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RickyMaveety
06-27-2008, 11:15 AM
This is something you all should see. If it doesn't make you smile, then your smile must be broken.

http://www.vimeo.com/1211060

Barcey
06-27-2008, 01:06 PM
Thanks for that. I needed that today. :)

Nate the great
06-27-2008, 01:25 PM
That was cool. Thank you.

zelda_pinwheel
06-27-2008, 01:43 PM
yay !!! that was AMAZING !!!!!!! thanks !!!!

GeoffC
06-27-2008, 01:52 PM
Sorry, I must have had a smile transplant...

HarryT
06-27-2008, 02:01 PM
Lovely :). Thanks for posting the link. Certainly brought a smile to my face.

RWood
06-27-2008, 02:06 PM
Excellent! Thank you.

badgoodDeb
06-27-2008, 02:26 PM
Very cool -- and such a huge variety of locations! Wow!

RickyMaveety
06-27-2008, 04:59 PM
I'm really glad you folks took the time to go see it ... and enjoyed it. It made me feel so very good ... about so many people in so many countries. I simply had to share it.

BookishDreamer
06-27-2008, 05:11 PM
It made my boss' four-year-old daughter giggle. "He dances funny." She made us giggle when she tried to dance like him.

Dreamer

RickyMaveety
06-27-2008, 05:45 PM
It made my boss' four-year-old daughter giggle. "He dances funny." She made us giggle when she tried to dance like him.

Dreamer

No kidding .... the man cannot dance. But, I LOVED the part where he was up there with those lovely Indian girls and they all did that one move in perfect unison ... and also when he was with the tribesmen in New Guinea.

Man, I wish I had known he was going to be in Austin, TX ... I would have loved to have been a part of it. :cool:

Spartacus2112
06-27-2008, 06:09 PM
That was nice....even for a miserable fellow like myself!

slayda
06-27-2008, 06:21 PM
Sorry, I must have had a smile transplant...

Maybe I need a smile transplant.

RickyMaveety
06-27-2008, 07:18 PM
Maybe I need a smile transplant.

You didn't smile?? Oh, that's just plain sad. :sad3:

slayda
06-27-2008, 08:55 PM
You didn't smile?? Oh, that's just plain sad. :sad3:

It was worth a very slight smile for the first picture or two but got boring through repetition. Sorry, just call me Sad. That is actually my initials backwards.

RickyMaveety
06-27-2008, 09:22 PM
It was worth a very slight smile for the first picture or two but got boring through repetition. Sorry, just call me Sad. That is actually my initials backwards.

But then .... you never got to the best parts with all the people!!! Bummer.

Oh well .... maybe someday you'll sit through the whole thing .... get to the good parts, and have a big ol' smile. Maybe???

Catire
06-27-2008, 10:44 PM
Thank you for posting the link , it made me smile and laugh as well.

RickyMaveety
06-28-2008, 10:56 AM
Thank you for posting the link , it made me smile and laugh as well.

Good!! Now, if we can just talk Slayda into watching the whole thing, maybe we'll work a smile or a chuckle out of him as well. :eek:

slayda
06-28-2008, 11:16 AM
Good!! Now, if we can just talk Slayda into watching the whole thing, maybe we'll work a smile or a chuckle out of him as well. :eek:

I did. But it was just the same guy dancing (as badly as I would BTW) and he only had the one step, over & over. Now if I had something to dance about, that would make me smile.:p

RickyMaveety
06-28-2008, 11:20 AM
I did. But it was just the same guy dancing (as badly as I would BTW) and he only had the one step, over & over. Now if I had something to dance about, that would make me smile.:p

But, if you had watched the whole thing, you would have seen it is NOT just the same guy dancing .... but, I'm not going to force you to watch the whole thing. I just think that you should ... once, just in case it might make you smile.

slayda
06-28-2008, 11:31 AM
But, if you had watched the whole thing, you would have seen it is NOT just the same guy dancing .... but, I'm not going to force you to watch the whole thing. I just think that you should ... once, just in case it might make you smile.

