The Swedish Chef makes popcorn shrimp (make sure you read the captions!)
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You’re welcome.
h/t the boy!
The Swedish Chef makes popcorn shrimp. You’re welcome.
Posted in Comedy Stylings, Good Stuff
Posted by emilylhauser on December 10, 2011
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corkingiron
/ December 11, 2011….yay borsch gare-dare misch gare doo. Mort Mort Mort!
emilylhauser
/ December 11, 2011Husker Du!
JHarper2
/ December 11, 2011There is never too much muppety goodness in the world
emilylhauser
/ December 11, 2011I found myself mesmerized with trying to figure out how they make the Swedish Chef work – that’s two people in there!
I really hope they like each other.
caoil
/ December 11, 2011Also also true!
wearyvoter
/ December 11, 2011It has to be easier for both muppetteers to breathe in that thing than it is for the folks who inhabit 2-person pantomime horse outfits.
This clip provided a much-needed laugh this morning.
dbt
/ December 16, 2011The soundtrack here is “Popcorn”, by Magic Men, by way of an anonymous early-90s computer enthusiast.
[old guy, back in my day, rambling follows].
For those of you not familiar with pre-MP3 computer audio, people used to write and pass around “tracker” files, which contained instrument timing & tone information (and later, embedded samples as well). Mod files were playable pretty much directly on Amiga hardware and add-in PC sound cards like the Gravis UltraSound, and were frequently shared on bulletin board systems (BBSes) and early (pre-web) internet and usenet connections. This culture was mostly obsolete by the 1996-1997 rise of the mpeg 1 layer 3 (“.mp3″) file format.
Also the norm? Extremely short, information-losing filenames, because DOS only support 8 character names (with 3 character extensions).
One of the most frequently available and well known tracks was popcorn.mod. I have heard this track probably thousands of times, but never knew until I looked it up tonight that it started life as an early-80s Italian disco tune.
Magic Men, “Popcorn”. http://youtu.be/z5qeMtbIiak
popcorn.mod, a 49 kilobyte file, encoded as a video(!): http://vimeo.com/7144532
My favorite part about this is that I am pretty sure that the homage included in the Swedish Chef video was of popcorn.mod, not the original version.
dbt
/ December 16, 2011Sigh. As it turns out, there was a lot more to the history of this song than I expected:
Gershon Kingsley, 1969: http://youtu.be/OSRCemf2JHc
A mashup of at least 10 more variations: http://youtu.be/EFv0FMRD1-0