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• 1 MikeP on Nov 6, 2008 at 8:20 pm

  http://flatlandthemovie.com/

  Just a guess…

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  Reply from gettingideas on November 7, 2008:

  It’s nice to see that Joe Estevez is still landing quality roles since ‘Soultaker’ - I am particularly interested in this one (apparently he plays Zeus):

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxgOxrGB4yA

  The trailer claims the movie is a comedy, but it mostly made me want to cry. For the rest of you Joe Estevez fans, there is a treasure trove of Joe-related content (including zany interviews) on YouTube.

  By the way, Bill, since you are always providing us with helpful Joey Pants updates, how about the occasional Joe Estevez update?

• 2 Tv Miller on Nov 6, 2008 at 8:27 pm

  My guess…a book titled Interesting Times.

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• 3 Tv Miller on Nov 6, 2008 at 8:36 pm

  Smoothing enlarged images.

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• 4 Tv Miller on Nov 6, 2008 at 8:40 pm

  Mandlebrot…but I think you actually want to know how to enlarge a fractal farm hex therefore…in the mighty words of Barabbas, “um”.

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  Reply from Tv Miller on November 6, 2008:

  Zn+1 = Zn10 + C

• 5 secretidcrisis on Nov 6, 2008 at 8:45 pm

  Maybe this has something to do with iriffs?

  Enlarging- making bigger
  fractal- self-referencing
  farm- in terms of sports, the ‘minor leagues’
  hex- either a curse, or the number 6?

  Increasing the number of cursed rifftrax minor leaguers to 6?

  It’s either that, or animal porn for math geniuses.

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• 6 NanoRiffite on Nov 6, 2008 at 9:02 pm

  Hmm. The video is for a few glasses of blended whiskey, so “Enlarging a Fractal Farm Hex” is the kind of thing you’d say after drinking more than 8 glasses of Tory’s whiskey…

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• 7 hindsight837 on Nov 6, 2008 at 9:58 pm

  ok, so i know about this from personal experience, i had a farm and this cah-razay witch put a hex on it. But because this witch was soooo CARAYZAY, (hijinks ensued, trust me) the hex was fractal, so we to enlarge it… fairly common really, this has happened to everyone right?

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• 8 jason on Nov 6, 2008 at 10:35 pm

  Has to have something to do with crop circles…

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  Reply from RemmieBarrow on November 7, 2008:

  Aw man…I hope it does not have anything to do with M. Night Shyamalan’s “Signs”, I would really need a drink after that.

• 9 Kim on Nov 6, 2008 at 10:47 pm

  I bet its those people who write their names in the wet cement of irrigation ditches…or am I the only one who’s ever seen that?

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• 10 Michael T Bradley on Nov 6, 2008 at 11:34 pm

  Rifftrax Anagram Challenge, perhaps?

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  Reply from Fun Terminal on November 7, 2008:

  Exact grim hair fallen; hang aft?

  Reply from Eddie the Colton on November 7, 2008:

  Okay, when are you going to announce that this guy won? It is indeed “Rifftrax anagram challenge.” So. Yeah. Say he won so I can stop guessing.

  Reply from Smuttynose on November 7, 2008:

  Really Bill it’s obvious at this point, so stop playing with your kids or holding hands with your wife or really just basically stop enjoying life and come back to the computer to end this charade. We all know Mr. Bradley has nailed it.

  Reply from Enron Hubbard on November 7, 2008:

  Stop sucking up to Mr. Bradley, Smuttynose! He will judge the next contest *fairly* and with the righteous judgment of the great man he is. He will not be swayed by such ham handed compliments as you would seem to believe. He is much too smart for that.

  Reply from Smuttynose on November 7, 2008:

  Oh, c’mon, but his meatball is richly dyed!

  I’m not gay.

• 11 Dames Like Her on Nov 7, 2008 at 2:13 am

  Gazing at Pennsylvania Dutch Barn Symbols with a head grotesquely enlarged by the ingestion of Japanese rye whiskey will hurl you into an involuntary vertiginous hallucinatory maelstrom.
  You will experience visions of being engulfed by the whirling vortex from the TV show “The Time Tunnel,” and encounter James Darren within. He grins maniacally at you as he devours a slice of shoofly pie.
  You will awaken from your vision in a wheat field, clutching the gift of the Seven Sours.

