In what’s arguably the best product placement of all time, these are a couple clips from a 2003 television broadcast of the original Star Wars trilogy in Chile by Channel 13, which spliced beer commercials into the actual movie to avoid having to go to commercial breaks. In one of
Combining themes from the two previous posts (world records and food), 70-year old Don Gorske (who looks like a Beatle that wandered into a McDonald’s and never left, eventually becoming manager) has extended his own Most Big Macs Eaten Guinness World Record, stretching the number of burgers he’s consumed to
Because delicious ideas are all around us (I melted a Snickers bar on toast for breakfast this morning), this is a video of knife sharpener Ryota Togishi creating a grilled cheese sandwich using ultra-thin slices of bread and seven pieces of cheese in a panini press. Togishi previously made what
This is a Guinness World Record video highlighting the tongue of a St. Bernard named Mochi, who was just awarded the record for longest dog tongue. You may recall the recently posted record holder for largest circumference human female tongue. It’s a world record tongue kind of week. Next week:
This is a video compilation highlighting the work of artist LeopARTnik, who takes videos of birds doing things and adds stick arms and accessories, making the videos infinitely better. When I logged onto AOL this morning this is exactly what I was hoping to see. It’s pure perfection. There’s a
This is a video of musician Christian Nolen strumming his guitar while undergoing brain surgery to remove a tumor growing near the hand/motor area of his brain. Doctors needed Christian to be awake and using his hands in order to monitor Christian’s motor control during the operation, and playing the
This is a video of Jenny DuVander of Portland, Oregon having her tongue measured and being awarded the Guinness World Record for largest tongue circumference (female) in the world, with a massive 5.21″ clapper. Damn! The current male record is 6.3″, and must look like dude is choking on a
This is a video of the banjo strumming trio of Foggy Mountain Spaceship performing their take on the original Super Mario Bros. overworld and underworld themes. They do a fantastic job. Me? I would have butchered those songs, then smashed my banjo on stage and asked the nonexistent audience who
