A New Year's Message to Britain. From Hughie Green.

Jameson Tonight

BathTubShitter Brutal Kitty Cat Dance

What says 'Holiday Season' more than a couple having a romantic dance to a track performed by the Japanese group Bathtub Shitter?



Nothing. Or as the lady says at 1.00ish... "Yahtzee!"

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

Merry Christmas 'Mounders

Enjoy some Muggy Bonehead...

Merry Christmas

Not Wallace & Gromit

So what were your favourite BBC Christmas idents?

Surely 1980 has to be a classic...

This is the age.....of the train!

Memories

How I wish I could find more than a 30" trailer for this



Channel 4 sitcom about a radio presenter.. Kit Curran. King of the Airwaves he was.

Memories

Protect and Survive Ringtone

From Nick Packham online:
http://nickpackhamonline.wordpress.com/the-cold-war/protect-and-survive-ringtone/

When Radio Reporters ATTACK! or Hughie Green

Think Sachsgate and huge controversy in radio is new?

Feast your ears on this.



"Radio Trent has withdrawn an invitation to Television Star Hughie Green to appear on the station this afternoon... after an incident at the Cavendish Woodhouse Furniture Store in Nottingham..."

Ouch! Bags at dawn in Stereo!

Hughie Green - host of the 'recently cancelled' Opportunity Knocks 'stepping to' a reporter John Darby. By controversially claiming he's from Radio Nottingham. And calling him "Four-eyes". It seems. When Canadians Attack. See if you can detect the Hugh-ster on the perv. ughghghghghgh.

This is what they should bring back.



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More Matthew Butler on TISWAS. Brick In The Wall.

As tiswasonline states...

"Matthew Butler's second appearance on Tiswas didn't feature a rabbit costume or Bright Eyes. This time he tackled Pink Floyd's Brick In The Wall, while dressed in some kind of punk/hippy outfit. I question the wisdom of whichever ATV staffer thought he should wave around a real hammer..."

Sing along now.

"We don't need no education...
We don't need no thought control."

CHRISTMAS NUMBER ONE - FREIHEIT - KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE

Well. Not exactly. Keeping the Dream Alive. "It reached the top 15". This IS the sound of Christmas. Though I don't think it was ever intended as such. Never knew they are actually known as Münchener Freiheit. And not to be confused with the Munich U-Bahn station of the same name. Ah, wikipedia.



But don't watch that. Watch this! The mound goes all austro... germanic...

...Followed by... the news.






MORE HERE.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Münchener_Freiheit

BUY THE MP3 (cough... in German) HERE!


Tomorrow. Poland! No. FALCO! oh, done 'im.


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Charlie Bit My Finger... apologies

Huge apologies for the inclusion of this.

I know Internet Phenomenae have no place on 'the mound'.

And that I'm behind the curve on this. Just wanted to put Harry, and Charlie, stuff here.



And there's more.

Here's THAMES VALLEY TONIGHT with Wesley Smith and Mary Green



AND THE INEVITABLE REMAKES

"My sister and i being bored and remaking the video. Thanks for all the positive comments Hope you enjoy it! Oh & for those that were wondering we're mexican."




"Charlie bit me" 15 years later




"Charlie bit me an' tha' really hurt"
50 years later




"Charlie bit me" the hiphop remix from therotherhamboy



And Austria:
Ein 56-Sekunden-Clip mit den Titel "Charlie Bit My Finger" ist derzeit der Hit im Internet: Schon 65 Millionen Menschen haben dabei zugesehen, wie der zweijährige Charlie Davies-Carr seinem fünfjährigen Bruder Harry in den Finger beißt – und unglaublich keck lacht. Obwohl es sich genau genommen „nur“ um das witzige Heimvideo eines stolzen Vaters handelt, ist der Clip inzwischen das zwölftpopulärste Internet-Video aller Zeiten. Auf der ganzen Welt haben sich sogar Fanclubs formiert, die eigene „Charlie Bit My Finger“-Videos drehen. Bei uns kannst du dir das Video - oben ins Bild klicken! - sowie eine Auswahl der besten "Remakes" (siehe unten) ansehen!
http://www.krone.at/krone/S2/object_id__124729/hxcms/