Yeah, there were a bunch of other people that got into it & even a submarine creature (dauphin?). But hey, I often smile at flowers & sometimes trees, especially in the fall when the leaves come drifting down. So I do smile. It's good for my facial muscles. And it's makes me look better (well at least not so bad). Often when I'm hot in the summer, I smile at a nice breeze. When I came back from Saudi Arabia (way too hot), I smiled when I had to walk outside in NY (mid December with sandals and short sleeves near midnight) because I was finally cold. So maybe I just smile at different things.:rofl: But thanks for trying to make me smile.:iloveyou:

RickyMaveety
06-28-2008, 03:11 PM
Yeah, there were a bunch of other people that got into it & even a submarine creature (dauphin?). But hey, I often smile at flowers & sometimes trees, especially in the fall when the leaves come drifting down. So I do smile. It's good for my facial muscles. And it's makes me look better (well at least not so bad). Often when I'm hot in the summer, I smile at a nice breeze. When I came back from Saudi Arabia (way too hot), I smiled when I had to walk outside in NY (mid December with sandals and short sleeves near midnight) because I was finally cold. So maybe I just smile at different things.:rofl: But thanks for trying to make me smile.:iloveyou:

Hehehehe .... love you too, Slayda!! And, you know what? Eeyore is probably my favorite character. I have a jacket with him emblazoned on it ... because ... well, just because he's my favorite. And, I have my Eeyore moments as well, so I'm not going to tell you that you can't have yours. In fact ... I will defend to the death your absolute right to have as many Eeyore moments are you want.

I just wanted to make sure you gave the entire film a look ... and you did, and I'm happy for that even if it didn't make you smile. Meanwhile, back at the farm ... the parts in New Guinea and India still make me chuckle.

You are right about Saudi Arabia .... waaaay too hot. When I was about 10 or so, my mother came very close to marrying a Saudi national, who intended to move us all back there to live. I hate to think what my life would have been like there (female, non-Muslim, and extremely outspoken) ... I'm quite sure they would have executed me before I turned 12. :rofl:

slayda
06-28-2008, 03:20 PM
Hehehehe .... love you too, Slayda!! .... I hate to think what my life would have been like there (female, non-Muslim, and extremely outspoken) ... I'm quite sure they would have executed me before I turned 12. :rofl:

Quite likely. While in Riyadh, I got to see the "beheading" square. I was "horribly" impressed. There was an incident where 4 men got some illegal liquor, got drunk, broke into a neighbors house & raped a woman. Within a week they had lost their heads, literally.

Glad you were saved.

PS Eeyore is my hero.

RickyMaveety
06-28-2008, 03:37 PM
Quite likely. While in Riyadh, I got to see the "beheading" square. I was "horribly" impressed. There was an incident where 4 men got some illegal liquor, got drunk, broke into a neighbors house & raped a woman. Within a week they had lost their heads, literally.

Glad you were saved.

PS Eeyore is my hero.

I'm surprised they didn't behead the rape victim as well. I had to more or less save myself from ending up in Saudi Arabia. I simply told my mother that, before I would end up living there, I would go live with my biological father. That gave her a good idea about how seriously I took the matter ... because I could not stand my biological father.

Eeyore is my hero too!! The things you learn about people .... :D

GeoffC
06-30-2008, 11:56 AM
Maybe I need a smile transplant.

Well at least you and I are on the same wavelength--don't know why, but things like this are more likely to make me cringe than smile...

RickyMaveety
06-30-2008, 12:06 PM
Well at least you and I are on the same wavelength--don't know why, but things like this are more likely to make me cringe than smile...

Hey, it takes all kinds to make a world. After watching the video a few bazillion times, I started reading the guy's journals ... I think you would find a lot of his writing very funny. He has a very dry wit ... and his story about being arrested for dancing in front of the Parthenon is a hoot.

vivaldirules
08-03-2008, 07:08 PM
It's been a month since I watched the video (thank you, RM) and I still can't get the music out of my head. So for others who love it also the music is "Praan" composed by Garry Schyman and sung by Palbasha Siddique. It's available as an mp3 at Amazon. The lyrics are from the "Stream of Life" verses in Bengali of Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali which you can find in our MR ebook library. It contains many lovely verses.

RickyMaveety
08-03-2008, 07:18 PM
It's been a month since I watched the video (thank you, RM) and I still can't get the music out of my head. So for others who love it also the music is "Praan" composed by Garry Schyman and sung by Palbasha Siddique. It's available as an mp3 at Amazon. The lyrics are from the "Stream of Life" verses in Bengali of Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali which you can find in our MR ebook library. It contains many lovely verses.

Yeah, I've been listening to it a lot myself. It's just so uplifting. :D

Nate the great
08-03-2008, 07:39 PM
I go back and watch the video about twice a week. It still makes me smile.

RWood
08-03-2008, 07:42 PM
Why am I reminded of Frank Zappa's song Dancing Fool every time I see this video?