this needs to start @ 1:45
*promote
(I love Carol Channing)

This is the first time that I know of were an epic fail did not result in a win...

-small edit- DSM will now no longer be announced by the monster truck guy, it will be from Carol Channing.

Nazi Jell-O followed by running a train on Carol Channing. Can life get any better? I submit that it cannot.

Ahh, I see. Thanks for the reply.

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
If a video has the logo of the video host rather than a frame from the video, the invocation will cause siftbot to try to locate a true thumbnail from the video host.

It would be a ridiculous waste of our resources (load, most of all) for us at most any user's will to download an entire Flash video onto our servers then parse it looking for a few frames just so you could have one of your choosing. I guess no one else has suggested it because they realized it's not very feasible and is worth much less than the problems it would create. The most common similar suggestion has been that people snap their own screenshot, crop it, and upload it for the video. This is a better solution but opens a gaping hole for abuse.

If the video host has the thumbnail, we should be able to get it. There are only a couple approved hosts we can't retrieve thumbnails for. And sometimes the thumbnail fetch just fails at video submit time but will work later for a *findthumb.

(It doesn't always not work.)

In reply to this comment by shuac:
How, exactly, does this invocation work? Does it actually DO anything? Where does it look for thumbnails? Seriously, where is it looking?

Can't it sample a bunch of frames from the flash video itself, offer those samples, and allows us to choose one?

I can't possibly be the first person to think of this.

In reply to this comment by siftbot:
A different thumbnail image for this video could not be found for findthumb request by shuac.

How, exactly, does this invocation work? Does it actually DO anything? Where does it look for thumbnails? Seriously, where is it looking?

Can't it sample a bunch of frames from the flash video itself, offer those samples, and allows us to choose one?

I can't possibly be the first person to think of this.

In reply to this comment by siftbot:
A different thumbnail image for this video could not be found for findthumb request by shuac.

So you don't want a sexy young actress to sound like Carol Channing after the fiftieth take for a scene?

>> ^my15minutes:
yeah, there are a variety of ultralight herbal cigarettes available.
many use clove, for instance.
i smoke these.
i wouldn't be surprised if even the smokers weren't smoking 'real' cigarettes, much of the time onscreen. otherwise multiple takes could be a real problem.

This is one of those things, watch it too late at night or in an altered state, and the next day you won't be sure it wasn't a dream. This lengthy closing segment of an Otto Preminger film "Skidoo" gets increasingly surreal, in a 1968 pop culture way. It's all about LSD. Groucho Marx is God. And in the closing scene he's smoking a doobie. Really.

Here's the summary that caught my eye: One of Tony's(Gleason) cellmates turns out to be a draft dodger called Fred the Professor (Pendleton); an electonics wizard who has renounced technology.... He writes his wife with news, on stationery borrowed from Fred, and ignores Fred's pleas not to lick the envelope. When he does, he discovers the hard way that all the stationery is soaked with LSD... enough to send the whole prison on a hard trip. Fred guides Tony through the resulting acid experience, helping him come to terms with his worries about Darlene and his past, and plotting their escape.

Darlene and Stash spend the night aboard God's yacht, with Stash getting word back to Flo and his friends about their location, and a coded plea for help. As the hippies mount a rescue, Tony and Fred build a makeshift balloon from discarded freezer bags and garbage cans, dump the whole supply of stationery into the prison's lunch, and fly out of the prison as everyone below begins to freak out.

As it happens, both the hippies (led by Flo, who sings the title number as they storm the yacht) and the balloon arrive at God's hideaway at the same time. As they hunt him down, God abandons ship. Tony and Flo borrow a cabin on the yacht and renew their relationship, while Angie marries Elizabeth, and Stash and Darlene take their own hippie vows. God and Fred sail off together to pursue a simpler life.
- courtesy Wikipedia

Be sure to watch at least the credits, which are entirely sung by Nilssen.

Carol Channing always adds an air of the surreal, or at least "wtf?!", but I did not expect to see Groucho Marx smoking a doobie. The cast is a dizzying potpourri of everyone who's anyone, a la "Mad,Mad World". Jackie Gleason and Carol Channing, Cesar Romero and Frankie Avalon, Peter Lawford, Burgess Meredith, Groucho Marx, Harry Nilssen