Yessssss I think that'ss what I am known for the most.
Also I'm kind of glad we finally got a topic where people are doubting Pun's validity. I've been wondering about it for a while now but it seemed like everyone was just buying everything Pun had to say, which was especially grievous when it came to issues such as donating money to Pun.
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I think the larger issue here is not if it could happen, which I think it could, but the string of Pun stories back to back.
I would be fine with one Headbutting or sudden singing story, but the fact you have story after story of near ridiculous things happening to you makes me highly sceptical of your stories as a whole.
It also requires said people to sing in harmony rather than in unison, and thinking that this is actually something cool to get in on. I'm not shy in the least and know most of the lyrics to this song, but I probably would not have joined in on this with random strangers because I'm not really a fan of this song or musicals in general.
Like even if you be generous with percentages assume that 50% of gamestop customers aren't shy, 50% of them know the lyrics o this song, 50% of them have the sense to sing in harmony rather than unison, 50% of them think that singing a Journey song is cool. Frankly I think a lot of these statistics are rounding up but to be fair there's probably some overlap to some of those statistics too so it might balance out.
There were 9 customers total, and... oh, let's be nice and throw Pun and the coworker out... so your odds of this happening, even ignoring the timing factor of that last guy, which is gonna add a lot... (1/16)^9 which is like one in ten billion or something. And realize this is me being generous. I seriously doubt 50% of Game Stop customers know most of the lyrics to Don't Stop Believin, for instance.
Like, it'd be a lot more believable if there were people who didn't participate, or there wasn't the whole harmony thing going on. Similar stories, which a few people in this topic seem to have, I can buy, but this exact story? Not a chance.
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looks like I'm gonna have to, in a very lame fashion, explain in further detail on what happened
I didn't exaggerate, BUT it wasn't exactly as smooth as you might think by reading it
when I said the first line, like, a good 5 seconds passed by and the reference sank in, then my coworker decided to throw in his own line to continue the reference
and yea, who doesn't like journey? of course people are gonna recognize it. Then of course, the same thing happened, some seconds passed, reference sank in, someone decided to continue it
if you'll listen to the song, it picks up at ON AND ON AND ON
so I decided to make an ass of myself (BIG SURPRISE) and bust out singing to try to make everyone laugh
but to my surprise, everybody did the same thing, everybody probably thought to do with the same thing
at least thats what I think
since everybody joined in, I just rolled with it and kept going with the song
From: TheRock1525 | #056 He said that someone once AIM'd him that didn't believe his dad had died, and judging by the tone of your last post I thought it was you. My mistake.
I wonder if he exaggerated my question of money to a question of whether his Dad died to make the story sound better.
Hmmm
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I sung Holy Diver with an all air guitar "air" band at Battle of the Bands in High School, best damn song ever written. Don't Stop Believin' is up there though.
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Yeah if it was pun, a co-worker, and one customer I would have no issue believing this story and would easily put it as more believable than the headbutt story (which frankly I didn't strongly believe either but it didn't stick out like a sore thumb to the extent this one does that it compelled me to say "how can people believe this!?" and was amusing so I just ignored it). 9 customers with no blanks, and that last ridiculous dude with the timing at the end (who had the quick wit to realize what the hell was going on, even?)? No. Not a chance in hell. And anyone defending the story should consider gullibility one of their character flaws.
And while I'm here "thanks Plum tee hee~"
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From: BIGPUN9999 | #070 you said you didn't believe anything that was happening to me
and so I provided proof of my money problems to prove that I did need help
since I didn't want to scan my dad's death certificate for some jack off on the internet
Your story is false. I never even knew about your fathers death.
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I wouldn't even have gone on such a rant if people didn't peg it as not the least credible story you've given us (that I've read) and if some people were humoring it. It is far and away the least credible.
I just want people to realize that 3 people singing Holy Diver or a group of friends/co-workers singing something at random or joining in with some people singing is not nearly the same scenario as this one-- too many people from a random sample seamlessly playing along. Bad logic is the main thing that drew me in here not bad storytelling.
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From: Lopen | #074 I wouldn't even have gone on such a rant if people didn't peg it as not the least credible story you've given us (that I've read) and if some people were humoring it. It is far and away the least credible.
I just want people to realize that 3 people singing Holy Diver or a group of friends/co-workers singing something at random or joining in with some people singing is not nearly the same scenario as this one-- too many people from a random sample seamlessly playing along. Bad logic is the main thing that drew me in here not bad storytelling.
well thats the thing
thats why its such an incredible thing that this DID happen. no one knew this was gonna happen, it was not coordinated in anyways, its unlikely this will ever occur again
Technically I'd put the girl as the one who started it, or Pun's co-worker. Pun would be #3.
If I actually believed it was started, anyway.
I certainly have the charisma to fabricate a tale involving me, a co-worker, and 9 audience plants and/or commercial extras though. But we definitely wouldn't be singing Journey that **** is for squares.
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Mmmm I suppose just to clarify I should say I'm not actually anti-Journey.
I just think as far as the 80s go there are easily like 10-20 better bands I can think of without trying. They're fairly mediocre. Slightly good at their best.
If you want a popular classic band that I actually dislike we can go with The Who or The Beatles.
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From: BIGPUN9999 | #064 also, like I said in chat, I don't think people believe me because I didn't physically harm someone like I usually do
or something!
But seriously, given my own crowd breaking out and singing Journey experiences, I believe this story.
He could have made this story up, but I don't see why he would. It's like making up that he crossed the street or something. It's like, why? Someone crossing the straight, a crowd suddenly singing Don't Stop Believing in harmony, these are pretty every day occurrences.
Maybe you all need to get out more.
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Music is great. Empty pop music designed mostly just to be catchy and disguised as rock is no good though.
Well the Who are better at it but their songs go on twice as long as they need to in general.
Anyway yeah I might be able to get 50 better than Journey without trying too hard. 100 I'd probably need to try kinda hard just to recall 100 band names but might be able to do it! 200 admittedly probably not.
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I'd usually call BS on this so fast, but I've actually seen it happen at small-ish stores... twice. The first time wasn't that strange of an occurrence because the song did come on (I guess it's hard to resist anywhere). The second time, though, somebody just randomly said the first line, her friend came in with the second, and at that point I couldn't help but deliver the third. We had a group of about 6-7 people sing through most of the song.
I guess the fact that two cute girls started it helped reel me and the other guys in. If another dude would have started it, I doubt he would have had such success.
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But there are a lot of songs that just happen to be catchy that are also good musically, too.
I'm just saying I don't think it would be a stretch to say Beatles songs pretty much follow the same formula in that they're a few simple ditties strung together and repeated like 10 times over the same basic chord progression repeated like 30 times. The Who's much better but as I said their songs go on twice as long as they need to-- least Beatles realized they were shallow and that's why almost all their songs are under 3 minutes, most being closer to 2.
Eleanor Rigby is good though.
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