Streakdome 97 outtake?
May 10, 2004 6:22 AM Subscribe
Local news gets interesting. Meet my new hero! (.wmv file-- only a few seconds long but NSFW.) I'd elaborate, but I don't want to wreck it.
what an awesome way to start today off, thanks!
posted by yeahyeahyeahwhoo at 6:39 AM on May 10, 2004
posted by yeahyeahyeahwhoo at 6:39 AM on May 10, 2004
a month or so old now, and someone added the farting sound.
posted by quonsar at 6:42 AM on May 10, 2004
posted by quonsar at 6:42 AM on May 10, 2004
That's hilarious.
Not to be too nitpicky, but I'm not sure I buy the fart noise. Those mikes don't pick up a lot of ambient sound--it's hard to believe someone racing by could come through crystal clear like that. It really sounds like someone laid down a sound effect on the clip, after the fact.
Whatever, though. It's funny enough without the fart noise, so thanks.
posted by LairBob at 6:44 AM on May 10, 2004
Not to be too nitpicky, but I'm not sure I buy the fart noise. Those mikes don't pick up a lot of ambient sound--it's hard to believe someone racing by could come through crystal clear like that. It really sounds like someone laid down a sound effect on the clip, after the fact.
Whatever, though. It's funny enough without the fart noise, so thanks.
posted by LairBob at 6:44 AM on May 10, 2004
[Whoops--I guess quonsar posted a definitive answer while I was posting my question.]
posted by LairBob at 6:45 AM on May 10, 2004
posted by LairBob at 6:45 AM on May 10, 2004
Oh yeah, and what a hardass too.
She looked thoroughly disgusted and unamused. Not even a hint of a smile.
posted by uncanny hengeman at 6:52 AM on May 10, 2004
I like how she "jumps" slightly.
That's because she's never seen a penis before. She's in an "I saw something icky" clinic in Switzerland now. We wish her speedy recovery.
posted by jonmc at 6:52 AM on May 10, 2004 [1 favorite]
That's because she's never seen a penis before. She's in an "I saw something icky" clinic in Switzerland now. We wish her speedy recovery.
posted by jonmc at 6:52 AM on May 10, 2004 [1 favorite]
ahhhh... that's funny.
posted by pissfactory at 6:56 AM on May 10, 2004
posted by pissfactory at 6:56 AM on May 10, 2004
A sad byproduct of the useless need to be "live" at 11:15 PM, ten hours after the news actually happens. Needless to say, that lady needs to work on her journalistic composure.
posted by PrinceValium at 7:08 AM on May 10, 2004
posted by PrinceValium at 7:08 AM on May 10, 2004
She's in an "I saw something icky" clinic in Switzerland now.
Hah! That was funnier than the video!
posted by 327.ca at 7:21 AM on May 10, 2004
Hah! That was funnier than the video!
posted by 327.ca at 7:21 AM on May 10, 2004
Crashed Windows Media Player, Real One Player, and my OS (twice).
My sides are aching. :(
posted by Blue Stone at 7:26 AM on May 10, 2004
My sides are aching. :(
posted by Blue Stone at 7:26 AM on May 10, 2004
I agree with PV. We ought to set up a PayPal account and bankroll that dude's trip across America (and subsequent bailing out of jail) to teach local affiliates that just because you have a live truck doesn't mean you should always use it.
posted by photoslob at 7:32 AM on May 10, 2004
posted by photoslob at 7:32 AM on May 10, 2004
Does anyone have a link to the unaltered clip?
first result of google search on news streaker:
http://media.ebaumsworld.com/newsstreaker.avi
posted by quonsar at 7:36 AM on May 10, 2004
first result of google search on news streaker:
http://media.ebaumsworld.com/newsstreaker.avi
posted by quonsar at 7:36 AM on May 10, 2004
I've got the unaltered clip, q, and me ... I still find non-farting streakers amusing. Unlike kids today, apparently, who need farts. Hee hee.
posted by WolfDaddy at 7:47 AM on May 10, 2004
posted by WolfDaddy at 7:47 AM on May 10, 2004
yah, i was responding to Dasein but forgot to italicize the quote!
posted by quonsar at 7:51 AM on May 10, 2004
posted by quonsar at 7:51 AM on May 10, 2004
Local news stations are pretty damned annoying. We have one that does live remotes from JUST OUTSIDE THE STUDIO. Seriously. They gear up the satellite truck outside the studio building so the talking head/doughboy can talk with a vaid reporter about a story that actually happened miles away and hours before. They try to angle the shot so it's not bloody obvious, but anyone who's driven down that road (and it's one of the city's main thoroughfares) can recognize it.
I can only hope something like this happens to them.
posted by GhostintheMachine at 7:57 AM on May 10, 2004
I can only hope something like this happens to them.
posted by GhostintheMachine at 7:57 AM on May 10, 2004
Mayor Curley, GREAT TITLE!
