Not gonna comment on the acting & plot from a trailer, but mom & pop Addams characters felt... unrecognizable? They don't give me that vibe from the classic TV & '91 movie.

Hope this Wednesday is not just all creepy & 2 dimensional.

Your video, Stairway To Gilligan's Island - Led Zeppelin - Classic TV, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

This is wonderful. I once saw this bit printed in a poster.
I believe that this -- and much of Carlin's career -- was a success because he had the voice of a classic tv show announcer.

That last comment was an inside/outside joke, son.

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Foghorn Leghorn & Daffy Duck - The High And The Flighty
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Tags for this video have been changed from 'nureyev, muppets, ballet, classic tv' to 'nureyev, muppets, ballet, classic tv, swan lake' - edited by deedub81

god help me, I can't help but laugh my ass off!

oh, and this looks like it's from the classic TV series, not movies, so
*nochannel
*comedy
*1sttube
*vintage
*wtf

1. Surplus of Gold Star members getting congratulated on SiftTalk daily
2. Cat fart videos.
3. Whoring for upvotes: http://www.videosift.com/video/Stupid-People-Make-Classic-TV
4. *Quality Stars!
5. Waiting for Choggie to go postal.

PS: Thanks for the idea

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Oh I've dropped a few comments here and there, but nothing of particular interest or amusement. Can't be funny all the time. Been wearing my serious cap as of late, watching heady programming on the 1sttube. Like "Bewitched". Why is Derwood such an asshole? He should've had Samantha kill Mr. Tate and Mrs. Kravitz on the first episode. Dumb fucking mortal.

I'll see you around. You can find me where dick jokes are being posted.

wow. n1, ik. i totally should've thought of it, when i was sifting up classic tv intros last week.

but what'd i come up with? swat. hehe. that shit kills me, though. looks like they made it for fifteen bucks, from the rental store, in one afternoon.

I suppose having 22 star points for dead fixes makes me the worst "abuser" of the system, and no doubt that I would not have hit gold in 2 months were it not for that. But...

deads are much quicker to fix than sifts are to sift.

I completely disagree with this. It took me much more time to fix most of the deads I have than to find and post my 'best' sift. Clips from Comedy Central, The Onion, etc. - these are all extremely easy to find and post, and are virtually guaranteed to get published. And, personally, I find that to be a much less significant contribution than fixing an obscure and great post that has died. Those sites already have their videos in one place, all nicely organized for everyone.

In the roughly 4 weeks the dead pool has been active, I have fixed a lot more than 22 posts, probably more than 4 times that many. I try to be very methodical about it. For an hour or two a night (depending on how tired I am), I pick a page in the pool with deads that I haven't seen yet, and start working my way down, spending at least 10-15 minutes (usually more) on each trying to find a fix.

I'm not trying to toot my own horn, but rather make a point - fixing deads is neither quick nor easy. And Dag's (and others) points above pretty well establish that fixing deads is not only beneficial, but ultimately crucial, to maintaining the integrity of the site over the long term. Furthermore, I don't think of it as "taking out the trash". I have found a lot of great posts (vids + comments) that I otherwise would not have seen because I searched for and found a fix.

the fixing thing is really not so important once a dead vid is discarded, as long as the tags are good so it isn't duped... then if someone tries to dupe it they can fix it instead.

Just last night I fixed a dead which had been duped with the exact same YT link that was left by someone else in the comments of the dead post. Were more deads being fixed, this would not happen. And the reason it shouldn't is because the original poster is denied recognition for their contribution.

Another point I disagree with is the notion of "here today, gone tomorrow". Some of my favorite sifts are classic tv and movie clips that I would never have otherwise seen again or at all. Why else would we have the vintage and 1sttube channels?
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What is the point of granting stars? To recognize the contributions of dedicated members of the community, not to give them benefits, but rather responsibilities. This is why only golds can discard posts, for instance. It is not an action to be taken lightly (and we've seen the consequences when it is). Point being, those responsibilities are given to members who have demonstrated themselves to be dedicated and responsible members of the community, and that can be demonstrated in many more ways than posting a lot of simpsons clips.

A number of folks have noted that any sort of time delay for the reward not only provides a disincentive, but unbalances the system in favor of those who would try to game it. This really should be a fractional point, whatever that fraction is (I recommend 1/5 point). If such a policy is going to be applied retroactively, then to be fair it needs to be applied retroactively for all fixes. And no offense Lucky, but changing the policy based on a 4 hour old thread before most people even had a chance to read it, much less respond to it, seems pretty hasty.

