Archived comment by Oedalis:
Tony, you are just bitter, bitter, bitter.
btw, it IS a van. re-read the quote---not the mallrats one, the one heard 'in passing'--regardless of what it was in mallrats, here its a VW van.

Archived comment by Michael:
Mallrats! Man... I need those cool points. But
does the fact that I accrued them during a
rampant web surf session while bored at work
cancel out the cool points? I'd like to see Plato
suck on that one for a bit.
And for the record... this site is great.

Archived comment by Arlene:
And Saint's friend reminds me of a guy covered on PBS once. He basically camped out for 10 years. He lived out of tent. He would find someplace nice, find out who owned it & ask them if he could camp on their property. Eventually he decided to 'settle down' and buy some land. He did so & now runs a camp that teaches how our ancestors lived 150-250 years ago. For example, he had the Cherokee man who makes blow guns come & teach the students how to make them. It's hard, btw. First, you have to straighten the rivercane, it usually has some curve to it. This involves heating the cane, pull the cane against your leg against the curve of the cane. Repeat until straight. And so on.

Archived comment by Saint:
A friend-of-a-friend of mine is a gypsy type. He's lived in his van most of the time since he got out of high school ten or eleven years ago. Recently, he lost his license for driving without insurance. Now he has to live in a house, because it's "really hard to live out of a van you can't drive." He considers himself "pregnant with VolksWagon." In just eight more months, the ordeal will be over.

Archived comment by Saint:
"It was Mallrats, and they meant a VW ____" What are you all, mind-readers? Talk about nit-picky. Sheesh.

Archived comment by lee~a:
i get cool points...neat~o

Archived comment by Tony:
Just wanted to say that its obviously mall rats, and that also its a BUG not beetle or van. Also, to the girl that suggested that she "knew" the ghetto because she "heard it from a friend who grew up there". Guess what girl, that doesn't qualify you as an "expert" either, so my suggestion is just go shuttup because your comment was retarded. But you're probably never gonna read this anyways, but I just felt like pointing that out to whoever saw it.

Archived comment by eli anderson:
The reference if from Mallrats, and they meant a beetle, not a "van". I'm not even supposed to be here today...

Archived comment by Raeann:
COOL POINTS FOR ME! 'mall rat's' baby yeah, m'all rats'.

Archived comment by Rebecca:
Just wanted to brag about getting my cool points, and say that Chasing Amy would not have included a silly joke where everybody makes the same association to butt sex in Mallrats, because it was based in reality, not comedy. Anyhow, what's realistic about throwing whiny white kids to Compton? They go through enough "trauma" just doing their hair, how would they ever deal with stepping over dead crackwhores? (and that's not just a suburban kid pretending she knows about the ghetto, i heard all about it from an older friend who grew up there.) that's all, i apologize.

Archived comment by G Delancy:
Great Mallrats re: Keep up the goodwork! By the way upon further research, I thank people have taken this way to seriously.

Archived comment by G Delancy:
Great Mallrats re: Keep up the goodwork!

Archived comment by kevin:
Mallrats. Cool points to me.

Archived comment by guy incognito:
im really late postin here but yeah i relized it was none other than mallrats ... oh by the way... fargo is really truely cold in the winter... greeting from ndsu

Archived comment by Discord:
The line is actually, "What, like the back of a Volkswagon?"
Not to split hairs though

snoogans

Archived comment by david:
MALLRATS!!

Archived comment by Travis Kroh:
First off, it's spelled VolkswagEn. With an 'e'.
Secondly, in "Mallrats" they were referring to a Beetle, not the bus (here called a "van").

Archived comment by Jon:
Case in point: since my work 'Net connection is giving me a few minutes of speed, I am going back to old posts to read them.
For Kevin Smith fans(like myself), there was an "Inside the Actor's Studio" with Ben Affleck. Now, normally the show turns my stomach a bit(as in the kow-towing the host did to Spielberg), but this includes quite a bit of Kevin's stuff. Obviously.

Archived comment by Arlene:
Don't worry Bryan, someone will read your post, if not someone who has "just" discovered this page or someone like me who goes & back to read the added comments.

Archived comment by Steve:
Hmm, I thought the quote used Volvo, not VW. Maybe I'm brain dead.

Archived comment by Icegod:
Mallrats owns. Kevin Smith owns. See earlier comment on Clerks-ish nature of a quote. And it is somewhat disgusting to think about how many jokes my friends and I get from his movies...

Archived comment by Bryan:
Yay! I get cool points! (I recognized the Mallrats reference.) The sad thing is, no one's ever going to read my post, because the original quote was posted in June. Damn.

Archived comment by nik:
mallrats. kevin smith. divine.

Archived comment by ruby:
the line is from mallrats, (don't know where my head was, backdoor references...)

Archived comment by ruby:
yhe line is from chasing amy, no?

Archived comment by Oedalis:
...living in a VW van in Compton...
*evil little chuckle*
If this were so, I think I would actually watch that lame show...

Archived comment by LL:
MALLRATS! Kevin Smith is a genius, I tell ya!

Archived comment by Hal:
Mallrats! swish! that's two for Hal today!