@PlacidPenguin I hate you. You hate me. Let’s hang Barney from a tree. With a knife to the back and a gun to the head, one little squeeze and the purple fucker’s dead.
Yeah. I hate Barney that much. But Brenda? Brenda’s ok.
Um. Who’s Brenda?
The only Brenda of which I know is my gf’s ex-SIL. I’ve never met her (Brenda… I have met my gf), so it is hard for me to say I’d hate her (Brenda… I don’t hate my gf).
I would love to see the entire movie redone this way tho.
. . . Brenda was the middle name (and her commonly used name) of my first wife. She laughed longer at that coincidence than she did the video itself. Pretty sure it will be said aloud around here a lot for a while just for giggles.
Interestingly, I typically use my middle name rather than my given first name also (even on legal documents) - in fact, my parents never even referred to me by my first name unless I was in some really deep shit. Then I had my whole name yelled at me. Slowly and loudly. When someone phones and they use my actual first name, I know immediately that someone I know must be dead or dying or the caller thinks I owe them money.
That was hilarious! Now I have to go watch my two favs again. They are Bad Lip Reading but from TWD. My dogs are not happy with @MrsPavlov. They hate when I laugh hysterically this late.
@PlacidPenguin@f00l@OldCatLady and the rest of you - WTF? WHO IS MRSPAVLOV and why is she spewing hate at 5am? WHO IS BRENDA and WTF did she ever do to MRSPAVLOV? What’s YODA got to do with it? I would suggest NONE OF YOU fall asleep <that was my favorite part at the end “don’t fall asleep…” I used to tell my ex ‘ya gotta sleep sometime…’ Y’all probably don’t remember Suzanne Somers acting in The Burning Bed… heh heh> But I digress. Then Barney who’s the perviest kids character ever and I hate HIM, then David Allen Coe who’s a crazy mother and worth $10mil who I saw at BillyBob’sTexas who’s not even Stevie Ray Vaughn who’s dead - I mean WTF??? WTactualF?
@jbartus that sounded more potentially offensive than it sounded in my head upon re-reading an hour later. Sorry for any offense @Barney, none was intended!
ok, @suewalsh1 , I don’t know if you’re being deliberately obtuse, but if not…
There is no Brenda.
the YouTube Channel this is from is Called “Bad Lip Reading”, which is exactly what they do. record new vocals over existing video that basically matches up with what it kind of looks like the people on the screen are saying.
so:
“I am Ready! Ben, I can be a Jedi, Ben! Tell him I’m ready”(bonks Head)
Becomes:
" I hate Brenda! And a bad guy hit me in the shin, and I peed all in my pants"(Bonks head)…
their videos really are quite entertaining once you understand the premise.
The Video,that the above is an extended excerpt from:
@earlyre@earlyre Thanks, you worked hard on that explanation. It was the first thing I read that day, and my attempt at humor obviously fell flat. I appreciate you trying to save me from myself; God knows sometimes do think I need a keeper.
@AttyVette
I do have a bit Farrah info. True, I suppose. I think it came from a Texas Monthly story I read years ago.
She was born in Corpus Christi, on the coast. Apparently, when she was an infant in a stroller, she was so strikingly attractive that everywhere her family took her, people turned to look. People who had no idea who her family was knew about the beautiful baby girl one sometimes saw around town.
And she as grew up she was, supposedly, every bit as outstandingly attractive as she had been when very young. I dont know anything of her character except - first - that she came with no warning signs or a trails of gossip - knowing her was not a recipe for trouble, embarrassment, problems. And second - that she usually “wore her gift easily” - made no huge deal about it, was not a public diva, was able to turn people with a smile, always stayed back until someone called her forward, because she knew she would be the center of attention no matter what and played that card lightly.
She went to college at UTexas in Austin, entering in 1965. The cultural shift of 60’s youth would not be truly common in the sorority-fraternity set in Austin for a few more years. In that world it was almost still the 50’s culture. Farrah pledged some sorority or other.
After the freshman had pledged, the sororities used to hold all day open houses for the fraternities, all on the same day, so the painfully dressed-up frat boys all went house-to-house meeting all the new female pledges. Normally this proceeded easily, no one sorority getting slammed.
