So I looked up why and how this happened, and it turns out Weird Al hired a company called Birdhouse Skateboards to provide some “skate/punk” extras for the video. Birdhouse Skateboards is a company started by Tony Hawk, so not only did Weird Al end up putting Tony Hawk in his video without realizing it, he actually hired Tony Hawk’s company without realizing it! And then Tony Hawk just decided to go along as one of the extras himself.
BTW, he’d already won like 40 contests already, some of them international skateboarding contests. So it’s not like Weird Al cast some unknown skateboarder who ended up becoming World Famous Skateboarder, he was already well known and was running his own Skateboarding company.
Think of it this way. This wasn’t ‘Weird Al got Tony Hawk to be in his video’, this was ‘Tony Hawk found a way to be in a Weird Al Video.’
The chance that Tony Hawk has infiltrated your location or piece of media is low
I feel like politicians’ insults about each other have really gone down hill. These days it’s all “moron” and “loser”, so childish. Think what you will of Paul Keating, but he gave us such gems as “he’s a shiver waiting for a spine”, “debating him is like being flogged with warm lettuce”, “he’s like a lizard on a rock: alive but looking dead”, “he’s all tip and no iceberg”.
Where’s the creativity these days?!
Some of my favourite Paul Keating insults for your enjoyment:
You boxhead, you wouldn’t know. You are flat out counting past ten
I suppose that the Honourable Gentleman’s hair, like his intellect, will recede into the darkness
He’s wound up like a thousand-day clock! One half more turn and there’ll be springs and sprockets all over the building. Mr Speaker, give him a valium
Oh, look, it’s just Howard being Howard, isn’t it, you know? The little desiccated coconut’s under pressure and he’s attacking anything he can get his hands on
The Opposition could not manage a tart shop
For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he’s dug for himself over the last decade
And my personal favourite:
If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours
Blue State leftists will be like “my elected official’s endorsement of minority rights was insufficiently enthusiastic, both parties are the same!” Meanwhile in a Red State your Facebook chats can be subpoenaed to convict you of the crime of accessing medical care.
Old coworker: “I was born in North Dakota, so I can say that Minnesota is no different!”
Me: “Then why live in Minnesota? North Dakota is way cheaper.”
OC: “Uhm, as a person with HIV, I wouldn’t be safe living there or have access to medical care.”
Oh damn, that seems like two important differences!
Citing how devastatingly uncomfortable it makes people feel, a new report released by the Stanford University Sociology Department revealed Wednesday that it’s never okay to just start talking to someone you don’t know.
The report, which analyzed numerous conversations that took place over a nine-month period from September of last year through May, states that approaching a complete and total stranger and saying “Beautiful day,” “That’s nice, where did you get that?” or “Hello” is, under no circumstance, acceptable.
