'Star Wars Kid' sues, settles

theglobeandmail.com ^ | 4/7/06 | Tu Thanh Ha

[EveningStar]

I understand the mixed emotions. Really. I thought, "You poor kid." I still do. But then I saw the clips and began laughing.

[Lancey Howard]

What a whiner. If he would have played it right, he might have been able to use his '15 minutes of fame' to pick up chicks!

Absolutely! He could have and should have parlayed his "fame" into endorsement deals and television ads. He could have made a whole lot more than $351,000, and made it a whole lot quicker than this dragged out court battle.

[JRios1968]

The Star Wars kid

[Clemenza]

This is F-king hilarious!

Teasing can be annoying, but 1. most of us have been ribbed for something silly and/or stupid we did as a youth and 2. most of us got over it.

In other words: Mr. Raza, while I symphathize with you, please GROW A PAIR!

[stands2reason]

He's just GOR-geous!!!

[HungarianGypsy]

I took a LOT of crap when I was a kid and it left some scars.

But, most people say you should just suck it up. It's part of the real world. I'm not one of those people, though.

[HHFi]

We all got razzed over something in high school. The rednecks in my small town Texas school used to taunt me by calling me "Walking Encyclopedia" because I made good grades. It galled me until I started turning around every time I heard it and saying, "Yes, I am smarter than you, thanks for noticing." After that (and my offer to take one of them outside and kick his a*s), it stopped pretty quick.

[Polybius]

I was picked on in school for being a bookworm geek... At my 10-year reunion I showed up in my shiny new luxury car, and the jocks were driving the same pickup trucks from senior year. Success is the ultimate revenge.

The bookworm high school cheer: "That's all right. That's O.K. You'll be working for me some day."

[Argh]

Several decades ago I asked a buddy in Montreal who was a lawyer about this sort of thing. I asked him, if I said in public something like some famous hockey player is a homosexual, could I be successfully sued for slander? His response was yes, because even if it was true, what I revealed was private business the public revelation of which was no contribution to the general welfare. That was the essence of the law at the time in Quebec, and may still be.

[KneelBeforeZod]

"That video is totally inappropriate. It's lewd, vesivius, salacious, outrageous!"

[jocon307]

"Gary Brolsma and "Numa Numa!"

YES! YES! Thank you for posting this link. Now I can watch it yet again.

This is a classic of internet performance art. People will be watching this 100 years from now.

I'm series, it stunes my beeber!

[jocon307]

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/206373

Here is a link to watch several version of the Numa Numa video. Evidently it is the "official" site of the video, though I've seen cleaner versions.

I must agree with the poster on newgrounds, for me too, it "never gets old"

[jocon307]

"Or the Fat Chinese boy."

His face is an icon, it is just perfect.

Looter man is also an icon now. Where is he today? Does he even have a clue that he appears daily on Freerepublic, often with some of the most famous and powerful people in the world?

And look at that crazy kid from American Idol, who sang (butchered) "she bangs", he was on a McDonald's commercial or something the other night.

Andy Warhol sure was right about the 15 minutes of fame thing.

[Hacksaw]

Wow - thanks for the ping! My supervisor at work is a big star wars fan - I have to make him a copy of the clip.

[KosmicKitty]

My thoughts exactly!!

[KosmicKitty]

My thoughts exactly!!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Why the hell did these people SETTLE?

They likely got tired of paying lawyers and settled for something close to what their lawyers fees would be to continue this.

Happens all the time.

Especially if a judge won't dismiss a meritless case at the outset.

[RightWingAtheist]

I was at a conference in Canada a while back, and met a very attractive woman. I asked her where she was from, and she replied "Trois-Rivieres". Of course, I blurted the first thing which came to mind: "Hey! That's where Star Wars Kid is from!"

Fortunately, she was already married.

[stinkerpot65]

He said the situation left him feeling drained of energy, and that he let himself go and no longer lifted weights to keep fit.

If that fat little priss is a weight-lifter ...

[Zeppelin]

that kid is an internet legend, I remember seeing it when it first came out. and then the remixes! he could have made appearances on TV like you wouldnt believe. he definitely did NOT play it right...