and she wouldn't give it to me

November 18, 2006 9:20 AM

All I wanted was a pepsi.
posted by RTQP (100 comments total)

Second link says: (If you get the heading, you’re cool.)

I guess I'm not cool.
posted by arcticwoman at 9:28 AM on November 18, 2006

also on the soundtrack to the classic
posted by leotrotsky at 9:30 AM on November 18, 2006

Suicidal Tendencies wrote some lyrics that people latched onto. Limp Bizkit used the lyric as a line in one of their songs. The links all appear to go to different sites that demonstrate this meme.

Unless I'm missing something: Meh.
posted by quin at 9:30 AM on November 18, 2006

lame. unless someone explains it to me.
posted by lemonfridge at 9:31 AM on November 18, 2006

i guess, to explain a bit, i'd like to say i find the internet a mysterious and wonderous place.
posted by RTQP at 9:31 AM on November 18, 2006

Oh man! Pepsi is everywhere!
posted by thirteenkiller at 9:35 AM on November 18, 2006

rh, I'll probably get hit by a car anyway...
posted by jonmc at 9:36 AM on November 18, 2006

Pepsi sucks.
posted by fenriq at 9:38 AM on November 18, 2006

I do like how it was a clever reference when Sage Francis used the line but a foul bastardization from Limp Bizkit.

Not that the latter isn't a pretty bad band. I don't have a point.
posted by Simon! at 9:42 AM on November 18, 2006

I'm not crazy!

You're the one who's crazy!
posted by koeselitz at 9:43 AM on November 18, 2006

That soundtrack was/is classic. Great movie, too.
posted by zardoz at 9:46 AM on November 18, 2006

arcticwoman writes: Second link says: (If you get the heading, you’re cool.)

I guess I'm not cool.

I dunno, who's more credible on the subject of coolness: arcticwoman, or this guy?
posted by George_Spiggott at 9:46 AM on November 18, 2006

dude!? that guy gets into all the cool clubs.
posted by nola at 9:54 AM on November 18, 2006

Wow, now I'm finally cool. In an internet sort of way....
posted by jessamyn at 9:57 AM on November 18, 2006

Funny, every kid I knew that loved Suicidal Tendencies considered themselves (myself included) majorly uncool.

(I've said it before and I'll say it again, youth is wasted on the young.)

Since I'm already in nostalgia mode, why not get tangential: No Coke. Pepsi!
posted by squasha at 10:06 AM on November 18, 2006

As I recall the notes on the vinyl album cover (remember vinyl, kiddies?) said that they were voted "Worst Band" and "Biggest Assholes" one year in a Flipside magazine poll.
posted by ZenMasterThis at 10:11 AM on November 18, 2006

cheeseburger?
posted by Parannoyed at 10:11 AM on November 18, 2006

This has to be a record for links that won't load in a FPP.
posted by spock at 10:30 AM on November 18, 2006

Are you on drugs?
posted by eegphalanges at 10:38 AM on November 18, 2006

pablo picasso was an asshole.

... whoops ... wrong track ...
posted by Surfurrus at 10:40 AM on November 18, 2006

google cache of the link that was just taken down!
posted by RTQP at 10:49 AM on November 18, 2006

Not sure if I voted in that Flipside poll, but Suicidal was one of the worst bands playing big shows in LA back then. And their gang of fans were a pain in the ass.

I Saw You Mommy (And Your Mommy's Dead) is a fun song, though.
posted by InfidelZombie at 10:51 AM on November 18, 2006

Sarsippius, ya dummy!
posted by basicchannel at 10:51 AM on November 18, 2006

All the dude wanted... was his rug back.
posted by knave at 10:53 AM on November 18, 2006

Never liked the brand-name "Pepsi." Always thought it sounded like an antacid. "Fresca" sounds better. Especially if you pronounce it with an "ah" at the end. Branding is insidious. Soda is essentially diluted syrup. It rots your teeth and turns children into obese pigs.
posted by disgruntled at 10:57 AM on November 18, 2006

I did not choose this user name because of the movie. I thought you would all care.
posted by repoman at 10:57 AM on November 18, 2006

