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4 Responses to “Dear World”

1. Scott Says:
   May 21st, 2004 at 12:51 pm

   I agree, speaking as a long-time Rick James fan who recently sang a RJ favorite at a karaoke bar (to thunderous applause and chants of “IRJB”.) I’m also seeing him at the Fox next month.

   Folks need to stop, before RJ becomes as unwelcome a reference as “All Your Base…”

2. Rusty Says:
   May 21st, 2004 at 3:46 pm

   Maddox, of The Best Page in the Universe fame, had a good entry about this very subject:

   I don’t know how, but every time someone does their impression of Dave Chappelle saying “I’m Rick James, bitch,” it keeps getting funnier and funnier. Man, I never get tired of hearing people repeat their favorite lines from Chappelle’s show. Of course, this begs the question: are these people paying homage to Chappelle, or are they cheapening the phrase, making it tired and unfunny? I did some research to find out what qualification these fans had, and posted my findings in the following graph:

   [graph]

   The results were surprising: the graph above suggests that 6,367,619,884 out of every 6,367,619,885 people in the world are not Dave Chappelle, and therefore should shut the hell up. This finding was in contrast to what I thought initially; that these fans were in fact qualified to use Dave’s catch phrase, otherwise why would they parrot on endlessly like idiots desperate to make their peers laugh at the expense of permanently ruining an otherwise funny joke?

   http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=chappelle

3. LTR Says:
   May 21st, 2004 at 4:31 pm

   Rusty, that’s the funniest thing I’ve read in a while. Thanks for pointing it out!