I'm sweating, coughing, sneezing, and nearly blind. What a fool am I! I should have listened to my preacher when he told me not to touch myself.

He always said that "pulled pork" would be the death of me.

"My dear, I must confess that I find your dismissive demeanor...oddly arousing. Doubly so in front of this crowd."

I now declare this to be a competition to make the best Benny Hillified video!

Just post the youtube ID of your vid so that others can plug it into the Hillifier and judge for themselves.

My entry: -6g610buepo

Hillified dancing hexapod robots.

Let the games begin.

What a voice! I wish I had that kind of range. Then again, so do most female vocalists.

@ Pol x:

I find your post to be a real shame, mostly because I agree with your conclusion. However, you supporting arguments leave much to be desired.

I am going to go out on a limb and way that when you say "NO EXCEPTIONS" you are using hyperbole in both cases. If not, well you should probably re-examine the meaning of the words "minor infraction"

Obviously, there are some rules that cops will not have to abide by, and that they should not have to abide by. For example: the police are allowed to gain access (through the proper channels) to your private data. The police can carry guns in situations where it would otherwise be illegal. The police are allowed to lock you up in a cell and hold you there for a little while. These are all things that private citizens would be brought to court for, but the police are allowed to do as a function of their duties.

Obviously, the police can't follow all the same rules that the rest of us do, otherwise everyone and no-one would be police. However, I am a strong supporter of the idea that they should follow the rules that have been set down for them by public officials and directly democratic legislation. The police have done something illegal here, even by the somewhat expanded definition of legality that we extend to law enforcement, therefor they need to be disciplined.

This video was bizarrely entrancing. It might have been the music, but I was reminded of the large prey hunting spiders who do a dance in front of their prey to mesmorize it.

If you ever see one of these in real life, and you find yourself staring blankly at it, your muscles going soft, it's probably already too late.

I would mount a stick in the hole and use it to grind the fibers out of tough plants to make threads.

But maybe I am being impractical.

I'm gonna go with pipe case, with room for tobacco in the pistol-whipping area of the object.

Though it may not happen soon enough that I could pilot one, I hope to live to see the day when this technology is extrapolated into Mechwarrior style walking battle robots.

I for one welcome our new cyborg overlords

Santé et bonheur ! To Mr. Obama from an American student living in France.

@ Everyone who calls Obama a socialist:

Speaking as a believer in the socialist system who is currently living in a socialist country, Obama is a political moderate (especially on the world stage). I am very excited about his presidency, but he is by no means my ideal candidate.

Stephen Colbert's response to this claim was the perfect one. He brought the socialist party's candidate for president on stage during his show and got him to explain why Obama was not, in fact, a socialist.

Also, I am happy that John McCain can now go back to being a statesman I respect instead of a politician I find distasteful.

Solar thermal technology (check out the wikipedia site) seems to me to be one of the best emerging alternative energy sources.

One version uses mirrors to melt sodium that is stored in a vacuum, which is then flooded with water which creates steam to turn turbines. It uses no feul, so all the costs are in building an maintaining it and current estimates of operating costs are very very low compare to coal or petrolium.

It has its disadvantages, such as requiring very large acreage, but apparently a relatively small portion of the the southern California desert (wasteland) could be used to create enough power for the entire US and Canada.

I'm sure it's nowhere near perfect, but if this video is any indication we have barely begun to harness the power of the sun for use in our civilization.

Something tells me the days of the highly skilled lock pick with his fine metal tools and steady hand is gone. Behold the new era of breaking and entering.

Yay for data-driven social policy! I am encouraged by the increasing degree to which people cite good data when making monetary policy decisions, even in their private lives or small businesses.

And yet... I tip. I would like to say it is because I want to help out my working class brethren who are paid an unfairly low wage, but at the end of the day it might just be social norms causing me to go for my wallet.

I can tell you one thing though, as I am living in France right now, tipping was pretty effectively eliminated here. It might take something like the mandatory service charge law to change the norm in America.

Either that, or mandatory tip pooling with non-managerial staff, which I am also a fan of.

Still though, it's like they say, you get what you pay for. Whether that is more attention from the wait staff or decreased efficiency from discouraging the kitchen staff, it still holds true.

Anyone know who does the music they are playing the background?

@JdF You are either being perfectly on-point, witty, and ironic, or offended and British.

Either way, you are hilarious.