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MM: That’s a tough one. Apologetica?
SS: Yeah. I thought, one idea is just me or somebody shrugging in the shapes of the letters.
MM: That’s pretty good!
SS: I figured W would be easy.
MM: Y’know what’s great about it? It’d be hard to make and it’d be hard to read. “Is that a T or an F? God, Scott looks sad.”
It’s almost Christmas time! Celebrate by revisiting what I like to call the You Look Nice Today Christmas Special, “Christmas Is Near”. (This part isn’t particularly festive, but it’s one of my favourite Scott Simpson bits. For a slightly more Christmas-y bit, see “Top Secret Santa”, which closes out the episode.)
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Paul Simon — “You Can Call Me Al”
I quote Scott Simpson1:
If you are a child or a cretin, it’s possible that you may never have seen the song’s video, a testament to understated delight.
I have, on multiple occasions, put this song on repeat and listened to it all the way home from university. I like it that much. The video, though? The video is the song times a thousand. So great.
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At least, I think Scott was the one that ran the songparts.biz Tumblr. Correct me if I’m wrong. ↩
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An excerpt from “Faux Tog”, my favourite episode of the YLNT VSOP, which, frankly, is my favourite VSOP. Fuck that Herbie Hancock guy. Did he have speed falconry? Didn’t think so.
MERLIN: I think it's important to really keep people safe and breathing, while at the same time having some kind of a revenue opportunity that lets us take people's vanity and then associate a rank with it. For money. Right?
SCOTT: Oh yeah, well that's the great thing, is that we could also turn it into something that... like a karate-type thing.
MERLIN: And who died and put the Red Cross in charge of all this? Is that a recent thing?
JONATHAN: I think a _lot_ of people died.
MERLIN: And that's the problem.
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You Look Nice Today — “Christmas Is Near”
Essential listening at this time of year. Two years on, it holds up.
And don’t worry, that’s not your email at 2:48.
TOP 3 SURPRISING FAVOURITE BITS FROM THIS EPISODE:
- Washer/dryer-giving tips
- Apologetica
- Top Secret Santa
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Dun dun! Dun dun duuuuhh! Dun! Dun dun dun! Dun dun! Dun dun! Dun dun! Dun dun duuuh, dun dun duuuh! Dun dun dun dun dun dun, dun dun dun dun dun dun, dun dun dun dun dun dun, dun dun duuuuh! Dun dun dun dun dun dun, dun dun dun dun dun dun, dun dun dun, dun dun dun, dun dun duuuh, dun dun duuuh, dun weeyo weeyo weeyo weeyo weyooo, weyo wooow…
Sorry, but I take every opportunity I can to sing Rush guitar parts. Much to the chagrin of the people around me in traffic. “Oh, hell yes. I play my car like Dizzy Gillespie played… whatever.”
(I’m pretty sure that onomatopœia is correct. Related: for a very short period of time, I did a thing called Widdly Widdly where I wrote down the vocalisations of bits of songs. It’s not very good, but I do still like the name.)
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A YLNT Idea
I’ve had this sitting on my hard drive for a while, but the Sleepy Adams’ mascot stirring from his slumber reminded me of it.
Joel and Jeff of the StackOverflow podcast get the community to transcribe episodes of their show. Apart from allowing those who can’t hear to also consume the show, this means that the show’s content is indexable and searchable.
I was thinking of setting up a similar thing for YLNT. It’d be a wiki, stylised (wikis don’t have to be ugly), with a bolt-on component that would make the transcripts look like screenplays. Wouldn’t that look cool? It would be this taken to the next level.
It wouldn’t be that hard. The difficulty would be in transcribing the backlog — there’s ≈ 35 episodes in the bank, but I think that myself and some intrepid volunteers from the YLNT Nation could pull it off. Plus, if we throw in some YLNT rewards for those in the Fun Bunch who contribute a lot, maybe that would incentivise people to get the job done.
Answers enabled, so you can tell me — is this an opportunitystake, or am I crazy?
