Boehner stopped vacuuming long enough to note the NYT's Chuckie Schumer marching orders story:
"Moments before a conference call with reporters was scheduled to get underway on Tuesday morning, Charles E. Schumer of New York, the No. 3 Democrat in the Senate, apparently unaware that many of the reporters were already on the line, began to instruct his fellow senators on how to talk to reporters about the contentious budget process."
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 29, 2011 12:11 PM (UO6+e)
OT: Georgia Dems suing to disband cities that are "too white".
They should start with Democrat stronghold Marin County.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 29, 2011 12:13 PM (9daa6)
Posted by: ronsfi at March 29, 2011 12:14 PM (H9eC4)
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(2) 22 karat Quantity 3000 S.A
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As a result of polygamous family, there has been a dead luck over the issue of division of my father's property between members of my family and community as a whole. In conjunction with this, the thrown which is only left to me as the eldest man in the family is been battled by the member of the twenty one hamlet that made up of Ashanti kingdom.
This ugly situation made me to secretly move the gold dust having the above mentioned qualities into a security and finance firm with the assistance of my uncle whom serves as a secretary to Ashanti council of elders.
If you are interested to buy it just contact me or just look for a buyer for me.
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Posted by: FUBAR at March 29, 2011 12:16 PM (McG46)
Well, in 2008 the MBM sold Obama himself to liberals (and others), and at least Jeff Immelt is getting rich because of it.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 29, 2011 12:17 PM (p05LM)
Posted by: joncelli at March 29, 2011 12:17 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: joncelli at March 29, 2011 03:27 PM (RD7QR)
How about Rachel Corrie? I hear it's available.
Posted by: kathysaysso at March 29, 2011 12:20 PM (ZtwUX)
1% "other stuff" (maybe... methane? Actually it's mostly CO2, the invisible killer)
Argon is the biggie, but it's inert. Next up is water vapor at 0.40% for the entire atmosphere, but is in the 1-4% range at the surface. CO2 comes in at a whopping 0.039%.
Remember that the next time some greenie says CO2 is gonna kill us: water vapor is more abundant and a more efficient "greenhouse gas" than CO2.
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie © at March 29, 2011 12:20 PM (1hM1d)
Posted by: Rachel Sequoia - nothing is off the table for me at March 29, 2011 12:21 PM (YVZlY)
Posted by: FlaviusJulius at March 29, 2011 12:22 PM (qIHlG)
She's okay and everything and whatever...
But did you check out the faces of the VCs throughout her presentation? 99 out of 100 pts for keeping a straight face!
You know they were all just looking at each other to see who was going to bust out laughing first. Comedy GOLD.
Posted by: Teran Solo at March 29, 2011 12:22 PM (Vq2Aj)
OT: "Hoyer: Shutdown Likely, but Dems Not to Blame"
Lots of whispering about a shutdown today, and this^ is the latest. The Dems say they made an offer of $20B, which the Rs deny. A story is also circulating that a budget deal was almost made last week to the tune of $35B in cuts but it didn't go over well with many conservatives in the House.* Regardless of what happened, the fact remains that neither side is getting what they want, so there very well could be a shutdown on the 8th due to internal fighting in both camps and neither party wanting to cede ground to the other. Then again, this could all just be noise.
*Hard to say if it's actually true.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 29, 2011 12:22 PM (UO6+e)
It's this thing I call "hippie whimsy" that I find so damned tiring. This little chicky in the video had her little stick figures of a little kitty going "Meow!" isn't that just so fucking cute?
I remember when I first read about the teachings of Jean Jacques Rousseau (in Paul Johnson's Intellectuals). I though about Rousseau's desire to have people live in an innocent, childish state and said, "Holy cats, that's what all these whimsical hippies are all about!"
Cute chick, though. I would not turn my nose up at the hairy armpits.
Posted by: Beppo at March 29, 2011 12:23 PM (uI4Or)
Voter coupons.
