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The Naked Nirvana Baby, 17 Years Later

npr.org — Imagine if millions of people had seen you naked before you were old enough to say "embarrassing." That's the story of Spencer Elden, who you may know as the little baby floating towards a dollar bill on the cover of Nirvana's 1991 album, Nevermind.

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  • snareguy17, on 07/24/2008, -8/+545Every year there's a new post about what he's doing today.
    • sockpuppets, on 07/24/2008, -3/+31He's on twitter?
      • praisethelard, on 07/24/2008, -0/+42That'd be every 3 seconds.
      • SimonTB, on 07/24/2008, -28/+1I don't know, is he?

        When you add a question mark instead of a period or even an exclamation point, it is no longer a statement.
      • tech42er, on 07/24/2008, -0/+9@praisetheheard
        He may tweet every 3 seconds but most of the time, the servers are down so it only gets through once a day. ;)

        @SimonTB
        Whoosh.
      • ComradeRikhi, on 07/24/2008, -0/+12@SimonTB
        You are an idiot?
      • pault107, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1Umm, he was asking a question, not making a statement.
    • sockpuppets, on 07/24/2008, -5/+21Sockpuppets is now reading praisethelard's comments and pondering a witty retort.
    • RajDhillon, on 07/24/2008, -0/+65And every year I give a ***** less.
    • beware001, on 07/24/2008, -0/+14i saw him naked
    • EgaoNoGenki, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3Show me the links then.
    • Spuy767, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3Reading some of his quotes he sounds like he was not blessed with too much in the noggin.
    • Pittance, on 07/24/2008, -0/+6Old as *****, boring as *****. No one cares about some kid that was chosen because his parents didn't care how they used his image.
    • ummagummas08, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1"[He] calls us up and was like, 'Hey Rick, wanna make 200 bucks and throw your kid in the drink?,'" Rick recounts. "I was like, 'What's up?' And he's like, 'Well, I'm shooting kids all this week, why don't you meet me at the Rose Bowl, throw your kid in the drink?' And we just had a big party at the pool, and no one had any idea what was going on!"

      I've called up my friends that have kids with that exact same offer! Boy, world gets smaller every day.
  • skoubydoo, on 07/24/2008, -27/+8Alright, let's see the little guy.
  • NeelxSarkar, on 07/24/2008, -38/+180Sounds like a brat to me.
    • MetalGear7, on 07/24/2008, -7/+29how?
      • emiparker, on 07/24/2008, -4/+30sounds like a normal 17 year old kid to me
    • shondell, on 07/24/2008, -5/+19he likes techno.
      • simulastral, on 07/24/2008, -10/+3***** moron, techno rocks
      • vegetables, on 07/24/2008, -9/+4god hates techno...
      • imbob, on 07/24/2008, -11/+3I'm pretty sure he doesn't listen to techno NOBODY DOES!!

        its called electronic music! for crying out loud!

