After reading the comment to my previous post left by Kostas (my first fan!) I checked out the two blogs he mentions, ManifestoGR and Fufurasu. I’ve put both of them on my Bloglines list.
Fufurasu has one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen on a blog. Back in December he posted about an MTV programme I’ve never heard about (not surprising, since I don’t have a TV) called Pimp My Ride, hosted by a rapper called Xzibit. I know there are shows which renovate and refurnish people’s houses. They’re basically long advertisements for the furniture companies. I saw one in Canada last Christmas. My mother and sister love the show. I think there’s even been one like it here in Greece. Well, this MTV show is the same sort of thing, except that they fix up your car.
Orestes at Fufurasu describes in a typical blog post watching the show for the first time, and describes the programme. Interesting, but nothing unusual. Sometimes we write about a film we’ve seen, or a book we’ve read. That sort of thing.
Then something weird happened. People started flocking to his blog, thinking it was MTV and begging for him to pimp their ride. As I write this, there are 99 comments. Most of them are people in the States (who sometimes leave their names and addresses!), but there some from the UK, one from South Africa, Algeria, and Russia. Someone even wants their boat pimped.
It’s funny to see Orestes try to tell them it’s not MTV:
Uhm. I should mention that I am not Xzibit, nor am I affiliated in any way with MTV, or involved in the production of the show. I just watch it from time to time. This is just my personal site, kids.Uhm. I should mention that I am not Xzibit, nor am I affiliated in any way with MTV, or involved in the production of the show. I just watch it from time to time. This is just my personal site, kids.
And when they still don’t listen:
Oh dear.
And finally:
Uhm… uh, you know…
Oh, what’s the use. Carry on.
Sometimes other people try to talk some sense and explain that this is not the place they’re looking for, but people keep on leaving messages, sometimes with desperate urgency:
Please pimp my fiancés ride. He is a wonderful guy that has been trying to progress in life and is constantly faced with obstacles. Adrian went of to school and paid $2,000 for a Toyota Celica 91’ which ended up being a piece of crap. He invested about $800 in it and it still broke down. He lost his job because he couldn’t get to work. He decided to just go for a cheap Toyota Camry 88’. Which has turned into another nightmare.I’m deaf. I’m just tired of being struggling with my money. My job don’t pay me well. I owe my girlfriend a lot of money. I have OLD truck. It’s 1989 Chevy S10 2D 4×4. I don’t know how long it will go last. When I saw Pimp My Ride on MTV. I have been keep myself saying that I NEED them to pimp my ride so badly. I want to stop worrying about losing car with no money in one day. I don’t want to ask my girlfriend for borrow her money ever again! PLEASE…DO ME A FAVOR, MY FRIEND. PIMP MY FRIGGING RIDE.THANK YOU. PEACE Y’ALL!
There’s a lot of anguished soul-bearing:
Dear Xzibit I am a 13 year old living in imbarisment. Because I have to ride in my dads old *** car. It is a 1991 lincin towns car. It is the same age as meHe evens spends more money fixing his car then buying me clothes. . If you come see the seats are all worn out and the color is old and plan (the color is sivlir).All of my friends makes fun of me when they see my dads car drive by. Please MTV can you pimp my dads ride.I have a prgnet 16 yr old dauter I have to now rid on the bus to get back and forth to work and alwas seem to be late every time .other than that I have three other children another girl and two other boys the girls love puting on lip gloss in the mirur, the boys love playing video games but I guss I can’t affurd eny of that not even to fix my car. so pleas pimp my rid
Please Please Please help me and Pimp up my ride, I am 14 years old and one of the most embarrassed kids in our area, as my dad is in love with his Ford Mondeo even though it is falling apart. Most of the other kids around here show up in new cars and my dad can’t afford a new one and i don’t think he would change it even if he could afford a new car, but it is in definate need of an Xzibit showdown. So how about taken the Pimp my Ride on tour to the UK, my dad is still quite cool but his ride lets him and me down in a massive way. I plead with you help me be cool by getting my Dad to look cool.
I remember in Wings of Desire how the angels would put their hands on people’s shoulders, and you could hear them worrying about things — their loved ones, their hopes and fears and despair. In one scene, one of the angels goes to the library in Berlin and you can hear hundreds of people thinking, so many voices that it sounds like a huge machine.
Perhaps in time people will go to Fufurasu to confess and be comforted. I imagine people all over the world, lying awake at night, praying, worrying, not knowing who to turn to, where to get help, all of them murmuring, Pimp my ride … pimp my ride … please pimp my ride …
Oh, god, that’s hilarious.
Our friend, who runs “The Quotations Page,” gets the funniest emails from people assuming he is the person quoted. Apparently he gets inundated with messages to Oprah, and one man actually sent a very angry letter to Thoreau, ranting about how unpatriotic he was. We’ve laughingly begged our friend to put up a separate site consisting entirely of these emails. He loves the idea, so we may see the site soon.
Hey, sorry I didn’t get back to you earlier about this. Thanks for linking me! It’s pretty uncanny that people keep doing this. I’ve set up a little counter on the front page of my blog for the number of comments that entry has generated. We’re currently at 152! I’m thinking I should close comments for that post after 200… The joke is getting old already.
On the contrary, this is something worth starting another site for. It would be almost like another PostSecret. People can come and read about other people’s troubles and feel comforted. You’re running a public service. People don’t have to feel so alone any more.
Hey Xzibet PLEASE come and pimp my dads F-250 4×4 1976 highboy p.u.
I am 13 and in the summer of 2005 we found out my dad had a brain tumor he went in and had it removed. He woke up paralized on the left side and now is still working to get his strength back he is on doctor note leave from work and is almost going 2 loose his job.My 16yr.old sister is living here with here boyfriend and she is pregnant.
My dads red ford with discoloration is so imbarising 2 be seen it is had for him 2 get in 2 and drive and is almost a total piece of crap.
PLEASE Xzibit come and pimp my dads ugly p.u.
p.s. I luv ur Show i Watch it whenever i can. And i luv my dad and he deserves a nice truck that he luvs hes so angry that he cant drive it well. but the whole family is just so happy hes alive he deserves this. PLEASE PIMP HIS RIDE!!!!!!!
PIMP MY DADS CAR PLESE
Hey Xzibit,
How do you do? My name is Jaimee, I am 28 yrs old. I have this car it is a 1966 Ford Galaxy. This car used to be my great grandmas car. My dad had recieved the car after she had died and I have always said I wanted this car. I have big dreams for this car. So my dad had sold it to my uncle when he got out of prison (big mistake) because he has totally trashed it. I bought it back from him. Now it just sits in my yard. One day I would love to get this car bombed out. One day give it to my son when he grows up. So PLEASE can you PIMP MY RIDE???
Thank You for taking the time to read my comment.
Jaimee Garcia
I still get comments like that appearing on my site from time to time, on completely unrelated posts now. But I’ve had enough, so now I just delete them. “Jaimee Garcia” sounds familiar; he must have tried it on on my blog as well.
i need ur help plz cuz my brothers special needz and only a couple of his toes work so he can’t work the shift pedal right. now he has a 1988 astrovan thats missin a door so people steel his stuff allthe time. he needz hand contrls or he cant keep his job delivering meals to senure citisens. we cant aford a tv that shows ur poppin show big enuf, too. so if u pimp my brothers ride he can work a job to sustane us and we can watch ur show bigger on the flatscreens in his ride.
THXXXXXXXX!!!!
brebre