I saw this on The Consumerist.

“So why isn’t everyone jumping rope? Because it’s too hard. It takes a lot of skill and coordination.”

Visit Jumpsnap if you dare.

No, probably not.

I’ve been rediscovering an old blues musician I haven’t listened to since high school. Strange how I could have imagined some special kinship with the blind son of a tobacco farmer from North Carolina. Therein lies the power of music I guess. I love how his mischievous spirit comes across so strongly in his voice.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, thanks to the magic of YouTube: Sonny Terry.

Thru-You.com is my new favorite Web site. Check this video out first.

When my reservoir runs dry and I feel I have nothing else to share with the Internet, I find myself heading over to popurls.com with the idea that I will find something there interesting enough to inspire a new train of thought. But most of the time I just end up piddling around and jumping from one site to another instead of actually doing any writing. A continuously replenishing font of links to news stories, blog entries, promoted pics, and scavenged videos, popurls.com has quickly become my aggregator of choice. (I will conveniently gloss over the fact that it’s been around since 2006, and I’ve just discovered it this past month.) Warning: a fair amount of the presented material is ribald and definitely NSFW. Excuse me for a few moments, while I go dig up something interesting from my new sandbox.

[...digging...]

I’m back. See, it only took me a few minutes to find something I can quickly regurgitate and, in doing so, pretend I’ve had an original thought. I’ll even include the video below, so you can watch it from the comfort of this very Web site.

“Can you believe we’re losing weight just by talking on the phone?”
From Internet Lurker

What did you learn from watching this video? That there was a surplus of wicker in the 80s? That there was a scarcity of commercial acting talent in the 80s? I learned that every age has its cure-all tonics which make wild promises about healing dyspepsia and shedding unwanted pounds. Sometimes they just come in the form of a two-piece weight-loss suit made completely of silver lamé.

First off, a few things you need to know about Parchís:

• They were a children’s singing group from Spain who experienced a modest period of success in the early 80s.
• The name Parchís is a reference to the Spanish adaptation of the Indian Cross and Circle game Pachisi
• They apparently are the love children of The Jackson 5 and the Power Rangers.

There’s nothing else I can say that the video can’t say better.

Why the jumpsuits that look like pajamas? Why do the boys on each side keep winking at me? Why the musical hook with the flute? Why can’t I stop watching this?

Here is Thornbeam’s first installment of the Let’s Get Serious series:

Let’s Get Serious - About Chess

Or if you prefer, you can watch a lower resolution version at Funny or Die: