Battle of the magnets

The Insane Clown Posse magnet meme is, at this point, a little old. But it is lovely, and has a new chapter — which is really an old chapter — today.

A quick recap:

Insane Clown Posse released a song called Miracles. In this song, they rap about how beautiful fucking nature is, and about the miracle of fucking childbirth. The jist of the song is that miracles, they be everywhere. Most famously, the song contains the line:

Fucking magnets, how do they work?

The song — particularly the magnet line — generated a fantastic meme with images such as this:

For those interested in exploring the meme further can do so at Encyclopedia Dramatica. Which is, coincidentally, where the above image was found.

Today I saw the following video, which just feeds the meme further, in which Richard Feynman … refuses to explain how magnets work. Fucking brilliant.

For those interested, here is the video for the song Miracles. Magnets are described at around the 1 minute, 50 second mark:

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