every time i listen to “you’re a mean one mr. grinch” i can’t help but sit there and think “what did the grinch do to hurt you?” because dude just stands there for 2 minutes and 58 seconds and drags the grinch into the dirt
he stole christmas, kayla! stop with your #notallgrinches propaganda!
you know what if someone told me i was a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce i’d probably be bitter enough to steal christmas too
Interestingly, though The Grinch Who Stole Christmas is narrated by Boris Karloff, the big musical number is sung by the late Thurl Ravenscroft – an American voice actor better known as the voice of Tony the Tiger.
My headcanon is that the Grinch and Tony the Tiger had a bad breakup, and “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” is the resulting breakup song.
Did this really HAVE to be the first thing I see when I opened up Tumblr?
Here’s a fun one: going by the timestamps (i.e., when you downloaded it, not necessarily when it was created), what’s the oldest piece of digital media you have kicking around on your computer?
For my part, it appears to be a MIDI file cryptically named “ANGLERS.MID”, which I downloaded in August of 1993. It has no attributions other than the name “Basil Hendrick”, which appears in a comment near the end of the data. I initially thought there’d be no reasonable way for me to share it, but discovered after a bit of digging that, by sheer unlikely coincidence, someone had converted the exact same MIDI file to MP4 and uploaded it to YouTube back in 2013; the result can be heard here:
So that’s the oldest bit of digital media I have on my computer.
How about you?
I have a few of my old GW-BASIC and Turbo Pascal program files left, dated 1987-88 and salvaged from 5¼" diskettes in the mid-00s.
The oldest readable media file I still have, also salvaged from the same diskettes, is this:
UNICRN.GIF, 320×200 pixels, 25,600 bytes, dated November 27, 1989.
Nice one. Looks like it’s a cropped and colour-reduced copy of “Up From the Grid” by Sue Dawe, an artist whose airbrushed unicorns are kind of legendary.
Something about this seems very strange and liminal in a way that images of old things do not. A digital photo of a 400-year-old painting is simply a photo that anyone could take. A digital image, kept for 28 years, has a strange energy.
Maybe it’s because it’s saved as a GIF, and is thus an Artefact.
…. I thought the artefact pun was funny but I guess this is just a lossy format
i’m happy that mcu peter’s spidey sense isn’t being shown as a miracle worker, like i’m happy peter’s sense went off to danger that was laughably close to peter. people have this misconception (mainly due to the 2002 spidey films) that his spidey sense will give peter a heads up to threats wayyyyy in advance, but that’s not the case. like there have been many times when peter’s spidey sense doesn’t really alert him to danger until the danger is really close, sometimes close enough that regular people have already noticed said danger.
and even then, peter often ignores it bc it can go off to things that aren’t necessarily a threat but COULD be. like a wad of paper being thrown at him by flash, a puddle on the floor that could make him slip. so sometimes peter just ignores it bc it goes off all the time to shit that really isn’t that dangerous. the sense is basically like a really reliable, and sometimes annoying, gut-feeling. the spidey sense is so cool but it’s still a sense not that different from sight or hearing or taste or touch, and it isn’t all powerful or always very helpful.
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