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  Megalomart
The Megalomart is a fictional store from the American television series King of the Hill.
On an episode broadcast May 17, 1998, the Arlen Megalomart exploded just as Chuck Mangione was about to perform outside.
The cause of the accident was a tank of propane-- the very same propane which had forced Hank out of Strickland and into the mart due its ability to sell propane cheaper-- activated carelessly by Buckley, Luanne Platter 's then-boyfriend an a Megomart employee.
pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/m/me/megalomart.html   (288 words)

  
 La Resistance -- Invalid Intelectuals
Well one day the local huge store known as "Megalomart" which has "everything and a whole lot more" well Megalomart, decides to sell propane at about 2 dollars cheaper.
After hank's 15 years of loyal to service to the propane dealer, he is forced to take the only job that is available to him, the propane department of the megalomart Here he is placed as trainee.
The department manager of the propane department is bumbling local teen Buckley, who was placed there although he knows nothing about propane, and this lack of knowledge cause him to pull the propane tank wrong, blowing up the store.
www.freewebs.com /tyleric/oscarsaysfuck.htm   (795 words)

  
 Present Tense » Blog Archive » The 365 Days Project
Over the years of weekends spent hunting, I amassed a collection of around 1600 of those gorgeous vinyl beauties, but after a house fire so unconditionally ended my collection by transforming it into six giant, fl cylinders, I never even sought to buy another record player.
There was a brief, but distinct mourning period, after which my music habit has been satisfied by been seeking out CDs from the local MegaloMart and ripping them down to neat little digital copies on my PC.
You might be buying something that the teenage girl in the next aisle hasn’t heard of, yet, but if it’s in MegaloMart, it is mass marketed.
dyers.org /blog/archives/2005/03/31/the-365-days-project   (1117 words)

  
 13 (number) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In rugby union one of the centres, most often but not always the outside centre, wears the 13 shirt.
In the episode of King of the Hill when Connie has her first period and she goes with Hank to the Megalomart to buy tampons, the feminine hygiene items are in Aisle 13.
This was changed to Aisle 8A when the episode reran.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thirteen   (1354 words)

  
 yes, file sharing is magic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
You can get turned onto Xiu Xiu for the first time by hearing a few of their songs from an online friend, and then you can support the band by buying their music directly from the artist or their label.
It's like having a limitless listening station at your fingertips without the hassle of slapping some drippy-jheri-curl-ridden greasy-dreadlock-touching headphones against your precious earlobes at a corporate musicstore megalomart.
Best of all, you'll probably end up finding new things that you'd never locate in even your favorite indieground underdependent recordshop because your internet-music-friends simply recommended this unknown sound to you based on your interest in their previous offerings.
www.pataphysics-lab.com /board/messages/21954.html   (421 words)

  
 Music - March 3, 2005
I never pass up the tortilla chips with salsa or the Dixie cups of “fresh squeezed” orange juice from concentrate handed out by sweetly smiling senior citizens at the Megalomart.
When I surf the Net at home, or at work when the boss is distracted, I am no more able to resist a freebie.
As I type this, I am listening to the site’s endless supply of Rufus Wainwright, and I’ve agreed to give up 10 bucks to enjoy another month.
www.newsreview.com /issues/sacto/2005-03-03/scene.asp   (575 words)

  
 Somewhere jokes are writing themselves
MegaLoMart is sponsoring a ballot initiative in Inglewood, CA that would let them build a megastore next to Hollywood Park.
Not only that, it would be a big shopping center, complete with a set of stores that don't compete with MegaLoMart.
MegaLoMart could do anything they damn well pleased, even expanding their line of merchandise to include munitions and body parts.
lonewacko.com /blog/archives/001185.html   (497 words)

  
 Journal Of Applied Misanthropology
Likewise, you don't have the right to unilaterally impose conditions on a contract.
If MegaloMart tracks purchases for some reason, and you don't like that, you can stop shopping at MegaloMart.
You can't FORCE MegaloMart to change their business practices, save by the time-honored and totally ethical manner of taking your business elsewhere and convincing other people to do likewise.
www.mrlizard.com /privacy.html   (752 words)

  
 MQ: Evil Under the Sun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cool outside but the sun was full and turgid and warmed you if you stood in it.
I ended up walking to the nearby consumer electronics megalomart just to get out of the building.
The kind of day where you can take a nice walk and not return to your desk all sweaty.
jaoll.blogspot.com /2005/02/evil-under-sun.html   (219 words)

  
 Digressions of a Traveling Housewife.
Proving that adaptation happens whether you want it to or not, after three days wandering the 80-degree streets and sweating in our relatives homes with no AC, we cranked the AC up to 75 last night, and still I was freezing under the blanket and coverlet.
Jon and I breakfasted at VIPs, a national favorite which, sadly, has recently been aquired by MegaloMart.
Still, the food was as good as I remember, and the family atmosphere as pleasant.
www.salme.org /TB/2004_06_01_archive.html   (2134 words)

