Doesn't look like Danny DeVito, perchance?

Whoa, you had 650,000 Christmas lights and tampered with the original packaging?

That was less than mint of you bro, less than mint.

Sorry but you know the Dork Code. Meet us tommorow for your obligatory historically-accurate smiting with foam weaponry in a public place.

"I'm going to excel in the stock market and make me some money, and then I'm going to be the Christmas-light king of the world," he said.
...
Learning to day-trade stock options, Ellis said he believes the Dow Jones industrial average eventually will fall to 500.

This guy is definitely going to excel as a trader.

Should have gone LED. You can power 650K of those babies for only a couple hundred a month in electricity.

/went LED this year.
//if they last ten years, I will make back the cost of the damn lights

"Joseph Maddalena, chief executive of Profiles in History, argues that the significance of this long-lost spaceship cannot be overstated."

It's not a real spaceship, farkface.

Hmm, you're insane.

I love headlines that shouldn't make any sense but turn out to be completely accurate.

at least he admits to wanting to be something really stupid.

FTFA: "Everybody has a stupid dream," Ellis said. "I have always wanted to be the Christmas-light king of the world."

awesome.

There's a house in Austin that sets up a crazy display and you can walk around and look at it all since some of it is in their back yard. Their electric meter spins so fast, that' my favorite part of the whole thing. They have a tip jar not to far from the electric meter.

dahmers love zombie: Should have gone LED. You can power 650K of those babies for only a couple hundred a month in electricity.

/went LED this year.
//if they last ten years, I will make back the cost of the damn lights

How do you make money putting up Christmas Lights?

The Flexecutioner: at least he admits to wanting to be something really stupid.

FTFA: "Everybody has a stupid dream," Ellis said. "I have always wanted to be the Christmas-light king of the world."

awesome.

Seriously. Embrace that dream, man.

You know he's made a couple of kids go "wow... if he can do that, I can make my dreams come true, too!"

Most of those dreams will probably be dumb, but hey, any sort of motivation and hope is good these days.

Gals Panic: dahmers love zombie: Should have gone LED. You can power 650K of those babies for only a couple hundred a month in electricity.

/went LED this year.
//if they last ten years, I will make back the cost of the damn lights

How do you make money putting up Christmas Lights?

I was going to ask the same thing, but I didn't want to come off as a scrooge. That's for taking the heat, Mr. Grinch.

T-Luv: There's a house in Austin that sets up a crazy display and you can walk around and look at it all since some of it is in their back yard. Their electric meter spins so fast, that' my favorite part of the whole thing. They have a tip jar not to far from the electric meter.

Brilliant!

What this guy's Fark handle?

dahmers love zombie: Should have gone LED. You can power 650K of those babies for only a couple hundred a month in electricity.

/went LED this year.
//if they last ten years, I will make back the cost of the damn lights

or you could save even more money by not putting them up.

Learning to day-trade stock options, Ellis said he believes the Dow Jones industrial average eventually will fall to 500.

I assume he's going to be snapping up those tinfoil futures.

impressed

StreetlightInTheGhetto: T-Luv: There's a house in Austin that sets up a crazy display and you can walk around and look at it all since some of it is in their back yard. Their electric meter spins so fast, that' my favorite part of the whole thing. They have a tip jar not to far from the electric meter.

Brilliant!

It doesn't take a rocket scientist, but apparently you have to be smarter than a rocket collector.

Here are some pics of the street that house is on. All the houses do it up big, but the one I mentioned is my favorite each year.

A few years back, we found ourselves in Disneyland on Thanksgiving. At the end of this crazy show right before the park closed, they had fake snow falling everywhere and Julie Andrews came over the loud speaker and told us to make our dreams come true.

We decided to purchase the annual pass.

This guy's a chump.

Is it this guy?

Clark, is your house on fire?

Forbidden Planet...

FTFA: Failing banks and plunging markets can sometimes push knowledgeable collectors closer to their pursuits, he said.

"If the world goes to zero, they still have their stuff," he said.

Fark the prop, I miss my blankey

naveline: "Joseph Maddalena, chief executive of Profiles in History, argues that the significance of this long-lost spaceship cannot be overstated."

It's not a real spaceship, farkface.

It's only a model.

FieldTurf: impressed

More impressed:

This guy is also using the money to finance his day trading gig, and his announcement that the dow will got to 500.

Learning to day-trade stock options, Ellis said he believes the Dow Jones industrial average eventually will fall to 500.

"I just wanted to say that to you for no reason at all," he explained, "but in about seven to eight years, you're going to understand."

This guy is going to lose his ass.

In related news, that Alek guy has his controllable lights up again;

Alek's Controllable Christmas Lights for Celiac Disease

I saw Forbidden planet, not the first time, last year. So strange with Leslie Nielsen not being Silly. That prop was unusual in that it was a flying saucer, but Earth people using it, not aliens.

