Does anybody remember those crazy Encyclopedia Britannica commercials with that annoying kid?

"Remember me? I'm the kid that had a report due on space. Then my parents bought me the entire Encyclopedia Britannica and I got an A!"

Yeah I remember that dork.

Memories...flooding back. Hand...clenching into fist.

That guy is a telemarketer now.

Even lower than a former child star. A former wanna-be child star.

Here's a site for all of your Encyclopedia Britannica kid answers. http://www.larkfarm.com/eb_boy_answers.htm

X-E has his commercial available for download

antichrist

Growing up, I used to read my parents set all the time. Look where it got me- in a Fark thread.

Okay..admins..this is a repeat of the "Mona Lisa" article.
I submitted this link. And even though it means i'll drop from 300 submitted links down to 299, please drop this one before everyone notices how many repeats Fark has had recently.

well either im stoopid or my html was taken away


take two

http://www.x-entertainment.com/downloads/commercials/books.html

I think fark is taking that "rinse, repeat, wipe hands on pants" too far.

oh man...rtreynor is right....

well...i can't blame anyone for the amount of repeats...it is oktoberfest all month long...

/roll out the barrel

Wasn't there an ONION article making fun of him? I can't find it in the archives.

At least this repeat was from a different news source.

Yeah....this one links to Yahoo News...and the first one links to Yahoo Ne.....oh.

Another case of Sensationalistic Article Submission.

Another case of Sensationalistic Article Submission.

I do that a lot. I rarely read the articles before submitting.
Actually, i *did* read this one. hmph.

Actually, it's Encyclopaedia Brittanica (with an `a' in there).

deja-vu

"I've got a report due on space"

-- isn't that like saying "I've got a report due on physics?" Next time, pick a friggin TOPIC, kid. Like "I've got a report due on the lessons learned from torque-reduction hand tool experiments on Gemini XII" That way you don't NEED Enclopedia Brit. Just a link to nasa.gov

/criminy

dammit. I don't think the onion article is archived because I couldn't find that sucker eaither... that's sad. It was funny.

Encyclopedia. I can spell when I'm not ticked off.

Read them in the bathroom. Now I can't take them back.

"Actually, it's Encyclopaedia Brittanica (with an `a' in there)."

Just like there's an "a" in shiat.

Nice Seinfeld ref there loki

I think you guys are mixing up encyclopedia brown and the encyclopedia brittanica sales guy, the former was a little know it all that was the son of an inept small town police chief that couldn't solve a case to save his life. the latter was just plain annoying. I agree with Darth Brooks I remember watching him and thinking You have a report due on Space? You are going to do a report on a subject that has perplexed mankind since we have been able to look up? That we have spent many thousands of years, many lives, and billions of dollars to understand? Could you have picked a broader topic?

Encylope1dias are obsolete now, who needs them when you have the internet.

You know how they let you keep the first book for free and then you can cancel??? I wonder how many people have a lot of information about Aardvarks, Algeria, etc, but no information on bats, Bulgaria, etc.

Burglar!

Nice, a repeat from the same day even. Excellent.

On that commercial with the Encyclopedia Brittanica kid, he says, "I always wondered where my mandibula was."

That's "MANDIBLE" Mr. I've got a report due on space.

They never fixed it as far I as I know.

I have commercial on my site in case the other gets farked.

The kid's report looked like this:

Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. It's five year mission - to boldy go where no man has gone before.

He only got an A. Would've been an A+ but he used a split infinitive.

Joshg, misspelled "boldly", too. That, or he didn't use "bold" correctly.

MANDIBULA

Who needs an encyclopedia when you have the InterWeb?

Oh, and isn't it Encyclopdia Britannica, with that wacky character?

Joshg, misspelled "boldly", too. That, or he didn't use "bold" correctly.

No see, when you write something in bold, it can be described as boldy.

Does that sound credible?

Well, that should be an "ae" ligature (?) in Encyclopaedia. Is Fark running ASCII only?

Joshg, amazingly enough, given everything else in the OED, "boldy" isn't an English word. It sounds like a goode olde fashioned worde, but I guess it isn't.

Daggone it, InternetSecurityGuard, you beat me to it!

/unsuccessful encyclopedia salesman

"I always wondered where my mandibula was."

The word you've entered isn't in the dictionary. Click on a spelling suggestion below or try again using the Dictionary search box to the right.

Suggestions for mandibula:
1. mandibular
2. mandible
3. mandibles
4. mendable
5. mandola
6. mandolas
7. mindblower
8. mandibulate
9. Manitoba
10. mindblowers
-- Merriam-Webster's Spelling Help

Maybe he was actually trying to find Manitoba.

I'll probably be buying a set eventually.

(used to read them for "fun")

From the article:

Encyclopaedia Britannica, which commissioned the survey, said 18-24 year old respondents were the worst offenders, with none able to name Austria's Gustav Klimt as the painter of student bedroom favorite "The Kiss."

"Student bedroom favorite"? It sounds to me like the author has mixed this:



with this:



Not likely that the writer is that dumb, but any excuse for hot girls kissing, aye?

I know a guy who spent a year selling Children's Encyclopedias door-to-door.
Except it was in a little town with an average age of 65, so he didn't get many sales. So when I say "spent a year" I mean "Spent 3 months then threw in the towel".

I never trust an encyclopedia publisher that can't even spell "encyclopedia" right.

Mandibula is a word. Dictionary.com sucks.

http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/mandibula

You think 'encyclopaedia' is bad? Try spelling 'pharmacopoeiae'!

And before anyone biatches about it not being in the dictionaery, I know it's archaic; I wrote a paper about pharmacopoeias a few weeks ago.

Ok. p-h-a-r-m-a-c-o-p-o-e-i-a-e.

Woohoo! I win the spelling bee!