"Weird Al" Yankovic - The Saga Begins

Who You Gonna Call?

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London 2012 Olympic mascots: best spoofs - Telegraph

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You can browse more spoofs at the b3ta.com challenge page.

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There's Nothing Like Australia - The Spoof

via nothinglikeaustralia.net

Ha Ha Spoof Australian Tourism site.

TOURISM Australia is investigating legal action against an internet "brandjacker'' who set up a website lampooning its new $150 million advertising campaign, There's nothing like Australia, which launched yesterday.

The unknown creator has registered a website, www.nothinglikeaustralia.net, and posted mock ads featuring Steve Irwin, Lindy Chamberlain and an image from the Cronulla riots.

The Irwin spoof features an infamous photo of the eco-warrior dangling his baby son Bob in front of a crocodile and the tagline ``There's nothing like taking your son to work.''

The Chamberlain image shows her with her daughter Azaria and the line: ``There's nothing like a dingo taking your baby.''

And the Cronulla picture, showing a mob bashing a man, runs with the slogan: ``There's nothing like welcoming your mates.''

It is understood the mock website was registered in the US just minutes after Tourism Australia revealed the new tagline - and the first ads lampooning the campaign appeared just two hours after the launch

TA is understood to have launched a legal hunt for the creator of the site, seeking for it to be taken down for using the logo from the campaign that is a registered trademark of TA.

Yesterday Tourism Australia managing director Andrew McEvoy admitted that the new advertising, designed to avoid the controversy created by the preceding ``So where the bloody hell are you?'' campaign, fronted by Lara Bingle, could be hijacked on social networking sites.

It is understood TA had tried to avoid such a brandjacking by buying up domain names similar to the tagline, but failed to register the nothinglikeaustralia.net address.

The advertising industry has slammed the new campaign, which is calling on Australians to submit photos of their own favourite holiday spots, as bland and uninspired.

To add to TA's woes, Tourism New Zealand launched its own hijacking yesterday when it bought online advertising next to news stories about the new campaign.

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How Slim Whitman killed the Martians

And the Martians killed a lot of A Grade Actors.

Mars Attacks is currently one of Ryan's favourite movies. It is a fantastic spoof science fiction movie with the Martians eventually meeting their match with Slim Whitman yodelling Indian Love Call, which blows up their brains. What the Army and all their technology could not achieve that master Country Music saved the day. It is a B Grade Movie made with an A Grade Cast and associated budget, most of whom are killed by associated ray guns, shrink rays and flying saucers.

The full list of expensive casualties includes.

1. General Casey (Paul Winfield): Incinerated by Red Martian ray gun
2. Dr Ziegler (Jerzy Skolimowski): Incinerated by Martian ray gun off-screen
3. Billy Glenn Norris (Jack Black): Incinerated by Red Martian ray gun
4. Jason Stone (Michael J Fox): Incinerated by Green Martian ray gun off-screen
5. Jerry Ross (Martin Short): Hit in the head with paper weight
6. Martian Girl (Lisa Marie): Shot in the head by Mitch
7. Marsha Dale (Glenn Close): Crushed by falling chandelier
8. Art Land (Jack Nicholson): Killed in building destruction by Martian spaceship
9. Maurice, the French President (Barbet Schroeder): Incinerated by Red Martian ray gun
10. Mr. and Mrs. Norris (Joe Don Baker & O-Lan Jones): Trailer smashed into Sharona's trailer by Martian in a robot.
11. Sharona and Boyfriend (Christina Applegate): Trailer smashed into the Norris' trailer by Martian in a robot.
12. Rude Gambler (Danny DeVito): Incinerated Green by Martian ray gun
13. General Deckner (Rod Steiger): Shrunk by shrink-ray and squished
14. Mitch (Brian Haley): Incinerated by Green Martian ray gun
15. President James Dale (Jack Nicholson): Impaled in the back with robotic Martian arm which ended up being the Martian Flag.
16. Natalie (Sarah Jessica Parker): Killed in flying saucer crash
17. Professor Donald Kessler (Pierce Brosnan): Killed in flying saucer crash

I love the irony of the Americans wanting to make friends with the Martians and the Martians returning the favour by massacring everyone including the US President (twice), the US Congress and the French Parliament. No bad thing I say.

The film was not a commercial success because of the budget for all that high priced talent of $70 million. And if you need to repel some Martians, you could do worse than play this at high decibel.



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