And Brazil:
Um vídeo de duas crianças colocado pelo pai delas no site YouTube para que pudesse ser visto pelo padrinho que mora em outro país teve mais de 65 milhões de acessos.
http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Tecnologia/0,,MUL911862-6174,00-VIDEO+DE+BEBE+MORDENDO+IRMAO+VIRA+FENOMENO+NO+YOUTUBE.html

And Daily Telegraph:
Parents Howard and Shelley Howard Davies-Carr, from Buckinghamshire, said that they had been overwhelmed by the popularity of the video, which they posted in March 2007.
"To say the response has been insane is not even close. My sons are now almost legendary. People want their autographs – it's just crazy," said Mr Davies-Carr, an IT consultant.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3564392/Finger-biting-brothers-become-YouTube-hit.html


And the OFFICIAL MERCHANDISE PAGE (according to their dad's youtube channel, HDCYT)
http://www.zazzle.com/charlie+bit+gifts

NO! IT'S... BA. BAH BAH! CHOO CHOO! BADDA BADDDADDA! From the top.

This is a good day at work.

Behind the scenes of Brian Wilson recording the Beach Boys album "Pet Sounds".

Wouldn't It Be Nice. If the Harps and Accordians can get it right.



Sing along now!

Wouldn't it be nice if we were older - then we wouldn't have to wait so long.
And wouldn't it be nice to live together - in the kind of world where we belong.
You know it's gonna make it that much better - when we can say goodnight and stay together.
Oh wouldn't it be nice.
Ooooohhhhhhh - baaa baaa baaaooooooooohhhhhh.
Oh happy times together we've been spending.
I wish that every kiss was never ending.
Oh wouldn't it be nice.

Maybe if, we hope and pray and think and wish it might come true.
Run run runooooh.
Baby then, there wouldn't be a single day we couldn't do.
We could be married. And then we'd be happy.
Oh wouldn't it be nice.

You know it seems the more we talk about it.
It only seems to make it worse to live without it.
But lets talk about it.
Oh wouldn't it be nice.

"According to Carl Wilson, it took a week to record the group's vocals to Brian's satisfaction"

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The Krypton Factor's coming back

To celebrate, here's the greatest game they ever played..



Love the apology to viewers in the Channel Islands..

Wasssup... 8 years on...

Could be 16 years now for all I know -- so late at coming to this, you've probably seen it already.

It opens with the original ad... then... some more...

Train porn

I got one of these trains to work this morning. I get one most mornings. It's weird to think they were built more than thirty years ago by men in NHS specs.




(by the way, sorry if you're not interested in trains and stuff)

Is it me or does 'peg man' sound toasted?

Credit crunch, rah rah rah

There are numerous problems with this:
1. It's the credit crunch (actually, onset of recession), people are in pain, how much sympathy do you feel for a public school?
2. The completely flat intonation-free voiceover
3. You have two teenage girls, one a cutie, one a fugly. Which one do you interview?

Woolworths Goes Under

It all started to go wrong with Bill Oddie.



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This is what they want

Matthew Butler. The kid who dressed as a rabbit at the height of Watership Down fever and sang live "Is it a kind of dream" "Bright Eyes". Putting in all the search (Tiswas, Chris Tarrant, Sally James, Birmingham, ATV) terms in the hope that this joyful milestone in British Television is shared with as wide an audience as possible. One shot. The full three minutes.

Are you watching, T4??? ARE YOU?
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Falco - The Sound of Musik

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Mr. No Legs

The genre is called dis-action.
And love the way this vid is tagged on youtube as wheelchairfu.

MORE HERE:
http://www.internalbleeding.net/2008/04/mr-no-legs

“The Cops want to get him. The Mob wants to hit him. But no one wants to meet
him face to face.” - that’s the tag line for Ricou Browning’s 1981 film”Mr. No
Legs”, starring Richard Jaeckel (Delta Force 2), John Agar, and Lloyd Bochner.

