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October 04, 2009
Today's Hilarity
This is truly an amazing bit of work:
Yannow, I really just can't decide if it's a goof or if they're serious. You know how troofers are, fire don't melt steel and all that.
I will say this, I laughed myself silly, so much so that my bird was laughing too, and hearing him, well, I just laughed some more. The plane! The sound effects! The narrator's voice, OMG!! I watched it a few times, and still, I can't decide if it they meant it or not.
The demolition of the second snow tower was very well done, they obviously went to some trouble to do it and all in all, it would appear that a good time was had doing it. I bet the guy who did that demonstration leap was laughing all the way, never mind the back flip guy.
and you know what? My bird is still laughing!
Posted by LindaSoG at October 4, 2009 01:00 AM
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Well, the narrator had a Russian/East European accent, so that proves it beyond a doubt. ;-)
Double Naught Eight
Posted by: Elvis at October 4, 2009 11:38 AM
I KNEW it! I knew the whole thing was a hoax. Anything that leaves behind a larger footprint than I do has to be a MASSIVE government conspiracy!
Posted by: Bigfoot at October 4, 2009 12:42 PM
Thanks Linda, gallows humor but I loved it.
Outsiders are often the butt of many a joke. Back in the mid '80's I was working a new installation in the Arctic, I was fortunate for a time to have access to the heated garage at base camp where I parked the extended cab Ford F250, a luxury, as we didn't have to go outside to get inside the truck, one morning I found a sparrow that had succumbed to the intense heat in that garage, it was frozen solid. That bird became the focal point of our existence, it was hung from a shoelace by the neck on the rear view mirror as "our thermometer", I drove that 13 miles to the site everyday, it took about 30 minutes with the defrosters full blast under those conditions to reach the outside hitching rail and plug in the block heater, just enough time for that bird to thaw and stretch it's neck. I'd remove the bird, push it's neck back down and put it on the dash to refreeze for the trip back to camp in the evening. There were 5 of us in the crew, but we picked up a vendor for a couple of weeks, with 6 bodies and all their gear it was crowded, he rode with us, up front in the middle. Imagine what goes on in the mind of a man who has never been away from home before, riding with a bunch of roughnecks in the Artic oil patch, that bird hung directly in his face, he'd watch that damned bird thaw out and it's neck slowly stretch all the way out to work, then a repeat on the way back. He never spoke to us during the entire time he was our 'guest' as were were being entertained by his behavior. That was mild compared to some of our stunts.
Posted by: Jack at October 4, 2009 01:12 PM
This has got to be one of the funniest TROOFER videos I have seen.
Because we all know that the Twin Towers were made out of snow and act just like how the video shows.
And we know that steel can not be melted, it just miraculously forms girders.
Good Lord, these people need to get a life.
Posted by: Stix at October 4, 2009 02:24 PM