Is there a rabid Bobcat in your panties, or are you just glad to see me?

[Hubert Flottz]

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Trailing Clouds Of Glowreee!

[rhett o rick]

1. I havent had a rabid Bobcat in my panties for some time now. nm

[Owlet]

2. That's just painful (eom)

[Hubert Flottz]

3. "Sight cures the Blind"

The piano player was nice.

[Enrique]

4. this guy is going to be famous

I wonder if he realizes that.

[Hubert Flottz]

10. I think we need to contact quality control, about his

realizing department.

Turn him on in the bad guy's rooms 24/7 and they'd turn their own mothers in.

[calimary]

69. Where is William Hung when we need him?

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOkin' for some earpluuuuuuuuuugs...

[Liberal Veteran]

5. Oh, good. I needed a new ringtone. -nt

[MattBaggins]

6. Wow he just stole the title from the O Mazing Grace guy

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. This guy is pretty stunningly bad, too.

He doesn't know the words so he sort of hoots through his nose. His badly out-of-tune nose.

[calimary]

70. OMG!!!!!!

!!!!!!!

I want this guy to sing at my funeral!!!!!! OMG!!!!! I may have to save the audio in case that's not possible! Better inform the next-of-kin NOW!!!

I'm dying right now! Of Grand Mal Laughter!!!!

[calimary]

71. Nope. Having listened all the way through, NOBODY steals the O-Mazing Grace guy's title!

I was literally face-planted, sobbing with laughter! I have to find this clip and keep it!

[davsand]

72. I thought at first it was an Eddie Murphy gag.

I swear. I thought it was Eddie Murphy at first. Wow. I had to post it on Facebook just to see if it gets any responses.

This may be one of the funniest threads I've seen on DU in a long time. I've been crying.



Laura

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Oh, dear. That was probably the worst singing I've ever heard, anywhere.

Merely "bad" doesn't even come close. "Tone-deaf banshee" might approach the horrific reality of this guy's ear-curdling ululations, but even that doesn't truly express the industrial-strength, weapons-grade awfulness of that voice.

Really. He could be used to disperse crowds, even break up riots. I think Homeland Security needs to hire him, although I'm not sure his voice would qualify as a non-lethal weapon. If you listened too long, it probably would kill you. Or make you wish you were dead.

The funniest thing of all is that he obviously thinks he's really good.

[calimary]

76. I love your descriptions!

"...horrific reality of this guy's ear-curdling ululations, but even that doesn't truly express the industrial-strength, weapons-grade awfulness of that voice..."

Brilliant! Vivid! Exquisite word choices for this fellow's vocal plutonium!

Velveteen Ocelot, I salute you!

[yesphan]

8. Holy crap !

That really hurt.

[TwilightGardener]

9. You just know he was thinking "NAILED IT!" there at the end.

How is it possible to sing for four minutes and never hit a single correct note?

[Hubert Flottz]

17. And he hadn't even drank a case of beer yet!

I'd hate to see what he'd do with a Walla Balla @ 'after midnight kamikaze karaoke'...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

44. The Dunning-Kruger Effect.

Yes, there's a name for the phenomenon where somebody thinks they are really good at something they are really bad at. I think we are hearing it in action.

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which the unskilled suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their mistakes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

[redqueen]

49. Nice...

thanks for that!

[grantcart]

50. American Idol turned it into Gold

[d_r]

12. i bet that was a joke

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. I don't think so.

It's extremely difficult to sing that badly intentionally. No, that's the kind of bad that is God-given. In the immortal words of Leonard Pinth-Garnell, it was "exquisitely awful" - and you just can't fake that.

[TwilightGardener]

27. If it WAS a joke, the missed cue and annoyed glance at the piano player in the beginning

was sheer comedy genius.

[snagglepuss]

35. No joke. His name is James Canupp.

[xchrom]

13. He scared my pit bull, petunia.

I'm not even kidding - she growled at my phone and ran away.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. My cat ran into the room and stared at the computer

in wide-eyed horror, then scurried away. I don't think he had any idea what animal he heard in its death throes, but it clearly unnerved him.

[Hubert Flottz]

28. I sent that link to my sister yesteday and

she called me early this morning scolding me for scaring her cat.

My dog sang right along with the guy.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

41. I'll bet your dog is a much better singer.

[calimary]

14. "It has took me a lotta places I didn't think I would be at..."