Mr. No Legs is a legless enforcer that rides around in a bad ass
wheelchair, equiped with side mounted shotguns that flip out of the armrests at
the push of a button. Those shotguns have auto-aim too, so even though they
point dead ahead, they can shoot dudes 3 feet off the ground with no problem. If
the guns don’t stop you, his whirlwind stump-fu will really trip you up, fool."

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Roger Moore - Where does love go.

From manmademound6andahalf



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Charlie the Unicorn 1&2

and another installment....

Iceland Vs. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

It's kicking off, and it's finally here.

Reg Varney R.I.P.

Shred0006

Only just joined this phenomenon now - from SHRED0006

Ozzy Osborne and Jake E. Lee - shredded.

Yes. He gets lots of clips of guitar solos and "great moments in Ax history"... then has a go at redubbing them himself.

Just when you think it's going to stop... it just keeps on going.

They're all here...

http://www.stsanders.com/

More childhood

Nowadays we get GMTV.

And check this. Is it me or have they not typed Morrissey, Morissey, Moriseyyy rright?

God bless TV-am, TVam

The Londonboys with Mad Lizzie

This was the only television we had while growing up.

I present - The Londonboys with Mad Lizzie.

Tales Of The Unexpected

And the Benny Hill version...

You might have seen this somewhere else

but it's funny - so here goes again.

Part of Turkish Rambo...

Legs & Co... In a funky town....

YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A 'Good' Video

YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A 'Good' Video

Indian Superman...

And Spiderman... woman, thing.

Telly Savalas Looks At Birmingham

Kojak is apparenlty a B1 man trapped in an NY body.

"I spent... HOURS... in the beautiful one hundred an-fifty-year-old botanical gardens...
and there are tenacresoffit."

I can assure you... This is my kinda town...

TELLY SAVALAS SAYS...
I was told to get there before it all blew away... Bourneville...The Church of St. Martin.

We're in the Heart of the West Midlands... 2 million use it's Modern Rail Terminal.

"Motorways mean problems. I visited the West Midlands Police Motorway Control Unit..."

"The sound of disco music was in the air, so I wandered over to see what gives..."

And many, many more...

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Shoo Shoo?

Because at least one other 'mounder was obsessed with this in the days before Youtube.

Part Deux, with the killer breath, is almost as good.

Don't look at the boobies!

Yeah, it was the BBC what overreacted, wasn't it, Georgina. Ah, Georgina...no, focus and stay angry...don't look at the sexy girls slapping their bums with 666 written on them...think of what poor national treasure Manuel Sachs would do if he had to see this and, oh, enjoy it...that's not at all wrong...but then there's those fishnets and the tight red top. Ah, to hell with it.

Look at the boobies!

Hey, isn't this supposed to be 'burlesque'?

Georgina Baillie, Georgina Bailley Bailey Baily Bailie Bally Bailiey Banking Bailout

"Hopefully they'll let me keep the Swastikas"

It's amazing what you'll find when your search term is 'Satanic Sluts'.

Love his stumbling explanation of how he 'accidentally' found 'nazi porn'.

But he makes up for it with his inspired graphics of Golden Girls and Kramer to censor the boobies.

Hey Bobby, what's the French for 'Aaaaaaaaagh!'

Who says footballers are, how you say, knuckle-dragging, uni-brain celled troglodytes?

CNN ELECTION NIGHT HOLOGRAM KIDS

Raised by a wild pack of Wolf Blitzers...

A village of CNN ELECTION NIGHT HOLOGRAM KIDS living in the U.K.

In the 1970's.

CNN ELECTION NIGHT HOLOGRAM

This looks awesome - I want to have a go

check out his arrival on set - beam me up!

Doctor Boswell Reviews

Yes, if the American election fever is getting to much then take some time out and enjoy another of Doctor Boswell fascinating reviews.  He's back with his cockatoo and this time he's talking Cyber Sunday - whatever the hell that is.  Suggestions on a postcard on what we would like Dr Boswell to review next- I'm sure he'll oblige, he looks very giving!

Dancing with the dogs...

