Elon Musk Trolls the Media With a Clip From 'Spaceballs' (twitter.com)
An anonymous reader writes
Elon Musk is having fun on Twitter, where he's either promoting the new line of $20 "Boring Company" hats or trolling the media. "To preserve the transcendent majesty & specialness of The Boring Company cap, we are capping cap orders at 50,000 caps," Musk tweeted Sunday, adding "Almost there ..." Responding to a user who asked, "Is this really how you're funding the boring company??" Musk answered "Yes."
An hour later he tweeted that "Every 5000th buyer of our boringly boring hat will get a free hat signed by the delivery guy. That special hat delivery will take place deep within the real, but fictional (of course), tunnel we are building under LA while you drive the giant machine blindfolded. This will actually happen."
And then hours later, Musk shared a fresh insight into his thought process. "The *real* money comes from merchandising," he tweeted, adding "I learned it from this documentary," sharing a video titled "merchandising" which, on closer inspection, turned out to be a clip from the 1987 comedy "Spaceballs" starring Mel Brooks.
Ironically, George Lucas had only blessed Mel Brooks' parody of Star Wars with one condition: that no Space Balls action figure merchandise ever be produced.
An hour later he tweeted that "Every 5000th buyer of our boringly boring hat will get a free hat signed by the delivery guy. That special hat delivery will take place deep within the real, but fictional (of course), tunnel we are building under LA while you drive the giant machine blindfolded. This will actually happen."
And then hours later, Musk shared a fresh insight into his thought process. "The *real* money comes from merchandising," he tweeted, adding "I learned it from this documentary," sharing a video titled "merchandising" which, on closer inspection, turned out to be a clip from the 1987 comedy "Spaceballs" starring Mel Brooks.
Ironically, George Lucas had only blessed Mel Brooks' parody of Star Wars with one condition: that no Space Balls action figure merchandise ever be produced.
Is Strong With This One!
And build more cars.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
When I arrived at the Memphis International Airport, Joe was there to pick me up. Joe was a stocky, well-built, chunky steel worker who loved to drink beer and to eat. His huge gut showed it. He had a dark tan, short brown hair with a three day stubble and blue eyes; Joe was hot-looking, but his appearance never went to his head. We crawled into his beat-up pickup truck that hadn't been washed in years. His license plates read "PIT." I laughed as I threw my bag in the back of the truck.
Slowly leaving the Memphis city limits, we began to take detours on several back roads. There was an old truck stop here, not as busy since the interstate bypassed it. Truckers still had the word out on the road that it was the mid-south's finest. Good grub and lots of it. Eat heavy.
We stopped in the huge parking lot where several eighteen-wheelers were parked. Joe explained that we were to meet a couple of other men inside. I asked no questions. What would happen, would happen. And, knowing Joe too well, I knew that he had paid some men very well to pull off this fantasy weekend!
Leaving his dirty truck, we walked into the restaurant area of the multi-complex truck stop. One of the waiters knew Joe by name, greeted him, and seated us. All the employees were big, burly, cigar-smoking men, obviously former truck drivers who'd loved to eat. A huge man walked to our table to take our order. He was carrying his large gut like a beach ball. I could tell he was a former body builder because his arms and chest were a mass of muscle, but his huge belly showed he finally said, "Fuck it! I'm gonna eat!" His red hair, green eyes and clean-cut round face had already gotten me aroused.
Joe introduced him as Matt. Matt said he'd already ordered for me. I asked how he knew what I'd like to eat. He replied that it wouldn't matter... he was going to feed me everything on today's menu. Joe smiled and said, "Here we go!" I knew the fantasy had started.
Another waiter locked the door to the grill and turned a card over on the door that said "CLOSED." Joe said that we were all to go back into the kitchen, out of view of the windows. Matt took off his shirt exposing his muscular body and huge gut. He wiped his armpits with the greasy shirt then sniffed it for his approval. He rubbed his fat gut with one hand and pointed to a wooden chair, ordering me to sit down. After seating myself, Joe tied my hands behind my back and mumbled that he hoped that I hadn't eaten yet.
