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---> ''[[{{Irony}} Yes, the company that once alluded to an Orwellian future with controlled media, is now controlling media.]]''
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---> ''[[{{Irony}} Yes, the company that once alluded to an Orwellian future with controlled media, is now controlling media.]]'']]''[[note]]This is referencing the ad campaign Apple use to air.[[/note]]
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* TakeAThirdOption: On the VideoGame/DragonsCrown debacle, instead of going the usual "women are stupid" route for laughs, he suggested that if women want to see less sexualization, they need to join the games industry and help grow the (small but growing) female developers and designers in the games industry, so that their opinions and designs get more exposure, instead of the usual skimpy-women-in-bikinis thing.
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: In his article "Et tu, ''Maxim''? Even ''Maxim'' can't step." Maddox compared the fake muppets he created in a previous article next to fake muppets ''Maxim'' magazine made for an article that was published after his and after he found IPs tracing to Maxim computers in his website logs. The article was later edited to say it was all a big misunderstanding, and the pictures of Maxim's fake muppets were removed. The article was also moved off the front page, although it remains in the Pages from 2003 archive.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Possibly spoofed: [[TakeThat "Mimes are worthless. Environmentalists are worthless. Therefore Mimes are Environmentalists."]]
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**Possibly spoofed: [[TakeThat "Mimes are worthless. Environmentalists are worthless. Therefore Mimes are Environmentalists."]]"]]
**Screw the whales. Why? Because they're drinking all our water and eating our sailors.
**Possibly spoofed: [[TakeThat "Mimes are worthless. Environmentalists are worthless. Therefore Mimes are Environmentalists.
**Screw the whales. Why? Because they're drinking all our water and eating our sailors.
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* AccentuateTheNegative: He shows no mercy in his evaluation of children's works, culminating in a book.book, proudly titled ''I Am Better than Your Kids''. Several of his articles are extremely caustic attacks on video games, celebrities, and movies he hated/hates.
* CausticCritic: Several movie reviews, along with his Ikaruga review randomly turning into mocking VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'s character design.
** [[http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=veil_review His review of a wedding veil sent by spammers.]]
** [[http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=veil_review His review of a wedding veil sent by spammers.]]
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He also has written the AlphabetOfManliness. You will grow more pairs after reading it.
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He also has written the AlphabetOfManliness.''Literature/TheAlphabetOfManliness''. You will grow more pairs after reading it.
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* GloryDays: The late 90's to early 2000's. He was pretty much the most 'viral' and talked about page on the Web 1.0 internet. Now he's just a whiny, nasal old guy with no hair who doesn't even rank on the lowest of the low rungs of internet importance. His writing speaks like {{Robbaz}} but his real personality is more like [[FamilyMatters Urkel]].
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** Until you actually watch him in his youtube videos. It's quite jarring to see a softly spoken nerd with thinning hair after potentially a decade of imaging the glorious beastly man that the writing evoked.
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** Until you actually watch him in his youtube videos. It's quite jarring to see a softly spoken nerd with thinning hair after potentially a decade of imaging the glorious beastly man that the writing evoked.
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* RefugeInAudacity: "If there were a building that stood for grammatical integrity, this email would be the plane that crashed into it."
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* HeManWomanHaterHeManWomanHater: Frequent usage of StayInTheKitchen and objectification. Played for laughs, of course.
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** He's also pointed this out in articles about food, noting there are [[http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=onions onion haters]] who inexplicably will order onion rings, or [[http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=vegetarian_test a pompous vegetarian]] ordering a seafood pasta and then having the restaurant take it back when it came with seafood.
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* OneOfUs: He plays a lot of video games, and has done positive reviews for ''{{Contra}} III'' and ''{{Ikaruga}}''. "Maddox" came from a {{mecha}} OAV.
