Generic Al Blather 2.0

jake waters · Post by **jake waters** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:47 am

So... Wait.. "Weird Al" isn't a fictional character played by various actors? That puts a whole new perspective on things.

Al's #27 fan · Post by **Al's #27 fan** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 4:26 am

Jace, I've never heard that before. And the albino one is funny.

Post by **Kevbo1987** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 7:19 am

weirdojace @ Feb 22 2006, 08:23 PM wrote: Now, I've heard a lot of crazy stuff about Al in the past, but does anyone know how this one got started???

I've heard people say numerous times (and someone else said this to me today, which is why I'm saying this) that Weird Al is actually not real and that his songs are sung by a variety of different people and that over the past 20 years he's been around, different people have "played him." In short, they're saying that Al is a fictional artist and different people have been "playing him."

...Now, since I have heard this from a lot of people, I'm just wondering if anyone else has had people say this to them? Seriously, who made up this one, and why?

I mean, it's one thing when people say stuff like assuming he only does parodies (which most people think), but... wow.

Maybe they read Greg's RAQ and actually thought it was real.

Al's #27 fan · Post by **Al's #27 fan** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 7:37 am

That's actually what I was thinking, but then I was like "Nah..."

I mean like, I was thinking they might have read Greg's RAQ. Not that I read the RAQ and thought it was real.

LadyKatia · Post by **LadyKatia** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 7:43 am

That one's actually been around for a long time. Some people have nothing better to do than make up goofy rumors. I guess they saw the Princess Bride too many times and thought Al would make a good Dread Pirate Roberts!8)

CatraDhtem · Post by **CatraDhtem** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 12:32 pm

Kevbo1987 @ Feb 23 2006, 12:19 AM wrote: Maybe they read Greg's RAQ and actually thought it was real.

That's what the description looked like to me, too, but you know, if someone is really going to unquestionably believe that longer than the couple of seconds it would (hopefully) take for the joke to sink in, then I think to a point they deserve to sound like a fool when they repeat it to someone else.

I guess it's the "an actual letter" disclaimer (which it was!) that leads some to believe that it's followed by an actual answer as well. Why that's the one that sinks in of all things on the page, I don't know.

Post by **Kevbo1987** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:42 pm

I guess they're just not well-versed in the subtle art of sarcasm. They probably really went out and bought all the copies of the UHF soundtrack that they could find and sold all of them on eBay for three times what they're worth, too.

CatraDhtem · Post by **CatraDhtem** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 7:33 pm

Kevbo1987 @ Feb 23 2006, 10:42 AM wrote: They probably really went out and bought all the copies of the UHF soundtrack that they could find and sold all of them on eBay for three times what they're worth, too.

Well, let's hope, because that one needs to go Gold already too.

Post by **weirdojace** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:52 pm

Haha well when I was in 4th grade I read Greg's RAQ and thought I was so special because I had the UHF Soundtrack.

Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:13 am

weirdojace @ Feb 23 2006, 01:23 AM wrote: Now, I've heard a lot of crazy stuff about Al in the past, but does anyone know how this one got started???

I've heard people say numerous times (and someone else said this to me today, which is why I'm saying this) that Weird Al is actually not real and that his songs are sung by a variety of different people and that over the past 20 years he's been around, different people have "played him." In short, they're saying that Al is a fictional artist and different people have been "playing him."

I dunno about the fictional bit, but I actually talked to a woman wating in line to see Al at the OC Fair who thought that he was a successor to the "original" Weird Al. I think it was because he looks so different around the curly hair/fuzzy lip/bespectacled parts of his body, and also because he started so young and has been doing this so long... she couldn't wrap her mind around the idea that a guy in his forties could still leap around on stage like that for two hours at a stretch. I was happy to tell her that she was seeing the original article.