You may already be familiar with the Badger Badger Badger Flash animation. In case not, it’s a silly animation consisting of a pack of cartoon badgers bouncing to a song whose lyrics consist primarily of “Badger, Badger, Badger” with occasional interjections of “Mushroom Mushroom” and “Snake!”. It can only be enjoyed in small doses ;).
In any case, I was reading a rather inane Slashdot parody about installling Linux on a badger and one of the comments pointed a group of knuckleheads (“badgerheads”?) who decided to act-out their own real-life rendition and videotape it (complete with mushroom & snake). There’s no need to bother with the Slashdot article but, if you liked the original Flash, you may appreciate the effort put into the enactment as well.
And, the best part is that this managed to somewhat derail the Slashdot discussion as some posters commented on the relative badger-badgering skill of the video participants:
Perhaps the saddest aspect of this video is the fact that most of them do the badger dance so… poorly. The tall one on the right has the right instincts for synching up the arm waving and knee bending, so I give him credit for that, but it&Rsquo;s not how the badgers actually do it. And the rest of them do very little to dispel certain stereotypes about the lack of rhythm in the heterosexual caucasian male. […]
PS I’m heading off to Pittsburgh for the weekend (leaving Thursday), so updates may be a bit sparse until I return Monday.