>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

>> ^Yogi:
Hey look at what regulation technology did it made cars safer. Damn socialists always trying to make us live longer!

Fixed that for ya, with my technology!


Yay! Technological developments funded by taxes made our cars safer...YAY!

>> ^Yogi:

Hey look at what regulation technology did it made cars safer. Damn socialists always trying to make us live longer!


Fixed that for ya, with my technology!

(Nitpicking: I think MCMXLV would be 1945, whereas 1965 would be MCMLXV). That being said, you have a point about the video's questionable historicity (the only results Google-god gave me link back to this video). I will change the video information accordingly.

>> ^RFlagg:

Copyright MCLXV... 1165? Even if they meant MCMXLV that would put it in 1965 and DeMille died in 1959, so he directed it beyond the grave, or in the case of 1165 an ancient ancestor's thought)? Also the CDC wasn't called the Centers for Disease Control until 1970... in 1965 it would have been the Communicable Disease Center. So bad fake is bad...
EDIT: I think perhaps it should be removed from the History and Vintage channels and put back in Parody, though it does lack the humor one would expect with parody so perhaps not that one...

Copyright MCLXV... 1165? Even if they meant MCMXLV that would put it in 1965 and DeMille died in 1959, so he directed it beyond the grave, or in the case of 1165 an ancient ancestor's thought)? Also the CDC wasn't called the Centers for Disease Control until 1970... in 1965 it would have been the Communicable Disease Center. So bad fake is bad...

EDIT: I think perhaps it should be removed from the History and Vintage channels and put back in Parody, though it does lack the humor one would expect with parody so perhaps not that one...

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by xxovercastxx. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

>> ^JAPR:

Two different vids, clearly. If he were to post like a billion snippets or whatever, that's one thing, but I see nothing wrong with a long vid and one concise good point out of it that stands well on its own.


Then initiate a poll to have the rules changed.

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Bertrand-Russell-BBC-1959-Interview

Your video, Japanese volcano explodes with biggest eruption since 1959, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

>> ^vaporlock:

Another great shot.




Wow, you lose all sense of scale when the cloud is in the air, then it pans down the the tress and you're like OMG its huge!

Thanks!

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*promote

Replaced video embed code with backup #1959 (supplied by member residue) - embed replaced by member gwiz665.

I have been thinking and it would be cool to have it on a significant date related to space. July 20th is the anniversary of the moon landing but maybe its a bit close, I havent been able to dig up any great space videos to kick the thing off with, and Im not sure how many are interested "Build it and they will come" indeed but I can't find the proper building material

Here are some important dates:

July 20, 1969 First Manned Moon Landing
August 20, 1977 Launh of Voyager 2 (yes! it was launched before Voyager 1)
September 5, 1977 Launch of Voyager 1
September 12, 1959 First Spacecraft to Impact on the Moon
September 15, 1968 First Moon Orbit
October 1, 1958 NASA is Born
October 4, 1957 First Artificial Satellite
October 4, 1959 First View of Moon's Far Side

Anyone have some great ideas on how to attract some attention to a space day? Build up some excitement?

Tags for this video have been changed from 'atomic, atom, bomb, explosion, testing, army, fox hole, no sound' to 'atomic, atom, bomb, explosion, testing, atomic bomb blast effects, 1959, no sound' - edited by kronosposeidon

No, "Puff, the Magic Dragon" is not about marijuana, or any other type of drug. It is what its writers have always claimed it to be: a song about the innocence of childhood lost.


The poem that formed the basis of the song "Puff, the Magic Dragon" was written in 1959 by Leonard Lipton, a nineteen-year-old Cornell student. Lipton was inspired by an Ogden Nash rhyme about a "Really-O Truly-O Dragon," and, using a dragon as the central figure, he came up with a poem about the end of childhood innocence. Lipton passed his work along to a friend, fellow Cornell student (and folk music enthusiast) Peter Yarrow, who put a melody to the words and wrote additional lyrics to create the song "Puff, the Magic Dragon." After Yarrow teamed up with Mary Travers and Paul Stookey in 1961 to form Peter, Paul & Mary, the trio performed the song in live shows; their 1962 recording of "Puff" reached #2 on the Billboard charts in early 1963.


The 1960s being what they were, however, any song based on oblique or allegorical lyrics was subject to reinterpretation as a "drug song," and so it was with "Puff." (For Peter, Paul & Mary, at least, the revelation that their song was "really" about marijuana came after the song had finished its chart run; other groups were not so fortunate, and accusations of "drug lyrics" caused some radio stations to ban songs such as the Byrds' "Eight Miles High" from their playlists.) "Puff" was an obvious name for a song about smoking pot; little Jackie Paper's surname referred to rolling papers; "autumn mist" was either clouds of marijuana smoke or a drug-induced state; the land of "Hanah Lee" was really the Hawaiian village of Hanalei, known for its particularly potent marijuana plants; and so on. As Peter Yarrow has demonstrated in countless concert performances, any song — even "The Star-Spangled Banner" — can be interpreted as a "drug song."


http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/puff.asp

I loved this show as a kid. I was born in 1959 and I watched this every Saturday morning. I lived in upstate NY and we got 3 channels from NYC, channels 2, 4 and 5. Ah, those were the days of roof antennas.

Pretty sure this is a dupe: http://www.videosift.com/video/SMASH-Crash-test-1959-Chevy-Bel-Air