But Farrah, just walking around campus, had been seen and noted by everyone. So on this blazing September day, the frat boys in their suits stood in lines that lasted I think we’ll more than an hour, lines that went on for blocks, leading up to Farrah’s sorority, Just to get in the door and look at and be introduced to Farrah. The sorority supposedly had to bring in a ton of extra refreshments and to keep head counts and hustle the boys out after a few minutes because the Fire Marshall had heard about the lines and called to check.
I have no idea what the other pledges in Farrah’s house and other houses, and the frat boys who opted out did for the day, given that so many were in line elsewhere. I suspect a lot of drinking - normally not-in-bounds for the day, but hey!
And then Farrah’s life went on as a student, and quite a few people supposedly knew all her classes and learned how to be able to catch a sight of her.
She got written up in an article on good looking women on campus and someone sent a copy of the article to a Hollywood agent. Who promptly called her, and kept calling, for three years - until he persuaded her and her parents to let her try Hollywood.
And the rest is People Magazine stuff. Except that she still, in her fifties, was said to be so much better looking than her photos, that people would stop on the sidewalk to stare. And that she retains the ability to get anyone to do anything, and love her for having asked, for having chosen them - all gently, with a smile and sideways look. With her it never got old. She never had to use a hard sell.
Norman Mailer has written of Marilyn Monroe. Somewhere or other he talked about how extreme beauty, esp famous beauty, can be so terribly isolating, the owner/wearer has to become very guarded and careful, the beauty breeds vulnerability and can reap covert hostility or covetousness in others. Because often those people can easily believe the looks are their sole value to others. And all too often they are right.
If you are perceived as terribly beautiful: How do you maintain your only public asset? You can get anything done for you, but does someone who wants to be around you actually believe you are brainless or vain or merely silly? Are you just an optical asset? Is the interest to show you off in a collection of riches? Can you be had for riches?. What about the perception that you are nothing else? If you can simply ask and receive from others, or if they anticipate for you, how do you know what unseen resentment, anger, neglect of other persons, or unfairness was left in your wake? How much was given to you that should have gone elsewhere, and you either didn’t know or didn’t comprehend or didn’t care? And what about the day when you start to finally look your age or when someone else is making heads turn? Have you learned the skills and resolution you will need? Until you finally become just one among many, how do you know if you are ready to handle it? The symbolic value of looks can become a moat or a mirror around a life.
I don’t know that Farrah ever stopped making heads turn. She became a successful creature of Hollywood, so she must have learned the art of self-protection. During those years of fame, even when her kids were grown, she is said to have been able to make people who spotted her stop - and to make strangers who dealt with her believe that they were meeting a real, warm, funny, open person. And perhaps, to a degree, they were.
I hate Brenda too. Esp at 5am.
Why is Luke still whiney? These guys don’t fix that part.
Erf? I watched this before coffee kicked in. Now I too hate Brenda.
Brenda used to pull my hair in second grade. I still hate her.
@Barney
But… But… But…
@PlacidPenguin Clearly, Barney and the rest of those kids never met Brenda.
@baqui63
Would it help if I watched the video which @MrsPavlov posted?
@PlacidPenguin Help? In what sense? It might make you laugh. It is unlikely it would make you cry.
The whole log thing was really the best part, IMHO.
@baqui63
No clue what’s going on. Even more than usual.
@PlacidPenguin I hate you. You hate me. Let’s hang Barney from a tree. With a knife to the back and a gun to the head, one little squeeze and the purple fucker’s dead.
Yeah. I hate Barney that much. But Brenda? Brenda’s ok.
Um. Who’s Brenda?
@sarahsandroid Wow.
@Barney Hopefully she meant the character on PBS. But still, dayam. That’s a lot of hostility. Even for me. So that must be saying something.
@Pavlov @Barney @sarahsandroid
Talk about an abrupt unwarranted escalation…
That was deep.
That was great.
The only Brenda of which I know is my gf’s ex-SIL. I’ve never met her (Brenda… I have met my gf), so it is hard for me to say I’d hate her (Brenda… I don’t hate my gf).
I would love to see the entire movie redone this way tho.
. . . Brenda was the middle name (and her commonly used name) of my first wife. She laughed longer at that coincidence than she did the video itself. Pretty sure it will be said aloud around here a lot for a while just for giggles.
