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NME: Thank you for meeting with us. Why did you pick this restaurant?
Nicholls: Maple syrup is supposed to be on the table before the pancakes.  
NME: We haven't ordered yet, Craig.  
Nicholls: Of course when they bring the maple syrup after the pancakes, it'll definitely be too late.  
NME: How is that gonna be too late? We haven't ordered the pancakes yet.  
Nicholls: We're gonna be here the entire morning with no maple syrup and no - no toothpicks.  
NME: If we can move on to your recent diagnosis, have you sought treatment anywhere?
Nicholls: We have pepperoni pizza for dinner Monday nights.  
NME: Pizza? You get pizza in an institution?  
Nicholls: Monday night is Italian night.
NME: With all the cancelled touring, do you know how much money the band has lost?
Nicholls: 'Bout 5 hundred dollars.  
NME: Do you know how much it'll cost to make accomodations for your condition when you tour now?  
Nicholls: 'Bout a hundred dollars.
NME: You have been writing songs in your bedroom. What else have you done lately to stay busy.
Nicholls:  'Course I got Jeopardy! at five o'clock. I watch Jeopardy! Wheel Of Fortune. Look at the studio filled with glamorous merchandise. Fabulous and exciting bonus prizes. Thousands of dollars in cash. Over $150,000 just waiting to be won as we present our big bonanza of cash on Wheel Of Fortune.    
NME: Rumour has it that you may try to perform solo in two weeks.
Nicholls: 14 days from today, today's Monday.  
NME: Hours?  
Nicholls: 336 hours.  
NME: Mystifying  
Nicholls: Course that's 20,160 minutes. 1,290,600, six hundred seconds.
NME: Well Craig, thanks for the time. What's next for you?
Nicholls: Have to get to K-Mart. 400 Oak Street. The sign said 'Don't Walk'. Have to get to K-Mart. But the highway is a very dangerous highway. Course driving your car on this interstate is very dangerous.  
NME: Maybe you should take mass transit, then?
Nicholls: Course in 1986 46,400 male drivers were definitely involved in fatal accidents.
NME: Thanks for your time.
Nicholls: Ten minutes to Wapner. We're definitely locked in this box with no TV.

Is that a Rainman reference to craig's autism? cos you are sick

No, this is an actual interview. I know an NME writer, so I got a pre-press copy.

no ive memorized i love the 80s and that's rainman

the Rainman.hmmm.....

thats for real???

NO

Oh well. I am a bit upset that little washu has no sense of humor.

I think no,too.
NME interviewers wont ask:"Why did you pick this restaurant?"

well i almost got banned for having one....

theyd rather wanna know who he was shagging

but you're very creative!

or you have no life.

or they might ask something like:can i touch you?

I WANT YOU CRAIG

no.it should be very implicative at first. maybe........

there are two reasons why the joke wasnt very funny:

1. i think most people here havent seen Rainman, so they wouldnt get the allusion

2. and those who have seen Rainman find it a little sad to compare Craig with Ray

ditto. i saw it and that is just sick to do that to craig

but i think his original intention isnt to make fun of Craig.maybe he just wanted to delight the fans?

yeah...

but delight the fans by comparing our sick leadsinger with a character who's autism is irreverable and prmanent? a little tasteless i say. and believe me when i say that i usually have a good sens of humor

i dont find that funny.

ya,i have sense of humor too though i didnt laugh when i reading this either.at least he isnt mean to sadden us.though he did. Autism is a worse disease than craig's sickness ( i think we alll know this ),that's why we(including me) cant bear this.

ahhhh i love math too!! and wheel of fortune... every time you say something about Craig its like your talking about me..

math.....that's one of my majors in the university.....But it's rainman who loves math.Not craig.......and of course craig dont have autism.(90% of autistic people are idiots.)

i didnt think that was funny...

It's playing with the obvious perception of autism. Asperger's is actually fairly common. The humor is in skewering the frenzy over Craig's diagnosis.

And I'm sorry if you thought it was tasteless. Sorry that I compared poor Craig to a fictional movie character. Go bitch to Joe Lieberman's wife if you don't like it.

Oh I just wanna say that...

i don't remember Rainman.
I find this joke really stupid

whats rainman?
aww man i thought that was real

What the flying fuck? Im out. Its too early in the morning for this shit.

look, i wasnt trying to diss you or anything. im just saying that it was a bad joke and wasnt funny. and a lot of other people agree with me that it was kinda lame. a lot of times i tell bad jokes myself and i think "why the fuck did i say that?" so im sorry if you took it personally

No I didn't find it funny either. I guess you must have a lot of time to have written that whole thing. And people tell me to get a life.

...I laughed

I've seen Rainman

and yeah we all KNOW Craig isn't that bad off, and all the magazines are making him up to be that bad off. so i thought it was humorous....I didn't see it as a way of making fun of craig I saw it as a way of making fun of NME.

god NME is annoying.

they are
they're like the Tiger Beat of the grown up music world

the garage rock teen beat oh yes indeed.

Hi tim, it's good to see .commers around. It's Highly_evolved_girl.

What about me, huh?

I had no intention of hurting your feelings, Washu, I just remembered Tim from my earlier days at .com.

*hugs starcleaner* all is forgiven

and me!?! lol

Oh Jesus Christ... you're all such a bunch of fucking idiots..

"i don't find this funny"
"I lUV CrAIg"
"this makes me sad"


Anyone who had a reaction to this other than laughter is a stupid little bitch who should be shot.

:::burns bridges:::

Didnt say any of those three..... The whole thing made me LOSE about 10% of my IQ... and it is already dangerously low.

hmm i guess you still have to learn that many people don’t laugh at everything just to please you.
As well, many people don’t have your same fucking opinions just to please you.
Hmm...this is your lucky day...You don’t even deserve to be shot, you’re obviously too nerd to deserve a brand new bullet since you can't understand those few things
...do yourself a favor: blow your creepy mind away by yourself.

Oh...i forgot...this is to you and to those like you: if you don’t like to come here, feel free to go away anytime.

ohh...nice one apocalyptic bastard. you're awesome.

As someone who has an amazing and wonderful child with AS, your 'sense of humor' repulses me. It is not a 'sickness' or a 'joke' or an 'excuse for eccentricity.' I would suggest that you educate yourself about AS before making any further attempts at humoring Vines fans.

Oh, for fuck's sake. Pet Eunuch was patently not mocking anyone with Asperger's or autism, but the pathetic reporting style of the NME (and other magazines) and the way all you idiots lap up anything that's kerazee in the slightest, particularly if it's to to with Craig.

For most of you to look down on Pet Eunuch or to claim that he doesn't have a life is completely absurd. He's one of the best people I've ever seen post on the internet, and most of you are as good as rusty lampposts.

I agree completely. Apart from the bit about spastics or having a life.

sorry i have really bad memory, are you the girl who had an AIM screenname that went something like Sex Drugs Rock?