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Wow - that guy is a bit uptight. I can't wait till this guy graduates and runs for public office - and then this video surfaces.

"Who paid for the air?" classic.

haha. "where'd the air come from"

Oh my, I hope this dude is more polite in the future when he's pumping my gas...

"...pumping my gas." That's good. And true.

See, kids? This is your brain on politics.

wow, I was laughing out loud! thanks ant.

That guy needs to take a chill pill.

He probably earned the prank.

Hey stenar, I killed your link to yourself, feel free to put such things in your profile, but the comments are not for spamming.

Wow, young Republicans indeed. The reason student politics is so intense and outrageous is that there's so little at stake.

lol, nice. im reminded of Scwarzanegger in Total Recall ... "Give these people air!"

This guy is awesome. All you guys suck. If he runs for president in the future it would do the country good if we all voted for him.

This guy has his panties in a bunch! no sense of humor at all... Makes you feel sorry for him... NOT!

Ha! Wow, ego overload. Some people are just determined to win an aurgument...doesn't matter if you're wrong or not. Even if he had reason to be pissed, a more clever political type would be calm on the surface...while quietly putting things in motion to roll some heads

He's obviously had a long day or he wouldn't be acting like he has PMS.

This guy has serious issues. At least Preston had a laugh. Even the dudes email address is presof2020. God I hope not! If this guy gets into power then the country is screwed. http://www.ryanholt.org/index.htm Republicans suck. Democrats Rule

F%#K!! Will SOMEBODY look at ME being SERIOUS ?!?!

What a idiot.

Now why cant I see the video? I am only getting a red cross in a box.

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Hi Job, make sure you have the latest version of Flash installed
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To paraphrase Robin Williams -
Never, in my life, have I seen someone in such dire need of a blow job.

what a jerk. talk about political speakers being full of hot air. if he was anygood he'd have had a laugh then told someone to clear it up.

Wow. I respect his respect for money, but geez... his social skills are worse than mine! Sheesh.

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I would appreciate it if someone spent that much time to fuck up my day.

Pricks like that are the reason the world is so fucked up.

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Forgot to check time. I still have 1 hour and 45 minutes to go . . . *tapping fingers*

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An office full of balloons = 'fucked up' to some people.
To others, it's a party.

I'm sure he was expecting a Chip'n Dales dancer, which he didn't get.
Disappointment will make some people lose it.

These bright, colorful balloons! Look at how they clutter up my obsessively-organized office with their "levity" and "fun"! How will I ever be able to politick seriously now????

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Yea he would make an excellent official managing some monetary problems, but wouldn't be much of a leader because of his prudish ways.

There's a reason why he's the Vice President. Just like how we see Al Gore.

Smart man, but genuinely unfit for popularity.

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And you come and #%@$ my office! AHAHHA!

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Satans_Thong's robin williams quote sums up this guys problem nicely.

Yeah, man. I think that "air" is pretty expensive stuff. Comes all the way over from Japan, or something.

No, really, this is one of those perfectly harmless pranks that I would honestly appreciate. I love the balloons thing, man.

Another Aggie Dickhead, from the makers of Bush, comes Dick!

omg, thats fantasic And a good harmless prank, I would love to pop them all haha! awesome, shame the guy had a sense of humour malfunction.

I think he has a bit of sand in his vagina. *wtf

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And why do we have 13 month years on the Sift now?

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Can't find an embedded video, but did find this: http://www.yourdailymedia.com/media/1145791934/Angry_USC_Student-Vice-President

rasch187 has fixed this video's dead embed code - no Power Points awarded because rasch187's points are already fully charged.

>> ^dag:
Wow - that guy is a bit uptight...

You said it. So uptight in fact that he got the copyright holder/videographer to request that we remove the video. And so, we comply under the terms of the DMCA.

No real need to *discuss, but let's let her fade into history in Sift Talk...

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Wouldn't it be a heck of a lot easier for this guy to pull the video from it's source?