  
 Close Call - Harley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
I ride my bike to work at Fred Meyers (megalomart store) most days.
Yesterday I'm all holed up in my little shop when one of the guys who works over in produce comes into my dept. and says he just stopped a guy from stealing my bike.
Ridin' to work today again (luckily) SR BS#200 '01FLHRCI "I was alone, I took a ride, I didn't know what I would find there"
www.cycletalk.net /Close_Call-230874-55-a.html   (1746 words)

  
 FOX Broadcasting Company: King of the Hill
Bobby just might be their key to winning the coveted championship title; however, the futures of his teammates rest heavily on his shoulders.
The pressure becomes too intense, and Bobby is sent into a frenzied panic attack in the middle of the Megalomart.
Bobby is ready to quit the team to eliminate the stress all together, but Hank reminds him that stress cannot be avoided, it can only be managed.
www.fox.com /kingofthehill/episodes/0813.htm   (263 words)

  
 Metroactive Movies | 'The Sea Is Watching'
Considering that director Kei Kumai made one of the best-remembered Japanese movies about the lives of prostitutes--a 1975 picture called Sandakan 8 --there's craftsmanship in his observation of the life at a seaside brothel shortly before the arrival of Commodore Perry.
The Sea Is Watching seems Westernized, not just because of the soundtrack music (which sounds like Chuck Mangione live at the Megalomart).
Some of the more traditional Japanese directors might hit a scene in the instant immediately before or after some terrible emotional turning point.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/07.24.03/sea-0330.html   (873 words)

  
 Sitcoms Online Message Boards - Luanne's Hair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
When did her hair become short and when was she shown with longer hair again?
04-21-2003 01:14 AM In the propane explosion at the Megalomart (the end of season 2), Luanne survived but all her hair was burnt off.
The earliest episodes produced in season 3 have her hair short, to suggest that it's growing back.
www.sitcomsonline.com /boards/printthread.php?s=7bbc5fdd47ab6f102466ef454874dc1b&threadid=66436   (96 words)

  
 THR - What red-dot for a 10/22?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
I haven't shot one of these since I was about 10.
While at the MegaLoMart where I bought it, I decided on impulse to try a cheap red dot scope.
Alas, when I got home and tried to put the two together, I learned that the 'weaver style rail' this scope is supposed to mount onto is significantly wider than the skinny rail on the Ruger.
www.thehighroad.org /showthread.php?t=13224   (460 words)

  
 The Hobbit Harem Forum -> Favorite Performance(s)
As for the Round-of-12 down through Round-of-8 performances, I thought he had a Bret Saberhagen -esque thing going on, where every other performance was good and in between (this would be "She Believes in Me" and "Rocket Man," of course) was...
I spotted it now on CD in a MegaloMart not long after Country Night and seriously considered getting it -- I still might, in fact.
And all of this is to say nothing of the immense enjoyment it got out of the group sings he was in, not only for the fact that he seemed to be most relaxed, having fun and bringing the vocals, but also because I found something squee-worthy in every single one.
hobbitharem.net /index.php?s=69c3b76276859bcf54a65a5c68a88e12&showtopic=82&st=15   (2410 words)

  
 FOX Broadcasting Company: King of the Hill
Dale asks Hank to write him a recommendation for a pest control job at the Megalomart.
He sees a cutout of Megalomart spokesman Chuck Mangione and suspects that he is somehow involved with the mischief.
While spending the night at the Megalomart, Dale hears an eerie noise and calls for the guys’ help.
www.fox.com /kingofthehill/episodes/0705.htm   (233 words)

  
 Our Programs Promises Kept A Mission of the Northeast Conference How Can You Help   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Or he could look away for a time, and turn down the shouting volume of America Duz Xmas.
He could find in places hardly imagined, the real sense of it behind the carnival bark and threadbare sentiment and lighted creches, $49.95, at your local Megalomart.
And so on this Christmas Eve, I think not of all that but of the family of Prince Chapman, who reached out with Bibles in their hands and "God loves you" on their lips to the lost soul who murdered their husband and father.
www.fwum.org /angelsdowork.htm   (762 words)

  
 LILEKS (James) The Bleat
There’s an episode where he’s mad at the MegaloMart because they started selling propane, and he lost his propane-selling job.
(Sorry: propane and propane accessories.) He drives to the store aafter closing hours and throws the batteries he’d bought at the MegaloMart a few days before.
After hurling ten batteries at the building he pauses, and says “Man, you sure get a lot of batteries for your money.” I always think of that.
www.lileks.com /bleats/archive/04/0304/031804.html   (1295 words)

  
 Tana's Habitat - Chomp - Soy Good for You
You can usually find frozen soybeans (edamame) at the grocery store.
If your local megalomart doesn't carry them: (1) complain loudly and bitterly; (2) visit your local Asian food store.
Boil about 2 quarts of water in a large pot.
www.tanashabitat.com /chomp/0403096of8.asp   (131 words)