Interestingly, I typically use my middle name rather than my given first name also (even on legal documents) - in fact, my parents never even referred to me by my first name unless I was in some really deep shit. Then I had my whole name yelled at me. Slowly and loudly. When someone phones and they use my actual first name, I know immediately that someone I know must be dead or dying or the caller thinks I owe them money.
@Pavlov
/youtube never even call me by my name
I think I’ll go cry now…
@brendles sorry you had to find out this way.
@Ignorant I appreciate your sympathy. Thank you. sigh
Brenda and Eddie were the
Popular steadys
And the king and the queen
Of the prom…
I was like that log had a child.
That was hilarious! Now I have to go watch my two favs again. They are Bad Lip Reading but from TWD. My dogs are not happy with @MrsPavlov. They hate when I laugh hysterically this late.
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT???
@comics360
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Been trying to figure that out since Tuesday morning.
@comics360 Go watch all the Bad Lip Reading videos. Then rephrase your question. Don’t drink coffee while watching. https://www.youtube.com/user/BadLipReading
@comics360 you’re thinking too hard.
@OldCatLady that was funny … or maybe with bad lip reading it’s really “hat som money”
@PlacidPenguin @f00l @OldCatLady and the rest of you - WTF? WHO IS MRSPAVLOV and why is she spewing hate at 5am? WHO IS BRENDA and WTF did she ever do to MRSPAVLOV? What’s YODA got to do with it? I would suggest NONE OF YOU fall asleep <that was my favorite part at the end “don’t fall asleep…” I used to tell my ex ‘ya gotta sleep sometime…’ Y’all probably don’t remember Suzanne Somers acting in The Burning Bed… heh heh> But I digress. Then Barney who’s the perviest kids character ever and I hate HIM, then David Allen Coe who’s a crazy mother and worth $10mil who I saw at BillyBob’sTexas who’s not even Stevie Ray Vaughn who’s dead - I mean WTF??? WTactualF?
@suewalsh1
This seems like a list of questions for @Pavlov
Also, there’s a difference between @Barney and Barney. Well actually, more than once difference. But I digress.
@suewalsh1
Thought it was Farrah?
@PlacidPenguin I don’t know @Barney well enough to hate him, but that big, purple Foosball - All. Day. Long.
@f00l oh shoot, I stand corrected. I just remember a crazy blond with major anger issues. It WAS Farrah. Anything like Brenda - would explain a lot…?
@PlacidPenguin they do both have an affinity for purple, though.
@jbartus
That’s one of the only similarities though.
@PlacidPenguin are we sure @Barney isn’t a dinosaur?
@jbartus that sounded more potentially offensive than it sounded in my head upon re-reading an hour later. Sorry for any offense @Barney, none was intended!
@suewalsh1
You can’t like a mehmber without knowing them?
Also, what else would you like you know about @Barney besides the fact that she has a big thing for purple?
Who remembers when @JonT did this breakdown of comments by @Barney showing her thing for purple?
@PlacidPenguin No offense to @Barney, you brought her up in your digression.
@suewalsh1
Better that I mention @Barney when I don’t have to than I mention @shawn
ok, @suewalsh1 , I don’t know if you’re being deliberately obtuse, but if not…
There is no Brenda.
the YouTube Channel this is from is Called “Bad Lip Reading”, which is exactly what they do. record new vocals over existing video that basically matches up with what it kind of looks like the people on the screen are saying.
so:
“I am Ready! Ben, I can be a Jedi, Ben! Tell him I’m ready”(bonks Head)
Becomes:
" I hate Brenda! And a bad guy hit me in the shin, and I peed all in my pants"(Bonks head)…
their videos really are quite entertaining once you understand the premise.
The Video,that the above is an extended excerpt from:
Here’s a non- Star Wars one:
@earlyre @earlyre Thanks, you worked hard on that explanation. It was the first thing I read that day, and my attempt at humor obviously fell flat. I appreciate you trying to save me from myself; God knows sometimes do think I need a keeper.
@f00l
I blame you for the fact that now I’m disappointed there is no Brenda.
I also blame you for the fact that @earlyre didn’t mention there’d be a spoiler.
@PlacidPenguin
I accept responsibility for Brenda being offscreen.
I accept responsibility for the evil SPOILER.
@f00l it was Farrah Fawcett-- just wanted to put that misconception to bed
@AttyVette
I do have a bit Farrah info. True, I suppose. I think it came from a Texas Monthly story I read years ago.
