Today ’s other mental_floss blog column , the delightfulTuesday Turnip , inspired this honey oil - lagged and sleep - deprive entry . You get laid the estimation : type a tidings into a hunting engine and see what " turns up . " Well , as you might expect , this conduct to some rather strange outcome in YouTube Land . citizenry be nuts , like Almond Joy . ( That was my attempt to write a doorknocker - corresponding simile . mean solar day job : keeping it . )
Anyway , as proof of mass ’s being a bittie bit touched , typing in " Harold and Kumar " yields 175 proceeds . Do we really need that many bootlegged snippets of two guy wire on a drug - fueled hero ’s quest for tiny Burger ? Ah , have a go at it it , why not …
Here ’s another one , slightly less surprising . The word " parody " gets you 37,719 results , include this one , which is n’t a parody at all but is spelled like it in a foreign country :
Okay , okay , this is more conventional and pretty clever ( although it ’s hard to learn videos like this without wondering where whoever bring out it found the time ):
punch in the name of YouTube ’s embodied overlord Google hark back 6,166 hits . This one using some Dust Brothers euphony from " Fight Club " is deserving your 30 sec , though not much more :
" Anarchy " … 1,904 results , with some genuinely sick ones in the bunch . So lease ’s stick to John Hughes , huh .
And for the big last , a side - by - side compare …
" Marcel Proust : " 8 results"Hardcore Monkey Love : " 282 results
I ’m no cultural doomsdayist , so you wo n’t see me crying into my madeleine . YouTube ’s not for the faint of heart , or , it seems , the ego - engross and Gallic ( redundant ? ) . Go chassis . Anyway , here ’s some Proust and " Hardcore Monkey Love " – neither as tantalizing as it fathom :
Okay , before I ratify off . allow me give you a reading assignment for next hebdomad . There ’s an clause in this month’sAtlanticabout the future of newspapers that talk about a video calledEPIC 2014that ’s enjoy some insider cache on YouTube and elsewhere . Read thearticle , and next week I ’ll show you the telecasting – and then we ’ll talk about its merits and false prediction and generally what lies forwards for ink - stained wretches like myself . Let the navel - gaze begin !
