Video Dump, 31 Mar 2010

March 31st, 2010 at 4:49 pm | Crazy Internets

Not much going on around the Josh Bales Compound lately, save for writing and job hunting and not being on the Internet. So what better way to make it look like I’m blogging than by sharing a couple of videos?

“The 160 Greatest Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes” is one of the more awesome things I’ve come across lately.

No one in the history of cinema owns as many hilariously cheesy one-liners as the current governor of California: Arnold Schwarzenegger. He’s made a career out of making his audiences cringe with delight, from Conan the Barbarian to Batman & Robin to Kindergarten Cop and two Terminator movies, Arnie has delivered some of the most painfully memorable lines in movie history.

The montage is ten rapturous minutes long, and worth every minute:

Verizon has a new commercial out promoting its purportedly excellent 3G coverage. That in and of itself isn’t interesting, but since this ad parodies those Big Red Gum commercials from the 80s (yeah, you remember those), it is bloody excellent:

I’ve yet to actually see it on TV, but that isn’t too surprising as I don’t watch any television that’s not DVR’d. But if more ads dredged up and molested my childhood memories like this one, maybe I would.

And because nostalgia demands it, here’s one of the aforementioned 80s-era Big Red commercials:

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