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I love Barney Frank. No, I don’t want to sleep with him — I just wish he’d move from Massachusetts to the greater Philadelphia area. Why? He’s a Representative in Congress, the Chair of the Finance Services Committee, an excellent debater and is not afraid of asking questions that make people squirm. That’s a rare gem in Washington. I hope he runs for President someday, but then he wouldn’t get to be on television so much.

If you don’t live in America and have no idea what the politics is like, so you have no idea what I’m talking about, I apologize. Go have a cookie.

And now, a collection of Barney Frank’s greatest hits on YouTube.

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Recently, I haven’t been able to post as often as I should here on YouTube Digger due to wind problems — no, not problems with intestinal gas, but the thing that blows around outside. The wind plays heck with the cable broadband and keeps knocking out my Internet. One day I may be able to afford wireless, but where’s the fun in that?

This got me thinking about how powerful the wind is, whether it’s a Force 5 tornado or a means to fly kites. And we better get used to the wind, as with climate change, things will get a wee bit windy in many areas that have previously known a distinct lack of movement in the air. So, let’s take a look at the power of the wind in the glory that is YouTube.

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On this date in 1962, Steve “The Crocodile Hunter” Irwin was born — no doubt in little tan shorts. I have no idea how he got the nickname “Crocodile Hunter” as he didn’t actually kill the crocs he found. I guess “Crocodile Finder” didn’t have that much of a ring to it and “Mad Aussie” had already been taken.

In case you’ve been off the planet for the last couple of years, Steve Irwin was killed in a freak accident involving a startled stingray while filming a nature documentary. At least he died instantly and doing something he loved.

Anyway, he was a lovely man who, according to many people who’ve interviewed him, could verify that he really said “Crickey!” a lot. The world is a less interesting place without him. Although there are many mad Australian naturalists on television these days, none of them quite have the charm that Steve Irwin did. And none of them could pull off wearing the outfit.

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Not so long ago in a galaxy not so far away, the greatest American in history was born. The country celebrates this pivotal birth with mattress sales, lots of speeches and cakes smothered in red, white and blue icing. This person saw the best in everyone and decided to fight for what was right and spent many years devoted to public service.

This person is, of course, my Mom.

Hey, she not only took me in after 30 years of not listening to her, but she took in my dog, too. She’s a living saint. She also was smart enough not to do anything that would get her on YouTube. So, let’s celebrate my Mom with a variety of YouTube clips not featuring her. (Oh, just run with it).

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If I had a dollar for every time I heard the word “change” on television or read it in the newspapers or online for just this week, I’d be a freakin’ millionare. Granted, change can be a good thing, such as changing the Bush administration to the Obama administration. But some changes do get nerve-wracking, especially if a bunch of changes happen on the same day.

When I was trying to find the inaugeration events on MSNBC, my cable provider decided that THAT would be the day it would change it’s line up and which channel number every station would be on. And then, AOL Mail changed it’s format and so did WordPress. All on the same day. For someone who has major depression, this is far too much change than I can handle.
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2008 saw the sun set on a lot of beloved celebrities and entertainers. For this post, we’ll just concentrate on some of the notable and influential women celebrities who have have taken their last bow. We’ll give space to the male dead celebrities in a future post. Granted, this post will be done with more of an American slant, (since it’s written by an American) so no offence is intended if a favorite deceased celebrity from your country is omitted.

I’ve narrowed the list down to three ladies, otherwise we’ll be crying into our drinks all year. I’m not spending the rest of my life doing this post (although I could think of worse fates).
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Hi. My name’s Rena Sherwood (if you couldn’t tell by the little blue rectangle) and I’ve plunged headlong into taking over this blog. For those of you who recognize my name (both of you), you’ll know that I also write for two other blogs on 451 Press, Dealing With Headaches and Depression Talk.

So, why did I take on YouTube Digger? Simple. I was sick to death of constantly checking on this site and not finding anything new. I thought it would be a heck of a lot easier to just become the new blogger rather than wait for someone else to take over the job.

Besides — $20 is $20.

