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Well, that last post was kind of a bummer.

Vanessa

And I’d hate to end my final day of guestblogging on such a down note. So, here’s some Youtube weirdness, which is my favorite thing ever (clearly).

This video starts off seeming all nice and wholesome, with three fetching lassies singing about potato salad, of all things. And then…the bending…oh god the bending!

Babies are weird. And when you’re as sleep deprived as parents of babies usually are, you can find this kind of shit seriously fucking entertaining.

And finally, if I ever get sent to prison in the Philippines, please let it not be this one.

All via daddytypes, who helps me live out my hipster parent fantasies by showing me all the cool stuff i can’t afford.

10 thoughts on Well, that last post was kind of a bummer.

  5. My daughter has the “That’s Entertainment” DVD boxed set, courtesy of my mother. She is the only 7-year-old I know who pretends to be Esther Williams. The potato-salad-bendy scene is in one of the sequels and when my daughter was about 4 she spent a fair amount of time trying to bend that way. With no luck, much to my relief.

  8. Those potato salad contortionists are badass. How strong do you have to be to hoist yourself up by the feet like that? I bet they could crack coconuts bare-handed.

  9. I’m rather in awe of the abdominal and back strength of the potato salad ladies. That’s beyond impressive. (although part of me is wondering how healthy their spines were later in life. Some of that looked painful.)

  10. it’s one thing to be able to do the downward part of the routines (albeit far and away from anything *I* would ever be able to do, at any time in my life), but the strength to be able to bring themselves back upright from those positions is absolutly astounding.

    As for the recreation of “Thriller,” am I just over-sensitized that I was creeped out and disturbed by the subtext of the lone woman being prey to the all-male herd?

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