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[[Take That Me|We couldn't figure out where to put these...]]
* Type the word "Santorum" into Google. [[Schmuck Bait|Go on]]. (NSFW)
** For those a bit behind on the news in the Gay Community... [[The Fundamentalist|Rick Santorum]] once stated that two men having sex was equivalent to [[Insane Troll Logic|"a man having]] [[But You Screw One Goat!|sex with a dog]]". [[The "It Gets Better" Project|Dan Savage]] took issue with this and basically created the meme.
** Dan Savage also tried to create a definition for "[[Technical Virgin|saddlebacking]]" (in reference to the Saddleback Church in Orange County, California, owned by Rick Warren) with considerably less success.
* Uwe Boll's online video in response to the [https://web.archive.org/web/20090624100524/http://www.petitiononline.com/RRH53888/petition.html petition to stop him forever] contains completely unwarranted attacks on directors [[Michael Bay]], Eli Roth, and George Clooney. Say what you will about their directing skills, but Uwe Boll has no right to criticize them. This is also the video in which he claims to be "ze only genius in ze whole fucking business".
** Ironically, he may have a point
* Showing an uncharacteristically pointy side, radio comedy team [[Bob and Ray|Bob & Ray]] reacted to ''New York Magazine'' critic [
** And Olbermann has used several Take Thats in his feud with [[Bill O Reilly]]. A classic was when O'Reilly announced he was starting an online petition to get Olbermann's show off the air. Olbermann had a segment showing the entire production crew and staff of ''Countdown'', including himself, cheerfully signing the petition to show how seriously they took it. And MSNBC's other shows got in on the act as well: Dan Abrams and Tucker Carlson are shown signing it.
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** Olbermann's impression of [[Rush Limbaugh]] (often heard during the Worst Persons segment) also owes a lot to the Bob & Ray character, particularly the slurping noises.
* Try typing "Google" into Yahoo!'s search engine. On top of your search results, which obviously and inevitably would include a link to Google itself, is the message "You could go to Google. Or get straight to your answers here" along with another search bar for Yahoo.
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** Hippies and hobos aren't treated kindly either. All hippies have bad body odor and do drugs, and hobos are all lazy, stupid booze-drinkers.
** On the other hand, all frat boys use "bra" as a [[Verbal Tic]], drink more beer than is probably humanly possible, and have an unhealthy obsession with paddling.
* Film critic [[Roger Ebert]] is very, very skilled at the Take That. He's published ''
** When Ebert referred to Vincent Gallo's movie ''The Brown Bunny'' as the worst film in the history of the Cannes film festival, Gallo called him "a fat pig with the physique of a slave trader". Ebert's reply is pure gold: "It is true that I am fat, but one day I will be thin, and he will still be the director of ''The Brown Bunny.''"
*** Technically that response is a modification of a line attributed to [[Winston Churchill]]: "Madam, I may be drunk, but you are ugly, and I shall be sober in the morning."
*** Gallo publicly wished Ebert would get cancer again. Ebert did. Gallo, not apologizing, said he wished for a different cancer than Ebert got. Ebert's reply was that he had no time for this- he just got back from an exam where an image of his colon was on a TV for 90 minutes- "which was still better than ''The Brown Bunny''."
** Ebert also commented about a feud between Rob Schneider and another critic, Patrick Goldstein. After Patrick made a remark about Columbia Pictures financing ''Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo'' while having turned down every single one of that year's Best Picture nominees, Rob Schneider took out full-page ads in two magazines insulting Patrick Goldstein, for [[Let's See You Do Better|not having won anything himself.]] Ebert's comment is, once again, priceless:
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:* Ebert strikes again by thanking Bill O'Reilly for including the Chicago Sun-Times in his "Hall Of Shame", claiming to be in a Bill O'Reilly Hall of ''Fame'' [[Your Approval Fills Me with Shame|would be a cruel blow to any newspaper.]] He goes on to compare him to "Squeaky The Chicago Mouse" in response to the latter's claim he was more powerful than any politician, and such an eloquent [[Take That]] has to be [https://web.archive.org/web/20111212124649/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20090407%2FCOMMENTARY%2F904079997 seen to be believed].
* Archaeologists have found ancient Greek sling shots with "[[Take That]]" written on them.
** This
* Ubiquitous in political campaigning - any specific examples would either double the size of this page fairly quickly or lead to a massive [[Edit War]].
* In ''Häxornas försvarare'' by Jan Guillou, a book about the witch processes in seventeenth-century Scandinavia, the author explains that while at one point the study of witches was considered a credible science, all the information that went into scholarly treatises on the subject had been uncovered by the scholar a) reading what other people had previously written on the subject and b) making stuff up. He further states that understandably, no modern field of science uses this odd form of research, "except of course for national economics."
* Acclaimed travel writer Bill Bryson has made his birthplace a running [[Take That]] gag. The first line of ''The Lost Continent'': "I was born in Iowa. Somebody had to be."
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* Most unsubtle and unwitty example ever: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTldxSdAHuM This] video, which is the full match of the first clip you see in the infamous '''"[[Capcom vs. Whatever|MAHVEL]] [[Memetic Mutation|BAYBEE!]]"''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZZUMjoxfZA video], manages to throw in a random "FUCK [[Arcana Heart
* PC Gamer regularly takes cheap shots at console gamers. One was when they recommended the [[
** If this is PC Gamer of Future Publishing then it definitely is a friendly rivalry, since Chandra Nair, one of their writers, used to work for Cubed, a [[Game Cube]] magazine.
