In the future can the posts selling t-shirts be from someone besides the CEo. Surely she has more important things to do. Case in point: #Soupguzzler could not care less about the merchandise, it’s for a lackey, but it keeps the CEO occupied, I guess. We understand that you have some really pathetic fans but there is only so long you can milk a cow. How many shirts do the chat mods need? They barely leave the house as it is. I wish I was a CEo, seems fun, important decisions.
Editor’s Post
Gum can write article after article about how great G+ is, but all he does is mock himself when he does this. Personally, I hate Facebook and think G+ is a very attractive platform. But, and this is a big but, like Kim Kadashian big, no one is on G+. Only Gum can miss the point that people are kind of important to a social network. Google hyped up charlatans like Gum himself and ruined the network.
The guy has almost four million followers and posts his shows on G+ and TNT ratings dropped when he took over?
Explain that someone.
“There’s not a single thing featurewise that I can think of that’s better on Facebook than it is on Google+. (Facebook has everybody, but that’s not a feature. It’s a catastrophic accident of history.)“ The Gum
Gumbot, people are kind of an important part of a social network. Take that sentence out of the parenthesis and think about it a bit longer.
Leo Laporte makes Sarah Lane sad. She’s doing the best that she can, but the situation is dire. She needs help—help to get out of this unhealthy relationship.
Someone has to look out for Sarah. If that button pops it could easily kill someone. It could even kill two people with enough ricochet. That button is holding on for dear life.
Well, I think I will start this paragraph with the word “well” in honor of this particular bit of news. Ladies and Gentlemen, #totaldrama was wrong. Wrong wrong wrong, I say again, dead wrong. A hypothesis was expressed here many times that Dec 31st would not just end 2014, it would also end the tenure of our News Director extraordinaire.
We could see it play out in our mind’s eye. Leo at the round table with Gum sitting next to him, probably looking awkward as ever and uncontrollably nodding yes. #Soup thanking him for transforming TWiT into the mega news operation it has become. The Gum saying he loved it here but he just needs to travel, as wanderlust got hold of him, it is in his blood. Then #soup finally heaping praise on Sarah for turning TN2 into a success and enabling her as the rightful successor to the Gum. (Even though to #soup she is only qualified because she is on staff and the only replacement that is cost-free)
This new video creates quite the puzzle. Gum looks more miserable each passing day and although #Drama takes evil pleasure in watching TNT, we think it might be best for his psychological health to get a move on.
#Drama would also like to thank the members of #TWiTLive who ask the real questions. Is Gum leaving? How are TNT ratings? When is I’d Fund That! premiering? Any new shows? How are ad sales? Did TWiT grow or shrink in 2014? Where is this months meet-up?
And again we thank Richard Yes for the clip.
We have all witnessed bizarre stuff at TWiT. Lately, something unusually bizarre has come to our attention. Laporte has long been known as someone who despises humanity. Every emotion he expresses towards people is disingenuous, but a change is on the horizon.
Jeff is only 18 but he is quickly rising in the echelons of TWiT management. Originally, as noted by the lovely & talented Sarah Lane, his main function was #soup fetching. Reluctantly we will admit that this is a task that is not without prestige at TWiT LLC. Later Jeff was advanced to the position of analyst, a title higher than off-site producer currently occupied by Chad Johnson. (analyst is another title with no known function.) Chad Johnson, speaking of the devil, is someone young Jeff is charged with monitoring when the ex-producer is in the vicinity of the supply closet, to ensure that no office supplies suddenly vanish. Do you wonder what caused the boy’s unusually high comfort level at TWiT while everyone else is in constant fear of being unemployed?
Leo has been known to promote friends and girlfriends to high levels of management. It seems that the young lad is truly friends with Leo. The two have been spotted going to the movies together and now Leo is buying him gifts. (a sweater) Add this oddity to the list of things to keep an eye on at TWiT.
Thanks to Richard Yes for clip
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In a #TotalDrama exclusive, we are proud to present this first-ever look at the upcoming drama set to hit theaters in December of 2015.
Mike Elgum continues his uninterrupted streak of not giving a shit about professional broadcasting standards. Why even bother to learn how to say your guest’s name? It’s not like you woke up at 4:30 a.m. to start working on the stories.
There are those who say that ‘necessity is the mother of invention,’ now it can be said that ‘psychosis is the mother of crap.’ Father Rob’s unending quest to avoid seeing Helloworld’s illustrious tweets, combined with his unquenchable desire for attention, has caused the world to merit seeing this marvel of nothingness. I bring you today, a complete waste of time.
I wrote a program a while back that uses the Twitter API to scan through the connections of a few stalker accounts and block future trolls.
— Robert Ballecer, SJ (@padresj) November 25, 2014
…and no one cares
It works beautifully. As they add new accounts, they automatically get muted/blocked.
-Good thing they can't help but follow themselves. 🙂
— Robert Ballecer, SJ (@padresj) November 25, 2014
….stop acting like a douche also works to curtail trolling
I was thinking about showing off the code for "Coding 101", but maybe I'll just keep this one for myself.
— Robert Ballecer, SJ (@padresj) November 25, 2014
They changed the format, no more coding, remember
Sorry folks… I cancelled "Padre's Corner" tonight because I'm about to fall over. I'm doing ByB and some wraps, then I'm going to bed.
— Robert Ballecer, SJ (@padresj) November 25, 2014
Thought that would get more favs
One major blow after another as the world was unable to get its hands on the magical code or see Padre’s Corner. We understand the need to keep this gem hidden from patent trolls but luckily our boys used their electronic archeological skeellz to unearth the coding treasure:
10 Scan DBase /tweets $A:$ZZZZZZ [time* <1 hour] 20 If Tweet = "padre is a jerk" then 80, else 30 30 If Tweet = "padre is a putz" then 80, else 40 40 If Tweet = "padre's a moron" then 80, else 50 50 If Tweet = "padre's a clown" then 80, else 60 60 If Tweet = "padre AND [expletive dbase]" then 80, else 70 70 If Tweet = "padre is fat" then 80, else 90 80 Block twitter /user - $A:$ZZZZZZ 90 Goto 10
A masterpiece like this may stave off his sabbatical for another year but if the inevitable fortunes keep him away from Leo n’ Lisa it may not be what the doctor ordered. Helloworld was not immediately available for comment.
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Groundbreaking comedian and celebrated fire-crotch Louis CK recently appeared for a brief interview with Randal Schwartz on “Floss Weekly.” Here he is:
