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Tag Archives: absurd
‘The Calculendar Commercial’ video (Rebecca Black – ‘Friday’-Inspired)
Have trouble figuring out the days of the week? You need The Calculendar! (Available in many languages.) This TV-commercial parody was inspired by the lyrics Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday Today it is Friday, Friday [. . .] Tomorrow is Saturday … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy / Humor Media, Foreign Languages, HUMOR, LANGUAGE, My Videos, Site Administration
Tagged absurd, calculator, calendar, closed-captioned, commercial, days of the week, días de la semana, english, español, français, French, Friday, infomercial, jours de la semaine, parody, Rebecca Black, silly, Spanish, spoof
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‘Spot the Ambiguity’ video
Steven and Brandon have a misunderstanding. Can you spot the ambiguity? Link to video Closed-captioning (CC) and transcript available.
Posted in Comedy / Humor Media, Foreign Languages, HUMOR, LANGUAGE, My Videos, Site Administration, Words / Dictionaries
Tagged absurd, ambiguity, automobile, car, closed-captioned, dry landscape garden, japanese, Japanese rock garden, karesansui, karesansui teien, lexical ambiguity, silly, teien, verbal ambiguity, word ambiguity, youtube, Zen garden, 善, 庭園, 枯れ山水, 枯れ山水庭園, 枯山水, 枯山水庭園
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‘Talking to Zoo Animals’ (my video)
Here’s my story of talking to zoo animals and imitating their calls. It’s a true story, but I took some dramatic license. I didn’t actually wear glasses as a young child. And I don’t remember the monkeys’ food being invisible. … Continue reading
Posted in Dialects, HUMOR, LANGUAGE, My Videos, Site Administration
Tagged absurd, accent, animal, animal communication, animal sounds, australian, australian accent, boxing, chick-fil-a, childhood memory, closed-captioned, cow, dialect, eat mor chikin, english, imitation, monkey, ninja, ninja cow, rocky, rocky 7, silly, sylvester stallone, true story, zoo
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‘Language and Humor: First Show’ (My first live-action video)
This is the first show of “Language and Humor.” You’ll see that everything goes well until— Actually, you’ll see that it never starts going well. Could I— Could I have a moment alone, please? Link to video Closed-captioning (CC) and … Continue reading
Posted in HUMOR, LANGUAGE, My Videos, Site Administration
Tagged absurd, bathrobe, chanchanko, first show, japanese, passive-aggressive captions, silly, stress, ちゃんちゃんこ
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‘Logo Teaser Trailer Parody’ (My first online video)
While I was working on my blog layout recently, my site logo asked if he could have a little time off. I said OK. Little did I know that he’d gotten a starring role in a movie. Link to video … Continue reading