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Bust Rodd posted:Weird Al is a national treasure and if gets revealed to be a Jimmy Saville I’m gonna tie a rock to my foot and sink to the Mariana Trench Same I lost Bill Cosby and Michael Jackson, Weird Al is the other third of my innocent youth and if he turns out to be a perv I'll just lose it
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I’m meeting Weird Al on July somethingth. I’m looking forward to it. I hope he’s a good guy and nice to his fans. Everything I’ve read says he is.
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Apr 7, 2019 08:05
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:I’m meeting Weird Al on July somethingth. I’m looking forward to it. I hope he’s a good guy and nice to his fans. Everything I’ve read says he is. Yeah, I've never heard of him being a jerk. If it came out that he was a Bad Dude, it would crush me. Silly as it sounds, his work has been a cornerstone in my life.
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Apr 7, 2019 08:07
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He's in the entertainment industry - they're all guilty. Of collaboration at the very least 
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Apr 7, 2019 10:10
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An older one but I still love it... Siemens Germany tried to trademark a Zyklon-branded line of gas ovens in 2002. quote:A year ago, Bosch Siemens Hausgeraete (BSH), the firm's consumer products joint venture, filed two applications with the US Patent & Trademark Office for the Zyklon name across a range of home products, including gas ovens.
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Apr 7, 2019 10:34
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Does Zyklon have any meaning other than death gas?
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Apr 7, 2019 11:00
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RandomPauI posted:Does Zyklon have any meaning other than death gas? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GVEFdHgnuk
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Apr 7, 2019 11:02
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RandomPauI posted:Does Zyklon have any meaning other than death gas? It’s “cyclone”, the storm. Same thing as a hurricane or typhoon.
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Apr 7, 2019 11:12
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I'm going to assume it's a line of convection ovens because that would at least explain the wind thing.
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Apr 7, 2019 11:19
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Fuhrer just means leader, but it's still a very touchy word because of its connotations. You gotta be really careful about context and, most of the time, sense of humor of your conversational partner before you call someone fuhrer. Don't think it's any different for Zyklon, especially if it's being used for an oven. E: For instance, calling a wind machine Zyklon would get a lot less outrage, but people would still not be happy with the name.
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Apr 7, 2019 13:01
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With common words like leader or cyclone that became infamously associated like that, did they shift to a different thesaurus word after WW2 to avoid saying them? Just got me thinking, do they show Ricky and Bullwinkle in Germany and how do they translate Fearless Leader?
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Apr 7, 2019 15:03
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No, it’s just that probably dozens of German people saw “Zyklon” on top of an oven and it didn’t occur to them “whoa, hey, uh whoa, this... that’s not great.”
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Apr 7, 2019 15:21
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the Zyklon B was used in the showers. the ovens were just ovens.
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Apr 7, 2019 15:27
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC59AH50kRA
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Apr 7, 2019 15:54
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I'm just surprised Nintendo hasn't hosed up and accidentally put out a gas or wind-based pokemon named Zyklonus or something similar.
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Apr 7, 2019 15:56
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Twelve Batmans posted:I'm just surprised Nintendo hasn't hosed up and accidentally put out a gas or wind-based pokemon named Zyklonus or something similar. As if they would do that. Oh, wait 
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Apr 7, 2019 16:11
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MarcusSA posted:I’m going to guess so because they are still using the beats and tune from the track. Weird Al re-records all the music he uses.
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Apr 7, 2019 16:15
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Sometimes with the same session musicians that contributed to the original track! 
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Apr 7, 2019 16:32
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Weird Al parodying your song is a guaranteed ‘nother couple thousand downloads on iTunes or YouTube views of your original, no one has ever lost money because Weird Al parodied them. It should rightfully be an honor to be chosen.
