# How I oculd have broken the Internet the other day... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 16, 2013, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-oculd-have-broken-the-internet-the-other-day/655809 "2013-04-16T03:58:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-oculd-have-broken-the-internet-the-other-day/655809/1 "2013-04-16T03:58:47Z")
A friend commented on Facebook that he was bored and needed a hobby. I know he’s into outdoor stuff, but if he’s bored, maybe he wanted a change? So I suggested he learn to play the ukulele. It’s not hard and doesn’t have to be much of an inve$tment. He didn’t think they were cool enough, so I told him they were cool enough for George Harrison to give them to ALL his friends. Then I posted a youtube link to the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain playing “Theme From Shaft”, which has to rank high on the cool scale. He came back with a dismissive comment about Tiny Tim. And then I started to say the phrase NOBODY has ever said, let alone risk breaking the internet with. I said: Tiny Tim, he’s a bad motherfu… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-oculd-have-broken-the-internet-the-other-day/655809/2 "2013-04-16T04:01:23Z")
shut your mouth ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-oculd-have-broken-the-internet-the-other-day/655809/3 "2013-04-16T04:31:45Z")
But he’s talking about Tiny… ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-oculd-have-broken-the-internet-the-other-day/655809/4 "2013-04-16T04:57:20Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > He didn’t think they were cool enough, Your friend is a poser. If he doesn’t think [Amanda Palmer is cool](http://youtu.be/OZaR_4us6Ec), he wouldn’t know cool if it bit him in the ass. [Fuck him.](http://youtu.be/h-fRUykCCfw) 😛 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-oculd-have-broken-the-internet-the-other-day/655809/5 "2013-04-16T05:13:56Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > But he’s talking about Tiny… He’s a complicated man, but no one understood him but Miss Vicki. ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-oculd-have-broken-the-internet-the-other-day/655809/6 "2013-04-16T06:13:01Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > He’s a complicated man, but no one understood him but Miss Vicki. Mmmmmm Ms Vicki. No tiptoeing around that. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-oculd-have-broken-the-internet-the-other-day/655809/7 "2013-04-16T14:24:02Z")
My father bought me Tiny’s first album, _God Bless Tiny Tim_, for my birthday the year he showed up on Laugh-In (1968). I was amazed to find our how subversive some of the songs were. (Granted, I was 15 and easily impressed.)