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As of today, both [maddox ] and [best page in universe ] on www.yahoo.com return Maddox\'s site as the first result
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"The Best Page in the Universe" originated from a text document that Maddox wrote in 1996 aptly named "fifty things that piss me off!" He gave the list to several people on [=EFnet=]'s #coders and a few coworkers, and the positive response led him to create the website. 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.
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"The Best Page in the Universe" originated from a text document that Maddox wrote in 1996 aptly named "fifty things that piss me off!" He gave the list to several people on [=EFnet=]'s #coders and a few coworkers, and the positive response led him to create the website. 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.
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* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: In an instance where Maddox fell foul of this trope, he complained of {{Film/Prometheus}} not having the {{Film/Alien}} in it, calling it a bait-and-switch. However, Ridley Scott had explicitly stated long before the film's release that it wasn't going to have the Aliens themselves in it, rather that it was only going to be set in the same universe. It was in fact various papers, magazines and film news websites that had hyped it as an Alien movie. Of course, [[RuleOfFunny he may have been]] [[AccentuateTheNegative exaggerating.]]
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* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: In an instance where Maddox fell foul of this trope, he complained of {{Film/Prometheus}} ''{{Film/Prometheus}}'' not having the {{Film/Alien}} {{Franchise/Alien}} in it, calling it a bait-and-switch. However, Ridley Scott had explicitly stated long before the film's release that it wasn't going to have the Aliens themselves in it, rather that it was only going to be set in the same universe. It was in fact various papers, magazines and film news websites that had hyped it as an Alien movie. Of course, [[RuleOfFunny he may have been]] [[AccentuateTheNegative exaggerating.]]
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[invoked]] He believed that Creator/ChristopherReeve [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=creeve was a "self-serving asshole"]] who only opened a paralysis foundation because he himself needed treatment - the fact that he would be helping millions of other paralysis victims was an unintended side-effect. He also calls the nurse who committed suicide in the aftermath of an Australian prank on the royal couple as "selfish", as she took the easy way out; similarly, he calls anyone who uses that suicide to guilt-trip the radio personalities behind the prank as "cowards".
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[invoked]] He believed that Creator/ChristopherReeve [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=creeve was a "self-serving asshole"]] who only opened a paralysis foundation because he himself needed treatment - the fact that he would be helping millions of other paralysis victims was an unintended side-effect. He also calls the nurse who committed suicide in the aftermath of an Australian prank on the royal couple as "selfish", as she took the easy way out; similarly, he calls anyone who uses that suicide to guilt-trip the radio personalities behind the prank as "cowards"."cowards" who want an easy way to guilt some pranksters who didn't foresee a suicide coming. He also believes EllenDegeneres' coming out, while sincere, was a marketing ploy to gain more viewers from the controversy.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[invoked]] He believed that Creator/ChristopherReeve [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=creeve was a "self-serving asshole"]] who only opened a paralysis foundation because he himself needed treatment - the fact that he would be helping millions of other paralysis victims was an unintended side-effect. He also calls the nurse who committed suicide in the aftermath of an Australian prank on the royal couple as "selfish", as she took the easy way out.
* BannedInChina: The site is banned in Saudi Arabia and Dubai. And he's proud of it. (Turns out he was banned for a technicality, not content, but he thinks it still counts.)
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* BannedInChina: The site is banned in SaudiArabia Arabia, Dubai, and Dubai.the United Arab Emirates. And he's proud of it. (Turns out he was banned for a technicality, not content, at least for the first two, but he thinks it still counts.))
** {{Unperson}}: The site is also banned in stores or other workplaces associated with Apple, in such a way that suggests the site doesn't even exist at all (attempts to access it from those [=IPs=] instead redirect to a [=MacBook=] Pro ad).
---> ''[[{{Irony}} Yes, the company that once alluded to an Orwellian future with controlled media, is now controlling media.]]''
* BannedInChina: The site is banned in Saudi
** {{Unperson}}: The site is also banned in stores or other workplaces associated with Apple, in such a way that suggests the site doesn't even exist at all (attempts to access it from those [=IPs=] instead redirect to a [=MacBook=] Pro ad).
