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Feels like people were kind of quiet this week. Everyone OK? You guys all sick? Get well soon! Here’s something that might get you TALKIN’: the Unofficial Videogum Book Club is starting up again with a very ambitious selection: David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. That’s a good book! (Controversial opinion, I’m sure. See this week’s Lowest Rated Comment.) Don’t drop it on your foot! You can join your fellow monsters in the reading and discussion of said book here. Hopefully by the time you are finished reading it you will have recuperated from whatever it was that made you incapable of commenting this week. I mean, seriously, it’s a long book, it should give you plenty of time. How sick are you?!
After the jump, the five Highest Rated comments, as voted on by you, the Lowest Rated comment, the winner of the Sad Beetlejuice Caption Contest, and the Editor’s and Associate Editor’s Choice.
This Week’s Highest Rated Comments
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explainer guy tries again | Nov 1st | Score:53 |
| Posted in: The Videogum Why Don’t YOU Caption It? Contest: Sad Beetlejuice | |||
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facetaco | Oct 31st | Score:57 |
| Posted in: Draw Something: Improve Heidi Klum’s Halloween Costume! | |||
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R2D2, Esq. | Nov 1st | Score:58 |
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Later in the interview: “I know our relationship might seem unusually close to outsiders, but nothing would ever happen between us. He thinks of me like a daughter.” |
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| Posted in: Yeah We Get It, Scarlett Johansson. WE’RE JEALOUS! | |||
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facetaco | Nov 2nd | Score:69 |
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No, he just finally found one. |
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| Posted in: Everyone Is Divorced | |||
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mrCasual | Nov 2nd | Score:83 |
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We need to stop defining people by the color of their skin. I don’t even think of Herman Cain as a black person. I think of him as an Italian person, because he makes pizza. |
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| Posted in: Ann Coulter Should Have Rested Her Garbage Case About Black People! | |||
[Assoc. Ed. Note: mrCasual, that was a great comment! ARE YOU JACK HANDEY? Does Jack Handey comment on Videogum and is he you?! If so, I'm a huge fan. If not, I'm still a huge fan because that was a great comment. Congrats. Likewise to the rest of you. This is your day, all of you. ENJOY IT!]
This Week’s Lowest Rated Comment
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badideajeans | Oct 28th | Score:-17 |
| THIS IS THE WORST BOOK I’VE EVER THROWN OUT A WINDOW. ANYONE WHO LIKES IT IS A JERK. | |||
| Posted in: Monsters’ Ball: The Week’s Best Comments | |||
[Assoc. Ed. Note: The book in question was, topically enough, Infinite Jest. Maybe also a cheap grab for lowest rated?!? Who knows. No one will ever know. Congrats/Boooooooo to you, badideajeans!]
This Week’s Caption Contest Winner
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explainer guy tries again | Nov 1st | Score:53 | |
| Posted in: The Videogum Why Don’t YOU Caption It? Contest: Sad Beetlejuice | |||
[Ed. Note: Congratulations, explainer guy tries again! You earned it.]
This Week’s Associate Editor’s Choice
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fondue cheddar | Nov 3rd | Score:10 | |
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She was obviously inspired by Johan Sebastian Baaaaaach Bach Bach Bach Baaaaaaaaaaaach |
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| Posted in: The Chicken Fiddler Is Just Very Good At What She Does | |||
[Assoc. Ed. Note: Sometimes there's just one perfect joke out there and it doesn't get said until someone just goes ahead and SAYS IT. Thank you for being the one to do that, fondue cheddar. You really went for it here.]
This Week’s Editor’s Choice
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ElectricKoala | 9:50am | Score:5 | |
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The complete list of the things she stole in the computer game, my fondest form of the Carmen Sandiego franchise: Here, via Wikipedia, is a complete list of fifty things that Carmen Sandiego stole in Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?: The Khyber Pass |
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| Posted in: Jennifer Lopez IS Carmen Sandiego! | |||
[Ed. Note: Admittedly, this week's Editor's Choice basically goes to Wikipedia, but still, this is just INFORMATIVE. That being said, it raises a lot of questions. Like, how did Carmen Sandiego STEAL A CRATER? Seems unlikely. I feel like even Sean Connery in Entrapment would've been like "Nun-unh." Nonsense. If anything that game was un-educational, putting junk in children's brains. Steal the river delta? Go to bed!]
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It’s Friday let’s dance
Woo!
the right stuff!
I want this to happen at the end of every psych episode.
Congratulations everyone! Let’s rest up after this weird long cold week! No whale attacks for us. Only open hearts and open minds! I have no idea what I am talking about I am seriously so tired right now.
High fives!
This is exactly the kind of publicity that will finally get Jodie Foster to notice me.
And rest assured, once she does, she will stand by you, despite anti-semitism and spousal abuse. As long as you agree to say nothing and put her beaver on your hand.
AW EFF YEAH! Kelly I’m so buying you a drink next time I run into you.
Now I’m off to the woods this weekend. No internet. No running water. Just Chicken Dancing.
Everyone be good!!!!
Man, if there was a 6th place in the Ball, I would have like 10 of those
. Whatever; Friday, y’all!
Good week, everyone. I won’t be around next week, so I’d appreciate it if someone would pick up the slack on replying to facetaco’s comments for me. Arrivederci!
Hope you and 3PO have a nice vacation, R2D2 and C3PO were a gay couple right?
I’m still pretty upset about Carmen stealing ALL THE GOULASH, but I guess by the end of the weekend I will have gotten over it.
I’m assuming it’s just all the goulash in Hungary, her acts of theft are usually localized
make some more, it’s not that hard.
the only tough decision i have to make this weekend is whether to buy beer or wine at trader joe’s tonight. it’s going to be a good weekend.*
*i’m not leaving my bed
at trader joe’s, you can afford to buy both and choose later!
well there goes all my tough decisions for the weekend.
Maybe Lucy will hold a football for you and you’ll have to decide whether to kick it.
Hey, Ralph Maccio, Happy Birthday!
Happy 50TH BIRTHDAY! WHHAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTT?????????????????????????
Hey Monsters! I missed it, because I am either lazy or busy, I can’t tell which. BUT, October 25th was the one year anniversary of me becoming a Monster! It is a day that shall forever living in infamy. Thanks Monsters!
I think I missed my 2 year anniversary, since I don’t remember the exact date, it was sometime around now though. Congrats on your superior memory!
Enjoy your Monster birthday, DSN!
dont i feel special! have a great weekend everybody!
This gets more disturbing the longer you look at it.
Hey guys! I haven’t been able to comment lately. Miss you
Same here, I still read all the posts at night on my Kindle(sponsored comment) but I didn’t get a chance to comment as much because of stupid work.
Yeah, I feel like my commenting has dropped a lot since the start of summer when work got all busy. We all just need to come together and agree to step it up around here.
Was that inspirational enough? Do we win the sports game?
Time to rock, everybody!
Oh my god thank you so much for the gif of uncle bob throwin’ kicks!
I still don’t know where all these awesome gifs come from on fridays…
YEAH!!! \m/ \m/
I used the internet to my advantage! ElectricKoala 2.0
I MADE IT!!! SO CLOSE TO MY EGOT!!! (I only put it there bc of last week’s discussion on if a trolling for lowest vote counted in the EGOT… so I put my most unpopular opinion up and it worked! It worked!!!!!!)
Now I know how Facetaco feels.
You guys are my favorite, but I really do hate that book.
I’ve been holding on to this for awhile….
wait for it
herman caine
Been asleep at the wheel this week. More comments next week, I promise.