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Ah... American Exceptionalism...

[ms.smiler]

15. My sweet, dear, docile granddogs are visiting with me for a few days.

I played this video. "Bobcat" may be correct. My granddogs are now hiding beneath my desk and they are growling.

[polly7]

20. LOL.

My cat hasn't lunged at me yet but he's looking seriously pissed off.

[sarge43]

29. My birds tried to sieve themselves through the bars on their cages

Now they're all in the corners of the cages staring at me, really staring at me.

[opihimoimoi]

16. KnR #2 come on guys...pile on for ole times sake...

[Hubert Flottz]

24. This guy scared my house plants!

I'd love to hear him "sing" the Elvis Trilogy, one time.

Where'd I lay that damned gong?

[lumpy]

18. His Mama must be darned proud.

nt

[MineralMan]

22. Jebus Crunch, that's awful!

Do you think he truly doesn't know how awful he is?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. Have you ever heard of Florence Foster Jenkins?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Foster_Jenkins

With a little work, this guy could be the Florence Foster Jenkins of gospel.

[MineralMan]

33. I can't say that I have, but I'll

check out your link.

Edit to add: OMG! I just listened to her on YouTube. My ears!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

42. Quite the diva, was Florence...

[redqueen]

54. She had nothing on The Shaggs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=XR9d4ESlpHY#t=29s

[Gabi Hayes]

82. my favorite group! thing is, they sound better backwards:

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[Yavin4]

23. Is This Some Kind of Early David Cross Comedy Bit? n/t

[snagglepuss]

36. Not a comedy routine. His name is James Canupp.

[wandy]

25. Someone should really get that Piano tuned. nt

[ceile]

30. omg

[REPUguy]

31. That wasn't bad

but why are my ears bleeding?

[sharp_stick]

32. Make a Joyful Noise!

Feel free guys but is there a reason you have to sacrifice raccoons while this guy is trying to sing? I didn't hear a damned thing.

[trof]

34. Hubert and Matt just killed two kittens.

Holy Shite, that's terrible.

[Hubert Flottz]

40. Call over to Local 667

and see if they have a journeyman exorcist on call!

[polly7]

37. Hey, maybe the GOP hopefuls could use this

for campaigning ..... I doubt it's copywrited?

[Hubert Flottz]

39. Newt was needing a new tune anyways.

This seems more like Newt's speed than Eye of the Tiger.

[The Genealogist]

38. I watched this recently, and it was torture

I can only image that angry guy on American Idol reducing this poor chap to tears.

[Surya Gayatri]

43. ZOMG! BWAAAHAAAAA!

Tears of mirth, hoots of laughter...

He goes from strength to strength! And his 'self-deprecating' little speech is just the cherry on top!

Hubert, you made my day! But, do you think it's real? Surely this is a send up?
SG

[redqueen]

52. Either way it's hilarious!

It's more funny if it's a send up, I think... because if so it's *very* well done.

[Surya Gayatri]

56. You're right, RQ--very well done.

Just watched it again and gafawed even louder. It's an acquired taste, I think.

I'm an amateur musician and singer myself, and there's nothing so hard as purposefully singing off key through a whole song. A note here and there, OK. But a whole song? Not easy!

He's so bad he's good!
SG

[smokey nj]

45. There isn't a word in the English language to describe how awful that was, so I invented one.

Putrulescent. That was positively putrulescent.

[northoftheborder]

46. God help us. Putralescent in neon.

[northoftheborder]

47. Hubert, how did you find this gem?

[Hubert Flottz]

77. Came to me in a vision.

I've got to quit eating those late night snacks.

[SunsetDreams]

48. OMG HELP!! My ears have been Napalmed!

[redqueen]

51. Wow.

Could anyone listen to all of that? Really? I got to the word 'millions' and that was it.

Damn.

I mean DAYUM.

And he didn't even know when to come in! Reminded me of the "Don't make me sing!" lady on SNL

[grantcart]

53. Thank you

I now have proof that I am not the worst singer in the world.

Close but not the worst.

In Thailand when they have a dinner around a campfire everyone has to get up and sing. Even bad singers give it the ole college try and people laugh and help them.

