You just gained 1,215 points in my book. Useless info only shows a broad cultural sensibility. Which is a good thing.

it is ALL awesome.



1649.

useless? you just used it.

I don't know why we're not BFFs...

3,000 miles? Pft.

Furreal, I feel your pain sometimes, but it's all good.

Wait, wasn't that Chuck guy on King of the Hill?!

Useless? hello no....my head is full of this stuff....great icebreakers at..at...er....I'll get back to you on this.

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you use it when someone says something mathematically unlikely.

Wow. Sweet memory. You should play Ken Jennings's tuesday trivia, last week's quiz asked about the name of the law relating the speed of cricket chirps to the temperature.

Runs in the family. (Who was the drummer for Iron Butterfly? - Ron Bushy; What's the natural abundance of the stable isotope N-15? 0.3663 atom percent). It could get you a job as a college professor. . .

its not useless!! you entertain vimeans with it! ahhaha

ps - thats a talent, this useless info bit.

I'd like to see someone organize a death match between Chuck Mangione and Kenny G where they are allowed to use their instruments as weapons and must duel in their best stage clothes. Then I'd like to see a meteor hit the venue it's held in. I'd like that very much.

Also, great video. Good timing.

1. Holy C**P that was a great video blog entry.
2. I'm totally with you on the useless trivia--everybody at my office comes to me for answers to random crap like who played which character on some ancient TV show.
3. The Hudsucker Proxy is a GREAT movie--"you know...for kids"
4. Can't get that damn Chuck Mangione song out of my head now...

Again, great video!

Love it. OCD anyone? Collecting highly interesting trivial knowledge is so compelling...

okay, we spent months looking for that song on 45, so you are not the lonely nerd. ;o)
also, i knew the mattress thing and i had read about the coen brothers thing, before. =)

I thought I was the only one! It's nice to meet another useless trivia nerd.

well .... i for one am very impressed :oD someday you'll be playing trivial pursuit and whoop everyone ... sweet victory!

My brother's the same way. He reads wikipedia like it's a novel. I hate playing Trivial Pursuit with him.

i just thought of one thing you could do with all that knowledge. well... sort of.... if you get lucky enough to get in the cash cab you could win money... yea i know it's sad i am a trivia buff too and i play along with the contestants on cash cab.

the hudsucker proxy was absolutely brilliant.

I wish the dude at my starbucks did stuff like that.

He generally asks me questions about my job and compliments my outfits... but I don't think he's gay.

"Trivia" is misnomered. It should be called "Importia."

Man, I am impressed, but what good is that gonna do ya?

reminds me of the internet classic 'giraffe knowledge intimidates women'

I always wait for the total to be $17.76 and I then say, "That's the spirit!" It's happened twice.

sorry, but:

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Ah, the Hudsucker proxy. How I love that film.

Andre Malraux actually said that.
SOTN just has great taste in quotes.
and gameplay.
and oh dear god i love that game.

Oh gawd.

The second you said 1215, I thought HAHA MAGNA CARTA HA HA.

Eep.

Jeeeeeeeeez louise.

Does anyone know the older b/w film that the Hudsucker Proxy closely resembles in storyline? I saw it on some latenight showing on a TV show years ago and when I saw the Hudsucker Proxy it felt like I had already seen the film?

It had reference to John Doe in it dozens of times. I can't for the life of me remember what it was, but then again maybe its just another hallucination gone bad!?!

Brilliant. Comic book trivia must surely rival sports trivia as a world where only the stronghearted dare to tread in pursuit of mastery. I know little of that complicated world, but respect those of you who do. (Superman dies eventually, right?)

this is great, nat. woot to nerdom, because without it, there would be no smart people.