Matt pulled up a small table beside me. It was covered with food. I mean covered! As he seated himself just a foot or two away from me he picked up a large cooking spoon and ordered, "EAT!"
He first started feeding me chicken and dumplings with a sip of beer every now and then. He explained he liked his boys fat and that he was going to force-feed me and stretch my stomach. If I puked I would have to eat it. Soon, my jaws tired from constant chewing. I started just swallowing gobs of food whole. My stomach started aching as I tried to belch between bites. Matt rubbed my belly and chuckled as he took out his big, thick, uncut cock, stroking it with one hand and feeding me with his other. Joe reached from behind me and started pinching my tits.
I was stuffed and I couldn't hold any more. Joe suggested that I breathe deeply and eat more because there was a man that I would meet later that wanted all the food that I had just eaten and wanted to give me a six-gallon soapy-water enema followed by a wine enema. I moaned as Matt shoved huge biscuits and gravy down my throat. As the gravy dripped down my chin onto my crotch, Matt poured some gravy onto his tool, grabbed the back of my head and forced me down on his meat. I sucked and slurped on that hot gravy over his hot sausage. Mat ordered me to eat the cheese from his cock as Joe started ripping off sections of my badly faded jeans. I felt grease being smeared on my ass as Joe's fingers started to explore my asshole. Matt pushed me back into the chair and started feeding me an entire pumpkin pie. God,
I just ordered one of these hats and you can't pay with PayPal!
The joke that made no sense, since space is already a vacuum.
Maybe Elon realized Space is fake, the Earth is flat, and what the heck is going on at SpaceX?
If you can't tell that from the screenshot alone, you're not a nerd.
GET OUT.
#DeleteFacebook
Because the Spaceballs "merchandising" scene always had a ring of truth to it. It's not hard to see how much toy sales drove many of these franchises. From pretty much anything Disney, to Star Wars, to Transformers.
Also, I love the name of Musk's company. I LOL'd the first time I found out about The Boring Company.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
with Mr, Musk? Did he buy this website? Nothing against him and hope he succeeds in everything he does, but all monocultures eventually collapse.
Spaceballs the Breakfast Cereal, Spaceballs THE FLAME THROWAH!! ("The kids love this one!")
...but not a Muskculture.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
A while back, Elon tweeted something about having a quiet evening with some wine and ambien. Fortunately, Elon is wealthy enough that someone else is probably driving if he has to go anywhere under this mix. Elon has also commented that he could be bipolar.
So, sometimes one wonders if Elon is just toying with us, or if he's high.
I think there's one very good thing about this recent spate of announcements and the self-designations that some of them are fake. There was a certain class of young Elon Musk fan (I'm looking at you, Reddit /r/spacex) who didn't believe that Elon Musk lied. No, I'm not kidding. I just figure that all corporate executives lie and that it's part of the job, but not those young fans. But now, Elon seems to be putting out enough consciously conflicting messages that some of them will turn out to be lies, and the fan base can adjust its adoration accordingly.
I do think he's done a whole lot of great things. And I think you need someone like him to do them.
Bruce Perens.
Backup your bs w/ proof OrangeTide https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11425437&cid=55663429/ provide proof of me picking on you 'for years' as you said in the post parent to mine in that link I just posted - you can't.
(If I had issues w/ you I'd have bookmarked it & I never have before YOU came in calling me a "git" (fool) starting hassles!)
* See you there (somehow I don't think I will & you will continue to embarass yourself as you did starting garbage with me - I am going to let YOU finish YOURSELF boy)
Additionally - CLASSIC & PRICELESS: I also CAUGHT YOU posting UNIDENTIFIABLE AC vs. using your registered 'lusername' yet you point to YOUR POST that was done under your REGISTERED 'lusrname' claiming it too (YOU = FLATOUT-BUSTED -> https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11432439&cid=55667787/ )
SEE YOU DOWNMOD HID THIS 6x TIMES I POSTED IT TOO https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11430293&cid=55668641/ & https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11433711&cid=55669021/ + https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11432725&cid=55669055/ https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11432725&cid=55669519/ https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11430293&cid=55669493/ https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11432483&cid=55666417/ - weak trying to hide it!