  
 LITTLEBLACKDOG.COM :: View topic - my daughter is growing up and has a sense of humor at 12   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2003 11:09 pm Post subject: my daughter is growing up and has a sense of humor at 12
OK we are at the local megalomart and shes looking at posters.
She finds a cute puppy in a cup and start giggling about how cute it is. I on the other hand an looking at the hot babe on the other poster and i tell her i didnt see the cup but i see a cup cake on the other poster.
www.littleblackdog.com /viewtopic.php?t=14919   (241 words)

  
 gaymormonchef: Caretaking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
When I came to a place in the shallows where the ice covered the flow enough for me to step across, I pushed back down through the wrangle pasture with the snow blowing.
When you are stranded in the woods, miles from the nearest holiday-decorated shopping mall or Megalomart, shopping drops from your radar, instant gratification consumerism fades way and making do with what you already have becomes the day.
Right now without enough snow to run a snow machine and the roads not quite 4x4 passable, I sit in a limbo 22 miles away from the fltop.
gaymormonchef.typepad.com /gaymormonchef/caretaking/index.html   (3050 words)

  
 Duke's Rants of the week
Also, as always, please remember I write all this shit free-form with nary a spell check, never mind grammar examination.
So today I get home from a day of full on brainwashing trying to become part of one of the largest, soulless corporations on EARTH (yes Widowmaker, it's even bigger than your proberbial Megalomart) to find that the mama Doe who has been living in our back 400 for 5 years has spawned AGAIN!
I was starting to have my doubts about this year, because normally this slut has already been dragging her latest cretins around my garden for a good month by now.
dukecrevanator.blogspot.com /2004/08/so-today-i-get-home-from-day-of-full.html   (281 words)

  
 SternFanNetwork Archive - Velvet Revolver forced to change lyrics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
So essentially what you're saying is that Wal-Mart should write the VR lyrics so they're ok to sell in their stores?
I never said anything about your megalomart theory - YOU are making the assumption this has to do with Wal-Mart
VR is under contract to write music to fulfill their contract with their label - "smells the poppies" is what was censored - and why was it?
www.sternfannetwork.com /forum/showthread/t-30463.html   (4060 words)

  
 Re: Brain Weak Kids?
I don't think it's a lack of mental capacity, I think it's having been brought up in a planned obsolescence, cheaper to buy new than to fix, throw it away world.
Nobody wants to take the TIME to fix something when they can pop down to MegaLoMart and buy a new one.
It's all gonna come back and bite us on the butt one daiy...
www.kountrylife.com /forum/messages/61950.html   (159 words)

  
 My Life As A Fischer: If you don't like what you read here, get the fuck out   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
This detail of my life was exposed on May 12th 2004 @ 5:38:29PM
The local Megalomart is having a "buy one, get one free" sale on all its MGM DVDs.
Mom said there wasn't much of a selection, but I decided to check it out anyway.
mylifeasafischer.com /entry.php?id=385   (212 words)

  
 DigiGuide: The Best TV Guide - Episodes - Megalo Dale
Dale enlists the guys for an overnight adventure at Megalomart to solve a pest mystery.
This is an uncertified description - why not create a better one using the form below.
Periodically we will certify suggested descriptions and the following day they will appear in the DigiGuide TV guide product range, a day or so later they will also appear in the DigiGuide Library.
library.digiguide.com /lib/episode/190381   (250 words)

  
 Slim Thoughts
I have often wondered this as I paid way too much for potatoes that were grown just down the road from my house.
Yes, I know I could buy straight from a farm, but the MegaLoMart is so convenient.
Good to see that Republicans are becoming massively overconfident.
bigslim.blogspot.com   (4341 words)

  
 Cable TV Talk - Listings for the Week of June 8 to 14
Despite serious concerns, Hank recommends Dale for a pest control job at the Megalomart.
Dale ends up reaping havoc on the store and claims the culprit is not a rat, but the store’s spokesperson, Chuck Mangione.
In an attempt to solve the mystery, Hank and the guys join Dale for an overnight adventure at the Megalomart where they uncover a surprising guilty party on the “Megalo Dale” episode of KING OF THE HILL Sunday, June 8 (8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
www.cabletvtalk.com /archive/index.php/t-128.html   (2549 words)

  
 TalkBass Forums - Some New Strings
I looked at an Alembic Epic in a store where the owner had just put Everlys on it.
Well, as I said, the guitar pro at my local megalomart is trying to talk me into these, instead of going through the hassle of ordering the Fender 7350Ms that I usually get.
He claims he has turned quite a few people onto them.
www.talkbass.com /forum/archive/index.php/t-22244.html   (284 words)

  
 Authentic Frontier Gibberish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
So to celebrate getting Tara's tax refund last night, I promptly went out and spent it on DVDs and a book.
I picked up The Dirt from the local book megalomart, and three DVDs: Say Anything, Journey to the Center of the Earth (2 for $20, can't go wrong!), and the best buy of the night: The Mouse That Roared for alousy $6.99!
Apparently some disgrunted employee put the wrong sticker on the flick, because it came up at $29.99 on the computer.
llamicus2.blogspot.com /2003_07_06_llamicus2_archive.html   (623 words)

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