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This brought up so many memories...funny to think of how many of our lives' funniest moments are what we saw on YouTube.

A few other memes I thought of worth including:

- re Bloomberg's sign-language interpreter, the interpreter at Nelson Mandela's memorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hCdtUxnOG8

- Aleksey Vayner, who posted a video resume titled, "Impossible is Nothing", and then later committed suicide: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/aleksey-vayner-death-video

- Guy Goma, who was at the BBC to interview for an IT job, but was mistaken for another guy (with the name "Guy") who was scheduled to give a tech pundit interview, and so had to improvise answers relating to an Apple pundit dispute. He ended up not getting the IT job but got a bit famous anyway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5evS-ApSNQ

- This was one of the first times when YouTube, as a platform, really blew me away: this mystery guitarist who rocked out to Pachelbel's Canon: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5725826

- One more music-famous-meme: the drummer is at the wrong gig...always brings a huge laugh to me, and got this guy some nice gigs, including an appearance on The Office: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItZyaOlrb7E



It's also kind of dark to learn the stories behind / life after these. It really ruins a lot people's lives.


The wrong-drummer-guy killed it! He made the other band members look out of place.




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