Living with the Fever (Donkey Kong Fever)

OK, so sometimes you have to take something potentially destructive and turn it in to something constructive. Our scary stuff inside can be gifts in disguise.

To wit: We shared that we were all suffering from Donkey Kong fever, which sounds bad because it could be bad, but we have established a blog that is dedicated to sharing with our readers all the secrets to big points and high scores, cracking the codes and getting that crazy ape to give up the young lady prisoner!!

More details and the full story are on our new blog, How To Win at Donkey Kong
http://www.how-to-win-at-donkey-kong.blogspot.com/

We're Expanding Our Online Presence, and Building community on the World Wide Web

Nanci (with an "i" thanx) has just added a photo, and has added this photo with comments to a group on FLICKR.
This is big news, please join us in congratulating Nanci (with an "i" thanx).
We are so proud of you!!!





http://www.flickr.com/photos/10501880@N07/1413346490/

Not this Again! Yes This Again!

Not this again, yes this again. (See post on 7/27 on the allegedly-inebriated-squirrel-photographed-at-posted-on-Flickr incident and the ensuing fallout)

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/oh%2C-food%21-i.ll-just-_-wahhhhhh%21%21/squirrel-catapult-is-awful-yet-we-cant-look-away-270290.php


OK, so we have another situation that we are including here as part of our policy of openness…not crazy about this whole situation, but as you know, we have a couple of short tempers in our group, and this kind of “humor” sets us squirrels off.

There’s a video out there that shows a squirrel flung from a homemade catapult. I guess some people think this is hilarious. We don’t.

And so one of us wrote this comment.

The first line refers to the site administrator’s note that comments are up for “audition” and for would be commentors to “polish our words.”

Dear Gizmodo,

Your asking us to "Polish our words" to "audition" to be a commentor? PUL EEZE!

The only thing we plan on polishing is that kid's ass!

Message to the boy-in-need-of-a-new-cruelty-free-hobby, you are notice, BITCH.

Come to USC (that's in Los Angeles) and try that...oh never been here? That's a surprise!

Watch your toes spineless ones!

USC Squirrels


Pretty intense, right, so then others of us followed up with:

Dear Gizmodo,

We hope this comment catches you in time, before you read the first post. USC Squirrels regrets the recent rash response to the above post “S.C. I.A.,Y.W.C.N.L.A.”

We apologize for any pain and / or embarrassment you may have suffered from this comment.

We don’t like that the post contained a threat, which we consider offensive in and of itself, and we are troubled by the foul language, which we think is a sign of small vocabulary, laziness and a lack of imagination.

While some of us in our community are offended by this video (because it’s pretty lame) we understand your right to display it. And we don’t feel that intimidation of violence solves anything.

Thanks,

USC Squirrels

And, then, we had to add something about how poor the video itself was:


Oh-one more thing:

On a film critique-y note, we’re no experts (though some of us live near the Cinema school here on campus), a few of us feel (content aside) this thing goes on just waaaay toooo lonngg.

As the late great James Brown says, “Hit and Quit It.”

Can you tell the person who made it that as hard as it is to cut things down, they are ALWAYS BETTER FOR IT. (e.g. Most director’s cuts and DVD releases with extended scenes suffer greatly from the “new” scenes.)

Thanks,

USC Squirrels

We've been sick with a fever...DONKEY KONG FEVER

Symptoms include an irrestible urge to get high scores and rescue the princess from that rascal of an ape.

May also include dreams of barrel jumping backwards for 300 points, and fantasies of watching the big ole dumb ape fall on his head and go ouch!!!!

Sufferers of donkey kong fever may also experience vast periods of non blogging at their website for over eight weeks because they are in love with playing and winning at Donkey Kong...HEY!

HEY, that sounds like US!!

Sooooooooo, sorry about that. We know that we've been negligent in our blogging duties and we hate to think that we let all of our many loyal readers down... will you forgive us?

If you can't beat 'em, Join 'em (Please help, won't you?)

The almost a scientist and inventor but needs the money guy really inspired us. (See previous entry to get the dealio.)

We took his message for getting money from a stranger on Craigslist to heart.

Without further ado, we invite you to give what you can, and do what your heart tells you...

(All replies will be confidential)

This is the link to our ad:

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/wan/385801488.html

And this is what the ad says:

$$$, Respect and Power and unconditional love. And fame (perhaps).
Reply to: sale-385801488@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-07-30, 10:11PM PDT


We're a group of squirrels looking for money, respect, power and unconditional love. And fame (perhaps).

We are ready for these things, please give them to us. We are kind, humble and deserve all of these things. Thanks and God Bless.

Please address all replies to the address below. Please, no flakes.

