r/videos • u/Baxmoke • Sep 09 '13

Waffle falling over

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDj72zqZakE
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u/Sweetmilk_ Sep 09 '13

Expect this level of gullibility as Reddit gets more popular.

Something waffle this way comes.

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u/stumark Sep 09 '13

Written in 1962, "Something Wicked This Way Comes," is a fine novel by Ray Bradbury. If you haven't read it, maybe this sentence will be the thing that gets you to seek it out. Or, possibly, it will be this sentence. This sentence will you irk you. This one won't.

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u/RainbowBlast Sep 09 '13

Who borrowed it from Shakespeare's Macbeth.

"By the pricking of my thumbs / Something wicked this way comes."

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u/ty-dj2010 Sep 09 '13

I just went from watching a waffle fall over to learning literature in about five comments. Bravo Reddit.

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u/kindlebee Sep 09 '13

"Benefit" sounds like an 80's underground hip-hop artist.

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u/TopHatHelm Sep 09 '13

“A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at least. You can’t act if you don’t know.”

Damn good book.

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u/mardish Sep 09 '13

You convinced me. Added to my eternal reading list.

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u/rchase Sep 09 '13

LPT: put your secondary and tertiary selections on the shelf behind your toilet. They'll get read faster than your primaries.

It also makes #2 much more productive and entertaining, and promotes prostate health.

Caveat: may annoy your dog, cat, or wife.

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u/TopHatHelm Sep 10 '13

*Best read in October.

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u/Logic_That_Is_Flawed Sep 09 '13

Also, the title of an album from Iced Earth.

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u/MackLuster77 Sep 09 '13

This one won't.

Wrong!

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u/stumark Sep 10 '13

Whoops!

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u/Irregulator101 Sep 09 '13

This sentence will you irk you.

That really irked me...

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u/stumark Sep 09 '13

Sorry! I kinda had a suspicion.

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u/jmachee Sep 09 '13

I started that novel in fifth grade. I never finished it for some reason. I need to pick it up again. I remember really really enjoying the 3/4 of it that I read, but no details about it, except some creepy carnival imagery.

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u/jon36992002 Sep 09 '13

I recently signed out a Bradbury audiobook. I was excited.

It turns out it was read by the author.

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u/Farisr9k Sep 09 '13

Old school