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and…

Do you remember this cool Honda advert from a couple of years ago?

According to Wikipedia, these set ups are called Rube Goldberg machines. I suppose the “Mouse Trap” game from the 1970s is a good example.

Here’s an even whackier clip:

Edit: This website is an interesting twist on the same theme.

At work, over the last few years, whenever anyone has reported a problem with the internet, I usually fire up Google and make a random search or two, to determine whether there’s an issue or not. I also occasionally fire up www.cheese.com too — I don’t know why we latched on to using this particular site, but for some reason it’s still my test website of choice.

(Actually, I’ve just noticed that they don’t have a listing for one of Australia’s favourite cheeses.)

Anyway, I was looking to illegally download err purchase some music the other day and the Amazon search page didn’t seem to be doing anything so, to see if it was broken, I searched for “cheese”. I was intrigued with the results so decided to illegally download err preview a few of the tracks from the Richard Cheese albums.

I’m very impressed. The best way to describe it is… imagine Frank Sinatra singing “Another Brick in the Wall”, or Tony Bennett covering “Smack My Bitch Up” or perhaps even Dean Martin doing a version of “American Idiot” or “Creep”.

Actually, if you remember The Mike Flower’s Pops cover of Oasis’s Wonderwall from a few years ago, then you’re on the right track. Think swing versions of pop/rock/grunge. It’s a truly bizarre combination, but very funny indeed.

Well worth illegally downloading err rushing out and buying.

Edit: There are a few tracks on YouTube.

Here’s a Super Mario Parody which is quite funny. There are a few others on the Jerry Jackson website that made me laugh too.

This website is pretty spooky.

They reckon to be able to guess the song you a singing if you tap along on your keyboard as you sing.

Three out of three when I tried it.

This short video is quite entertaining.

With Pete being on holiday this week, I sold both our Sunderland tickets to someone at work.

After hard day of DIY I decided to splash out and order the game on Pay Per View. Louise and Ian came around so we watched the match, had a few (too many) drinks and a Chinese takeaway.

With United enjoying a fine run of form, everyone expected a cricket score against the worst team in the history of the Premiership. Predictably though, it remained goalless and effectively ended any remaining chance of pushing Chelsea for the title.

I won’t bother slating the players individually but it’s quite obvious that we need a new central midfield this summer. It would also be handy to have someone capable of taking set pieces, since the current candidates are woeful.

On a lighter note, check out the Manchester Buccaneers web site for a different take on happenings at the Nike Trafford Ballpark, er… I mean Old Trafford.

Funny clips.

This is quite interesting for a few minutes. Drag her about with the mouse when she gets stuck.

This seemed appropriate.