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UPDATED WITH WINNER!! Nobody Expects The PYTHON 16-Ton Megaset!! Herc’s Monday Complete-Series Giveaway!!
UPDATE!! The winner is @thechadrocks, the first in with the correct answer. After five years cleaning public lavatories, Ken Shabby will be given a brush.
Thanks to all for playing! Look for more Twittery giveaways coming soon!
ORIGINAL POST:
I am – Hercules!!
All you have to do is:
1) “Follow” me on Twitter.
2) Constantly monitor my Twitter account between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. Pacific Time Monday, Feb. 22, 2010. At some point during this window I will post a contest question on my Twitter account. The first to correctly answer this question via Twitter AFTER I pose it via Twitter will get his or her own copy of the Monty Python 16-Ton Complete Series Megaset.
THE QUESTION HERC WILL POST ON TWITTER: “What kind of promotion can Ken Shabby expect following five years of cleaning out public lavatories?”
IMPORTANT!! Your Twittered answer MUST begin with @hercAICN. Don’t screw this up!
IMPORTANT!! If you answer the question BEFORE I post the question in Twitter you will be automatically disqualified.
IMPORTANT!! This contest is only available to residents of the United States.
IMPORTANT!! If you win, immediately forward Herc your shipping address and phone number: herculesAICN@yahoo.com. If you fail to do so within 24 hours, Herc will assign the prize to another.
Contestants are free to unfollow my Twitter account post-contest, but it might behoove them to remain following for two reasons:
1) I’m not a Twittering fiend. I’ve tweeted fewer than 600 times since I set up the account last April.
2) I’m going to be giving away a lot more supercool prizing via that account in the coming days and weeks. And I may be announcing these contests only on Twitter.
Again, I will update this post after the winner wins.
Namaste.
Follow Herc on Twitter!!
HD Luca Brasi!!
“Farscape: The Complete Series,” $129.49 last year, is momentarily $59.99. That works out to less than $15 per season!!
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..was that already taken?
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Hey Hey
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40 years later and still nobody comes close.
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...I feel like I'm getting the brush off...*cough*cough*I'm sorry squire, I've gobbed on your carpet.
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..in the photo, I saw Buffy The Vampire Slayer. I watched an episode because of that, and I could not believe how much it has aged. It was a great series in it's day, but the pop culture references let the show down for future generations. Maybe when the 90's are back in, they will work.
Are you the Brain Specialist?
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Look. Not only do these contests discriminate against me since I refuse to become a technology whore to something as self-gratifying and inane as Twitter, but the idea that the more shit you offer the more of us will join twitter is frankly insulting. Instead, what I at first found amusingly pathetic has now become shitty enough to make me consider entirely switching to some other site for my movie news and talkback. I guess unless I see an equal number of contests involving the giveaway of equally quality dvd sets, I will have to assume that my business is no longer wanted at this site, and I will take my smugly superior ass elsewhere...
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Then Harry can tweet and play Farmville without the hassle of updating his website.
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just curious, what season was the Buffy episode you watched? i ask because while i think seasons 2-7 have aged fine, i do think season 1 is pretty bad, and the terrible score didn't help. i remember watching it when it first hit dvd and i was surprised by how much i didn't like it as much anymore. sure its normal for 1st seasons to not be as good since they usually suffer from budget issues and are just finding their style and whatnot but damn.
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So regardless of the fact that I think Twitter is for people who can only express themselves at about 100 characters at a time, do you *honestly* think that driving people *AWAY* from AICN for a contest is the best idea? I'm sure the advertisers love that, huh? And quite honestly, if you're going to require me to use another medium to participate in the site...then why should we bother to continue to come here? Seriously.
