What's the Big Idea?!

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WARNING: This post may or may not contain material involving me in a restroom setting. If you do not wish to read such material, please kindly skip this entry and move on to the next (or move on with your life, whichever is most applicable). This post also may or may not be humorous...

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So there i was sitting on the John at the Menlo Park Public Library contemplating the meaning of life and science. It had been a pretty good day so far, things running as smoothly as can be expected during days like these. As i was, uh, lightening my load, i heard the bathroom door squeak open. Footsteps. To my horror i knew that those footsteps and the person attached to them were headed straight for the stall door! Quick as lighting i wondered if i had remembered to bolt the door properly at the exact moment the former realization popped into my brain and only seconds before said person attempted to open said stall door.

*whew* Fortunately i had remembered.


♪♪* Sploosh! *♪♪


And only seconds after that as i sat there finishing up the job, i immediately wondered how horrible, how completely terrifying it would have been if i had forgotten. Mystery Man would have seen me naked on the Crapper. There would have been an awkward verbal altercation. What would have been the best way to fend him off? Shout some obscenity? Something along the lines of "Hey!" or the probably too-polite "Excuse me!" even though he would have been the one needing to ask to be excused (funny how our language gets twisted around like that, isn't it?)?

I suppose i subconsciously decided that the best response would have been, "Hey! What's the Big Idea?!" probably because it's in a movie someplace or it just sounds so classic and great in my mind's ear. Which got me wondering...

What is the Big Idea? Who ever thought of saying that in the first place? Was there some Big Idea which everyone at some given point in the history of language and communication knew about and referenced from time to time and which eventually morphed and came to be widely used as an expression of indignation and mild anger? Is this Big Idea still accessible, knowable, quantifiable? COULD IT UNLOCK THE MYSTERIES OF THE FABRIC OF EXISTENCE??!?!?!!!!!!!

Perhaps the world may never know. Some brief research on "the internet" did not yield any immediate results. But folks, perhaps the Biggest Idea yet in the fabric of this man's existence has been this very realization that maybe no one knows where this expression originated and that perhaps with a little bit of concentrated effort, and perhaps some help from magic and science, we may yet again re-discover...

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*******[drum roll!!!]*******

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THE BIG IDEA.