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Like a complete unknown

Seekerofsplendor — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:59:11 -0800

Two Jersey Shore cops stop Bob Dylan, taking an afternoon walk in Long Branch, NJ. Neither recognizes him. He has no I.D with him. but the situation is soon peacefully rectified. At least he didn't start up with them like he might have long ago.Don't think twice, it's alright.

"And Then All of a Sudden a Communist Appears Out of Nowhere!"

WCityMike — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:58:13 -0800

Saturday Night Live comedic actress Victoria Jackson (whose website, upon entering, acoustically informs you of her non-bimbohood) appears on Sean Hannity's show with a rather large amount of enthusiasm and a torrent of very enthusiastically stated, if somewhat stream-of-consciousness, insights (YouTube, transcript).

The young Dylan on TV

flapjax at midnite — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:32:46 -0800

Back in 1963, a TV special called "Folk Songs and More Folk Songs" aired, which featured a cross section of the "folk" artists who were at that time just beginning to receive wider media exposure. Aside from the squeaky-clean, white bread embarrassment of groups like The Brothers Four, the show redeemed itself with performances by a very young Bob Dylan, who sang The Ballad of Hollis Brown (with banjo and bass accompaniment) and Man of Constant Sorrow. And here's two more very early Dylan TV appearances, from Canada, 1964: A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall and Girl From the North Country. Here's the same Girl From the North Country performed years later, once again on broadcast TV, in duet with Johnny Cash, from the Johnny Cash Show. The wonderful Staple Singers were also a part of "Folk Songs And More Folk Songs", but unfortunately their segments of the broadcast haven't shown up on YouTube. Only the show intro (linked in this FPP under The Brothers Four and the outro (I'll link to it here, though it's kind of awful) are to be found on YT. So, I'll just go ahead and add a link here to the Staple Singers' classic, I'll Take You There, accompanied, of course, by the ace session men of Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

C'est une beauté de chemin à faire, hein?

not_on_display — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:17:48 -0800

So, good day, and welcome to the Bob and Doug McKenzie FPP. How's it goin' eh? Like, I've got some back bacon fryin' up on the Coleman, a dozen donuts, a two-four, and our topic today is stuff on the internet relating to these two Canadian hoseheads. So, like, sit back, put a toque on, grab a beer, and enjoy! The internet is like having a VCR that plays anything you want! Here, for example, are a whole cooler full of ice cold McKenzie Brothers "Great White North" skits from the SCTV days, back where it all started, eh. Their topics include: - New Boots - Beer Nog - Using Calculators in School - How to roll your own while wearing ski mitts - Microwave Ovens - Short Cuts - Flats - Separatism: the problem of the French from the point of view of back bacon and beer - The Great White North - Space Shuttle Arm, and Snow Routes OK, beauty, eh? Next, we have the Album part of the FPP. Here are the hit videos, made by me. (They were not, eh? Take Off!) And (zoom in on me), psst, here's the real beauty part of the FPP, eh? Don't tell anyone, but some hoser left copies of the whole Great White North album lying around for you to download, along with the time they hosted a radio show. (Downloading is like, taking a dump, but, like, in reverse, eh?) And this guy has more stuff than you can shake a hockey stick at, eh? (OK, zoom out now.) So, like, you can make their theme song your ring-tone. You'll also find in there the soundtrack to their feature film... Strange Brew! Like, I didn't realize this, because I failed my grade 6, that Strange Brew is like, a rip-off of Hamlet. It even has a movie-within-a-movie. OK! Also, the movie has a really good villain. Here's the trailer. The youtubes I found of the movie were all messed up, and made Bob's voice sound like it was coming from Doug or vice versa (the other way around, eh?), so just, like, skip those. And the tapes this guy left lying around don't fit into my internet VCR. You can try'em, maybe they'll work for you. Here are the brothers reviewing their movie on Sneak Previews -- that was on Public TV in the lower half of North America. (It had the Ernie and Bert guys before they were famous. Geez, what Americans find educational, eh?) So when Bob and Doug got to be, like, stars and real famous and everything, they even got a piece on the CBC news! Here's a feature of them, and two hosers that look like them, and it also shows the "International Hoser Day Parade," which may or may not really have happened. (The internet, like, brings things to you, but it also takes them away, eh?) So, what are Bob and Doug doing today? One cartoon says they've been reincarnated as moose. This cartoon (from 10:50 to the end) says they're garbagemen, but it also points to their secret identity as corporate spokesmodels! And some guy who looks like their dad is talking about them. But really, we all know in our hearts, they're still sitting around, hanging out with buddies, and drinking stubbies. So, like, that's the end of the FPP, so, good day, eh?

"Put your boob in my scotch. Come on, put your tit in my drink."

6am — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:44:03 -0800

Bob Log III plays distorted trash grimey blues slide guitar with his hands, he drawls through a telephone attached to the bubble face of the motorcycle helmet he wears, and he drums with his feet. He is known to ask women to stir his scotch on stage with their breasts, which is sadly Not currently Safe for Work. Sometimes he asks them to sit on his knee, bouncing up and down on the blue glittery jump suit he wears whenever he plays. Bob Log III has an official site. The official site has officially NSFW videos. Of course Bob Log III has a wiki, some content of which is pretty amusing. Bob Log III is just generally not safe for work, and as such is absolutely fantastic.

