Monday, December 08, 2008
Basketbawful versus the YouTube Grinches
By Basketbawful at 9:19 AM
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As some of you already know, the Grinches at YouTube did everything they could to steal Birdmas, repeatedly removing our The Night Before Birdmas video for their own grinchy purposes. Well, Birdmas is bigger than little things like laws and copyrights. So it's still available, both on YouTube and MySpace. So there.

In response to this outrage, Evil ted composed the following poem:


How the Youtube Grinch (almost) Stole Birdmas

Every Fan Down in Fanville Liked Birdmas a lot...
But the Youtube Grinch,Who lived north of Fanville, Did NOT!
The Youtube Grinch hated Birdmas! The whole Birdmas season!
Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
But I think that the most likely reason of all,
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.
Or maybe the Grinchness came from the fools,
Who enforce the NBA’s rebroadcasting rules.
It takes a true Grinchness to rob fans of a visual toy,
Meant only to bring them some warm Birdmas joy...

You can read the rest of the poem in the comments section. Oh, and look for the Japanese version, coming soon to a free video provider near you (unless YouTube Bird-blocks us again):

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Translation: "YouTube Wasps Attempt Molesting
Feathered Creature Celebration of Holy Dishwater."

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Friday, April 25, 2008
Larry Bird and "The Doctor"
By Basketbawful at 1:52 PM
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I guess this must be the week for uncovering unintentionally hilarious Larry Bird commercials from the 80s. Check out this spot for the American Heart Association starring Larry Legend and the creepiest heart doctor you'll ever see. Who knew working on alternatives to bypass surgery could win you a place on Bird's pesonal All-Star Team.


And here I thought Larry hated doctors...


Random update: Here's an imaginary starting five for the Larry Bird honorary All-Stars: Creepy heart doctor guy, Kenny Rogers, the person who invented the bathroom door baby hanger, the man (and I know it was a man) who came up with the idea of equipping a car with a flamethrower, and this dude.

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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Rhapsodizing the Lakers
By Basketbawful at 2:06 PM
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Via Yahoo's Ball Don't Lie: A Lakers-centric music video so amazingly funny and well done that I actually stopped hating Kobe Bryant for, like, two seconds. And that has to be a personal record, unless you count the time a falling piano knocked me unconscious.


The video was created by by Erkki Corpuz, with lyrics by Mike McCalla and music performed by Dick Banks.

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