All I hear is <i>most stupendous badass of all time</i>: (forgive the long quote)<p><pre><code> ... self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet
and immediately began trying to get rid of each other, either by
spamming their environments with rough copies of themselves, or by
more direct means which hardly need to be belabored. Most of them
failed,... Like every other creature on the face of the earth,
[Godfrey Waterhouse IV] was, by birthright, a stupendous badass,
albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace
his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved
stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo — which,
given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably
be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone
and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead.
As nightmarishly lethal, memetically programmed death-machines
went, [his parents] were the nicest you could ever hope to meet....
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[1] <i>Cryptonomicon</i>, also found here <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WorldOfBadass" rel="nofollow">http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WorldOfBadass</a>