---> ''[[{{Irony}} Yes, the company that once alluded to an Orwellian future with controlled media, is now controlling media.]]''
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* {{Hypocrite}}: [[http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=i_hate_sasha His Sasha Grey article]] is in part dedicating to calling her out on being this: trying to become a "legitimate" actress yet still using her porn name and notoriety to actually land acting jobs, denying other people the respect she demands for her own work, etc.
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* OneOfUs: He plays a lot of video games, and has done positive reviews for ''{{Contra}} III'' and ''{{Ikaruga}}''.
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* YouWillKnowWhatToDo: Parodied by Maddox in [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=matrix3 his review]] of ''TheMatrixRevolutions'', which he hated. He particularely critizes the {{Cryptic Conversation}}s between Neo and the Oracle.
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* YouWillKnowWhatToDo: Parodied by Maddox in [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=matrix3 his review]] of ''TheMatrixRevolutions'', which he hated. He particularely critizes particularly criticizes the {{Cryptic Conversation}}s between Neo and the Oracle.
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* NightmareFuel: In-universe: one of the "I am Better than Your Kids" submissions was disturbing enough to scare Maddox.
-->[[http://www.iambetterthanyourkids.com/?p=2 What did your papa do yesterday? WHAT DID HE DO? I'm a grown man. I own a machete, and I shave my beard & neck twice a week. This genuinely frightens me.]]
-->[[http://www.iambetterthanyourkids.com/?p=2 What did your papa do yesterday? WHAT DID HE DO? I'm a grown man. I own a machete, and I shave my beard & neck twice a week. This genuinely frightens me.]]
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* YouWillKnowWhatToDo: Parodied by Maddox in [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=matrix3 his review]] of ''TheMatrixRevolutions'', which he hated. He particularely critizes the {{Cryptic Conversation}}s between Neo and the Oracle.
-->'''Neo:''' What do I need to do?
-->'''Oracle:''' You KNOW what you need to do.
-->'''Neo:''' Where do I need to go?
-->'''Oracle:''' You KNOW where you need to go.
-->'''Neo:''' Who do I need to see?
-->'''Oracle:''' You KNOW who you need to see.
-->'''Neo:''' What do you want?
-->'''Oracle:''' The same thing you want.
-->'''Neo:''' How will I know I'm making the right choice?
-->'''Oracle:''' You will KNOW...!
-->'''Neo:''' What do I need to do?
-->'''Oracle:''' You KNOW what you need to do.
-->'''Neo:''' Where do I need to go?
-->'''Oracle:''' You KNOW where you need to go.
-->'''Neo:''' Who do I need to see?
-->'''Oracle:''' You KNOW who you need to see.
-->'''Neo:''' What do you want?
-->'''Oracle:''' The same thing you want.
-->'''Neo:''' How will I know I'm making the right choice?
-->'''Oracle:''' You will KNOW...!
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Maddox appeared in an eighth season episode of PennAndTellerBullshit about old people and the stereotypes about them. Maddox thought that old people sucked.
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->''This page is about Maddox and why the tropes he uses on his website are great. If you disagree with anything you find on this page, you are wrong.''
[[http://maddox.xmission.com/ The Best Page in the Universe]] is a personal satirical humor Web site created by George Ouzounian, better known by his pen name Maddox. Launched in 1997 without any high expectations, the Web site became known by word of mouth.
"The Best Page in the Universe" originated from a text document that Maddox wrote in 1996 aptly named "fifty things that piss me off!" He gave the list to several people on [=EFnet=]'s #coders and a few coworkers, and the positive response led him to create the website. 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.
On July 15, 2009, Xmission.com, which hosts The Best Page in the Universe, had an Alexa rank of about 16,000, and [=TheBestPageInTheUniverse.net=], which works as an alternative domain for Maddox's Web site, had an Alexa rank of about 33,000.
