The Terrible Mr. G

What happens when you play Counterstrike too much? You end up with a potty mouth. And some enemies:

So, the story goes that co-worker A got sick of co-worker B’s constant profanity whilst playing Counter Strike. Co-worker A then hid a microphone next to co-worker B’s desk, and captured this stream of rantings. Then, as co-worker A was a member of an electronic music-making concern, he endeavored to edit it all together. The end result was this: The Terrible Mr. G.

I highly recommend the song above to anyone who has played/knows someone who plays/heard someone play Counterstrike (via my first mine).


47 Comments

  1. Posted February 5, 2003 at 9:16 pm | Permalink

    Wow, that was awesome!

  2. Posted February 5, 2003 at 9:32 pm | Permalink

    I am going to church now.

  3. Posted February 12, 2003 at 11:16 am | Permalink

    There is a video to this somewhere, I’ve seen it. It’s 10x funnier than the MP3. Can anybody find it?

  4. cousin-merle
    Posted February 14, 2003 at 1:19 pm | Permalink

    Better

    http://gaming.stny.com/movies/thevoz.wmv

  5. Posted February 14, 2003 at 3:15 pm | Permalink

    That is possibly the most fantastic use of the internet I’ve ever come across. Well done :)

  6. Posted February 14, 2003 at 3:15 pm | Permalink

    That is possibly the most fantastic use of the internet I’ve ever come across. Well done :)

  7. kurt
    Posted February 14, 2003 at 3:16 pm | Permalink

    Hey, make it so when you hit the post button, it indicates it’s posting and won’t let you hit post again, mmkay? :-P

  8. Curious
    Posted February 14, 2003 at 4:25 pm | Permalink

    I knew another Mr. G. that did the exact same thing. Does your Mr. G’s name sound like Malen Mevenson?

  9. fahq
    Posted February 14, 2003 at 5:06 pm | Permalink

    damn, that was just gorgeous. Now where can we meet the author and thank him/her

  10. g
    Posted February 14, 2003 at 5:49 pm | Permalink

    there’s no video to this, you dummy.

  11. TheSquish
    Posted February 14, 2003 at 6:53 pm | Permalink

    lol i know a few guys on the server i admin for act just like it. ROFL! good shit

  12. Duderock
    Posted February 14, 2003 at 9:54 pm | Permalink

    The video is at:

    http://gaming.stny.com/movies/

    thevoz.wmv

  13. sweetlamb
    Posted February 15, 2003 at 7:43 am | Permalink

    found this link on fark.com, it was hysterical, i just poured myself my first cup of coffee in the morning clicked on this, took a drink and spit it out I was laughing so hard I woke my boyfriend up. Its too damn funny!! Just imagining someone sitting there saying all this, and ive seen this at home getting fustrated over a game, I would love to know the response of the person this was made of.

  14. free
    Posted February 15, 2003 at 8:21 am | Permalink

    “there’s no video to this, you dummy.”
    ‘g’ Why so certain?
    Heyyyyy, you wouldn’t by chance be the Mr. G in question?
    Maybe you should lay off the double espresso’s. Maybe this is more serious than diet. . .
    Gettin’ any? Unhappy?
    Seek help. Life’s too short man.
    heehee

  15. Fluff Girl
    Posted February 16, 2003 at 1:22 pm | Permalink

    Too damn funny. Creative genius….

  16. Dan
    Posted February 17, 2003 at 12:23 am | Permalink

    OMG - TOO FRIGGIN FUNNY… I downloaded it and have it on my travel MP3 player… tooo friggin funny… theonly thing its missing is th quotes stating “YOU F&*$%&# CHEATER!!!” YOU FRIGGIN HACK!!!”

  17. Posted February 21, 2003 at 8:05 pm | Permalink

    Wow. I’d like to offically adopt this song as my site’s (http://www.godfuckingdamnit.com) official theme song. This is the most brilliant thing I’ve ever heard. Thank you!

  18. tim
    Posted May 5, 2003 at 7:58 am | Permalink

    … ITS CRAP (fullstop)

    Couple of Sad ass ppl without a life taking games too far/seriously if u ask me its jus retarded tbh

  19. Tehanu
    Posted May 20, 2003 at 3:11 pm | Permalink

    Not only is it funny, the song is actually pretty good as well!

  20. andy c
    Posted May 27, 2003 at 11:14 pm | Permalink

    Yo yo, whats the opera thingy bober at the end .

    le le la la….. le le la la… etc…

    i wanna download that

  21. dona
    Posted May 30, 2003 at 7:55 am | Permalink

    This is what the internet was made for. The idea is funny, but the execution is BRILLIANCE. All that carefull arrangement…. It made me happier than I’ve been in a long time. I too wonder what Mr G thought of it….

  22. Posted June 3, 2003 at 8:44 pm | Permalink

    I decided to waste 15 minutes today and transcribe Mr. G. Just go to http://trombonedoc.net/mrg.txt and enjoy. Oh, and if I screwed up what he said, e-mail findecano@sexmachine.com.

  23. Posted June 8, 2003 at 2:10 pm | Permalink

    Fuck sorry I totally fucked my e-mail address. If I screwed up what he said, e-mail findecano@sexmagnet.com.

  24. opera_thiny
    Posted June 9, 2003 at 12:31 pm | Permalink

    carmina burana is the opera thingy at the end.

