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Commented on Two angry camels in a car
Are they on their way home from the dentist?...
Commented on Audiophile product parodies
Mark, it's a shame you got bumped on CNN on the Jobs piece. I was looking forward to hearing your views on that. (Sorry for the OT.)...
Commented on For once, news about why we're safer than we used to be
So then Mark gets pre-empted by a plane crash. Use your powers for good, not evil!...
Commented on Dream a Little Dream of Me on ukulele
#11 - no kidding, the whole way through that I was on edge about the open door. Interesting sort of tension....
Commented on Sea ice area returns to 1979 level
There's a lot of things in life that I don't understand, but society's desire to believe the utter nonsense of global warming is probably the one that mystifies me the most these days. And it is absolutely borne out of...
Commented on Acclaimed animated movie can't be shown because of licensing costs for 80+ year-old music
A lot has been said about the life status of the composer in this thread, but that is a missed point. Why should that have an effect on whether a particular composition retains rights to earn fees? Nor should it...
Commented on Acclaimed animated movie can't be shown because of licensing costs for 80+ year-old music
Sorry Cory, normally I can get behind you on these sorts of issues, but not on this one. I agree with the commenters who have pointed out it was perhaps shortsighted to base a work around a piece of music...
Commented on The Collins Kids -- "Hoy Hoy Hoy"
That's kind of a neat boogie diddly....
Commented on Strange and endangered wildlife
I remember when I first saw this, that I was fascinated that its lowest body segment (what is that, the abdomen?) looks exacty like a hamburger on a sesame seed bun....
Commented on Alvino Rey and his anthropomorphic guitar puppet
You guys are starting to scare me now....
Commented on A VERY DELICATE TIME
Yes, the Maddow appearance was very enjoyable. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27287715#27287715 It is necessary to watch it twice. The second time, for the snippets that cycle on the chyron....
Commented on New online magazine edited by R.U. Sirius
They had me at the logo....
Commented on HOWTO Make honest, simple fake snot
Do not accept dishonest snot....
Commented on Bizarre walking strategies of artifically evolved organisms
I absolutely thought the narrator sounded like Sagan. And then I felt sad....
Commented on You May Be Synaesthetic And Not Know It
I have always associated colours with musical notes as long as I can remember. Always the same colours my whole life, since I was 3 (42 years ago). E is deep forest green, A is bright red, C is blue,...
Commented on Boing Boing tv: Floating in Zero Gravity is Fun, Earthlings!
Awesome ride. Looks like you had a blast. I want to compliment you happy mutants on the production quality of these bbtv spots. They are really fantastically done. There has been constant improvement since you first introduced them, and now...
Commented on Bigfoot discovery press conference on Friday (HOAX?)
I don't understand why Loren's getting behind this....
Commented on Jerry Beck finds the worst comic strip ever
Bazooka Joe was at its best in a NatLamp send-up many years ago, where they changed it to a series of international versions. It featured Bubbalo Carlos, Chew En-Lai, and my favorite, "Mastication Elastic Joseph and his Acquaintances"....
Commented on Smith: "Baby It's You" (1969)
Right on! Thanks for this, Mark. That set is fantastic....
Commented on Band features two keyboard-playing chickens
Robyn's current band is all bears. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LUeOXfeOlk...
Commented on Puppies
Fucking puppies, I hate 'em!...
Commented on Internet catfight
Watching violence makes me want to yark too....

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Kyle Armbruster commented on Amy Walker's "21 Accents" video
I think the thing is always going to be that when she does your own accent, or one you're very accustomed to, it won't sound right. That's because all of them are approximations--caricatures. When you study these things in dialect classes at acting school, it's not like you get into the phonemic differences between languages; they just say "talk like this." To be perfectly honest, coming from a long-ago acting background... She's pretty good. Not great. Pretty good. That being said, I've never met anyone who could do so many. Usually people have a handful of ones they really do...
Crispinus211 commented on Amy Walker's "21 Accents" video
She has pretty teeth....
Alpinwolf commented on Amy Walker's "21 Accents" video
I think it's strange and fun that to really pull off an accent sometimes you also really have to get into the headspace of someone from the region. My bro-in-law does a *lot* of theater (mostly G&S) and teaches music and whatnot. I don't think he's studied linguistics, but he taught me how to do a convincing Russian accent in about 2 minutes. He said to first think about the Russian accents done seriously in films, for a baseline. Then imagine the bitterly cold winters, and how you wouldn't want to open your mouth too wide in a Siberian gale....
consacepo commented on Welcome to the new Boing Boing!
I confess to not reading all of the comments but several of the initial comments mentioned the large font size. Maybe it was changed already, but on FF/Linux it is now one size too small to be comfortably readable. Alas . . . consacepo...
u62 commented on Welcome to the new Boing Boing!
I feel like an old man, all nostalgic and weepy eyed for this design...

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