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does it sound woody or tinny? More like Antelope (which is tinny) or GORN! , which sounds rather woody? I think it resembles antelope more than GORN! Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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It's not the pop culture references that date it making it shit, it's the simple fact it was shit. The only reason it got popular was because we were all tuning in in the vain hope that Sarah Michelle Gellar would get her tits out. Or that Eliza Duhku would do the splits on a pane of glass without underwear whilst filmed from below. Or was that just me? No it wasn't and you all know it. The only decent thing that twat Whedon has done is Firefly, which is admittedly great, everything else he's done has sucked mightilly. Oh and Twitter is a joke. I can't believe people actually get involved with it.
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I might be a bear with a sore head until I get my enormous caffeine fix but nethertheless mention of Buffy is merely inviting comments about it's complete turdiness, versus is inexplicable geek popularity beyond hopes of seeing young actresses lezzing each other. You have no-one to blame but yourselves. And now, coffee.
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Yes, it drives people away from AICN, but in order to win YOU MUST START FOLLOWING HERC. This is about getting followers on his Twitter account...a smart marketing move, in my opinion.
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No shit, Sherlock.
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It is YOU! You and your pathetic hard-on for Whedon's ball sweat that are killing AICN!!! That and Twitter.
Narcissism is the new cocaine at 160 characters or less... or is it 140? Anyway, Whedon is a faggot and Twitter is shit. -
And not in the good way.
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If you don't want to join Twitter, don't fucking join it. Free shit is free shit you fucking psychos.
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are the only three shows that consistently make the "best ever" lists of EVERY major (or minor) critic.
If you are not down with Twitter, that is cool with us. Stick with Facebook and MySpace and let others claim these fabulous prizes, I say. -
Roger Ebert twitters like no one else. And they are usually pretty good stuff 9even if I disagree with him on some of his politics)
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Feb 22, 2010 12:50:09 PM CST
Roger Ebert? A fat douche who enjoys Rascal scooters and movies
by james_o'nasty
Nah, that's too easy!
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TWITS!!!
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...not because he is so full of his own pop-culture relevance that he has to twitter every goddamn thought that comes to mind every five minutes or so. Nevertheless, it's a good point - I might twitter too if my jaw had been removed...and most of my twittering would be about how technology like twitter has so consolidated the American culture of narcissism that any major form of discourse in this country has been rendered irrelevant by the tolerance of complete idiotic bullshit as actual valued commentary on everything from politics, to the arts, to relationships.
Smart marketing moves are only smart if they fool morons into complicity with someone's self-important agenda. YOU define whether this is a smart marketing move or not; and that's what is sad about our culture - we have allowed people to market themselves as commodities, turning their uninformed ideas into something we consume financially, and the pathetic thing is, those who actually engage in it, like Herc, have turned themselves into meaningless shills for a culture devoid of meaning. They have sold out their own minds and ideas to a rhetorical vacuum while deceiving themselves into thinking they are contributing to culture. Twitter is the dark matter of discourse - it negates it, it doesn't define it.
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By definition, a superior contest.
http://www.dvdtalk.com/ -
Who woulda thought?
http://chud.com/articles/articles/22631/1/CONTEST-WIN-SPLINTERHEADS-ON-DVD/Page1.html -
So I guess it is only for certain contestants...but I'd LOVE an XBox 360 and Dante's Inferno...
http://chud.com/articles/articles/22420/1/CONTEST-DANTE039S-INFERNO-XBOX-360/Page1.html -
I joined Twitter this morning solely in the hopes of winning this DVD set. Now my productivity at work is suffering because I'm constantly checking the page. Inevitably, I won't refresh frequently enough to win the contest, as I am actually doing work as well, and it will all be for naught. Ugh. Very frustrating. I suppose it beats a completely random draw, but I'm not sure my odds are higher enough to justify this much effort. And yet still, my OCD commands me to try.
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This is fucking discriminatory. I feel shamed, like I'm being forced into something that I don't want. Please, Herc, don't hurt me anymore. I just don't want to be on twitter, but I like prizes so much. Don't make me do what I don't want to do.
