Michael Jackson's Beat It by the Red Army

From: http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/videos/red-army-orchestra-parody-internet-meme.html

Wednesday Ad

Translation:

Child: Hey Dad! Let's buy some Panda cheese!

Dad: No, we have enough food, our cart is full.

Announcer: There's always room for Panda Cheese.

Source: Miss Cellania

Monday Gif

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MEL GIBSON RACIST RANT TAPE LEAKED!

Warning: Not for the faint of heart!!

Bánh mì thịt

Review from a neutral Swiss taster
published in The Economist – European edition, June 12th-18th 2010 issue, page 58
Sent in by a friend (Merci Fongue!)



When the most serious and austere magazine, The Economist, forecasts some futher weakness for the Euro, I agree with all the traders ‘round the globe that we ought to sell the Euro and buy the US dollar or maybe the Yen. But allow me some puzzlement when its correspondent wrote, assertive and confident, that in his/her view (we have no clue on his/her gender or ethnicity, as The Economist's articles are never signed) “there are only three true great sandwiches in the world” (and in this order) :

- the Vietnamese “bánh mì thịt”,
- the Ashkenazi “bagel with lox”,
- and the oyster “po’boy”, a New Orleans creation with the fat, sweet oysters from the Gulf of Mexico.

Out of the 850’000 issues so far published by The Economist, we have to recognize that at least 845’000 had significant Jewish readership. So “Bagel & Lox” definitively must be on the list of the best sandwiches in the world, if only for solid marketing reasons. So be it (actually, it's really not bad at all).

Louisiana was badly hit by Katharina five years ago and is now swamped by British Petroleum. Out of sheer Christian charity and solidarity, we’ll cetainly taste the “oyster po’boy” and generously patronize New Orleans oysters whenever we'll have the chance.

So why was “bánh mì thịt” mentioned here not with, but ahead of the others? Because it's simply good and well-informed gourmet people love it. There is no other reason than that. There is really no match for this Vietnamese inspired mix of French baguette, Swiss Maggi sauce, stuffing of your liking (chả lụa, pâté, xã xiú, gà nướng, etc.) and added with home-made pickles (đồ chua), aromatic herbs lovingly grown on some mid-altitude plateau (ngò, ớt…) What more can we say, unless we drool in our own words?




P.S. Uber-hip Virgin America is reportedly serving banh mi sandwiches inflight.

Recipe to make your own Bánh mì thịt : http://www.squidoo.com/banh_mi

One Day Late Father's Day Tribute

John Cleese Explains The Difference Between Football and 'Football'

Wax On, F*ck Off!

How Ralph Macchio feels about the new film "The Karate Kid"



(Source: La Presse)

My Favorite Video Game of All Times

Kids, guess what you're gonna get for Christmas? Hehehehe!

It's Saturday Night! It's Merengue Time!!!

From: Boing Boing

Comment ouvrir une bouteille de vin sans tire-bouchon

(Contribution de: Bernard -  Merci, Bernouille!)

Now You Know Enough to Enjoy Metal Music

And now you're ready to enjoy Alexi Laiho and Roope Latvala  from Children of Bodom.  From Wikipedia: Children of Bodom is a heavy metal band from Espoo, Finland, formed in 1993. The band consists of guitarist and vocalist Alexi Laiho (vocals, lead guitar), Roope Latvala (rhythm guitar), Janne Wirman (keyboards), Henkka Seppälä (bass), and Jaska Raatikainen (drums).  

The band's third studio album, Follow the Reaper, was their first album to receive a Gold certification in Finland, and since then, all six of the band's studio albums have reached the same status. In Finland, Children of Bodom has released three consecutive albums that debuted at number one on Finnish album charts, and has also seen chart positions on the United States Billboard 200.

The band has incorporated many different musical styles, leading critics and fans to label them as melodic death metal, black metal, thrash metal, and progressive metal.



No, I'm kidding. Here's their real regular music: 'Follow The Reaper' and 'Every time I die'

Lions, Britons and Gorillas, oh my!

You remember a few years ago the story of Christian the lion who was brought back to Africa after being raised in England.  His owners went to see him after a few years and here's the clip of their reunion that made millions of viewers cry (including me):

Well, prepare to cry again.

Can't wait to see "Inception"

It looks like a mixture of 'Nightmare Detective' and 'Dark City'.

The usual Western Cultural Imperialism

I read in today's NY Times an editorial about the Chinese government's campaign to convince Shanghai residents to stop wearing pajamas in public, in view of the 2010 World Expo (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/opinion/17gao.html?ref=opinion). I can't help but get angry (again!) because the idea behind the campaign is not to shock and disgust foreign visitors to the Expo.

Although the article says that it is a habit typical of Shanghai, anyone who has been to other South-East Asian countries knows that "pajamas" are worn in public elsewhere as well. When I was young(er) and living in Saigon, there was really no distinction between what you wear to bed and what you wear to go outside. Unless you work in an office or go to school, most people on the streets wear clothes that are considered as "pajamas" by Westerners. The peasants working in the fields would be described as "black pajamas clad" by American soldiers and Newsweek or Time Magazine. 

The thing is, contrary to Western countries, where different activities call for different clothes, people in Third World counties cannot afford to have too many sets of clothes and tend to wear the same type of clothes all the time, indoors or outdoors. In Vietnam, there usually are three types of clothes: formal wear (ao dai for example), everyday wear (bà ba, "pajamas", etc.) and Western clothes.

So once again, Asian countries are bowing to foreign tastes and biases and forcing their populations to give up their traditions, so as not to offend Westerners' sensibilities.

Funny Doggie

Hitler Is Back!! (Achtung: Trilingual Post)

From Numerama:
http://www.numerama.com/magazine/15681-la-scene-d-hitler-entierement-rejouee-pour-que-les-parodies-continuent.html

Nous l'avions qualifiée de "décision la plus stupide qu'un producteur puisse prendre", mais sur le plan de la création artistique, la décision du producteur de La Chute de supprimer les célèbres parodies d'Hitler pourrait devenir grandiose. Alors que le genre semblait perdre du souffle, elle pousse les internautes à regagner de l'imagination.

Brandon Hardesty est un acteur américain légèrement déjanté, qui s'est fait une spécialité de rejouer des scènes entières de films en interprétant lui-même tous les personnages. Pour sa cinquante-sixième vidéo, il a choisi de réinterpréter la fameuse scène d'Hitler que les internautes n'ont plus le droit d'exploiter pour leurs parodies. Un véritable tour de force, d'autant qu'il a dû apprendre phonétiquement ce que prononce l'acteur allemand Bruno Ganz dans l'oeuvre originale.

Pour sa propre vidéo, Hardesty a sous-titré ce que disent les personnages en respectant fidèlement le script du film. Mais pour faciliter les parodies qu'il encourage, il propose une version sans sous-titre que les internautes peuvent reprendre à leur guise. De quoi générer un nouveau mème dérivé du premier.

Certes, Constantin Film pourrait toujours user de ses droits d'auteur sur les dialogues allemands pour obtenir le retrait de la vidéo de Brandon Hardesty, et de ses futures parodies. Mais ce serait alors un abus caractérisé et indéfendable du droit d'auteur.

I Still Love You Without Your Car

I'm a sucker for any video with dogs.

The Wizard Of Dogz

Cirque du Soleil and Michael Jackson