Monday, September 14, 2009

Bonus Time is happening

This will be the first of hopefully an on going series.  A lot of people are surprised to hear that it is Bonus Time, but at the same time openly welcome the idea.  As you likely already know, because it's written up there a little bit, and if you're reading this you're already a fan of the facebook, that Bonus Time started in the year 2000 when the world was supposed to end but didn't.  That's a lot to swallow all at once isn't it?  But when you think about it, not really.  You see a lot of crazy shit has gone on since the year 2000, yeah you're gettin me now aren't you, maybe it's the type of shit that wouldn't necessarily go on?  Unless maybe the world was supposed to end already?  Yeah, now you got me.  

So we're going to take some time on the blog to talk about some of the crazier shit that the Bonus Time staff feels has gone down since 2000, to help catch you the faithful reader up.  Because I am lazy, the first one is going to be a repost from the bonus time facebook.  I'm reposting it because you probably didn't read it, and I thought it was funny and so did my mom so fuck you guys.  (I'm only mentioning it's a repost because the first paragraph will seem out of place unless I do.)

By now it is evident that all members of Bonus Time have surely read and memorized all of the super ultra important Bonus Time facts. As these are really important, we have decided to focus on a few of the facts in a more in depth manner, in hopes of exploring further the nature of Bonus Time, and creating a dialogue between members regarding Bonus Time. The first fact we will focus on will come from the year 2000:

February 13 – The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles Schulz.

This fact has clear implications across the Bonus Time spectrum, as the Peanuts comic strip coming to an end thusly ended the mad ravings of a man bent on a vision of a post apocalyptic future that has yet to come. We are all familiar with Peanuts, Charles Shultz' interpretation of the world after a nuclear fall out, with deformed malnourished and radiation sick children struggling to survive in the wastelands of our once great nation.

From the first blasts of attempted vocal contact from their mutated elders, their interaction with grossly mutated and at times highly intelligent species (read Snoopy, Woodstock), and from the last hair that fell from the balding, disfigured head of Charlie Brown, it was clear what we were looking at. Peanuts in it's own way did a fantastic job of showing us just how terrible man kind can truly be if left to his own devices. It is in Bonus Time that we must learn from these lessons, and use our Time to avoid the future that was depicted in this hellish comic strip.

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