Website's layout is minimalistic primarily to reduce bandwidth costs -- useful, as the site contains no advertisements other than for itself and for Maddox's books. Maddox also states that the {{minimalism}} protests the many Web sites containing "fancy HTML" but lacking substantial content.
The page is headed with an image of Maddox's face superimposed over a bust of CheGuevara. 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", 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". The site uses large, light-colored text against a black background to, in his stated opinion, reduce strain on the eyes.
Many of Maddox's articles include MS Paint illustrations, with touchup done in Adobe Photoshop. 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, ridicules points which use fallacious logic and corrects linguistic errors. He also runs an online store which sells merchandise such as stickers and apparel that bear phrases used in his articles. The site contains several "hidden pages", many of which are unfinished works or first drafts of articles that were moved around.
[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBiQE4hjOsk Now has a nifty show on Youtube.]]
Maddox appeared in an eighth season episode of PennAndTellerBullshit about old people and the stereotypes about them. Maddox thought that old people sucked.
He also has written the AlphabetOfManliness. You will grow more pairs after reading it.
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* AccentuateTheNegative: He shows no mercy in his evaluation of children's works, culminating in a book.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[invoked]] He believed that Creator/ChristopherReeve [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=creeve was a "self-serving asshole"]] who only opened a paralysis foundation because he himself needed treatment - the fact that he would be helping millions of other paralysis victims was an unintended side-effect. He also calls the nurse who committed suicide in the aftermath of an Australian prank on the royal couple as "selfish", as she took the easy way out.
* BannedInChina: The site is banned in Saudi Arabia and Dubai. And he's proud of it. (Turns out he was banned for a technicality, not content, but he thinks it still counts.)
* BatmanGambit: He managed to do this against a hate-mailer. Instead of ripping apart the hate mail as he usually does, instead he told the mailer [[FreudianExcuse how he used to be abused]] and that his writing was a way to express himself. The mailer wrote back in sympathy, only to have Maddox responded back: "Just kidding. Tool."
* BlackComedy: For example, in his article ''[[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone The iPhone is a Piece of Shit and so is Your Face]]'' he wrote, ''"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, [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot 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."''
* BoringButPractical: His reasoning for his website's {{Minimalism}},
* ChildHater: As best demonstrated with his "I Am Better Than Your Kids" site.
* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: In an instance where Maddox fell foul of this trope, he complained of {{Film/Prometheus}} not having the {{Film/Alien}} in it, calling it a bait-and-switch. However, Ridley Scott had explicitly stated long before the film's release that it wasn't going to have the Aliens themselves in it, rather that it was only going to be set in the same universe. It was in fact various papers, magazines and film news websites that had hyped it as an Alien movie. Of course, [[RuleOfFunny he may have been]] [[AccentuateTheNegative exaggerating.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: He once got an e-mail talking about how dull his site was. He responded by banning the person's ''entire ISP''... [[OhCrap with a message explaining that the banned individuals should send this dude an e-mail of gratitude.]]
* DummiedOut: Looking at the HTML source of many of his pages reveals many bits omitted through ''[[color:green:<!-- HTML comments. -->]]''
* EmphasizeEverything: [[http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=epic He attacked the prevalent misuse of the terms]] [[EpicFail "epic" and "fail"]], saying that their overuse by popular culture has stripped them of their meaning. People sick of it themselves hailed it as a welcome return from a months-long hiatus and a MomentOfAwesome.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: He has received at least 80 marriage proposals, 4 of them are from men.
* EverybodyHatesMathematics: A particular BerserkButton for him. He dedicates an [[http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=math article]] tearing apart the "when will I ever use math again in life?" excuse, mentioning that math is the reason why technological advancements such as oil platforms, medicine, and space travel even exist, and that people that use the excuse are lazy, self-important morons.
