Filed by Bil at 1:28 pm under Damn Hippies, Politics, Pop Culture

Apparently, topping the list of most memorable quotes of 2007 (and thus defining this year in history) is the phrase, “Don’t tase me, bro!”

This angers me, because I never even heard it before today. The fact that the most popular, most year-defining moment came while I wasn’t even looking, and the fact that I completely missed its fifteen minutes of fame, makes me think that all that other stuff I paid attention to was all for naught.

Anyway, the year isn’t over yet. That list doesn’t even include anything (or everything) that George W. Bush said this year.

Speaking of George W. Bush, apparently he signed a bill that demands 35 mpg for all cars, pickup trucks, and SUVs by 2020. Let’s not let it bother us that many cars are close to that already, and that we could have that SOONER and we can do MUCH BETTER by 2020 — far be it from me to cry “NOT ENOUGH,” and Bush has been SO generous as it is already — but let’s give it another day or two for him to open his mouth and say something that will really sweep the nation off its feet. I say we keep contention for “Top Quote of the Year” open all the way until the new year.

Of course, it’ll be hard to get the word out, since the writer’s strike is still going. If the producers don’t want to pay them for internet content, then any brilliant quotes will have to get around solely via personal blog. And I don’t know about you, but I don’t read that many personal blogs. I find them to be shallow and pedantic.

And for the record, no, this is not a personal blog. This is…um…a community blog! Yes, that’s the ticket. A socially relevant and highly trafficked community blog.

Anyway, there will probably be even more accidentally racist remarks and flubbed jokes next year, what with the primaries and then the election itself, and 2007 will slip into mediocrity and bitter memories, just like 2006 did. By this time next year, no one will remember “Don’t tase me, bro!” We’ll all be abuzz for the guy on YouTube who shouts “Ah, the toaster shocked my soul!” while being electrocuted making waffles in the bathtub as his roommate films it all. (It’ll happen. Just wait.)

Of course, the opposite could happen, and “Don’t tase me, bro!” could become as iconic as Nixon spouting “I am not a crook!” or MC Hammer blurting out “You can’t touch this.” If people are still saying “Don’t tase me, bro!” in ten years, and if you’ve read this blog entry all the way up to this point, feel free to call me on it and tell me to eat my hat. I just might.