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Surprised there wasn’t a Karl Rove lynching in this one!
Oooo!! I want a dollar! Haha.
Awesome music, what fun!
you could “charm” a rope snake charmer style.
And I’m betting it would be preeettty easy.
You can smoke rope.
doesn’t it go like this …
smoke dope, chew rope, drink gas, kick ass? who would smoke rope?
I can fly a very big kite with my rope.
Hey! Look! Amanda just jumped the shark!
Excuse me while I hang myself….
(damn…where’s my chair?)
when I was little, we used a rope to catch birds. You tie a rope to a bamboo basket, put it upside down and put some foods under it. When a bird comes under the basket, pull the rope and Bing! you go.
I love rope, please drag me. Ha?
(~_~;)
What can i do with a rope?
How about hang you..
That was “off the rope.” Nice to see the uber kewl Volvo still plays a starring role here. 5 star charm factor today.
Ever tried pushing a rope! Would have preferred a rope bikini for causal Friday. ;)
i would hang you, you and your brother with a rope and rb also, but only to try to revive you again and again amanda, the other ones would go to heaven, they seem good guys, such and “amanda style” brother you have…exasperating and beautiful show as usual :) ;) :P
Funny. Love the follow up to the jump rope story. Stop at Louis Lunch or Modern Pizza next time you’re in NH. Louis lunch claims to have invented the hamburger and Modern Pizza makes one of the best pies on the east coast.
I’m sure if you brought the rope into the bedroom…. ;)
your dress is insanely bright btw.
Inuit Rope Gymnastics:
http://www.qajaqusa.org/Technique/ropegymnastics.htm
Hmm. It seems that the post-rocketboom era has truly begun. The Queen is dead. Long live the King. (The king, btw, is probably zefrank, who as well as being able to talk without sounding like a strangled ferret, also has the ability to talk about things that are actually interesting. These things do not include ropes.)
you forgot the Texas Skip
What else would you do with a rope but put soap on it?
I think the hockey helmet is the better fashion trend here. (re: Look at the person in the background in the last scene with the dragging rope.) lol
obviously ‘manda can even wear a rope and make it look good.
You could floss your teeth. If you were David Letterman.
Everyday tasks made easier with a rope:
Watch The Video
AMANDA—YOU SPELLED “SENSOR”
WRONG
CENSOR CENSOR CENSOR
Playing with that rope must have gotten to your head or maybe there are implanted sensors inside the rope allowing one to skip rope without having to touch any handles.
Okay you tech people INVENT IT>>>>
The SENSOR ROPEâ„¢
Sigh…
I’m normal, you know. well, ok, I am a fan of the show, and I’d rather meet AC than TC any day. Hmmm, normal, yeah…
But seriously, it hurts me so to see you frollicking so frivolously so uber close to where I live. Apparently from the comments others feel the same way too.
We in New Haven (all 3 of us)
all want to come out and play next time you’re up around here
Are we not cool enough? (We can be cooler if you want)
Do you think we think we’re too cool? (We’re not really that cool)
Do we have to do something spectacularly vlogtastic to get you to even look our direction?
*sniff* Where’s the love RB? *sniff, sniff*
Ok, Ok, I’m just kidding. Mostly.
Pretty decent show today.
Have a great weekend!
It was a funny story today,I wouldn`t share the opinion of JOHN!I wrote a (from my point of view)very hard comment about The Memorial Day and they didn`t delete it!Even was allowed to discuss with somebody about the theme…we should be fair!Anyway I like rocketboom(and the reason is not only Amanda:)
Amanda,
I appreciate you replying to John’s post about his comment being deleted. I’m not sure that your answer was satisfactory. I would have liked you to expand on your “we do not allow for abuse”.
I also run my own blog and have to deal with weeding through the comments. Like Rocketboom, I even had to shut them down for a couple of days to adjust for excessive spamming.
I believe the issue comes with how much do you allow and how personal do you take what is being written?
When I first started my blog last year I was actually fired from my best customer because of something that I posted that they took offense to. I was also asked to take down my post which I ended up doing at the time because it was really upsetting people that I cared about. I’m not sure if I would handle it the same way today.
That made me take a real hard look at why was I doing my blog and was I going to hold back from speaking my truth.
I decided that “Ive got to be me” and I was going to post my feeling and I would except what came with that.
The same could be said for R-Boom and how some people have taken offense to some of your shows over the past couple of months.
My conclusion is that Rocketboom has the right to do what they wish with the comments and anyone who doesn’t like it doesn’t have to come back.
I would also suggest to anyone who take the time to write a comment to re-read it before sending to see if you have crossed the line.
Personally, I believe all of you at RBoom to be people of integrity and trust that you will do what you feel is best.
