Comments on: Amateur Hour

By: Xanthippe

Xanthippe — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:15:18 +0000

Neither Bill Mahar, Seinfeld or Denis Leary invented the term “amateur hour” for people drinking on St. Paddy’s Day, as I heard my parents say something similar about New Years Eve 30 years ago. It’s a fairly common term, so I figure it was probably invented about the same time as the automobile.

By: Eso

Eso — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 14:11:57 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1%2C_2006

By: Amaranthar

Amaranthar — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 03:08:36 +0000

[i]On April Fool's Day, 1996 the fast food chain Taco Bell took out a full page ad in the New York Times to announce their purchase of the Liberty Bell. The full text of the ad read as follows:

Taco Bell Buys The Liberty Bell
In an effort to help the national debt, Taco Bell is
pleased to announce that we have agreed to purchase the
Liberty Bell, one of our country's most historic treasures.
It will now be called the "Taco Liberty Bell" and will
still be accessible to the American public for viewing.
While some may find this controversial, we hope our
move will prompt other corporations to take similar action
to do their part to reduce the country's debt.

In a related release, the company explained that people and corporations had been adopting highways for years, and that Taco Bell was simply "going one step further by purchasing one of the country's greatest historic treasures."

Reaction to this announcement was decidedly mixed. Thousands of people called the National Historic Park in Philadelphia where the Liberty Bell is housed to angrily protest the decision to sell the bell. However, most people seemed to realize that the advertisement was an April Fool's Day joke. Taco Bell revealed the prank at noon on April 1st in a press release describing their earlier announcement as "The Best Joke of the Day."

The White House even got in on the joke when Mike McCurry, the White House spokesperson, suggested that the federal government would also be "selling the Lincoln Memorial to Ford Motor Co. and renaming it the Lincoln-Mercury Memorial."

The hoax paid off for Taco Bell. Their sales during the week of April 1st spiked upwards by over half a million dollars compared to the week before.[/i]

[url]http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/[/url]

By: Grouchy Gnome

Grouchy Gnome — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 19:39:37 +0000

RedWick: “April first. The day the internet stops working.”

Please rephrase to: April first. The day the internet acknowledges that it’s full of it.

By: bloo

bloo — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 06:46:58 +0000

Who’s line is that? It reminds me of Carlin but I think it might be an old Seinfeld or Bill Maher line. I think it was a hack of the line about real drinkers not partying on St. Patrick’s Day because it is ‘amateur hour’, which I think Dennis Leary used (he might have written it).

It also has a slight hint of Groucho Marx in it.

By: Xyntar

Xyntar — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 02:40:00 +0000

I’d pay good money to see a Lord British vs. Lum the Mad brawl.

By: Notin

Notin — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 22:57:09 +0000

In all of this amateur hour nonsense, it’s good to have a way to filter out some of the noise. That’s why I’m looking into the Cure for Information Overload. http://science.slashdot.org/science/06/04/01/1723245.shtml

By: RedWick

RedWick — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 19:34:56 +0000

April first. The day the internet stops working.

By: Bobwl

Bobwl — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 15:24:16 +0000

Best news EVER ! http://www.bobross.com/news.cfm

That will keep up conversation during the lull

Fear my Happy Trees of +2 power!!!!!!!

By: Amber Night

Amber Night — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 02:32:13 +0000

Skeleton walks into a bar and asks for a beer and a mop...

Horse walks into a bar. Bartender: Why the long face?

What did the gay Cleric say to the wraith? "I wish I could crit you." (that joke kills in DDO...)

Thanks, I'll be here all week. Try the veal.