Thursday, July 17, 2008

...and then you get hit by a Blue Shell...

It's called a road, it's called The Rainbow Road. It is a road that you go.


Uhm...right. What?


I'm not entirely sure why this exists, but it does. So the best I can do for you today is point you to the source and have you all draw your own conclusions.


Alright then, what's the source?


First, some background info. Anyone who's spent a significant amount of time (Greater than 3 hours) playing Mario Kart on any one of a number of Nintendo Platforms has exhausted their knowledge of profanity while playing a course called "Rainbow Road." It's the Mario Kart equivalent of the "Boss" at the end of a video game that's ridiculously hard to beat, and right about the fifth time one of the turbo boosts launches you right over the side of the course, to fall helplessly into the night sky, your friends and family start to wonder why all of your creativity went into finding all of these new combinations of curses instead of curing cancer.

Well, some guy took The Jimmy Buffett Approach, and wrote a song about it instead. It's not all that hard, considering Nintendo already did half the chore and provided the music right along with the game, so all you need is lyrics, video editing software, and some reasonable singing skill.


Well, two out of three ain't bad...if you give him the benefit of the doubt and call those lyrics. Yikes...


So there you have it. I'm not clear, exactly, on what "it" is, but...yeah. To make up for it, here's a related comic from Randall Munroe's whimsical webcomic xkcd.

No comments: