In Space News, the HTV-2 launched on Saturday, hooray! Check out this mission patch for the HTV-2: It's a shiny metal can! There's not much else you can say about a cargo mission, I think that it's grand that it gets a patch at all.


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Speaking of mimes, I found this completely surreal stage performance of the skit by two Russian mimes, supposedly in the 1980's. It is difficult to imagine this performance divorced from its "Muppets" context, although these guys are pretty funny, in a terrifying sort of way.

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Here is another two-woman attempt. These actors have also taken the reigns of their interpretation, but there's something not quite right about this one. Let's see... stripey shirt, pallid skin, exaggerated makeup and body language...gloves.... Ladies, I'm afraid you're mimes.

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So what happens when you want to do MahNa MahNa, and all you have are two women instead of three? You give it a shot anyhow. This is not the best version of this sort out there, but I like it because they fearlessly changed the routine a little to match what they had to work with.

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Here's another take by these ladies. I actually like this one better because of the blooper that happens right in the middle and which they just build on hilariously rather than stopping for.

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Also, last night, T fell asleep while I was reading her bedtime story to her. It was very sweet. As I commented to someone else, it's an infrequently ( Read more... )

This is the most incredible live-action version of this skit that I've yet seen! These ladies just add all kinds of business and simply take over the video; compare this to the stiff, stage-frightened rendition by those italian kids a couple postings ago. They are not simply clowning around. They are, I dare say, clowning! Seriously, I posted all ( Read more... )

Recently, while hunting around for the previous video that I posted about, I found quite a few previously undiscovered videos of other people dancing around like idiots to the audio of this skit. Gosh, I hope that YouTube doesn't get a reputation as the kind of place where that sort of thing happens. Some of these videos were surprisingly good. ( Read more... )

Well, this is a fairly intersting piece of NuSpace news; Excalibur Almaz actually did something. I'm still skeptical that all the money that the founders of this company have can make this tantalizingly possible idea work, but just think about it!

http://hobbyspace.com/nucleus/index.php?itemid=26257EA is a collection of billionares... what this ( Read more... )

No collection of Mahna Mahna links would be complete without the Muppet Show Ep 1 version; here it is. This video gets uploaded to YouTube frequently, but just as frequently is found by WB and is either taken down or has the audio blanked, so grab this with KeepVid while you can!

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This is the version of the skit that appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show (performed live, but with a funny camera trick at the end) in 1969, according to the Muppet Wiki. Think about that for a bit... The Vietnam War, Moon Landings... and this!

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URL for the Muppet Wiki: http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Mahna_Mahna_(song)Also, the current Wikipedia ( Read more... )