zest for life
July 12, 2018 7:52 AM   Subscribe

Today as I was walking home after my run I saw a large lemon rolling down the hill. It kept rolling for about a quarter mile. And now you can see it, too. [video on twitter]

Go ahead and read the replies.
posted by moonmilk (46 comments total) 24 users marked this as a favorite
 
Oh man, I saw this on Twitter this morning, it is the best. The drama when it hits that little hole or some leaves and you think it might stop.

We are all that lemon.
posted by uncleozzy at 7:56 AM on July 12, 2018 [4 favorites]


the little lemon that could
posted by entropicamericana at 7:57 AM on July 12, 2018


Credit for "zest for life" goes to @PastryPlate on twitter.
posted by moonmilk at 7:58 AM on July 12, 2018 [2 favorites]


Banana never had a chance.
posted by Space Coyote at 8:02 AM on July 12, 2018 [4 favorites]


this is an FPP? you're taking the pith!
posted by lalochezia at 8:04 AM on July 12, 2018 [2 favorites]


he posted a link to vote registration

real politician this guy

he should run for meyer
posted by lalochezia at 8:06 AM on July 12, 2018 [41 favorites]


Rube Goldberg's earliest drafts had only a hint of the complexities of his later, more mature work.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 8:08 AM on July 12, 2018 [10 favorites]


Go ahead and read the replies.

Indeed. Grace Prasad writes:
I feel like this is a statement about storytelling. If the video had been 20-30 seconds, it wouldn’t have gotten the same reaction. But the fact that it goes on for so long makes you *invested* in the outcome, like Go, Lemon, go!! Like the raccoon that climbed the building...
posted by ricochet biscuit at 8:11 AM on July 12, 2018 [5 favorites]


When life gives you you...
posted by cortex at 8:17 AM on July 12, 2018 [4 favorites]


Life has given him a lemon. He has made lemonade of it. (For certain, metaphorical values of lemonade.)

--

A couple years ago, while walking to work, I came across a whole box of lemons on the sidewalk. I did not make lemonade of them, mostly because I didn't want to carry a box of lemons to and from work, and partially because the lemons didn't look very good.
posted by SansPoint at 8:18 AM on July 12, 2018


Wee bugger's probably running from that bastard possum that eats the skin off all the lemons in my yard.

Run, little lemon, run!
posted by pompomtom at 8:18 AM on July 12, 2018 [2 favorites]


The deal went sour and he was making a citron for the border
posted by moonmilk at 8:20 AM on July 12, 2018 [4 favorites]


Newton, Einstein, Hawking. The Great Attractor, A Black Hole, The End of Space/Time. Well done, little lemon. A Brief History of ...Lemon.
posted by effluvia at 8:24 AM on July 12, 2018


I like how it replicates that video game effect of the lemon staying more or less in the center of the screen while background is what's moving.
posted by chavenet at 8:25 AM on July 12, 2018 [8 favorites]


Kudos to the filmmaker for not running into a lamppost or something. We humans love to watch things move, don't we? That said, lemons--and sometimes fish--are often featured in still life paintings.
posted by kozad at 8:26 AM on July 12, 2018


“I’ve frown my nizzin’geez...”
posted by greermahoney at 8:26 AM on July 12, 2018


We humans love to watch things move, .... lemons--and sometimes fish--are often featured in still life paintings.

Can't explain that!
posted by Floydd at 8:27 AM on July 12, 2018


real politician this guy

he should run for meyer


As long as it's not on the Lemon Party ticket, he has my vote.
posted by Strange Interlude at 8:28 AM on July 12, 2018 [9 favorites]


Proposed soundtrack!
posted by Amor Bellator at 8:32 AM on July 12, 2018


i love the lemon i support its endeavours
posted by poffin boffin at 8:35 AM on July 12, 2018 [4 favorites]


Go grapefruit, goooooooooo grapefruit!
posted by Slinga at 9:01 AM on July 12, 2018


This made me think of another popular lemon video
posted by JDHarper at 9:07 AM on July 12, 2018


orange
posted by Devonian at 9:30 AM on July 12, 2018


When life hands you lemons, make lemon.avi
posted by bondcliff at 9:36 AM on July 12, 2018 [2 favorites]


Proposed soundtrack!

