Hah! Dr. Sbaitso! Now THAT brings back some memories!
My friend and I use to get Dr. Sbaitso to repeat the dirties passages out of the "Penthouse Forum" letters.
Chestnuts roasted by tanta07 @ 04/10/2006 9:59 AM
I never have laughed harder than when I would use this program. Dr. Spaitso will never die!! Thanks for this!!
Chestnuts roasted by Bobo Smak @ 04/10/2006 10:04 AM
You know I’ve kind of wondered…. just how many sibilings do you have? It’s at least 3, right? I was the youngest and only girl of 3, so I was spoiled. My one brother is kind of cool, but I’ve come to discover that he actually reads my articles, which I find a little…. awkward. Especially since we’re all still living at home. o.O My oldest brother is a total macho douche bag whom I could really care less about except around the holidays when I’m required to get him a gift.
I’ve always been a bit of a wallflower, so I have short-term friends. I’m pretty used to it. I hated my friends in middle school but they wouldn’t leave me alone despite how flaming-red I used to dye my hair.
Chestnuts roasted by Double G @ 04/10/2006 10:31 AM
Does Coke Blak really suck? I want to try it, but I really don’t want to buy four of the damn things if it is horrible (as I imagine it will be).
Chestnuts roasted by solo @ 04/10/2006 11:09 AM
I loved that article. Especially Princess leia @(-_-)@. Back in the day I was heavy into ASCII art. I remember crappy shareware proggies you could get off the BBS’s that helped you create full-screen ASCII art
Chestnuts roasted by Xenophobe @ 04/10/2006 11:14 AM
Mystie, I believe it’s 6http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/613.html">.
So how does Dr. S pronounce Princess Leia? Is it, like, "At parenthesis hyphen underscore hyphen parenthesis at"? Cause that’s awesome.
I think it’s clear from the constant comments people still care. And if you’ve stopped caring that’s okay as long as you don’t beat yourself up over it or drag things out in a way that’s painful (for yourself, that is. It’s wonderful to care about how readers might feel but at the end of the day we’re just pixels on a screen and you’ve gotta do what’s right for you).
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 04/10/2006 12:00 PM
I’ve never heard of this thing at all, but I bet it’ll be great when I download it later.
Someone mentioned last night’s Robot Chicken. God, that was great, especially the Swddish Chef sketch.
And if you manage to review Odell Lake…I’ll begin the paperwork that declares you a God.
Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 04/10/2006 1:03 PM
*cries* I can’t get it to work!
Chestnuts roasted by Julie @ 04/10/2006 1:04 PM
Yeep! Lemonade Stand! I never could do too well on that, having the math skills of a tuna sandwich and all. Bjork, Bjork, Bjork!
We should all do something to show how much we appreciate Matt and the X, like expand the Wikipedia entry, or start a Uncyclopedia entry for X-E.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/10/2006 1:13 PM
Microsoft Sam says that Dr. Sbaitso is a hack. And never even finished medical school. And I trust Sam. Because Sam’s good people.
Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 04/10/2006 1:18 PM
I can do the typing but I don’t get voices. Is there a certain directory in which I must install it?
My computer doesn’t the driver or whatnot. And I don’t know why. *pines for the good doctor*
Chestnuts roasted by Julie @ 04/10/2006 1:38 PM
I loved Sbaitso back in the day. My grandfather had it on his computer, as he’d recently just picked up a Soundblaster (I still remember the first real game he had that really blew that bitch up to full stereo glory — Stellar 7.) Between Sbaitso, Flight Simulator, and Ski or Die, us grandkids logged many long hours on his computer when we came over. Since my family was still a few years away from getting a computer of our own, everytime we’d go over there and my grandfather had happened to pick up a new game, it was bliss. Soon after Sbaitso, we went over to my grandparent’s house to discover a shiny new addition to the PC — a dual-speed CD-ROM drive and Myst. Things just rocked super-hard from that point on. Although I never forgot Sbaitso, and actually downloaded him and a bunch of other old games when I put together a Win98/DOS computer several years ago. DR. SBAITSO FOR PRESIDENT IN 2008!!
Chestnuts roasted by Jeff C @ 04/10/2006 1:40 PM
Goddamn, Jedoc, awesome post: " Because Sam’s good people.
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Im gonna get fired if i dont stop laughing at this site while working…ahhhhh good times
JoshC
Chestnuts roasted by JoshC @ 04/10/2006 1:52 PM
Christ, the Batman line cracked me up. Shouldn’t have read this at work.
Chestnuts roasted by X-E Fan @ 04/10/2006 1:55 PM
i never heard of this program before but i just played with it and i love making it talk
Chestnuts roasted by mike the great @ 04/10/2006 2:00 PM
I’ve actually thought a lot about working on the Wiki entry (frequently askeds, more on the various sections/countdowns, blogtiquette, etc) but was hesitant to put that much effort in when someone could just come in afterwards and messy it all up. If I keep on schedule with my school stuff this week maybe I’ll work on it for fun as a little break.
Lord, the jokes on Golden Palace are just…it’s like they’re playing caricatures of themselves. Do you think Don Cheadle would get upset if you asked him about this show?
Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 04/10/2006 2:18 PM
To the people who can’t get him to talk: make sure you are running "SBAITSO2.BAT". If you run the .exe it gives an error about not having a synthesizer installed.
I very vaguely remember something like this from my youth, but perhaps I’m mistaken as I can only think that if it WERE Dr. Sbaitso it would have had more profound implications on my life.
Chestnuts roasted by Wukong @ 04/10/2006 2:35 PM
Thanks for the killer article, Matt. I haven’t laughed maniacally in my room by myself like this for quite some time.
Chestnuts roasted by reallygeorgelucas @ 04/10/2006 3:09 PM
Oh man, I would have killed for the good Dr.’s advice as a teenager. I too was alone and awkward throughout those years and could have used a friend who made no sense but still made me laugh and angry too. I’m with you Matt, those years weren’t much different for me.
Chestnuts roasted by Lord of Light @ 04/10/2006 3:22 PM
Oh my god oh my god, I actually cried laughing. This was beautiful. Recently my dad admitted that he spent many a drunken night typing the filthiest phrases into a similar program we had on our computer while my sister and I were asleep.
It was shocking, I thought I was the only one who did that. I guess the allure of a computer sounding out four-letter words is too strong.
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Hah! Dr. Sbaitso! Now THAT brings back some memories!
My friend and I use to get Dr. Sbaitso to repeat the dirties passages out of the "Penthouse Forum" letters.