** The BerserkButton is explained by the fact that he majored in math.
* EveryoneHatesMimes: Maddox hates mimes so much that he even dreams of them getting skewered by a rain of swords.
* ExcusePlot: the (non-existing) ''[[http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=maddoxgame Best Game in the Universe]]'' has one as evidenced in the prologue:
-->''[...] Satisfied from his healthy breakfast of rocks and shitting gun powder, [Maddox] headbutts the front door into splinters and proceed to do his daily business:''\\
''KICKING ASSES''\\
''[[LampshadeHanging That's it. That's pretty much the premise of the whole game.]]''
* FollowTheLeader: The site had lot of imitators. Most of them fall afoul of SturgeonsLaw.
* [[GagPenis Gag Testicles]]: A lot larger than the sun! Which he actually used in his rant against the original Xbox, where he referred to the enormous controller as "almost as big as my nuts".
* GrammarNazi: One of the ways that Maddox took apart a hate mail is by pointing out its numerous grammatical errors. He's had to deal with a few thinking that the words "inane" and "homage" are [[CriticalResearchFailure not actual words]].
* GovernmentConspiracy: Spoofed on the [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=af07 "Unfastened Coins" sub-webpage]], where Maddox "proves" that the Titanic didn't sink because of an iceberg collision, but because of a government cover-up. He also mocked it with "There is no 9/11 conspiracy you morons", completely savaging LooseChange.
* HatesSmallTalk: Maddox wishes he could kick people who make small talk [[GroinAttack in the crotch]]. [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=smalltalk Seriously]].
* HeManWomanHater
* HypocriticalHumor: One of the above-mentioned uninformed grammar Nazis who thought "homage" wasn't a real word went on to tell Maddox that he "didn't think you'd want some [[RougeAnglesOfSatin collage]]-educated guy bitchin at you."
** The FAQ notes that Maddox dates pages by when they were last updated rather than posted, and that if a page actually is updated it will be moved back to the top of the front page, but he then says "this rarely happens because I do everything perfekt the frst time."
* IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou: "You know ACE, I won't even point out the irony of your subject line (it's "you're", not "your", dipshit)"
* InsaneTrollLogic: Possibly spoofed: [[TakeThat "Mimes are worthless. Environmentalists are worthless. Therefore Mimes are Environmentalists."]]
* LogicalFallacies: One of the staples of Maddox's satire.
** One particularly hilarious example is a cartoon satirizing astrology in which someone unscrews the cap from a soda bottle and reads on it the words "SORRY PLEASE TRY AGAIN", and then furiously shouts at the heavens, "DAMN YOU NEPTUNE!"
** He also pointed out the idiocy of people who are opposed to the hiring of immigrant labor AND opposed to laws that would force companies to pay these immigrants fair wages. If they had to pay them fair wages, there would be no incentive for these companies to hire immigrant workers over local Americans (who are already protected by minimum wage laws). Apparently he even called in to a local radio show about this one, but the host was unable to follow his basic argument.
* {{Minimalism}}: The sites pages consist of minimal colour (large grey text on a black background), and is mostly text oriented, for the most part lacking images, advertisments, animations, and other fancy design gimmicks. The site author, Maddox, claims the purpose of this is in part to minimise bandwidth consumption, but is mostly as protest against "all the slick-looking, contentless web sites out there" and to make the website easier on the eyes as "Staring at a white background while you read is like staring at a light bulb".
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Maddox is soft-spoken and level-headed in interviews. His voice in his videos is also much softer than one would expect from reading the website.
** Contrary to what people want to believe, Maddox doesn't take himself too seriously.
* OneOfUs: He plays a lot of video games, and has done positive reviews for ''{{Contra}} III'' and ''{{Ikaruga}}''.
* RatedMForManly
** TestosteronePoisoning
* SaltAndPepper: Complained about [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=cop_movie here]].
