5 thoughts on “Does Andy need one of these?

  1. Can you want to say what it's about?

    I can't see the vid as youtube says "This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions."

  2. To those like Megan and myself who couldn't initially make head or tail of this: Googling leads me to guess that it is a reference to an U.S. TV series called "How I met your mother".

    Andrew is surely entitled to run his blog the way he wants, and there aren't any rules or guidelines for other contributors that I can see. Nevertheless a fair fraction of posts on this blog do presuppose a U.S. frame of reference. A tiny bit more explanation would occasionally make matters a lot clearer for those interested who are based elsewhere.

  3. I don't know if this makes you feel any better, but . . . I don't have any idea what Jeff was talking about either.

  4. If you can't see the video, I guess you're just out of luck. If you can see it but don't think it's very funny, well, it's not necessarily a cultural barrier that is causing the problem: just like humor, lack of humor also knows no language. (Actually, this is not true: the only funny thing in the whole video is an english-language pun).

    The video shows a man who amuses himself by having the graphics department where he works make professional graphical displays of inane or vaguely amusing things. For example, there's a list of U.S. presidents in order by how dirty their names sound (Johnson, Bush, Harding, Polk, etc.) There's a Venn diagram that shows overlapping circles of "Women who are breaking my heart" and "Women who shake my confidence daily", with the overlapping area labeled "Cecelia" (I suppose if you are not from an English-speaking land, you may not recognize the reference to a 1970s Paul Simon song). The only funny bit, I thought, was when your hero reveals a pie chart about his favorite bars, and a bar chart about his favorite pies.

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