Failin' Pailin - Blame Canada

Is Steve Penk working for Canadian radio now? Let's hope so.
Still, 'Sarkozy' should never have told Palin he'd f***ed her grand-daughter.

Election results

Forget NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, CNN, BBC, ITV and Sky. I wanna watch these guys tonight.

That's if the ginger guy ain't already in jail, cos he looks angry - and this was in 2006.



OH - and UK TV anoraks - hang around for the very last three seconds..

The polls have closed.. and the truth can be told

All about Barack Santos. I mean Matt Obama.

Comparing The West Wing character Matt Santos and West Wing hopeful Barack Obama isn't new. Neither is this video.



But it's well worth a reminder of the genius of The West Wing...

US Elections - the Jerry Springer way..

As election fever reaches.. er.. fever pitch.. time to look back through the election archives.

How about this from Jerry Springer in 1980 - yes - him off of shouty TV.



The real genius is that he actually tries to suggest that paying for stripper-sex is a helpful learning experience for him being governor. Bit like saying "I can see Russia from my front porch" qualifies you for foreign policy discussions. Genius.

Hooo, Hoo Hoo, Hoo Hoo Hoo, Hoooo Hooo Hooo Hoo HOO HOOOO

Oh, alright, one more...

The effect the new Lloyds TSB ad on its customers.

The original:-



The reality:-



The reality:-



The reality:-



The reality:-



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They drink it in the congo.

This is the news.


But every time I hear the word, in my head I hear this...

THE SOUND OF A THOUSAND VISITORS...

Man Made Mounders.

Congratulations... We have hit 1000 visitors.

To celebrate this, here is a video someone has made of themselves doing the annoying singer from the Lloyds TSB advert with the weird trains from the top of a staircase in a Cold War Museum.





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ANYBODY OUT THERE?!?!

Hello

Just a check... is anyone out there reading this?

Feel free to leave a comment by clicking 'Comments' below.

Don't be shy. Say hi!

David Cameron: "Sack Jonathan Ross"

What could David Cameron, POSSIBLY have against the convicted media-terrorist Jonathan Ross?

Hitlers TV Dinner

Just spotted this at the bottom of an  yet another Ross Brand article on the Sky News website.

(there's a screen grab below if it's changed)  I wonder how an article about "Hitlers TV Dinner" ended up on the same page as "Sachsgate" Possibly a "web bot" automatically sorting stories into relevance.  Brand...check.....Ross.....check.....Sachs....check....Daily Mail.....check.......Hitler......check......

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Jonathan-Ross-Drops-Out-Of-Comedy-Awards-Over-BBC-Prank-Call-Furore/Article/200810415137104?lpos=UK_News_Top_Stories_Header_1&lid=ARTICLE_15137104_Jonathan_Ross_Drops_Out_Of_Comedy_Awards_Over_BBC_Prank_Call_Furore#comment

Friday music corner

 This weeks entrants are a bottle based trio and a Japanese man with a thing for electro...sorry that should be electrodes.

New Radio Two Scandal

Breaking news from the BBC - "Sally Traffic" looks sure to be forced to resign from Radio Two after this outrageous comment before the watershed:

Newsnight - The new home of edgy comedy on the Beeb

Well if any good has come out of the 'Sachsgate' then this has got to it. Last night Emily Maitlis on Newsnight doing Frankie Boyles gag about the Queen's pussy to the DG. Something of a Halloween special I think you'll agree.  Enjoy!

Russell Brand Apology

Just noticed the picture in the background.

Breaking "News"

From the BBC News Channel. And BBC Radio 2.

The Daily Mail Headline Generator

(picture: doing the rounds by email - created by ’Beau Bo D’Or‘ - my Halloween costume tonight)

This week, most people have come to the Man Made Mound by searching on google the following terms.

Georgina Bailley, Georgina Bailly, Georgina Bailey topless, Andrew Sacks, Andrew Sachs, Sack Andrew Sachs, Sachsgate, Johnathan Ross, Manuel, Manwell, Jonathan Ross, Russell Brand, Satanic Sluts, Voluptua, and even Russel Brand.

