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No Frills SNT.

I said no frills.

Posted by Matt on 03/25/2006. E-mail me!

Discussion Thread: 149 comments

I honestly don’t remember! I know that I ended up here beacause of the 80′s commercials. Since I was looking at them during the slow times at work, it took me a while to play through all of them, and then I started snooping around the site. Once I read one article, I started reading just about everything I could find. I’m thinking that my first one was one of the book reviews.

Chestnuts roasted by Lori @ 03/25/2006 9:38 PM

Well, the 80′s commercial page was the first thing I found on X-E. I then proceeded to explore ever inch of the site. Good times.

Chestnuts roasted by Double G @ 03/25/2006 9:38 PM

First Article I read was the one where Matt wears the Ultimate Warrior Wrestling Gear Set. I remember saying to myself "I can’t believe that 14 year old is smoking a cigarette." I can’t believe how young we looked.

Just for the record, before anyone goes off thinking I super old school, while the article was new at the time, I wasn’t regular yet. In fact, I didn’t find this site again for several years.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 03/25/2006 9:52 PM

I don’t recall the first article I read, all I remember is that I read a dozen or so articles that I found through link sites before I started checking the site regularly.

On an unrelated note, there is at least one other "Jeff" that posts comments, so to differentiate myself from him, my homepage will forever more be set to http://www.playervsfish.com">http://www.playervsfish.com. I’ve owned the domain for a while, but only recently put a page up, which is why I haven’t set it as my homepage in previous posts.

If you find yourself as to whether a comment posted in the past was me, it is a safe bet to assume that if the "Jeff" in question sounded like a pretty cool guy, it was me.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff @ 03/25/2006 9:56 PM

I assume M.U.S.C.L.E. or Battle Beast somehow lured me here but Photog keeps me coming back forever. Also like dohopoki so you don’t think I am old school it was well achieved when I read it.

Chestnuts roasted by mrjayberry @ 03/25/2006 10:01 PM

I don’t remember the exact article, only that it was 2002 or 2003 and that it was a Christmas article. I just glanced over it and didn’t go back to X-E until around October 2004. Now look at me. I’m surfing the internet in only socks and a cape.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 03/25/2006 10:08 PM

I don’t remember the first article I read. I ended up here several times before I checked XE regularly. I do remember the first blog I read, it was about a year ago and it was when Matt got a pack of bacon bits from McDonalds. I remember thinking how awful it musta smelled. Other than emailing maybe once a week I never even went on the internet until about that time.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 03/25/2006 10:28 PM

I was a big fan of http://www.seanbaby.com and ran Google searches for similar sites and "X-Entertainment: A Pop Culture Extravaganza" was always the top result. That tricksy "X" kept me away awhile thinking it was a NSFW kind of place but eventually I gave in and checked it out. I can’t remember what the first article I read was, but I started scoping out the archive and that was that. I do remember I was checking daily for updates when the Rainbow Brite at the San Diego Zoo article was posted, and that was in October 2002. How the time does fly!
This is seriously the best site on the internet (no, seriously) and the best group of people here in the blog. Viva X-E.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 03/25/2006 10:30 PM

The first one I read was the one about TMNT Pudding Pies. A dude on a forum I used to post on had it linked in his sig.

Chestnuts roasted by Somethin' Funny @ 03/25/2006 10:43 PM

OK, I’ve been thinking about the first question, the one about "do you have things stuck in your head and don’t know where they came from". I honestly can’t think of any. However, I have a problem of getting things stuck in my head and continuing to use them long after anyone remembers what I’m talking about. Example: There was a series of AT&T commercials many years back (this site being what it is, I anticipate many of you will remember) that had examples of things like, "Have you ever kissed your baby good-night from a thousand miles away? You will. And the company that will bring it to you? AT&T." Well, there was one that showed an example of distance learning and this kid asks his teacher (on a screen) a question about where jazz came from and the guy answered (in a very distinct way), "Good question." Well, I got in the habit of saying that phrase in that way, and once upon a time everyone got the humor. The problem is, I still say it that way, and now I get strange looks and I always have to explain it. Has that stopped me? No way.

Chestnuts roasted by Lori @ 03/25/2006 10:49 PM

I’m pretty sure my first article was also the Ultimate Warrior costume article. It was linked from Wrestlecrap. Only I found it about a couple of years ago and then preceeded to read every article still available.

Has anyone seen the commercial for the new TMNT PaleoPatrol figures? Basically, the turtles are now riding dinosaurs. Dumb.

