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A Child’s Poem About Mario

Mario PoemWe are big Mario fans (see our “Are Mario and Peach an Item” podcast if you doubt me.)

So it’s always good to see that future generations also appreciate his work as well.

This elementary school kid wrote a poem about Mario for class. Thanks to a less than scrupulous teacher, it is now internet fodder.

. You can read the whole thing here..

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Thanks for Being Our St. Patrick’s Day Companions

Teenage Mutant Ninja Murders

They're all ruthless murderers. Who knew?

Thank you to everyone who took time out of their busy schedule of drinking themselves stupid, to stop by the show last night. We had a great time, and did a great honor to the memory of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film.

What a rhino-bear looks like, I’m still not certain about.

It was a fun night all around, and no amount of free Guinness would make me think otherwise.

Although, if you have an unlimited amount of free Guinness, I’m open to being wrong about that.

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Octavarius Gets Lucky at the Playground for St. Patrick’s Day

Octavarius will be St. Patrick’s Day-ing it up at the Playground at 8pm tonight, with a sweet show, and maybe some Guinness.

It’s BYOB, so celebrate as much as you want during the show..

The Playground
3209 N Halsted Ave
Chicago, IL

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Will Smith Points Continued: “Welcome to Earth.”

After we posted the Will Smith Points game,  we received several photos from fans posing themselves in the classic will smith, looking away from the camera and giving an almost peace sign at a 45 degree angle upwards.  If you have pictures of yourself giving/receiving will smith points, email them to us and we will [...]

Compliment Sandwich: A How To and Users Guide

Why use the Compliment Sandwich?
You’re not 100% happy with the world around you. No one is.  There are bosses we dislike, friends who annoy us, significant others who just don’t get it.
When it’s too much to handle you sneak off to the closet, clutching a box of cinnamon Teddy Grahams, wearing only your worn out [...]

Podcast: Toys, toys, toys!

In this, the seventh episode of the Octacast, we discuss everyone’s favorite childhood toys! My only disappointment is that due to shows at iO I was unable to offer my two cents and discuss my favorite toy growing up: a 4-foot-tall replica of a McDonalds.
Needless to say, there is some excellent discussion within that brought [...]

Regarding your services on the day after St. Patrick’s day

Dear Daylight Savings:
I must inform you that after 47 work quality counseling sessions with company management and 67 written warning letters about your poor work quality, there has not been an acceptable improvement evident in your work. As we discussed on March 13th, 2010, you had to improve your work quality by March 13th, 2010 to justify [...]

Video: BattleProv, McNuggets, and Batman

Thanks again to everyone who came to the show last Thursday.
For those who didn’t make it, here’s the video of our “Do Your Thing” round.
For those of you who were at the show. If you watch this, you’ll get to see Nick punch a bird again. Totally worth it.

It was worth a shot

As you may know, last week I emailed Meryl Streep’s agent, Kevin Huvane, and proposed to him that if Meryl is “tired of the usual bullshit” she could quit acting in movies for a little while and join Octavarius. I received the following respectful email today from the good people of the Submissions Department at [...]

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Thank you for making last night magic!

Dear Everyone in Attendance at Last Night’s Show,
Last night rocked.
I’m not really sure how to explain all the little wonderful moments that made it magical, but somewhere between chicken nuggets with Billy Murray carved into them, and last call at the ComedySportz bar, we were floored by just how lucky we are to get to [...]