“Haha!”

1. On May 17th, 2008 at 11:04 am Joan of Argghh! Says:

   …and being nice is overrated!

2. On May 17th, 2008 at 11:38 am JorgXMcKie Says:

   You know, I’ll bet this is funny and I’d like it. Unfortunately, the download appears to take a decade or so, plus/minus a year. I went to liveleak and had the same problem. Unless it’s because I’m using Firefox I can’t imagine what the holdup is.

3. On May 17th, 2008 at 11:44 am David Wollstadt Says:

   I was unable to download it using Firefox; in fact there was no image with the video, just the start-button arrow. When I switched to Explorer, the image was there and it played immediately.

4. On May 17th, 2008 at 11:44 am Arthur Beetson Says:

   Had the same problem in Firefox as Jorg, it opened straight away in IE.

5. On May 17th, 2008 at 11:46 am Nancy Gee Says:

   Worked alright for me.

   How will we know when the print medium is officially dead? Does the NY Times have to actually go out of business altogether? Which I don’t see happening just because people will always want their wedding announcements, obituararies, cartoons, and crossword puzzles.

6. On May 17th, 2008 at 12:33 pm Ernst Blofeld Says:

   I think the NYT and WaPo and LAT will have to refashion themselves as essentially wire services. Stop home delivery of dead trees, concentrate on reselling their stories.

7. On May 17th, 2008 at 12:44 pm Hale Adams Says:

   Well, tact *is* a good thing.

   And, Joan, there is a difference between being “nice” and “playing kissy-face”.

8. On May 17th, 2008 at 1:24 pm sherlock Says:

   I used the browser Bill Gates provided for us to use and it works fine.

9. On May 17th, 2008 at 1:28 pm Joan of Argghh! Says:

   Mr. Adams, whatever do you mean??

   Meanwhile, my FF works just fine for viewing the video. I’m gonna watch it over and over again and revel in its awesomeness while the rest of you poor Slackers just have to imagine how awesomely funny and true and PERFECT this video clip is. Oh yes, you are all missing out and only the select few, the Chosen Ones, will know teh funny.

   HAha!

10. On May 17th, 2008 at 6:11 pm Tom Says:

    The Washington Post’s “medium is dying”? Really? The Washington Post is a news website. On the Internet. Which isn’t dying.

    Some of the Washington Post’s content also happens to be printed on paper. That particular part of its business may eventually disappear. But the Washington Post certainly won’t.

    The “print” half of the phrase “print journalist” is now merely idiomatic. Sort of like the way we call football “football” even though it’s been 100-plus years since it had much to do with soccer.

11. On May 18th, 2008 at 1:18 am Bill Quick Says:

    The Washington Post is a news website. On the Internet.

    Where it makes about 2% of the money per viewer that it used to make from a subscriber to the paper edition.

    It may survive, but as a drastically changed (and much smaller and less influential) venue.

12. On May 18th, 2008 at 8:18 am Tom Says:

    But Nelson Muntz isn’t mocking the Washington Post. He’s mocking the Washington Post’s “medium.”

    It would be like pointing a finger at Bill Quick of Daily Pundit and saying, “Ha hah, your medium is dying!”

    I mean, yes, the WaPo joke is fine as a quick joke on “The Simpsons.” But breaking it out to serve as a piece of commentary is a bit of a stretch.