A quick point about sift money. I'd like to see the sift money be strictly for benefits like an extra slot in your queue, a self-promote, etc., and imnsho, should be gained in the same way charter members gain their benefits. Encouraging one-time monetary contributions could go a long way in maintaining the long term viability of VS.

To those who post lots of simpsons, TDS, or whatever, I like many of those clips and was only using them as examples to make a point. There are many other examples in the same vein. They are all good stuff - otherwise, it wouldn't get sifted.

not a sarah silverman fan?

Her mocking of tradition and expectation is typically too over-the-top, but I liked those two clips myself. Parodies of classic tv/movie situations (even ridiculous ones) are right up my alley.

A classic TV show. A shame it finally went off the air.

Amazing that we used to think these demos were "unbelieveably cool!"

"The base configuration has a monochrome monitor which has a resolution of 640x400, which is a little higher than what people are typically used to seeing; very crisp and solid." ~$799-$2,000.

"There is today 3 operating environments: 2 from Apple and 1 from IBM; it seems unlikely the available pool of software developers is expanding rapidly enough to support even one more operating system."

Thanks! I actually written it some time ago, just waiting to plug in the 100th post link. (I may have been off by one, but close enough!)

In reply to your comment:
“Great stuff, Firefly!

Sc

In reply to your comment:
“Hey! I wrote one too:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I sifted, weak and weary,
Over many vids and volumes of Google/YouTube lore -
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“Tis some visitor”, I muttered, tapping at my chamber door:
Only this and nothing more.
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flight and flutter,
In there stepped a stately Raven
of the saintly days of yore.
Adept in gouls and freaks
is she, and even other birds you see,
Achieved her hundredth post to up the score.
“Well done,” I said, while still perusing, of other vids I may be choosing,
What more from you shall we be looking for?
You brought lovely girls
we guys seek, and Wiggum’s dream a la Twin Peaks, Further good stuff to the ‘Sift, we do implore.
Action flicks from balls o’ flexin, and a ceiling dance (is most impressin’!) , a good start to continue on your chore…
Another hundred--plus half of that, to get the shine’d diamond stat
Whatever shall ye do, to raise your score?
Quoth the Raven: “Sift some more”

Congrats Raven! ””

Great stuff, Firefly!

Sc

In reply to your comment:
“Hey! I wrote one too:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I sifted, weak and weary,
Over many vids and volumes of Google/YouTube lore -
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“Tis some visitor”, I muttered, tapping at my chamber door:
Only this and nothing more.
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flight and flutter,
In there stepped a stately Raven
of the saintly days of yore.
Adept in gouls and freaks
is she, and even other birds you see,
Achieved her hundredth post to up the score.
“Well done,” I said, while still perusing, of other vids I may be choosing,
What more from you shall we be looking for?
You brought lovely girls
we guys seek, and Wiggum’s dream a la Twin Peaks, Further good stuff to the ‘Sift, we do implore.
Action flicks from balls o’ flexin, and a ceiling dance (is most impressin’!) , a good start to continue on your chore…
Another hundred--plus half of that, to get the shine’d diamond stat
Whatever shall ye do, to raise your score?
Quoth the Raven: “Sift some more”

Congrats Raven! ”

Hey! I wrote one too:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I sifted, weak and weary,
Over many vids and volumes of Google/YouTube lore -
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“Tis some visitor”, I muttered, tapping at my chamber door:
Only this and nothing more.
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flight and flutter,
In there stepped a stately Raven
of the saintly days of yore.
Adept in gouls and freaks
is she, and even other birds you see,
Achieved her hundredth post to up the score.
“Well done,” I said, while still perusing, of other vids I may be choosing,
What more from you shall we be looking for?
You brought lovely girls
we guys seek, and Wiggum’s dream a la Twin Peaks, Further good stuff to the ‘Sift, we do implore.
Action flicks from balls o’ flexin, and a ceiling dance (is most impressin’!) , a good start to continue on your chore…
Another hundred--plus half of that, to get the shine’d diamond stat
Whatever shall ye do, to raise your score?
Quoth the Raven: “Sift some more”

Congrats Raven!