Now it's goodnight from YouTube

[matgb]

This is brilliant:

If you're not chuckling immensely, you didn't grow up in the UK. If you didn't, then, y'know, ask for explanation. (via)

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Comments

[liz_marcs]

Your American readers should be laughing, too, because this is exactly what the Public Access cable channels do today.

Okay, maybe not throwing a slideshow up from Google pages, but having Verizon/Cablevision/RCN or whomever throw a up a slide show that's disturbingly close not only the quality but to the music (in fact, I think my town's access channels has the exact same music).

Although the fact that the BBC did this once upon a time does give me a fall over laughing moment because, like I said, it's associated with low-budget, non-profit, non-commercial, public access channels.

[matgb]

Ah, cool. The "pages from" thing is a dig at Ceefax/Teletext, for ages, the BBC used to just put up pages of text when programmes were off air; when I was a kid, they even did this on BBC2, one of the then three (total) stations we had available.

And, if it was raining, I would at times sit and read it waiting for something to come on.

[pashazade.livejournal.com]

Wonderful. And I am much more delighted than I should be to tell you that the second result on the last page is for the blog of M's mate who was an usher at our wedding! Woo-hoo!

[matgb]

Oh yeah. And the third result on the penultimate page is a blog I write for sometimes.

But the ones before the credits are ace; "this is Google you clown". Although the idea of naked Alistair Darling pics is scary.

[karohemd]

What, no test card?

[karohemd]

I guess I'm showing my age. Teletext came much later.

[davegodfrey]

I remember seeing the test card come up when they decided to shut down ceefax for the night.

[doccy]

Unless my memory is betraying me again (not unlikely), I only really remember the test card from the other side: Watching it early in the morning, waiting for the channel to start up again *s*

[chris]

Made me smile! They still do have Ceefax overnight on 2 sometimes - if I'm working the night shift, it's preferable to SuperCasino or whatever on FIVE.

[missedith01]

Spot on ... the voiceover and the musak is *perfect*.

[staceyuk]

Heheh. Awesome. Sadly, I'm old enough to remember that!

OMG!

[(Anonymous)]

Mat

I laughed my a** off when I found this on your blog. It is SOOOOOO funny - and you're right, if you did not live here even only as far back as the late 80's it is lost on ya!

love it
going to post on mine now

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Aw, I was waiting for the big long 'beeeeeeeppppp' they used to have after a while in case you had fallen asleep in front of your telly. Most disappointing... though 'This is Google you clown' pretty much made up for it.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Ha, I didn't grow up in the UK, but I am enough of an Anglophile geek that I found it pretty amusing anyway.

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Definitely chuckling :-)

[caseytalk.livejournal.com]

Sadly, when I enter 'google' into google, I get google ecuador. Does 'this is google you clown' come up there?

[matgb]

Until the credits, all the SERPs are faked up, some of the others are a bit more obvious if you look closely. The Chancellor does not have a page of naked pics anywhere, thankfully.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

That was the bit that scared me the most

[purplehez.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, brilliant!!

It be even better though if it had the test card and the BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP at the end!!