She was born in Corpus Christi, on the coast. Apparently, when she was an infant in a stroller, she was so strikingly attractive that everywhere her family took her, people turned to look. People who had no idea who her family was knew about the beautiful baby girl one sometimes saw around town.
And she as grew up she was, supposedly, every bit as outstandingly attractive as she had been when very young. I dont know anything of her character except - first - that she came with no warning signs or a trails of gossip - knowing her was not a recipe for trouble, embarrassment, problems. And second - that she usually “wore her gift easily” - made no huge deal about it, was not a public diva, was able to turn people with a smile, always stayed back until someone called her forward, because she knew she would be the center of attention no matter what and played that card lightly.
She went to college at UTexas in Austin, entering in 1965. The cultural shift of 60’s youth would not be truly common in the sorority-fraternity set in Austin for a few more years. In that world it was almost still the 50’s culture. Farrah pledged some sorority or other.
After the freshman had pledged, the sororities used to hold all day open houses for the fraternities, all on the same day, so the painfully dressed-up frat boys all went house-to-house meeting all the new female pledges. Normally this proceeded easily, no one sorority getting slammed.
But Farrah, just walking around campus, had been seen and noted by everyone. So on this blazing September day, the frat boys in their suits stood in lines that lasted I think we’ll more than an hour, lines that went on for blocks, leading up to Farrah’s sorority, Just to get in the door and look at and be introduced to Farrah. The sorority supposedly had to bring in a ton of extra refreshments and to keep head counts and hustle the boys out after a few minutes because the Fire Marshall had heard about the lines and called to check.
I have no idea what the other pledges in Farrah’s house and other houses, and the frat boys who opted out did for the day, given that so many were in line elsewhere. I suspect a lot of drinking - normally not-in-bounds for the day, but hey!
And then Farrah’s life went on as a student, and quite a few people supposedly knew all her classes and learned how to be able to catch a sight of her.
She got written up in an article on good looking women on campus and someone sent a copy of the article to a Hollywood agent. Who promptly called her, and kept calling, for three years - until he persuaded her and her parents to let her try Hollywood.
And the rest is People Magazine stuff. Except that she still, in her fifties, was said to be so much better looking than her photos, that people would stop on the sidewalk to stare. And that she retains the ability to get anyone to do anything, and love her for having asked, for having chosen them - all gently, with a smile and sideways look. With her it never got old. She never had to use a hard sell.
Norman Mailer has written of Marilyn Monroe. Somewhere or other he talked about how extreme beauty, esp famous beauty, can be so terribly isolating, the owner/wearer has to become very guarded and careful, the beauty breeds vulnerability and can reap covert hostility or covetousness in others. Because often those people can easily believe the looks are their sole value to others. And all too often they are right.
If you are perceived as terribly beautiful: How do you maintain your only public asset? You can get anything done for you, but does someone who wants to be around you actually believe you are brainless or vain or merely silly? Are you just an optical asset? Is the interest to show you off in a collection of riches? Can you be had for riches?. What about the perception that you are nothing else? If you can simply ask and receive from others, or if they anticipate for you, how do you know what unseen resentment, anger, neglect of other persons, or unfairness was left in your wake? How much was given to you that should have gone elsewhere, and you either didn’t know or didn’t comprehend or didn’t care? And what about the day when you start to finally look your age or when someone else is making heads turn? Have you learned the skills and resolution you will need? Until you finally become just one among many, how do you know if you are ready to handle it? The symbolic value of looks can become a moat or a mirror around a life.
I don’t know that Farrah ever stopped making heads turn. She became a successful creature of Hollywood, so she must have learned the art of self-protection. During those years of fame, even when her kids were grown, she is said to have been able to make people who spotted her stop - and to make strangers who dealt with her believe that they were meeting a real, warm, funny, open person. And perhaps, to a degree, they were.
TL;DR summary - Farrah was really fucking hot.
@Pavlov
Thx for A Few Good Words
In her 60’s
On Sonny and Cher
Don’t fall asleep.
Don’t fall asleep.
@capguncowboy The Phaaantom of the Opera is heere… inside your mind!
Did everyone have a chance to revaluate their feelings for Brenda?
@PlacidPenguin
@f00l likes Farrah better.