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Kids can embarrass you in weird ways

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I’ve mentioned before that I spend a lot of time listening to music on youtube at work. Well, the other day I was minding my own business, listening to music, and a senior guy who is sort of an outside consultant came over to ask me a question. As he was staring at my screen, I was forced to bring up the webpage and pause the music, so I could hear him. The problem is, I was listening to a Laurie Berkner song, and though he couldn’t hear the music, the video was clearly a kid’s video, with little animated bumble bees flying around, etc.

Now it could have been a lot worse, lord knows there are plenty of uncomfortable visuals in music videos. So I probably shouldn’t be embarrassed about listening to the same music as my 2 year old, and that guy has kids anyway, so I’m sure he can understand how badly kids music gets in your head. But still, I’m sure he was like, “What the?” when he saw what I was listening to. Very embarrassing.

So here it is, in all it’s embarrassing glory. Feel free to watch at work.

Anybody else ever do something like that? No, probably just me.

A day late and a dollar short

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I had forgotten all about this song until I came across it recently, even though I blogged about it almost 2 years ago. It’s too bad too, because it would have been perfect to bring it back right after Michael Jackson died, but better late than never. So here we have Chris Cornell from Soundgarden / Audioslave covering Billie Jean. Prepare to have your mind blown.

Scare Tactics

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There used to be a show called Scare Tactics on Sci-fi that was the greatest hidden camera show of all time. The way the show worked was that they would get at least one person who wasn’t in on the joke and then just scare the crap out of them, often using movie grade special effects and makeup.

The thing that made the show so great was the reaction. These people were so scared that there was no way it could be faked. Something about the crazy look in their eyes where you just know all bets are off, and they’re just ready to do whatever it takes to survive the situation, even if it means sacrificing their friends. There are physical reactions from the adrenaline flow that just can’t be faked. Like when I saw a guy try to run and do a double flying drop kick trying to go right through a wall to escape some “poison gas”.

Let me give you another example; when this guy thinks a gorilla is coming after him (possibly to mate with him) he leaps to the top of a huge fence like superman. I really don’t think he could have done that again if he wanted to. Of course that clip also gave us the immortal line, “Monkey with a gun! Monkey with a gun!”

Okay, so maybe the stunts are a little cheesy, but don’t try to pretend like you wouldn’t be just as scared in that situation. That’s what makes it so fun to watch!

Plenty more videos here.

Sometimes, they would even double trick someone. They would tell someone that they were in on the joke and then still play a joke on them. For example, one time I saw one where they told a guy he was going to scare the barber, so when the barber gave him a shave, he activated a device that squirted blood all over. But see, the joke was on him, because then the fake barber had a fake heart attack and the guy thought he killed him.

I also saw several episodes where they had to rush in and end it early because someone was going to kill someone. Like one time a guy in a robot suit was going crazy and ignoring the furious “Halt!” commands of the person being tricked, so he picked up a giant wrench and made for the robot’s head.

Well anyway, I just found out that they brought this awesome show back, with Tracy Morgan as the host! If I were you, I would definitely check it out.

The Uro Club

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They even have a website.

Can anybody confirm if this is real or not? Because, if it is, I think I need to get my dad one. I mean, he doesn’t golf, but man does he urinate!

Another day, another nursemaid’s elbow

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Evie was having a fit about something or other and she flopped boneless to the floor while Sara was holding her hands. Suddenly, she cried out, clutched her arm to her stomach and yelled, “Noooo! Not again!” Later I found it funny that she remembered clearly enough the sensation of the first one, that she recognized it as the same. It seemed such an adult thing to say. Then she immediately called for a blanket and her teddy bear, for comfort.

Anyway, it was very clear that it was the same thing as before. They told us at the time that once it happened the first time, it was likely to happen again. It was a lot less scary this time having gone through it once. The doctor had showed us how to fix it ourselves, but our memory was not perfect. Sara tried it and it didn’t seem to fix it. We weren’t sure what to do about it, but I was a little suspicious that perhaps Sara had indeed fixed it, even though Sara didn’t think so. Evie had been crying and after Sara tried she stopped crying, even if she was still holding her arm close to her chest.

She said her arm still hurt, but I was still suspicious. I mean, this is the girl who’s still milking her skinned knee from a week ago, and still tells me about her “brave fingers” that got pinched in the closet door months ago. Also, the doctor told us that sometimes it took a little while for it to stop hurting, even after it was fixed. Sure enough, maybe 10 minutes later, Evie was giving us high fives with her bad arm.

So, once again, all’s well that ends well. At least this time it didn’t involve a trip to the emergency room.

In completely unrelated news, I saw the movie Once last night. I had never heard of this movie until the Oscars, when Falling Slowly, the song from the movie, absolutely haunted me and I had to listen to it over and over again.

There are tons and tons of good songs in there, some possibly even better than Falling Slowly, such as If You Want Me and The Hill. I think I’ll be needing this soundtrack for Christmas…