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The Best Page in the Universe is a personal satirical humor website created by George Ouzounian, better known as Maddox, of Salt Lake City, Utah. Launched in 1997 without any high expectations, the website became known by word of mouth.

History and status

"The Best Page in the Universe" originated from a text document that Maddox wrote in 1996^[1] aptly named "fifty things that piss me off!" He gave the list to several people on EFnet's #coders, and the positive response led him to create the website.^[2]

Maddox decided to name his site "The Best Page in the Universe" despite his knowledge that Yahoo! blocked sites with the phrase "the best" in the title from inclusion in its search engine.^[3]

On July 15, 2009, Xmission.com, which hosts The Best Page in the Universe, had an Alexa rank of about 16,000,^[4] and TheBestPageInTheUniverse.net, which works as an alternative domain for Maddox's website, had an Alexa rank of about 33,000.^[5]

He launched a competition for people to send him cartoons about himself or his website, most of which are attacks about emails for "more updates." Later, he parodied this himself by stating that now that he's finished with the comic book, he'd be able to "Not update the site more regularly." Entries included a depiction of Maddox leaping out of a computer monitor and smashing two fans' faces together, and a comic strip of a boy checking the website for new content only to find a cartoon of himself that he had posted ten seconds earlier.^[6][7][8]

Format and content

Website's layout is minimalistic primarily to reduce bandwidth costs. Maddox also states the minimalism protests the many websites containing "fancy HTML" but lacking substantial content.

The page is headed with an image of Maddox's face superimposed over a bust of Che Guevara. In the image, Maddox is wearing a beret emblazoned with the Jolly Roger, and an eye patch. Maddox uses this image as a parody of the revolutionary icon. Maddox says that Che Guevara is remembered as "Che the revolutionary," not "Che the pinko",^[2] and claims to be neither socialist nor communist. Instead, he often proclaims himself to be a pirate, and typically portrays himself as such in his articles and artwork.

Maddox has compared reading black text on a white background to "staring at a light bulb."^[2] The site uses large, light-colored text against a black background to, in the stated opinion of Maddox, reduce strain on the eyes.^[2]

The site contains advertisements only for itself.^[2]

Many of Maddox's articles include MS Paint illustrations,^[2] with touch up done in Photoshop.^[2] Images include elderly people being fired to the Sun, hippies being killed, and Maddox's testicles drawn larger than basketballs. Maddox maintains a section in which he criticizes hate mail his website has generated. When posting his replies he breaks the e-mail down and ridicules points which use fallacious logic and also corrects grammatical or orthographical errors. He also runs an online store which sells merchandise such as stickers and apparel that bear phrases used in his articles.^[9] The site contains several "hidden pages," many of which are unfinished works or first drafts of articles that were moved around.^[10]

References

External links

• The Best Page in the Universe
• Interview on Salon.com

From Wikiquote

George Ouzounian (better known as Maddox) is the owner of The Best Page in the Universe, a satirical website.

The Best Page in the Universe

In rough reverse chronological order; newer quotes on top.

• (introduction) "This page is about me and why everything I like is great. If you disagree with anything you find on this page, you are wrong."
  • The Best Page In The Universe.

• "Imagine finding out you got rejected from community college, then finding out that your alcoholic father got arrested for domestic abuse, you lost all your life savings in a Ponzi scheme, and all of this happens to you while you're on the space shuttle Challenger. Then you wake up and it's all a bad dream, except you realize that you're at work without clothes on, and work is NASA and you're really on the space shuttle Challenger. That's what this movie is like, only infinitely worse. Everything about this movie pissed me off, save for the lesbian finger bang scene. Except even that sucked because it wasn't in the movie."
  • Quantum of Solace is a shitpile.

• "There are very few people who look good in red lipstick, and those people usually juggle for a living."
  • Fashion tips for women from a guy who knows dick about fashion.

• "When the iPhone was first announced, CEO Steve Jobs spewed enough BS to cover a football field full of babies 3 feet deep in bullshit, which sounds cool because he could have potentially murdered a football field full of babies, but he passed on this opportunity by introducing the phone instead."
  • The iPhone is a piece of shit, and so is your face.

• "There aren't many things I don't want to experience in life, but the sensual caress of a parent going through mid-life crisis is one of them."
• "There are only three reasons you should ever be this delighted about anything, and all of them involve you being a hot chick, meeting me, and lube."
• "I've only had one dream in my life with kids in it that didn't involve me gnawing my feet off, and it had to do with kids doing my laundry."
  • 9 things I learned about the world according to anonymous stock photo models.

