I thank you twice over, sir. You have excellent taste.

In reply to this comment by EDD:
*promote

incredible.

hate to link to huffpo but they've got more info and some before/after pics worth looking at.

*promote

Common Gwizz, Don't disguise this as a Futurerama intention, You're in love with Connie Francis!!! "BAM - Called you Out!!!"

They(George, Connie and the other) were all really great. It seems like he is under a tremendous amount of pressure to finish the books and he wants to take his time.

That said, I really wish he would finish A Dance With Dragons...

I also learned that Tyrion is George RR Martin, according to Parris his girlfriend.

On a side note, I have been rereading the series. I have several suspicions.

1) Jon is Rahgaer and Lyanna's son.
2) Tyrion is going to be the hand to Dany.
3) Dany is going to betray Jon for love, by telling him she does not love him so he does not break his vow to the wall.
4) Howland Reed will tell Jon of his parentage.
5) Jon is the 'Prince who was promised' and will rule the Westeros.
6) The one of the three heads of the dragon is Tyrion.
7) Brienne says "Jamie".

Hard to pick just five:

1. Hyperion and the rest of the Hyperion Cantos series by Dan Simmons
   
2. Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge (though everything else he's written could easily have taken this spot)
   
3. Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan (and any other Takeshi Kovacs novel)
   
4. Footfall by Larry Niven -- IMO the best he ever wrote
   
5. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
   

• The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke
  
• Accelerando by Charles Stross
  
• Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton
  
• Iron Sunrise by Charles Stross
  
• Virtually anything by Robert J. Sawyer (particularly the "Neanderthal Parallax" trilogy)
  
• Snow Crash and Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, though I'm with dag, everything that's followed has been disappointing
  
• Domesday Book by Connie Willis
  
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
  
• The Golden Age Trilogy by John C. Wright
  
• Any short story by Michael Swanwick (particularly "The Radiant Doors" -- dft, there's another dystopia to be found in that one)
  

Actually, I think the actual singer is "cuter" as her talent makes up for any minor flaws in her face. Not unlike "Conny" http://www.videosift.com/video/Six-Year-Old-Conny-Sings-Somewhere-Over-The-Rainbow

The one chosen by the official bugs at me the way Jon Benet's parents do whenever I see a picture of her all painted up "5 going on 25". *shudders*

There be some yucky things going on in the politburo I think..

I didn't think it was a dupe because of this line in the article
"The climate minister, Connie Hedegaard, is calling for an investigation to determine the cause of two violent wind turbine collapses in Denmark in the past week."
I thought this was the other one

What ever happened to Connie Chung?

I believe this counts as a dupe: http://www.videosift.com/video/Six-Year-Old-Conny-Sings-Somewhere-Over-The-Rainbow

Fixed!

In reply to this comment by swampgirl:
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There is an unbelievably bad cover-version of this by german singer Juliane Werding, called "Am Tag als Conny Kramer starb". She turned the lyrics into the story of a young man who smoked pot, took acid and died a lonely death in the end. This was a HUGE hit in Germany in the early 70s (JW's biggest hit, actually) - you can find it on Youtube, if you dare. I'm afraid to submit it...

Similiar idea: http://www.videosift.com/video/Six-Year-Old-Conny-Sings-Somewhere-Over-The-Rainbow-

Yep, there's a girl one too: http://www.videosift.com/video/Six-Year-Old-Conny-Sings-Somewhere-Over-The-Rainbow- ...

As you may know Ive created a playlist of many of the dead videos on the sift. As its been there for awhile, and there have been quite a few views of it, very few vids have been fixed or discarded. I thought a list just of yours might be of some help. The list below are all your videos on my playlist. There may be a few errors, but I gave it my best shot.


http://www.videosift.com/video/Sesame-Street--Mr-Hooper-isnt-coming-back
http://www.videosift.com/video/This-man-has-his-priorities-straight
http://www.videosift.com/video/Airbus-A380-test-flight-I-thought-these-things-were-bigger
http://www.videosift.com/video/Sinatra-and-Jobim
http://www.videosift.com/video/Sesame-Street-In-Color
http://www.videosift.com/video/Hippo-Vs-Crocodile-Anyone-wanna-give-odds
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-ancient-sport-of-Tree-Catching
http://www.videosift.com/video/KLF-Justified-and-Ancient-Stand-by-the-Jams
http://www.videosift.com/video/KLF-Justified-and-Ancient-Stand-by-the-Jams
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Daily-Show-10-Fckng-years-Holiday-Edition
http://www.videosift.com/video/George-Bush-thinks-that-the-Prime-Minister-of-Canada-is-a-Pl
http://www.videosift.com/video/NEW-High-Fashion-Log-for-Girls
http://www.videosift.com/video/Every-annoying-TV-theme-song-from-the-last-30-years
http://www.videosift.com/video/Chrysler-Tomahawk-V10-Viper-Powered-Motorcycle
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Log-Drivers-Waltz
http://www.videosift.com/video/Ren-and-Stimpy-Black-Hole
http://www.videosift.com/video/Yogi-Bear-by-John-K-A-Day-in-the-Life-of-Ranger-Smith
http://www.videosift.com/video/Talking-Heads--Nothing-But-Flowers
http://www.videosift.com/video/Connie-Chungs-show-is-cancelled-this-is-her-reaction-W
http://www.videosift.com/video/Vincent-Price-on-the-Muppet-Show--Halloween-Spectacular
http://www.videosift.com/video/Its-a-Wonderful-Life-With-Bunnies
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Office-Michael-Scott-kisses-Oscar-NSF-Homophobes

beautiful. also heard in "2046" (directed by wong kar-wai), vocal version by connie francis...