What's Upside Down, Tiger Lily?

When I was a lass, What's Up Tiger Lily was the epitome of this sort of thing. Wait, not the epitome - the only example. Taking a whole visual text, and re-imagining it with a new, absurdist, soundtrack

Nowadays the kids - in this case, Bad Lip Reading - hit it out of the park on a regular basis.

This one takes Stranger Things and makes it suffer a sea change into Something Richer and Stranger Things. It takes on a new life, with new characters, new motivations and faint echoes of meaning.



A surrealist riot.

The songs are:

Glitter Job's Ice God of Hungary



And Seagulls' Stop It Now



Both of which are Bad Lip Reading again, just doing to songs what they do to movies.

Current list of great band names for future use

The Sheep Looked at Johnny
G-Clef Wine
Is This Love or Just Confucian?
Llanfair of the Vanities
Pledge of A Legion
Steakhouse of the August Moon
St.Ereos
Mucosa Es Su Casa
Mike O'Riza and the Fun Guys
Torc Understeer
St. John the Kangaroo Blues Band
Ike and Turner Corner
Dank Whale
Xie Xie La Femme
Venus in Furze
Duke Newcome
Richard Gere de Lyon
Thelementary Skool
To Your Battered Squaddies Go
Back Florist Ghetto


And a phrase from Mick Farren's Give The Anarchist a Cigarette, where he is disparaging the tent-dwelling boggies (as he calls them) of Phun City:

Ewok Bivouac

On the other hand, if you would like to automatically generate a name, an album title, and an album cover, my blog has a handy meme for generating all three for your first CD here.

Recite the names of the Wi Fi

Via Simon Coffey (@urbanautomaton) who said:

someone at the British Library is doing fine work 

Common house hippo

The termite man was here yesterday to tell us we had dry rot and roof rats. No termites though.

At least we don't have house hippos. (Yes, this is an ad, but it's not an ad for an obnoxious product.)

WSJ Crash Blossom - Ukraine army push flounders

Front page headline in the Wall Street Journal today: "Ukraine Army Push Flounders".

The Ukraine army push what?

  

I used to play that game a lot! The headline's made me miss the Merry Game of Floundering.

Wankard Pooser

Let's take a moment to review the life of Wankard Pooser, the felicitously-named Floridian and stormy petrel of the economy bloc.  He was born in the equally remarkably-christened town of DeFuniak Springs, had ten children and was a politician, amongst a plethora of other things.

In a 1958 article, Pooser referred to himself as a "famous author, statesman, [and] poet". It was also said that he was known around his city of residence as a "lawyer, ex-legislator, ... noted local after-dinner speaker, wit, [and] critic". His headstone at Pope Cemetery reads:

The one and only
Wankard POOSER
She love me too
27 Sep 1893
22 Feb 1978
To be continued

(From Wikipedia)

It's one of those names that only an American could have, like the similarly-apellated Buford Pusser, of whom I have heard because he died in a Corvette, and Death Cars - particularly Corvettes - are a thing of mine. Sheriff Buford Pusser, who Walked Tall, was a famous lawman, which is another peculiarly American thing, unless Detective Superintendent Leonard "Nipper" Read would fit the bill. (Probably not.)

 

Crimea river

Putin: Knock knock.
Obama: Who's there?
Putin: Crimea.
Obama: Crimea who?
Putin: Crimea river.
Obama: ____...
Putin puts on sunglasses: (•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■)
Putin: YEEEEAHHHHHH!!!!


Not sure who made this - I've seen it in various places without attribution. Whoever you are, you are very clever and win one (1) internets.