# Your current favorite Youtube clip. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 25, 2009, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-favorite-youtube-clip/482943 "2009-01-25T19:40:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-favorite-youtube-clip/482943/61 "2009-02-01T17:15:29Z")
> [@Lantern](#): > > Just saw this a few minutes ago and it’s hilarious. It’s basically a series of tunes created with Microsoft Songsmith using tanking stock prices of various companies and other statistics. > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-BZfFakpzc](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-BZfFakpzc) Ha! It’s basically Richard MacDuff’s _Anthem_! I was wondering when someone finally would translate the concept into the real world… ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-favorite-youtube-clip/482943/62 "2009-02-01T18:40:50Z")
[Len Lye’s Kaleidoscope](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF_ehWEL0Wc&feature=channel_page) (1935). What was he [smoking](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2160/2519121347_f67d236f41.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![maplekiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@maplekiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maplekiwi)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-favorite-youtube-clip/482943/63 "2009-02-02T00:41:53Z")
The world’s dumbest escapers! What makes it funnier (to me!) is that the newscaster is normally a very serious young guy! [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v5WPW_Dexs) & another thumbs up for the Christian the Lion clip! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-favorite-youtube-clip/482943/64 "2009-02-02T02:17:55Z")
> [@Xema](#): > > [Lighthouses in rough weather](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNpH5tx4Pu8) That, to me, is beauty. The same beauty that makes me smile when its storming outside and I’m inside warm as toast. Thanks for posting it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-favorite-youtube-clip/482943/65 "2009-02-02T02:33:52Z")
[Verdi’s “Traviata” with claymation desserts.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDhHxIz83Ic) (From the Cake Wrecks site.) So strange. So…compelling. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-favorite-youtube-clip/482943/66 "2009-02-02T02:38:26Z")
[Craig Ferguson yodelling.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA9yiIzShEI) No, I don’t know why. I just…I just love that guy. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-favorite-youtube-clip/482943/67 "2009-02-02T02:53:38Z")
> [@ArrMatey](#): > > That, to me, is beauty. The same beauty that makes me smile when its storming outside and I’m inside warm as toast. Thanks for posting it. 🙂 Yeah, I’d love to spend the night in one of those lighthouses. ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-favorite-youtube-clip/482943/68 "2009-02-02T06:59:04Z")
[Infomercial](http://www.wimp.com/niceedit/)with NSFW language. My sides hurt from this one. Three year old finger [painter](http://www.wimp.com/toogreat/). A cabinet that sounds like [Chewbacca](http://www.wimp.com/cabinetsounds/). Very wrong, yet very [funny](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnCnRuoYMxE&eurl=http://www.cynical-c.com/?p=12764). Interesting idea. [White Privilege](http://www.wimp.com/bigideas/). ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-favorite-youtube-clip/482943/69 "2009-02-02T15:45:55Z")
[this makes me smile](http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Y4SHuqrIA) ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-favorite-youtube-clip/482943/70 "2009-02-02T16:15:35Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > [Craig Ferguson yodelling.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA9yiIzShEI) \*\*No, I don’t know why. \*\*I just…I just love that guy. In the monologue the night before, he mentioned that his mother loved the song, “She Taught Me How to Yodel”. I don’t remember exactly what he said, but I it had something to do with the singer being Australian. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-favorite-youtube-clip/482943/71 "2009-02-03T21:05:35Z")
I found another [Sesame Street](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNARJPNz2CA) parody. I think it’s freaking hillarious. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-favorite-youtube-clip/482943/72 "2009-02-04T20:52:36Z")
My cousin just sent me [this one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HkXmOIwpkQ). Talk about forging new frontiers in sacred music. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-favorite-youtube-clip/482943/73 "2009-02-04T21:20:16Z")
The Terrible Terry Tate Trifecta: [Blam](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzToNo7A-94) [Blam](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EHhwxRls2Y&feature=related) Blam!]([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jplpjCaec&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jplpjCaec&feature=related)) [I said Blam!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtJOzE1GJWw&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-favorite-youtube-clip/482943/74 "2009-02-05T00:12:21Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Have your hankies ready: > > [Christian the Lion](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVNTdWbVBgc) I loved the YouTube videos I saw of this so much that I bought the full documentary on DVD. I HIGHLY recommend it. But do bring hankies. Ok for me… I have to say that I still watch this one all the time even though you’d think I’d be sick of it by now: [Ferocious Puffball vs Terrifying Hand of Doom](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtVdRCVWieo) ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-favorite-youtube-clip/482943/75 "2009-02-05T02:54:09Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Talk about forging new frontiers in sacred music. The music is rather different [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnL1xE1WFe0), but it would seem to be much the same sort of style. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-favorite-youtube-clip/482943/76 "2009-02-08T18:02:55Z")
Here is mine. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/B-Wd-Q3F8KM/hqdefault.jpg "The Count Censored") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wd-Q3F8KM) ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-favorite-youtube-clip/482943/77 "2009-02-08T18:08:46Z")
That made me giggle 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-favorite-youtube-clip/482943/78 "2009-02-08T20:53:44Z")
[Christian Bale/David After the Dentist Mashup](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70r-Ca8wcVg&feature=channel) Quite well done. I wonder what David might think about this in years to come; his own dad uploaded the original video. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-current-favorite-youtube-clip/482943.md?page=3)