Needless to say this didn't work and everybody died

[LitmusDragon]

Can anyone place where this phrase is from? I keep seeing it pop up in people's signatures and profiles but I can't seem to place it on Google. It's driving me nuts.

I have a vague recollection of it being on Kids in the Hall or Saturday Night Live but those terms + that phase don't turn anything up.

 

[Holdfast]

Google suggests:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r58whTr6EmY[/yt]

(based on the original school essay by Jeremy Lavine (highly likely to be apocryphal and/or hoax))

 

[scotpens]

^^ Needless to say, this isn't funny and nobody laughed.


Obviously not really written by a child, with the snarky reference to “scientists, diplomats, McSalad Shakers, and George Bush Jr.” and the word “satiate,” which isn't in the vocabulary of most grade-schoolers.

 

[RoJoHen]

Was that supposed to be funny? Because yeah, it really wasn't.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Original link

Probably fake, but amusing (doesn't have to be a young child, fyi, just a school essay of some kind).

Another likely fake one: Plains, Trains, and Plantains: The Story of Oedipus

Uh, language warning

 

[kes7]

Original link

Probably fake, but amusing (doesn't have to be a young child, fyi, just a school essay of some kind).

Another likely fake one: Plains, Trains, and Plantains: The Story of Oedipus

Uh, language warning

This one, unlike the other one, is hilarious.

 

[LitmusDragon]

Thanks Alidar. I'm beginning to think that essay was the original place that I saw the phrase. I'm sure I've been that site before. For some reason I have this image of a Kids in the Hall skit with Dave Foley explaining how he responded completely inappropriately to some kind of disaster ending with the punchline "needless to say this didn't work and everyone died". I think that I've juxtaposed two different things. Anyway that would have made a funny skit.

 

[bluedana]

I think I'm going to have to start dropping this expression randomly into conversations. And legal briefs.

 

[Rincewiend]

Thanks Alidar. I'm beginning to think that essay was the original place that I saw the phrase. I'm sure I've been that site before. For some reason I have this image of a Kids in the Hall skit with Dave Foley explaining how he responded completely inappropriately to some kind of disaster ending with the punchline "needless to say this didn't work and everyone died". I think that I've juxtaposed two different things. Anyway that would have made a funny skit.

I think they/he did say something along those lines in a sketch...

 

[danellis]

It sounds like something Douglas Adams might say.

dJE

 

[LitmusDragon]

I think they/he did say something along those lines in a sketch...

I really think so too! But why isn't it on Google?

/boggle

I guess it was a different phrasing or something. I need to rent the DVDs sometime ...

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I think I'm going to have to start dropping this expression randomly into conversations. And legal briefs.

 

[Flashover]

I'm going to use it in a Quality Improvement Meeting today.