Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
So it lacks the obvious punchline of Miss Deaf Texas getting hit by a train, but this is still pretty sweet.
The metal gods were smiling on Jesse Maggrah. The 20-year-old man was walking beside railway tracks on Sunday, the Norwegian heavy metal band Gorgoroth cranked on his portable CD player, when he was hit by a freight train. Maggrah said he did hear the blast of the train horn just before he was hit.
"I tried to jump out of the way, but I guess not in time," he said yesterday from his bed at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre. "It was just instant. I was just walking and then I was on the ground. I wasn't sure what happened. Then I saw the train stopping up ahead. I thought, 'Holy crap, dude, you just got hit by a train.' "
Yeah, holy crap, dude. The best part is the closing quote, though.
"Maybe the metal gods above were smiling on me and they didn't want one of their true warriors to die on them. Otherwise, I'd be up there in the kingdom of steel."
Party on, Garth. Somehow, the fact that he was listening to Gorgoroth makes the story doubly funny, to a degree because of pictures like these, but much more because of pictures like this.
TrackBackIt's a good time to remember that Gorgoroth comes in number eight on the top ten most ridiculous black metal pics of all time.
Posted by: FL at April 18, 2006 07:33 PMWait is there a midget Gorgoroth cover band? And what would they be called if there was one?
Posted by: The Modesto Kid at April 19, 2006 08:03 AMWait is there a midget Gorgoroth cover band? And what would they be called if there was one?
Nope. Midgets are just too small to contain the sheer awesome black metal power of Gorgoroth.
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at April 19, 2006 10:59 AMMaybe a morbidly obese Gorgoroth cover band? Garganturoth.
Posted by: apostropher at April 19, 2006 11:10 AMMaybe a morbidly obese Gorgoroth cover band?
I take it that's a formal proposal for a new category in your Longest Thread Evar?
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at April 19, 2006 11:46 AMOr a Gorgoroth cover band made of literary Jews, the Gorgophiliproths.
Posted by: FL at April 19, 2006 12:25 PMOr a Gorgoroth cover band made of literary Jews, the Gorgophiliproths.
Wow, another category. That thread is going to four digits, I can just feel it!
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at April 19, 2006 12:39 PMThat thread is going to four digits, I can just feel it!
The coolest thing would be if you took it there single-handedly.
Posted by: The Modesto Kid at April 19, 2006 02:07 PMThe coolest thing would be if you took it there single-handedly.
Well if I posted one band name per comment (what the industry pros refer to as "Tia Style"), I just might pull it off.
But I think doing it all by myself would be selfish of me.
Also, I like to heed the words of the late great ogged.
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at April 19, 2006 06:10 PM