/me is really entertained by Cookie Monster using the phrase “that being said” (or really “dat being said”) for some reason...

My record is 10 minutes with a screwdriver to pry it apart and stick it back together.

Yeah. You know what, can we stop with people knitting things and woodworking too? They are just following an algorithm.

Wait, you are accusing *other* people of strawmen right after somehow managing to imply that people are saying that solving a rubik’s cube in 5 seconds is somehow equivalent to proving a groundbreaking mathematical theorem? Nobody is saying that.

I remember catching this for the first time on a bar TV with the sound off on karaoke night and being goddam amazed. I always describe it as “full contact golf” (which is not entirely accurate - maybe “Aussie Rules with whacking sticks”).

Can’t tell if parody or crazy.

Oh man, someone make this commercial.

The Llama has gills, and a beak, for heartlessly ratting out starving people to the authorities.

Kenji isn’t exactly a pro. I mean, I guess he is in the sense that he makes a living playing it, really he’s a professional streamer who plays magic at a high level, but (unless he qualified in the last year or so - i’ve been tuned out a bit), he hasn’t been on the pro tour.

A friend of mine (who went to an all-girls catholic elementary in LA) called it “Yellow Duck, Yellow Duck, White Duck”.

I can help your mom with a late night filler...

By all reports they were going to cut him if he exercised his option.

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I’m meh on his music, but I like his willingness to parody himself.

My 5-year-old sold can recite a number of Epic Rap Battles of History from memory, because i am a terrible parent...

Yeah, my 5-year-old son uses eenie meanie miney moe quite a bit, and now knowing it’s origin I have to say it makes me slightly cringe, but it’s not like any of the kids at his school (and frankly 99% of the adults) have any idea about that.

Geez, and I’m hoping some serious retroactive side-eye at the teachers and parents who were teaching and listening to this without comment.

And as soon as you show me an incidence where an American songwriter took advantage of an oppressed and uneducated Scottish or German songwriter with little or no compensation, we can have that conversation.

What would be awesome is if they put a plaque there basically describing this, like pointing out explicitly how this statue shows how white people frequently profited from stealing music and were venerated for it. I mean, i don’t think that will ever happen (other than in a guerrilla sort of way), but it would be kind…

Eww. So does that mean you would lie awake at night and start to hear Michael Bolton blaring out of your parents bedroom and then years later you put that together.