The Unsane video for "Scrape" is one of the least expensive videos to ever be shown on MTV - supposedly cost less than $300 bucks to edit together a few shots of the band with all the homemade skate video footage.

that damned fly wrote:

Kayte R. wrote:Thomas Edison pushed DC because he didn't know calculus (required for AC analysis).

someone else pushed either for or against ac or dc to spite so and so something something electric chair.

Edison was trying to get DC accepted as the standard for power distribution. Tesla was pushing AC. In an attempted smear campain, Edison suggested that AC be used in the electric chair to demonstrate how dangerous it was.

Edison lost that battle, but still made a ton of other goodies. like the electric hammer. and hamburger earmuffs. and the make-up gun.

Tesla was the greatest band of the 20th century.

tangent wrote:In an attempted smear campain, Edison suggested that AC be used in the electric chair to demonstrate how dangerous it was

There is also this grisly little caper:

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/pet/topsy.html

But Topsy had a temper. She killed three men in three years, the last a drunk trainer who had fed her a lit cigarette.

The best band name ever is "Duran Duran Duran".

Stan Lee was advised against going ahead with Spiderman by his seniors at Marvel because, they said, people were afraid of spiders, and wouldn't like the character.



ps. I think it's funny that the guy didn't know about Trout Mask being the biggest seller. I know I shouldn't laugh at people for not knowing something, but I just thought everyone knew that one (sorry for being a smug bastard).

The word ipod is never actually mentioned in the bible.

tangent wrote:

that damned fly wrote:

Kayte R. wrote:Thomas Edison pushed DC because he didn't know calculus (required for AC analysis).

someone else pushed either for or against ac or dc to spite so and so something something electric chair.

Edison was trying to get DC accepted as the standard for power distribution. Tesla was pushing AC. In an attempted smear campain, Edison suggested that AC be used in the electric chair to demonstrate how dangerous it was.

Edison lost that battle, but still made a ton of other goodies. like the electric hammer. and hamburger earmuffs. and the make-up gun.

He electrocuted an elephant in the demonstration.

Kayte R. wrote:

tangent wrote:Edison lost that battle, but still made a ton of other goodies. like the electric hammer. and hamburger earmuffs. and the make-up gun.

He electrocuted an elephant in the demonstration.

Which demonstration?

The make-up gun or the hamburger earmuffs?

http://www.capitalcentury.com/1907.html
CTRL+F elephant