“What are you doing on my kayak?”
A “Special Achievement in Copy Editing” award to whoever best transcribes the sound the diver makes at 0:18.
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It wasn’t the onset of the apocalypse, it only felt like it: here’s the Chelyabinsk Meteor Shockwave Compilation.
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Patsy Montana swears she Didn’t Know the Gun Was Loaded.
She’s very, very sorry, and she’ll never, never do it again.
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When something in the house needs repairs, who should you call?
Hint: not your hipster boyfriend.
h/t
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Tonight’s tips music, a live version of a track from Leonard Cohen’s 1969 album Songs from a Room, is a quiet, simple, beautiful, elegiac song about a young, good-hearted woman who lost her way in the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
Here’s Seems So Long Ago, Nancy.
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Tonight, a touching example of the powerful effect of music on the human spirit.
h/t
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Lost your driver’s license? Need to get somewhere? Let your dog drive you.
Yeah, you might arrive looking like Don Knotts after a rocket-sled test-ride, but at least you’ll get there.
h/t Missy T
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the Tips a group of locals gather in the Ferryman Pub in Dublin, Ireland, for a performance of The Bucks of Oranmore and Come West Along The Road.
And who knows, maybe the bodhran player will put down his instrument and start dancing.
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It’s Saturday night, so we’re going to pull out all the stops and turn up the heat with a full-on dance, choreography, and special-effects Euro-extravaganza called The Bike.
Please remain calm, and stay in your assigned seats.
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In tonight’s tips music, from the 1972 album National Lampoon Radio Dinner, a sanctimonious San Francisco liberal folksinger who sounds suspiciously like Joan Baez encourages her negro brothers and sisters across the bay in Oakland to inflict serious harm on their white oppressors..
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Life is cheap, at times, in Russia, and so is the vodka, which in combination can make just about anything seem like a good idea. For example, if you throw together a small motor, some steel tubing, a bicycle chain…
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A father has a few words to say to his soon-to-be-son-in-law in front of the assembled guests at his daughter’s wedding.
h/t Syd B.
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips, Paddy Bán O’Brien does a spot of Irish-style hoofing.
If you don’t like Irish dancing, pretend it’s a comedy skit about a spry drunk fighting to keep his balance as he tries to find his way home. It kinda works, actually.
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When a fella meets a girl in Switzerland, there’s a certain thing he’s gotta do: he can never, never take her by the hand ’til he learns the Toolie Oolie Doo.
Make a mental note of that.
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Honza Bláha is a remarkable, gifted Czech horseman who controls his trusting charges without the use of any bridles, halters, reins, or lead ropes. Tonight we watch him at work in a short video called Open Borders.
h/t peterj
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It’s been way too long since we’ve had a Saturday night SDA singalong, so please, everybody, hoist a cup of the potation of your choice and join together in a rousing version of the old classic Spotty Muldoon.
He really is unbelievably spotty.
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Long before he was prancing around in chiffon blouses singing schmaltzy ballads and ersatz disco songs, Rod Stewart was a full-throttle rocker. In tonight’s musical entertainment en route to the Tips, we see him in his prime as the frontman for Faces (featuring guitarist Ron Wood in his pre-Stones days) as they perform a song from their 1971 Album A Nod Is as Good as a Wink called Miss Judy’s Farm.
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Tonight, we take enormous vicarious pleasure in the actions of Homer’s Father. Go, dad!
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It’s not lupus, it’s Hugh Laurie’s version of Buddy Bolden’s Blues.
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Yes, it’s true: Tommy Christian and His Orchestra really hate Bulgarians, what with their big Bulgarian eyes.
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