https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCB7RqGS684
We also would have accepted being smothered under a ton of fluffy pillows.
“If Maes fails to get 10 percent of the vote on election day, his legacy… will be leaving Republicans with minor party status in Colorado until 2014.” Oh, and Hickenlooper’s leading by barely four points. [TPM]
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So Trey & Matt decided to do a parody of Inception last week, but given that they produce a show in six days and the movie was out of theaters, they turned to the Web to research lines.
Hey, we do that all the time when we can’t think of sufficiently obscure references on our own. If we wanted to riff on Inception, we’d hit up the IMDb quotes page.
Apparently Trey & Matt (or their minions) didn’t. Instead, they found a clever parody online, and figured the parody was using lines straight from the movie.
It, um, wasn’t.
Title: “World of Warcraft: The Shattering: Prelude to Cataclysm”
Author: Christie Golden
Rank: 31
Blurb: “The spark seemed to spasm, and yet he continued on his lethal course. Thrall, grim-faced, clenched his hand hard. The spark flared defiantly, then dwindled, finally settling down to nothing more than the faintest of glowing embers. For now, he would no longer do anyone harm. The threat had ended, but Thrall was reeling.”
Review: “The Shattering answered every single question I had made, and even gave me a newfound respect for Garrosh Hellscream, a character that I had previously loathed.”
Customers Also Bought: “Gauntlgrym: Neverwinter, Book I,” by R.A. Salvatore
Footnote: Have you seen Gentlemen Broncos? Really, you should. Trust us.
World of Warcraft: The Shattering [Amazon]
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And it doesn’t look a day over 13.7 billion!
But pay no attention to commie cosmology. We can state with the highest authority that Waste & Void replaced Absolute Nothingness on October 23, 4004 B.C. — and we can cite a highly recommended seventeenth-century source to prove it:
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