Keep up the great work! I’ll say it again, you are a great inspiration to me with what all of you have accomplished.
KF
Boy you are sneaky Amanda. I point out that you mispelled censor using the word “sensor” and you delete my comment and correct your typo/ error /whatever and delete my post.
Keep up the stalinesque sensorship!
An interesting issue… editing / deleting comments. It seems to me that this being cast world-wide, (and even being exposed on NPR - my first introduction) that there’d be THOUSANDS of comments! I bet it’s an all-day job to sift through the comments AS THEY COME IN, and make judgements as to which ones should or should not appear. Dontchathink?
Amanda… you’re almost too cute. Perhaps I’ve reached the age where I view you as ‘one of my kids’ :>
Amanda,
Could you please hire an intern to filter the comments as they come in. That way the rest of us could actually discuss the show and have fun, and not have to read crap from all of these people complaing and being mean spirited.
I know I joke a lot, but I am being 100% serious right now. I don’t think you or the producers should waste your time with it, but I do think you should have someone do it. If I wasn’t so busy playing with “lasers” I would volunteer.
You have every right, even a responsibility, to keep this forum free from abuse. Please keep it up.
Thanks,
Jon Wedd .com
good idea Jon, hey i’m looking for a job this summer…
oh and Cliff nice find with the hockey helmet, haha funniest part of the show by far, no offense Amanda.
With all due respect to The Ramones
(A homage to the Delted)
Twenty - twenty - twenty four hours to go
I wanna be DELETED
Nothing to do
Nowhere to go
I wanna be DELETED
Just get me to the airport
And put me on a plane
Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane
I can’t control my fingers
I can’t control my brain
Oh no oh ho
Just put me in a wheelchair
And get me to show
Hurry hurry hurry before I go loco
I can’t control my fingers
I can’t control my toes
Oh no oh ho
Hey who was the girl in the video today?
We should weaponize it.
No noose is good noose, I guess.
And if ever Amanda aspires to be on CuteOverload, a screen capture from almost anywhere in today’s RB should get her in, easy.
Amanda,
I thought I should inform you that during your last show my father scarred me for life by actually putting the tivo in slow-mo just to do a booty check (apparently he liked your shorts). And as always, you rock.
*Traumatized*
Carin
I’m crushed…, you were right in my backyard shooting this and you didn’t even call!
Thank you for keeping our community abuse-free and free from crude references and such. We need to learn from each other in good communication and dialogue. Let’s help each other by what we say and write. Don’t we expect that of Drew and Amanda (and crew)?
Carin,
haha - I was trying to do the same thing as your dad, but it’s hard to go frame by frame in my quicktime player. Maybe I do need to get TiVo…
I wonder if anyone watched the rope video I made today?
Too bad Shibaricon was last weekend, http://www.shibaricon.com/
You could have gone and brought your rope for “breast bondage”‘ http://bondage.com/id/19701/size/large/show_pic.html
Re: Deletions/Editing comments. …. Git over it! Lots of sites won’t even post a comment until the blogger/webmaster gets a look at it first. At least RB let’s you post immediately and any deletion happens later. I see lots o’comments here that I think should be deleted and posters who should be banned, but A and A are pretty cool about it. …. It’s their site, it’s their rules, and it’s all free. Far as I’m concerned, they can do *whatever* they want. Good weekend, all.
I find this discussion interesting. I understand entirely why comments that are directly insulting (ref: strangled ferret), expletive or pointlessly abusive are removed post-haste. All webmasters do this. However it is rare to find a webmaster who deletes comments purely on the basis of their critical nature. I noted that there was a post stating something along the lines of “Look, Amanda just jumped the shark!” which was deleted. This was not abuse (nor was it mine), but constructive criticism. This was simply an expression from a viewer who felt that the direction the show was taking was bad, and wanted a return to the old. Amanda stated that it was their living room, and that they had the right to set the ground rules. I just find it unfortunate that it is the kind of living room in which the only allowable topics of conversation are those concerning how cool the owner is or how good she would look in a rope bikini. My 2 (soon to be deleted) cents.
When are the commercials coming back?
Wow, I’m amazed by all the New Havenites in the comments! Keep it up RB!
The other day you had a report from Kenya. Well here’s the latest news from Africa.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/03/D8I0UMU83.html
AIDS toll may soon reach 100 million
while Prez Bush & WHO scratch their collective balls
….maybe send lots of rope to the UN so they can all…you know what!
Talk to it?
Great episode, I’m going to setup a lone limbo at my office tomorrow!
Thank you Liz!!!
Do you have a url I can check out?
Soap on a rope, naturally.
Uh
I don’t get it ~
Amanda is so caliente. that’s H O T.
Hang Amanda Congdon with it! She would look pretty hanging off a rope.
Love this episode!