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Via my son: the Harry Potter theme played in a wide range of styles, improvised on the fly, by an amazing young pianist:

http://youtu.be/PwpBSHEHEek
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Bad lip reading of Barack Obama (with subtitles):

http://youtu.be/ehYoIKTsiV0

(No bad language, but some funny double entendres)
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
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I LOL'd. :D
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I'm sure everyone has seen most of these before, but I still find them humorous.

A montage of cats being cats.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUNmLuNd ... re=related
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<aside> I love Jerry C's version of the Canon! </aside>
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What would The Chairman say? :shock:

http://youtu.be/IF5WYaoWXI4

(kid-friendly, but might scar you for life)
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I loved the Communist Version linked on the side!

http://youtu.be/hNkPxhwroMA
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I totally didn't just grab a Kleenex and then make Mr. Prim watch it too, with me. Totally not.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
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I couldn't watch it all the way through to the end. Too much.
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I have the Planet Earth series, and most, if not all of those clips are from that. I guess that made me a bit desensitized. I liked it, but I didn't find it emotional.
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That's a beautiful series. I've only seen bits of it, though.
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And we have it on Blu-Ray too. :D
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I'd love that. Someday!
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Wait till you see the new series, The Frozen Planet. :love:
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"Frozen Planet" will be narrated by Alec Baldwin.
Apparently it will be shown here on the Discovery Channel in March, and we get Alec instead of David. Rar. Hopefully when the discs come out, we will have a choice of narrators.
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What is wrong with these people? :x David Attenborough's got a wonderful voice. Is Discovery afraid its American audience is too dim to understand him? :x
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Thankfully, the Blue Planet and Planet Earth versions I have are with Attenborough. I couldn't watch them with Sigourney Weaver or Oprah. :puke:
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