"Another one rides the bus"

Silly races are part of American culture, I guess…



Not too tired of watching idiotic films? If so, take a look at this:



PS. This entry's title is a direct reference to "Weird Al" Yankovic's parody Another One Rides the Bus (instead of Queen's Another One Bites the Dust).

I'm hungry…

If you're starving, don't watch this!



Never go to McDonald's, because here's what you might find in your meal:



Yummy!

The following video shows you university students of Berlin Technical University making fries in a kind of mechanical manner…



If you ever happen to go to New York, make sure to go to Pommes Frites:



You don't even find such giant cones in Belgium!

And to conclude, let's watch this commercial for Mora which I find hilarious:

John Cleese strikes back

As a hors-d'œuvre before today's presentation on John Cleese that I'll be doing with Martin/Waldorf, let's watch this sketch where John tries to find a replacement, a "Cleese Idol" so that his comedic legacy may live on… This pseudo-contest was part of a Just For Laugh show in Montreal.



I also found a kind of commercial to promote the BBC:

Spongebob defends Britney's honour

Once again, let's watch something particularily silly: the voice of Chris Crocker's "Leave Britney Alone" message over shoots from Spongebob Squarepants (which is, incidentally, one of my favourite contemporary cartoons, believe it or not).



I love Patrick Star as Britney and Spongebob's facial expressions! (Especially when he cries…)

It reminds me of that parody that thatguywiththeglasses made of Chris Crocker:



Today's Uncyclopedia featured article: Britney Spears.

Belgian cuisine

I wonder why I haven't shown you this brilliant sketch by Philippe Geluck for a show called Un peu de tout (1991).

On casse les œufs pour lier la SAUUUUCE ! ET ON MET… UN PIED DE POOOORC… DANS LA SAUCE ! NOM DE DIEU !!

Laissez vingt minutes au four. Pendant ce temps, vous donnez un coup de torchon dans la cuisine."

Please also watch this other video from the same show:

Fact or fiction?

Today the Fortis newsletter featured pictures making a comparison between the package and what you really find in it. Let's first watch a video, and then take a look at the pictures:



Yummy!

BON APPETIT!

Aw!

I wanted to show you a short series of pictures I recently found on the Internet. Enjoy.

"Oh-oh!"

A silly advertisement:


Imagine the pain a split second after this photograph was taken…


This guy is about to get an appointment at the dentist's:


Say goodbye to your privates!


Now take a look at the most horrific picture of this entry:


It's freaky to realise that people thought they were fashionable with that kind of look in the 1980s…

A nice compilation to remember to look at the bright side of life even when your life is a piece of shit when you look at it:

Bee TV

Another silly sketch featuring two legens: John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson.



Today's Uncyclopedia featured article: Rowan Atkinson. (Sorry, but there's no entry on John Cleese.)

"Short, but pointless" (Ghostbusters 2)

While wandering on YouTube I came across new alternate endings and I wanted to show you some of them. Let's first watch the proof that Count Dooku has become more powerful than any Jedi:



What if Yoda was stronger than Palpatine, after all?



It's a shame that the guy who made it didn't manage to get rid of the digits, but it's a good idea, I think.

EditingRoom came up with a new idea, too: what if Vader decided to kill Luke after telling him the truth?



All too easy…

Now, what if Qui-Gon killed Darth Maul and not the other way round?



What if our old pal Casey Jones (from TMNT) happened to be present on Naboo (incidentally with his garbage truck, of course)?

The Danish know how to be effective

If you're not the kind of person that enjoys fastening his or her seatbelt, I suggest you watch this clip from Denmark:



Today's Uncyclopedia featured article: Denmark, aka Legoland (see Lego bricks).

Home Alone alternate endings!

What happens if we apply the alternate ending technique to Home Alone? Well, something like this:

"Where did he go?"
"Maybe he commited suicide…" --> I love Marvin!

Now, what if Kevin underestimated the power of a a toilet full of petrol?



This reminds me of the Ocean's Eleven alternate ending:

Voice Talkers

Please watch this really funny sketch that is featured on the YouTube main page these days, as part of the Sketchies II contest:



"My future's all about meloclusions, retainers and correctivate gear…"

O'Reilly is a jerk

I can't stand US conservatists like Bill O'Reilly, who attacks the son of a guy who died in the 9/11 attacks because he dares not to support the war!





Take that, W:

Who's the Real George Bush?

Today's Uncyclopedia featured article: Moronicus, ancestor of G.W. Bush.

Idiocrates, achieving the "least efforts" by reducing his brain activity to the minimal.

How does Darth Vader use the bathroom?

The answer to this question, long awaited by millions of Star Wars fans, is given by Emperor Palpatine himself:



Emperor Palpatine warns you against the dangers of time travel and temporal paradoxes:



Please check you the AskPalpatine website for more sketches. Also, if you'd like to ask Palpatine a question, "do not hesitate, show no mercy" (to quote him): it's just a click away.

Uncyclopedia featured articles (yeah, they're back): Time travel, Great Time Travel War of 1871
and The Future:

This article or section is able to see into The Future.