Just for you, here is Chris Applegate's Daily Mail Headline Generator (the Daily-Mail-O-Matic):

http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/

DID JONATHAN ROSS CAUSE THE CREDIT CRISIS?

"I've fallen out me wheelchair"

This Ross and Brand thing is exasperating. Who'd work at the BBC now? What's really annoying is the reaction of the people you respect. Take Lucy Mangan in The Guardian. I'm a fan of her TV reviews and Cable Girl column, but then she writes this.

She didn't think it was funny, fair enough. But she takes a matronly tone (odd, as from her photo she definitely looks young enough to be a GDRBWLTF) and then compares what they did with other 'funnier' prank phone calls, listing examples of Peter Cook, Victor Lewis-Smith and Rory Bremner phoning up unsuspecting victims, including celebrities, pretending to be someone else.

Which is not the same thing at all.

Brand and Ross called up as themselves someone who had originally intended to be on Brand's show that day, and left a funny/inappropriate/offensive message, only to make it worse/funnier by phoning back to apologise.

I mean, what's the point if the jokes you're comparing are completely different? I'd have forgiven that, though, because they are funny examples, and it's worth repeating them. But then she says the funniest, actually she says 'greatest', prank caller was Jon Culshaw. Jon Culshaw! 

Every impression he does sounds like. Jon Culshaw! He's not even remotely funny and he constantly looks constipated, with a face you'd punch if you weren't certain he'd just turn around and do a really rubbish impression of you that's basically Jon Culshaw repeating something you just said. How on earth does he get to keep his job?

And to make matters worse, The Guardian's wonderful policy of outlining any updates or corrections to articles means we get to see that Lucy, the TV critic no less, originally referred to Lewis-Smith's brilliant hoax on the This Life office, rather than the That's Life office. Because a shakicam-heavy potty-mouthed genital warts 'n all drama about twentysomething lawyers and a one-for-all-the-family watchdog, campaigns and nudge, nudge, wink, wink comedy magazine show are so easily mixed up. She might just as well have referred to the show with the Irish fella and the big red book.

Speaking of which, I hated This is Your Life. The theme tunes for that and Sale of The Century still send bored 10-years-old shivers down my spine.

That Lewis-Smith call to That's Life is worth a listen. Mangan says reading about it makes her laugh, but why do that when you can use your lugholes here. 

I was hoping it would be on Youtube but no such like. Instead, there's this. And it's still current. Enjoy.

Dr Who and the Brighton Beach mystery

When stories collide.

On the day David Tennant says he's quitting Dr Who, this washes up on Brighton beach.



Surely this proves there's a link...


(for the non Dr Who watchers, that's actually Colin Baker becoming Sylvester McCoy. Honest)

Turkish Superman

Christopher Reeve s, innit...

I'll have a B please Bob

"Which B was the first actor to play James Bond?"

A quick clue..



Yes, him with the questions was the first actor to play James Bond in a 1956 adaptation on the radio. So maybe in thirty years Daniel Craig will be presenting an afternoon quiz show with posh teenage contestants.

The Americans are Living in the 1970s too

Remember the ad campaign and promos for "Life on Mars" that used the old BBC blue and yellow globe and the classic BBC logo? A quick reminder..




Well the American version of "Life on Mars" has justed started on ABC in the United States - and they've got in on the act too. Check out this nice 1973 style trailer..




Lets hope they don't take it all the way and elect Richard Nixon next week..

Oh alright... another ATTENTIONE - IL EST MYRON!

CINDERELLA does go to the ball...




God bless Shaun Micallef

Here...

Here...

ET ICI....!

manmademound2

Enough. Can everyone please stop apologising to Mr Sachs

I've managed to track down this blow by blow account of how the drama and subsequent apologies from all parties involved at the BBC unfolded. 

STOP PRESS - Dr Boswell's (last post) opinion on the Brand/Ross/Sachs scandal has been taken down

luckily here are his views on Masters Of The Universe.  Enjoy whilst I'm off to badger his youtube channel until he reposts the previous one.


