We Are All Just Waiting For 2012
In just two short years, the world will end. We know that. California will fall into the ocean. Tidal waves will spill over the mountains of Tibet. Humanity will disappear into an Apocalyptic chasm and time as we know it will cease to exist. This is all written. But what are we supposed to do until then?! Two years will probably seem like almost nothing by the time the End of the World actually arrives, but from where I'm sitting, that's still a fair amount of time to kill. I already had a sandwich today. Now what? Watch a video of a guy placing an anvil on top of another anvil, with gunpowder layered in between, and shooting one of the anvils 200 feet into the air? I guess. But why is he doing it? I said why is he shooting the anvil 200 feet into the air? What do you mean because? It just seems kind of pointless, doesn't it? I mean, there has to be a reason besides "because."
Oh, because he too is simply passing time until the world and all of human history is swallowed into a silent nightmare of annihilation, and so until then he goes to the park and shoots anvils 200 feet into the air because what else is he going to do?
FAIR ENOUGH. Ring that bell, monk! (Via Neatorama.)
Posted by Gabe at 2:50 PM in YouTube Fetishes
Tags: Anvils | Apocalypse | Huh?
"Why would you wanna do that?"
- That IS what she said
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"Women say "Why would you want to do that?" (...) it's just neat seeing something launch that wasn't intended to be launched, i think. "
Like Laika. YOU'RE WELCOME, LADIES.
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Gender differences in grammar in action.
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thanks for inadvertently rounding out my arcade fire knowledge. never understood that part of the song, but never remembered to look it up.
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"It's just neat launchin' somethin' that wasn't intended to be launched."
Truer words have never been spoken.
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If I had known that "World Champion Anvil Shooter" was a title that existed, I would have spent my last two years very differently. At least now I know how I'll spend my next (and last) two. Thank you, Gay Wilkinson.
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I'm a women and I think that's pretty cool.
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You can have your explosions. I just want an anvil-shaped legal pad.
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world champion anvil shooter?? good for you dude..good for you.
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Did you not hear Keegan Hamilton of the Riverfront Times? This man is a WORLD CHAMPION ANVIL SHOOTER.
WORLD.
CHAMP. ION.
http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2009-10-21/news/aint-rocket-science-people-talk-about-joy-sex-dont-last-nothin-shootin-anvils/
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This article is like, 5 pages of pure Misourrah...
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I like how Keegan obviously tried to get in a forceful last word ("And we're about to launch an anvil...") right before the pyrotechnics started going off -- and then Gay just totally brushed him aside and ruined his delivery by prattling on.
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this is what people with viewing standards miss out on when they refuse to see "sweet home alabama" with me.
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Gabe asks "Why is that man placing an anvil on top of another anvil, with gunpowder layered in between, and shooting one of the anvils 200 feet into the air?"
I ask "Why am I in an office reading videogum instead of in some field somewhere placing an anvil on top of another anvil, with gunpowder layered in between, and shooting one of the anvils 200 feet into the air?"
Tom Cruise asks "Why are all these gay people always placing an anvil on top of another anvil, with gunpowder layered in between, and shooting one of the anvils 200 feet into the air?"
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To launch them away from the gays, to safety, of course.
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I would like to know more about these unsung world champion title holders, is there a world champion blog reader somewhere? I would like to contest that title!
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Excerpt from Gay WIlkinson's Memoir "Diary of a World Champion Anvil Shooter" (Random House, $24.99) -- "When you have a dream, you have an obsession, you do what it takes to manifest that dream in reality. Maybe it starts with growing a beard, but that beard only serves as a constant reminder that merely looking like a world champion anvil shooter does not bring you closer to the life of accomplishment that plays before your eyes in the movie that is your dreams. After many nights interrupted,waking in a cold sweat, my mind was made up. I would take the wife and kids to Missouri..."
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Holy shit, maybe it's because I had pictured a much smaller "launch" in my head, but that explosion and subsequent 200 FOOT ANVIL LAUNCH AT LIKE THREE MILLION MILES AN HOUR impressed the hell out of me.
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in 30 years, this is who my real boyfriend, a physicist who blows shit up in my basement, is going to be. i am excited!
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I am jealous! Imagine how high he will be able to launch anvils with Martian gunpowder in the hover-park in the future! Like, really high I bet! Exclamation point!
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i would imaging that, but every time he tries to explain what he's doing, my brain pretty much shuts off and i just nod a whole bunch. so my capacity to imagine what he's going to do in 30 years is pretty much nil.
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also on the list of things i can't do: basic verb/tense agreement.
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With the title and that photo, I was sure this was a new Olympic event. So much for optimism.
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Good thing Tom Cruise was busy getting ice cream with Suri. Cause you know, Gay Wilkinson.
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I guess this is what Gay does in between Ernest Hemingway look-alike contests. Gotta pass the time somehow
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his name is gay?!?!
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keep this video away from richard heene please. thats if his kids havent been taken from him alrready
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At first I was merely curious, but when it launched I could not stop LOL'ing. I'm also like that with pranks.
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Annnnd I'm moving to Missouri!
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i live in Kansas (DON'T HATE MONSTERS!) and i've actually seen this. it seems kind of stupid, but when the fuse is lit and the "boom" hits there's a weird satisfaction and sense of awe watching something you can barely lift yourself fly 100 feet in the air. admittedly, they did it surrounded by tons of fireworks...so it's just a little something extra...but still.
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Since the world is ending December 12th 2012, i think we should get to have Christmas a few weeks early, I mean c'mon guys, thats a no duh
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This is only newsworthy if a child is allegedly hiding in the anvil 200 feet in the air.
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This is stupid. Everyone knows the Roadrunner can't fly.
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