Well, I was a mild mannered reporter, but not for a major metropolitan newspaper

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You are mild-mannered, good, strong and you love to help others.

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I want to hold your chakras!

This odd Hindi version of I Want To Hold Your Hand must come from a Bollywood movie. Which one?

bollywood+Beatles

When Connery Met Sally

The imitable Craig Ferguson has imagined what might happen if Sean Connery starred in a remake of When Harry Met Sally.

No, I don't particularly want to have what he is having, thanks. :)

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Mystery Spatula Theatre?

It seems that some MST3K-loving cable access TV types have created a loving tribute in the form of Mystery Spatula Theater 11. (The YouTube clip mentions their website.

Happily, there seems to be scads of original MST3K material on YouTube, including, at this writing, a full show.

We put Duracells in this French chanteuse and normal batteries in...

A YouTube wag thinks that this medley of 1960s videos by French singer Sheila is really a disguised ad for Duracell. I would say that the cover of Hello Little Girl by Lennon and McCartney, in particular, reveals that this was the day that Sheila forgot to stick to decaf. :)

All singing! All dancing! All Lemony-fresh!

Here's a link to Bold Detergent:The Musical. And only 59 seconds too!

Worst Record Covers ever

This collection of Worst Album covers includes the LP "Can I Borrow A Feelin'?" And I thought that was a Kirk Van Houten song!

I expect to find the first LP by the 1960s German rock band The Tonics on one of these sites someday. It shows the band members jumping in a distrubingly crazy way.

Tech Tags: worst+record+covers, The+Tonics, Kirk+Van+Houten, Can+I+Borrow+A+Feeling?

"Meet Socialist Turtle! He's a 400 year old small four-legged reptile and hardcore Stalinist!"

Here's a link to the page on Upton's Universe where you can find mini-comics about a favourite comic character during my university days: Socialist Turtle by Vancouver cartoonist Colin Upton.

(I have a copy of his re-introduction in the January 1990 Discorder magazine which I am thinking of tacking by my desk at work, thus further befuddling my co-workers.)

Artist Upton recalls that the strip was "Mysteriously popular with kids." But Socialist Turtle is such a cuddly-looking agitator!

Tech Tags: Colin+Upton Socialist+Turtle

Theme for a dream

Here is a Hindi cover of the Cliff Richard song Theme For A Dream

Jeg Vil Ha En Liten Hund!

Now you can hear Lille Eris' Jeg Vil Ha Liten Hund (I Want A Little Dog!), the annoyingly oh-so-cute Norwegian hit of the 1960s immortalized on Incorrect Music, on YouTube here. Some teenager is lip-synching to the song.

(If only it was a video of Lille Eris from Norwegian TV.)

I think, though, that my mom will prefer this video of The Beatles performing I Want To Hold Your Hand on the Ed Sullivan show.

The Force is strong in my pants.

Top 259 Star Wars Lines Improved By Replacing A Word With "Pants"

Why does Ronald McDonald look like Satan?

Some activists have posted a video game in which you operate a burger chain not dis-similar to McDonalds and have to do all sorts of politically incorrect things and be exploitative to win.

I'll bet that on some right-leaning sites, this game will be a hit amongst waggish bloggers playing tongue in cheek.

You'll need a really big flyswatter

Here is the Japanese trailer for the movie Rodan.

Big moth alert!

The Snobs!

Direct from the court of George the Third:
The Snobs!

Not surprisingly, you can use the search terms "Toffee-nosed" and "git" to find this video on YouTube.

King Pong!

If you need any reasons to dawdle at work, here is an online Pong game.

Tech Tags: oneline+pong+game

The Gospel According to the Beatles

A new book, The Gospel According To The Beatles, explores the Fab Four's interaction with religion. An online excerpt speculates whether John Lennon was on the brink of becoming born again in 1977.

Somehow, I don't think that David Noebel will be asked to review the book, do you?

:)

Tech Tags: The+Gospel+According+To+The+Beatles David+Noebel David+Noebel+Beatles

A soccer title that Canada could win

Who would be the soccer champions of the world if they were decided as boxing titles were? Soccer nerds have found, at the Unofficial Football World Championships website, that the might soccer power Georgia would be world champions--if titles were decided by defeating the previous champion. Given that countries such as the Dutch Antilles and Angola have held this unofficial fun title, Canadian soccer players should head to Georgia immediately!

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Belles! Belles Belles!

If you listen to 1960's French teen idol Claude Francois singing Belles!Belles! Belles!, his 1962 hit cover--en Francais-of an Everly Brothers song, you might think it is a happy go lucky song, especially if you have seen the Scopitones footage of Claude doing the Twist in the snow while miming the song.

If you want to see the Scoptones video of the song, it's on YouTube.

However, the lyrics of the song are a little bittersweet. The rough English translation will show you what I mean.

Nice song, though. If only his French cover of "I Want To Hold Your Hand" was on the same CD. :)

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"Most favourite German identical twins"

Here is a tribute page about Alice & Ellen Kessler. They are twin sisters who played Vegas and did a cover version of "Johnny Angel" (?!?) on their way to becoming singing stars in Italy and Germany. Warning, English mangled freely!

Or you could try this Wikipedia entry in English, if you like.

Technorati: Kessler+twins Die+Kessler+Zwillinge Alice+Kessler Ellen+Kessler

The Burning Log starring "The Hand"

Over the holidays, The Province newspaper interviewed Craig McAllister. No, you don't know who he is, but you do know his hand.

Mr. McAllister made The Burning Log, that video shown on TV stations as far away as New York state, which shows logs burning in a fireplace. That's his hand that you see poking at the logs and adding wood.

You may read the story here.

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