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First words out of his mouth after Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer's rouser of a speech to the DFL state convention -
"from Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer some old fashioned fire and brimstone."
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Still one million times smarter than anything on FM 107.1
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jack sounded great!
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oh, boris, say it ain't so!!
okay, so gary says some dopey things on occasion. but i love him. he's like my drunk uncle that i never had ruining christmas by making fun of my lesbian cousin's eforts to syop global warming.
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the world should join together and syop warming of lesbians globally
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"efforts" "stop"
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All I can figure is Mr. Eichten must work awfully, awfully cheap.
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I <3 Gary Eichten. Dude has been around the block a few times--I personally don't mind him calling it as he sees it.
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He "saw it" as Nelson-Pallmeyer evoking the tortures of hell, then.
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OK, but isn't the implication, rather, that he is rousing in the way that a Calvinist preacher would be rousing?
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Gary Eichten equals AWESOME.
Stop it.
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"Fire and brimstone" is a commonly accepted figure of speech, when referring to a rousing speaker. I don't see what's dumb about the statement.
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love Gary Eichten. Love his voice and his weird MN speech patterns and uber MN accent.
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"Fire and brimstone" is not as bad as calling someone- "dumbest human on the planet."
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KoM - I really like that you used a calvinist reference. I was raised calvinist and it doesn't get mentioned very much in conversation... which should change!
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"Decisions, decisions. Like, who the heck am I gonna vote for?"
Least favorite phrase of late.
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Mission accomplished. One ballot and OUT.
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He's no Ira Flatow.
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Seconded. Gary Eichten is a total chooch. I remember one time this old woman called in to his show and was like "I've been listening to this station for 30 years and Gary has just said some of the stupidest things I have ever heard out of an NPR broadcaster's mouth." The guest started laughing and Gary called the woman rude.
Fuck that guy in his obnoxious old ass.
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Lobber Of Softballs.
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I appreesh this dude and hate this thread title.
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Truth: I want Gary to adopt me and take me on a fishing trip.
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I think he does the whole homespun thing a 'lil much for my tastes (see above election season quote)
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i find him charming for some reason.
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I am satisfied with my Gary Eichton impression.
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i hate gary eichtan with a passion surpassing all reason.
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i DJed a party with Gary Eichten once! the brother could throw down.. sweet!
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still love him... and I like that he looks EXACTLY how I thought he would! AWESOME!
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when wifey used to work at MPR, i went to a couple of xmas work rarties.
gary e. was pretty dope and officially a chain smoking old dude, possibly an alcoholic (in a good way)
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ha! in a good way!
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I still don't get why dude's supposed to be dumb.
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He is a super nice dude.
I think Mammals told me he quit smoking? Maybe? He used to smoke like a chimney fo sho.
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I think I just REALLY hated his ad(s) for MPR circa election season. That he's a phlegmatic, craggy ol' folksy radio personality doesn't bug me too much.
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he's not dumb, he's just milquetoast. and quaint.
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He quit smoking, but he still eats popcorn everyday for lunch.
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"Gary Eichten - dumbest human on the planet - Modern Radio Messageboard"
Third in a Google search for "Gary Eichten."
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haha. RULE.
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lame. Gary is awesome both on the air and in person.
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Damn, it's the first hit after the official MPR ones! That seems weird
Anyway, this guy never bothered me but i guess i don't listen to MPR all that much
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the people i am most annoyed by are the callers. i don't see how half of these idiots make it through the screenings. i have been yelling at the radio a more lately. i think gary knows how i feel.
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his daughter was haut in high school.
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His wife is also super awesome. I still hate this thread.
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Whoa! If you Google the following question:
Who is the dumbest human on the planet?
This thread is the 2nd result! Poor Gary
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i am pretty sure google weights your search results to what would be most relevant for you. so if you regularly post on this board, a result on mrmb would come up sooner than for a person who looks at a nice messageboard :|
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i could be completely wrong, but i have just noticed that all too often a mrmb thread will pop up in a situation where it should not be that popular.
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that makes sense, because i don't see why this thread should be up there like that.
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I dunno, i'm not logged into my gmail account or anything
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Google is inside your head!
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I'm Feeling Lucky!
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rayna posted this on Oct 16th, 2009 at 01:05:13 pm
i am pretty sure google weights your search results to what would be most relevant for you. so if you regularly post on this board, a result on mrmb would come up sooner than for a person who looks at a nice messageboard :|
no I don't think so
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rayna posted this on Oct 16th, 2009 at 01:05:13 pm
i am pretty sure google weights your search results to what would be most relevant for you. so if you regularly post on this board, a result on mrmb would come up sooner than for a person who looks at a nice messageboard :|
no I don't think so
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You'd think the title of "dumbest human on the planet" could go to someone like, I dunno, Michelle Bachman or something. Or maybe to, god forbid, a nameless Juggalo.
