True, Deano, but they also laughed at what he meant to be funny as he told his own story. I may have been a little too cryptic about the two sources of laughter.

OK this back masking, is good. But nothing tops the Doors, or Stairway To Heaven songs, or the Beatles for that matter. You can record sayings backwards with your words, its not hard. Pink Floyd has one on the wall CD that says Congratulations you have just found the secret message, send your answer to old pink care of Funny Farm and then some strange name of a city. This is not a lie, it is truth because all they did was record the words and then put them on the record backwards. MSI (Mindless Self Indulgence) has a song called back mask, that tells you to clean your room, eat your veggies, and the like. It can be done, but these other ones like the nirvana one, the mind hears what the eye sees. If some one hasnt seen the lyrics backwards, then they would never know its cryptic message. The point is you cannot prove that it was done on purpose because it would have to be perfect in its annunciation, and flow like regular language for any one to understand what is being said with out the lyrics on the screen.

That song hi my name is by Eminem. If you play that one backwards you get It is slim, its eminem, its eminem. So another example of the fact that it can be done.

Take to heart that if you read the music, and then speak the words in verse specified then you will not get the same sounds, they have to be sung. So that is another way that message in unintentional situations are disproved. Believe me i would like to know how Stairway to Heaven got so bashed over its "If there's a bustle in your hedgerow don't be alarmed now its just a sprinkling for the may queen. Yes there are to paths you can go by but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you 're on." Flip that around and you get a satanic message or so is said, but i think it was just some idiots from a hardcore Christian "Rock is the devil" type people. Besides if it was intentional, who cares its great music.

Any way i think the messages found in these by people are cool, just don't try and force this stuff to come out into the public because it will only cause stupidity. Take it with a glass of water, then think before you speak to rashly on this stuff.

In case the title's too cryptic, the video is a humourous look at Natural Selection, arguing that society no longer favours reproduction of those with high IQs.

Gotta love the pop-up-video style family trees. nsfw'd for some minor swearing here and there.

Personally SnareMop: I find the complete editing of any post as a little dodgy (I even strike-out my non-grammar/typo edits to comments)... But re-writing a whole Sift Talk post to a question which was answered already (Christmas decorations) - seems un-nerving and confusing for anyone reading the comments above.

For any of those confused Sifters, here's the original Sift Talk posted:

My Day! (ooo so exciting!)

posted by snaremop [14 Published Videos] 7 hours 54 minutes ago

As usual, today started off at 5:56 in the morning. I ate some Honey Nut Cheerios, got dressed in my shite school uniform, and went off to school. First period is History, where absolutely nothing happened, except we watched a boring Discovery Channel movie about China. And we had to take notes. Then came science, where we began dissecting an owl pellet. I found it quite amusing how everyone thought it was owl shit. Next was recess, where I ate some granola type energy bar. I don't know. It was called Nature's Valley. Then came orchestra, where we practiced our asses off for our concert (which, as I'm writing this, starts in about an hour and a half). After orchestra is English, which is fairly boring, and I might have died if I did not sit next to interesting people. We corrected Vocabulary and did some practice worksheet. I did unusually bad on the vocabulary: 62 out of 66. Ha, I'm so modest. After English is P.E., where I ran a mile in 7:03 (well, it's a little more than a mile. Plus I'm the best boy runner in my class). After P.E. is lunch, which is a blur. It was very sunny; all I remember is my peanut butter sandwich. Our twenty five minute lunch is followed by Algebra, which is always boring but I am good at it. We are learning about graphs, slope, etc. It's my second year doing algebra: I failed the final in 6th grade. Finally, after ALgebra is Leadership, perhaps the most boring class of the day. We got our school email addresses, which consist of a line of cryptic letters and numbers, which are extremely hard to memorize. The day ended at 2 o clock, when I went to buy some clothes (a flannel shirt and polo) and then went to orthodontist to get my mouth of metal adjusted. I was pleased to hear I only have four more months of braces ! Finally I came home, did my algebra homework, and I am now typing this. Hope you enjoyed my blog? Ok, I guess it's a blog. Snaremop, out.

