A Future Fair For All
It’s great to see that Labour have realised that what we all really need is to forget about the recession and have more fun.
In particular, they will now build a huge Future Fair for us all, by which I assume they mean a science fiction-themed fun fair.
I hope it’ll be built close to Glasgow so that we can go often.
Is this why Apple called it the iPad?
It’s well-known that Fujitsu are likely to sue Apple because they believe they own the name “iPad”.
However, fewer people will be aware that the “Apple iPad” was already mentioned in July of 2006:
I wonder whether the producers of this sketch are going to try to sue Apple, too.
Perhaps Apple knew it already and thought that it was so funny that they’d make it happen?
I want to park my car like that!
Schwäbisch schwätza uff Youtube
I was raised bilingually. However, it wasn’t Danish and standard German I grew up speaking, as some people might think, it was Danish and Swabian (Schwäbisch).
These days even my dad hardly ever speaks Swabian any more, and Swabian speakers aren’t exactly ubiquitous in Scotland, so it often feels like I’m the only remaining speaker.
So imagine my joy when I realised that Youtube is positively full of Swabian videos, such as the following parodies!
Obama:
Star Wars:
John Wayne:
Meaningless guttural sounds
I found this on Sebastian’s blog:
It’s from NRK, the Norwegian equivalent of the BBC, and it plays on how Norwegians perceive Danish: A language pronounced in such a garbled way with such incomprehensible numbers that nobody can understand a thing.
Great fun!
Learning from Gordon Brown
I was so inspired by a video clip with Gordon Brown that I wanted to try to mimic his outstanding gestures and body language.
Here is my attempt:
For comparison, here is the master himself. I’m really impressed how he manages to smile in random places without any connexion to what he’s saying:
筋肉番付
Marcel has found the most amazing Japanese TV show on Challenge (Sky channel 125).
It’s called Ultimate Banzuke and shows Japanese people jumping through obstacle courses on pogo sticks, walking on dominos, and so on.
I found an example on YouTube:
Brown’s bunker
I found this movie on Guy Fawkes’ blog.
It’s not very politically correct, but it’s really very funny, too.
There are some more similar movies by the same author on YouTube, just follow the obvious links.