Although Wikipedia is not a crystal ball, Uncyclopedia is, so we get to say what happens in the future and they don't.

The modern method of predicting the future.

Predicting the future is a common term among time fans eagerly awaiting its release. The term refers to any leaked information about the future, and assumptions created from that information, as well as pure conjecture. This consists mostly of fans making guesses based on the mistakes of the past, which was widely regarded as only fun for the hardcore time fans. There are many internet discussion forums where the world's greatest minds come together and argue with one another whether the Future will stick to its simple roots, or be a complete sell-out that is all about the graphics.

What makes predicting the future difficult is that it is protected by the CSS encryption algorithm. Anyone who has tried to predict it prior to the 18th century has died; this is not known for certain.

A short selection of things that will happen in the future, according to Uncyclopedia:

In a bit

• Vatican admits pretty much everything was a hoax. Longest April fools joke. Ever.

• The First Church of Spongebob opened

• Earth's magnetic poles mysteriously reverse positions. USA wakes up to discover that it is now in South America.

• Canada buys one (1) tank

Almost but not quite just about right now

• USA colonizes Uranus. Related jokes NEVER get old.

• Canada gets an army

Oh, a long ways off

• All forms of education rendered obsolete by the invention of brain transplants.

• Canada conquers the earth; the USA is exiled to Uranus.

• Terrorists vaporise all Americans left in existence by setting fire to Uranus.

The last moments of the universe

• Humanity becomes intelligent

• Neo Germany makes a funny joke

• Weather service become 100% accuracy

• Bill Gates goes bankrupt

• Britney Spears regains custody of her children

• Death dies

• Chuck Norris wakes up and causes mass destruction

• First time machine made, Church of Scientology buys one and goes back to the start of humanity. Huge disappointment; someone stepped on an internet.

Maths for dummies

I think using a calculating machine would save you a larger amount of time… Anyway, this method is brilliant, don't you think?

John Cleese

Here's the blog entry that Martin and I wrote about John Cleese for germ@namur:

John Cleese was born on 27 October 1939 in Weston-super-Mare (England). Despite his humble origins, Cleese was educated at private schools. He studied law at Cambridge University, where he met Graham Chapman, a future Monty Python partner, while playing in the Footlights Dramatic Club in the early 1960s. He acted in several plays and moved to New York, where he met Terry Gilliam and Connie Booth, whom he would marry later. In 1965 he wrote and starred in I’m sorry, I’ll read that again, a BBC radio show, and The Frost Report, a satirical television show where he met Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin..

Together with these three, as well as Gilliam and Chapman, he created the Monty Python's Flying Circus in 1969. This comedy sketch show ran for 45 episodes over four series, featuring scenes that have become very popular, such as The Ministry of Silly Walks, The Funniest Joke in the World and The Dead Parrot. Two extra episodes were made for German television, Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus.



The show ended in 1974, because John Cleese had decided to leave the show after the third series, feeling that the scripts had declined in quality. However, he remained part of the Pythons as he co-wrote and co-starred in their three films: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979) and Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983).

Here is a famous scene from Holy Grail, "French Taunting":



He also took part in Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982), a recorded performance of many of the Pythons' successful sketches.



Meanwhile, he played the role he is most known for: Basil Fawlty, the sharp-tongued, grumpy owner of a seaside hotel in the series called Fawlty Towers. He co-starred with Prunella Scales (as Basil’s wife, Sybil), Connie Booth (as the maid Polly) and Andrew Sachs (as the clumsy waiter Manuel). The series aired in 1975 and 1979, with only twelve episodes made in order not to compromise the quality of the show, but the episodes were so hilarious that they have had a lasting success up to now.



After that, John Cleese made a guest appearance in an episode of The Muppet Show and acted in some plays, for instance as Petruchio in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. In 1988 he wrote and played the lead part in A Fish Called Wanda. A year later, when Graham Chapman died of throat cancer, he was 'the first person ever at a British memorial service to say "fuck"', he claims.



His film career went on, most notably playing Nearly Headless Nick in the first two Harry Potter movies, ‘Q’ in two Bond movies (The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day), and Princess Fiona’s father in Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third . More recently he appeared in some commercials, lent his voice to several computer games and even has a podcast. John Cleese is to be remembered for his use of slapstick comedy, but also of ironical and cynical humour.

Martin Cugnon & Simon Labate

The Germans

Due to a "delightful" PowerPoint presentation on the linguistic landscape of Eupen and Malmedy that we have to make by Thursday, I totally run out of time, so I fear I can just show you this brilliant episode that concluded the first series of Fawlty Towers with John Cleese:

Part 1:



Part 2:



Part 3:



Part 4:

Another silly job: basketball dribbler

Funny home videos

If you're fed up with the huge pile of homework you've got to do, why don't you have a short break and watch the following videos?





I love the last ten seconds!

The most surprising is this is just a small percentage of all domestic accidents that occur, because there's not always someone with a cam recorder!

A bit of Dutch, for a change

Here's a video from the VRT showing a Seaking helicopter bringing a mast at the top of the Atomium.



And here's a report on the reception of Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis (by Dany Boon) in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais: