@silvercord: Yeah, I debated that tag. It seems pretty objectifying of the women in it (albeit in a much less skin-exposing way), so some might have a problem with coworkers spotting wet girls in bathing suits (with fish!) on their screens. I don't know; think I overreacted?

Funny video, still.

Edit: Removed the nsfw tag upon reflection.

I love the "challenge pissing" bit.

That is truly amazing - another great post (as usual?), silvercord! I believe you're right in calling this a glass harp. Benjamin Franklin was so enamored of the sound of such an arrangement that he built his own new instrument.

Hope this makes it out of the queue as quickly as it deserves to!

I didn't know that Pulp did Shatner/Ben Folds covers

Yay! A Casablanca clip finally got published!

Hasn't this been on VS before? Or am I crazy?

Wow - upvote for both the great goal and the greater commentator. Vid definitely went on too long, though.

WTF is with the many audience members who look bored or otherwise unimpressed? Great example of this around 1:07 - two basically stereotypical Americans looking fat and bored, and another guy (in the front) who's obviously a Bobby M. fan freaking out and singing along. Hilarious.

Great vid!!

michie - as far as I can tell, you cast the vote that got me my silver star. Thanks, and yay!

This seems a little - err - obvious? It's not easy - at all - but it's not rocket science: catch their eye, see if they like you, and then don't screw up the first conversation, and you're golden. (As if it's that easy )

farhad2000 wrote:

It's been a state sanctioned activity across the Middle East, India, Pakistan and China.

@ant: The PSA is on wikipedia and YouTube (the latter I've gone ahead and sifted here).

@farhad: for the record, I think the actual video is dumb, but it's topical - because of this, the Indian government wants to block all access to YouTube from within the country. It's part of the trend of national governments censoring their citizens' internet access because they think they know what is good for them, and it's also a stunning case of making much ado about nothing, IMO.

So whether or not it's a great video is debateable, I agree, but that it has something to do with something significant is clear, again IMO.

I respect your downvote, though - I continue to think it'll be interesting to see if this makes it out of the queue. I don't have super-high hopes.

"Middle of a drought, and the water commissioner drowns. Only in L.A."

The "that'll be on youtube soon" response to flubs is becoming more and more common, I see. I thought this guy was pretty funny, and not in the way that Fox News anchors usually are ...