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Old 04-27-2008, 02:12 AM
The Shroud The Shroud is offline
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Weird duplicate YouTube clips

I'm a big fan of old, dead comedians, so I do lots of searches on YouTube for Jack Benny and Bob Hope, among others.

For some reason, this clip of Bob Hope equating Democrats with zombies is posted by a different user, oh, once a day on average. Check out the Related Videos sidebar. It's uncanny. Either it's some sort of spam I can't quite figure out, or each one has been posted by a 60-year old Republican who first received it as an email forward and just had to post it to YouTube. (I say that because my parents forwarded this very same clip to me once.)

Have you seen any other clips with this level of redundancy?

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Old 04-27-2008, 01:37 PM
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Generally, you see that on copyrighted material that the owner actually cares enough about to complain to YouTube when they see it. It's an uploader strategy: one copy may be removed, but six more will take its place, ensuring its perpetual availability.
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Old 04-27-2008, 03:16 PM
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Sad thing is, it's not even that funny. I've seen some good Bob Hope lines, but his delivery of that line was, IMHO, exceedingly amateur.
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