• "Watching this video is like being bukkaked with stupid."
• "What are the odds that a simple geometric folding of a $20 bill with elements of design that were conceived in 1928 by a committee of treasurers, a full 42 years before the World Trade Center even existed, could accidentally contain a representation of both terror attacks? Pretty good, apparently."
  • There is no 9/11 conspiracy you morons.

• "Science can learn a lot from someone this stupid."
• "Don't you retards think before you click "Send" that maybe someone on the other end is actually going to read your stupid, malformed emails some day? It's almost like there's a record full of incomprehensible bullshit playing in your mind 24/7, and you put the needle down randomly and whatever it picks up, you just type it up in an email and shoot it off to me, usually mid-sentence."
  • I am a genius, you are not.

• "Notice the telltale sign of a man who has a penchant for boy ass: the pedophile-smile or 'pedosmile.' It's part smirk, part grin, and all molester. It's like he's having a two-for-one sale on rape, no refunds or exchanges."
• "Fernando is wanted for 'murder with a deadly weapon' according to the FBI website. As opposed to being wanted for murder with a non-deadly weapon?"
• "Elizabeth Duke is possibly the only person on the FBI list wanted for communism. What a bitch! Duke was a member of the extremist group, May 19th Communist Organization, whose objective was the violent overthrow of the US. The group was largely active from 1978 to 1985, at which time they got busted and thrown in jail where their new objective became to prevent any violent uprisings in their ass. She's the only one still around. It's not really a group anymore if it's just you, dipshit! America wins."
• "Okay, here's a tip: if you're doing something creepy like molesting children, you don't need to take topless photos of yourself to seal the deal. We know, the pedosmile is enough."
• "Kenley is alleged to have sexually assaulted her eleven-year-old stepson, then ditched out on bond. The FBI says Kenley has ties to Arkansas. Talk about trying to find a needle in a hay stack."
• "If you've ever wondered what someone who's horny enough to pay a bunch of adolescents $5000 in cash in exchange for some action looks like, take a good look at Ms. Walker's picture. Three words: battery operated dildo. Or if you happen to be a stickler for brevity like I am, just one word: cucumber. Because, damn."
  • How to spot a pedophile

• "I've pissed higher than the tallest building in Utah."
• "HOLY SHIT, I LIVE NEXT TO THE DRY PEA AND LENTIL CAPITAL OF THE WORLD? Why didn't anyone tell me??? Here I've been shit-listing Utah for all these years, when I've been living in a state that borders the dry pea and lentil capital of the world. I hereby revoke anything bad I've ever said about Idaho. And by revoke, I mean reaffirm."
• "New rule: if your state has more cows than people, you don't get to be a state anymore."
  • Idaho blows

• "It simultaneously warms my heart and wears my delete key when I get emails from twelve-year-olds."

• "Thank you Joe Nobody for giving me your expert opinion on what missile sounds like, because gas station superintendents are usually the best people to ask about the sonic signature of ballistic missile thrust."
• "Most of the screen on a blog is blank for an imaginary populace of readers still using 640x480 resolution. I didn't buy a 19" monitor to have 50% of its screen realestate pissed away on firing white pixels, you assholes."
  • If these words were people, I would embrace their genocide

• "This sounds like the soundtrack of a coma." (On U2's song One Step Closer)
• "Look out pop-culture! Bono has had enough of 'romantic love'."
  • The eleven worst songs of 2004

• "...you could sell these people hookers in a vagina storm."
• "General Grievous," a bad guy so sinister, his very name stands for PAIN AND SUFFERING. Nice job assholes... Why not just call all your characters "Evil" and "Bad" next time?"
  • Star Wars Episode III: a steaming pile of Sith

• "Note that the name of the show is 'Trippin' ' and not 'Tripping' because the addition of the letter 'g' would not be consistent with the views of MTV's urban youth demographic who tend to frown upon linguistic formalities such as proper enunciation. I mean, proper 'nunciation, yo!"
• "The theme song states "YOU GOT THE POWER TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE... YOU GOT THE POWER TO MAKE A CHANGE." Wow, thank you MTV, for making me feel empowered and independent, like only a multinational media conglomerate can."
  • I hate Cameron Diaz

• "It's every man's dream to have a penis so large that he must hire a small boy to carry it."
  • Unintentionally sexual comic book covers

• "There's no shame in masturbation, unless you get caught."
  • We know you're a cranky bitch, you don't need the bumper sticker.

• "Passing out while you try to kill yourself is like failing at failing."
  • How to kill yourself like a man.

