January 16, 2005

7:01 PM

[SlashdotMemeFilter] What is the link between Natalie Portman and hot grits? I know it started on Slashdot, and I realize the obsession with Natalie Portman is a result of the more recent Star Wars films, but I have never been able to find what she has to do with hot grits. How did this meme get started? P.S. Google's got nothing and my questions to Ask Slashdot got bounced.
posted by furtive to (8 comments total)

Wikipedia entry.
posted by donpardo at 7:06 PM on January 16, 2005

Thanks! Never occured to me to check wikipedia for not-so-pop-culture references.

Cheers!
posted by furtive at 8:11 PM on January 16, 2005

furtive: I've only run into one thing i've searched for that wikipedia didn't have in it, and I knew enough to add the article and put up a request for someone who knew more to flesh it out. Wikipedia's amazingly satisfying, curiousity-wise.
posted by SpecialK at 8:31 PM on January 16, 2005

More accurately, it was to do with how in Soviet Russia a naked and petrified Natalie Portman pours hot grits down YOU.
posted by wackybrit at 9:35 PM on January 16, 2005

I had never heard of the Portman/Grits connection until this thread...my first thought was that someone had confused Natalie Portman with Al Green.
posted by davidmsc at 10:48 PM on January 16, 2005

Oo, there's an interesting description of "Article text alteration trolls" there that make me want to try it myself. Yep, that's right, I'm subversive.
posted by krisjohn at 12:07 AM on January 17, 2005

I read the question as 'What is the link between Natalie Portman and hot girls?' I thought that connection was rather obvious...
posted by chrismear at 12:59 AM on January 17, 2005

Weird, until I read chrismear's comment, i thought it was hot girls, too.
posted by hartsell at 8:29 AM on January 17, 2005