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• 12 Queen Shadowrama on Nov 7, 2008 at 4:19 am

  I haven’t the slightest clue. All I know is that when I very very quickly glanced at the title of this post, it looked like it said Enlarging Rectal Exam, and I thought, oh Bill why? I adore you and stuff, but I don’t know if even I wanna hear about your trip to the doctor…

  I guess all I saw was the “tal” and an “x” and somehow my brain did God knows what…

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  Reply from NavarezElectro on November 7, 2008:

  You’d need to drink quite a bit of whiskey before an enlarged rectal exam.

• 13 justhesh on Nov 7, 2008 at 4:27 am

  Bill, you’re obviously playing The Sims and your game is at the loading screen.

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  Reply from Rob III on November 7, 2008:

  I think you’re onto something, but since I’ve recently starting playing “Spore”, I recall such loading messages.

  It’s from Spore!!

• 14 Maureen on Nov 7, 2008 at 4:52 am

  Perhaps it’s the music that is fractal, like that of Jonathan Dawe :
  http://www.jonathandawe.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=8&Itemid=31
  The Hex part is a cool geometry nickname, with the rest of jazz trio, Dodeca, and Hepta.

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• 15 RifftraxIsForever on Nov 7, 2008 at 5:30 am

  I believe you are telling us that you are a wizard, and that you are increasing the potency (enlarging, if you will) the hex over the animals at the local farm, which makes the animals believe they are a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure are greater than the spatial dimensions.

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• 16 Smuttynose on Nov 7, 2008 at 5:32 am

  A small portion of an agrarian settlement’s curse is embiggened.

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• 17 Fifty "Percent" Kreiger on Nov 7, 2008 at 5:53 am

  Tor Johnson had his own liquor label?

  No thanks, i’ll just stick with Dan Ackroyd’s Crystal Head Vodka for now, Tor.

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• 18 Kevin Murphy on Nov 7, 2008 at 6:10 am

  Bill -

  (waving hand frantically in the back of the class) Oooh, oooh, I know, I know, Sister-Sister-Sister-Sister- I know I know I know…

  -kwm

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  Reply from seanf on November 7, 2008:

  Pretty sure there’s a conflict of interest here. And Kevin, what would you do with a free Rifftrax anyway? Couldn’t you get a free Rifftrax anytime you wanted by just, you know, starting to talk anytime a movie comes on TV?

  Reply from Sister Vehicular Manslaughter on November 7, 2008:

  Murphy, get in the cloak room.

  Reply from Smuttynose on November 7, 2008:

  Yo, man, I thought you were dead…

  Reply from NanoRiffite on November 7, 2008:

  … he’s feeling better now.

  Reply from Dames Like Her on November 8, 2008:

  He’s just resting.

• 19 seanf on Nov 7, 2008 at 6:18 am

  Three possibilities:

  a) You’re telling us that you’re about to load a cheat code into the Sims. Which would probably say more about you than you’d really like us to know.

  b) You’re telling us that the next riff you guys are doing is for M. Night Shyamalan’s opus “Signs,” but you’ll need lots of booze to make it through.

  c) You’re telling us that you have entirely too much free time on your hands, and you need to get back to work on that Meet Dave II: Mo’ Better Dave spec script.

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• 20 Smuttynose on Nov 7, 2008 at 6:47 am

  Wait–New Rifftrax website design!!!

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• 21 gettingideas on Nov 7, 2008 at 7:00 am

  I hope it’s Matrix Revolutions - don’t ask me how I got there!

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• 22 fanboy3445 on Nov 7, 2008 at 7:20 am

  Thats what you get when members of the Covenant of the Goddess gather to bless the fields with a greater and stronger crop of James Gleick’s.

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• 23 Charlie W on Nov 7, 2008 at 7:24 am

  A barn that looks the saame no matter how you look at it? genius!

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• 24 blablover5 on Nov 7, 2008 at 7:47 am

  I have no idea but I can’t get the picture of a giant killer chicken trying to peck my eyes out of my head now.

  Thanks a lot.

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• 25 Heather on Nov 7, 2008 at 9:16 am

  Fractal Farm is Fleet Farm’s non-Euclidian counterpart that specializes in recursive tools for the chaos farmers of the northern plains states (see Broccoli, Romanesco) as well as Micronesia and Vatican City. They sell the rare line of Mandelbrot hex keys (see recursive Allen wrench profile), as well as knitting needles suitable for crafting sweaters for the Elder Gods. My grandfather used to do all his Christmas shopping there until the hair dryer he got for my grandmother caused a typhoon inside Uncle Elden’s breakfast nook.