Remember Slow Bob?

kimota — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:40:33 -0800

Anybody remember Slow Bob In The Lower Dimensions? Turns out the short video, once a mainstay of early 90s late-night MTV, was created by one Henry Selick, director of, oh, The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, Monkeybone, and the forthcoming adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline. A lot more on Selick; also, higher quality, alternate format (but slower loading) versions are available here.

Works every time ...

chinese_fashion — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:50:12 -0800

"Full House" -- not funny. Things related to Full House -- hilarious! Both are vids, first link language nsfw.

So do we "look like" our online handles, too?

Melinika — Tue, 22 May 2007 11:37:02 -0800

"He looks like a Bob." True? Apparently so. Researchers at Miami University have shown quantitatively that certain names are associated with certain facial features. Here's their press release; an article on their research will be published in the Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. (Of further interest: the bouba/kiki effect)

Pudu pudu

thirteenkiller — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:37:09 -0800

Bob Harris blogs the pudu. Thank you that is all.

... Just Us, We Caught The Bus.

Alvy Ampersand — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:20:39 -0800

"None suspect that idealistic committed little folk-singer Bob Dylan is in fact the amazing Zimmerman -- faster than a proxy ballot, more powerful than an ulterior motive, and able to buy tall buildings with a single bond!" [More inside]

Siegel says he hadn't walked out on a film in 30 years

tsarfan — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:21:09 -0800

"So last night, at a press screening of 'Clerks II' in New York City, 'Good Morning America' movie critic Joel Siegel decided he’d had enough of my shenanigans, and walked out of the flick at the forty minute mark. You’d imagine this would bother me, and yet, I’m as delighted by this news as I was with the eight minute standing ovation 'Clerks II' received in Cannes. I mean, it’s Joel Siegel, for Christ’s sake." - Kevin Smith

finally AOL's done something good

tsarfan — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:13:57 -0800

Pretty much all of Live8 broken up into individual songs, minus the annoying vjs

wow

delmoi — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:08:43 -0800

Bob Parson's may have (somewhat) changed his tune when it comes to inhumane treatment of prisoners, but there are still plenty of ways to show your support for the little terrorist resort that could (toture people)

Dear Bob, I'm glad you're not in charge.

mr.curmudgeon — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:08:30 -0800

GoDaddy.com condones torture. One of the most important assets we are using to protect Americans both at home and abroad is our military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- “Gitmo.” (Blog posting from founder Bob Parson's highlighted on the front page of GoDaddy.com) [update: recanted]

Bob Smith USA

clgregor — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 14:18:57 -0800

There are approximately 81,000 Robert Smiths residing in the United States. Bob Smith USA appeared at the AFI SilverDOCS film festival yesterday to a sold out crowd.

Bob Smith (New York City) dons his Satan costume to preach the virtues of atheism; Bob Smith (Pennsylvania) puts on his red nose and teaches as part of a Christian clown ministry; Bob Smith (Syracuse) spends his retirement transforming his yard into an oasis of junk; and Bob Smith (Texas) runs for county sheriff.

When wars were good and men were noble...

rzklkng — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 08:52:46 -0800

The making of a D-Day tradition... I immediately get goosebumps when I hear the score of Band of Brothers...I'm not sure why, maybe it was my local connections (Dick Winters, Bill Guanere, Albert Blithe, Babe Heffron, Thomas Meehan, Ralph Spina, Harry Welsh, and Robert Strayer are all from Philadelphia), the surrounding suburbs, or Pennsylvania), or maybe it was because the original airings took place in the shadow of 9/11 (the premiere was September 9th, 2001, with the D-Day drop occuring in the second episode, Day of Days, on 9/16/2001), but this series will ALWAYS have a special place in my heart. Everything is done so beautifully, from the special effects, to the sound, the music, to the dutiful translation from Stephen Ambrose book to the screen. It's certainly worthy of the 9.5 out of 10 that IMDB readers had given it. Every year now since, either HBO (On Demand - you have to subscribe to HBO plus have digital cable) or the History Channel has played Tom Hanks' and Steven Spielberg's masterful WW2 epic. You can think of it as Saving Private Ryan, but 3 times as long. Even if war movies are not your thing, I can almost guarantee that they will see the human side of the soldier and becomely deeply invested in the characters. Follow the men of Easy Company from training and the running of Currahee, to the parachute jump on D-Day, through the liberation of Europe, the horror of a German concentration camp, and eventually to the end of the war, to Hitler's mountaintop retreat. I'm not the only one - check out the numerous fan sites to BoB (forum shorthand for Band of Brothers) here, here, and here, as well as entries on TVTome, Wikipedia, and Television without Pity. If you want to try before you commit to watching the whole thing, I'd recommend the episodes Day of Days, Crossroads, and the Breaking Point.

jcterminal — Sat, 27 Apr 2002 10:33:16 -0800

The Bob Haircut Worship Page is dedicated to showing respect through picture, word, and deed to this greatest of all hairstyles, the "Bob"...

The whole point is to gaze in awe of the beautiful wearers of this fantastic hairstyle. It might even inspire you to change your own hairstyle. You won't be the first, but you'll be joining a very long line of beautiful and intruiging people from all walks of life...people with one wonderful thing in common, the Bob Haircut!