Is he supposed to be this funny?
What a Budgie smuggler!

The Doctors in again!! Yeh!

UPDATE 2 UPDATE OF LAST UPDATE:
Dr Boswell has seen the light and following Russell Brands resignation the Dr is broadcasting to the nation again. Someone have a word with Radio 2 - I think we have found Brands replacement!

UPDATE: Just received this from Dr Boswell on his reason for taking down the clip. Looks like someone put the frighteners on the big guy
"I removed the video as I received a huge amount of backlash against it. I will consider uploading it again"
I sure hope you do Dr. - It's Gold!

Worse than Obama

Traitors! Kill them! Or some such palaver the Daily Mail's on about. It took three fully grown adults to write that and only a week-and-a-half after the original very, very funny incident, and nothing to do with Brand's apology to Sachs where he also asked to compare his misdemeanour to the Daily Mail's past hotties for Hitler. Interestingly, the Sieg Heil's article originally referred to Brand apologising on his radio show (just a week after the original incident and way too quickly for journalists to turn around a story) due to an imminent article in a newspaper, not mentioning it was their newspaper - that's now been dropped, including the reference to Brand having verbally apologised.

Apparently, the number of public complaints has now reached 10,000, despite this Mail article from two days ago saying the BBC had received just 2, a week after the programme went out.

And thankfully, we now know that Sachs would be distraught at the thought of Brand sleeping with his granddaughter, rather than, you know, really into the idea, perhaps even a little turned on, his refusal to comment until it got full media coverage merely projected coyness on his granddaughter's part, the little minx. But no, he's understandably miffed. Imagine if one of these moral crusading papers confirmed the deed, then, and showed a picture of her in kinky clobber, looking like she would if serial shagger Brand were just about to ravage her. Worse, imagine if she were topless. He'd probably have some kind of funny turn.

see also "andrew sachs" "georgina sachs" "Johnathan Ross" "Jonathan Ross" "Russel Brand" "Russell Brand" "BBC Radio 2" "satanic slut" "Georgina Ballie" "georgina bailey" "georgina bailley" "the sun" "satanic sluts"

Monday Morning Feeling

Some interior design tips from the Central Office of Information



"Fallout dust gives off dangerous radiation... it has no smell...
...and it sounds like Vangelis"



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Bill Oddie is a ray of sunshine

Bill Oddie with Kate Humble near Poole and Brownsea Island plugging the BBC's Autumnwatch on BBC Breakfast to Bill Turnbull and Kate Silverton.

Check out the moment at 4:22.
What a ray of sunshine that man is.

"Bill Oddie appeared on Breakfast with Kate Humble to talk about Autumn watch, yet had some words to describe the Daily Mail :) "

From The Independent:

Sparks fly at the BBC after a morning of grumpy guests
Viewers of the BBC Breakfast programme were treated yesterday morning to a delightful ding-dong between the presenter Bill Turnbull and professional bird watcher – and all-round grumpy person – Bill Oddie. Oddie was interviewed with his colleague Kate Humble at Poole harbour in Dorset to promote the new series of Autummwatch.

As the interview went on, he became increasing grouchy with Turnbull, blaming his faulty earpiece and bizarrely, the Daily Mail, which (despite recently serialising his memoirs) he derided as "total toss".

After five minutes of some fairly terse exchanges, Turnbull decided to wrap things up.

"I tell you what, Kate, if he happens to tip overboard on the way over to Brownsea Island, don't pick him out too quickly," he said. "Give me John Prescott any day."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/pandora/pandora-time-to-polish-off-de-beers-stephen-975441.html

If you liked that, you'll also like GRUMPY NEWS OLDS article...

FUND THE CURMUDGEON...
BUY BILL ODDIE'S STUFF BY CLICKING ON THESE!...

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Bestest montage ever?

