Thanks, i thought i was alone too. Definitely made an impression on my 10-year old self. I've thought about it often over the years, but i never would have come up with the title on my own.
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 6:46 AM on January 13, 2008

fandango_matt you really don't need to multiply by 12 and then divide by 12, it's just 3.1875 inches x 20 feet per inch = 63.75 feet

luckily i had my formula sheets
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 6:31 PM on August 17, 2007

if 2 minute honda commercials are your thing, don't miss this one
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 4:22 PM on March 4, 2006

See the turtle of enormous girth, on his shell he holds the Earth
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 11:55 PM on February 15, 2006

none of them can hope to measure up to steve-o (some NSFW)
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 11:51 PM on January 5, 2006

yeah but let's talk about something important, like what the heck happens in the last few frames of that tetris video?? the game seems to jump a bunch of moves ahead, first on the "AI" screen, then on the game screen. i call shenanigans
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 10:09 PM on December 24, 2005

ESC 6 M-x hanoi
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 11:38 AM on December 23, 2005

they should do another 'big block of cheese' day in his honor
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 2:11 AM on December 17, 2005

candidate for whitest man in america
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 10:54 PM on December 8, 2005

>>I want that motor vehicle that he drives in the beginning of the video.

Looks like a Meyers Manx (Dune Buggy). You can get them for about ten grand.

hmm, thought it was the BF Injection, available at Joey's
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 8:25 AM on November 27, 2005

Bill Bryson _A Short History of Nearly Everything_ p241

I think that got left out of the audio book. Curse you, audiobook!

rejoice, there is an unabridged available now. though i preferred the narrator of the abridged version.
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 8:20 PM on November 2, 2005

Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 5:52 PM on August 5, 2005

damn, how did Babylonian teens hide those under their mattresses?
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 2:09 PM on April 9, 2005

Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed.
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 9:32 PM on January 31, 2004

my favorite of the year was
butt call
n. An unintended phone call placed by sitting on one's cell phone.
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 1:39 PM on January 17, 2004

I don't fancy paying import tax on that 50...Or worse getting it stuck in customs

well, i never heard it called THAT before
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 1:27 PM on December 30, 2003

Hijinks, that's a funny word. Three dotted letters in a row.
Then there's N*Sync, what the hell is that?
Jump in any time Lou, these are good topics.
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 8:32 PM on November 25, 2003

also, no one seemed to mention "Wild Thing" is the same three chords and just the slightest variation on the riff.
basically the first two songs played by any garage band. (at least, any garage band i was ever a part of, which was two)
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 11:11 AM on October 5, 2003

we haven't come very far in 15 years.

seriously, i think rush is behind the times, maybe 10 years ago a black quarterback was something to talk about, but now half the teams in the league have one. it's a non-issue. i have no idea what caused his comments, but i think i heard somewhere he's a big fat idiot...
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 12:57 AM on October 2, 2003

the guy is 65 years old and will serve nine months in federal prison for selling bongs on the internet? absolutely ridiculous.

i work in the same building as the court where this travesty took place, was hanging my head in shame yesterday.

you pretty much need a credit card to order stuff online, so this stuff was basically all sold to adults... man, i could rant on about this for a long time, it just seems ludicrous to me.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 7:44 AM on September 12, 2003

oh, no, no, not the bubble wrap! nooooooo!
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 12:04 AM on September 3, 2003

The male Bathypolypus arcticus (foreground) sees the female and pounces on her. He mounts her and inserts his ligula into her mantle cavity.

whoa there, some of this stuff is NSFW :>
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 8:09 PM on August 8, 2003

worst case i heard was a guy who asked for SpaghettiOs but they got him regular canned spaghetti. as any fan of SpaghettiOs will tell you, that is not the same thing at all! hard to feel bad for a murderer, but i really felt bad for that guy. should have been worth a stay of execution. :>
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 12:59 PM on August 2, 2003

(at the risk of being a paranoid pinhead...)
a possible ideological motive--

the sad fact is that france is rife with anti-semitism. chirac barely beat out an openly anti-semitic candidate in the last election, who got almost 20% of the vote.

an even larger section of the population is anti-zionist. probably about, oh, i'm guessing..... one in three
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 8:08 PM on April 1, 2003

oh well i guess it's waaay to late to be replying but facts i mentioned were called into question...
talos:
rswst8 : chirac barely beat out an openly anti-semitic candidate in the last election, who got almost 20% of the vote.
To describe Lepen as simply anti-semitic is like describing the KKK as anti-catholic. It's true but misleading. Lepen got his votes principally because he was anti-immigrant and anti-Arab. And the election result was 80-20 (hardly barely)... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 12:02 AM on April 3, 2003

of course not, silly. autistics count toothpicks, not matchsticks.

having bonnie hunt drop them seems to help, too.
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 8:55 PM on March 4, 2003

i, for one, would like to welcome our new mushroom cloud overl... oh, never mind.
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 1:04 PM on November 8, 2002

contemptuous sarcasm makes baby jebus cry
posted to MetaFilter by rswst8 at 7:09 AM on October 2, 2002