"I reject your reality and substitute my own"

[AndreasJ]

I've been hearing this slogan a lot lately and gather it's from Myth Busters. What I don't understand is what it's supposed to mean. It sounds vaguely truth-relativistic, but that isn't the Myth Busters' shtick, is it? Anyone enlighten me?

[Swift]

It is from Mythbusters. I think it is kind of a joke response, when an experiment doesn't go as planned (like things didn't go as I thought they would, so reality must be wrong). I wouldn't interpret it too deeply.

[Neverfly]

It also applies to HB's etc...

[aurora]

I think it was a quote from Adam. I recall it came from one of the many times when they are asked to predict the outcome of one of their experiments, and then the outcome is not close to what was predicted. I think at that point Adam made the quote, basically joking he was going to pretend it all worked out like he thought it would.

I could be remembering that completely wrong, and I don't remember the exact episode.

[ravens_cry]

It has become rather a catchphrase for the show, kind of like Bart Simpson's famous, though rarely used, "Cowabunga, dude!".

[KaiYeves]

I use it to refer to how I differ completely from popular preceptions of girls my age, but that's just me.

[Trebuchet]

I think it was a quote from Adam. I recall it came from one of the many times when they are asked to predict the outcome of one of their experiments, and then the outcome is not close to what was predicted. I think at that point Adam made the quote, basically joking he was going to pretend it all worked out like he thought it would.

I could be remembering that completely wrong, and I don't remember the exact episode.

As I recall, after the test he claimed, apparently seriously, that he'd predicted it correctly. So they showed him the tape and the comment resulted.

[Gillianren]

He'd given a percentage breakdown, as I recall, as he is wont to do. Afterward, he gave some other statement about a percentage breakdown that bore no resemblance to the one given before the experiment. Then quote. (I think. The other possiblity my mind churns up is that it's from the time he did his math wrong.)

[Kadava]

My memory is that is was from the test trying to see if they could pull the rear axle off a police car by attaching it to a pole and then accelerating the car. (This may of course not be it's first incarnation.)

[Tobin Dax]

I use it to refer to how I differ completely from popular preceptions of girls my age, but that's just me.

For an alternative, Kai, check out Andromeda321 (http://www.bautforum.com/members/andromeda321.html)'s signature.

[AndreasJ]

Thanks. :)

[KaiYeves]

For an alternative, Kai, check out Andromeda321's signature.
That is indeed a valid alternative.

[Ilya]

I use it to refer to how I differ completely from popular preceptions of girls my age, but that's just me.

Reminds me of this T-shirt: "I have a life. It is very different from yours."

[Edited] Apparently Andromeda321 had the same idea!

[Hokie]

From the episode
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEInbnz5XG0

[mugaliens]

I like the slogan a friend of mine uses quite often:

"The only sane perspective is one's own."

[Jens]

I think it was a quote from Adam.

The only quote I can remember from Adam is something like, "I think I'll have a taste of that apple." But maybe you mean a different Adam. :)

[aurora]

For those that don't know, one of the Mythbusters is Adam Savage.