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He's The COMPUTER MAN! watch!

spacebarcowboy.com — A desperate attempt to embarrass and shame an old boss - here's a link to a video he has tried to destroy for over 5 years. If it makes the Digg front page, he's promised to eat his ice cream man hat. Come on Digg, I know you can do it!

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  • stryker2you, on 10/12/2007, -19/+76I prefer Nick Burns your companies computer guy!
  • pminze, on 10/12/2007, -29/+15This is a some Funny Sh!%.
    • armbar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+74Seriously...the black guy dancing in the line sent this video to an entirely new level for me.
    • 0siris, on 10/12/2007, -4/+83do you mean funny *****?
      see... no language filter ;)
    • Styleboost, on 10/12/2007, -3/+47I think he meant ship, not *****.
    • royder, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5or how about the guy trying to dance in a chair..... that should push it past that entirely new level.
    • rekrapt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Much in the way some religions will not write the word God (eg: G*d), perhaps this person holds ***** in such high esteem that he cannot bring himself to disrespect it with mere typed letters.
  • Pentagonian, on 10/12/2007, -47/+6Amazing
  • micha, on 10/12/2007, -5/+66Brilliant
    • zakool21, on 10/12/2007, -2/+76But I guess Brilliant is not worn out on Digg.
  • skooler21, on 10/12/2007, -6/+115Is this Steven Spielberg dressed like a ice cream man
    • pluox, on 10/12/2007, -12/+115Dressed like AN ice cream man!!!!!! You ***** retard!!!!

      whoops. sorry.

      I don't have a girlfriend, so all i do is correct grammar and jerk of to mathematical equations and such all day long :(
    • jdelamater, on 10/12/2007, -11/+75You mean jerk OFF!! ***** retard!

      Sorry, but I hate it when pricks correct other people's grammar and then have a typo in their own correction-containing post!

      FTW!
    • rekrapt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21Or use dumb-ass acronyms to communicate. LOL. Uh, nevermind.
    • twertyto, on 10/12/2007, -14/+1@jdelamater

      He's trying to encite. It worked. It always does.

      I'm sorry to state the obvious but I guess its not that obvious.

    • nanabite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4If we're going to get technical, FTW is an initialism, not an acronym.
  • 2tomato, on 10/12/2007, -3/+65I don't even know what to say, this is brilliant!
    ( The "Plug 'n pray" joke was one of my favorites back in 1996. )

    P.S: For those of you who don't recognize the music in background, it's the 1994 hit song "Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)" by Scatman John, a milestone in the music history.
    • drakethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -12/+16Which begs the question, at this point how many digg users haven't heard this song?
    • ricosalomar, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17@drakethegreat
      How does that beg the question?
    • Tirial, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8I've heard the song. I'm sure lots of other diggers have too.
    • ryan4477, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21i havent

      am i weird guys??
    • foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -21/+4"am i weird guys??"
      It should be
      "Am I weird, guys?"
      Since you are grammatically wrong, you fail, and consequently, are weird.
    • dynasty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4anybody who has seen or even heard of SerenityNow knows the song. cmon you WoW nerds, you know what im talking about.

      that funeral? yea...
    • nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question ... "I do not think that word means what you think it means"
    • bliz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@ryan4477

      no, coz i havent heard of it before too
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo1w2Y4yj-8
      pretty cool
    • olik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4If this was a home video from back when that song was popular it was done quite well
    • felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@nofxjunkee:

      I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with that pet peeve. I think you'll like http://begthequestion.info/
    • unitedstatians, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2"Larkin was mainly scared that listeners would realise he stuttered, so Judy suggested that he talk about it directly in his music. Working with dance producers Ingo Kays and Tony Catania, he recorded the first single, "Scatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop)", a song intended to inspire children who stuttered to overcome adversity."

      In this tread, we dance. (digg the originally submitted story)
      http://www.digg.com/videos_music/In_this_Digg_story_we_dance
    • nirvaerozep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I know I'm probably fairly late to the "begging the question" party, but even as the always-accurate Wikipedia states, to "beg the question" means to bring up a question in common usage, which means that both are correct.

      Remember, there didn't used to be the word 'pea'--just like rice, 'pease' used to mean either one pea or a whole bunch of them. Thanks to people 'screwing up' the infallible English language, words and phrases change their meanings. Get your proscriptive linguistics out of here people.

      Again, this comment is probably wildly late and nobody will ever read it, but it makes me happy.
    • crashingechelon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1After I watched the video I went and put that song on. I originally heard it on those old Good Humor ice cream commercials back in the day when I was younger. When Baseketball came out, I finally found out the name of the song and all that.
  • archanoid, on 10/12/2007, -117/+8God, I hate Digg Spam. "If this makes it to the front page, blah blah blah." We should bury stories like this instead of promote them.