Farhad's already accused me of being a stalker, I don't want to confirm it by figuring out where you live!

Besides, it was more of a rhetorical "Where is that?", in the cryptic sense that I'm impressed by the fact you live there, wherever it is... then again they just filmed Hairspray up my street a few weeks ago, so I really shouldn't get so impressed... but I do anyway...

Woops, sorry, I should be more careful. I was just making a (lame) cryptic joke about the social etiquette rule to not talk about either at the dinner table - and here they are talking about both. It was meant to be a completely unrelated thought, but I can totally see how you would've seen them as part of a whole, sorry again for causing the confusion.

If anything I love seeing them mixed together in lively & witty debates.

Suggestion for the Sift: can we distinguish between "real" nsfw and a Videosift "PG" rating? Having two seperate levels would be worthwhile to distinguish between one-off swears (i.e., the "thinking of the children" reaction) vs. full-on nsfw profanity-laced-Shatner-roast-ish tirades?

I don't find this video particularly amusing, but I'm posting it anyway because I *do* find the story behind this amusing: http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/13/business/lonely.php

In summary, geeks were obsessed with her thinking that she's a "real girl", some started to track things down after finding the production values suspciously good, and found out it's a plot to make a movie or something.

Couple of quotes from the article:
NEW YORK A nearly four-month-old Internet drama in which the cryptic video musings of a fresh-faced teenager became the obsession of millions of devotees - themselves divided over the very authenticity of the videos, or who was behind them or why - appears to be in its final act.

The woman who plays Lonelygirl15 on the video-sharing site YouTube.com has been identified as Jessica Rose, a twentyish resident of New Zealand and Los Angeles and a graduate of the New York Film Academy. And the whole project appeared to be the early, serialized version of what eventually would become a movie.

Matt Foremski, the 18-year-old son of Tom Foremski, a reporter for the blog Silicon Valley Watcher, was the first to disinter a trove of photographs of the familiar-looking actress, who portrayed the character named Bree in the videos. The episodes suggested Bree was the home-schooled daughter of strictly religious parents who improbably stole time to upload video blogs of her innermost thoughts.

The discovery and the swift and subsequent revelation of other details surrounding the perpetrators of the videos - and the phony fan site that accompanied it - end one of the Internet's more elaborately constructed mysteries.

Fans' disbelief in Lonelygirl15 was not willingly suspended, but rather teased and toyed with. Whether they will embrace the project as a new narrative form, condemn it, or simply walk away remains to be seen.
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On learning that Rose was an actress whose interests, unlike the scientific and religious issues that fascinated Bree, ran to parties and posing, one fan wrote, "I'm heart-broken." The fan added, "But a wonderful actress, had me fooled into thinking she was a geek like me."

I'm in Hollywood North, not West.

Visited a couple of times - great place.

If I'm being too cryptic, this'll betray my location: http://www.videosift.com/siftoff/story.php?id=8979

Also explains why I usually knock off the Sift 3 hours earlier than you.

It happens - well done.

Older users' scarily comprehensive memories of what's already on VS often trump any sort of search, although when it's not obvious and it's a clear 'dupe' case we try and make it easy by pointing out which search mechanism yielded the match.

My somewhat cryptic comment to dag, in case you're wondering, refers to a planned new feature where a vid like yours gets merged with the dead one so the votes can be compiled together and so the vid can get out of the queue instantly. I foresee it coming eventually - but it's bad form to rush dag, so we chill and relax.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Thanks for noticing Krupo. I guess it was a little cryptic before.

Cool; I wonder though, whether CH isn't too much of an unecessarily cryptic observation? Still, I can't really think of anything much better.

You did add a tooltip text to it, though... I think that's as best as can be done. Nice.

I like how you added a hyperlink on users' "comments" total on their profiles to do the same thing, though - nice!

Now if only the videosift blog "edit comment" bug could be squashed....