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50 Comments on monday february 13, 2006 : daily

  1. if that’s what it takes, so be it.

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  2. WooHoo! I’m first today!! Good morning Amanda! Thanks for reminding my why I moved back to Florida. ;-)

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  3. Dang! Didn’t post fast enough. :-(

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  4. There are few things I love more than blizzards. Unfortunately I had to leave town Saturday and missed it. Well, I want another one — this time even bigger! How about 40 inches!
    As for Mr Cheney: I told you he was dangerous. I wouldn’t want to be around him when he’s armed. He’s a killer, tell ya. Just look at those eyes.

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  5. Hey, you said:”no pre-role ads” and now you talk about your sponsors just at the beginning of the show?!?

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  6. LOVE the body armor joke, it made me so happy this morning.

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  7. Bringing in the dough now. Perhaps it will limit your Bush bashing now that your on the payroll.

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  8. Hm, I am also not sure if I do like the ads in there if they appear in front like this time (maybe it would have been enough to simply name them).

    Otherwise I am wondering if the weather situation in NYC is already as dramatic as in parts of Germany (Bavaria, that is).

    See here: http://www.br-online.de/topthema/thema/schnee-chaos/bilder-vom-schneechaos.xml

    PS: Didn’t know that you have the most viewers from germany.. interesting :-)

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  9. Dear Amanda…

    You are too pretty to be a comic… try acting.

    Like in Law & Order as the defense attorney…or an SVU victim rescued by Munch. You would be perfect for either part, especially the second one.

    Reni,
    Belzer’s Kid Sister.

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  10. Dear Fans of Amanda,

    Enter this contest…

    http://www.giantmag.com/blog

    …win a prize.

    L.L.

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  11. 86 degrees F. in So. Cal and the snow is in the mountains where the nasty stuff belongs.

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  12. Did Amanda say that most Rocketboom viewers are in Germany?

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  13. was fun

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  14. I think these comments are hilarious (see: Tony) saying that Amanda and RB are now funded by the republican party is priceless. Maybe they should do an episode on that?

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  15. Way to go amanda!! You nailed both the evil republican vice president and the war-mongering industrial war machine in a single line.

    excellent!

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  16. People will start liking Dick Cheney if he starts shooting lawyers on a regular basis. Maybe he can take out that Gonzales guy… and well every other lawyer that needs to be shot!

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  17. Right Wing? Left Wing? What???

    I’m the bird in the middle!

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  18. hi there. i like your show. just one minor thing: you really dont have to hit that keyboard so hard. the sound is really annoying, especially since its so loud in comparison to your voice.

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  19. Amazing ! A blizard takes place and the entire city of NY goes to Central Park for a stroll.

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  20. Like amanda, michael moore supports the troops:

    http://www.fahrenheit911.com/soldiers/

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  21. When music meant something…

    http://www.suntimes.com/output/entertainment/sho-sunday-bloom12.html

    If no girlz show up, I guess matchmaker manda’s gonna have to date all dem boyz….I saw that grin…and that one…and that one…

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  22. rocketwhimper, it was pretty rude, what you said.

    true, there are many left-slanted rants from rb, but it’s there gig. they get to make it what they wish. and giving a plug to a couple of groups who are going to help rb to live a better life seems pretty understandable.

    just as harry reid (d-nv) did a few favors on behalf of mr. abramoff in return for some funding.

    again, rocketwimper, i think what you wrote was unkind.

    go capitalism

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  24. Hey, Amanda, you be doing the work, let the Henny Pennys go make their own cake if they don’t like how you make yours. Rocketwhimper, the world doesn’t need more nasty negativity; if you must complain, be constructive.

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  25. Hey, Can you do bits on what it’s like to go ‘commercial’? Kinda like last friday, but more introspective. It will change things, but how? Do you feel comfortable reading off a press release? (which, is what the first clips sounded like today) Do you feel happy that your providing a valuable service, advertising? This may sound like a baloney, but I think it’ll help us keep our trust in you guys. The honest, ‘al natural’ feel of your show is it’s shtick that can’t be copied.

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  26. Dick Cheney shot a man, and CNN already knows it was just “an accident”? Wow! That’s some fast justice.

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  27. See they true story about Cheney accidentally shooting a fellow hunter

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  28. I don’t see any problem mentioning the name of the Ebay auction winner or the fact that RB sold some more advertising. That info is news about RB.

    Actually I can’t wait to see RB’s version of paid ads. As long as the ads make me smile, I won’t mind at all.

    Oops, got to go, think I see Dick outside and he’s got a gun…

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  29. So I leave the US and you made ads … bouuhh

    No, just kidding. That’s great for you, so that’s great for us.
    And the fantastic ending with Cheney is a great proof you’ll never lose your special touch.

    I don’t understand this Rocketwhimper’s stuff, can’t find the comment, maybe you deleted it. Anyway, don’t even bother to answer people and comments with insults: they are not worth the time, and your audience, from Paris to Sydney and from Tokyo to Lima, despises it and loves you even more.