APK
P.S.=> This is the 19th time you've done a "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" vs. it OrangeTide - why's that? I caught you lying?? Cat got your tongue??? Yes, obviously - pitiful... apk
someone needs to learn the meaning of irony! hint there is nothing ironic about the merchandising restriction for action figures as Musk isn't doing them either.
It's Elon after watching a gyroscope for 15 minutes. It didn't move! But the Earth supposedly shifted 3 3/4 degrees!
Then he watched a solar eclipse, and a lunar eclipse. What was that!?
Elon now realizes he is in running a company trying to send people to fake Space, from a flat Earth. You'd be a little nuts too!
Solar Eclipse: https://vimeo.com/230976895
Lunar Eclipse: https://vimeo.com/92378881
Next lunar eclipse: Jan 30/31, 2018.
Asking OrangeTide to backup his bs can't make me a lunatic. He's insane not considering consequences of his actions (his BIG MOUTH writing CHECKS IT CAN'T CASH) https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11434053&cid=55670435/ & yes, I KNOW it's you "OrangeTide" (not behind your FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIE OF A LIFE) but this time by AC (nothing new for you, I've caught you in THAT twice now).
* LMAO - I love it - You're "ReAcTiNg" so there still must be some SMALL vestige of pride left in you (even a FAKE NAME for a FAKE LIE OF A LIFE seems to have some).
Yes, I know it's you OrangeTide - lol, I am getting thru to you & this? This is JUST THE START (you brought it on yourself & no amount of 'downmodpoints' or post burial can stall me). You're helpless against me. YOU & all "Your kind" (Not men flimsy whimps).
APK
P.S.=> Shouldn't have started this with me - soon Google will pickup on it & I'll drive YOU OUT the way I helped get rid of BarbaraHudson/TomHudson & Coren22 (who I actually took the TIME to 'zero-in' on with SOME HELP from mililtary people I know & got his name, address, everything - I told him about it, he disappeared MONTHS ago)... If I was REALLY UPSET, that's what I'd do do OrangeTide, but I'm not - it's enough to EXPOSE HIS LYING BULLSHIT & show everyone he can't backup his bullshit... for now... apk
That flat earth shit is not even funny.
the completely lost it...
Hey Elon, how about an on that completely autonomous coast-to-coast drive you promised by the end of the year? You have less than a month to go! Then again, maybe you should stick to the hat business. Probably the only one you've ever made a profit on.
Certifiable and codified.
I still want my damn Eagle-5 official Pops model, damn it.
I had a sucky sig.
I skimmed through this. It is hilarious!
Just two days ago I said Musk drums up publicity while Nissan, BYD, and others build more electric cars. He's the PT Barnum of our age, I said. The Musk fanatics went nuts. Today, this. He's literally claiming he'll finance his new company by selling hats, and trolling the media with Spaceballs clips.
Elon's core business is inspiring people to dream of a more exciting future, and trying to bring that future about. Building the Model 3 is one part of this, as is designing electric trucks and hypercars, pushing battery tech forward, working on forgotten areas of solar tech such as the aesthetics of the product, and building and designing even more epic reusable rockets. Oh, and seeing if anything can be done about the inefficiencies of tunnel building for solving transport problems.
Prediction for end of Universe #42: Fencepost error in Quantum_bogosort.cpp
Say yes! Then,
Vote Roy Moore, US Senator from Alabama, December 12, 2017, at your local mall. Bring your daughters! Then leave them! I will look after them reeeeeal gooood!
No Ray, Elon Musk is trying something that hasn't been done whereas you're just a jealous faggot with a coal-fired intellect firing off PT Barnum aphorisms ONCE AGAIN.
