>> ^Arkaium:

Where are the comments?

Because there are no words to describe the awesomeness of Leonard Nimoy! Just watch!

>> ^deathcow:

wow, super creepy after 11 mins


They've clearly not mastered using a 2nd camera back then

Sorry I'm late!
>> ^DerHasisttot:

Where the nerds at?

lol at the the Leonard Cohen impression!

Moving this video to Leonards's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

Hey RideSR, as a SBO I'm wondering what you think of this:

http://videosift.com/video/Jeff-Leonard-Small-Businesses-Banks-to-Corporations-Colbert

I threw it out there as conversation bait but didn't get any bites. Like I said in the description, this is a problem that I can confirm for the vast majority of business owners that I know, but I can't speak for other geographic regions. Do you think his point is valid? What should we do about it?

For complete context check out the episode:

http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/thu-february-17-2011-jeffrey-leonard

Though really it's just as good out of context

Tags for this video have been changed from 'northstudio 360, panorama, canadian tenors, hallelujah, scenery' to 'northstudio 360, panorama, canadian tenors, hallelujah, scenery, leonard cohen' - edited by therealblankman

You have been awarded 1 Power Point for fixing the embed code for Dead Pool video 56 Leonard Street's video - Incredibly Interesting Building. Thank you for helping maintain VideoSift's reliability.

Alan Alda was the second man I ever fell in love with. I say Alan Alda, and this was progress, because the first man I fell in love with was Spock (and not Leonard Nimoy).

*sticky

This still has not been fixed. I think it would look bad to a casual visitor to Videosift if they found so many tiny videos. These aren't just isolated incidents either:

http://videosift.com/video/Living-With-Louis-Theroux-summary-of-7-When-Louis-Met-docs
http://videosift.com/video/The-Illusion-Of-Reality
http://videosift.com/video/Google-Documentary
http://videosift.com/video/How-does-a-Browser-see-the-Internet
http://videosift.com/video/Krispy-Kreme-So-good-youll-suck-dck
http://videosift.com/video/Copyright-regime-vs-civil-liberties-1
http://videosift.com/video/Murray-Gell-Mann-On-Getting-Creative-Ideas
http://videosift.com/video/Behind-the-Big-News
http://videosift.com/video/The-Birth-of-Israel-BBC-documentary
http://videosift.com/video/The-Daily-Show-Interview-with-author-of-Misquoting-Jesus
http://videosift.com/video/Iron-Maiden-Run-To-The-Hills
http://videosift.com/video/Mario-Lanza-Ave-Maria
http://videosift.com/video/Winger-Seventeen
http://videosift.com/video/Jim-Norton-Porn-Safety-and-Shaved-Pussy
http://videosift.com/video/Total-Hip-Replacement-Surgery-Highlights-317
http://videosift.com/video/Gershwins-Rhapsody-In-Blue-Leonard-Bernstein-conducting
http://videosift.com/video/Tour-of-Ancient-Islamic-Architecture

Though this problem doesn't affect all Google embeds, there are hundreds more that have been affected. *Quality catch by Stingray.

@ant, I thought the song at the end was also a nice touch. That was Leonard Cohen's Dance me to the end of love.

Thank ya squire!

In reply to this comment by SlipperyPete:
This is hilarious!
*quality *standup

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No, "Puff, the Magic Dragon" is not about marijuana, or any other type of drug. It is what its writers have always claimed it to be: a song about the innocence of childhood lost.


The poem that formed the basis of the song "Puff, the Magic Dragon" was written in 1959 by Leonard Lipton, a nineteen-year-old Cornell student. Lipton was inspired by an Ogden Nash rhyme about a "Really-O Truly-O Dragon," and, using a dragon as the central figure, he came up with a poem about the end of childhood innocence. Lipton passed his work along to a friend, fellow Cornell student (and folk music enthusiast) Peter Yarrow, who put a melody to the words and wrote additional lyrics to create the song "Puff, the Magic Dragon." After Yarrow teamed up with Mary Travers and Paul Stookey in 1961 to form Peter, Paul & Mary, the trio performed the song in live shows; their 1962 recording of "Puff" reached #2 on the Billboard charts in early 1963.


The 1960s being what they were, however, any song based on oblique or allegorical lyrics was subject to reinterpretation as a "drug song," and so it was with "Puff." (For Peter, Paul & Mary, at least, the revelation that their song was "really" about marijuana came after the song had finished its chart run; other groups were not so fortunate, and accusations of "drug lyrics" caused some radio stations to ban songs such as the Byrds' "Eight Miles High" from their playlists.) "Puff" was an obvious name for a song about smoking pot; little Jackie Paper's surname referred to rolling papers; "autumn mist" was either clouds of marijuana smoke or a drug-induced state; the land of "Hanah Lee" was really the Hawaiian village of Hanalei, known for its particularly potent marijuana plants; and so on. As Peter Yarrow has demonstrated in countless concert performances, any song — even "The Star-Spangled Banner" — can be interpreted as a "drug song."


http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/puff.asp