Sounds like the same gang that is looking for Al Niño, to complain about the bad weather and all the storms. Jens > Hi all, you ready for this? > > Andrew Grantham (former list member) has an account on youtube.com under the > name Klaatu42. > > He specializes in taking footage of animals with their mouths moving that > people send to him, and recording all new sound for the videos (including > very excellent sound effects and volume swells and changes as the animal > moves their mouth in relation to the "microphone") that really look like the > animal is talking ! Does this make a normal adult think that the animal is > really talking? No. Most people with any intelligence realize that the video > may or may not be real, but that the conversation is entirely overdubbed and > fake. > > Apparently, though, NOT EVERYONE! > > Andrew posted a video on youtube that went viral internationally with over 5 > million views in just the first couple of days on youtube. It is called a > "dog tease" and has a dog "talking" to an offcamera person (who we can only > see the knees of) about food that the person found in the fridge and ate or > gave to the dog. > > Some total freaking moron flagged it as abusive and the video got taken > offline by youtube! > > CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!?! > > It gets better! > > People are coming out of the woodwork and emailing ME using the contact form > on the klaatu.org website to complain that KLAATU have forced youtube to take > the video down and threatening to not buy any Klaatu related merchandise > because of it! > > AND, one person even went so far as to say Klaatu had emailed them and told > them they could download the video for free from their website, but when they > went there they were told there would be a $10 charge to download the video! > > All this because his name on youtube is klaatu42? > > Give me a break! If a youtube user was name "Robert" would that > automatically mean that anyone with a website named robert would > automatically be connected with that youtube account? > > IDIOTS! The WORLD IS FULL of IDIOTS! > > ARGH! > > Regards. > > Dave Bradley > > >