By making them think he could run a profitable company and that they would see an ROI.
Great trolling, Elon!
That's the second time I've seen those links. As far as I could tell they're just videos of eclipses and make me reference to flat earth. What's the deal?
Musk is Rick Sanchez crazy.
Trump is Abe Simpson crazy.
How dare this guy compete with an institution like yours ?
Backup your bs w/ proof OrangeTide https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11425437&cid=55663429/ provide proof of me picking on you 'for years' as you said in the post parent to mine in that link I just posted - you can't.
(If I had issues w/ you I'd have bookmarked it & I never have before YOU came in calling me a "git" (fool) starting hassles!)
* Additionally - CLASSIC & PRICELESS:
I also CAUGHT YOU posting UNIDENTIFIABLE AC vs. using your registered 'lusername' yet you point to YOUR POST that was done under your REGISTERED 'lusrname' claiming it too (YOU = FLATOUT-BUSTED -> https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11432439&cid=55667787/ )
SEE YOU DOWNMOD HID THIS 8x TIMES I POSTED IT TOO https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11430293&cid=55668641/ & https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11433711&cid=55669021/ + https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11432725&cid=55669055/ https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11432725&cid=55669519/ https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11430293&cid=55669493/ https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11432483&cid=55666417/ https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11433711&cid=55669449/ https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11434053&cid=55670435/ trying to hide it!
APK
P.S.=> This is the 22nd time you've done a "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" vs. it OrangeTide - why's that? I caught you lying?? Cat got your tongue??? Yes, obviously - pitiful... apk
See subject: Still "butthurt" I dusted your lame ass TenebrousEdge https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3239985&cid=41936149/ /. peers & security pros do your ass in easily? Yes, lol!
* You ARE as good as dead vs. me chump - the above proves it in BLACK & WHITE!
(You're the asshole who's still BUTTSORE over blowing it vs. me, lol - just like the rest of these douchebags!)
APK
P.S.=> You're not even HUMAN - You're a FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIE OF A LIFE & the planet doesn't need more of "your kind" (cowardly little whimps who BLOW @ computing)... apk
See subject: Others see me kick your ass & you "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" vs. https://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11432635&cid=55668007/ as you ran from 3 simple questions, lol!
QUESTION: Cat got your tongue, off-topic trolling scum that you are? Yes. Change your name on /. to "the Ayatollah of URAN" (lmao). You're just like OrangeTide, running (you're most likely his sockpuppet or the other way around is my guess).
* You're reprehensible FAKE bugs bunny name online for your FAKE LIE of a so-called 'life'!
(... & you KNOW it, "ne'er-do-well")
APK
P.S.=> Grovel before ME, you worm - RoTfLmAo! HOWEVER: Humiliation & defeat, for YOU? NOTHING NEW to "your kind" though - THAT I am certain of & you prove it vs. me constantly - it's what you do/how you roll... apk
MOICHANDISING!
Sheesh. How could he get that wrong?
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
OrangeTide, asking you to backup your bs can't make me a lunatic. https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11434053&cid=55670435/ You're insane not considering consequences of your actions (your BIG MOUTH writing CHECKS IT CAN'T CASH). ... & yes, I KNOW it's you "OrangeTide" (not behind your FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIE OF A LIFE) but this time by AC (nothing new for you, I've caught you in THAT twice now).
* LMAO - I love it - You're "ReAcTiNg" so there still must be some SMALL vestige of pride left in you (even a FAKE NAME for a FAKE LIE OF A LIFE seems to have some).
Yes, I know it's you OrangeTide - lol, I am getting thru to you & this? This is JUST THE START (you brought it on yourself & no amount of 'downmodpoints' or post burial can stall me).
FACT: You're helpless against me on ALL fronts!
(YOU & all "Your kind" (Not men flimsy whimps))
APK
P.S.=> Shouldn't have started this with me - soon Google will pickup on it & I'll drive YOU OUT the way I helped get rid of BarbaraHudson/TomHudson & Coren22 (who I actually took the TIME to 'zero-in' on with SOME HELP from mililtary people I know & got his name, address, everything - I told him about it, he disappeared MONTHS ago).