• I have a different stance on abortion: I'm against abortion, but for killing babies. That way everyone loses, and I win. I'm neither pro choice, nor pro life; I'm pro you-shutting-the-hell-up. The only way I'd be "pro choice" is if it meant I could choose which babies I could abort, and only then if I could lift the age restriction to 80."
• "I was going to write about how I was going to take away women's right to vote, but that one is pretty obvious since nobody wants women to vote, except for women, and they don't count."
  • Looking for a safe stance on abortion? Me neither.

• "She started crying when she saw the busted colon I gave her pussy husband, so she took one of her shoes off and threw it at me. I caught the shoe between my pecs and I started to laugh like a pirate. Then she started walking towards me to take her shoe back, and there was no way I was going to let this bitch get near my chest so I body slammed her into a cactus that happened to be there. She got up and was uglier than before, so I did what I always do when women start to cry: I went back inside to play video games."
  • Why change your car's oil when your girlfriend can do it?

• "That reminds me of how much I hate babies. Why does everyone want to save them? There are too many babies. I'm not saying we should kill them, but if you happen to be giving your baby a bath and the phone rings.. well, nobody will judge you. Besides, you might get free brownies out of it at the funeral, and brownies rule."
• "I'm impressed that they've been able to take a 2D character with a 1D personality and bloat it into a 3D disaster."
  • Garfield sucks

• "It was like Rambo sent them all Christmas cards, but instead of cards it was murder."
  • Astrology is bullshit.

• "I've got pissing people off down to a science."
• "It's not that I rule, it's that everyone else sucks more than I do. We all suck, and whoever sucks the least is king."
  • Whoever Sucks the Least is King: An Interview with Maddox

• "If trashy television was a video game, The Jenny Jones show would be the final boss."
• "The earth's population is about 6 billion. At 15 minutes per person, that amounts to over 171,000 years we'd have to spend just sitting around watching people be "famous." To hell with that."
  • I wonder if Jenny Jones can come up with a topic that rhymes with "canceled."

• "The next person's phone I hear set to Vivaldi is going to need a hydraulic pump to pry their phone out of their ass."
  • Ever wonder what your cell phone would sound like coming out of your ass?

• "Is someone you know anorexic? A good joke would be to tell them that they're fat. They'll laugh because anorexic people aren't fat. HAHAH"
  • Pranks to try on people in the hospital!

• "I hate the help screen, I hate the options, I hate the card graphics, I hate the default window size, everything. I HATE SOLITAIRE."
  • I hate Solitaire

• "If people who look different don't necessarily think differently, which they don't, then aren't they essentially discriminating against them by "embracing" them as being "diverse"?"
  • "Embrace diversity," and other bullshit phrases that don't mean anything.

• "... the real reason ADD exists is because executives at pharmaceutical companies need to make their Lexus payments."
  • Attention Deficit Disorder is nothing that a solid kick in the ass can't cure.

• "When I say this game is hard, I mean hard like nipples-on-a-blind-lesbian-in-a-fish-market hard."
• "I don't get it: they re-package the same shitty football games every year, update a few stats, call it a new game and millions of suckers keep buying them. What's the point? Why not just go outside and play real football instead? Or even better yet, get bent. Nobody likes football."
  • Ikaruga kicks ass

• "This car just looks terrible; it looks like it was designed by a blind child with arthritis. In a coma." (on the Honda Element)
  • Proof that wealth can't buy class: the top four ugliest cars on the road.

• "Why are politicians so full of shit? Why can't there be a congressman (congressman, yes man, tough shit to all you feminists) that just speaks his mind without the meaningless bullshit and ass kissing?"
  • Bitter? Who, me?

• "My Nuts are just under critical mass, a few inches away from collapsing into a super dense vortex of nutsaqutron (a type of radiation given off by enormous balls)."
  • My balls are huge.

• "Having spelling errors is one thing, but c'mon. I've typed out more coherent sentences with my penis."
• "If there were a building that stood for grammatical integrity, this email would be the plane that crashed into it."
  • Wireless internet may very well destroy our chances of contacting intelligent life

• "I subscribe to an email service from CNN called "CNN Breaking News." Basically every time shit hits the fan, you're supposed to receive an email. Most of the "breaking news" I've received has been as earth shattering as an actor arrested for drunk driving. Wow, now excuse me while I change my freshly soiled boxers."
  • CNN sucks

• "How can a movie be "one of the best"? There's only one "best" movie, so saying something is "one of the best" is stupid and doesn't make sense. Technically any movie that's not the worst could be considered "one of the best." Imagine that, another empty phrase used by marketing people. I want to punch someone in the throat."
  • Hollywood: still out of ideas? How about another black-guy-meets-white-guy comedy

• "In an effort to salvage the money I wasted on this bullshit, I ate six cups of jello, one bag of corn nuts, a Soynut bar, and a bag of jelly beans for dinner. The only thing X-TREME about this experience was the X-TREME dump I took later that night:"
  • Take your X-TREME marketing and shove it.