        its like calling nickelback Metal
      • turnipradish, on 07/24/2008, -1/+6What you say is true, but usually people have no idea what you mean when you start talking about how much you love EDM. I tell people I listen to techno even though I know it's not technically correct, but I don't like having to explain myself.
      • kidd3ckz, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1You might like it if you had robot ears...
    • thielen24, on 07/24/2008, -1/+18You sound like an ***** to me. He wants to receive appointment to one of the most difficult schools in the country in order to selflessly serve his country. Trust me, you need all the motivation you can get just to get through the application process.
    • adasha, on 07/24/2008, -0/+7why the hell are you getting dugg up so much? he doesn't sound like a brat at all, just some regular kid
    • MN1962, on 07/24/2008, -4/+1Kid sounds OK. You, snareguy17 are a dick.
  • Lutfesk, on 07/24/2008, -2/+166$200? ouch.
    • shondell, on 07/24/2008, -2/+22I would've done it for free knowing millions of people would see me. And it would be a cool icebreaker for anyone you meet.
      • Puppetfunk, on 07/24/2008, -0/+90What girl wouldn't sleep with a guy who greeted her with, "So, chances are you've already seen my penis so....."
      • GliTCH82, on 07/24/2008, -1/+4Come on, it's not hard. All you do is wait till you're 21, then.... err, wait a minute...
      • calenerd, on 07/24/2008, -2/+4and everyone is gonna know your thing is as small as a tic-tac.
      • kidd3ckz, on 07/24/2008, -0/+4Mine's as BIG as a tic-tac.
    • IKORKYI, on 07/24/2008, -2/+2I WAS IN THE POOL!!!!
    • Merp08, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1It was nice of Geffen to give him the record and the teddy bear, it would have been nice if they would have thrown them some cash after seeing how well Nevermind did. Better yet, they could have paid his way through college or something like that.
  • revmhatt, on 07/24/2008, -6/+395Oh well. Whatever. Nevermind.
    • nullx42, on 07/24/2008, -69/+9YOU'RE SIMPLY THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST
      • digitalarcanum, on 07/24/2008, -30/+6THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST
      • Mrdudeperson, on 07/24/2008, -1/+7OK...
      • jd72277, on 07/24/2008, -9/+1Simply the best? better than all the rest?
      • fightforyou, on 07/24/2008, -5/+10gb2/b/
      • nullx42, on 07/24/2008, -9/+2I have to let this ***** out somewhere, 7chan sucks.
      • Zlorp, on 07/24/2008, -2/+6this isnt 4chan, and 4chan isnt cool in the first place
    • dsoldier, on 07/24/2008, -31/+10hello, hello, hello, how low?
    • LETHARGICpirate, on 07/24/2008, -0/+4I see what you did there.
  • GB570, on 07/24/2008, -18/+11"Quite a few people in the world have seen my penis,"
    "So that's kinda cool." hahahha
  • glucoseboy, on 07/24/2008, -17/+2"yeah, most people have seen my penis. I guess that's kinda cool"
    • SugarCoatedSalt, on 07/24/2008, -0/+7...so that's kinda cool. that's how he finishes every sentence.
  • jaychuck, on 07/24/2008, -10/+319This story about him being 16 was on Diggnation last year. WTF, Digg, do we really need a yearly update about this kid?
    • eekfuh, on 07/24/2008, -4/+14It wasn't even that good of an article last year either.
    • Harbinger67, on 07/24/2008, -7/+6Seriously, I remember Kevin talking about this like it was just a few weeks ago.
    • Archer007, on 07/24/2008, -4/+17Yes?
    • cambob76, on 07/24/2008, -3/+8Seriously, this dude's claim to fame is extremely weak. The Nevermind baby grew up into some random dude you could just about meet anywhere??? WHO CARES!!!
      • Pusod, on 07/24/2008, -2/+1Well you aren't exactly famous as well, so who cares what you have to say.
      • Iztikeit, on 07/24/2008, -1/+2No one should care about what anyone says. ***** everyone, but particularly the kid romanticizing the early 90s.
      • timusca, on 07/24/2008, -1/+2Seeing as you refer to him as "the Nevermind baby" instead of his real name, that shows that he's famous.
    • MN1962, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1I missed it last year so I am glad they did.
    • ifknot, on 07/24/2008, -1/+3well he is a poster child for a generation so perhaps it is interesting
    • fugazied, on 07/24/2008, -2/+5You've been waiting a year to make that comment, haven't you?
  • AlwaysDuggDown, on 07/24/2008, -4/+35http://youtube.com/watch?v=pm3F9piwnTU&feature=rel ...
    • EmitStop, on 07/24/2008, -5/+2Hey it looks like you got dugg up, AlwaysDuggDown.
      • Nimsim, on 07/24/2008, -1/+1ouch, the same does not apply to you...

        Nor me.
  • CLShortFuse, on 07/24/2008, -2/+81I remember when a similar article hit Digg a few months. But I'm going to digg this article, mainly because he doesn't look like this anymore:
    http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p295/leandrocas ...
    • LemonChicken, on 07/24/2008, -3/+10Bro...
    • shondell, on 07/24/2008, -0/+16every kid in high school looked like that in high school last year. Im talking about the hair style.
    • SimonTB, on 07/24/2008, -2/+9Oh god... I actually gagged when I saw that picture and I'm not sure why.
    • oblivian92, on 07/24/2008, -0/+2He had to shave his hair when he went to military school.
    • yugosakimi, on 07/26/2008, -0/+0HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
  • TYEZ, on 07/24/2008, -18/+4that baby has a giant wang
    ...for a baby that is
    • disrupter, on 07/24/2008, -1/+49Why don't you have a seat over here.
    • TYEZ, on 07/24/2008, -6/+3just stating facts brother
    • Discobiscuits, on 07/24/2008, -0/+18pedobrother
    • swizzlestick, on 07/24/2008, -2/+4I'd like to read you a comment you left recently:

      "that baby has a giant wang... for a baby that is"