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Apr 7, 2019 16:42
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Bust Rodd posted:Weird Al is a national treasure and if gets revealed to be a Jimmy Saville I’m gonna tie a rock to my foot and sink to the Mariana Trench
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Apr 7, 2019 16:50
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Bust Rodd posted:Weird Al is a national treasure and if gets revealed to be a Jimmy Saville I’m gonna tie a rock to my foot and sink to the Mariana Trench
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Apr 7, 2019 17:29
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MarcusSA posted:I’m going to guess so because they are still using the beats and tune from the track. It's this, even if it's rerecorded because the original artist still wrote it, thus it belongs to them. It's the same reason why musicians that use really similar chords and melodies to older songs end up being sued for royalties.
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Apr 7, 2019 21:16
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Al gives songwriting credits to the original writers, and probably would even if it weren't required.
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Apr 7, 2019 21:18
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Wouldn’t weird al be exempt because of parody though?
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Apr 7, 2019 21:32
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His lyrics are the parody, the music is not. Edit: I remember an interview from like ‘97 where he said that working with Michael Jackson’s music made him an expert on it because MJ basically had the most redundantly serious lawyers on the planet. He also learned that his polka versions don’t violate most of those lines which is why he loves making them.
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Apr 7, 2019 21:35
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Bust Rodd posted:He also learned that his polka versions don’t violate most of those lines which is why he loves making them. I think that's because the arrangement is his? Like how J. Coulton was upset that Glee just copied his version of Baby Got Back completely?
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Apr 7, 2019 21:57
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Harveygod posted:I still do. I refuse to pay for more than 2 streaming services. I suppose there's also the fact that with DVDs, Netflix can freely offer whatever they can get their hands on, instead of having to negotiate distribution rights and place themselves at the studios' mercy.
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Apr 7, 2019 22:04
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Al's polkas are my favorite
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Apr 7, 2019 22:10
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Cockmaster posted:I suppose there's also the fact that with DVDs, Netflix can freely offer whatever they can get their hands on, instead of having to negotiate distribution rights and place themselves at the studios' mercy. They should set up a bunch of DVD players with all their rental DVDs. Then whenever someone wants to watch a movie it spins up there player and streams the video to whoever ordered it.
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Apr 7, 2019 22:20
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Rutibex posted:They should set up a bunch of DVD players with all their rental DVDs. Then whenever someone wants to watch a movie it spins up there player and streams the video to whoever ordered it. This is literally how early on-demand video was supposed to work, only with warehouses full of VHS tapes and robot arms.
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Apr 7, 2019 22:45
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Aero tried that with microantennaes for on-demand OTA broadcasts and got sued into the stone age.
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Apr 7, 2019 23:00
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FilthyImp posted:Aero tried that with microantennaes for on-demand OTA broadcasts and got sued into the stone age. I thought they (or the other similar service) won but went bankrupt ?
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Apr 7, 2019 23:07
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Splicer posted:My big aww gently caress no moment was Rolf Harris Weren't people joking about him being creepy for years?
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Apr 7, 2019 23:28
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Partycat posted:I thought they (or the other similar service) won but went bankrupt ? yeah that's basically what happened; they won the lawsuit but the time & money spent fighting it meant they were sunk despite having the legal support to proceed
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Apr 8, 2019 01:03
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... and netflix has godlike amounts of money for some reason
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Bust Rodd posted:Weird Al is a national treasure and if gets revealed to be a Jimmy Saville I’m gonna tie a rock to my foot and sink to the Mariana Trench Weird Al Yankovic is a monster. Why, here is a picture of him with a dead hooker. 
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BrigadierSensible posted:Weird Al Yankovic is a monster. Why, here is a picture of him with a dead hooker. 
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Bust Rodd posted:Weird Al is a national treasure and if gets revealed to be a Jimmy Saville I’m gonna tie a rock to my foot and sink to the Mariana Trench This is essentially my nightmare. Weird Al, David Byrne, any of the guys from Rush, it would just prove we're living in hellworld. I mean I know we're living in hellworld but it would just be so much worse.
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Local Weather posted:This is essentially my nightmare. Weird Al, David Byrne, any of the guys from Rush, it would just prove we're living in hellworld. I mean I know we're living in hellworld but it would just be so much worse. I think we're safe with David Byrne: https://twitter.com/darren_cullen/status/1102764713270759424?s=19
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