Steampunk comedy monologue

Merlin Mann's hilarious steampunk comedy monologue had me laughing hard enough to burst my gauges. Link

[#1 posted by butfirst , April 5, 2008 5:13 AM]

"...the Leonardo of jerking off."

If I can't find a way to work that line into a conversation in the next 24 hours then I have failed as a human being. Thanks, Cory :)

[#2 posted by Chocolatey Shatner , April 5, 2008 6:57 AM]

artis-ANAL uni-jar? I think I have found my new Star Wars name...

[#3 posted by Doug Nelson , April 5, 2008 8:02 AM]

I don't get it.

[#4 posted by scaught , April 5, 2008 8:08 AM]

Good stuff. I tire of steampunk.

[#5 posted by franko , April 5, 2008 8:28 AM]

i think "keep it brassy!" should be the official motto of steampunk. that was hilarious - thanks!

[#6 posted by EH , April 5, 2008 10:29 AM]

"Those clowns in Congress did it again. What a bunch of clowns."

[#7 posted by Jon , April 5, 2008 10:30 AM]

Guy needs to stop saying 'uh' every five seconds.

[#8 posted by BlackTiger , April 5, 2008 11:33 AM]

You know who else said 'uh...' every 5 seconds?

... That's right. Too many pioneers of the steampunk genre for me to list in this paltry little post, that's who.

It's _Authentic_.

[#9 posted by ctp , April 5, 2008 11:05 PM]

heh heh heh...I love it!

[#10 posted by Michael Slater , April 6, 2008 5:53 AM]

Enormously tedious and un-funny.

[#11 posted by Jake von Slatt , April 6, 2008 12:02 PM]

Head over to The Steampunk Workshop to see my video response - Jake.

[#12 posted by Futrell , April 6, 2008 12:34 PM]

I actually made it through half of this...

Funny? No... Fail.

Can this painful vid PLEASE usher in the beginning of the end of steampunk coverage on Boing Boing? Please?

[#13 posted by Antinous , April 6, 2008 12:41 PM]

Can this painful vid PLEASE usher in the beginning of the end of steampunk coverage on Boing Boing?

How about letting it usher you away from BB for all eternity? If you're not interested, don't watch it.

[#14 posted by powermatic , April 6, 2008 2:32 PM]

Once again, one man's 'hilarious' is another man's 'occasional smile inducing'.

[#15 posted by windshadow , April 6, 2008 7:54 PM]

the man needs a much smaller pump jar .
funny ? insert loud buzzer sound here !

[#16 posted by Dustin Driver , April 7, 2008 12:13 AM]

Regardless of whether the video pegs the needle on your laf-o-meter, you have to admit it does a great job of pointing out some of the ludicrousness of Steampunk.

I wouldn't ask boing boing to stop covering steampunk, but perhaps it could apply a new rubric. As in, to be labeled "steampunk," said hand-crafted lamp, computer case, penis pump or what have you must involve, in some way, steam.

[#17 posted by Dustin Driver , April 7, 2008 10:42 AM]

BTW, That last post was supposed to get you to think about how funny a steam-powered penis pump would actually be. It wasn't supposed to offend.

[#18 posted by Dionysus , April 24, 2008 1:22 PM]

It seems to me that the only offensive part of this video is its style

[#19 posted by evanolicious , April 25, 2008 1:36 AM]

Truly, this man is the ultimate tool.

The idiosyncrasies of the DIY steampunk mode are certainly not at the expense of practicality. It's hobbyists and dabblers. I've yet to see anyone lose their computer's speed or ability to compute by moding it out with brass and marble or whathaveyou.

Are brass goggles and tailcoats hurting him somehow? He's like a man who got turned down by a blonde cruelly cutting at blondes or somesuch. It's baffling.