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Jason Dunn
05-10-2003, 02:46 AM
Toooooo funny! :lol:

http://www.teamabuse.com/toxic/stuff/swk.htm
Crystal Eitle
05-10-2003, 03:13 AM
That poor kid!

And yet... SO FUNNY! :rofl: :popcorn: :rofl:
Bearjaw
05-10-2003, 03:20 AM
That was too freakin funny! I love the effects!
Jason Dunn
05-10-2003, 03:50 AM
I was laughing WITH the kid, not at him. Really. I was just as big of a geek. Ok, I actually got BIGGER later in life, but I was a geek all right!
Steven Cedrone
05-10-2003, 03:57 AM
I was just as big of a geek. Ok, I actually got BIGGER later in life, but I was a geek all right!

ROFL...

Where's your video tape??? (or did you have enough sense to remove and wipe it)... :wink: :lol: :wink: :lol:

Steve
Jacob
05-10-2003, 04:21 AM
I must feel sorry for the kid to have that posted for everyone to see.

I also couldn't help but laugh harder than I have in a long time and thank god I never had access to a video camera to tape me when I was in high school...I too was somewhat of a geek in highschool.
Pony99CA
05-10-2003, 07:32 AM
The force is nonexistent in this one, Obi-Wan.

Steve (as if I'm one to talk :-))
Unreal32
05-10-2003, 10:46 AM
"Take your Jedi weapon! Use it. Strike me down with all of your hatred and... D'OH!" :roll:
Doug Rausch
05-11-2003, 02:07 AM
Oh ya - he'll live that one down...maybe...some day...though probably not before the video is brought out for something nice and public like his wedding reception.
Pony99CA
05-11-2003, 02:35 AM
Oh ya - he'll live that one down...maybe...some day...though probably not before the video is brought out for something nice and public like his wedding reception.
I wonder if I took the original footage and submitted it to "America's Funniest Home Videos" if I could win some money. :-)

Steve

P.S. If anybody else does this, you have to split the money with me. :-D
lurch
05-11-2003, 03:35 AM
Jason - thanks for a great laugh this evening! :) That was freakin' hilarious!! :lol:

poor kid though... ;)
Janak Parekh
05-11-2003, 04:06 AM
Oh ya - he'll live that one down...maybe...some day...though probably not before the video is brought out for something nice and public like his wedding reception.
:eek:

You know, I didn't even think of the severity of this. At high-school graduation, at his wedding, at his anniversary... he'll never escape!

--janak
davidspalding
05-15-2003, 10:46 AM
Gods. Reminds me of a Star Wars costume I used to do in '77, '78. Exotic bathrobe, gas mask, animal ears cap, military surplus gunnery gloves, sam browne belt, toy machine gun painted and fitted with greeblies ... somewhere there is a pic of me in this getup. Just another Mos Eisley cantina hoodlum.

Funny thing is, considering how low-tech some of the 2nd unit and background costumes and props were for the first film, my homespun effort didn't look too different.
trachy
05-15-2003, 06:12 PM
They found the kid and interviewed him. Turns out he would someday like an iPod, so they took up a PayPal collection to buy him one. I guess it's the least that could be done, as so many people had a good laugh at his expense.
Jason Dunn
05-15-2003, 06:17 PM
They found the kid and interviewed him. Turns out he would someday like an iPod, so they took up a PayPal collection to buy him one. I guess it's the least that could be done, as so many people had a good laugh at his expense.

Nice! Ok, everyone monitoring this thread, cough up $5 for the kid - it's the right thing to do. :wink:
lurch
05-15-2003, 06:31 PM
<cough>

sorry, nothin' came out..


On a side note - I should pull some cash from my wallet, since I watch this video every day to give me a good laugh! :)
Steven Cedrone
05-15-2003, 06:36 PM
The 'Thoughts effect...


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:wink: :way to go:

Steve
lurch
05-15-2003, 06:51 PM
http://www.waxy.org/

Downloaded 1.1 million times!!!! :shocked!:
That's awesome!

Interesting to find out more about the kid though. :)
Lotto
05-19-2003, 02:22 PM
Here's a Wired article on the money collection for the kid:

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,58881,00.html

Weird thing is....I have a feeling many people on this website were not laughing at him persay, but relating to their own days as kids doing something very similar.
Janak Parekh
05-19-2003, 04:13 PM
And a New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/19/technology/19VIDEO.html) article. This has become, for better or worse, a part of Internet folklore, up there with the dancing baby thing (which, BTW, I never really got into).

Someone also conducted an interview of him (http://www.jish.nu/2003_05_01_archive.php#200287473) and raised enough money for an iPod for the kid.

--janak
Jacob
05-19-2003, 05:03 PM
And a New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/19/technology/19VIDEO.html) article. This has become, for better or worse, a part of Internet folklore, up there with the dancing baby thing (which, BTW, I never really got into).

Someone also conducted an interview of him (http://www.jish.nu/2003_05_01_archive.php#200287473) and raised enough money for an iPod for the kid.

--janak

That's great!! It's good to see them raising some money to reward this kid. It's at over $1000!! More than enough for an iPod I would think. I'm considering chipping in a bit.

It's also good to see in the interview that he doesn't seem to be bitter or traumatized by it. He even was complimenting some of the effects added to the video!
lurch
05-19-2003, 05:30 PM
It's also good to see in the interview that he doesn't seem to be bitter or traumatized by it. He even was complimenting some of the effects added to the video!
After watching this video over and over and over and over and over, etc... -- because it reminds me of me, and reminds me of how God spared this from happening to me (THANK YOU :werenotworthy: ), and it's just plain funny -- I also look at the remix version and think "If that were me on there, I'd be saying 'How cool is that?!?!?!'" :) (after the initial "shock and awe" of me finding myself online wore off, that is..)