Note: Plenty of profanity. Really good stuff too. UPDATE: Professor has since been suspended due to video, and is threatening to sue if not reinstated. This is a video of Ferris State University history professor Dr. Mehler’s welcome to my class Zoom speech. It’s moving. Moving in the direction of

This is a video of Māori (the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand) weather reporter Oriini Tipene-Leach smoothly pronouncing Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, which, at 85-letters, is the longest named place in the world. It’s a hill in southern Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, and its name translates to “The summit where Tamatea, the

Because this is the internet, and the internet sleeps with both eyes open, muttering under its breath, this is a 30-second supercut of Star Trek characters pronouncing omicron, almost as if they knew decades ago that it would be the name of a new pandemic virus variant. Or maybe just

This is a video of audiobook narrators Natalie Naudus and Marni Penning passing the time on a car trip, with Natalie requesting random different voices from Marni. I think it goes without saying, but this is a car trip we all wish we could have been on, making our own

I’m not going to lie, when I first read the title I did think cadavers at first. Thankfully, not the case. This is a video of very skilled ventriloquist Nina Conti performing with two human dummies picked from the audience during a Live At The Apollo performance. She does a

This is a TikTok video of a man recording himself pronouncing the entirety of the ABC song backwards, then playing it in reverse, where it sounds like him singing the actual song with an accent. Most impressive. Also, I know in the title I called this a party trick, but

In feel-good news, this is a video of a Spanish-speaking customer at a Taco Bell in Kenosha, Wisconsin putting on an employee’s headset and helping translate a drive-thru order. That is beautiful. Per the translator’s wife: “My husband and our family went to Taco Bell for dinner. The workers were

Note: Chart has been cropped, keep going to see the whole thing. This is a handy cheatsheet of the collective nouns for different animal groups as compiled by the WriteAtHome blog in alphabetical order. I learned so much by reading it. Mostly, that I would totally smoke the other contestants