Poor Gary. I think his voice makes him too easy a target. Who hasn't tried out an Eichten impression while listening to him? I know he drops something ridiculous on occasion, but c'mon.
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Gary Eichten has more political power and is thus less defenseless than a nameless juggalo, so it makes this thread OK.
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Do you have a google tool bar on your browser? Google is all over your shit and you don't even know it.
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hahaha oh shane, to be young, a babe in the woods, must be nice.
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i went to vegas and looked up a bunch of hotels and whatnot in july, and i still get nothing but vegas ads wherever i go on thee worlde wide webb. the internet KNOWS you.
but shane could be right, i have no idea.
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I can't visit mrm on my work computer so I can test this google theory, but not until Wednesday.
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It's not a theory, it's true. If you think your every internet move isn't being watched, you are severely in the dark. WAKE UP SHEEPLE
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we've all got the same internet, n00bs. try googlin' thru a proxy and see how wrong you are.
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Google's immortal cookie:
Google was the first search engine to use a cookie that expires in 2038. This was at a time when federal websites were prohibited from using persistent cookies altogether. Now it's years later, and immortal cookies are commonplace among search engines; Google set the standard because no one bothered to challenge them. This cookie places a unique ID number on your hard disk. Anytime you land on a Google page, you get a Google cookie if you don't already have one. If you have one, they read and record your unique ID number.
Google records everything they can:
For all searches they record the cookie ID, your Internet IP address, the time and date, your search terms, and your browser configuration. Increasingly, Google is customizing results based on your IP number. This is referred to in the industry as "IP delivery based on geolocation."
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sheeeit, where I work we don't have NEARLY the kind of resources Google does, and it would blow your mind to know the kind of info we can collect based on your browsing behavior.
I don't know whether or not the search results discussed in this thread are happening because of that, but your internet behavior is most certainly being tracked and used.
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I am not backing down. Same internet. of course they adjust things by location but they aren't digging into your outside of google browsing unless you're using that weirdo google-history thing.
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For instance, I get UNREAL disproportionate banner ads advertising my company served up to me on my personal machine because I visit our website frequently.
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I'm gettin the same results, Brilly.
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Shane wins, according to that proxy thing.
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I am too.
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giving people different results to lead them to websites they already know how to find is some serious BING shit
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Yeah, i thought the results are exactly the same for everyone UNLESS you're logged into a Google account and have Personalized Search enabled (which is the default)
I mean, maybe if you search "doctor" you're going to get more ad results for doctors in your area. But beyond that, i think it's the same for everyone
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Also, the search:
Who is gary eichten and, also, how does google work?
gives this thread as the top result! Nice work, Google!
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it was the third google result on my work computer. like 12 people use this one.
its seems counter-intuitive that his gigiantic body of work as a reporter wouldn't be the first, second, and millionth thing to pop up before this thread, in which i cannot tell if shane is defending his dad or throwing him under the bus.
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wouldn't that mean that modern-radio would have to have more traffic than mpr....
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the "jay leno autobiography" thread comes up third in a google search. even though there is an actual jay leno autobiography. and the mrmb thread is less than a day old. and isn't linked on any other sites, which is what supposedly will push a page to the top of search results.
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KnucklesTheDog posted this on Oct 17th, 2009 at 01:41:09 pm
Google's immortal cookie:
Google was the first search engine to use a cookie that expires in 2038. This was at a time when federal websites were prohibited from using persistent cookies altogether. Now it's years later, and immortal cookies are commonplace among search engines; Google set the standard because no one bothered to challenge them. This cookie places a unique ID number on your hard disk. Anytime you land on a Google page, you get a Google cookie if you don't already have one. If you have one, they read and record your unique ID number.
Google records everything they can:
For all searches they record the cookie ID, your Internet IP address, the time and date, your search terms, and your browser configuration. Increasingly, Google is customizing results based on your IP number. This is referred to in the industry as "IP delivery based on geolocation."
That's from Daniel Brandt's website, isn't it? From what I know he hasn't proved to be a very reliable source. I'm pretty sure Shane's right. I know that the google lab has an experimental program that's similar to this though. Seems weird that they'd be asking for volunteers if it's already their established way of doing things.
For what it's worth, I just asked a friend from high school who I am 100% sure has never even heard of the Modern Radio Record Label or any of its affiliates to do a google search of "Gary Eichten." This thread was the third result.
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omg maybe we are the center of the universe!
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Too mainstream, should break up.
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I had never heard about Daniel Brandt, but what I posted above is absolutely true. And information you can get straight from Google.
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he DOES look EXACTLY like I thought he would too! except maybe a little older.
