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kroki_refur (kroki_refur) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2005-12-08 22:25:00
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Current mood:Dovish

Christmas lights = communist propaganda?
It all starts with a video of a really cool Christmas lights display. There's a few comments about what it must be like to be the neighbours of said display's owners (earliest comments are at the bottom of the page). So far, so non-wanky. That is, until PBRsailor breaks out the CAPSLOCK of EMPHASIS when he objects to the use of the CND symbol on the grounds that it symbolises COWARDICE in the face of the VIETNAM War. All HELL breaks LOOSE.

My personal favourite comment is the entirely non-wanky I'm 60 years old and this is AWESOME and the music is GREAT! What a terrific job. If my husband was younger, he would do this, lol..

ETA Hee! I love the fact that out of 31 comments to this post, only about three are about crazy Vietnam dude!


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[info]the_wanlorn
2005-12-08 09:44 pm UTC (link)
I want to grow up to be the people who made that display.

If only because it must bug the shit out of the neighbors. =D

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[info]delicfcd
2005-12-09 02:33 am UTC (link)
Apparently the music is played over a radio frequency so you can only hear it if you're tuned in. (Although I guess the lights alone would still be pretty annoying.)

...It worries me that I know this off the top of my head.

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(no subject) - [info]the_wanlorn, 2005-12-09 02:47 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sadisticferret, 2005-12-09 05:58 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-12-09 07:40 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mockaholic, 2005-12-11 10:01 am UTC

[info]doomsday
2005-12-08 09:45 pm UTC (link)
Everytime I see this xmas light thing, I have this unshakable idea that the guy who did it must look like Yanni.

It's a peace sign, for you know, peace on Earth. I doubt the guy thought of any social ramifications of using it in the display. He probably just cleaned out the local Walmart and that was the only decoration they had left, and he really needed something to go along with the harpsichord or whatever.

My favorite comment is "Perhaps we can let go and just enjoy the artistry. WWJD??" because that argument against Christian radicals will always be funny.

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From King of the Hill:
(Anonymous)
2005-12-11 07:23 am UTC (link)
"Dad, it's Jesus peace, not hippie peace!"

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[info]alisalias
2005-12-08 09:46 pm UTC (link)
I'm preferable to If this person were my neighbor, I would blackjack him, drag him to the street and curbstomp him until he begged for death through a tootless and bloody maw.. then I would fulfill his request. Since he is not my neighbor, I think it's neat.

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[info]doomsday
2005-12-08 10:06 pm UTC (link)
That's my kind of reviewer! *Thumbs up*

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(Anonymous)
2005-12-08 10:17 pm UTC (link)
You're preferable to that comment? How so?

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(no subject) - [info]alisalias, 2005-12-08 11:15 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]becktionary, 2005-12-08 11:29 pm UTC

[info]moonpigeon
2005-12-08 11:06 pm UTC (link)
That is disturbingly violent.

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(no subject) - [info]miss_arel, 2005-12-09 01:43 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]aaron_agonistes, 2005-12-09 05:19 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]runrunmarch, 2005-12-09 05:45 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]moonpigeon, 2005-12-09 06:43 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]runrunmarch, 2005-12-09 07:33 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]loony666, 2005-12-10 12:10 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]runrunmarch, 2005-12-10 05:09 am UTC

[info]arymabeth
2005-12-08 09:55 pm UTC (link)
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see how it would bother the neighbors that much, unless the music is playing AT the house. Surely it doesn't all the time. And the lights wouldn't be a big deal at all; I've had neighbors with flashing Christmas lights before. Shut the blinds and it goes away. We're not talking Chevy Chase-level brilliance here. :-)

Anyway. Yeah. That designer wins at life.

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[info]altoidsaddict
2005-12-08 10:24 pm UTC (link)
As I understand it, the music is actually broadcast on a limited-frequency radio channel, so if you're across the street watching the lights you can tune into it on your car stereo. The neighbors never hear it unless they're also tuned in.

