MightyThor: Are you going to set your status to away when I try to chat you again?
MightyThor: Because if you are, I won't bother this time.
Atticusser: I am never away
Atticusser: but I am never here
MightyThor: Well that makes perfect sense.
Atticusser: I am like sands through the hourglass
Atticusser: I was literally in meetings from 10:00 to 4:40 yesterday
Atticusser: including over lunch
MightyThor: What a lovely day.
Atticusser: but I have some very exciting news for you
MightyThor: Do you?
Atticusser: http://gizmodo.com/5013094/tbs-i-can-pause-my-own-tv-thanks
Atticusser: the future of annoying TV marketing practices is indeed bright
MightyThor: What. The. Crap.
MightyThor: That's it. TBS is banned.
MightyThor: And if this practice spreads, everything gets Devo'd.
Atticusser: as is the Bill Engvall show
MightyThor: The video has been removed.
MightyThor: Is that what was being advertised?
Atticusser: yeah
Atticusser: removed already eh?
MightyThor: Yep
Atticusser: I just watched it
MightyThor: No go here.
Atticusser: it's one of those annoying pop-up-in-the-bottom-corner-of-the-screen ads
MightyThor: But it actually pauses the show?
Atticusser: but instead of just standing there pointlessly he has a remote and pauses the show
MightyThor: Wow.
Atticusser: so he can tell you to watch his show
Atticusser: and it is literally in the middle of a scene
MightyThor: That is really, really, really a bad idea.
Atticusser: also it's much larger than normal
Atticusser: like half the screen
Atticusser: presumably because he pauses the show so it doesn't disturb the viewer
MightyThor: Right
MightyThor: Because that's not disturbing or distracting at all.
Atticusser: no not at all
Atticusser: you know those network marketing guys have joked about doing this for years but nobody ever had the balls to pull the trigger until now
MightyThor: They figure they might as well. Nobody's watching their channel anyway.
MightyThor: If the best programming they can drum up is the Bill Engvall show.
Atticusser: it definitely smacks of desperation
Atticusser: don't discount Corner Gas
MightyThor: Corner Gas?
Atticusser: it's the best comedy ever produced by canadians
MightyThor: Ah.
Atticusser: other than Kids in the Hall
MightyThor: And Bob and Doug McKenzie.
Atticusser: and the canadian Navy
Atticusser: OH NO I DI'INT!
MightyThor: So, of all the comedy produced by Canadians, it's like fourth out of four.
Atticusser: hmmm, maybe below Bryan Adams too
MightyThor: And the entire Yukon Territory.
Atticusser: and socialized medicine
MightyThor: And the Mounties.
MightyThor: Mouties...what a scam.
MightyThor: Mounties, I mean.
Atticusser: and You Can't Do That on Television
MightyThor: I don't know about that one...SPLAT!!!
MightyThor: Hahahahaha! I got slimed!
Atticusser: Devin, don't encourage your mother!
MightyThor: Wow, that IS great comedy! Thank you, Canada!
Atticusser: but it's definitely better than French-Canadian independence
MightyThor: Now now. Don't mock the Quebecois.
MightyThor: They just want to be free from the tyranny of their brutal Canadian lords.
Atticusser: Oh, and don't forget curling!
MightyThor: Because they are really being terribly repressed up there.
MightyThor: They have print all their signs in French AND English!
MightyThor: It's cruel.
MightyThor: Curling...what a scam.
MightyThor: So I actually did have another reason why I was trying to chat you for like 15 years now.
MightyThor: Okay, so since yesterday.
Atticusser: oh, I was waiting for the rest of that statement
Atticusser: I thought something had happened since yesterday
MightyThor: Sorry, got distracted. Bill Engvall jumped up on my screen and paused my desktop so he could advertise Curling.
Atticusser: That's ratings gold!
MightyThor: Seriously.