Sometimes news comes across our digital desk that's just too odd not to pass along to you. This is just one of those stories: The makers of Stride Gum are putting 1 million packs of gum on the line to put a stop to Uwe Boll's directing career. In short, if this petition receives another 764,000 signatures or so by May 14, the company's going to give every one of the signers a free pack of gum on May 23.
Wait, this is a publicity stunt? Oh, yeah, we know. But you know what else we know? We love free gum. These are the kind of moral quandaries you get into every day as a video game blogger, but we're pretty sure we made the right call on this one.
In April 2008, the Guardian newspaper ran an article claiming Boll had promised to retire if an online petition at petitiononline.com asking him to do so received 1,000,000 signatures. As of May 8 there are over 260,000 signatures.
Um...Uwe Boll, huh? Hmmm. ... Who?
I think it's significant that I first thought this was about Udo Kier.
"Let the dead give water to the dead. As for me, it's NO MORE FUCKING TEARS!"
For some reason, and damn me if I can tell why, everytime I see his name I think of Udo Dirkschneider, lead singer of the gay German heavy metal band Accept. Totally random, I know, but it happens every time.
