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Showing posts with label irony. Show all posts

24 January 2009

Monty Python Puts Free HQ Videos Online; Sells 23,000% More DVDs

Ministry Of Silly Walks


Monty Python started a YouTube channel with tons of their sketches streaming for free. They included links to their DVDs at Amazon. The result was a whopping 23,000% increase in sales.

For 3 years you YouTubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them on YouTube. Now the tables are turned. It's time for us to take matters into our own hands.

We know who you are, we know where you live and we could come after you in ways too horrible to tell. But being the extraordinarily nice chaps we are, we've figured a better way to get our own back: We've launched our own Monty Python channel on YouTube.

No more of those crap quality videos you've been posting. We're giving you the real thing - HQ videos delivered straight from our vault.

What's more, we're taking our most viewed clips and uploading brand new HQ versions. And what's even more, we're letting you see absolutely everything for free. So there!

But we want something in return.

None of your driveling, mindless comments. Instead, we want you to click on the links, buy our movies & TV shows and soften our pain and disgust at being ripped off all these years.



GIZMODO QUOTE VERBATIM: (as much as I admire it, it's not mine).
Are you paying attention, MPAA and RIAA? A controlled release of free material keeps people from resorting to piracy and keeps them in your controlled ecosphere, which can include, yes, ways for fans to give you money. But when you're a bunch of pricks, people go to The Pirate Bay and think of you as the enemy, and then you don't get any money. Take notes, you idiots. via: gizmodo
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03 December 2008

Major Kong's (Slim Pickens) View From His B-52 Strat-O-Fortress In 'Dr. Strangelove'



It's a favorite scene with Slim Pickens, (that's him on the left with the cowboy hat), but how can you have just one with such incredible acting, not to mention direction and screenwriting. This should be mandatory in every school kid's curriculum, and maybe repeated several times.

Dr. Strangelove: or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) (imdb)

The Top Line in a cast of titans:

Peter Sellers: Group Captain Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove

George C. Scott: Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson

Sterling Hayden: Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper

Keenan Wynn: Col. 'Bat' Guano

Slim Pickens: Maj. T.J. 'King' Kong

Peter Bull: Russian Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky

James Earl Jones: Lt. Lothar Zogg


Of course, just before the mushroom clouds begin,

Vera Lynn and "We'll Meet Again".

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