      Now, why would you... Please, please sit down... Yes, you're free to go...
  • swatward, on 07/24/2008, -10/+132I truly couldn't care less.
    • driftwood07, on 07/24/2008, -11/+9thank you are not instead saying "i truly could care less"
      like so many people who misuse the term.
      • shoopdawoop, on 07/24/2008, -1/+23If you are annoyed by that, just wait until you read your comment.
      • GliTCH82, on 07/24/2008, -1/+1Whoa, whoa, whoa.. nobody gives a *****.
      • P373Y, on 07/24/2008, -0/+2@glitch82
        thats a rather negative outlook. maybe some military school will fix that up
      • m3mn0n, on 07/24/2008, -1/+2@driftwood07

        i truly could care less about semantics
    • AutoTom, on 07/24/2008, -0/+5Agreed. this arrogant idiot fails to realise that he's not special in the slightest for being the nirvana baby.

      This is not news.

      This kid needs to get a life and 'npr.org' the publishers need to find some real news to report on.
      • Iztikeit, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3And Nirvana wasn't that great to begin with.
    • cutright, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1If that were actually the case, you wouldn't have bothered making a comment.
  • Iztikeit, on 07/24/2008, -5/+149He seems rather uninteresting.
  • Bcodms, on 07/24/2008, -13/+2Buried, next year he turns what? who gives a @$^$%^@^ Did you see the wiring they put in that Arabs face. Classic.
  • homer420032003, on 07/24/2008, -5/+16I thought angst was some new drug :(
    • HMMcKamikaze, on 07/24/2008, -1/+6You mean angadream?
    • goldenratiophi, on 07/24/2008, -1/+9"Teenage angst has paid off well / Now I'm bored and old"
  • scottja35, on 07/24/2008, -2/+102"I WAS IN THE POOL!"
    • xDynaBlade, on 07/24/2008, -12/+3Pool's closed.
      • paradigm1220, on 07/24/2008, -0/+4Turn right around and go back to 4chan. Oh wait...you got DDoS'ed.
      • NolanRey, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3@paragay1220:

        DORK!!!
    • nynety, on 07/24/2008, -0/+7Whoa, deja vu. Somebody posted that exact comment the last time he made the front page. I remember because I love both Seinfeld and Nirvana.

    • ChairShot83, on 07/24/2008, -0/+2Well then I don't have to mention the 'shrink factor' then, huh?
  • marypei, on 07/24/2008, -10/+2Poor guy.
  • KineticShampoo, on 07/24/2008, -33/+2That's really interesting. It's like one of those things you always want to know but always forget to ask. :P

    Reminds of this other question my friend asked me last week:
    It sort of like the Enciclopedia for pidgeons and their young. Lots of stuff I've always been curious about. Anyway, check it out.

    www.meatspin.com
    • convergent, on 07/24/2008, -1/+8im pretty sure i don't need to say dont go to the link.
    • minorthreat, on 07/24/2008, -0/+6god I love that website
    • t4ll3y, on 07/24/2008, -1/+11Welcome to 2006.
    • Nitesmoke, on 07/24/2008, -2/+6that is seriously old
    • computerusr, on 07/24/2008, -2/+3That is.... the greatest comment ever posted on Digg.
    • WallnutBoy, on 07/24/2008, -1/+1..You really are new to the internets, aren't you.

      You should check out lemonparty.org. I hear the recipes on that are great.
  • cadmiumpaint, on 07/24/2008, -8/+17this story was cool....when i read it a few months ago.
  • micahned, on 07/24/2008, -5/+8Sounds like he's turned out to be quite a little hellion
  • xsecretfiles, on 07/24/2008, -18/+81Am I the only one who wants to see what his penis looks like today?
    • LemonChicken, on 07/24/2008, -6/+165Yes.
      • Signa91, on 07/24/2008, -8/+1its funny cuz i knew what you were gunna say before i clicked the "replies" button
      • cobainirvana, on 07/24/2008, -4/+2I wanted to answer that question with "yes" but I figured I'd get dugg down to hell....go figure
    • peaceninja, on 07/24/2008, -23/+3that would make you a pedophile since he's still under 17. wait how old are you?
      • Gurezaemon, on 07/24/2008, -3/+28Pedophilia has nothing to do with age. It is generally considered to be a "sexual preference for prepubescent children" (wikipedia) and at 17 years old, I'm pretty sure he would have hit puberty.

