Sad Papaw No Longer Sad: Thousands Wait in Line for Burgers at His Cookout - Polidicks

[t]http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/US/HT_sad_pawpaw_as_160328_31x13_1600.jpg[/t] [quote]“It was crazy,” Brock Harmon, one of Harmon's six grandchildren, told ABC News. “There were probably 2,000 to 2,500 people there,” adding that people had traveled all the way from Australia and Hong Kong to meet the infamous “Sad Papaw.” [/quote] Source: [url]http://abcnews.go.com/US/thousands-wait-line-burgers-papaws-cookout/story?id=37979163[/url] The original: [t]http://i.imgur.com/UMlgekJ.jpg[/t]

Nice shirts and hats. Quick, we made an internet may may! Sell t-shirts! Maybe we can sign on with hot topic!!!

Good job cashing out on internet sympathy papaw

I think the real question is: Were the burgers any good?

So... did the grandkids show up? What if it was that he really just missed his grandkids? I don't think 2,500 strangers can help that

[QUOTE=proboardslol;50023354]Nice shirts and hats. Quick, we made an internet may may! Sell t-shirts! Maybe we can sign on with hot topic!!![/QUOTE] eh, I say let em make their money. They've probably realised this is lightning in a bottle and they won't get a chance like this ever again

I can see where Lium is getting at, that the unknown (strangers) is scary but the reality is that most people are decent honest human-beings. Extreme paranoia is as naive as extreme innocence.

[QUOTE=Kegan;50023746]I think the real question is: Were the burgers any good?[/QUOTE] [quote]People were waiting in line for almost an hour to get one of Papaw’s burgers that apparently were really good. “I haven’t heard a bad comment about them yet,” Brock said.[/quote]

Herd mentality this happens all the time

Now I want a burger...

Jeez he just wanted to cook feed 12 people not like 2,000 of them.

taking a meme to the extreme

I bet his no-show grandkids feel great now

[QUOTE=WoodenSpoon;50024973]I bet his no-show grandkids feel great now[/QUOTE] They orchestrated all of this and are raking in the Internet sympathy bucks wake up sheeple :tinfoil:

[QUOTE=phygon;50023735]Good job cashing out on internet sympathy papaw[/QUOTE] Cashing in how? He fed random strangers for over an hour of his own time lmao when would you ever do that. This man is a good man regardless if he sold t-shirts or not, which we don't even know if he did or his daughters got him one in the first place lol.

Disappointing how the kids weren't interested until they realised how much money could be made. I hope some of it founds its way to 'paw paw'

[QUOTE=1chains1;50025154]Cashing in how? He fed random strangers for over an hour of his own time lmao when would you ever do that. This man is a good man regardless if he sold t-shirts or not, which we don't even know if he did or his daughters got him one in the first place lol.[/QUOTE] The meme is absolutely terrible, but this doesn't really hurt anyone and unlike the [url=http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=dancing_man]dancing man[/url], this guy seems to have been open to the idea and invited people. He wasn't pressured into it and he wasn't trying to be manipulative. It really does seem like he's just looking for a good time with cool people.

[QUOTE=Kegan;50023746]I think the real question is: Were the burgers any good?[/QUOTE] Look at that man, he knows fat and protein.

They're kinda milking it for all it's worth now. I guess I can't blame them, but... jeez. Another thing is how the story's kind of misrepresented and the Internet doesn't even care to find out otherwise. [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/Q6dpcMs.jpg[/IMG] This is Papaw and all six grandkids. Why did most of them not show up? Four didn't show because their dad (Papaw's son) was at work and [I]forgot to tell them[/I]. After the photo was taken, the one who did show texted her brother and he showed up. The Internet did its usual. [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/gvyzRQ8.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/cwy12vO.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/qFrtA7c.jpg[/IMG] I mean, hey, any excuse to have a nice big burger event while you're Internet Famous, Sad Papaw, but jeez. Internet, you need to sit down and think about how you deal with things. Don't threaten people with assault because they missed a burger dinner holy fuck.

The internet will deal with things the way it always has: Irrationally.

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;50028275]I mean, hey, any excuse to have a nice big burger event while you're Internet Famous, Sad Papaw, but jeez. Internet, you need to sit down and think about how you deal with things.[/QUOTE]The link wauterboi posted a couple posts above dove into that quite well. Guess some/most people can't pass up a chance to pat their self on the back.

[QUOTE=Hervey;50028317]The link wauterboi posted a couple posts above dove into that quite well. Guess some/most people can't pass up a chance to pat their self on the back.[/QUOTE] I was more talking about the death threats and so on, less about the fact that Sad Papaw is now a meme with merch and his own burger event. Like people getting upvoted repeatedly for saying that one of Papaw's grandkids "smells like meth" and starting a metaphorical line for punching him in the face. I understand the family cashing in on the 15 minutes of Internet Fame more than the rabid hate, it's at least a rational response to going viral.

Well it's along the same lines. They have barely any facts on the situation and just go crusading about. Although death threats are a bit away from a 'well intentioned idiot' I suppose.

The shirts being written in Comic Sans just show how quickly they made these things for the cash.

[QUOTE=darth-veger;50028420]The shirts being written in Comic Sans just show how quickly they made these things for the cash.[/QUOTE] And people will eat it up like his burgers. Good on him for taking the opportunity, because I sure as hell would :v:

[QUOTE] adding that people had traveled all the way from Australia and Hong Kong to meet the infamous “Sad Papaw.” [/QUOTE] I mean, spend money on what you want, but traveling that far to see a meme?

[QUOTE=vladnag;50028444]I mean, spend money on what you want, but traveling that far to see a meme?[/QUOTE] You know that comic that is posted on LMAO every once and now where you see a old grandpa talking about what epic memes he had in his time? I would not be shocked if that turned true, "you know the classic 2016 meme Sad Papaw? I met the meme himself, my young lad."

[QUOTE=darth-veger;50028465]You know that comic that is posted on LMAO every once and now where you see a old grandpa talking about what epic memes he had in his time? I would not be shocked if that turned true, "you know the classic 2016 meme Sad Papaw? I met the meme himself, my young lad."[/QUOTE] A seniors' home, 2070: "My grandpa was a meme, y'know!" "Bullshit!" "No, really! It was back in 2016, and he made burgers, and was sad. Sad Papaw, he became, and it went viral and he became a meme." "...dude."

Imaging being the person that goes from Hong Kong to america to eat a burger from some random dude wow so exciting

Imagine becoming loaded just cause your grandkids didn't show up