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This is nowhere near as clever as Rahat’s usual drive-thru pranks (skeleton driver and so on), but still reasonably amusing: Link: https://youtu.be/1nD0dInC5W4 More posts referencing Rahat’s pranks here. by … Continue reading
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Ben Stein is probably best known as a deadpan comic actor. He played the economics teacher in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off who keeps calling “Bueller?” when taking roll, a lawyer helping Kramer prepare a living will on Seinfeld, and a … Continue reading
The Mel Brooks musical (based on the classic Mel Brooks film) The Producers is being updated. Here are some excerpts well worth a look: Link: https://youtu.be/OemqVWi_R0k by … Continue reading
The day before Super Tuesday (Mediocre Monday?) Jackie Broyles and Dunlap released this short video (running about 3 1/2 minutes) to plead with fellow Southerners not to vote for Donald Trump. If only they had spoken up louder and sooner! … Continue reading
As previously noted, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz likes to claim that climate scientists have in “the past two or three years” switched to talking about climate change rather than global warming. In reality, of course, both terms have been … Continue reading
It’s amazing how seemlessly Donald Trump would fit in on this series: Link: https://youtu.be/I0tE6T-ecmg by … Continue reading
Music associated with positive emotions — love, happiness, and so on — tends to be written in a major key, and minor keys are used for music meant to sound sad, eerie, or menacing. This is of course very rough … Continue reading
In this brief clip novelist John Green points out yet another way in which the world is better and offers some thoughts (prompted by Bill Gates) on the importance of free time and (preferably less polluting) sources of energy. It’s … Continue reading
Research published in the 29 January issue of the journal Science shows that more than 2000 years ago, Babylonian astronomers in what is today Iraq were using unexpectedly advanced mathematics to predict the position of Jupiter. This is based on … Continue reading
The guy behind the drive-thru pranks (skeleton driver and the like) does a bit with a plush frog sitting on a bench in a park who asks women to kiss him and turn him back into a prince. A remarkably … Continue reading