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Exemplary Mom Builds 98-Inch Screen Inside Kid's Bedroom Ceiling

Posted July 28, 2009 3:23 PM

From Gizmodo:

This is what great parents do when they want to take good care of their son, giving him all he needs to grow into a cultured, social, healthy young man: A 98-inch TV mounted flush inside his bedroom's ceiling. The job was not easy: Admirable mom Patti Deni wanted the 98-inch StarGlas60 screen to be aligned straight with the ceiling of her kid's bedroom. Above the bedroom, Stereo Advantage—an audio/video specialty company in Williamsville, NY—had to place a NEC video projector and projection mirrors. In total, the whole solution weighted more than 300 pounds, so they had to make a new reinforced ceiling frame to support it. According to this laudable woman, her son spends a lot of time playing and editing his own videos, which now will include a YouTube time lapse of him progressively getting fatter and fatter while he plays in bed, and his brain liquifies into a puddle of green goo.

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07/29/2009 1:05 AM

...I think I want 1 too!

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07/29/2009 6:16 AM

The sarcasm is remarkable.

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07/29/2009 4:10 PM

That's not ordinary sarcasm...
It's M&S Widescreen sarcasm

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07/29/2009 6:30 PM

Ethel the Frog comes to mind immediately.

"He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and satire. "

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07/30/2009 2:37 AM

I thought litotes was a breakfast cereal

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