They should put it in a museum.

Balrog: naveline: "Joseph Maddalena, chief executive of Profiles in History, argues that the significance of this long-lost spaceship cannot be overstated."

It's not a real spaceship, farkface.

It's only a model.

Sshhh!!

Ah yes, the United Planets C-57D cruiser.

T-Luv: Gals Panic: dahmers love zombie: Should have gone LED. You can power 650K of those babies for only a couple hundred a month in electricity.

/went LED this year.
//if they last ten years, I will make back the cost of the damn lights

How do you make money putting up Christmas Lights?

I was going to ask the same thing, but I didn't want to come off as a scrooge. That's for taking the heat, Mr. Grinch.

Okay, might be tough for those of you who find math hard...

If using old fashioned bulbs cost X on your electricity bill, but using LEDs cost Y, which is less than X, then take the cost of the LED bulbs, divide by the difference in electrical cost, and you will have the number of years which it will take to recoup the original purchase price of the LEDs.

/am I really smart or are you really dumb?
//maybe both?
///who knows

I can't wait to read how quickly and moronic his future fail will be.


/If the DOW hits 500, shoot me.

I came here seeking nude pictures of Anne Francis, and left disappointed.

Gals Panic: dahmers love zombie: Should have gone LED. You can power 650K of those babies for only a couple hundred a month in electricity.

/went LED this year.
//if they last ten years, I will make back the cost of the damn lights

How do you make money putting up Christmas Lights?

You'd be surprised. A friend of mine in Portland, OR used to clear about 40k doing downtown lights, homes, and the Shilo Inns headquarters. I helped him occasionally. Some damn cold, wet, dirty work but people will pay some bank for someone else to do it.

Wow. The land of dumb has found its new king.

naveline: "Joseph Maddalena, chief executive of Profiles in History, argues that the significance of this long-lost spaceship cannot be overstated."

It's not a real spaceship, farkface.

And it's not exactly long-lost, it was in some dude's garage, not buried deep under a ruined temple from some lost civilization.

Really, really want.
Would have paid a month's salary back then to get that.
Can't afford what it's worth today.

I saw a house last week that was lit up like the Griswald's and had this thing where it made the lights flash to the music. Only problem was you could not hear the music unless your window was down, and without it, it looked like the lights were just randomly going on and off.

/It was weird.

nuclear_asshat: This guy is going to lose his ass.

I'm the most pessimistic person I know concerning this whole economic meltdown thing, but...yup. I can't believe the DJIA is going to fall clear to 500. That's just ridiculous.

I'm going to follow whatever that guy buys--and short it.

nolanomad: T-Luv: Gals Panic: dahmers love zombie: Should have gone LED. You can power 650K of those babies for only a couple hundred a month in electricity.

/went LED this year.
//if they last ten years, I will make back the cost of the damn lights

How do you make money putting up Christmas Lights?

I was going to ask the same thing, but I didn't want to come off as a scrooge. That's for taking the heat, Mr. Grinch.

Okay, might be tough for those of you who find math hard...

If using old fashioned bulbs cost X on your electricity bill, but using LEDs cost Y, which is less than X, then take the cost of the LED bulbs, divide by the difference in electrical cost, and you will have the number of years which it will take to recoup the original purchase price of the LEDs.

/am I really smart or are you really dumb?
//maybe both?
///who knows

You wont recoup any money, you still have to pay for the electricity, but you wont pay as much. You will spend less than you would have with normal lights, but you wont make any money back.

Oh Altaira!

simpsonfan: I saw Forbidden planet, not the first time, last year. So strange with Leslie Nielsen not being Silly. That prop was unusual in that it was a flying saucer, but Earth people using it, not aliens.

They should put it in a museum.

Yeah, it's a fairly important movie prop, for science fiction fans; especially since it also appeared in some Twilight Zone episodes. It's seems strange to me that this guy bought it but then just hung it in his garage. I like to think that I would have at least put it in some kind of case or display area, to better protect and preserve it.

Doesn't he know that the market for Forbidden Planet flying saucers is very depressed right now?

It would be even cooler if it were signed by Leslie Nielsen.

He's got big competition for the rich geek dollar, maybe the toughest he could face. Also in that auction:
Link (new window)

/bwwwowwwww, bwwwwwwwwwwwwwoooowwwww
//whap! Awe, I broke my $200,000.

FieldTurf

Beverly DeAngelo is hawt...i imagine even now, how long ago was Christmas vacation?

bmr68: /If the DOW hits 500, shoot me.

You know, I don't think the DOW can even hit 500. Long, long before that happens, wouldn't civilization just end?

Someone in my neighborhood.