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Posted: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 12:04 PM by Will Femia
Yesterday I was trying to tell someone that the shoe throwing incident reminded me of Lew Zealand the fish boomerang throwing Muppet and in the course of searching for a video of him I found this bit of Rowlf doing
Tea for Two backward.
That reminded me of
this amazing performance (yes, watch the whole thing or you won't get it) and how it made me feel deficient for not having a similar ability.
(Remarkably comprehensive list of
backward messages in songs.)
Speaking (almost) of New Zealanders,
How to Avoid Looking Like an American Tourist - Just two days ago I was talking with someone from New Zealand who mentioned that they always know American tourists because they wear white tube socks and tube t-shirts (apparently U.S. t-shirts are unique for not having a seam down each side). Since I only own white tube socks and outside of work I only wear t-shirts I thought that was pretty funny. what's interesting about this list is that you can read it in the converse to know how to identify a European tourist. Somehow European tourists always look a little overdressed to me.
And speaking of Shoey Shoethrower, not surprisingly he's inspired a bevy of parody
animated gifs, well cataloged at Boing Boing. There are also a bunch of
modified shooter games (shoe-ter games?) paying tribute to the event but they're mostly pretty crappy.
KickYouTube actually works. You change a YouTube URL to KickYouTube instead and it gives you a bunch of download options. Random story: When Obama had that 30 minute ad before the election, a TV guest was booked to talk about it but wasn't able to watch it live so I got a call from a producer asking if I could get a digital version to him ASAP. The ad was on YouTube right away but the guest wasn't sure about having 30 minutes of internet access so I had to find a way to download from YouTube and send him the file. Had I known about KickYouTube that process would have been much easier.
Nicely rendered robot fight short animated filmWhat the heck is rock dust?