  25. Posted August 9, 2003 at 10:04 pm | Permalink

    More specifically, ‘O Fortuna’ from the Carmina Burana Suite, by Carl Orff.

    I put that in that text file I link to.

  26. Garhee
    Posted August 23, 2003 at 2:42 pm | Permalink

    Hey, I actually know Mr. Grimshaw. I can’t believe he’s this big internet superstar loser now.

    Actually, I take that back. He’s the only person I know who can sit in his cubical all day playing Counter Strike (poorly) and become famous at it.

    Years ago, I went to a movie theater with him while he was carrying a whole bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. They let him it while he was stuffing his face with an extra crispy drum stick. I try to walk it with a half empty bottle of water and they tell me I have to leave my drink outside!

  27. garhee
    Posted August 23, 2003 at 2:43 pm | Permalink

    I meant to say “they let him IN”..you know what I meant

  28. Posted September 21, 2003 at 3:38 am | Permalink

    OMG WHERE THE HELL DO I DL THE CS MOVIE “THEVOZ” I CANT FIND IT

  29. Posted October 1, 2003 at 8:15 pm | Permalink

    so fucking funny. I’m addicted to it. I listen to it like once a day, all the time laughing hysterically. I think it’s starting to piss ppl off. MOTHER FUCK!

  30. Brian Paeske
    Posted October 3, 2003 at 4:30 am | Permalink

    Both the song and video are hysterical.
    If there were only more videos like this where people are just losing it totally then maybe it would be worth it to pay extra for DSL.

    I want to see someone get so mad at a stupid video game that he throws his keyboard/mouse/tower across the room. That would be a true “money shot.”

  31. anonymous_geek
    Posted October 8, 2003 at 2:47 pm | Permalink

    The link http://gaming.stny.com/movies/thevoz.wmv no longer works. Any other sources for the mov of this?

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    Posted January 22, 2004 at 11:32 am | Permalink

    TRY GOOGLE for “thevoz.wmv”, duh? Worked for me…

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    Posted January 26, 2004 at 5:37 am | Permalink

    just got the vid and mp3 its wicked worth the download

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  44. lyberty
    Posted March 27, 2005 at 11:02 pm | Permalink

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  45. Levi.hat
    Posted July 29, 2005 at 3:50 am | Permalink

    As a CS 1.6 and CS:S player that was just FUCKING awsome lol. Keep up the good work…… d-(^’^)>

  46. Jam
    Posted September 25, 2005 at 3:58 am | Permalink

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  47. Kurt Harland Larson
    Posted October 10, 2007 at 3:32 pm | Permalink

    Hi, I’m the person who created this recording. I only just saw this thread today after doing a Google search on “The Terrible Mr. Grimshaw”. I’ll respond to some of the comments here:

    First - Glad so many of you liked it. I can tell you that I had trouble even making the thing because I was laughing so hard.

    Second - Here’s the story: The protagonist in this song is named Trevor Grimshaw. He’s honestly a great guy, but man he would get worked up at lunch and 6PM when the team played CS together. He and I worked at a video game company, and I worked RIGHT fuckign NEXT to him. And get this: I’m an audio guy. That’s right, I have to make music and sound, and I had Trevor on the other side of one piece of half-inch sheetrock. It wasn’t so much the sheer noise as the psychological fight-or-flight experience of getting SCREAMED at like, every 57 seconds. I’d be listening carefully to some sound, and then “AAAAH GOD DAMMIT!!”…

    I asked him to knock it off, but honestly, I don’t think he could. He really intended to, I think, but it was beyond his ability to refrain.

    I placed a microphone INSIDE MY OFFICE (note: No bugging or invasive recording techniques were used: this was what I heard in MY office), with the door open instead of closed, like it usually was. I recorded every lunch for about three weeks. Eventually I had enough material and cut each exclamation up into separate .wav files. I think perhaps the funniest thing was the directory listing from that folder, which looked something like this:

    dammit41.wav
    dammit42.wav
    dammit43.wav
    dammit44.wav
    dammit45.wav
    dammit46.wav
    dammit47.wav
    FUCK!01.wav
    FUCK!02.wav
    FUCK!03.wav

    … etc…

    I carefully (and, if I say so myself, artfully) placed the speech bits over some really crappy techno tracks that I laid down one day when I was testing out a new version of Acid. When I was done, I gave the song to only THREE PEOPLE in my company: Trevor and two of our friends. I did NOT distribute it out into the Internet. GUESS WHO DID?? Yup. Within 24 hours, Trevor managed to get the song listed everywhere, even Penny Arcade mentioned it!

    The song had the intended result: It got the president of the company to make sure that SOMEONE had enough words with Trevor that he stopped screaming outside my office. I felt bad to clip his wings like that, but I think his brief internet infamy more than made up for it in his mind.

    Third - Here are a few repsonses to things in this thread:

    - The video called “thevox.wmz” is not related to Mr. Grimshaw in any way I know of. That person is not Trevor. There is no video to this song that I know of. If so, I’ve never seen it and I didn’t make it.

    - Tim: I would agree with you, but you have to understand: Making this song was an act of desperation on my part!

    - Dona: Like I said: Mr. G LOVED it. He is the one who got it all over the Internet.

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