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Feb 22, 2010 1:43:05 PM CST
Why not just a post-in-talkback-contest? Or fucking e-mail?
by tall_boy66
Seriously, is that so hard? What makes this so damn important that it HAS to be on Twitter? I just hate social networking sites: Facebook, Myspace, Twitter. Generally cause I just hate people, so that's why I don't want to go on it. There are talkbacks on this site which can be used for picking winners. Ain't that hard, seen it done before.
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""I just think that when you start to get a sense of what somebody tick and you realize that that clock is kind of ticking out of whack, that's scary," Haley says. "That scares me in this world. You know what I mean? Sometimes when you just run across people that seem to be tracking on a different kind of cord and something's up. To me, that seems more scary. There's even more uncertainty knowing that whoa, something's driving this and it's real and it's…you know what I mean? But it's just not making any real sense. You know it makes sense to him though and that's what's scary about it."
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My mistake.
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...but damn, your post had me laughing. And I DO agree about Buffy being stone-cold shite.
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Thy gv hm a brsh. Yay! I'm a lazy dumbass that hates writing full paragraphs, sentences - or words!
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All that info about the Twitter account, the contest rules and future contests would need several Twitter posts to get a cross. My question is: why bother with Twitter when this simple web page works better? If you're a 16-year-old that wants to "connect" with Zac Efron, it's a real treat, but technology will evolve past Twitter and Facebook pretty quickly.
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Glad I could raise a chuckle. God I fucking hate that show. Was forced to watch every fucking episode with my missus. Luckily we're not with each other anymore. I couldn't live with someone who loves Buffy.
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The Hint of Smegma Award for Utterly Contrived Bullshit. It's a winner every year. Listen matey, I couldn't care less if there are people out there stupid enough to have it "consistently" end up on best of lists. It was crap from beginning to end yet it was fellated like it was the height of western civilizations artforms. It was shite. Ridiculous dialogue, same bastard plots over and over and so fucking smarmy it had disappeared up it's own arsehole with it's own self importance by the middle of season two. I understand personal taste. Nethertheless it boggles my mind that so many peoples taste is so staggeringly bad that they elevated this stinking pile of effluence into the realms of being asiciayed with quality drama. It was a joke of a show. I don't care how many best of lists have it on there, they're hardly an indicator of genuine quality.
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Feb 22, 2010 3:34:51 PM CST
And another thing. Twitter is balls - except for Stephen Fry.
by hint_of_smegma
He's the only reason it should be allowed to continue it's existence. But kudos to the prize anyway. I've got my own copy of the Complete Collection and it is joy from beginning to end. Totally agree with the other talkbacker somewhere above - 40 years on and no-one comes close.
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I sit staring vacantly at the Twitter webpage, waiting for that trivia question to appear. I click refresh often, because I don't know how often the auto-reload occurs. The appearance of a "Ni!" from earlier this morning continues to mock my futile effort. I think about leaving the desk to grab some food, but what if it arrives while I am gone? I don't want to go on like this anymore.
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first!
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Even if you dip a naked Megan Fox into a vat of olive oil and then let her slippery body writhe sensually around my erect phallus, I will NEVER join Twitter!
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You're a tough crowd. I'd join Twitter just to see a fully clothed Megan Fox in person merely holding a bottle of olive oil.
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If I don't win, I hope it's you. Geez...this feels like The Long Walk now.
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Do I take the package downstairs to the FedEx now, or do I wait until the last-minute drop time? This is like the Spanish Inquisition!
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Why the hell did you post the question here first?
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Now the question is: if this thing continues beyond my work shift, do I actually delay my commute home until the contest is over? I really don't want to stay at the office until 11, but I'd be mad if magic moment happens while I am on the road.
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I strongly object to the posts in this talkback. They are clearly not written by the general public and are merely included for a cheap laugh.
yours sincerly etc.,
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Now, I must wait for the result. Thank you, Herc, for ending my anticipation.
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But I'll wait for the next contest
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How long till we know who got it? He threw it up there fast with the Lost one.