• "For example, the cover on the right depicts Lobo (also known as "the main man") kicking Santa's ass. Santa did something to piss Lobo off (or nothing, it makes no difference), and Lobo RUINED HIS SHIT."
  • Two characters that were missing from the new Daredevil movie

• "No, I'm not a democrat or a republican. I'm just a guy who's tired of the bullshit."
• "President Bush withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty. Good I say, global stability was getting to be a pain in the ass."
  • Bush: making political satirists obsolete since 2000

• "Whales are drinking all our water and eating our sailors."
  • When is the last time a whale did anything for you?

• "Finally when the movie started, I thought the bullshit ads were over, but no. First thing they showed was a "coke break" sponsored and produced by coke. [...] I paid $7 for a movie, NOT FOR BULLSHIT ADVERTISEMENTS."
  • I paid $7.00 for a movie...

• "What the hell is "partly cloudy" supposed to mean? When is it not partly cloudy? ... Just tune into a weather forecast. Chances are you'll hear the phrase at least 3 or more times."
  • Meteorologist my ass!

• "The next time you ask someone how their day is going, expect, no, DEMAND a response. Don't settle for good. Demand the truth. Make them admit that they're having a shitty day, and then do your best to make it worse."
  • I Hate Small Talk

• "I can't go on, I'm going to go do something less painful like stick my dick in the oven."
  • Twenty-six things a perfect guy would do, and other propaganda disseminated by misguided women.

• "If you got caught screwing around on the job, you'd probably get fired, and so would I. Why should he get away with it?" (on Bill Clinton)
  • Grow a pair and impeach that horny bastard

• "...'SummerGrl19?' Very clever handle by the way, the only way you could make it any more unoriginal or cliche would be to add the words 'happy, cute' or 'princess' to the name."
  • Bullshit Hate Mail

• "There are pigs that can manipulate joysticks, yet you morons can't even send me an intelligible email."
  • Bullshit Fan Mail

• "Let's face it: there are few things in this world more stupid than dancing. Except break dancing, which pirates and lumber jacks would agree is awesome. Other than that, dancing makes me envy cripples."
• "If women ran the world, we'd still be searching for the wheel."
  • Twenty-six things a perfect guy would do, and other propaganda disseminated by misguided women.

• "Some people think I'm conceited. Oh well. All my friends think I'm better than they are. Sometimes my friends ask 'so how come you rule so much?' One time I decided to play basketball, but I suck at basketball so I lost. Just kidding, I kicked everyone's ass because I'm the best. I own everyone at everything. There's no use in trying to be as good as me because it's impossible. There aren't enough words to describe how good I am. THE UNIVERSE REVOLVES AROUND ME. I AM KING. Everyone wishes they were me. EVERYONE. If I weren't me, I'd wish I was. I love me."
  • I'm the best person in the universe.

• "6. You realize that if 10 million people saw the movie once, each wasting 3 hours of their lives, that 30 million hours have been wasted, and that if each person lived an average of 70 years, 3,424 years, or 49 lives will have been wasted watching the Titanic. James Cameron has effectively murdered 49 people. (Not necessarily a reason to cry, but it is to a sap that saw Titanic in the first place)."
  • Reasons to cry during the movie "Titanic".

April Fools

On which Maddox acts like his opposite, creating an exaggerated version of bloggers he hates.

• (introduction) "this page is about my opinions. if you disagree, you have a right to your opinion and i can respect that."
  • One of the Better Pages in the Universe.

• "u know what? i thought about it and ive decided that your right, i shouldnt make fun of people who get fast cars. please accept my apology.............. psych! yeah right homo."
  • hate mail. (April Fools 2004)

• "4 example the other day i saw a black person walking down the street and i was like "omg a negro" but instead of walking on the other side i said "what would rumsfeld do?" so i stayed on the sidewalk. when he came up to me i wanted to show him that i have no problems with people of color so i said "hey" and offered him my spare change before he could even ask."
  • i love donald rumsfeld

• "my friend and i were watching mtv the other day when nelly came on and my friend was like "omg nelly rules". hes such an idiot, he only listens to trendy music. at least i like original stuff like beyonce.
  • lol @ fox for laugh out loud sundays!

• "i hope that earns me some eprops (proper recognition in an electronic form lol) LOL LOL LOL!!!"
• "HEY FAGGOT, YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY WE CARE ABOUT TERRI SCHIAVO AND NOT CANCER PATIENTS? BECAUSE FUCK YOU.
  
  SHOVE THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT. FUCK OFF!"
  • TerriAngel's Xanga Site