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The "WHY DOES THIS EXIST?" thread

rizla mission

21:22 / 16.03.04

"I know, let's make an LP with a recording of Tesla's life story on it!"

"Better yet, let's do it in MORSE CODE!"

"Brilliant!"

"See me for what I am, OK?"

21:39 / 16.03.04

A TV studio...producers around a table talking...

"Hey, here's a plan to make the next series of 'Scooby-Doo' great!"

"What's that?"

"We'll introduce Scooby's NEPHEW!"

"Yeah, let's call him...Scrappy-Doo!"

"That's great! Hey, how about if he has 'wee man syndrome'?"

"Fantastic! Let's give him a funky catchphrase."

"Yeah! What about...'da da da da da da...puppy power!'"

"It's the best idea EVER!"

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

22:01 / 16.03.04

But, it is, isn't it?

da da da daaaaa!

"See me for what I am, OK?"

22:32 / 16.03.04

I could grow to hate you, suedehead...

Less searchable M0rd4nt

22:45 / 16.03.04

I really fancy watercolour Tesla.

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23:22 / 16.03.04

That. Why does that fuck exist.

Baz Auckland

23:40 / 16.03.04

..umm.. because it looks pretty if you didn't know what it was?

"See me for what I am, OK?"

23:45 / 16.03.04

Very true.

"Aw, look at the nice multicoloured mushr..."

And the rest is silence. Until the geiger counters come a'clickin

rizla mission

09:25 / 17.03.04

I really fancy watercolour Tesla.

He does have that 'young Christopher Lee' look about him doesn't he.. I don't recall him looking like that illustration AT ALL in photos..

rizla mission

09:28 / 17.03.04

Really though.. that LP baffles me.. I mean, what were you supposed to do with it? Broadcast it over the airwaves so that some guy in an isolated research station in the Arctic circle with a decoding machine could be inspired by the life of Tesla or something??

Our Lady Has Left the Building

09:37 / 17.03.04

"I'm a curly haired gignger buffoon. I've got off with a z-list celeb. We sold fuck all except our 'all around the joanna' first single. Let's make a second Toploader album!"

Cat Chant

14:15 / 17.03.04

Having very little taste and therefore having to invent an external principle on which to select clothing, and also having very little money, I spent my undergraduate years dressing only in clothes I found in charity shops that fitted this principle ("But why would someone make a shirt-dress in pencil-grey taffeta with a pleated skirt that sticks out like a tutu? Why? Why? I had better buy it and wear it to see if it starts making sense... No.")

ibis the being

16:40 / 17.03.04

Am I Blue Or Not?

Incidentally my brother would absolutely love that Morse Code Tesla record. He'd probably do amazing things with it too. He put the sound of a glass of Sprite in a song once, so I think he might be able to make anything into music.

aus

20:41 / 17.03.04

Yahoo Serious.

Baz Auckland

01:54 / 18.03.04

What? You didn't like 'Young Einstein' when you were young?

...did he ever do anything else?

rakehell

03:38 / 18.03.04

What, apart from being President of Australia?

rizla mission

08:52 / 18.03.04

'Young Einstein' is an awe-inspiring and moving motion picture. Thus Yahoo Serious has a right to exist. NEXT!

DaveBCooper

15:00 / 19.03.04

Coming in late : 'They did what..?', I think Mark Evanier (who's writted for comics n TV n stuff) once admitted - whilst at a comic convention - to being involved in the pre-Scrappy discussions, and was booed.

But I might have misremembered.

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