* ScheduleSlip: Over the years Maddox has updated the site less and less, and at points gets an update about 1-2 times per year. However, it's getting better after the release of his second book.
** "Now that my book is finished, I can get back to regularly not updating my website."
* SelfDeprecation: "These corporate sites have promotions, games, and discounts, yet more people come to this site every day and read stupid bullshit about how big my balls are."
* SmallNameBigEgo: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied.]] "Some people think I'm conceited. Oh well... 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." Overlaps with RefugeInAudacity.
* RefugeInAudacity: "If there was a building that stood for grammatical integrity..."
* RefugeInVulgarity
* TakeThat: On almost everything. His Ikaruga review turned into a random stab at Tekken, mocking its character design (in particular, Armor King).
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Beef jerky. At one point he posted an entire article, the link to which said would offer a list of everything better than beef jerky. The article consisted of one single word: "nothing".
** His article on Tabasco sauce also used a similar joke - it included a list of things he would suggest one put Tabasco sauce on, which consisted of a single bullet point: "everything".
* ViewersAreGeniuses: [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=april_fools_you_morons Maddox learned the dangers of this assumption the hard way]], along with people insisting "inane" was not a real word.
* ViewersAreMorons: He heavily believes this, specifically playing this viewpoint up in "[[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=your_stupid_ideas I am a genius, you are not]]" and "[[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=aliens Wireless internet may very well destroy our chances of contacting intelligent life]]", wherein he rips apart moronic mail. In fairness, his readers ([[VocalMinority or at the very least, the ones that send him hate-mail]]) literally go out of their way to prove him right.
** Also the focus of [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=puns "Nobody cares if your puns were intended"]].
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[[http://maddox.xmission.com/ The Best Page in the Universe]] is a personal satirical humor Web site created by George Ouzounian, better known by his pen name Maddox. Launched in 1997 without any high expectations, the Web site became known by word of mouth.
"The Best Page in the Universe" originated from a text document that Maddox wrote in 1996 aptly named "fifty things that piss me off!" He gave the list to several people on [=EFnet=]'s #coders and a few coworkers, and the positive response led him to create the website. 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.
On July 15, 2009, Xmission.com, which hosts The Best Page in the Universe, had an Alexa rank of about 16,000, and [=TheBestPageInTheUniverse.net=], which works as an alternative domain for Maddox's Web site, had an Alexa rank of about 33,000.
Website's layout is minimalistic primarily to reduce bandwidth costs -- useful, as the site contains no advertisements other than for itself and for Maddox's books. Maddox also states that the {{minimalism}} protests the many Web sites containing "fancy HTML" but lacking substantial content.
The page is headed with an image of Maddox's face superimposed over a bust of CheGuevara. 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", 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". The site uses large, light-colored text against a black background to, in his stated opinion, reduce strain on the eyes.
Many of Maddox's articles include MS Paint illustrations, with touchup done in Adobe Photoshop. 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, ridicules points which use fallacious logic and corrects linguistic errors. He also runs an online store which sells merchandise such as stickers and apparel that bear phrases used in his articles. The site contains several "hidden pages", many of which are unfinished works or first drafts of articles that were moved around.
[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBiQE4hjOsk Now has a nifty show on Youtube.]]
Maddox appeared in an eighth season episode of PennAndTellerBullshit about old people and the stereotypes about them. Maddox thought that old people sucked.
He also has written the AlphabetOfManliness. You will grow more pairs after reading it.
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!!This website provides examples of:
* AccentuateTheNegative: He shows no mercy in his evaluation of children's works, culminating in a book.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[invoked]] He believed that Creator/ChristopherReeve [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=creeve was a "self-serving asshole"]] who only opened a paralysis foundation because he himself needed treatment - the fact that he would be helping millions of other paralysis victims was an unintended side-effect. He also calls the nurse who committed suicide in the aftermath of an Australian prank on the royal couple as "selfish", as she took the easy way out.