Does anyboy else find it annoying when each letter of a word is a link? If not, I'll shut up.
posted by allelopath at 10:59 AM on November 18, 2006 [1 favorite]

No it's okay, you know I'll figure it out, just leave me alone I'll figure it out. You know I'll just work by myself
posted by Giant luck at 11:00 AM on November 18, 2006

all i wanted was the best of the web ... this wasn't it
posted by pyramid termite at 11:07 AM on November 18, 2006

Pepsi on the Blue!
posted by MythMaker at 11:09 AM on November 18, 2006

My friends and I, back in 86 or 87, did this for our high school's big annual air band contest. Needless to say, the jocks tried to boo us off the stage but we held our ground.
And I got a pretty stern talking to for giving the audience not one, but both fingers.
posted by Flashman at 11:09 AM on November 18, 2006

Club Med sucks!
Authority sucks!
I hate golf!
I wanna play lacrosse!

Oops...wrong band.
posted by ZenMasterThis at 11:10 AM on November 18, 2006 [1 favorite]

Allelopath, I am with you there.

I'm also with the "this is not interesting" crowd. Mefi calls for at least Eco-level intrigue and conspiracy.
posted by shownomercy at 11:10 AM on November 18, 2006

members of the "this is interesting" faction wish negotiate a treaty. could you send a representative to vienna?
posted by RTQP at 11:18 AM on November 18, 2006

I hate this place.
Nothing works here.
The medications don't work.
I been here for seven years...
I hate this place.
Nothing works here...
posted by stifford at 11:22 AM on November 18, 2006

This post is shit.
posted by 2sheets at 11:31 AM on November 18, 2006

"Institutionalized" is on Guitar Hero II.

Unfortunately , I just broke my hand and had it put into a cast before I got to that level. Maybe in January....
posted by sourwookie at 11:33 AM on November 18, 2006

Crazy? Who are you to call me crazy? WHEN I CLICKED ON YOUR LINKS? WHEN I VISITED YOUR BLOGS? WHEN I PARTICIPATED IN YOUR COLLABORATIVE USER CREATED CONTENT CREATIONS?

YOU'RE THE ONE THAT'S CRAZY!

*moshes on skateboard in empty pool*
posted by loquacious at 11:33 AM on November 18, 2006 [9 favorites]

Metafilter: Lame, unless someone explains it to me.
posted by merlinmann at 11:57 AM on November 18, 2006 [1 favorite]

Does anyboy else find it annoying when each letter of a word is a link?

OMG yes. So very much.
posted by Hildegarde at 12:00 PM on November 18, 2006

Pepsi & Shirlie - Heartache
posted by Kino at 12:18 PM on November 18, 2006

(I've said it before and I'll say it again, youth is wasted on the young.)

so, you're the one who said that.
posted by quonsar at 12:26 PM on November 18, 2006 [1 favorite]

allelopath: I hate it when they do each letter as a link. Each link should have some sort of description...if it doesn't it's like just visiting some random site.
posted by nyxxxx at 12:42 PM on November 18, 2006

I really enjoy the Burning Sensations' cover of Pablo Picasso. Is it worth trying to find any more of their stuff?
posted by maxwelton at 12:49 PM on November 18, 2006

I'm gonna have a tv party tonight.

All right!
posted by otherwordlyglow at 12:54 PM on November 18, 2006

No, mom, I'm not on drugs.
posted by mwhybark at 12:57 PM on November 18, 2006

Ahhh. OK. I see.
posted by The Deej at 1:05 PM on November 18, 2006

It's all pernicious nonsense.
posted by spacelux at 1:16 PM on November 18, 2006

spacelux, are you fishing for a tagline?
posted by cgc373 at 1:27 PM on November 18, 2006

Saw Jello Biafra once years ago. He brought down the house with his imitation of conservative Christian parents who had sent their child to conformity boot camp. "I'll bet junior will finally learn to get his own Pepsi."
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 1:32 PM on November 18, 2006

and oh yeah, this is a lame fpp except that last link about the limp bisquit.
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 1:34 PM on November 18, 2006