Famous Mortimer would be proud.
posted by tittergrrl at 8:18 AM on May 10, 2004
Famous Mortimer would be proud.
posted by tittergrrl at 8:18 AM on May 10, 2004
tittergrrl, I'm shocked. I didn't expect anyone to catch it. I also considered "Coco Robbins Returns" and "I Ain't Gonna Spend My Life Stinking of Pepper!"
posted by Mayor Curley at 8:29 AM on May 10, 2004
posted by Mayor Curley at 8:29 AM on May 10, 2004
Streakers are just funny, even without the added sound effects...but the newscaster's response is priceless. See, the correct answer is "Well, local barometers suggest a cool front. Over to you Bob."
We had something similar happen here, where some newslady was in the Cowboy's locker room and one of the boys just wandered by, naked as the day god made him. The oblivious news caster didn't even notice, which made it much funnier in my opinion. (Cause I mean really, it was a newsworthy commando shot...more interesting than anything else the Cowboys have done lately...)
posted by dejah420 at 9:11 AM on May 10, 2004
We had something similar happen here, where some newslady was in the Cowboy's locker room and one of the boys just wandered by, naked as the day god made him. The oblivious news caster didn't even notice, which made it much funnier in my opinion. (Cause I mean really, it was a newsworthy commando shot...more interesting than anything else the Cowboys have done lately...)
posted by dejah420 at 9:11 AM on May 10, 2004
Streakers are just funny, even without the added sound effects...
**streaks through thread, playing castanets**
posted by jonmc at 9:22 AM on May 10, 2004
**streaks through thread, playing castanets**
posted by jonmc at 9:22 AM on May 10, 2004
deja420 - thy stories are as good as thy puns, thou art truly an all round mefi entertainer.
*still laughing at after taxes it's just kind of a tired feeling*
posted by asok at 9:38 AM on May 10, 2004
*still laughing at after taxes it's just kind of a tired feeling*
posted by asok at 9:38 AM on May 10, 2004
The Streak mp3:
http://frogstar.com/mp3/mp3/TheStreak.mp3
posted by uncanny hengeman at 9:52 AM on May 10, 2004
http://frogstar.com/mp3/mp3/TheStreak.mp3
posted by uncanny hengeman at 9:52 AM on May 10, 2004
That's funny, but the farting noise just for some reason pisses me off.
posted by Hildago at 10:14 AM on May 10, 2004
posted by Hildago at 10:14 AM on May 10, 2004
*still laughing at after taxes it's just kind of a tired feeling*
That's a Paula Poundstone joke made famous during her slot on HBO's Women of the Night.
/Just giving it proper credit
posted by dhoyt at 10:16 AM on May 10, 2004
That's a Paula Poundstone joke made famous during her slot on HBO's Women of the Night.
/Just giving it proper credit
posted by dhoyt at 10:16 AM on May 10, 2004
Yes, the fart noise is fake, and the video is something like a year old. The clip is dear to my heart, as it takes place on campus of WWU, my alma mater *sniff*. Anyway, I have a local copy of the clip sans additions somewhere, should someone's quest for truth demand it.
posted by blindcarboncopy at 10:23 AM on May 10, 2004
posted by blindcarboncopy at 10:23 AM on May 10, 2004
I gotta agree with the comments about the senseless use of live on-the-scene reporting. I sometimes watch the local news in the morning. The newscaster mentions some important city council meeting that will take place this evening, "And we had so-and-so live outside the city council chamber to tell you more about it." The hapless reporter, at 5:30 a.m., is only 13.5 hours early for the meeting. Not only that, but the poor reporter does his/her 1 minute segment, answers further "questions" from the newscaster (Just to prove it's live, I guess), waits 30 minutes in the dark and does it again.
posted by tippiedog at 11:22 AM on May 10, 2004
posted by tippiedog at 11:22 AM on May 10, 2004
I wonder if he was going up through the quad and into the gymnasium.
posted by mr.marx at 11:27 AM on May 10, 2004
posted by mr.marx at 11:27 AM on May 10, 2004
That's a Paula Poundstone joke made famous during her slot on HBO's Women of the Night.
Indeed it is a Paula joke...and for the record, I never claimed it as my own. ;)
posted by dejah420 at 12:50 PM on May 10, 2004
Indeed it is a Paula joke...and for the record, I never claimed it as my own. ;)
posted by dejah420 at 12:50 PM on May 10, 2004
Hmm, Mayor Curley it looks like the guy in the clip is actually about to wreck it. Judging by the location in Washington he's got to run a few hundred kilometers northwest to Vancouver. I hope he's got his passport. *8^)
posted by nasim at 1:25 PM on May 10, 2004
posted by nasim at 1:25 PM on May 10, 2004
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