God, I hated this internet fad. in no small part because I was profoundly aware of just how unoriginal it was. Vin Diesel Facts, which are the same jokes with a different name attached, predated this fad by about two years. And Bill Brasky was basically the same as that, and substantially older.

Yeah, the background of this whole thing is very odd. It started off–like practically every other internet meme, like Lolcats and AYB–on the SomethingAwful forums, when the release of The Pacifier prompted people to start posting absurd facts about Vin Diesel.

(”He was the first man to ever successfully bowl a perfect game using only his MIND POWERS”; “Saying the words “MOLAKUM, VORADEUS, GLORKANO” will turn his skin bright green for 20 minutes”; “Vin Diesel donates 90% of his useable blood to the red cross every other tuesday, but insists it go to starving vampires”. You know, factual stuff.)

Then it got turned into a website by the 4Q.cc guys. It was very successful, as SA-generated memes usually are, and they had a write-in contest for the next fact generator character. Norris won by a landslide.

The Norris stuff really took off (at least from what I saw) with the World of Warcraft crowd, who are something like half the Internet these days, so now here we are.

Me, I kind of liked the ad. It’s clearly aimed at the “south park republican” set. Not sure if it’ll take, I personally doubt it, but it shows Huckabee has more of a sense of humor and eye for popular culture than 99% of Republicans I’ve ever encountered.

I also think that his judgment might leave a lot to be desired; IIRC, when he was head booker for WCW (that’s the guy who decides who wins and loses and what kinds of storylines there will be) he mainly used the position to build himself up without focusing as much on giving other wrestlers air-time and championships so that they could have a chance to win fans over and become stars themselves.

Which, now that I think of it, is a pretty Republican way of doing things. Look out for #1 and fuck everybody else, right?

Need similar here.

Dontcha love the Internet? A dork is always on hand to explain the dorky.