Otto: "You eat a lot of acid, Miller, back in the hippie days?"
posted by Zack_Replica at 1:37 PM on November 18, 2006

Y'know, when I saw the title it was going to be this. Instead, I wonder how a post like this even gets conceptualized. A half-assed google search? A deep misunderstanding of "Pepsi Blue"? Too much alcohol in the blood surrogate?
posted by klangklangston at 2:03 PM on November 18, 2006

.
posted by fixedgear at 2:19 PM on November 18, 2006

Bit obv tho, init.
posted by econous at 2:31 PM on November 18, 2006

Cypress Hill also plays tribute to the song in "How I Could Just Kill A Man."
posted by Ironmouth at 2:34 PM on November 18, 2006

Metafilter: Lame, unless someone explains it to me.

merlinmann: If you have to have it explained to you, you'll never get it.
posted by ZenMasterThis at 2:39 PM on November 18, 2006

I don't think that you could say that "If you get it, you're cool" as in junior high my mom would often stop my whining with, "Ok, ok, all you wanted was a Pepsi."
posted by Gucky at 3:42 PM on November 18, 2006

Ok, so, picture a standard white drywall ceiling. Now, near one corner, there a square hole cut out. And then there's this cat, sticking his head out of the hole, looking down on you.

And then beneath all that, there's a caption implying you masturbate ...
posted by madamjujujive at 3:45 PM on November 18, 2006

Why did my "Pepsi Blue? I don't get it." comment get removed?

Mythmaker said pretty much the same thing and that comment stayed.
posted by Frank Grimes at 4:00 PM on November 18, 2006

Crazy? Who are you to call me crazy? WHEN I CLICKED ON YOUR LINKS? WHEN I VISITED YOUR BLOGS? WHEN I PARTICIPATED IN YOUR COLLABORATIVE USER CREATED CONTENT CREATIONS?

YOU'RE THE ONE THAT'S CRAZY!

Awesome.
posted by Ryvar at 4:25 PM on November 18, 2006

Bullshit. You're just a white suburban punk like the rest of us.
posted by AJaffe at 4:33 PM on November 18, 2006

Wasn't it a fuckin' Pepsi? You kids and your revisionist history.
posted by Toekneesan at 4:36 PM on November 18, 2006

Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.
posted by zardoz at 4:39 PM on November 18, 2006

Yep, that was me, quonsar. (^_^)
posted by squasha at 5:00 PM on November 18, 2006

That's it, Archie! You're out of the gang.
posted by AJaffe at 5:04 PM on November 18, 2006

Put it on a plate, son.
You'll enjoy it more.



I couldn't enjoy it any more, Mom.



This is swell!
posted by hortense at 5:58 PM on November 18, 2006

John Wayne was a fag.
posted by gcbv at 6:00 PM on November 18, 2006

Hmm, I thought this was a reference to Back to the Future Part II. I guess I'm way not cool.
posted by Citizen Premier at 6:16 PM on November 18, 2006

So once I won a free song on iTunes from Pepsi. I bought this song as thanks. That is all.
posted by piratebowling at 6:18 PM on November 18, 2006

Whenever I hear that song, I think, get your own Pepsi you little sh*t. Your old enough to get a job, make two bucks and walk down to 7-11.
posted by Titania at 6:42 PM on November 18, 2006

WHY DOES THIS SHITTY POST STILL LIVE?






















WE MUST BRING BACK IMAGES
posted by klangklangston at 6:48 PM on November 18, 2006

Oh... so the big tags don't work now either?
posted by klangklangston at 6:49 PM on November 18, 2006

I guess I'm way not cool.

No, Citizen Premier: Jesus was way cool.
posted by ZenMasterThis at 6:53 PM on November 18, 2006

WHY DOES THIS SHITTY POST STILL LIVE?

Come and get me copper! I'm well armed and I know where you live!
posted by quin at 7:21 PM on November 18, 2006

Picture this dude in a St. Louis Cardinals T-shirt and tan shorts. He's got NASCAR shades and a Magnum P.I. mustache. He wears a bandanna over most of his longish, vaguely mulletesque dirty brown hair. In his left hand, he's holding a sign that reads "Go USA." In his right hand he holds a sign that says "Get a brain! Morans." In the background are several other folks who are dressed like working class Midwesterners.

