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Ksyrup
11-29-2005, 07:12 AM
hxxp://www.rocketboom.com/video/extra/unknown/house_lightsx.mov
CraigSca
11-29-2005, 07:18 AM
You know, I tohught so at first...but then I began to wonder how annoying it would be to listen to the same soundtrack over and over and deal with the flashing lights if you were his neighbor.
Ksyrup
11-29-2005, 07:25 AM
I assume he does it once a night or something. Otherwise, you'd be like Julia Louis-Dreyfuss in Christmas Vacation.
Drake
11-29-2005, 08:10 AM
If he was my neighbor, I'd burn down his house. Hopefully while he was still inside.
cuervo72
11-29-2005, 08:12 AM
I'd rather have the Julia Louis-Dreyfus Christmas card from Seinfeld...

BTW (threadjack alert)...is it shoe-in or shoo-in? I had always thought it was the latter, and that would seem to be backed up by answers.com (http://www.answers.com/shoo-in&r=67). Interestingly though, if you google each, shoe-in will yeild 1,020,000 results, to only 273,000 for shoo-in. A rare case where the misspelling is more popular than the correct one (I know we had a contest on this some time back)?
Ksyrup
11-29-2005, 08:19 AM
It is. My mind was on remote control when I posted that this morning. It didn't even register until I read your post.
Ksyrup
11-29-2005, 08:20 AM
Just to continue the threadjack, apparently the term shoo-in originated from early 1900s horse races that were rigged.
cuervo72
11-29-2005, 08:23 AM
Yeah, I came across that too.

(forgot about the World Wide Words site, it's a pretty good one)
vex
11-29-2005, 01:46 PM
Pretty cool.
Buccaneer
11-30-2005, 06:51 PM
Ksyrup, yes, it's real. One listens to the sound track via radio.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/xmaslights.asp
Buccaneer
11-30-2005, 06:53 PM
LOL. Looks like Ksyrup, Subby and I entered into a time warp for minute.
Airhog
11-30-2005, 06:55 PM
Looks fake. Look at the way the grass moves in the picture. Probably shot using something similar to stop motion capture
Buccaneer
11-30-2005, 06:56 PM
The rough quality of the video has led some viewers to believe it was put together in stop-action form from still photographs, but that is an artifact of the high compression used in the clip circulated via <NOBR>e-mail</NOBR>
Subby
11-30-2005, 07:01 PM
LOL. Looks like Ksyrup, Subby and I entered into a time warp for minute. That was fun. :)
terpkristin
11-30-2005, 07:23 PM
For whatever it's worth, the Snopes page on this thing has a link to the page where the creator described how he did it.

Kind of an interesting read, really. :)

/tk
ice4277
11-30-2005, 07:33 PM
That is crazy awesome.
primelord
11-30-2005, 07:33 PM
You know, I tohught so at first...but then I began to wonder how annoying it would be to listen to the same soundtrack over and over and deal with the flashing lights if you were his neighbor.
Playing the music over a radio broadcast certainly makes it a bit better. Assuming he keeps it down to a few "performances" a night (say once an hour between 6 and 9) I wouldn;t have a problem with it. I am sure the traffic on the street and the flashing lights would get a bit annoying, but it is only for a few weeks. No big deal.