Just got done watching Princess Mononoke on CN. Pretty good.

I watched the STUPIDEST "thriller/horror" movie on IFC last night called "Doppelganger" with Drew Barrymore hamming it up. Ugh. But it would make prefect XE fodder.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 03/25/2006 10:54 PM

My first article was the Garfield’s Halloween special one. I was in college and was talking to my friend about the special, he being the only other person who had a memory for that sort of thing. He showed me the article on x-e, and voila. A regular reader is born.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 03/25/2006 10:55 PM

oooh, Lori, I know what you mean.
There was this really stupid car dealer commercial on in Washington about ten years ago, and the basis of it was: buy a car, get a free cell phone. (It was ten years ago, and that was a big deal apparently) Anyways it showed this lady in her car on her new free cell and she mouths really clearly, "How ya doin’ fine!" But she says it all as one sentence. As though she asked, got an answer and replied in one breath. Anyways, I always say that, and no one gets it.
I remember the "you will" commercial too.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 03/25/2006 11:02 PM

My first X-E article was the MUSCLE Wrestling Ring Belt, found it on a search. Didnt come back for a while, but I believe it was the old 80′s commercials articles that kept me coming back. Not the huge ones he does now but back when he did em one at a time, I believe the Polly-O Cheese Stick one was what got me hooked. Then I read the Cobras Chia Plot and I was in love.

Chestnuts roasted by James @ 03/25/2006 11:08 PM

I have another one. An old commercial for this tiny voice recorder that you can use for all sorts of handy things (like remembering where you parked):

(Lady with a thick Minnesotan accent into recorder):
"Blue Section. Row 15."
(then shot of her replaying and nodding happily that her voice recorder has now proven itself worthy.)

I say that (complete with accent) whenever we can’t remember where we parked. No one knows what the heck I’m talking about.

Chestnuts roasted by Lori @ 03/25/2006 11:11 PM

First time poster. Figured I would finally speak up. I don’t remember how I found it but the first thing I read on XE was the Nathan Bitner Blog. I honestly sat at my computer and read the entire thing all the way through. Been a huge fan ever since.

Chestnuts roasted by Fishstix @ 03/25/2006 11:14 PM

I remember mine: the article for Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue. I saw that on a tape I rented from a defunct video store many years ago and finally searched for it back around 2003 and stumbled across here and I’ve been hooked ever since. I can’t believe someone else remembered it.

And even if this is no frills, I’m overdressed for it, me wearing a cowboy hat & a speed-o right now. It was a special day for all, especially for the tabloids.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 03/25/2006 11:40 PM

Fishstix-Did you read it all in one sitting because that beast must have taken me three days to get through.

Chestnuts roasted by Mrjayberry @ 03/25/2006 11:42 PM

Well, it was more of a two day marathon. As I recall, I found it somewhere around 3 a.m. on a Friday and read until I couldn’t keep my eyes open anymore, then woke up and finished it off somewhere around midnight the following day. That blog is a novel all in itself.

Chestnuts roasted by Fishstix @ 03/25/2006 11:47 PM

The first article I read was the world’s worst breakfast (hungryman). But what really hooked me in was "Spiderman reviews crayons". "Then how do u explain this tan"?? Freaking good stuff. Been loyal ever since.

Chestnuts roasted by Mike the Great @ 03/26/2006 12:01 PM

Out of curiosity, am I the only person who is completely paranoid about refreshing the page after posting a comment out of fear of a double post? I always go back through the main page to check for new comments at least a dozen times before I get the balls to just click refresh.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff @ 03/26/2006 12:05 PM

Jeff, you gotta loosen up a little. Double posts are a natural part of web life. The kind of paranoia you are experiencing has driven lesser men to drug addiction and alcoholism.

Chestnuts roasted by Fishstix @ 03/26/2006 12:18 PM

It’s ok Jeff – we all hate to double post and we don’t mean to, but it happens to basically everyone at some point. Nothing you can do about it.

hehe, sometimes I go back and refresh because it takes me forever to reply sometimes, then again, sometimes I post and I’m left in the dust. It’s all good, though.

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 03/26/2006 12:22 PM

I discovered "The X" by way of some kind of Optimus Prime search on Yahoo. Don’t remember the specific article, but one could safely assume that it had something to do with Optimus Prime.

The first article I do remember reading is the Spidey Crayola review. Classic.

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 03/26/2006 12:36 PM

I know I read that article like 50 times just laughing my ass off. I couldn’t wait for the next installment.

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 03/26/2006 12:41 PM

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