If I was REALLY UPSET, that's what I'd do to YOU OrangeTide, but I'm not - it's enough to EXPOSE YOUR LYING TROLL BULLSHIT & show everyone YOU CAN'T BACKUP YOUR BS... for now... apk
TenebrousEdge (replying by AC now) see subject & answer HOW'd EATING YOUR WORDS TASTE https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3239985&cid=41936149/ hmmm? RoTfLmAo!
* A wee bit like your FOOT IN YOUR MOUTH ramming those errors of yours back down your CHICKEN-NECK throat & washed down by the bitter taste of SELF-defeat?
(Hahahahahaha)
You're MY bitch boy! So is OrangeTide - both of you are beneath contempt even - you're pitiful & WEAK as well as stupid (+ you KNOW it & show it constantly).
APK
P.S.=> Grovel before me bitch - you did it to yourself! apk
Yes, they are videos of eclipses. You watch them, you see they do not behave according to the heliocentric model. Your mind is blown.
Solar: Corona lines can be observed to move faster than the speed of light. Light of the corona can be observed on the back of the moon. Light of the chromosphere can be observed on the back of the moon. Light of protuberences can be observed on the back of the moon.
Lunar: Shadow is black, then changes color to reddish: Shadows don't change color. Moon glow of uneclipsed portion increases as shadow becomes reddish, detail lost.
See subject: Still "butthurt" I dusted your lame ass TenebrousEdge https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3239985&cid=41936149/ /. peers & security pros do your ass in easily? Yes, lol!
* You ARE as good as dead vs. me chump - the above proves it in BLACK & WHITE & you're not PEOPLE - you're FAKE NAMES for FAKE LIVES cartoon characters (lol, "Bugs Bunny" & stupid as rabbits)
(You're the asshole who's still BUTTSORE over blowing it vs. me, lol - just like the rest of these douchebags!)
Lastly - I SEE YOU TRIED "DOWNMOD HIDING" THIS LAST TIME I POSTED IT TOO https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11434053&cid=55671739/ Well, here I am posting it again (LIMITLESS here, lol) & exposing you had to EAT YOUR WORDS vs. me, as always, dolt!
Asshole? There's NO BIGGER ASSHOLES than "your kind" (flimsy limp-wristed "ne'er-do-well" WANNABES, lol!)
APK
P.S.=> You're not even HUMAN - You're a FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIE OF A LIFE & the planet doesn't need more of "your kind" (cowardly little whimps who BLOW @ computing)... apk
TenebrousEdge (replying by AC now) see subject & answer HOW'd EATING YOUR WORDS TASTE https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3239985&cid=41936149/ hmmm? RoTfLmAo!
* A wee bit like your FOOT IN YOUR MOUTH ramming those errors of yours back down your CHICKEN-NECK throat & washed down by the bitter taste of SELF-defeat?
(Hahahahahaha)
You're MY bitch boy! So is OrangeTide - both of you are beneath contempt even - you're pitiful & WEAK as well as stupid (+ you KNOW it & show it constantly).
BOTTOM-LINE: It's not MY FAULT you make it easy for me to show everyone YOU & "your kind" are STRAIGHT-UP FOOLS, hahahaha!
APK
P.S.=> Grovel before me bitch - you did it to yourself! apk
Hat?
Hat.
Just two days ago I said Musk drums up publicity while Nissan, BYD, and others build more electric cars.
And if all the car manufacturers spent half as much effort as Tesla does, Tesla would indeed be very far behind.
Ezekiel 23:20
Last I saw 4 years ago, the Spaceballs vehicle is in the Justice Private Automotive Collection (http://www.justiceprivatecollection.com/) in Duarte, CA.
See subject: Still "butthurt" I dusted your lame ass TenebrousEdge https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3239985&cid=41936149/ (& our /. peers & security pros do your ass in easily) ?
