Although perhaps not technically a dupe of http://videosift.com/video/Tornado-Strikes-Springfield-Mass, I prefer the other vid because it is edited down to the best parts (and was on the Sift first).

springfield? for real? I was about to bash springfield and Dayton both as being part of Ohio's....>> ^ant:

So, that is why I lost power.

>> ^direpickle:

What's a banksy?


http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/8103700/street-artist-banksy-takes-over-simpsons-intro

The British graffiti icon storyboarded the latest intro to the long-running cartoon, which opens with the town of Springfield scrawled in his distinctive tag.

But as the show cuts to the familiar couch scene, the credits take a dark turn — with a minute-long animation showing dozens of Asian sweatshop workers painting scenes for the cartoon in a filthy warehouse filled with rats, human bones and bio-waste.

Kittens are thrown into a wood chipper to create stuffing for Bart Simpson dolls while a chained unicorn collapses as its horn is used to punch holes in Simpsons DVDs.

The extended sequence was apparently inspired by reports that the show outsources the bulk of their animation to a company in South Korea.

Banksy, whose true identity has never been officially confirmed, is renowned for his political views.

The elusive artist employs guerrilla-style tactics to break into locations before leaving his pieces to be found the following morning.

Examples include drawing a life-sized replica of a Guantanamo Bay detainee at Disneyland and stencilling Israel's West Bank barrier.

In 2008 Britain's Mail on Sunday claimed to have unmasked the mystery artist as 36-year-old former Bristol public schoolboy Robin Gunningham.

Your video, COPS: In Springfield, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Yes sir, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby Stills & Nash, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Manassas.

I never would have guessed I'd see a NASA link (or any other site) with the contents "earth/features/oilspill"

It's like the fucking Springfield tire fire now.

Funny how the Springfield Shopper price changes... free, 35 cents, 50 cents...

*1sttube *woohoo *music

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Since you're so curious, Schmawy, it's called "free plate tuning", and it was developed by the recently departed Carleen Hutchins...

Carleen Maley Hutchins (May 24, 1911 – August 7, 2009) was an American former high school science teacher, violinmaker and researcher, best-known for her creation, in the 1950s/60s, of a family of eight proportionally-sized violins now known as the violin octet (e.g., the vertical viola) and for a considerable body of research into the acoustics of violins. She was born in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Hutchins’s greatest innovation, still used by many violinmakers, was a technique known as free-plate tuning. When not attached to a violin, the top and back are called free plates. Her technique gives makers a precise way to refine these plates before a violin is assembled.

From 2002 to 2003, Hutchins’s octet was the subject of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Titled “The New Violin Family: Augmenting the String Section.” Hutchins was the founder of the New Violin Family Association[1], creator-in-chief of the Violin Octet, author of more than 100 technical publications, editor of two volumes of collected papers in violin acoustics, four grants from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music, recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, an Honorary Fellowship from the Acoustical Society of America, and four honorary doctorates. In 1963, Hutchins co-founded the Catgut Acoustical Society, which develops scientific insights into the construction of new and conventional instruments of the violin family.

The Hutchins Consort, named after Hutchins, is a California ensemble featuring all eight instruments.[2]

In 1974, Hutchins and Daniel W. Haines, using materials supplied by the Hercules Materials Company, Inc. (Allegheny Ballistics Laboratory) of Cumberland, Maryland, developed a graphite-epoxy composite top that was determined to be a successful alternative to the traditional use of spruce for the violin belly.[3]

Haha. Glad you enjoyed it. I was surprised it didn't get more votes.

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If I could, I'd promote this back into the queue. I laughed my ass off.

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How can I be the only person that finds this funny? Hell, even RS's vote was a pity vote.

If I could, I'd promote this back into the queue. I laughed my ass off.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
How can I be the only person that finds this funny? Hell, even RS's vote was a pity vote.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'mafia, in, springfield, sopranos, intro' to 'mafia, in, springfield, sopranos, simpsons, fat tony, intro' - edited by rasch187

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Dusty Springfield, The Look of Love, Burt Bacharach, Hal David' to 'Dusty Springfield, The Look of Love, Burt Bacharach, Hal David, 60s' - edited by Deano

Bye-den? I thought it was like "bidden". Makes more sense this way. OMG, *woohoo for Springfield. Yes, I'm getting a little punchy with the channel assignment. Such is my prerogative.

Oh MAN, this is a *long clip.

The whole Catholic thing is already picking up - though he sounds way better than Kerry.
http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/2008/08/hail-columbia-hello-controversy.html

It was awesome. I just think there are people on here who are younger, saying, "Who the hell is Rick Springfield? And who the hell is Journey?"

Right when Steve Perry's music started playing, I knew the song, and I started laughing hysterically.

>> ^blankfist:
How can I be the only person that finds this funny? Hell, even RS's vote was a pity vote.