I warned them. They would not listen. I sang one song and even though they were all rather drunk the whole group slid into a perverse silence as they watched me sing. No one dared make a sound. I learned later that they all thought it was so bad that it would summon evil spirits from the jungle. I never had to sing in Thailand again.

[polly7]

55. Very funny!

My little brother, who was in Grade 3 or 4 at the time, was told just how bad he was when his music teacher, right before the Christmas concert, whispered to him: "Mikey, just move your lips".

[grantcart]

61. At my father's funeral when everyone was weeping and singing his favorite hymn there was a

spontaneous brief break when all the family members looked my way in unison and ever so slightly

shook their head left to right.

I regained my composure, turned off the volume and returned to moving my lips.

And that actually is what happened.

[polly7]

62. Oh, noooo ........

[renie408]

57. Funnier than this guy singing was my husband yelling, "MAKE IT STOP!!"

[LongTomH]

58. This reminds me of a Rod Serling's Night Gallery episode

A hip musician, played by John Astin, get sent to Hell for his sins. No flames, he just winds up in a room full of extremely boring people, including an elderly couple who talk about nothing but their crops, and an old fart who just wants to show slides (This was before digital cameras) of his latest vacation.

Up pops the Devil to tell him that this will be his destination for eternity; the Devil also tells him that: "There's another room, just like this one, up there," meaning that this could be someone's idea of Heaven.

I have no trouble imagining a room down in Hell where you have to spend eternity listening to people like this, probably along with rebroadcasts of the PTL Club, with Tammy Faye crying through her running mascara. The scary thought is, that this is probably someone's idea of Heaven; God help them!

By the way, I could only listen to a few seconds of this guy singing; but, Jesus H. Sebastian Christ, he's awful!

Here's a link to the IMDB page for that episode.

[Evasporque]

59. Its like Jesus just did a spine ripping finishing move on my soul....nt

[Ruby the Liberal]

60. Ok, that was horrifying.

My cat is giving me stink eye even after I turned the volume down to one step above mute (which actually isolated the vocals even more).

[polly7]

64. Try this one on kitty

[Hubert Flottz]

67. Mity Purdy!

I did enough Karaoke to know that this is kind of normal sounding.

[polly7]

74. I know!

I was actually kinda humming along until the fire alarm went off. Well .... it sounded like the fire alarm.

[Ruby the Liberal]

68. Do these people not have friends or loved ones?

I mean, can no one step into the gap here and say "er, no, you may not want to tape that"?

Lord have mercy.

[Hubert Flottz]

78. Jesus Wept...

and so did I!

[murielm99]

86. OMG, my cat showed up, too!

She meowed at me and stalked off. I think she she is hiding.

[Ruby the Liberal]

87. Did you watch the second one? In post #64?

I swear the teflon walked the fuck right off my pans and jumped out the window on its own steam.

[Obama3_16]

63. I hope to hell this was real and not a prank.

I haven't laughed on DU very much yet, but I was literally laughing out loud through much of this.

[sabrina 1]

65. Omg!

[Hubert Flottz]

66. I'd like to hear him preach a while!

His singing would run the Devil off, there's no doubt in my mind.

[davsand]

73. Hubert, my love, you made me cry with this one.

I can always count on you for something good, but this thread goes above and beyond. I swear... well, I only swore a little bit when he hit some of those notes.




Laura

[lonestarnot]

75. Poooooooor me.

I watched this with a stomach ache. I can't help but feel a little bit sorry for the poor dude.

[calimary]

79. Best. Thread. EVER!!!

AND it introduced me to that O-Mazing Grace guy who reminded me of that Mr. Bean episode in the church where he doesn't know the words but sings along anyway.

Best. Thread. EVVVVVVERRRR!!!!!

Thank you Hubert! I'm gonna keep this whole thread to make me laugh on bad days!

[Sparkly]

80. These are always the ones who glare at the poor pianist.

Yes, you sounded like that because of the pianist.

Damn pianist.

Actually we took our cat to the vet this afternoon, and the whole time she was in the car she didn't sound nearly that shrill.

[Botany]

81. has to be a joke

n/t

[Leopolds Ghost]

83. He's probably just a bit socially awkward.

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[Gabi Hayes]

84. Mars ain't the kind of place to raise a kid.....

In fact, it's cold as hell......

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[AsahinaKimi]

85. Does anyone remember

The Killer Tomatoes?.... EXPLODING everywhere... this it what this reminded me of.