Whimsy: March 2009 Archives
Met Office: UK shipping forecast
How to convey the weather for a wide swath of the sea into the smallest number of words possible.
YouTube - Whadayatalk? Whadayatalk? ("Rock Island" on the Green Line)
A group of Boston University students reenact the opening number from The Music Man on a Comm. Ave. streetcar. (Via Mark Evanier.)
Internet Archive: Details: 1949 episode of the TV series "Captain Video"
Amazing! Stupendous! Spacemen! Cowboys! Vacuum tubes! Aliens in Roman costumes with Latin names! "Hermes Lycos calling Regus of Tersen!" Atomic disintegration and reassembly for interplanetary travel! (You thought Gene Roddenberry came up with that.) The bad guy from the planet Tersen looks like Liberace with a widow's peak, pointy eyebrows and sideburns, and a soul patch. The evil Dr. Pauli has a pencil-thin mustache and smokes. About 11 minutes in there's a patriotic commercial message: "Freedom is every American's job, Video Rangers!" About 20 minutes in, the second commercial break condemns discrimination and prejudice based on race or religion and urges friendship.
Ogle Madness II: East Region, Lower Bracket! at The Lost Ogle
It's Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond vs. diminutive OKC sports talker Al Eschbach in round one of The Lost Ogle's second annual Oklahoma Celebrity Tournament. Voting ends at midnight. Go vote!
Houston - Hair Balls - Houston Zoo To Unveil OH DEAR GOD THAT IS CUTE
Zoo residents comment on the arrival of Toby, the adorable red panda (looks like a cross between a fox and a raccoon).
King Daevid MacKenzie: Paul Harvey mash-up, "The Bong"
With a brilliant bit of editing, Paul Harvey is advertising a product that will make you hear your old CDs like you've never heard them before. And make you crave Fritos.
Wir Ain Leid - The Pronunciation of Scots Dialects
We're at that point in the Thomas the Tank Engine: The Complete Collection where Douglas and Donald, the twin Scottish engines, enter the story, and all of their dialog is written in Scots. I shudna fash m'self, but I like to get the pronunciation right. You also need their Scots orthography guide and the page for the specific Scots dialect (links from this map), plus a pronunciation guide to IPA.
This collection of Scots words may come in handy too: "I'm fair forfochen."
