VideoSift Clips of the Week

1. zav
   March 13th, 2009 at 4:01 pm

   There is no such thing as "a billion dollar". A billion is > 1 (slightly) so you use an s at the end of dollar for "a billion dollars".

2. Gauldar
   March 13th, 2009 at 4:16 pm

   Bunny vs. Snake is an oldie... but a goodie!

3. nach
   March 13th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

   I stopped watching the billion movie when it said that you'd be born in 1959 if you were a billion seconds old. Less than a minute prior it said that if you paid a dollar a second it would take 31 years. So unless this clip was made in 1990, it wouldn't make sense. But it wasn't since our national debt was $9T last summer.

4. Woogie
   March 13th, 2009 at 5:20 pm

   "Ricky Gervais" and "hilarity" should never be used unless the phrase "is a douchebag trading on 15 minutes of fame and has never produced anything vaguely resembling..." appears between them.

5. Ray
   March 13th, 2009 at 5:38 pm

   I worked at a museum that had a exhibit with a couple of rattlesnakes in it.
   When it was time for them to eat, we'd throw a couple of rats in and they'd have at it.
   One rat was a tough old bastard and decided to fight. He latched on to the snake and wouldn't let go until we whacked it a good one. Afetr it was stunnde the snake enjoyed it at his leisure.

6. Johnny Cat
   March 13th, 2009 at 6:25 pm

   I stopped watching the billion movie because the spiel's been forwarded by e-mail a dozen times.

7. Lindsey
   March 13th, 2009 at 6:30 pm

   I used to work with Aimee Mullins when I worked at a talent agency. A true class act. Wish I was seeing her doing more parts in mainstream film and television, because she's fab.

8. bunsen
   March 13th, 2009 at 7:14 pm

   "It is untrue that Ricky Gervais is a douchebag trading on 15 minutes of fame and has never produced anything vaguely resembling hilarity."

9. Foreigner1
   March 14th, 2009 at 9:00 am

   That corkscrew machine is amazing!
   After seeing this, I think I want to design a cupboarddoor-opener like that- filling half the room with machinery just to open a cupboard door...

10. Ben Eshbach
    March 14th, 2009 at 3:27 pm

    "A tightly packed stack of crisp new Cleveland $1,000 bills totaling 1 billion dollars would soar 63 miles high into the earth's atmosphere."

    Uh, yeah, if each bill was 4 inches thick. Considering the bills are more like .004 to .005 inches thick the stack would "soar" 330 to 416 feet into the air. Maybe he meant to say "totaling 1 trillion dollars." (I know, I know. I'm nitpicking. I mean really, what's a 999 billion dollar error?)

11. ted
    March 14th, 2009 at 8:16 pm

    I just like how they named a whole conference after me.

12. seefish3
    March 15th, 2009 at 9:03 am

    I'm not usually susceptable to public speakers, but that Aimee Mullins bit damn near made me cry.

    "Too pretty to be disabled". God, that's a heartbreaker.

    Now there's a woman I'd vote in for President!

13. seefish3
    March 15th, 2009 at 9:09 am

    The Corkscrew device is a cool machine, but the video suffers from modern editing techniques: quick cuts that obscure detail.

    It's not like your trying to cover up bad special effects here, guys !

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