That is amazing! I’ve favourited it.
I love the music, too (it’s named in the comments: “Silverfish Eyelashes” by KC Accidental).
Cool MIDI animations from Japan:
Wow, his falsetto is amazing!
My wife just found this pair by Tom Paxton. You need to listen to both to really appreciate the genius of it.
FTR, teammates on online computer games use Ventrilo to communicate with each other. That’s pretty much Ventrilo’s purpose AIUI: a gaming aid. At the very least, it cuts the other way: unless a particular game has VOIP built in, whenever teammates need to talk to each other in real time about what’s going on in the game, it’s universally understood that they’ll use Ventrilo. Conversation on Ventrilo is expected to revolve around the particular gaming session that the people involved are sharing. The video wasn’t a couple of girls commenting on a bunch of Top Gun clips–it was a guy using a Top Gun soundboard to interrupt their conversation about whatever’s going on in their game, and basically make it impossible for them to keep focused on (a) their game or (b) whatever they had to say to each other about what was going on in the game.
Now I know what the Ventrilo thing is about, I listened to it again. Still not funny.
You can understand basic Swedish and listen to a Swedish joke and still not get it. I think it’s a question of (sub)culture. Sorry to waste your time.
There’s pranking, and there’s pranking. The Jerky Boys are funny. Fonejacker is funny. That’s just… lame.
Since you didn’t post the original clip and since you didn’t post the first explanation of the clip, why are you fake apologizing?
Well, if you are a fan of Trek or Babylon 5 this one is for you. Super cool!
The ending is just as it should be. ![]()
This is fab: Sweet Child of Mumbai.
I quite like this one.
I’m real apologizing because I posted the clip in another thread about a day before it was posted here, so I assumed I was the one who brought it to the attention of the Doper who posted it here. Not to mention that I wasted jjimm’s time by trying to explain something to him that won’t have any point for him because he’s not part of the subculture.
I get it. I’m a gamer. It’s still not all that funny.
The sweet musical stylings of Drunk Uncle Charlie. It’s remarkable just how many childhood memories this brings back for me. ![]()
I love that song. It is one of my favorites fairly obscure songs. Thank you for the link.
Ok, I wouldn’t go as far as to say it’s a favorite of mine, but it’s pretty nifty:
William Tell Overture on violin and accordion:
This one is nice*: “Patrick Wilson ooh ooh baby,” a fanwank stills montage of the seriously gifted (and seriously dishy) actor, set to Britney Spears’ “Ooh Ooh Baby”.
In case the name doesn’t ring a bell**, he’s a B’way-turned-film actor (and a dead ringer for a young Paul Newman, as one of the early pics shows) with recent male leads in **Little Children ** (with Kate Winslet) and **Hard Candy ** (opposite Ellen Page, the star of Juno). In both movies, he plays a feckless suburban guy whose life goes off the rails in one way or another, and both movies deal with the subject of predatory pedophiles. (Hope he doesn’t get typecast!)
The montage itself is far from ideal; it draws too heavily from **Little Children ** and omits a lot of good material elsewhere, such as the bespectacled Wilson (eye candy, indeed) from Hard Candy, his characters from **The Alamo ** and The Phantom of the Opera, and his dance-off with Claire Danes in that GAP commercial in which she steals his khaki pants. But what redeems this video is the Britney Spears song, which has to be one of the best of all possible pop confections for this sort of thing – it’s catchy, frankly erotic, and deeply silly. Like… celebrity worship, come to think about it. :o
- “Borat” accent optional, and unnecessarily distracting.
** Wilson’s, of course.