The Big Chair Returns
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Late Valentine's Day at the Symposium
Today, jackdaws and magpies, the sages have gathered, to talk about love. To talk about love cut through with time. Crippled with the burden of the clocks of our ancestors, we stagger around in the daytimes, and maybe post some chocolates to the dorm next door by the tilting-upward of the next due dawn. In short: we know that we need it. And we don't know how to get it. Or, more specifically—when we don't know just when the getting's good.
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#1: 5/1/2009 at 2:12 a.m.
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— wow. | Unregistered, Swarthmore
#2: 5/1/2009 at 2:19 a.m.
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— Protestorone your sister | Unregistered, Swarthmore
#3: 5/1/2009 at 3:44 a.m.
I don't know, maybe I'm coming out of left field here, but I think it's pretty endearing and don't get the complaint. But then, what else can we expect from self-righteous Swatties?
— D | Unregistered, Swarthmore
#4: 5/1/2009 at 6:22 a.m.
Wait, the big chair IS back, right?
— Swattie Expat | Registered, Swarthmore
#5: 5/1/2009 at 7:33 a.m.
Yes, the big chair is back, just in another reincarnation. This one was designed to last longer- it looks just about the same, but is a bit stronger and made from different materials, I believe.
— anne | Unregistered, Swarthmore
#6: 5/1/2009 at 9:32 a.m.
Well, I thought it was funny. Good job, DG :) At least someone has a sense of humor.
— Mr. Mistaker | Unregistered, Swarthmore
#7: 5/1/2009 at 9:42 a.m.
Rickrolling wasn't ever funny. It is basically a shitty form of goatseing...
Besides, it is a legitimately good song and I would do anything for Rick Astley's voice
— Dr House | Registered, Swarthmore
#8: 5/1/2009 at 12:03 p.m.
The big chair actually DID return, and I know that people got photos of it, so why not post them?
Seriously, what is the point of this?
— are you kidding me | Unregistered, Swarthmore
#9: 5/1/2009 at 12:37 p.m.
Q: What's the point of this?
A: See comments 1, 2, 8.
That's the point.
— Yes, we're kidding you | Unregistered, Swarthmore
#10: 5/1/2009 at 12:50 p.m.
Gotta love when Swatties are actively hostile toward humor/silliness/awesome music.
— Peter '11 | Unregistered, Swarthmore
#11: 5/1/2009 at 12:51 p.m.
And this one's an INTELLECTUAL rickroll. It comes with a wikipedia link for research purposes!
— Peter '11 | Unregistered, Swarthmore
#12: 5/1/2009 at 1:57 p.m.
OLD MEME
— oldmeme | Unregistered, Non-Swarthmore
#13: 5/2/2009 at 10:23 a.m.
Not gonna lie, I still think it's funny. I think linking to the explanation undermines the random humor of it; let people who live under rocks be confused.
— still funny | Unregistered, Swarthmore
#14: 5/3/2009 at 12:21 a.m.
not silly in the least at this point. now completely overdone, banal, dead horse beating, etc.
what's next, lolcats? how unoriginal can you be?
— sadmemeissad | Unregistered, Swarthmore
#15: 5/3/2009 at 1:18 p.m.
hahahaha people are seriously perturbed by this.
— nice | Unregistered, Non-Swarthmore
#16: 5/3/2009 at 2:42 p.m.
i'm sorry, it's not not funny because it's an old meme, it's funny because it's so old that it's funny again. it no longer feels overdone.
— j | Unregistered, Swarthmore
#17: 5/3/2009 at 11:07 p.m.
I am both offended and seduced.
— Sugar | Unregistered, Swarthmore
#18: 5/6/2009 at 11:22 a.m.
If the DG really wanted to push the envelope, they would have posted this under the armed intruder headline. Now THAT would have been tastelessness in the name of humor.
— j | Unregistered, Swarthmore
#19: 5/6/2009 at 5:06 p.m.
Commentors 1,2,7, and 8.
you people suck. way to give fulfill the swattie sterotype. take a joke. laugh. you people are the reason why i can never say i love the people here.
maybe you're all just mad that you didn't get what you thought you were promised you were gonna get, that there is some injustice in posting a link to something that actually turns out not to be what it read. stop crying all the time and laugh for once.
— swatties are so predictable | Unregistered, Swarthmore
#20: 5/6/2009 at 5:07 p.m.
hm, well i guess i broke the discussion rules, but sorry, i got a little carried away.
i also made a typo, i meant to say "way to fulfill the swattie stereotype".
— swatties are so predictable | Unregistered, Swarthmore
#21: 5/6/2009 at 9:28 p.m.
Rickrolling has the right idea-- the element of surprise, the facepalming afterward. I think it just may need an update with a fresh song or something.
My candidate for successor is this song, Minivan Highway from Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dQo0fNaQx0
— The evolution: | Unregistered, Non-Swarthmore