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Yep, grew up with this guy...
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That's the thing, he is right up there with NDT for being a public (and vocal) advocate for science and rational thinking. It's one thing to have not seen the show, but he has done SO much more since then for furthering science in the public eye and encouraging governments and people to actively promote science.
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Hopefully this is available worldwide, but.
Bill Nye was a scientifically minded stand-up comedian (that nobody knew) who got a TV show in the early nineties that was aimed at kids, where he played a slightly over-the-top comedy version of himself, explaining various science stuff to kids.
Importantly, the TV show has a kick-ass theme song.
The show ran for a few years, and then much longer in syndication, and Bill has in recent years found a bit of a resurgence initially as an ironic-love 90's figure and then as a legitimately-appreciated outspoken advocate for science stuff and anti-creationism and all that. So he's kind of in the NDT / Adam Savage / Penn Jillette camp of "TV science" guys. I'd throw Alton Brown in there too, but it's a different sort of thing there.
Anyway. Bill Nye.
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Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!
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- Snail
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Inertia is a property of matter... 
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And because you can't get enough of either guy.
at :48 Bill has a total Beastie Boys thing going on.
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Ah. Bill Nye. Heard of the name, never knew the face. We have something similar in Norway called "Newton". A science program directed at kids and teens. With varying hosts. Fun stuff, but not as silly.
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One of my favorite Bill Nye moments.
Blew my mind as a kid... still does...
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My 10th grade biology teacher did a parody of it, filmed himself and everything. Good times 
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One for Dave....
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fireproof78 wrote:
And some things that just shouldn't be this big...
This has had me puzzled for a while. Barkley was, at his peak in the 90s, a confirmed 6'4. Years of wear and tear have probably cost him an inch. Rock claims 6'4 but this photo throws that into question because 6'4 Barkley towers over him. Maybe it's a weird camera angle.
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iJim, figure this one out...
The big guy is Hafþór Björnsson (weighs in around 419 pounds and is 6'9'') the third actor to play 'The Mountain' in GoT.
The other two guys are pretty big. The "little" guy in the picture is four time's World's Strongest Man title holder Magnús Ver Magnússon. Not a small man if you will.
And then one day... Hafþór Björnsson was in the mall and met two Icelandic dudes...
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Blame the metric system.
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- BigDamnArtist
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Well fuuuuck.
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You just figured this out now? 
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Canadians, you know? 
Actually, Jack's back story is a lot more complicated than many realize, even the movies. Same thing with regards Davy Jones and Calypso. Half the movie makes know sense until you realize that they are lovers and the other half makes know sense because, you know, pirates...they make bad lovers, or something.
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- BigDamnArtist
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The thing I don't understand is that "Ridicu-fucking-less" is clearly the best way to insert the fucking in this case.
What else are you going to do? "Rid-fucking-iculess"? "Ridi-fucking-culess"? Yeah, right, that has zero flow. C'mon XKCD, get your head out of your ass.
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BigDamnArtist wrote:
The thing I don't understand is that "Ridicu-fucking-less" is clearly the best way to insert the fucking in this case.
What else are you going to do? "Rid-fucking-iculess"? "Ridi-fucking-culess"? Yeah, right, that has zero flow. C'mon XKCD, get your head out of ass.
Yeah, that really doesn't make any sense, at all...
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I see it more as a joke on the insistence that fucking should be inserted into the word at all.
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Yeah, I usually hear "goddamn" inserted after the first syllable, not "fucking". Hm.
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AshDigital wrote:
I want this to be Marvel's next One-Shot short so bad.
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