Oh YouTube

One evening this past week, Jessica and I decided to entertain ourselves for a bit by looking up random YouTube videos online. I am surprisingly amazed at how many videos you can find on the most random of subjects. There are videos for learning how to braid hair, learning how to dance, music videos and to be even more specific remixes of a popular rap song sung in children voices about dogs. Let me explain a little more.

As we were searching through videos online, Jessica randomly starts humming,
“Do your ears hang low, do they wobble to the floor?”
Bewildered by this random outburst, I question her as to where she had heard that. I automatically assumed she had gotten the lyrics of the song wrong because there had been a rap song entitled “Does your chain hang low” that came out a few years back that dominated the air. Jessica insisted that she had heard this before and typed into the YouTube search engine, “Do your ears hang low”, and low and behold there was a “child-friendly” remake of the song centered on dogs and their wobbly ears. Do Your Ears Hang Low?

Even better was a clip we found about a little boy named David who had just gone to the dentist’s office and was in lameness terms “high” on laughing gas.
I don’t think I have ever laughed harder than I did when watching this video clip. My dad is a cosmetic dentist, and it just seemed to fit to pass this video onto him. He said he had stitches he was laughing so hard. David at the Dentist


The last video that Jessica and I searched for was of this professional ventriloquist named Jeff Dunham, whom Jessica had actually seen live at American Airlines in Dallas this past summer. This man is a genius. He has various puppet characters named Peanut, Jose the Jalapeno and Achmed. The different voices that Jeff Dunham is able to create are unbelievable. He can sing at various pitches and in different accents. Jessica and I have both agreed that when he comes back in town from his world tour that we are going to be first in line to buy tickets. One video we watched was of the character Achmed, a skeleton Taliban terrorist sing his version of ‘Jingle Bells’ entitled ‘Jingle Bombs’. The level of inappropriateness this ventriloquist gets a way with is unreal, but is probably one of the funniest videos I have seen on YouTube. Achmed, "Jingle Bombs"