    Come on Digg. I know you can do it!
    • flamingmb, on 10/12/2007, -5/+62how the ***** is this spam. Its a funny ass relic of the computers of the 90's. I loved it.
    • ashwin100, on 10/12/2007, -57/+2Gotta agree with archanoid. Looks like it's Digg Spammer's 1, Digg 0 - it's hit the front page.
    • nickj6282, on 10/12/2007, -5/+47How is this Digg spam when there isn't a single ad or other revenue generating item on that page? It's just some green ASCII and the video.
    • SonicRush, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27Who cares if it hit the front page? It's funny and entertaining.
    • pexor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28God finally decent adspam gets posted to Digg and there's no contact information! How do I get in touch with this computer man? Can he help me with my Windows 95??? How about Photoshop 4.0?
    • pexor, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10AND AN ISA TRUMPET BOARD??????? Spam or not that's a great invention.
    • olik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2There should be a way to attach a follow up demonstrating your promise to [insert stupid thing]
    • cthellis, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0@pexor

      Macs never used ISA, ya durn fool!
  • SuckMyDigg, on 10/12/2007, -110/+14Can't see it. Requires me to install Apple's WhoreWare Quicktime/iTunes/whatever else they want to throw in to make the download over 30 megs.

    Duly buried as spam per archanoid.
    • dickeytk, on 10/12/2007, -11/+49http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alternative.htm

      don't bury ***** cause you don't like quicktime
    • diamondg14, on 10/12/2007, -15/+43Yea, because Windows media has never forced down someones throat.
    • schroduggity, on 10/12/2007, -52/+9serioulsy, who the hell is deranged enough to put their media up in RM/MOV format. if everyone did this type of thing then the internet wouldn't be possible.

      look tards, the whole point is qtime forces you to install yet another media player, you macfags make me sick
    • BitBurner, on 10/12/2007, -11/+518.8MB for the player only no iTunes. Just switch the radio button to the choice without itunes. But I know radio buttons are hard concept for some people to grasp....lol But Dickey is right QTA is the way to go.
    • dickeytk, on 10/12/2007, -7/+24i don't like quicktime, I'm defnitely NOT a 'macfag' I just don't like it when people bury ***** because the content uses a codec they don't like
    • calvmari, on 10/12/2007, -18/+2Video is impossible to run, if it wants a digg it needs to be in something more standard.
    • BlackCow, on 10/12/2007, -21/+4Quick time sucks tbh. No full screen option, I meen how hard is that!
    • elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15Quicktime, for Windows, at least is a devil spawn of a program. Every time it runs, it adds itself to the startup folder, and associates a whole load of files with itself.

      Thanks for the link to the Quicktime alternative. I love it!
    • PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17DUDE, it's MPEG-4, not QuickTime. Use whatever the ***** you want to play it.
    • theBrink, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5lol, he had to say whoreware, you're an idiot, 50% of digg that read this post just dugg you down)

      See I dont' like quicktime cause it's only slightly less bloated than realplayer, bundling your codec with a crappy pos player needs to go. Viva la quicktime alternative. I'll digg down any thread that uses a codec from a company doing that crap, I don't care if they're REAL or APPLE, down with the *****.
    • cthellis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@elnerdo

      Ever notice what Windows Messenger does? ;-)

      You can change that behavior of Quicktime--you just have to change a Quicktime preference. (Shocker!)

      At least it's not as much of a bear as the other auto-loading apps other programs install.
  • carebearwarrior, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I had no idea what that was.
    Good 'parody' of Scatman though.
    Hehe. Good for a Friday laugh.
  • lanzemurdok, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Is this hat kosher?

    alright rich, serve it up
  • thefutureisours, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14another internet celebrity in the making?
  • psyber, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Wow... that did not take long. Front page it is. Good Stuff
    • trogdoor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3GoodShipBebop I expect a follow up video of the hat eating in return for our promoting of your video to the front page, it's only fair :)

      Edit: apparently miken1157 beat me to it.
      By two hours :)
  • TotalTutorials, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2cant see it, at work and cant install quicktime. someone Utube it up!
    • rikcando, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Same issue here. Direct link by jimi1337 above worked for me.
      Thanks jimi.
    • elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5I believe it's YOU tube.
    • armbar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7"Utube it up!"