*** Not to mention that Chandra Nair went on to also become editor of Official Nintendo Magazine before leaving the industry completely.
** Not to mention that Future owns Official Xbox Magazine, as well as [[Nintendo Power]]. And speaking of Future, they own both [https://web.archive.org/web/20101009184710/http://www.maclife.com/ MacLife] and [http://www.maximumpc.com/ Maximum PC]. They love taking pot shots at each other.
* Matthew Wright, presenter of Channel Five's ''The Wright Stuff'' is fond of making gags toward presenter Jeremy Kyle, such as calling him "Jeremy Vile" and getting out of the house whenever his show comes on.
* The creators of [[Demoscene]] productions are typically very direct about their Take Thats, often outright saying "fuck you" to the people and companies they don't like.
* [[Adult Swim]] often runs bumps that are derogatory towards its viewers.
** There also seems to be a long running gag about the network's [[Screwed
*** There's a division in staff between Adult Swim's western-styled comedy department, writers of all the bumps since the action programming stopped featuring them (and producers of ''PHF'''), and the Action department, who programs Adult Swim's anime and are anime fans.
* Whether intentional or not, the Library of Congress filing system (using two letters, then numbers) lists any books on, about, or including the Bible under the letters "BS."
** The Library of Congress Classification system was first developed in 1897. The earliest citation in the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' for "BS" meaning "bulls--t" is 1969. Unless you're accusing then Librarian of Congress Herbert Putnam of psychic powers, it's purely a coincidence.
*** It's actually cited from as early as 1912 now. And in 1884 the initials "B.S" were used colloquially to the emulsion of little value that results from petroleum oil evaporating and leaking through roof of the tank.
* The numerous Red Box kiosks, scattered throughout multiple grocery store chains in the US, advertise $1.00 overnight rentals, but Red Box will charge the customer's card an additional $1.00 for each additional day the item is kept. In response, the movie rental chain ''Hollywood Video'' introduced a program called ''True Dollar,'' to their existing Powerplay rental program, that offers $1.00 rentals with ''no due dates.''
* The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith:
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSweVjWOVf0&feature=related This] video of [[Australian Rules Football]] team the West Coast Eagles' theme song includes the Eagles mascot giving cross-town rival the Fremantle Dockers' mascot a wedgie.
** A famous one happened when Carlton played Essendon in 1991. The previous year, Essendon had lost to the much-hated Collingwood in the grand final, giving Collingwood their first premiership since 1958. During that time, Carlton had beaten Collingwood in grand finals in 1970, 1979 and 1981. Carlton rubbed it in by having their banner read, "If you lose to Collingwood in a grand final, you're a bloody idiot." <ref>A riff on Essendon sponsor TAC's slogan "If you drink, then drive, you're a bloody idiot."</ref>
* Lee Unkrich, the director of the third ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' movie responded to fan reactions of the movie via twitter. [https://web.archive.org/web/20101022134821/http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/06/18/armond-white-prevents-toy-story-3-from-becoming-the-best-reviewed-movie-of-all-time/ Here's what he said to the critics who didn't like it.]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Wqy1R0Ve8 This video.] "The work ethic of music majors is often disappointing."
* In early 1979, NBC was falling behind in the ratings war against CBS and ABC. In an attempt to get back those ratings, NBC initiated its "Proud as a Peacock" campaign. One of those was a song telling about how great NBC was. However, they knew how bad they were in the ratings and ended up making [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8id3o-BPbM&feature=related this parody] to mock the network and its-then current owner.
* ''[[
** Ironically, a lot of Nickelodeon's shows aren't really like that. (Shows like that are on [[Cartoon Network]].) But then again, [[Focus On The Family]] isn't on very good terms with Nickelodeon...
* In [[Rugby League]] the South Sydney Rabbitohs' song goes as far as to list all the teams Souths beat in grand finals:
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They mauled the Balmain Tigers,
Slew the Dragons from St. George,
The Seagulls and the Mounties next
Were crushed with mighty force
They humbled Parramatta
And the Berries in due course
They wear the RED & GREEN
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They plucked the Western Magpies,
Slashed the Newtown bag of blue
The Eastern Suburbs rooster crowed,
And then was conquered too
The greatest name in any game
Within South Sydney grew
They wear the RED & GREEN \\ }}
* During coverage of [[Olympic Games|the Winter Olympic Games]] at Sochi (footage taken from "Putin's 15 years: A presidential retrospective (RT)"), Keith Olbermann of [[ESPN|ESPN2]] had this to say:
{{quote|(picture of a dog is shown) ''"The smiling dog to my right is not from the dog show, he's from Sochi, Russia. And he's probably dead now."''}}
* Roxy (from ''[[Five Nights at Freddy's Security Breach]]'') gives [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x-z3qUT--g a rather unflattering opinion] of the setting of [[Five Nights at Freddy's (video game)|the original game]], while taking pot-shots at Chuck E. Cheese and McDonalds in the process.
{{quote|'''Roxy:''' How did our franchise live so long? How did our franchise [[Black Comedy| live long enough to kill kids ''and'' get away with it?]]}}
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