        Attraction to a minor? Sure. But its not pedophilia.
      • Cossa, on 07/24/2008, -23/+4Gurezaemon - Justify it however you'd like. You're a pervert. Stay away from my kids. And my cat.
      • damian7, on 07/24/2008, -21/+4 Gurezaemon, you're a ***** pedophile, I bet that's how you justify your attraction to 12-15 yearolds you *****
      • xonkonog, on 07/24/2008, -2/+16Im Chris Hansen, please take a seat.
      • BestJaxx, on 07/24/2008, -3/+2@xonkonog: ...right over there.
      • jgtg32a, on 07/24/2008, -1/+3adophile or something like that, adolescent phile. Learned that from Law and Order
    • BestJaxx, on 07/24/2008, -3/+33I do... but that may have something to do with me being gay and wanting to see almost everyone's penis.
    • BertEatsDirt, on 07/24/2008, -0/+24Apparently the record company people wanted to photoshop out the penis, but Kurt Cobain protested saying that anyone who had a problem with the penis being visible was a closet pedophile.
    • hellahyphy, on 07/24/2008, -3/+1I knew someone would mention his penis. I knew it! LMAO

  • ninjasenses, on 07/24/2008, -12/+22"Quite a few people in the world have seen my penis," he says from his home in Los Angeles. "So that's kinda cool..."
    • daviddiaz, on 07/24/2008, -10/+2I thought it was his toe sticking out behind his belly. I always figured that it couldn't have been his penis since that'd be like child porn or something.
    • kslat3r, on 07/24/2008, -1/+1wow, you quoted the article, congratulations

      /sarcasm
      • HotBaconSauce, on 07/24/2008, -0/+2Thanks for letting us know you were sarcastic!
  • kr9681, on 07/24/2008, -11/+4***** a gerber baby
    • hokie47, on 07/24/2008, -0/+8I actually talked to the gerber baby a few months ago. She is a sweet old lady now. Strange stuff happens when I stop by my parents house during my mother's book club. Her name is Ann Turner Cook and she now lives in Tampa.
      • Jeffler, on 07/24/2008, -0/+2On the opposite side, I've met the "other" Gerber Baby, Ottawa Senators goalie Martin Gerber. Good times.
  • atlquaker, on 07/24/2008, -12/+111So, did he ever get that dollar? And is his penis really that small?
    • imquaid, on 07/24/2008, -2/+60dude, he's just a baby. and the water was probably really cold.
    • SimonTB, on 07/24/2008, -0/+33He was a baby. Go ask your mom for some pictures of you when you were a baby.
    • Voide, on 07/24/2008, -1/+16"He was a baby. Go ask your mom for some pictures of you when you were a baby."

      Or pictures of him now...wont make a difference either way.
      • MacTyler, on 07/24/2008, -3/+6well played sir!
      • timusca, on 07/24/2008, -1/+13If his mom has pictures of him now with his penis in it, he's got bigger problem than a small pecker.
  • caninedevotion, on 07/24/2008, -5/+20Yay! Now tell me what the man with the hairy back from the Pixies album Come on Pilgrim is doing now! I really want to know! Does he like techno too? Wow! Very exciting stuff.
  • aftern9ne, on 07/24/2008, -11/+4You have to be the biggest idiot to get your parents to send you to military school. I'm sorry kid, it ain't the 90's anymore and "testing authority" isn't cool.
  • minorthreat, on 07/24/2008, -0/+22Will people ever leave this guy alone?
  • AppleGeorge, on 07/24/2008, -9/+1This was awesome when I originally saw it on Digg a year ago. Glad to see that the duplication detection does nothing.

    Oh, and yes I know some people have not seen this. Yet there is a ***** reason to detect duplicate stories, it just doesn't work. That's why we ***** bitch.
  • handler, on 07/24/2008, -14/+4Funny that this is posted today, I was watching a video about him yesterday.
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
  • dizzythegreat, on 07/24/2008, -8/+56Due to the trauma to his privates at such a young vulnerable age, he is now plagued with an underdeveloped penis exactly the same size at it was on that famous cover.