And So It Begins

With making a grand entrance in mind, let’s take a look at some of the great opening themes in television history, according to my incredibly slanted point of view. For a combination of cool and kitsch, let’s take a look at the opening to the 1965 season of Get Smart.

Ahh, refreshing, wasn’t it? So, if you want a little more sophistication with your spies, let’s look to a surreal show across the Pond called The Prisoner. Also, just a explanation to all the kids — that thing shown about 1:20 into the clip is called a typewriter.

I always wondered why Number Six bothered to announce his resignation. The lesson here is that if you’re a spy, don’t announce your resignation. Just quietly leave the country and never come back to work.

Finally

In conclusion, for sheer lunacy, let’s look at the opening to It’s Gary Shandling’s Show. WARNING: You may have this theme stuck in your head for the next twenty years. You’re welcome.)

Happy Halloween everyone! May your costumes be spooky, and may you get a large variety of sweets in your stash. Or, may many of your favourite spooky movies be on.

Halloween was always a love/hate part of my child. Love because of the fun and candy, hate because it reminded me how much money we didn’t have, given I usually had to make costumes out of things we could find at home.

Still, it’s a holiday many look forward to around the world.

But it didn’t quite start out that way…

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I love Saturday Night Live, but there is nothing like the classic Saturday Night Live days with Christopher Walken, Mike Myers, Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphey, and more.

In this hilarious clip, Steve Martin gets down King Tut style with his “King Tut�? song. The beauty of Steve Martin’s comedy is it doesn’t have to be outrageous to be funny. He can have fun with whatever he’s doing and you can’t help but laugh because he’s just plain funny when he’s having a good time.

This video is no different as he sings and dances – Nile style – along with a full entourage of Egyptian musicians and groupies.

If the Steve Martin dressed up as Tut can’t make you laugh, then I have no idea what will.

YouTube, video, King Tut, Saturday Night Live, Steve Martin, Christopher Walken, Mike Myers, Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphey, Nile, Egypt, singing, dancing, costumes, music, comedy

This video comes from the Live Journal site of someone I met at Conflux. The strange and yet hauntingly beautiful song “Mad World�? from the film Donnie Darko is set to clips from the Japanese stop-motion series of sketches called Domo-kun.

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My husband introduced me to Black Books when I came to Australia, and I have loved it ever since. Bernard’s generally sneering outlook on life paired with the other slightly off characters he encounters makes for a show that’s not quite like your usual half-hour show.

This video is the beginning of the first episode of Black Books. I had started with watching it on television, so it was very funny to go back and see what Manny was like before Fran and Bernard became a part of his life.

In this video you meet Bernard, Fran, and Manny and right away you get a taste of Bernard’s ‘unique’ personality. He has no problems making fun of anyone, that’s for sure…

YouTube, video, Black books, comedy, dylan moran, bill bailey, tasmin greig, sitcom

And now, for my final contribution of dug Chaser’s War madness.

In this road test, the Chaser’s decide to test porn video scenarios in the real world to see how real women will react. With scenarios including the handy man and the pizza delivery man, you can be assured this another one of the Chaser’s fine television moments.

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Don’t you wish you could give people tickets for being idiots? Well, so do the Chasers, and that’s exactly what they’ve done.

After having given out tickets for a different offense, the Chasers have decided people who have wanker number plates need to be warned.

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There’s something about Australia. If you go to war, you want them on your side. If you want good beer, ask an Aussie. If you want the raunchiest jokes about anyone, including Australians, ask an Aussie.

Now have you ever wondered why Aussies say “Bugger”? (Among the millions of other strange things they say.) (Pronounced “bugga”.)

Well, these two Toyota Hilux commercials might not fully explain it, but it might give you an idea why “bugger” is often even better (and funnier) than swearing.

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In this clip of The Chaser’s War on Everything, the Chasers examine late night Christian television.

Me putting this video up was nothing more than a video of something funny I saw, so no hatemail. I think even many of the Christians I know would have a laugh at some of this.

I mean, doing laundry in the love of God…? And the word…that’s the thing…and these words are things so when I say words…

You can’t watch this and not be at least a little confused.

YouTube, video, Australia, chaser’s war on everything, evangelists, late night television