I don't know what makes the perfect montage, but I seem to have fond memories of a lot of these things in the 80s and this one has a special place in my brain library. I'm sure I first saw this on VHS at school, age 13 or so, when the teacher let us have a couple of frees as it was the end of the year - Blade Runner was the other feature. Gawky kid against the bullies, comedy foreigner, fighting and a cute girl next door in tight sweaters - what's not to like? There are other montages in the film, with requisite MOR soundtrack like Peter Cetera's Glory of Love, but the good thing about this one is that it has a literally punchy ending.

The training montage is always a good one, but I'm sure there are others - comedies?

Incubating the 'pod - Magic Dice

Bonkers live version of the Mano Negra track. The studio version is simpler and shorter - Kitty loves it.

Disaster site...

There's something really not quite right about this site.

http://www.aap.org/disasters/disaster-initiatives.cfm

DISASTER PREPAREDNESS TO MEET CHILDRENS' NEEDS
Disaster preparedness initiatives

Coming soon!

(I'm sure it'll be changed by the time you click on the link - must try and put up a screen cap)

UPDATE:



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Est-ce que cela compter que le français?

Attention! Il Est Myron - ENCORE!

"Il est certainment a faire bon!"

Après hier...

Attention! - Il Est Myron!

"Mi la favourite, toutes les mondes..."

Lifetime guarantee??

Probably around the same time Bran Flakes hit the screens promising to be so very tasty, Scotch launched it's videotape that had two benefits over it's rivals. A lifetime guarantee and a promise that every recording would be as good as the first. Well we all know the first is bunkum but what about the lifetime guarantee? Anyone care to find out, I've got a box full here and nothing to play them on.

That aside, a catchy tune and the use of a Skeleton is remarkable and the fact he looks remarkable like Prof Heinz Wolff has always intrigued me

Hate List #1 - "Tasty"

I hate the word Tasty.

I know what it means -- it's only used to pass a compliment on the food, but it's a shit word and it winds me up.

Yeah, the food tastes. What, and I'm supposed to be glad you pointed that out.

It tastes. Great.
Hey, that's a great piece of music - it's really 'audible'.

You look great.
You're very reflective of light waves.

And people only use it because of this ad campaign.

Man who gets angry for a living...

One of my favourite pieces of anorak videotape.

The Director's audio feed from the gallery (control room) from the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977. The BBC were host broadcaster, from, I think, Birmingham.

Check this juxto...

Best kids cartoon show of all time...

Okay, big claim. Loved this though. Joy to the Internet.
Behold... the... Stoppit and Tidyup. (MUHHHHHHHHH!)



Voiced by Terry Wogan, and sponsored by the Tidy Britain Group?!?!
Who'dve thought it was government propaganda after all...

manmademound2

Hockey Mums - gotta love 'em!

what rhymes with ariston?

Not alot! I can't imagine this mammoth 2min30 version actually ever aired.  

I feel sorry for the guy on crutches - he never gets to use a single 

appliance and looks slightly perplexed by the menagerie he 

finds himself in.

apologies the tune is addictive

Turkish E.T.

Spielsbergs innit.

What goes up, must come down.

It's not very often you hear of a new sport being invented, after all most were created by accident - God knows what little William Webb Ellis was thinking when he picked up that ball and ran with it. At first it must have looked rather peculiar, but after a while the more people who watched it, the more it became the norm and hey presto the sport of Rugby was born. It is then with slight refrain I draw your attention to a "craze" spreading the states which appears to involve chasing small animals(mainly cats) up high objects scaring them (usually by mean of cherry picker and noose) until they drop, whilst the local news network catches it all on camera.  

I can't decided if this the embryo of a new sport we seeing or last years you've been framed.

...an impressive 80ft drop.  Not bad.  Good use of fur as parachute.

Again Nice, Good use of noose to coax out a -  spectacular horizontal fall maneuver.

Yet again good use of the noose to coax out the performance, but sub section 6.4d of the rules clearly 

states 'the actual fall must be captured on camera' and sub section 6.8 details 'once you've missed the fall, put the camera down no amount of filming is going to recreate the moment and revive your earlier bad camera work'

oh please! thats just a bear on a trampoline - Nil Pois

A random workstation

Imagine sitting opposite this guy. For an eight hour shift.



It's what came up for Northern Rock call centre. Callcentre. Call center.