The source of the humor, I guess, is that though our protagonist intends to call someone else a moron, in fact by mispelling the word he has shown his audience and indeed much of the internet that, really, he is the moron.
posted by Kwine at 7:22 PM on November 18, 2006

I am not watching this.
posted by Ceiling Cat at 7:24 PM on November 18, 2006

but she wouldn't give it to me
posted by Holy foxy moxie batman! at 7:27 PM on November 18, 2006

meh
posted by Holy foxy moxie batman! at 7:27 PM on November 18, 2006

Plate o' shrimp!
posted by phirleh at 8:06 PM on November 18, 2006

ZenMasterThis, YOU are way cool as well.
This post sucks, but the hazy smoke-clouded memories and forgotten gems that have been brought back make it almost worth it.
posted by Iamtherealme at 8:41 PM on November 18, 2006

I get it... But I dont get it. Who cares about Suicidal Tendancies?

Ive got two words that concisely sum up them as a band and this post
"Lame" & "Overrated"
posted by subaruwrx at 10:12 PM on November 18, 2006

Ordinary fucking people. I hate 'em.
posted by found dog one eye at 10:18 PM on November 18, 2006

REPO MAN'S GOT ALL NIGHT, EVERY NIGHT, ASSHOLE!
posted by joeblough at 11:23 PM on November 18, 2006

tkfvt....?
posted by econous at 11:30 PM on November 18, 2006

What about our relationship?!
posted by dopeypanda at 12:44 AM on November 19, 2006

More Repo man 1, 2, 3, 4. (YouTube)
posted by spacelux at 1:06 AM on November 19, 2006

.....that's right. Time machines.
posted by lumpenprole at 1:13 AM on November 19, 2006

I once got in a taxi that had, like, 15 magic trees in it.
posted by handee at 2:45 AM on November 19, 2006

I installed two way mirrors in John Wayne's pad in Brentwood.
posted by fixedgear at 3:43 AM on November 19, 2006

And he come to the door in a dress...
posted by AJaffe at 6:29 AM on November 19, 2006

GeekFilter: I wrote a paper on Repo Man for a film class in college, which necessitated watching it six times in two days, often frame by frame, in an attempt to pick up every visual in-joke. One gem: in the scene where Miller is talking to Otto about time machines while throwing random things into a flaming oil drum, if you watch real closely, one of the items is a paperback copy of "Diuretics," by A. Rum Bubble.
posted by AJaffe at 6:32 AM on November 19, 2006

... I couldn't make it as a punker.
posted by billder at 8:37 AM on November 19, 2006

has anyone figured out what this post means, yet? i'm curious.
posted by RTQP at 11:53 AM on November 19, 2006

Unfortunately , I just broke my hand and had it put into a cast before I got to that level. Maybe in January....

My sympathies. However, it's a very hard song, for obvious reasons. The plus side is, when you can't beat it on Expert, you can blame it on your arm.
posted by hoborg at 12:23 PM on November 19, 2006

has anyone figured out what this post means, yet? i'm curious.

RTQP, Since no one has really stated what the hell is going on, I will.

In 1983, a bad punk band from LA called Suicidal Tendencies wrote one lasting song called Institutionalized. It was half a spoken word diatribe from a teenager about his mom, half a typical yelly punk tune.

The classic line was "all I wanted was a Pepsi, but she wouldn't give it to me."

The song was included in the Repo Man soundtrack, thus all the Repo Man references.

The full lyrics are here.
posted by billder at 2:13 PM on November 19, 2006

Fuck you I won't drink what you tell me!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:44 PM on November 19, 2006

Also: Look at 'em: ordinary fucking people. I hate 'em.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:46 PM on November 19, 2006

Fuck, beaten. Ah well.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:47 PM on November 19, 2006

This post means something? Please share, RTQP. What more does it mean?
posted by Iamtherealme at 9:21 PM on November 23, 2006