No, clearly this deserves the first half of Powerhouse.
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 9:54 AM on July 12, 2018


As one-takes go, it's no Goodfellas.
posted by whuppy at 9:56 AM on July 12, 2018


Mmh, lemon roll... /homer
posted by Segundus at 9:57 AM on July 12, 2018


At first I read that as 'melon' and I was like "So?" but then I saw it was actually a lemon and I was like "All right!"
posted by Atom Eyes at 10:00 AM on July 12, 2018 [6 favorites]


Ode to gravity.
posted by AugustWest at 11:15 AM on July 12, 2018


topography is a helluva drug.
posted by Cold Lurkey at 11:29 AM on July 12, 2018


You know? Sometimes I really do love humans. They make it hard sometimes but it's stupid, inconsequential things like this that keep me fond.
posted by nogoodverybad at 11:30 AM on July 12, 2018 [5 favorites]


brb searching twitter for the "I rolled a lemon down the street and watched some guy film it for a quarter mile" tweet.

My second favorite random lemon of all time.
posted by Rock Steady at 11:45 AM on July 12, 2018


I really thought there'd be a twist at the end.
posted by ecorrocio at 12:19 PM on July 12, 2018 [12 favorites]


no he hasn't cut into the lemon yet but i suppose that is one way to use it
posted by uncleozzy at 12:22 PM on July 12, 2018


Curb a-peel.
posted by mudpuppie at 12:31 PM on July 12, 2018 [1 favorite]


I was going to make a zest pun but then I saw the post title. Nice work.

I did think he was going to get pipped by the post at one point though
posted by Miss Otis' Egrets at 4:31 PM on July 12, 2018


At first I read that as 'melon' and I was like "So?" but then I saw it was actually a lemon and I was like "All right!"

the one thing i will always recall fondly about the otherwise fairly dreadful movie Signs is the anagramming in the opening credits which taught me the valuable and important fact that anagrams of mel gibson's name include BIG MELONS and BIG LEMONS
posted by poffin boffin at 5:28 PM on July 12, 2018 [1 favorite]


WHY IS THERE A LEMON ROLLING DOWN THE STREET

TELL ME WHY
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 6:30 PM on July 12, 2018 [1 favorite]


I wish I had something pithy to say about this.

But really, my favorite thing is that afterwards he felt sufficiently guilty about abandoning the lemon to the caprices of gravity to go and retrieve it.
posted by eponym at 6:36 PM on July 12, 2018 [4 favorites]


WHY IS THERE A LEMON ROLLING DOWN THE STREET

TELL ME WHY
...Aint' nothing but a tart bake
TELL ME WHY
...ain't nothing but a missed cake
posted by pykrete jungle at 8:42 PM on July 12, 2018 [5 favorites]


I just realized the street I "grew up on" (from the age of 8 to 18), was on a long block (street addresses from 4940 to 5190) with a gentle slope from the lower numbers to the higher and if video technology in the '60s were possible, I could've video'd a rolling fruit (lemon, lime or orange) longer than that.
posted by oneswellfoop at 10:08 PM on July 12, 2018


Man, that thing is in a hurry. Must be headed to some kind of lemon party or something.
posted by davelog at 5:21 AM on July 13, 2018


The Way Things Go
posted by stevil at 7:46 AM on July 13, 2018


Was Will Sasso in the area?
posted by MsVader at 8:08 AM on July 13, 2018 [1 favorite]


Pure.
posted by Squeak Attack at 10:26 AM on July 13, 2018


He must have had an uphill run.
posted by Obscure Reference at 12:15 PM on July 13, 2018


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