I started out thinking this was juvenile and immature. By the end, I was laughing out loud.
I actually watched through all their TNG overdubs. There are things that get referenced from one to another. It got to the point that just the mention of applejuice got me cracking up.
I wonder if the Joe Cocker thing inspired these. Or vice versa.
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I think I could've done without the Jesus graffiti, but on the whole, cute.
Apparently, they meant ישועה and got it wrong. And then Cohen refused to have it changed (it was added in post-production) because "controversy breeds publicity". Sounds just like you'd expect from Borat's brother.
There's a post from Y-Love (the Yiddish rapper) here.
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"An Italian singer wrote this song with gibberish to sound like English. If you've ever wondered what other people think Americans sound like, this is it."
I was just running back through this thread to check the links and realized that this link is to a video of someone I met - got to hang out with for a whole day.
His name is Mark Goffeney. He was born without arms.
Great performer and a fun guy.
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I was just running back through this thread to check the links and realized that this link is to a video of someone I met - got to hang out with for a whole day.
His name is Mark Goffeney. He was born without arms.
(Comedian with disability in ongoing video series - proving that a lot of people don't bother to look at the signs being held by people collecting for various causes)
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(Comedian with disability in ongoing video series - proving that a lot of people don't bother to look at the signs being held by people collecting for various causes)
This hardly proves that point. I have a policy of giving to panhandlers that make me laugh so I would very likely have given money to this guy because I read his sign.
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quote:Originally posted by Lisa: "An Italian singer wrote this song with gibberish to sound like English. If you've ever wondered what other people think Americans sound like, this is it."
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And I could swear I understand some of it. Even knowing that there's nothing there to understand. I guess it's human nature to find patterns.
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A different subtitled version. This one goes with the more obvious (to me, anyway) choice of "eyes" instead of "highs" -- and it has some mild language.
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Yeah, me too. It makes even less sense (although, really, some ACTUAL song lyrics make less sense yet! ), but it sticks better to the actual sounds. And making less sense was rather the point of the original.
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quote:Originally posted by Lisa: "An Italian singer wrote this song with gibberish to sound like English. If you've ever wondered what other people think Americans sound like, this is it."
My daughter sings like this all the time. It drives me nuts because I keep listening to try to understand the words, and then I realize she's singing gibberish.
Of course, she'd be very much at home at a holy roller Christian church singing in tongues.
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Possibly of interest, possibly not... a New Yorker article on Prisencolinensinainciusol. (Includes links to the two original videos -- one black and white, one color -- used to create the version found here.)
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Interesting. Dawkins mentions this test in his most recent book The Greatest Show On Earth; it's interesting to actually see it.
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), but it sticks better to the actual sounds. And making less sense was rather the point of the original.