      Quick, sue him for copyright infringement!
    • ericnmu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1dont go to utube, they hate the traffic!
  • TSK06, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5http://duggmirror.com
  • miken1157, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Do we get to see a video of the hat eating?
    Pretty funny too.....
  • forku, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0won't load - digg effect
  • skrapinov, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Hilarious even without the back story.
  • finkployd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Do we get to see a video of him eating the hat now that it made it to the front page?
  • jackspade, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3this is the greatest damn thing since the last internet fad

    someone please make a ytmnd of this..
  • GoodShipBebop, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Whew, Power of Digg indeed - I'm screenshotting it and the fact it's on the front page - I will try to get the hat eating filmed.
    • chopcow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1A video of the Computer Man and how he looks 10 years later would be cool. This video brightened my day. It should be the next Numa Numa.
    • oldmanpops, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What would it be worth to you?
  • Billybones, on 10/12/2007, -21/+0Stupidest thing I have ever seen. How could this possibly make it to the front page.
  • ZeoFateX, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Direct link: http://spacebarcowboy.com/computers/computer_man/computer_man.mp4
  • Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -6/+35Is anybody else worried about this kind of thing becoming an epidemic on Digg? You know what I mean:

    "If this gets to the front page of digg, (insert person here) will (insert action here) "

    Just like the guy who would quit his job if his story got to the front page of Digg, I really don't want to see this become a trend
    • icdeadpeople, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Yeah i agree...
    • MedHead, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I was just going to post the same thing, if you hadn't written it first. What's next? Submitters begging us to send it to five people by midnight?
  • ewetubing, on 10/12/2007, -13/+0This left me completely speechless.

    Those people behind him are the worst dancers ever. My drunken uncles dance better than that.

    And YES, this was on the front page of Digg.
  • BitBurner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I can't wait to see the mashups on this one...
  • ejectMedia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2it's slow, but this mirror works as well
    http://spacebarcowboy.com.nyud.net:8090/computers/computer_man/index.html
  • impulsiveboy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Yeah, I get that he's supposed to be fixing computers and all, but what's with the crowd of people having seizures following him around?
    • Beaver6813, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5They want to dance.
    • DesireCampbell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Why wouldn't they follow him around? He's the COMPUTER MAN (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)!
    • carbonetc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7To nerds he's like the Pied Piper.
  • ScottBookG4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Freakin' AWESOME!
  • wtfhacksDan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7MORE GAMES
  • paku, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8I'd hit it..

    WAIT!!1! WHAT?!!!
  • kristin364, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Haha! Thanks for the laugh :)
  • elitexero, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2He's the computer fixin, bad dancin, cap'n o the ship!
  • MindTrigger, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6hahahah I love the "More Games!" email, cause that's the same ***** Apple users are STILL saying today.
  • lazrus18, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4AWESOME...did his beard promise to eat the hat or did he?
  • kazuhima, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6that made my day, anybody else?
    • MindTrigger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Yes, mine too. I needed this today. It really put my IT woes into perspective.

      Thank you Computer Man. You saved my life.
  • ObligatoryDeath, on 10/12/2007, -18/+2Computer Man should get an empty Wii box for christmas. That was horrible.
  • MindTrigger, on 10/12/2007, -12/+4
    WOOOO! I was dig number 420! Perfect for this video. :p
    • VaporBro, on 10/26/2007, -8/+3WOO! Digg number 1597!

      It's no 420, but im high as hell. "Im the computer man..."
  • Earlofnecromium, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3the link is feeling the digg effect, i still dugg it but only because i want to see the video of him eating the hat.
  • coyo7e, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4Too bad he is a machead.. Although back in those days, system 6.0.7 and system 7 were light years ahead of Windows, macs suck in a workplace environment.
  • DannoHung, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Please replace Justin Long with this guy.
  • skooler21, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2This milkman is FUNNY
  • Earlofnecromium, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2the link is feeling the digg effect, i still dugg it but only because i want to see the video of him eating the hat. edit: got it to work. Best thing i have seen, possibly in the world. Can't wait to see him eat the hat :)
  • cbags, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2God what people will do for attention!
  • ryware, on 07/04/2008, -2/+5That was actually pretty funny.
  • compaqnigg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4ROFL! I hope this makes a record on digg... I hope it makes the news... LOL
  • geuisteses, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5http://www.youtube.com/v/qcCSzlR4TzQ
  • PDelahanty, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Forget him. I'd be more embarassed to be one of the people dancing in the background.
  • jonesyhahaha, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2that was amazing. Judging by his voice in the end, I'm guessing that it wasn't even him singing...
  • llamasonic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Another mirror http://vlabs.vidavee.com/free4all/index.php?p=show&id=1554
  • merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I totally read that as "Ice cream" "Man Hat", instead of "Ice cream man" "hat"...

    I was wondering if baskin robins made hat shaped ice cream cakes...
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