Impossible is Eating the Sun.

"Impossible doesn't mean very difficult. Very difficult is getting a Nobel Prize; impossible is eating the sun."


This is a quote from Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors game for Sega CD. It is said in a very cool/matter-of-fact way by Lou Reed after he decapitates Penn and Teller in the Impossible Mode."

Currently (it actually may have ended by now, but anyways...) there are a group of kids playing the joke game "Desert Bus" non-stop for charity.

I thought that I should give this a quick mention...for no other reason than I think it's probably the most awesome thing ever.

(Also, if you don't watch the show Summer Heights High on HBO, you're cheating yourself out of life.)

-@lex

(Also, for those of you who haven't seen it...Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-Long Blog.

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Since you mentioned the Nobel Prize, it reminded me of a prize I'd much rather win, the Ig Nobel Prize, awarded each year for ten studies that "first make people laugh, and then make them think."

It's organized by the publication Annals of Improbable Research, Awards have been presented for calculating the exact odds (860,609,175,188, 282,100 to 1) that Mikhail Gorbachev is the Antichrist, a report called "Failure of Electric Shock Treatment for Rattlesnake Envenomation" and "Transmission of Gonorrhea Through an Inflatable Doll."

For a total list of winners, check here!

Being a young, budding engineer, I find that winning the Ig Nobel Prize would be much more desirable (and probably easier) than winning a real one. I might even get my award handed to be by The Professor Emeritus of Gilligan's Island.


-pass and stow