May 20, 2004

• ding, I feel bad though, cuz this was your first post. Don't give up Here, have a banana on me )
• Actually I considered that -- but my link goes elsewhere. According to GoogleNews (the first link) the deleted item once read "Andy Kaufman faked his own death 20 years ago and has returned, alive and well. DNA tests prove that this is indeed the real Kaufman and not another hoax. ... " Thus the question.
• Ah, but it was in the comments. I see your point. /narfs on banana resignedly
• I would just add it as a comment, also the press release was commented on here.
• waraw, a good rule of thumb is if it's related to something that's recently been posted, the follow up belongs in the original thread/post. But, there are few hard and fast rules here, so no worries.
• there are indeed few hard and fast rules, although many hard and fast persons.
• bow chicka bow!
• some of us are hard and not fast some of us are fast and not hard it behooves you to find out beforehand.
• yes, because, of course, hardness is good but fastness is not. in certain situations. cough.
• We're talking about pastry making, right?
• I thought it was about the proportion of slow-twitch to fast-twitch muscle fibers. Right??
• Sorry, that's never happened to me before. Just give me a couple of minutes... *snore*
• waraw, your cat's name is "Stupid Fucking White Man"?! heh. whaaa???
• more importantly, is Stupid Fucking White Man hard or fast?
• So many taglines, so little time!
• Might be Andy. Might be Bob. Might be someone else entirely. If you're not on for the ride, then the joke's on you. Truer words, rarely spoken.
• Monkeyfilter: So many taglines, so little time!
• The first meta-tagline. I am speechless with awe. (if not comment-less)
• Apropos of absolutely nothing, THIS is my 1000th comment! Whooooooooo-Hoooooo!!!!!! (Do I get a chocolate-covered 'nana?)
• Monkeyfilter: Apropos of absolutely nothing.
• Ah, who cares? Kaufman is yesterday's news. he was mildly amusing, highly irritating, and I, for one, don't miss him. Personally, I think he's dead, and someone is being an asshat by riding on Kaufman's coattails.
• What I don't get is that this guy's known for being "zany" and "wacky", and for "doing the unexpected", right? So why would he say that he's going to fake his own death and come back on the 20th anniversary, and then do exactly that?
• Dizzy: how can you tell? Is there a counter somewhere that I don't know about, or are you just so obsesive-compulsive that you counted? Regardless, 'nana for you! ) [not sure how to chocolate coat it, though] drivingmenuts: it's a shame you can't appreciate comic genious like Kaufman, but i guess there's no accounting for taste. I, for one, would be driven into an orgasmic frenzy of ectasy if Kaufman resurfaced. (Weezel: as fast and hard as you want him, baby!)
• Weezel: just click on your name. It'll tell you how many links and comments you've posted. Personally, this is my 600th.
• Andy Kaufman's Death Certificate
• Blaise: There is a counter when I click on my name? Another wasted afternoon...
• Fuck. Blaise is only ten comments behind me. I'd better twitch harder, faster, NOW!! I can't believe nobody picked up my several paragraphs of gratuitously obvious tagline set-ups over here... maybe it had all just got a little too grumpy by that stage. Ho hum... more wine, I think. So yeah. We were talking about Charlie Kaufman, yeah? Something about how he died but then got reincarnated as a former pro-wrestling taxi-driver, who then relives his life story (told in reverse) by going back to correct all the things he was criticised for in his obituaries? I think that's right.
• Just walk up to the counter and tell me if you want fries with that. (You want fast food or hard food?) Congratulations, monkeys, this thread has made me laugh out loud more than Andy Kaufman's entire career... A few more comments and you'll catch up with Gallagher... On preview: MonkeyFilter: Don't let flashboy get his thesaurus.
• I think this article has a point. I'm soft and slow. I'm also easy and loose.
• wildly O/T: Oh my god, do people actually read the London News Review? I'm hardly fast, but I'm fastened hard.
• Weezel: it's a taste thing - comedy is somewhat subjective. Personally, I think Jonathan Winters and Robin Williams are comic geniuses, as is Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy. To me, Kaufman ranks down there with Jerry Seinfeld. I'm not sure what Kaufman added to the game. Winters and Williams brought improv into the spotlight in their day. Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy were black comedians with a cross-cultural appeal. Heck, even Jerry Lewis upped the ante for physical comedians like Dick van Dyke and John Ritter. I would consider Jeff Foxworthy a comic genius for creating a cross-class appeal for redneck humor. To me a comic genius changes the game somehow - leaves an indelible impression on the art itself. I don't see how that happened with Kaufman. Yeah, he left an impression on people, but I don't see any comics out there emulating him. Hey, if Kaufman floats your boat, fine. I'm just saying I think he's dead and someone is playing a cruel trick on his fans. A little skepticism is in order here - if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
• I studied with a fellow who wrote the first French book on Jerry Lewis.
• I'm hardly fastened, but fasting is hard.
• Yes, my cat's name is Stupid Fucking White Man. After watching Dead Man I knew I would someday own a cat wh would bear that name. And lo, it came to pass. Selah.
• waraw - what do you call him for short?
• I call him Stu for short. Wouldn't want him to get a complex or anything. I also once had a cat named JLC ("Just Like Chicken") but called her Chelsea for the same reason.