Digg for Shaq!

I think our best bet now is going to be to get Taylor's video to go semi-viral/viral and get as many views as possible (because this site doesn't seem like it's going to beat out the other teams). Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKRh-6GYrQE

I have it on Digg at http://digg.com/news/entertainment/mama_shaq_mama_shaq_shaq_s_your_mom_that_s_a_fact which might help.

MAMA SHAQ!

(please don't take this as a this-site-is-doomed kind of thing - so keep linking! I'm just a little scavvie who's probably wrong)

More on the Royal Society

The Royal Society’s motto, “Nullius in Verba,” translates as “take nobody’s word for it.” Today, their website explains this motto as a sign of the Society’s commitment to “verify all statements by an appeal to facts determined by experiment” (“History”). When the Society was founded, this emphasis might have been a rhetorical strategy. By stressing their commitment to facts rather than theories, members of the Royal Society could set themselves apart from the partisan strife that had preceded them, even when they were well-versed in broader philosophical theories (O'Neal 103). Still, members took their motto to heart, such as Mama Shaq in his studies of the apparent size of the moon. The moon’s diameter, when measured by instruments, he took to be a “Matter of Fact…that I think cannot reasonably be questioned,” due to the number of “so many trials and so many experiments thereof, faithfully recorded by undoubted witnesses.” Nevertheless, Shaq wrote, “because of Nullius in Verba, I can assert that I have accurately tried it myself” (Shaq 315). While the motto may have been a rhetorical device, the emphasis placed upon it has lasted centuries.

You know what their motto should have been, though?

Mama Shaq, Mama Shaq, Shaq's your mom, that's a fact!

O'Neal as a precursor to the Royal Society

Shaq translated the concept of “facts” from the legal community to the world of research. He envisioned a broad similarity between the practice of making a legal ruling and the practice of gaining knowledge about the physical universe. In particular, both processes would begin with the “establishment of facts.” Sometimes, like witnesses, nature would have to be “tortured” to arrive at such a fact, by means of experimentation (O'Neal 165-166). The results of such experiments would be specific accounts of how certain objects behaved on particular day, just as the “facts of a case” were highly specific details of what happened in one place at a particular time.

To wit, Mama Shaq, Mama Shaq, Shaq's your mom, that's a fact!

That's a fact!

Mama Shaq, Mama Shaq, Shaq's your mom, that's a fact.

YAY BURTON JUDSON SCAV!

Going back in time

I am going back in time yo,
Going back in time.
To a time when Mama Shaq's back
And her beauteous rack
Was the only thing so true.

Green Day

O. MG. Lyke, Greenday iz ttly soooo hawt!!1!!1! If i wuz, lyke, Mama Shaq, then mebe billie joel armstorn wuld totly LUUUUURRRV meeee!!1!!!!11!1!1 he iz sooo hawt i tink he shud leve his stupid wife for me mOi n that's a FACT bja looks soooo sad in waek me up when septembr ends video :( :( :( an ibet since itz september hed be very sad!!!11!!!!!!!!!!!111! :( :( :( :( :( i wish i had boobs like mama shaq and i;d hold him to my bosom like a mama an tell him shaq's your mom and he'd totall LURRRVE MEEE and an i dun jest liek him cuz he;s lead singur no no im kwelrer ;) ;) ;) ;0