    Poor kid.
  • ileftfark, on 07/24/2008, -12/+7At least he's got his senses about him. While he (rightfully) rails against pop-culture and how kids aren't doing anything meaningful, he wants to travel, or go to art school, or West Point or something. Truly profound.
    • TrevorBelmont, on 07/24/2008, -1/+4pro·found: -adj.
      Penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding.
  • Wootstapler, on 07/24/2008, -8/+1Was watching older episodes of Diggnation. They already covered this...
  • Briii, on 07/24/2008, -11/+2what a douche bag
  • norbiu, on 07/24/2008, -1/+85He was like "I saw your dick, man!" and I was like "cool" and my dad was like "I made $200" and then I was like "nice" and then .. ***** THIS *****!
  • elveis, on 07/24/2008, -1/+69I saw this submission and I was like "I totally gotta read this." And I told my friend about it and he's was all like "Dude, you gotta send me that link." and I was all like "Okay, but it's not that great of an article and stuff." So then he's like "That's kinda cool, send it anyways." So I like sent it to him and then made a comment and stuff.
    • xonkonog, on 07/24/2008, -0/+6that was like awesome and stuff.
    • Soytaco, on 07/24/2008, -0/+21I can't believe i just read that
    • MacTyler, on 07/24/2008, -1/+2Hey, at least its original, you gotta give him that.
      • Nimsim, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1I dunno, it kinda reminded of the the comment 1 minute before his.
  • FarSide792, on 07/24/2008, -7/+52I dunno about this article...but...SHARK WEEK starts soon :)
    • stupidStan, on 07/24/2008, -0/+5you should live every week like it's shark week!
  • robodork, on 07/24/2008, -1/+65god its been 20 years and i cant get anyone to pay me 200$ for my penis
    • RogueMountie, on 07/24/2008, -1/+17I'll give you five bucks.
    • mxmj, on 07/24/2008, -1/+1You obviously haven't been trying very hard..
  • thegrantman, on 07/24/2008, -8/+0I couldn't care less.
    • norbiu, on 07/24/2008, -0/+12Apparently you care enough to write a comment.
  • chamberlanderic, on 07/24/2008, -5/+38Spencer Elden, now 17, says he thinks it would have been cooler to have been a teen in the early '90s.

    damn right !!!!
    • voyvf, on 07/24/2008, -2/+10*****, don't tell me people are going to go all retro for the 90's.

      Grunge was cool, yeah, and ANSI colored ASCII graphics could rock, but all in all, the rest of it was SSDD.
      • incantare, on 07/24/2008, -1/+4Yeah well the last years people were not all completely assholes with cellphones was around 1994... now life is empty. At least back then we still had half a fight.
      • letitbleed62, on 07/24/2008, -0/+9fitter. happier. more productive.
    • chevyorange, on 07/24/2008, -2/+4*****, I can't even begin to tell you how cool it was to be a high school senior in 1991 in Seattle. Frat parties at the UW with Nirvana, Sweet Water, Tad.. all the bands that everyone knew and that became so big.

      Hey kids, rock and roll, rock on!
      • B3000, on 07/24/2008, -1/+7Umm, Nirvana wasn't playing frat parties. I'm sorry, I was there. I saw them twice and met them all at least one time apiece. They hated frat guys - or at least Kurt and Krist did. One of the biggest things that bugged Kurt when they got so huge was the fact that the exact kind of guys who used to beat them up in high school (ie, jocks and future frat boys) were showing up at their shows.

        Also, it was really ***** living up there back then, but that is a long topic and your just some poseur on digg, not worth the time.

        (wow, how lame am I?)
      • chevyorange, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1You're obviously pretty lame - I didn't grow up in Aberdeen (nor would I have wanted to) but very definitely these bands played free shows and frats during that era. I'm no poser, I'm no frat boy but ***** I love good music.

        PS - if you're not a poser either you will be interested in knowing Sweet Water has a new album coming out in the next few weeks.

        Notice I didn't call you a name either.
    • Nysul, on 07/24/2008, -0/+16As a teen in the 90s you would miss out on the drugs of the 80s and the promiscuity of the 2000s. At least we killed glam metal.
      • mofw, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1miss out on the drugs of the 80s and the promiscuity of the 2000s...
        Dam that AIDS scare
    • illustrick, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1its soo weird meeting kids born in the 90's
      • Detritus, on 07/24/2008, -0/+4Hello my name is Chris Hanson, why don't you have a seat over there?
    • Jauladeoro, on 08/27/2008, -0/+3If you want to feel old, listen to this - the other day I saw this teenage kid wearing a Nirvana shirt.