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Daniel Brandt is the person who wrote what you quoted, knucks. I could be wrong, but for real I think geolocation is different than personalized results based on browsing history.
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Yeah. But like I said, I have no idea about this thread and Google results. I was making the point that, yes, your activity is being analyzed and used.
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Yeah, for sure that's true. All I can find about what rayna was talking is this but I can't figure out if this page is talking about a google account, like I search from my igoogle homepage, or if its that attachment that you download with the toolbar and web history --which I think is totally different:
Google Help › Web Search Help › Google search basics › Features › Search customization details
Features: Search customization detailsPrint
When you perform a search, a message may appear in the upper right corner of the search results page if the results have been significantly customized based on one or more of the following factors:
Location: If you're signed in to your Google Account, your search results may be customized for a default location that you've previously specified (for example, in Google Maps). If you're not signed in, then results may be customized for an approximate location based on your IP address.
If you'd like Google to use a different location, you can sign in to or create a Google Account and provide a city or street address. Your specific location will be used not only for customizing search results, but also to improve your experience in Google Maps and other Google products.
Recent searches: We take into account whether a particular query followed on the heels of another query. Because recent search activity provides valuable context for understanding the meaning behind your searches, we use it to customize your results whenever possible, regardless of whether you're signed in or signed out. In order to customize your results and show you the customization details, we keep recent searches in a cookie on your browser for approximately 30 minutes. After approximately 30 minutes, this cookie is removed from your browser. Completely closing your browser will remove this cookie immediately.
On rare occasions, recent searches may be kept on your browser for a different time duration as Google experiments with improving quality. In all cases, recent searches are not kept on your browser for more than 24 hours and the link to the search customization page will not be accessible after approximately 30 minutes from the time of the search.
Web History: If you're signed in and have Web History enabled, we customize your search results based on what you've searched for in the past on Google, and what sites you've visited. If there's a particular search that you'd rather not have personalized based on your Web History, you can also just temporarily sign out of your Google Account. Learn more about Web History.
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and for the record, Gary, I think you're great.
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huh. i wonder if people who don't live in mn would have the same results?
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Roaratorio posted this on Oct 17th, 2009 at 06:51:45 pm
the "jay leno autobiography" thread comes up third in a google search. even though there is an actual jay leno autobiography. and the mrmb thread is less than a day old. and isn't linked on any other sites, which is what supposedly will push a page to the top of search results.
That's not how Google's worked in a while. They changed it because someone abused the system and got "dipshit" or something to bring up Bush's wikipedia page.
I think that thread is the top result because that exact frame appears hundreds of times on the page.
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er, phrase, not frame LOL
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fairwell, sweet prince
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ftr, i love gary eichten except for when he says his esses
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In his honor, I will read all posts on the board today in a chain-smoking, slightly drunk, occasionally dickish voice in my head
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did he die today or something?
Sorry, correction: did his body die today or something?
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Ha! He officially retired today.
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But did not expire.
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i guess he was on that "theft of the dial" thing on the current where someone guest DJs and picks all the songs, would be kinda curious to hear that
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Theft of the Dial stream.
Waylon Jenings - "Dreamin My Dreams With You"
The Beatles - "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"
Gestures - "Run, Run, Run"
Patsy Cline - "Sweet Dreams"
Al Green - "Let's Stay Together"
Delbert McClinton - "Lovey Dovey"
Nick Lowe - "Restless Feeling"
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that makes sense, classic waylon jawn
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boris, yous sure yer not confusing gary with bill deville?
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if you think he was foxxy you should've seen his daughter!
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what's wrong with the billster?
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i met bill deville once he was pretty nice
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Ha ha hey I met him a couple of weeks ago.
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Regretted thread número uno. May it die.
"I didn't mean to say it but I meant what I said."
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Deville is a super nice dude. He's not as irritating as Mac Willson.
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I can’t stand Mac Wilson. I lived in Morris for a couple years and he was a DJ at their college station. They didn’t have a lot of DJs and most of the time they had a two or three hour loop of songs. Mac Wilson was the host of that loop. Every morning was the same shitty songs waking up. Every afternoon was the same shitty songs driving home. I would’ve changed the channel but it’s either pop country or skyrocket like bullshit out there.
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There are now 53 instances of "google" in this thread.
If you google search "google Gary Eitchen" both threads on this board are at the very top.
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Please, please Gary Eitchen post here
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I can email him if you like.
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ideally via dictation to shane shiner
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zom, i think another dude on here is prob a little closer to him than that even.
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I'm sure he is. Just helping out the cause.
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;)
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zom, if you want Todd Trainer's twitter address, get at me.
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Zom-Zom and I gonna double team Gary with this "email" contraption
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FHtB
12/25/08 2:54 PM
Truth: I want Gary to adopt me and take me on a fishing trip.
Still true
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