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  30. Click on my name for the full story about Cheney accidentally shooting a fellow hunter.

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  31. where’s the body armour?

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  32. Hooray. I wonder if Amanda Congdon will be featured spokesperson on an ad wrap. Best regards to the whole Rocketboom team. I never clocked your episodes- so I really don’t expect a mindblower like 60 Minutes, 20/20, or a PBS special. I do admit Amanda Congdon is like Andy Rooney, they both have distinctive styles.

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  33. So - what do call it when the Vice president shoots a republican lawyer?

    A good start.

    Keep on truckin’
    Milt

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  34. .. . .
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    This is a photo of the pellets on Dick Cheney’s victim. To quote Monty Python: “A mere flesh wound.”

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  35. Wow, your hair looks great. Do you mind passing along the name of the salon you go to?

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  36. All I want for valentines day is amanda.

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  37. What’s the big problem with getting sponsorship? Some of you guys are scary!

    I got a free website I wouldn’t otherwise have been able to afford, simply because it has a few ads on it; and now it’s taking off… no! not like a rocket!

    Sooooooo what?

    Getting sponsorship to back you financially and allowing sponsors to gag you are two VERY different things, PEOPLE!

    Oil thyself, Paranoid Android, and dance! :-0

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  38. To whom it may have once concerned:

    Big improvement. Your digression into mainstream media will be nice to watch for a very short time indeed. Funny how quickly your sell-out move is effecting the content and quality of programming; today’s vlog was the worst produced in several months.

    Thanks for the independent civilian- run media up until this point. I’ll be looking for your smaller time counterparts exclusively from now on.

    Basho Watson Parks

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  39. Rats. That map reference didn’t work. Oh well, trust me that the blob over my neighbourhood was about five times the size of the one you showed us. No mysterious faces, however.

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  40. WOW!! You walk as fast as you dance.

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  41. A message to the kids from BW, there: Think Small!

    By the way, BW, if the message doesn’t concern Rocket Boom anymore, why did you send it?

    PSsss. If this message has been deleted by the time you read it, please don’t feel obliged to reply :-0

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  42. T

    Hi! I just wanted to say that the green blob over Toronto is a part of an infrared image that was put there because of low-light conditions (shadow of a cloud in this case). Anyway, I’m new to your vlog, and as far as I see, it’s really a cool place. Cheers from Croatia! :)

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  43. love the ads!

    Can you get rid of the other content? It’s getting in the way of the ads!

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  44. Does this mean advertising on Rocketboom is going to be $40,000 per whack?

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  45. I’m sure you get money from Earthlink but they still stink. Google earthlink complaints….they are legion

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  46. I think the beauty of Rocketboom is that whomever advertises here will get an earfull from the disenchanted. Unfiltered, maybe unwanted, but very much in the tradition of Rocketboom. They have to know that going in. And, who knows, maybe this form of feedback will lend itself to opening the eyes of certain companies who may be unaware of things that they do that are upsetting. Again, praise can also come their way for the things they do do right. Much like Rocketboom gets dumped on and hosannna’d all at the same time. That is what makes it work. And worth it.

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  47. “Goofy: Right Wing? Left Wing? What??? I’m the bird in the middle! February 13, 2006 11:39 AM”

    I agree with Goofy…

    I’ve never figured out how to fly around and around lopsidedly with one wing or the other. I’m more ambidextrous — the eccentrically meshugunah goofy type.

    Dear Amanda,
    My cat likes you… and she’s very picky. You’re silly beautiful.

    -Reni.
    Belzer’s Kid Sister
    (and I’ll take your hat when you’re not looking…)

    P.S. Only thing–maybe this dumb computer… but when I click on a link inside the comment section, it opens up inside this itty bitty pop-up window versus a regular browser window. And that’s bloomingly bloodily blankety blank annoying. ^..^

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  48. NY looks like where I currently live in MD.

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  49. Dear Amamnda,

    This is a nice comment trying fix an old comment.
    cause I can’t delete my previous post:

    I’m not really Richard Belzer’s kid sister. I’m just Jewish… could be a distant cousin, maybe…???? I dunno.

    My father is descended from a Jewish-French lineage (Kittel) that left Canada to live in the Appalachian mountains. My great-grandmother’s family (Hartman) fled to Holland from Germany before the Holocaust. And there was a child at Auschwitz #26947 that is the spittin’ image of my brother and I.

    Richard was just the only one who cared enough to make sure I stayed away from the window ledge after I wrote a rather desperately funny essay to him of how his smile helped save my life.

    I signed the letter: “Your Kid Sister… kinda, sorta.” ‘Cause I wanted him to know that he reminded me of my big brother who died three years ago (and I wasn’t some silly fan leaving my brain at the door and asking some celebrity to find it for me.)

    I will always be grateful whether he believes that he helped me or not… And I will always seek to be kinder than “necessary” for everyone around me is facing some kind of battle. (-Plato)

    Thanks for listening. You have alot of talent, keep it up.

    -Dawn-Renee
    ^..^

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