Tell them if they buy the coupon their vote will count double. With the extra incentive to buy being they'll be saving the planet from teabaggers.
There was no condition that it had to be the truth right?
Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 29, 2011 12:25 PM (tf9Ne)
Posted by: Beppo at March 29, 2011 04:23 PM (uI4Or)
I'd hit it after she washed her hairy armpits and dirty bits.
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at March 29, 2011 12:26 PM (YVZlY)
Posted by: The Goracle at March 29, 2011 12:27 PM (6DDE+)
Tell them if they buy the coupon their vote will count double. With the extra incentive to buy being they'll be saving the planet from teabaggers.
Make sure and let them know that they won't need to show up at their polling places. Heh.
WINNING!
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 29, 2011 12:27 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: joncelli at March 29, 2011 12:27 PM (RD7QR)
what is the dumbest thing I could sell to liberals and become a millionaire?
I vote for television repair policies. Fifty dollars down and $12/month for 48 months on a $300 TV.
Posted by: Fish the Impaler at March 29, 2011 12:28 PM (ZHsNw)
Posted by: Jean at March 29, 2011 12:28 PM (0rXxT)
It's definitely worth a look...
Posted by: Johnny at March 29, 2011 12:29 PM (mhmc7)
Posted by: Crabby Appleton at March 29, 2011 12:29 PM (6DDE+)
Posted by: MJ at March 29, 2011 12:30 PM (BKOsZ)
Posted by: nevergiveup at March 29, 2011 12:30 PM (0GFWk)
I'd hit it after she washed her
hairy armpits and dirty bits.
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at March 29, 2011 04:26 PM (YVZlY)
And y'know...if the armpits are hairy it's a safe bet that her dirty bits are a friggin' forest -- just sayin'.
Posted by: Crabby Appleton at March 29, 2011 12:30 PM (6DDE+)
Prices would go from a few dollars for ordinary farts, to tens of thousands of dollars for "celebrity farts". Imagine having a canned fart from Natalie Portman--can you imagine how rare that would be?
We would even have fart farms and a Facebook application where you could go on and click wherever you farted....
Posted by: Ralph Magnolia at March 29, 2011 12:31 PM (HqpV0)
And y'know...if the armpits are hairy it's a safe bet that her dirty bits are a friggin' forest -- just sayin'.
Posted by: Crabby Appleton at March 29, 2011 04:30 PM (6DDE+)
Ugh, we validate your research sir!
Posted by: Gillette Young Guns at March 29, 2011 12:32 PM (ZHsNw)
How do I get me one of those jars of air from Atlantis? That would be like totally awesome or something
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 29, 2011 12:33 PM (1Jaio)
Posted by: joncelli at March 29, 2011 12:33 PM (RD7QR)
@BronxZoosCobra Bronx Zoo's Cobra On top of the Empire State Building! All the people look like little mice down there. Delicious little mice.
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at March 29, 2011 12:34 PM (YVZlY)
They were looking at something that has essentially zero start-up costs, and the potential to go viral. I bet some of them were thinking that with a 100K LOC, an experienced marketeer, they could catch lightning in a bottle - and get a BJ.
Posted by: Jean at March 29, 2011 12:34 PM (0rXxT)
They have until the 8th to make a deal, and the Republican budget is being released sometime next week. As for the timeframe of an actual shutdown-- if it actually occurs-- no idea. It depends who in the Republican Party is making demands and what they are demanding.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 29, 2011 12:35 PM (UO6+e)
Posted by: MJ at March 29, 2011 12:37 PM (BKOsZ)
Posted by: Melissa Lou Etheridge at March 29, 2011 12:39 PM (YVZlY)
I'll bet dollars to donuts she prefers a clam bake over a weenie roast anyday.
Posted by: MJ at March 29, 2011 04:37 PM (BKOsZ)
Agreed, and as we say in Mexico, she prefers the taco over the burrito. Ole!
