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Originally posted by CMOT Dibbler:
The Wall-E Theory

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I loved Wall-E, though this video was dead on about the hyper-consumptive middle-class Americans depicted in the flick. Still, I feel as though it may be the Lorax of this generation.

Lorax Break!

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Originally posted by Michelle:
William Shatner does "I Am Canadian" speech

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Originally posted by Robespierre:

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Originally posted by Michelle:

Have you seen the original speech by "Joe"? Did that commercial play in the US too? I wouldn't think that the US would be the target audience for it...

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Ps: Oh-oh. I just discovered the Arrogant worms.

I don't think Americans know about them yet.

[ 09 August 2008: Message edited by: Robespierre ]

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Originally posted by Robespierre:
Ahh, I just saw the "My name is
Joe" video. Great! I kind of doubt that it was shown much down here, you know, TV audiences here are more into Scooby Doo-level humor and cop shows.

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Yeah, the Shatner one is much funnier if you have seen the original one by Joe. The rant by Joe was simply a beer commercial for Molson Canadian, but it really caught on, to the point where everyone knew most of the rant by heart because it was played so much, and it was also pretty popular.

So when Shatner did that spoof of the original, that's why everyone started laughing when he tapped the mic at first, and the Pomp and Circumstance music started to play, etc.

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Originally posted by CMOT Dibbler:
Comon phrases in Icelandic

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Edited clips of many corny one-liners used by David Caruso just before the Who song starts on CSI Miami.

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Originally posted by Robespierre:
CSI: Miami sucks, and sucks even more because the pop cop show uses a sacred Who song as opening theme music

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Originally posted by M. Spector:
Um, no; that would be the original CSI series.

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Hard to believe.

A Trotsky quotation is called for here in order to witness for Marxism against bourgeois cultural corruption:

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“Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion.”

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Arlette Laguiller Meeting in the Zenith in Paris on 15th of April 2007, spontaneous start of the International by people waiting for the meeting to begin.

Made in 1953, "Salt of the Earth" tells the tale of a real life strike by Mexican-American miners. The story is set in a remote New Mexico town where the workers live in a company town, in company-owned shacks without basic plumbing. Put at risk by cost cutting bosses, the miners strike for safe working conditions. As the strike progresses, the issues at stake grow, driven by the workers' wives. At first the wives are patronized by the traditional patriarchal culture. However, they assert themselves as equals and an integral part of the struggle, calling for improved sanitation and dignified treatment. Ultimately, when the bosses win a court order against the workers preventing them from demonstrating, gender roles reverse with the wives taking over the picket line and preventing scab workers from being brought in while the husbands stay at home and take care of house and children.

This film was selected for the National Film Registry in 1992 by the Library of Congress. It became public domain after its copyright was not renewed in 1982.

It's available in full on YouTube, in 10 installments.

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Originally posted by Robespierre:
What? Laguiller told me it was legit!

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[ 26 August 2008: Message edited by: martin dufresne ]