* BannedInChina: The site is banned in Saudi Arabia and Dubai. And he's proud of it. (Turns out he was banned for a technicality, not content, but he thinks it still counts.)
* BatmanGambit: He managed to do this against a hate-mailer. Instead of ripping apart the hate mail as he usually does, instead he told the mailer [[FreudianExcuse how he used to be abused]] and that his writing was a way to express himself. The mailer wrote back in sympathy, only to have Maddox responded back: "Just kidding. Tool."
* BlackComedy: For example, in his article ''[[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone The iPhone is a Piece of Shit and so is Your Face]]'' he wrote, ''"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, [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot 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."''
* BoringButPractical: His reasoning for his website's {{Minimalism}},
* ChildHater: As best demonstrated with his "I Am Better Than Your Kids" site.
* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: In an instance where Maddox fell foul of this trope, he complained of {{Film/Prometheus}} not having the {{Film/Alien}} in it, calling it a bait-and-switch. However, Ridley Scott had explicitly stated long before the film's release that it wasn't going to have the Aliens themselves in it, rather that it was only going to be set in the same universe. It was in fact various papers, magazines and film news websites that had hyped it as an Alien movie. Of course, [[RuleOfFunny he may have been]] [[AccentuateTheNegative exaggerating.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: He once got an e-mail talking about how dull his site was. He responded by banning the person's ''entire ISP''... [[OhCrap with a message explaining that the banned individuals should send this dude an e-mail of gratitude.]]
* DummiedOut: Looking at the HTML source of many of his pages reveals many bits omitted through ''[[color:green:<!-- HTML comments. -->]]''
* EmphasizeEverything: [[http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=epic He attacked the prevalent misuse of the terms]] [[EpicFail "epic" and "fail"]], saying that their overuse by popular culture has stripped them of their meaning. People sick of it themselves hailed it as a welcome return from a months-long hiatus and a MomentOfAwesome.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: He has received at least 80 marriage proposals, 4 of them are from men.
* EverybodyHatesMathematics: A particular BerserkButton for him. He dedicates an [[http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=math article]] tearing apart the "when will I ever use math again in life?" excuse, mentioning that math is the reason why technological advancements such as oil platforms, medicine, and space travel even exist, and that people that use the excuse are lazy, self-important morons.
** The BerserkButton is explained by the fact that he majored in math.
* EveryoneHatesMimes: Maddox hates mimes so much that he even dreams of them getting skewered by a rain of swords.
* ExcusePlot: the (non-existing) ''[[http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=maddoxgame Best Game in the Universe]]'' has one as evidenced in the prologue:
-->''[...] Satisfied from his healthy breakfast of rocks and shitting gun powder, [Maddox] headbutts the front door into splinters and proceed to do his daily business:''\\
''KICKING ASSES''\\
''[[LampshadeHanging That's it. That's pretty much the premise of the whole game.]]''
* FollowTheLeader: The site had lot of imitators. Most of them fall afoul of SturgeonsLaw.
* [[GagPenis Gag Testicles]]: A lot larger than the sun! Which he actually used in his rant against the original Xbox, where he referred to the enormous controller as "almost as big as my nuts".
* GrammarNazi: One of the ways that Maddox took apart a hate mail is by pointing out its numerous grammatical errors. He's had to deal with a few thinking that the words "inane" and "homage" are [[CriticalResearchFailure not actual words]].
* GovernmentConspiracy: Spoofed on the [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=af07 "Unfastened Coins" sub-webpage]], where Maddox "proves" that the Titanic didn't sink because of an iceberg collision, but because of a government cover-up. He also mocked it with "There is no 9/11 conspiracy you morons", completely savaging LooseChange.
* HatesSmallTalk: Maddox wishes he could kick people who make small talk [[GroinAttack in the crotch]]. [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=smalltalk Seriously]].
