The Invisible Rope
Back in grade school, John and I used to tie strings across the road to annoy motorists and pedestrians. Then that evolved into pretending to have a string across the road by each of us standing on opposite sides of the street and pretending to hold strings. I detail some of our string adventures on my pranks page. What prompted me to write about our string adventures tonight, though, is this YouTube video I watched this evening about two guys who do the invisible rope thing for the purpose of making funny YouTube videos. They’re pretty amusing to watch!
They’ve even got a domain at theinvisiblehope.com and a YouTube page made just for their invisible rope videos. As much as I love these videos, I still want to grab these guys by their big fat heads and scream at them, “I WAS PRETENDING TO HOLD ROPES ACROSS THE ROAD BEFORE YOU WERE EVEN BORN, KID!” I’m such a grouchy old man. It makes me wish even more that we could have had a video camera when we were kids. John and I would have taped so many awesome things.
Speaking of prank videos, I set up a YouTube page just for PLA videos. Now I won’t have my personal videos all mixed in with PLA stuff, even if those two categories are more or less the same. The YouTube is located at www.youtube.com/user/phonelosersofamerica.
Christmas has been a lot of fun! The kids got cool stuff and so did I.
Yes, that was a great gag. I want to do it again.
My friends and I used to do that with cassette tapes. We’d pull out the tape and string it across the road, sometimes just once, sometimes throwing the cassette back and forth and forming spider webs. It was pretty awesome.
itym “I was holding imaginary ropes when you were in diapers, kid.”
Oh, look, it’s Woodfield. I hated that mall but I miss it anyhow.