Woah, that's some major dejavu...I saw this on TV just as it showed up on Gizmodo.

The Bac0n

@The Bac0n: I don't think that qualifies as Deja Vu.

FlameEye

@The Bac0n: Seriously, if I saw a movie twice is that considered Deja Vu? Your comment made me laugh.

velocium

@Jon B.: or our lust for legos?

armendni

Man...President (elect) Obama needs to find a place on his cabinet for Stewart...

Tedinasia

The Kessel run isn't the most obscure geek quote, but it's still wierd hearing from the host of a show.

TickleMeElmo

@armendni: Nope.

Jon B.

Curse it all. I'll say it if no one else will. Jesus... wha'happened?

A wise man (Charly Gordon?) once claimed that "with great power comes great responsibility." After watching your excitement—and organizational how-to videos—regarding Man's Greatest LEGO Kit, I endeavored to follow in your footsteps and do likewise. And dontcha think lil' Jonny Stewart reads Gizmodo? Sure he does. Do you want to let him down, too?

I've soldiered on, but just barely. My sad truth: life would be just a little sweeter if I could see the Falcon assembled by the great JD.

scarbrtj

So we should blame the three deaths on the recession right?

armendni

@armendni: Now thats more reasonable. :D

Jon B.

You got to feel bad for the families of the people who were killed, especially the Walmart worker. I feel bad and all but it is just so damn funny.

cartman005

@Tedinasia:

............No man

Totalfixation

Haha priceless.

WarriorzHeart

@The Bac0n: Nothing to worry about. Just a glitch in the Matrix.

klaybc

@TickleMeElmo: I think it's more than obscure/geeky enough, I sure as hell didn't know what it meant.

MrHaroHaro

@armendni: Well, the recession is certainly making people more desperate.

I don't think we can blame the deaths on the recession itself, but we can blame it on their reactions! For example, when the Walmart employee was killed and the police came in to tell people to leave the store, they kept shopping. Why? Because they HAD to have the discounts and deals. HAD to.

So while the recession isn't to blame for killing people, it is making us into even bigger materialistic pigs.

Apparatus Ex Somnium Design

John Stewart Touches Kids

Our little secret

dingus

@dingus: Sounds like 'Stephen Colbert's Balls...For Kids!'

EBone

I tried to get the Lego set, but it had been sold out within the first hour of Target opening in my town. GRRRRRR!! Now they're selling for 99-140 on ebay. GRRRRRRRR!!

banmojo

@FlameEye: The correct term is 'Deja Stu'

Stem_Sell

is it me, or do these gizmodo and engadget flash videos not want to work properly in Safari?

goaliegeek

@goaliegeek: They work in Safari here...

jeremedia

@Apparatus Ex Somnium Design:
You underestimate the power of Black Friday. There are people who _live_ for that day, there are families that do coordinated strikes on several stores at the same time, and psychos who will resort to physical violence if you're about to walk away with the last copy of something they absolutely must have. The only thing more surprising than the fact that someone got crushed beneath a surging mass of Black Friday doorbuster shoppers is the fact that it doesn't happen more often.

Purple Dave

@Tedinasia: Court Jester?

theimmc

@MrHaroHaro: It means that she's fast enough for you, old man. Indirectly, though, because a parsec is actually a measure of distance.

[starwars.wikia.com]

Brian Sexton

@TickleMeElmo: if he was really geeky, he would have known that the falcon did the kessel run in *less* than 12 parsecs. booyah.

spundot

@goaliegeek: I'm having trouble often with IE7 at work.

electroseven

@Apparatus Ex Somnium Design: The deaths will ultimately be blamed on George Bush.

Optimus-Prime

JESUS! PUT DOWN THE BASEBALL BAT!!! SMASHING READERS OR PARTIALLY BUILT LEGO MILLENIUM FALCONS IS NOT ALLOWED!

Krrong

Aw! Jesus, you had to go and spoil all my fun. So... How far DID you get on building the Lego Millenium Falcon (LMF)? (OKAY! OKAY! I'll shut up about it now!) Merry Christmas!

Krrong

I feel really bad about the Walmart guy - but the other 2 were shot over some gang dispute - nothing to do with getting the last Elmo Toy. Could have happened anywhere, on any day of the year.

Canoehead

@electroseven:

i am just having trouble with it on IE7 anywhere.

g2drummman

@Canoehead:

shhhhhh...don't alert the media of it. It will ruin their attempt to point blame at anything for something totally unrelated, and then they won't be able to create a story about it. God forbid they go out and do a story on the Salvation Army volunteers who each year freeze their balls or va jj's off to collect pocket lint and wadded up receipts from stingy shoppers. The media would NOT like to look at things from a rational standpoint, and only be able to place their 'devastating' spin on it. But I must digress, it is the viewers who continue to watch the smut, drive up the ratings, and demand trash be absorbed into their minds.

g2drummman

@velocium: "...if I saw a movie twice is that considered Deja Vu?"

What if the movie in question is Deja Vu?

Killjoy

After asking JD about the falcon 7-8 times I stopped out of fear that he would show up at my doorstep. Yes, he is that scary....

iPhoneGroupie

How about: those three people are bantha fodder?

FrankenPC

@Tedinasia: Press Secretary, no question.

Killjoy

@iPhoneGroupie: The psychotic/demonic/Ozzy Osbourne-esque expression on his face as he opened that LMF box in the video was enough for me! }8D

Krrong

@The Bac0n: That's impossible!

misterwho

You could say this year's Black Friday deals were to die for. Of course that would make you an enormous jerk, but go ahead, say it.

misterwho

@misterwho: Well one of those deaths was actually him coincidentally killing and eating a baby on camera during black friday, so its 1/3rd his fault at least.

ALT

@Tedinasia: He's got to stand in line behind Colbert.

misterwho

@Optimus-Prime: Right-on! Yup, it's all Dubya's fault.

misterwho

@armendni: two of the deaths happened here in palm desert (by palm springs) over a long standing family feud. the two guys brought guns with them just in case they ran into each other and that's exactly what happened. though when one shot the other (with both their kids around) the teenage daughter of the one who was shot started shaking her dad screaming "wake up, wake up" and when she realized he was dead, she turned and looked at the other guy and said "you killed my daddy", then he shot himself.

sad story. nothing to do with black friday. sorry for the sadness of post.

emergeoriginal

@cartman005: How funny is it if it's your mother or father? Or maybe if your brother or sister got trampled to death it's funnier. How bout if you got shot, wouldn't it be hilarious?

MariaOzawa

@g2drummman: how about firefox? and netscape navigator?

pevans34

@MariaOzawa:
yeah, that would be pretty funny.

roflwaffles

@Killjoy: What about Deja Vu 2? What about that huh?

stonefry

@spundot: LEGOs don't hold up to transparisteel and those high-falutin' freighter engines, I guess.

Krackatoa