While I'm not much of a fan of country western music, I might warm to it more if the AM radio back home were this interesting in its choice of subjects. (Warning! Working man's language and rural sexism ahead!)
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Bwah! First rap, now country, what will be next?
I can't say I don't like their corollary to Occam's Razor.
"Two! Three! Five! Seven!"
love the fingers...
Proof positive that chimps are evolving faster the homo sapiens
It's no dic to the doc, but it wasn't half bad nun neither...
I's well loved the 2-3-5-7 bit...
As a Tennesseean and country fan, I don't know whether to laugh or be offended...
"The second (what?) of the film Contact?"
That went by too fast.
Looks like it was taped in the San Gabriel Mountains above Pasadena. Probably a CalTech/JPL production.
Anyway, this reminds me of a story about how the folks at GM installed a bunch of "black boxes" in its big 4x4's in order to determine the major causes of fatal accidents involving those trucks.
They found that the drivers' most common last words were, "Hold my beer and watch this!"
"I'm a deoxyribonucleic asshole!" LOL!
By the way, was that Hard "N Firm? I remember they once did a song about pi. The video is also a PBS spoof.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfr7xG6smhU
I believe that these are the same guys who produced this masterpiece: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfr7xG6smhU
Okay, I just checked out Hard N' Phirm's website and found this explanation.
I see that they are multilingual. Not only can they sing in Sesame Streetese and country and western, but they have http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Wuitmq4bI for those who want to learn about the heart in español.
Put my jism in your schism make another organism.
Genius.
I'll check out more H&F later after watching American Dinosaurs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-yTK22XjtQ.
My mistake, it included the final dot in the previous link so here it goes again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-yTK22XjtQ
Put my jism in your schism make another organism
ROFL! I am going to remember that jewel for a rainy day!
I wish I'd just read the lyrics and gotten most of the funny without any of the diety-forsaken music. Give me "Dick to the Dawk" any day!
I wish they wouldn't phrase Ockham's Razor as "the simplest explanation is best, all other things equal." But I guess the reference to Carl Sagan's Contact indicates they got it from there, and that's how Ockham's Razor was presented in the movie Contact.
Cool vid though.
My kinda music! Love those primes...
this is awesome! thx PZ
I scrolled by that a few times without watching it; finally did and it was worth it. Good stuff!
The lead singer is Chris Hardwick
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0362534/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hardwick
After 4 hours at the 47th Legislative District caucus (your home town PZ) I needed something that profane and funny. I come to Pharyngula and there it is. Great fun and thank you. The caucus was fun too, but a bit grueling. I was an alternate delegate for Obama. The results matched the precinct caucuses from February. 2/3rds for Obama, 1/3rd for Clinton. The shouts, hoots, and hollers were about 4/5ths vs 1/5th.
Now THAT'S framing! With that kind of attitude, you might actually be able to reach the ignorant masses and sneak in what science is actually about. Science with attitude.
It's kind of like Mythbusters, which is an excellent example of the positive framing of skepticism where the skeptical-vs-credulist viewpoint is treated as a cage-match. One that reality always wins.
It's time to lose the white labcoat shit and get right in their fucking faces.
No one ever actually quotes Ockham though...
I suppose, "Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate" would be difficult to make rhyme in a country song.
Not as many belly laughs as "Beware the Believer", but DAMN that was good.
"2-3-5-7"? Lame. Gimme "2-3-5-8" 'cos Fibonacci's got loads more rhythm than prime numbers.
Dr. Myers-
You sound like the kind of guy that would like
Willie Nelson-
May I suggest the "Moment of Forever" CD by Nelson-
The song "Gravedigger" is pretty good.
You may want to check if it's available on iTunes...
That was the best country song ever ...
This is awesome!
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