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Leningrad Cowboys

Reading Le Fox's post about Aki Kaurismäki reminded me of a film of his that I've been meaning to see for a very very long time, Leningrad Cowboys Go America. Various clips are available on YouTube, not least of the remarkable legacy of the film, the Leningrad Cowboys. If you don't know of them, they're a Finnish cover band. The following video will tell you the rest. And yes, that is the Red Army Choir.

Feynman Strikes Back

Danzig vs. Shakira

Math Capella

I was first sent this back in 2005 at which point I didn't really know what it was all about. Now that I'm finally in the position where I actually get the jokes, I figure I can share it with you without loss of face. Behold the Klein Four: an A Capella group composed of mathematics students at Northwestern University near Chicago. They're clearly differential geometers/mathematical physicists. It's what all the cool kids do.

This simply cannot be beaten for sheer density of maths puns. Buy T-shirts here.

Joke

“I woke up one day and everything in the apartment had been stolen and replaced with an exact replica. I said to my roommate, ‘Can you believe this? Everything in the apartment has been stolen and replaced with an exact replica.’ He said, ‘Do I know you?’ ” (Steven Wright)