Re: Bring the Amber Lamps
In Oakland of all places.
In Oakland of all places.
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Re: Bring the Amber Lamps
What probably should have happened is Dayton (yes, I blame you!) giving a quick history on this entire ordeal.
I don't have time to find links right now, but my advice is to find the original footage of Epic Beard Man beating the crap out of the 50-Year-Old man.
Important things to look out for:
Epic Beard Man and his amazing shirt.
The mystery girl with purple on watching the entire ordeal with very little emotion or worry in the world. She has since been named "Amber Lamps" (more on that later).
The conversation - I recommend finding Epic Beard Man's explanation of how everything went down.
The comments made by bus riders before and during the fight.
The 50-year-olds comments at the end and when he asks for someone to "Bring Amber lamps."
Then watch the remixes: the Mortal Kombat and Punch Out are the best.
You've missed a lot but an hour in your day will catch you right up. (Really it takes about 30 minutes but you'll end up watching somethings more than once for comedic reasons).
Oh, yea, then go back into this thread and reread what people are saying. Once you're all caught up, you might also understand why the pictures of Amber Lamps are so funny.Last edited by CMH; 03-01-2010, 09:54 AM."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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Lol Sorry, yankeepride, that was far too much work on your part to explain something to simple old me. But I appreciate it though. Beard Man was a effin' beast though. And I love that Black Betty song, always thought it was a ZZ Top song for some reason.Comment
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Basically two trashy people get into an argument on a bus - and the old guy ends up beating down the younger guy and flipping out. Three of the things that I think helped make it were: the girl listening to her music and hardly reacting, the old guy's shirt (what it said), and that the guy who got beat down could hardly form a proper sentence or even say the world ambulance properly.
There have been other fight videos that never got nearly this popular, but this one seemed to have a charm to it.
Guy inadvertently created a whole new catch phrase that's going to be used for a long time coming. "Call da amba-lamps!"Last edited by MC Fatigue; 03-01-2010, 09:52 PM.Comment
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"Bring Amber Lamps" is definitely going to be in one of those VH1 specials about the 2010's."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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