      Now I know how my parents felt when I wore a Beatles shirt and thought I was being all retro and cool.
    • Merp08, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1Word to God!
  • BradOFarrell, on 07/24/2008, -11/+0"Quite a few people in the world have seen my penis," he says from his home in Los Angeles. "So that's kinda cool. I'm just a normal kid living it up and doing the best I can while I'm here."
    • Lith25, on 07/24/2008, -1/+10Wow, how did you manage to get the whole quote from that page to this one?
  • goat2, on 07/24/2008, -5/+14pool's closed
    • thesoprano, on 07/24/2008, -10/+2I miss /b/, too.
    • DevilInPgh, on 07/24/2008, -1/+1I guess that's why people say there should be no "p" in "ool". Next time, I hope we keep it that way.
  • diggproof, on 07/24/2008, -4/+45Leave Naked Nirvana Baby ALONE! He's a HUMAN!
    • uthallan, on 07/24/2008, -5/+3that was funny lol
    • BestJaxx, on 07/24/2008, -0/+4The new album is called give me more because all you want is more, more, MORE!
  • 0biKwiet, on 07/24/2008, -1/+7I bet that'd get you in trouble today.
  • pootpoot, on 07/24/2008, -3/+15""My friend is all like, 'Hey I saw you today.' And I'm like, 'Dude, I was working all day.' And he's like, 'No, I went to Geffen Records, and you're on the floor and you're floating and I stepped on your face. 'Cause I guess they have like a floating thing where people can like walk on me and stuff ... so it's kinda cool," he says."

    I couldn't help but laugh... I probably talked like that when I was a teen, but it's amusing to see that nothing ever really changes :).
    • Nitesmoke, on 07/24/2008, -1/+2is that you, Fred Savage?
    • norbiu, on 07/24/2008, -0/+13When you were a teen?! His dad talks like that too!

      "[He] calls us up and was like, 'Hey Rick, wanna make 200 bucks and throw your kid in the drink?,'" Rick recounts. "I was like, 'What's up?' And he's like, 'Well, I'm shooting kids all this week, why don't you meet me at the Rose Bowl, throw your kid in the drink?' And we just had a big party at the pool, and no one had any idea what was going on!"
      • letitbleed62, on 07/24/2008, -1/+6i like how he was so eager to "throw his kid in the drink"
    • mxmj, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1Dude, he was probably just high...
  • Asheis, on 07/24/2008, -4/+2The years, no doubt, have changed him!
  • killerknives, on 07/24/2008, -3/+28He should date Cobain's daughter
  • Jenadae, on 07/24/2008, -10/+35"As Spencer is wont to say"

    This article made my brain hurt..
    • krekc, on 07/24/2008, -10/+3I was trying to wrap my head around that and I just couldnt do it.
    • ozyobbo, on 07/24/2008, -1/+25What's wrong with that? It means "As Spencer is accustomed to say..."
      • swiftheart, on 07/24/2008, -4/+7What's wrong with it? It's an unnecessarily awkward phrase.

        "As Spencer says..." would be much clearer without losing any meaning.
      • tech42er, on 07/24/2008, -5/+2And they used it twice. They're trying to make the article more "human interesty" but it's failing.
    • browwiw, on 07/24/2008, -2/+20They're having a hard time because it's NPR and just a little bit over their heads. I hate adults with 6th grade reading levels.
    • lordzelo, on 07/24/2008, -3/+4After designing web sites for 12 hours I tried to read this article, I was doing ok until that last piece... When I woke up everyone in the office was around me asking if I was ok.
    • Cheeselover, on 07/24/2008, -1/+21Wont
      – adjective
      1. accustomed; used (usually fol. by an infinitive): He was wont to rise at dawn.
  • DeathJux, on 07/24/2008, -16/+3Dugg for naked babies.
    • thallium205, on 07/24/2008, -1/+3** Block User **
    • RogueMountie, on 07/24/2008, -3/+1I'm not sure why they are digging you down. That is one nice baby.
    • BestJaxx, on 07/24/2008, -1/+2Why don't you take a seat? Right over there?
  • humanerror, on 07/24/2008, -2/+34Holy ***** I"m old
    • iPoul, on 07/24/2008, -4/+2Yes.
    • ifknot, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3So, if you remember Nirvana you're old? WTF!
      • stetsonblade, on 07/24/2008, -0/+0Yes, sadly that is how it is for you guys. I on the other hand was like 5...so I don't remember them. Sucks to be old like you teens from the 90s. Poor lost and angry souls.
  • Karai, on 07/24/2008, -1/+4I actually wondered this from time to time. "What does the kid on the album think about being the kid on the album?"

    I was disappointed that he seems like a rather uninteresting kid. Oh well.
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