Fight on, Trojan.

Almost 3 years later and now they file a DMCA complaint?

Question .. are you responsible under DMCA for embeds members put in their comments?





edit .. these aren't extra google tags for Ryan Holt balloon prank usc office or the balloon prank that was done at Ryan Holt's office at USC

Pffft. They shouldn't be. You're not hosting shit.

I feel somewhat responsible

And lucky; the king of douche isn't a guy to be feared. Just like blankfist.

wow, geez Lucky.. Thats weird.

How come there are so many horses asses in the world, and so few horses?

Here's the transcript for posterity.

super: On Sunday, April 2, 2006, USC Vice President Ryan Holt traveled to Washington, DC to voice students' concerns to Congress. On Monday, April 2, 2006, members of the Student Senate purchased $80 worth of balloons. What you are about to see may be disturbing to people without a sense of humor.

Ryan: This is the kind of unprofessionalism that characterized student government years ago, and it's not going to happen now. If I have to there's gonna be-- okay that's it. Email to Ann, and people getting keys taken away and everything. Because this is not a joke.

[OPENS DOORS TO BALLOONS, POPS ARE HEARD]

Ryan: Okay, look, this is a waste of student activity [unintelligible]... and the people who did this are gonna pay for every single one of these! It's not a joke! It's not a joke, Alex!

Alex: Chill.

Ryan: Look at me being serious! We were off doing good work and you come to do something like this!

Alex: Okay. Alright. Geez.

Ryan: And I want to go to bed, and you've come and fucked up my office!

Alex: Calm down.

Ryan: NO ALEX! I am not going to calm down, because this is inappropriate! I am disappointed with you!

Alex: It's a joke.

Ryan: No this is not a joke. Who is going to pay for these balloons?! Out of your pocket?

Alex: We paid for them. Yes, we paid for them out of our pocket.

Ryan: Where did the air come from?

Alex: [befuddled] Wha-- the air? Over there.

Ryan: You used the air that costs money for us to do that stuff.

Alex: No.

Ryan: No, that's not appropriate, Alex.

Alex: [SIGHS]

Ryan: It's not appropriate. And this is not cleaned up [BALLOON POPS] by eight in the morning [ANOTHER POP] I'm going to come in here, take pictures, and there's gonna be hell to pay!

Countersue the fucker. There is no case here, and he should be punished for hurting this particular community. If he wants his stuff off the net, if it is truly his, then he must do it at the source, which is not here. I am saddened that you've caved to this kind of bullying. For shame.

^ I think I like the transcript better than the video.

He's so super cerial!

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Kind of lame, but I guess I don't blame him - he's probably graduated and out looking for work, and our post is 3rd from the top when anyone googles his name.

Must suck that a single moment of douchebaggery makes you a douche forever on the Internet.

^Unlike me, who will never get my comeuppance.. never!

>> ^dag:
Kind of lame, but I guess I don't blame him - he's probably graduated and out looking for work, and our post is 3rd from the top when anyone googles his name.
Must suck that a single moment of douchebaggery makes you a douche forever on the Internet.


I can blame him, he was a complete dick then, and he wishes that he wasn't... but you know what, this is a perfect character reference. There should be zero case for him being able to get this taken down... zero. I would hope anyway, and if there is, then that's friggen sad, that people can be a complete dick and then get all reference to that incident being taken down because they wish they hadn't done it.

Take it like a bloody man and face up to your dickery. Him trying to get this taken down I think speaks very highly of him not having grown out of this stupid mindset of his, and not being able to take a joke to this day. How can it possibly be a DMCA case anyway?

Seriously, wait a second. Unless the person who filmed this sold THEIR copyright of this video to this student VP, he can claim exactly jack shit. If he has a problem of not having a pixelated face, he can take it up with them, but asking the Sift to take down an embed is completely unwarranted. Again, unless the video-maker signed away the copyright.