Icelandic Comedy

They've lost all their money.
They've lost everyone else's money.
From £1 a week, you can help people like this.
Please give generously.

Divine intervention - Can you feel the force?

God has always moved in mysterious ways but as with any
self respecting supreme being reinvention is the key to
gaining a younger audience.

it's always funny until someone gets hurt and then it's just hilarious

I've never seen this in a film or TV show, have you? It's almost too perfect to be believable.

Just one man enjoying his job - in the UK, they'd be wearing him as a hoodie.

I love this in part because of the sheer dumb luck involved, but also for the supercamp narrator that does all of those America's Worst Police Somethingorothers.

Ouchies in the rugby - the blow by blow reconstruction at the end is brilliant, serious yet hilarious.

I'd pay to see this kind of performance. What makes it perfect is the long pause before anyone realises that this may not actually be his act.

More painful for the viewer than the contestant. Richard O'Brien clearly couldn't give a toss.

James Dyson! Stop! Your work here is done. Really.

JAMES DYSON - Stop!
You've done it.
Really. You don't need to do any more.

You can now apply your time and engineering abilities to something else. I know, sit down, you're not going to like this. You can now apply your thoughts to something other than vacuum technology.

The world does not need any more features for machines that suck up dirt from the floor. Really.
Honest. I asked them. They said no.



"Dyson, I can't get a good signal on my phone"
"uh... I made a prototype of an attachment hose, which can be manipulated in different directions..."

"Dyson, most of Africa can't access clean water!"
"uh... We found a way of manoevureing upright vacuums around obstacles such as chairs and table legs"

"Dyson, the polar ice caps are melting!"
"uh... "We added a ball on the main chassis that means you can turn tight corners"

Here is how people treat your work, Dyson Engineer Man. Feel the disdain.



SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR TECHNOLOGY FALLS INTO THE WRONG HANDS.

DO YOU SEE.



OH THE HUMANITY.

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Obama ads buried in computer games...

Thing on The Guardian where

"...adverts backing Obama for president have now been embedded in video games."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineusa/2008/oct/15/uselections2008-barackobama

Which begged the question, if Barack Obama is to be the first Black President of the U.S., who was the first Black Computer Game character?

The only 4 contenders I could find were...



JAX

A cybernetic enhanced soldier in the Mortal Kombat games, Jax is apparently the first African-American character in the series and his Friendship move in Mortal Kombat 2 is cutting out paper dolls for his opponent.

According to wikipedia,

"Jax is clear-headed, careful, and always keeping a watch on what his men are doing."

MICHAEL JACKSON

In the 1990 Sega Game Moonwalker spinoff.
"The game is essentially an isometric beat-em-up, although Jackson attacks with magic powers instead of physical contact...
... Jackson must get from the start to the end without losing all his health, rescuing all the children"



CARL "CJ" JOHNSON
From the best selling game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, comes arguably the most controversial video game character, Carl “CJ” Johnson. During "The Introduction"—a short machinima video released with the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Official Soundtrack—he is seen mugging a passerby in the street.

and finally...

BLACK BOXER



Possibly the first black video game character from Activision’s Boxing for the Atari 2600.
With a one button punch, you CAN be Sugar Ray Leonard, Larry Holmes, or George Foreman...





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Tour De France Doping Scandal

Aparently the dog was fine.





Click here for loads more TOUR DE FRANCE merchandise and stuff for your viewing pleasure

Ringo Starr No More Fan Mail

Did you see that message from Ringo Starr?



Bit weird, isn't it.

If you play it backwards, it goes "sennnnd morefAN maillllll, sennnnnd moreFAN maillllllll"

Hey, Ringo talks to the world just like Joss Stone?

Exercise Video...

And now... some music...



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Grumpy News Olds

After the response to yesterday's post...
(currently 'honored' on youtube as #85 - Top Rated (Today) - News & Politics - United Kingdom)

Here's some more grumpy old news men.



"We built this station on breaking elevator maintenance news you dummy."

Two life stories in 1 minute 50.





Her life story in the advert below.





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