* HeManWomanHater
* HypocriticalHumor: One of the above-mentioned uninformed grammar Nazis who thought "homage" wasn't a real word went on to tell Maddox that he "didn't think you'd want some [[RougeAnglesOfSatin collage]]-educated guy bitchin at you."
** The FAQ notes that Maddox dates pages by when they were last updated rather than posted, and that if a page actually is updated it will be moved back to the top of the front page, but he then says "this rarely happens because I do everything perfekt the frst time."
* IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou: "You know ACE, I won't even point out the irony of your subject line (it's "you're", not "your", dipshit)"
* InsaneTrollLogic: Possibly spoofed: [[TakeThat "Mimes are worthless. Environmentalists are worthless. Therefore Mimes are Environmentalists."]]
* LogicalFallacies: One of the staples of Maddox's satire.
** One particularly hilarious example is a cartoon satirizing astrology in which someone unscrews the cap from a soda bottle and reads on it the words "SORRY PLEASE TRY AGAIN", and then furiously shouts at the heavens, "DAMN YOU NEPTUNE!"
** He also pointed out the idiocy of people who are opposed to the hiring of immigrant labor AND opposed to laws that would force companies to pay these immigrants fair wages. If they had to pay them fair wages, there would be no incentive for these companies to hire immigrant workers over local Americans (who are already protected by minimum wage laws). Apparently he even called in to a local radio show about this one, but the host was unable to follow his basic argument.
* {{Minimalism}}: The sites pages consist of minimal colour (large grey text on a black background), and is mostly text oriented, for the most part lacking images, advertisments, animations, and other fancy design gimmicks. The site author, Maddox, claims the purpose of this is in part to minimise bandwidth consumption, but is mostly as protest against "all the slick-looking, contentless web sites out there" and to make the website easier on the eyes as "Staring at a white background while you read is like staring at a light bulb".
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Maddox is soft-spoken and level-headed in interviews. His voice in his videos is also much softer than one would expect from reading the website.
** Contrary to what people want to believe, Maddox doesn't take himself too seriously.
* OneOfUs: He plays a lot of video games, and has done positive reviews for ''{{Contra}} III'' and ''{{Ikaruga}}''.
* RatedMForManly
** TestosteronePoisoning
* SaltAndPepper: Complained about [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=cop_movie here]].
* ScheduleSlip: Over the years Maddox has updated the site less and less, and at points gets an update about 1-2 times per year. However, it's getting better after the release of his second book.
** "Now that my book is finished, I can get back to regularly not updating my website."
* SelfDeprecation: "These corporate sites have promotions, games, and discounts, yet more people come to this site every day and read stupid bullshit about how big my balls are."
* SmallNameBigEgo: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied.]] "Some people think I'm conceited. Oh well... 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." Overlaps with RefugeInAudacity.
* RefugeInAudacity: "If there was a building that stood for grammatical integrity..."
* RefugeInVulgarity
* TakeThat: On almost everything. His Ikaruga review turned into a random stab at Tekken, mocking its character design (in particular, Armor King).
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Beef jerky. At one point he posted an entire article, the link to which said would offer a list of everything better than beef jerky. The article consisted of one single word: "nothing".
** His article on Tabasco sauce also used a similar joke - it included a list of things he would suggest one put Tabasco sauce on, which consisted of a single bullet point: "everything".
* ViewersAreGeniuses: [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=april_fools_you_morons Maddox learned the dangers of this assumption the hard way]], along with people insisting "inane" was not a real word.
* ViewersAreMorons: He heavily believes this, specifically playing this viewpoint up in "[[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=your_stupid_ideas I am a genius, you are not]]" and "[[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=aliens Wireless internet may very well destroy our chances of contacting intelligent life]]", wherein he rips apart moronic mail. In fairness, his readers ([[VocalMinority or at the very least, the ones that send him hate-mail]]) literally go out of their way to prove him right.
** Also the focus of [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=puns "Nobody cares if your puns were intended"]].
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