Can you people read? Try Lucky's comment again. Here, I'll make it simple:

"he got the copyright holder/videographer to request that we remove the video"

He, Ryan, did not ask to have it taken down. The copyright holder did.

>> ^jonny:
Can you people read? Try Lucky's comment again. Here, I'll make it simple:
"he got the copyright holder/videographer to request that we remove the video"
He, Ryan, did not ask to have it taken down. The copyright holder did.


Talk down to people much?

>> ^blankfist:
Talk down to people much?

Only when they're acting ignorant. And yes, I act ignorant too sometimes.

Spider-Man, you're drunk!

Which ignorant people, specifically, are you referring to Jonny?
I'm semi-retarded so I'm self conscious about these things.

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I had a pint of Guinness and a Kilkenny at lunch today - I want to give the USC guy a big slobbery hug.

Yesterday I was sitting in my command chair just hammering out some sifts into my puter. I was somewhat (entirely) nude at the time and my mom walked in and was all like, "Oh my God!" and I was all, "ARRGHH!"

So anyway... yea...

What were we talking about?

We're talking about some douchebag who is embarrassed and wants to retroactively undoucheify himself.

Best bollocks argument ever. What about the air! LOL

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Put yourself in this guy's place. Yes, he comes across as a complete douche in this video. But does he deserve to be judged by that his entire life? Perhaps his mother just died of breast cancer the day before, or he found out his brother has aids.

So he's graduated from USC - he's sending resumes around, and, as is the norm these days - his prospective employers google his name.

If he gets an interview after that he'll be lucky - but if he does get the interview - I'm sure the first question will be "Do you work well under stressful conditions?" or "Would you say that you have a congenial relationship with your co-workers?" Sucks to be him.

>> ^dag:
..or he found out his brother has aids.


laugh out loud

Ha ha, Ryan Holt, you're a douche bag. I hope you learned your lesson with this; but I'll bet you $100 you didn't.

Change is the universe's only true constant. All things a revolve or are measured by change. But change itself is measured over time.

Which brings me, obtusely, to a question: Has 3 years been long enough for Mr. Ryan Holt to remove that painfully barbed stick from his ass. No, really, that's what I think about this. There is a thing called 'Sense of Humor' that isn't taught but learned. It's a natural ability.

This dumbass, quite honestly, doesn't have one so far as I can see in the video. That was 3 years ago. The fact that he is now retroactively trying to erase the knowledge the internet has of this video leads me to believe he still doesn't.

^Well summed up darkrowan!

That moment on video captured the essence of the person even allowing for his use. He'll never escape that no matter how many strokes he pulls. He's going to be a wonderfully shitty boss to someone.

The follow up interview video, in which Ryan Holt (the prankee) tries to show he has a sense of humor about the whole things, is also gone.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Ryan-Holt-Look-At-Me-Being-Serious

I'm not sure if this is the same Ryan Holt. It kind of looks like him, and if it is him, I think it may explain everything:

>> ^jonny:
Can you people read? Try Lucky's comment again. Here, I'll make it simple:
"he got the copyright holder/videographer to request that we remove the video"
He, Ryan, did not ask to have it taken down. The copyright holder did.


To be clear about the take-down for any interested parties, Mr. VP did request that we remove the video, but since he only appears in the video and does not own the copyright, he had no right under the DMCA to lawfully compel us to comply. After informing him of that fact, he had the actual copyright holder make the same request, leaving us no choice in the matter but to abide by the law.

And for the record, they were both very cordial about it (unlike lots of other angry requests we've received in the past). Apparently the video was supposed to remain private, but someone got their hands on it and gave it permanent residence spread across the Interwebs.

Why is the Student VP at USC wearing a Texas A&M shirt?

The purpose of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act is not to provide you with a way to hide how much of a wet wick you are.

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*promote this douche. Sorry, lucky...

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*NetRunner ("We need bailouts to pay for the air!")

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