Yes, lol! You did that to yourself.
* You ARE as good as dead vs. me chump!
The link above & your big mouth proves it in BLACK & WHITE & you're not PEOPLE - you're FAKE NAMES for FAKE LIVES cartoon characters (lol, "Bugs Bunny" & stupid as rabbits)
Lastly - I SEE YOU TRIED "DOWNMOD HIDING" THIS LAST 2x TIMES I POSTED IT TOO https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11434053&cid=55671739/ & https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11434053&cid=55673221/
Well, here I am posting it again (LIMITLESS here, lol) & exposing you had to EAT YOUR WORDS vs. me, as always, dolt!
Asshole? There's NO BIGGER ASSHOLES than "your kind" (flimsy limp-wristed "ne'er-do-well" WANNABES, lol!) - STRAIGHT UP FOOLS!
APK
P.S.=> You're not even HUMAN - You're a FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIE OF A LIFE & the planet doesn't need more of "your kind" (cowardly little whimps who BLOW @ computing)... apk
TenebrousEdge (replying by AC now) see subject: HOW'd EATING YOUR WORDS TASTE https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3239985&cid=41936149/ hmmm? RoTfLmAo!
* A wee bit like your FOOT IN YOUR MOUTH ramming those errors of yours back down your CHICKEN-NECK throat & washed down by the bitter taste of SELF-defeat?
(Hahahahahaha)
BOTTOM-LINE: It's not MY FAULT you make it easy for me to show everyone YOU & "your kind" are STRAIGHT-UP FOOLS, hahahaha!
APK
P.S.=> Grovel before me bitch - you did it to yourself! apk
OrangeTide asking you backup your bs can't make me a lunatic https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11434053&cid=55670435/
You're insane not considering consequences of your actions (your BIG MOUTH writing CHECKS IT CAN'T CASH). ... & yes, I KNOW it's you "OrangeTide" (not behind your FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIE OF A LIFE) but this time by AC (nothing new for you, I've caught you in THAT twice now).
* LMAO - I love it - You're "ReAcTiNg" so there still must be some SMALL vestige of pride left in you (even a FAKE NAME for a FAKE LIE OF A LIFE seems to have some).
Yes, I know it's you OrangeTide - lol, I am getting thru to you & this? This is JUST THE START (you brought it on yourself & no amount of 'downmodpoints' or post burial can stall me).
FACT: You're helpless against me on ALL fronts!
(YOU & all "Your kind" (Not men flimsy whimps))
APK
P.S.=> Shouldn't have started this with me - soon Google will pickup on it & I'll drive YOU OUT the way I helped get rid of BarbaraHudson/TomHudson & Coren22 (who I actually took the TIME to 'zero-in' on with SOME HELP from mililtary people I know & got his name, address, everything - I told him about it, he disappeared MONTHS ago).
If I was REALLY UPSET, that's what I'd do to YOU OrangeTide, but I'm not - it's enough to EXPOSE YOUR LYING TROLL BULLSHIT & show everyone YOU CAN'T BACKUP YOUR BS - for now... apk
See subject: Others see me kick your ass & you "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" vs. https://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11432635&cid=55668007/ as you ran from 3 simple questions, lol!
QUESTION: Cat got your tongue, off-topic trolling scum that you are? Yes. Change your name on /. to "the Ayatollah of URAN" (lmao).
You're just like OrangeTide, running (you're most likely his sockpuppet or the other way around is my guess).
* You're reprehensible FAKE bugs bunny name online for your FAKE LIE of a so-called 'life'!
(... & you KNOW it, "ne'er-do-well")
APK
P.S.=> Grovel before ME, you worm - RoTfLmAo! HOWEVER: Humiliation & defeat, for YOU? NOTHING NEW to "your kind" though - THAT I am certain of & you prove it vs. me constantly - it's what you do/how you roll... apk
This guy just has to fart and the hipster nerds wank themselves silly. I thought /. was better than this.
Keep this sort of shit in Wired.