Kind Regards,

USC Squirrels


* it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests


PostingID: 385801488

This person needs your help, especially if you are very rich, very ill, live in SoCal and have no heirs

Just got underway in our BUZZ campaign and was sidetracked by this listing in the "items wanted" section of LA Craigslist.

This guy is on to something, but needs money (that's all he needs- money) It's a little intense, but that doesn't scare us...does it scare you?

After reading this, we have one question. If he got a B in one semester of chemistry, and he got a C in another semester, then does he have a B Minus, or C Plus average. We know we know, you think we could figure this one out since we live on campus (most of us, anyway).

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/wan/385774728.html

WANT TO INHERIT YOUR FORTUNE IF YOU DON'T HAVE A WORTHY HEIR

Reply to: sale-385774728@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-07-30, 9:17PM PDT


If you have lots of money and don't know anybody who deserve it. I'll take it. I am honest, sincerely and nice. I'll use it to buy me my first home somewhere in Southern California. I'll keep the rest in the bank and start studying science at a local community college and transfer to a 4 year university later on. My goal is to become a pharmacist/medical research scientist and make the first true REVERSE AGING PILL. This pill will literally make a 100 year old man/woman into a 20 year young man/woman in about 80 years(reverse aging). Another thing I want to create is a TELEPORTATION DEVICE where you go in one POD sick and old and come out the other POD healthy and young. the TELEPORTATION DEVICE will filter out old the bad stuff. I am healthy, eager and determined male and I will make either or both. But I need some money to buy myself a nice home in a quiet neighborhood so that I can study and don't have to worry about working part time. I want to devote myself to study science. I do have relatively good science background where I recieved A on three semesters of calculus. I also took two chemistry where I received B and a C. Currently I cannot study because I live in a shabby apartment in a soso neighborhood where neighbor's loud music and dog barking interferes with my ability to study.

Thank you.


Location: entire southern california
it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

PostingID: 385774728

If you see a bee, what do you hear? (Hint hint)

BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ

Don't mind us, we're busy as bees, in the midst of creating our first ever "buzz" campaign.

Do you know what "creating a buzz" is? Good. You're in the know like us.

Well we're hard at work making honey, er, [jk! :) ] raising peer group awareness of our program.

Updates soon....now if you don't mind, could you Buzz off! Just kidding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Apologies to Flickr user A*A*R*O*N*, and to You, Dear Reader

Kinda wish we didn't have to do this, it's late, our eyes are swollen, we have an early breakfast appt. tomorrow, we would rather be curled up in a ball, but here goes-

One of more quick tempered of us came across an image on Flickr attributed to A*A*R*O*N*:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/admurder/9726775/

We think this is way lame, stuff happens and I'm sure the guy who took this shot wouldn't want his picture being taken and commmented on, but whatever...ANYwho. (Not to mention the legal implications of not getting consent of the individual, but we digress.)

So those that shall remain nameless wrote the following, and although we can feel their frustration, we don't condone goonish tactics. So, you can read the first comment, and then the follow up, and we apologize to A*A*R*O*N* and all the Flickr users out there, also as a warning, there's some language that's not suitable for our younger readers.

FIRST POST:
USC Squirrels (Unofficial- Unauthorized-Unbad) says:

Yo A*A*R*O*N, you're on notice, bitch. We're coming for you.

and then, once we were alerted,

SECOND POST:
USC Squirrels (Unofficial- Unauthorized-Unbad) says:

Dear Flickr user with the handle of "A*A*R*O*N,"

USC Squirrels regrets the recent rash response to your photo entitled,"Tasteless? Hilarious? You decide."

We apologize for any pain and/ or embarassment you may have been victim of based on this comment.

Also, we don't like that the post contained foul language, which we think is a sign of small vocabulary and lack of imagination.

While some of us in the community are offended by this photo, we understand your right to display it. And, we don't feel that intimidation of violence solves anything.

Kind Regards,

USC Squirrels


We hope we can move on and put this ugly incident behind us. Good night.

DECISION 2007

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(PLEASE DO NOT MISCONSTRUE THIS MESSAGE IN ALL CAPS. WE ARE NOT MAD, WE ARE EXCITED AND WANT TO GET YOUR ATTENTION. WE APOLOGIZE IF YOU THOUGHT WE WERE YELLING AND MAD AT YOU THIS ENTIRE TIME YOU WERE READING THIS.)

VOTE!!!

Correction: Zima Exists

www.zima.com

Boy does it ever.

It's got a new look, a new taste and a new attitude.

This is not your father's (or aunt's or second wife's) alchopop malternative.

We don't claim to be journalists, but we at USC Squirrels will admit when were wrong. We thought that Zima was R.I.P., but we gather from the neat website that it is R.I.P.E. for a comeback!