  Fractal Farm has just completed a merger with Tory’s Recursive Whisky (see sequence beginning at about 0:19), enlarging the business and resulting in the bizarre Franco-Japanese beatnik-noir cartoon you see here.

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  Reply from Heather on November 7, 2008:

  Uh, wow. Those links… really did not work at all. I meant for them to point to http://www.seanet.com/~garyteachout/fractal/hex7a.gif
  and http://lolthulhu.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/pinkfreud-noneuclidean.jpg, respectively. No idea why the comments hate my html.

  Reply from seanf on November 7, 2008:

  Um, you lost me right after “Fractal Farm is….”

• 26 Tv Miller on Nov 7, 2008 at 10:49 am

  I just wanted to note that I think the legal related to percentage is .08 so you’re well within reason to relate to it some more should we all be saps.

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• 27 Darth Chimay on Nov 7, 2008 at 11:28 am

  You’re talkin’ ’bout Willis. Duh.

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• 28 michael on Nov 7, 2008 at 12:03 pm

  oh crap, this isn’t one of those questions where after everyone racks their brains trying to come up with an answer and then the teacher says, “you’re ALL right!” to the collective disappointing sighs and groans from the students, is it?

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  Reply from MikeP on November 7, 2008:

  Whenever somebody prefaces a question with “There are no wrong answers”, I do my level best to show them how deluded they are. You’d better believe there’s a wrong answer to every question.

• 29 G-Force on Nov 7, 2008 at 1:58 pm

  Its when you cover a state quarter in bacon and team it in a movie with Donny Most….

  in conclusion… JOEY PANTS!

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• 30 OmegaRowsdower on Nov 7, 2008 at 2:27 pm

  Taking the lazy route, I typed “fractal farm” into google and came up with an actual fractal farm website…

  http://www.davidaspitzley.org/FractalFarm/

  Where the main point is to combine different sprites using a computer program to produce different sprites which have the same characteristics as the two you chose…
  To help understand the process, the father, mother, and mate, buttons were programmed into the program…
  Perhaps, the only way to get the sprites to mate is to get them wasted, then let computer nature take its course, or google has caused me to fail another test… Thanks google…

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  Reply from MikeP on November 7, 2008:

  What is this “google” of which you speak? Is it a human emotion?

  Reply from OmegaRowsdower on November 7, 2008:

  Google is a light hallucinogen obtained from the tears of unicorns, the fangs of vampires, and various floor sweepings… Information is collected, or Googled, when the google tablet has been typed on in Braille (nobody knows why, or cares enough to ask) and consumed… Later a close relative or friend will have a thought come to mind, from which you get your information…

  google can also be described as a human emotion… The clearest example of it is the feeling you get when stick your paintball gun over a rock and fire without seeing, inadvertantly downing your team captain… The feeling reaches its peak when the team captain demands to know who shot him (because he knows one of his team-mates did) and nobody speaks up because they were too busy to notice

  When he gives up (because nobody has answered him for a long time) the feeling of google is replaced with the feeling of yahoo

  Reply from MikeP on November 7, 2008:

  Thank you, human earthling. I understand now. I feel… AOL?

  Reply from OmegaRowsdower on November 8, 2008:

  Here’s a visual example of AOL

  http://i35.tinypic.com/2cs79f8.gif

• 31 Edgewriter on Nov 7, 2008 at 3:03 pm

  Well, you see when a man and a woman love each other very much . . . . .

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• 32 Brian O. on Nov 7, 2008 at 3:50 pm

  And to think the Japanese tentacle porn anime came from such modest beginnings.

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• 33 Suzanne on Nov 7, 2008 at 9:55 pm

  BEHOLD, CROCHETED BACON!!!

  http://craftastrophe.net/2008/11/pocket-bacon-seriously-the-dumbest-thing-i-have-ever-made-but-you-guys-seem-to-like-it/#more-48

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  Reply from Suzanne on November 7, 2008:

  Or rather, this URL:

  http://craftastrophe.net/2008/11/pocket-bacon-seriously-the-dumbest-thing-i-have-ever-made-but-you-guys-seem-to-like-it/

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