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No- he asked the question first, then a few minutes later gave the answer. And it sounds like your phone sucks.
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I couldn't have been any faster. No one could have been any faster. I was clicking refresh repeatedly when it was posted (which is a hell of a lot more work than waiting for a phone to buzz), which implies my hardware rendered it as fast it possibly could have. I immediately pasted my answer in the box and clicked send. Anyway, no hard feelings - just very frustrating. I won't be waiting around again for this method of crapshoot, even if Megan Fox in olive oil were the prize. I'd rather just have a random drawing.
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Bad enough the contest forces you to monitor a Twitter account…but monitor it for HOURS?
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So you're saying it's just like a random chance where you might win a prize? Almost like a lottery? You're right that is fucked up. Herc should charge everyone a dollar to play.
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Wow.. I've been lurking for years, but made an account on here just to tell you this..Your real winner is @Jherrick42, then
@crobertdimitri, then @yhtomitb and finally me, @moshpitmike.. sixteen
answers later is @TheChadRocks..
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Not that that helps me, as I'm still not the winner, but how would you have this information?
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all I can tell you is four hours or so ago, TheChadRocks was listed as first in. I assume Twitter reorders posts when it goes from "seconds ago" to "hours ago."
If someone can demonstrate that the current ranking is more accurate than the ranking at the time, I'll gladly use the later ranking going forward. But if no one can demonstrate this, I assume most contestants would, all things being equal, like to see the winner announced sooner rather than later. -
Hmmm...if the ordering is listed differently at different times, then all things aren't equal. I don't think announcing the winner "sooner rather than later" is nearly as important as the fact that the announced result be representative of the true chronology of entries. Perhaps Twitter just isn't capable of simulating that with precision. For example, just because one person's tweet reaches your server first does not mean that it's the tweet that actually reached the Twitter server first. Or back in the old days when we scrambled to dial into a radio station at a designated time, it wasn't speed as much as luck that your call slips in between the other calls at the right time. I don't know enough to demonstrate that one ordering is more accurate than another. Anyway, it's a game of chance. So be it.
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I don't wanna have to lurk twitter for a whole day to win that Hulk set.
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All the talkbacks have a date and time stamp for all to see.
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...it can't even accurately determine a winner for the Twitter-based contest? And you have to become a whore to even play in the first place? Huh...go figure that...
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"Stick with Facebook and MySpace and let others claim these fabulous prizes, I say."Is it ok if I choose to have nothing to do with any of them and simply continue to spend my online hours at Aintitcool.com?
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not discourse. Get it right. It's real time information shaped by the user based on the quality of his or her "follows". If you follow a bunch of numbnuts that quote "inspirational" people or randomly insult celebs, you get the twitter you chose/designed yourself. But don't get me started on Facebook. That place is a privacy and drama black hole that changes it's default settings on it's users without notice and whose CEO (?) says things like "if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about", completely ignoring the subtleties of human relationships like some kind of Nouveau riche with aspergers. Kind of reminds me of a computer programmer that can never quite make sense out of why his girlfriend is mad at him, while everyone else around him gets it. Fuck Facebook, long live twitter, the hub of the real-time Internet. Suck it.
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accept it or don't. Ever see a Twitter auction? Know why? Because there would be lawsuits. But stop whining like a bunch of old ladies.
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All I dead was search @HercAICN right when I submitted my response.. Saw that I was the fourth.. @TheChadRocks didn't come until a couple minutes later.
Then, just cause I was completely curious, I added @theChadRocks and jherrick42. In my timeline, Jherrick posts the answer before chad. Here's a screen shot. http://tinypic.com/r/veyu77/6 I'm more interested in how herc decided the winner..
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Fifth caller and whatnot. Except those actually worked right.
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...in fact I said it "negates" it, meaning it discourages it, damages it, and replaces it with meaningless drivel. So your "get it right" is sort of ironic, since...well...you didn't. Nice try, though.
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