Mama June, Honey Boo Boo’s mother
Worth1000’s “Modern Renaissance” contest is truly funny. As with all their contests, you kinda have to weed through the ‘shopped images to find some true gems.
Via Boing Boing
This is a jolly little film on the opening of the first Legoland Park, Billund, Denmark, in June 1968.
More than 50million people have visited Legoland since its opening, and 1.9m people visited the park in 2011, making it the most popular tourist attraction outside Copenhagen, in Denmark.
Previously on Dangerous Minds
The Zygons’ cellulite Hell. The Cyber-shock secret—Botox! Vajazzle the Alien way. And the shame of Doctor, who? Are the headlines to a supermarket tabloid version of Doctor Who Magazine, as imagined by the talented Red Scharlach, who writes:
To commemorate the supposedly surprise-filled season finale of Doctor Who, I thought I’d give Doctor Who Magazine a scandalmongering makeover. But I can’t decide whether I’d like to read this version or would simply be too scared to open the cover
I’d certainly be more happy to read Red Sharlach‘s wonderfully made-over mag than watch the increasingly smug and irrelevant TV series.
Via Red Scharlach
A glorious televisual moment from Comic Relief 1999, when Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan) channeled Kate Bush for stirring versions of her songs “Wow” and the classic “Wuthering Heights”, A-ha!
Bonus: David Bowie plays the recorder.
With thanks to Tara!
British comic Adam Buxton does deadpan readings of YouTube comments on his Adam Buxton’s BUG TV series. He shows videos—some really good ones, too—-but the real draw of the show is the hilarity Buxton wrings from ordinarily mundane YouTube comments, especially when anonymous people with ridiculous web handles start arguing and insulting each other. He’s really funny. It’s a low budget program with some of the deepest laughs belly-laughs of anything currently on television. I highly recommend it.
But comedy renaissance man Adam Buxton does a lot of things beyond merely making me laugh so hard I cry, he’s also a musician, and a bit of a mimic. Here’s his imagined version of Scott Walker singing Will.i.am’s “Scream and Shout” featuring Britney Spears:
Someone called soudofjura quipped:
“The only thing that would improve this is if it were actually Scott himself.”
Close your eyes and it is!
Standing ovation!
Below, an episode of Adam Buxton’s BUG. The YouTube comments start at about 7:00 in:
It certainly captures the… essence of Internet trolldom, wouldn’t you say?
As former Dangerous Minds blogger Jason Louv quips:
Just remember, whatever you do on the Internet, legions of this guy will see it and respond “MEH.”
With thanks to Jason for this gem!
Wanda Jackson is the shit. So hopefully the listeners of BBC Radio 4 news program Broadcasting House viewed this as an awesome random yodel-bomb. The song was “Jesus Put a Yodel in my Soul.”
Apparently, the mishap occured when:
...the battery in the radio car Lord Jones was speaking from in Warwickshire began to run out and the engine had to be restarted.
Yodel-bomb on, Ms. Jackson!
Via Arbroath
A gentlemanly crow lights Tippi Hedren’s cigarette.
I think we can safely assume that this was a promotional shot for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds.
Via Retronaut
In celebration of the great Bea Arthur’s birthday (the “Golden Girl” would have been 91 years old today) here she is demanding “some marijuana” by YouTuber DewFuzz.
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
WTF? Bea Arthur and Rock Hudson sing about coke, meth and weed
Etta Lopez, 31, of Sacramento is charged with assaulting a cop. What was her motivation for the unprovoked attack on the police officer you might ask? Well, she wanted to quit her smoking habit, naturally! She thought by slapping the cop, she’d be put in jail and that would help her kick the cancer sticks.
“There’s easier ways to stop smoking besides hitting a cop,” Roger Spearman, a neighbor, said. Spearman, who knows Lopez says she does smoke a lot, and they used to smoke together.
“I have not heard of something like that before,” Kimberly Bankston-Lee with the anti-smoking group Breathe California said.
I guess this is one way to quit…
Via Arbroath