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[info]ecchaniz0r
2005-12-08 10:24 pm UTC (link)
The music is audible through a specific radio station. it's like an oldsk00l drivein movie. Tune to 98.foo, and get the moozik.

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[info]moonpigeon
2005-12-08 11:06 pm UTC (link)
It runs from 6-10 pm and the computer engineer that lives there said if anyone complained, he would shut it off.

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(no subject) - [info]ecchaniz0r, 2005-12-08 11:48 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]delicfcd, 2005-12-09 02:35 am UTC

[info]greenling
2005-12-09 05:34 am UTC (link)
If the article I got linked to (sorry, I don't know where it is) is any indication, it got shut off because of traffic concerns.

That is, because there were ten thousand people lined up to see the shiny. :D

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[info]pipssister
2005-12-08 09:58 pm UTC (link)
That is, until PBRsailor breaks out the CAPSLOCK of EMPHASIS when he objects to the use of the CND symbol on the grounds that it symbolises COWARDICE in the face of the VIETNAM War.

Man, and here I thought it would be one of those CAPalert-esque "The Peace Sign isn't CHRISTIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!" types.

I wonder what these people do when they see little girls draw them all over their pencil bags. Along with hearts and flowers and other easy-to-draw things ...

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[info]doroc_sabah
2005-12-09 09:19 am UTC (link)
Icon wub liek woa.

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(no subject) - [info]pipssister, 2005-12-09 03:22 pm UTC

[info]marciamarcia
2005-12-09 09:15 pm UTC (link)
"The Peace Sign isn't CHRISTIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!"

Sometimes, I'm a little sad that, until the day I die, I will always hear that "Trading Spouses" woman's voice anytime anyone anywhere posts the word "CHRISTIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!"

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(no subject) - [info]pipssister, 2005-12-09 10:26 pm UTC

[info]jetamors
2005-12-08 10:03 pm UTC (link)
From Snopes:

So that the Williams' neighbors aren't disturbed by constant noise, viewers driving by the house are informed by signs to tune in to a signal broadcast over a low-power FM radio station to hear the musical accompaniment.

Now will everybody shut up about it?

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[info]splorch
2005-12-08 10:14 pm UTC (link)
And when traffic got too bad, the cops called him and said "Can you shut it down?" and he said, "OK." I really would be okay living next door to this guy. I've lived next to worse.

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(no subject) - [info]doomsday, 2005-12-08 10:50 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]doomsday, 2005-12-08 10:51 pm UTC

[info]michmatch
2005-12-08 10:14 pm UTC (link)
Good thing no one tried to call them "holiday lights" or there'd really be a shitstorm.

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(no subject) - [info]crickets, 2005-12-09 04:52 am UTC

[info]sesana
2005-12-09 05:20 am UTC (link)
Has he been waiting thirty years to wank about this? It's almost like a time capsul.

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-12-09 04:57 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]runrunmarch, 2005-12-09 07:36 pm UTC

[info]tianxiaode
2005-12-09 06:57 am UTC (link)
*luffs the running snowmen*

I got nuthin' else.

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[info]v_digitalwytch
2005-12-09 06:00 pm UTC (link)
Pretty display but I cringe at the thought of what his electric bill must be like. My ex subscribed to the Griswold more is better theory.

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(no subject) - [info]pipssister, 2005-12-09 11:24 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mireille, 2005-12-11 05:06 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]pipssister, 2005-12-11 06:42 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-12-11 07:08 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]pipssister, 2005-12-11 07:23 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-12-12 09:45 pm UTC

[info]smo
2005-12-09 06:06 pm UTC (link)
*has Pokemon-episode-esque seizure*

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[info]slackerbitch
2005-12-11 12:57 am UTC (link)
I want to move next to this guy and sit in my yard and stare at the pretty, pretty lights every freaking night until he takes them down in January.

So. Much. Love.

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[info]marlo
2005-12-12 10:37 pm UTC (link)
Oh man. He's a real-life version of Walter from The Big Lebowski! I could just imagine the Christmas light guy opening his door to an enormous, insane Vietnam vet pointing a gun in his face, saying, "You're entering a world of pain, son."

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