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Best christmas light display ever
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 12:58 pm
by Skrum
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 1:01 pm
by Tuggan
i would really not want to live across the street from this guy.
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 1:34 pm
by Darcler
That was soo cool.
But can you imagine the electric bill? Or the sleepless nights for neighbors?
I thought I had it bad when the neighbor across the street had a bunch of strobe lights on Halloween when I lived at my moms house. I went over and stole the lightbulbs everytime they replaced them, because they kept them on all night.
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 1:49 pm
by Goose_Man
That’s incredible!
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 2:42 pm
by Thon
jesus tap dancing christ, that's cool and all, but completely not worth the effort that would take
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 2:50 pm
by Gypsiyee
that's obnoxious >< something like that would get me out of the christmas spirit so fast
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:06 pm
by Jimmy Durante
Stupid Flanders!
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:30 pm
by Captain Insano
that would gives jesus seizures on his birthday.
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:48 pm
by The Kizzy
That was neat
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 4:12 pm
by Rotj
pretty cool
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 5:44 pm
by Kramer
a) that was annoying
b) that is a remarkable waste of time
c) fully lit it isn't that cool
d through zzz) refer to a) and b)
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 6:36 pm
by Insanityfair
My two year old was hypnotized by that display. Most quiet he's been all day!

Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 6:38 pm
by Ouchyfish
I literally got Doom style sick from watching a little of it. WTF?
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 6:42 pm
by Martrae
Damn...and we're lucky if we get a strand of lights put up.

Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 6:48 pm
by Thon
if ppl that lived next to me left that on, i would have to take a baseball bat next door =/
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 12:05 am
by leah
wow
just wow
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 12:58 am
by Phlegm
I wonder how long it took to get that whole display set up.
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 3:01 pm
by vonkaar
FUCKING AWESOME
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 3:09 pm
by labbats
CAPITAL LETTERS
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 3:09 pm
by vonkaar
Labbats has a horse cock.
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 3:12 pm
by labbats
It suits Miss Tyler quite nicely.
Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 12:38 am
by Vincenti
Phlegm wrote:I wonder how long it took to get that whole display set up.
I was wondering how many tweakers, how many nights, and how much crystal meth that display required?
Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:36 am
by Minrott
That's freaking amazing
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 8:29 am
by Martrae
Man Decks House With Synchronized Lights
Dec 5, 5:38 PM (ET)
MASON, Ohio (AP) - Some people at Christmas time are content to deck their homes with evergreen wreaths and holly, and maybe a few strings of lights made to look like glimmering icicles. Not Carson Williams.
He spends nearly two months hooking up 25,000 lights, then programs them to dance to Christmas music.
Hundreds of cars drive by his house north of Cincinnati every night to see the display, which also is posted on several Internet sites.
"So far, everyone's been really courteous," Williams said on NBC's "Today" show Monday. "I told the neighbors, I told the sheriff, if they get any complaints, I'll shut it down, because the neighbors are more important to me than the Christmas lights. I do the Christmas lights for myself."
This is the third year Williams has assembled the display, which grows every year. He said he merely built on a suggestion from his wife, Sherry.
"She wanted some lights on the house, and I work with computers, so I said, 'There's got to be a way to control it with computers,'" Williams said.
He explored the Web and found examples of other synchronized displays. It takes him about an hour to program each minute of the display, which flashes to music by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
That doesn't mean neighbors have to listen to the sound track repeat itself all night.
"The sound, we actually broadcast on a low FM transmitter, so there's actually no sound in the neighborhood," said Williams, an electrical engineer with Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions.
A sign tells passers-by where to tune to listen, and Williams often stays outside for hours at a time chatting with visitors and directing traffic.
"We've had no problems," said Dave Hare, who lives across the street.
But the first year, it took some explaining.
"We called it the psycho house," said Hare's wife, Michelle. "It was just weird random flashes. Then, he told us about the radio station and it was great."
http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/xmaslights.asp
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 8:21 pm
by Markarado
That's aweomse.. Wish people decorated their houses like that here in Malaysia =p