Posted by: Fish the Impaler at March 29, 2011 12:39 PM (ZHsNw)
Posted by: Charles Gibson at March 29, 2011 12:43 PM (BKOsZ)
Nitrogen in your tires, prevent flats in changing temperatures. One in four tires per vehicle has a garunteed faulty sensor.
Posted by: Catlady at March 29, 2011 12:44 PM (CyPWX)
BOTTLED CHARLIE SHEEN FARTS!
Posted by: FUBAR at March 29, 2011 12:46 PM (McG46)
Oysters over snails?
Posted by: toby928™ at March 29, 2011 12:47 PM (GTbGH)
Nut over bolt?
Ring instead of the finger?
Wrapper instead of the twinky?
Socket instead of the bulb?
Posted by: Rachel "Forest" Sequoia at March 29, 2011 12:52 PM (G60Nl)
Liberals have been particularly vitriolic and strident on other sites after their Messiah fucked up last nights Merit Badge contest.
Posted by: Fish the Impaler at March 29, 2011 12:52 PM (ZHsNw)
So given the choice between Eleanor Clift and SE Cupp, how many would mercy fuck El to show your solidarity with bipartisanship?
Posted by: Fish the Impaler at March 29, 2011 12:54 PM (ZHsNw)
Posted by: Unclezeb at March 29, 2011 01:16 PM (2tyI1)
Well yeah, but that $10,000 air oughta have extra energy in it, or it's just not worth 10k.
Posted by: Dave in Texas at March 29, 2011 03:58 PM (WvXvd)
Duh... I'm giving 110% to this project you know.
Posted by: Every Sports Figurine at March 29, 2011 01:30 PM (kb0wl)
31 For those keeping track,
75% oxygen
21% nitrogen
1% "other stuff" (maybe... methane? Actually it's mostly CO2, the invisible killer)
and
6% "energy"
totals to 103%
I was told there'd be no math.
Posted by: Miss South Carolina at March 29, 2011 01:57 PM (mQMnK)
Posted by: guy with great ideas at March 29, 2011 02:03 PM (Epj2t)
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Posted by: Dr. Heinz Doofensmirtz at March 29, 2011 02:18 PM (dg3fX)
If there is a market for boutique air, how about we create a market for snark, since the bloggers here have the most and the best. We could call it the AoSSnarkExchange, or ASSEX, and charge people for...uh...something.
Step 1: AssEx
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!
Like Obama, I must bear the burden of my brilliance.
Posted by: NC Ref at March 29, 2011 02:42 PM (/izg2)
Posted by: Jim Crotch-ee at March 29, 2011 02:44 PM (vEN6I)
75% oxygen
21% nitrogen
1% "other stuff" (maybe... methane? Actually it's mostly CO2, the invisible killer)
and
6% "energy"
totals to 103%.
Posted by: ace at March 29, 2011 03:07 PM (nj1bB)
like I always say "counting things is hard"
p.s. I'd hit it
Posted by: Shoey at March 29, 2011 02:56 PM (473WA)
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Posted by: carlos at March 29, 2011 04:35 PM (G0PfF)
[youtube]V-GIS3RbT-I[/youtube]
The VC sales pitch probably was a very clever prank
Posted by: metalman at March 29, 2011 07:05 PM (ZrEWI)
KingCaliWolf - Stardust (pt 1/9) youtube=V-GIS3RbT-I
Bet the VC presentation was a very clever prank!
Posted by: metalman at March 29, 2011 07:10 PM (ZrEWI)
Posted by: rickl at March 29, 2011 08:30 PM (hZFhS)
who misspells their own name LOL
"Spiral Moon Media is a national video production company focusing on high-quality, full service, creative, digital content for online distribution. "
Our filmmakers are all qualified individuals that specialize in creating a compelling story using video as the medium. Most importantly, we strive to give you the best product possible at an affordable cost
viral marketing!!
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