She used to be a weather girl on a local San Diego TV station when she started out. I remember praying for cold fronts.

Is the African Anteater Dance the one from the movie where some dork hires a beauty to be his date and all goes to hell from there?

And is it just me or does this dance routine look like a pre-cursor to Britney's lame ass moves?

My favorite RW movies: Magic Christian; 1,000,000 BC; Kansas City Bomber

This thing looks a bit like a horizontal Jacquard loom. We got punch cards from Jacquard looms - that's how their designs were "programmed" in. There's an interesting PBS show, pretty old at this point, of how cotton farming in Egypt gave rise to the modern computer.

Farming -> clothing -> cotton -> weaving -> trade -> trade routes -> fiefdoms - protection of trade routes -> castle/forts -> -> seiges; longbow -> crossbow -> catapult; gunpowder -> blunderbus -> cannon -> ballistics -> complex math to solve parabola of projectile -> this analog blunderbus above -> ENIAC; cotton -> cloth -> hand looms -> mechanical looms -> Jacquard looms -> punch cards to program Jacquard loom designs -> ENIAC.

And then there was COBOL which begat...

If I have any bits (no pun) wrong, feel free to correct me.