We need you to go to the store and get two quarts of elbow grease… and, uh, pick up some… headlight fluid for the Puma too.

I know it’s not quite the same sort of content as we normally get here, but Red vs Blue is solid 2000’s nostalgia for me.

I hear those things are awfully loud.

For those who don’t remember them:

In 2000, they had the bright idea that people would leave these connected to their computers so that advertisers in magazines could put a barcode on the page to go straight to a webpage with info about a product or a product catalog from someone like RadioShack would let you scan it to take you straight to an ordering page. Similar to how QR codes function often today.

The problem was that in 2000 almost nobody had an always on internet connection unless you were lucky, wealthy, or in school. And URLs are really easy to type.

They stopped giving them away in 2001.

I’m not sure I like the implication of the forks being “brushes”. I thought knives were the sole cutlery of the bathroom.

Thank you. I have had a meme in my head in a fuzzy half-remembered state all day and couldn’t pin down what it was. And it was 100% Chargin’ mah Laser.