I've had several people tell me about 'Leyan Lo' and how he can't actually
solve the cube. Letterman always introduces him as the real thing and never
says otherwise, it makes sense that people would believe him. People who
don't know anything about cubing just assume what Letterman is saying is
accurate.
I think Letterman is the real idiot.
-Chris
On 2/5/06, David Pritts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I assumed that ANYBODY who saw the ridiculous fat white guy who claimed to
> be "Leyan Lo" (an interesting name for a white guy, i would say) would
> recognize that it was an amusing spoof... is it possible for a person who
> can solve the cube in 11.13 seconds (whether it had a PLL skip or not :)
> to be "unable" to solve the cube?
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> lol
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> I was talking to some people today, when they saw me cubing, and they
> were asking me if I knew about this guy who just set the world record. I did
> know. Then they said "he hasn't been able to do it on TV though". And I
> explained to them that they're right, b/c from what I've heard he got an
> easy scramble, usually it takes him like 15 seconds.. and they're like "no
> he hasn't been able to do it at all yet".
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> Then I realized that they actually thought the spoof was real.
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> Wow.
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> -David
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