I'm having bad acid flashbacks, man

Mildly funny.
Fish in barrels funny.

;)

Ben Stein is currently appearing with Shaquille O'Neal in a commercial for Comcast. Stein says, "As an economist, I know about being smart with my money." Given his failure to recognize the nature of the housing bubble, his economic smarts are questionable. And he also compared Obama's 2008 Democratic convention speech to a Hitler rally (Stein doesn't have a broad repertory.)

It sure doesn't make me want to subscribe to Comcast -- or anything else that Ben Stein is selling.

Wow. That was good.

Zeno: I think I've gained insight into Stein's brain. Don't like something/being paid to not like something? IT'S LIKE ADOLF HITLER!!! Yeah! Boom, I win.

"Bueller... Bueller..."

If you have some B-12, go ahead and take that.

Jeebus! I was eating breakfast! So much for my appetite.

I know it's parody, but the fact of Ben Stein's very existence spoils my appetite. How could so many give credence to somebody so blatantly sleazy?

If you have some B-12, go ahead and take that.

Alright, PZ, just listen. Everything is going to be fine. You're very high right now. You will probably be that way for about five more hours. Try taking some vitamin B complex, vitamin C complex.. if you have a beer, go ahead and drink it..

It sure doesn't make me want to subscribe to Comcast -- or anything else that Ben Stein is selling.
It's a fittingly bad spokesperson for a bad service.

"Accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal savior or else you're a satanic Nazi!"

And read the credits at the end. And the word written on the blackboard by wiping the other stuff out…

They should have made him say "Bueller? Bueller?" at the end.

Do not question testicles, especially forcibly.

It is unbelievable that people died for our country, only for spherical (oblate spheroidal, for the pedants) earthers to disallow questioning of their dogma.

And of course they won't teach the truth in history classes, that Nazi Germany started precisely because spherical earth dogma was forcibly fed to schoolchildren. Go ahead, find me a single German school that allowed flat earthers to question the ancient Ptolemaic BS about a "round earth."

So of course that brought Hitler to popwer.

Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/mxaa3p

Is the little boy in the film (Elijah Behe) related to the other Behe, I wonder???

As I understand it, Elijah Behe is actually the great-grandfather of Michael Behe thanks to a rather humorous accident involving a time machine, a toaster strudel, a goat, and Eva Braun's cousin Lulubelle...

Another Comcast commercial with Stein and Shaq introduced them as "The best and the smartest." Does anyone actually still think Ben Stein is smart?

The video appears to have been pulled as I keep getting the "try later" message.

Rev BDC - Should PZ have some bacon with the beer and B complex? Also, you've managed a post without a typo. Impressive!

If we've told you once, Dr. Myers, we've told you a dozen times...

If you won't stay off the nitric acid, those trips are going to recur.

Qwerty,

I get the same when I tried to view it embedded here, but I can see it OK direct at YouTube.

Givesgoodemail--surely you mean "nitrous oxide"?

I love how many of the books in the kid's room were written by Terry Pratchett. Nice touch.

That's what I was after; thanks. Just too lazy to actually look it up. Seems I misremembered.

Ha! That was great. This guy made his voice just as grating as Ben Stein's.

uh, no not that that was something different.
always preview.
that

"Do not question golf balls." I've seen the start, but it stalls. Anyhow, "the stork theory" spoof was funnier as they actually use footage of Stein.

In a previous post, someone commented that Ben Stein will visit Penn State. In Stein's bio for the visit, he neglects to mention "Expelled."

Is he embarrassed? Or what?

Stein's Comcast commercials make me want to vomit. I really wish I didn't have to subscribe to Comcast. Every time I call them, I'm treated to Shaq's and Stein's voices greeting me. Blargh.

RevBDC:

Alright, PZ, just listen. Everything is going to be fine. You're very high right now. You will probably be that way for about five more hours. Try taking some vitamin B complex, vitamin C complex.. if you have a beer, go ahead and drink it..

Aww, now you've made me feel very old, because not only do I know exactly what you're quoting, I remember watching it live!

I'm having bad acid flashbacks, man

I prefer to call them "freebies". :)

You think the Earth is round like a balloon? That's just stupid talk. It would have taken gawd a lot longer than a week to blow up a balloon the size of the Earth. And look at a galaxy. It's flat. Why would planets be round and galaxies flat? You scientists only think the Earth is round because physicists assume everything is round. It's just an assumption to make the math easier. There are PYGMIES + DWARFS because they're closer to flat than other people. Sit on that, round earthers.

Another Comcast commercial with Stein and Shaq introduced them as "The best and the smartest." Does anyone actually still think Ben Stein is smart?

Does anyone actually think Shaq is still the best basketball player?

Comcast: totally mediocre all around.

Dr. Richard "PZ" Darwin, wow, can you get any more evil. I'll bet he eats babies on that so called "round" earth of his.

If we've told you once, Dr. Myers, we've told you a dozen times...

If you won't stay off the nitric acid, those trips are going to recur.

Hey!!!

Was that supposed to be funny?

I got a far as Elijah Behe and stopped.

Not one laugh, or is that the joke, comedy without a laugh?

According to Dr House on TV, a massive dose of anti-depressants will clear up the acid trip pretty quick. of course, it's only a TV drama, and not really a valid source of medical information, but hey, neither is Ben Stein a valid source of information.

One day I'll get around to watching Expelled.

According to Dr House on TV, a massive dose of anti-depressants will clear up the acid trip pretty quick.

I understand they used to use benzodiazepene tranquillisers. Fine as long as you hadn't taken 2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine (known as DOM or STP) instead of LSD. Apparently more likely to cause a bad trip (probably because its slower onset led people to decide they hadn't taken enough, and take some more), and benzodiazepenes potentiate it. Caution: this is not based on either peer-reviewed literature or personal experience, and could be a druggies' urban myth.

In case anyone is curious, the Flat Earth Society's spokesperson back in 1994 said that OJ Simpson was framed for murder because of the movie "Capricorn One."

Apparently, this movie exposed NASA as a fraud by suggesting that the space program was faked in a TV studio:

http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/94q3/ojspace.html

Rev BDC - Should PZ have some bacon with the beer and B complex? Also, you've managed a post without a typo. Impressive!

copy paste ftw

Uh, was that supposed to be funny if you maybe had seen the "Expelled" trailer or something? I think it needed more work.

Pretty good caricatures of both Ben Stein and Richard Dawkins. I got a chuckle out of it.