Mel Blanc's vocal cords

Here is a video stroboscopy of Mel Blanc's vocal cords as "the man of a thousand voices" does Bugs Bunny, Barney Rubble, Pepé Le Pew, and other favorites. (Thanks, Tara McGinley!)

[#1 posted by Anonymous, April 13, 2009 10:11 AM]

My first thought was "Ok, so?", but that was oddly entertaining. Kept expecting Bugs Bunny to come crawling past the vocal chords or something.

[#2 posted by Anonymous, April 13, 2009 10:22 AM]

This is absolutely terrifying.

[#3 posted by jahknow, April 13, 2009 10:24 AM]

The video, while I like it in theory, was too graphic for me... but wow, what a find! Averting my eyes, I really enjoyed listening the audio portion. He was one of a kind!

[#4 posted by rebdav, April 13, 2009 10:36 AM]

My wifes grandmother dated him, but turned down a proposal as she did not want to move to California. The bank examiner she ended up married to lost his job in the depression and guess where she ended up moving? Staying friendly my in-laws still have a bunch of rare cells he sent to the kids back when the things were thrown in the trash.

[#5 posted by Brainspore, April 13, 2009 10:44 AM]

Neat! Can we have a video of Stephen Hawking's frontal lobe in action next?

[#6 posted by David Pescovitz, April 13, 2009 10:48 AM]

BRAINSPORE @3, You find it and I'll post it! :)

[#7 posted by rebdav, April 13, 2009 10:49 AM]

Oops, wife says it was Harry Love that proposed to her, Mel Blank was her grandfathers old friend and peanuckle(sp?) buddy at the old Portland JCC.

[#8 posted by yiftach, April 13, 2009 11:00 AM]

Rebdav:
It's Blanc (with a C) and pinochle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinochle), although the 8-year-old boy in me likes your spelling better.

I love the image of Mel Blanc and your grandpa playing pinochle at the J.

[#9 posted by rebdav, April 13, 2009 11:11 AM]

Yiftach, the wikipedia article was what messed my spelling up in my head. Portland, what a fun quirky Jewish community, even now.

[#10 posted by Stefan Jones, April 13, 2009 12:41 PM]

Hmph! I would have thought they'd be funnier-looking.

[#11 posted by Anonymous, April 13, 2009 3:55 PM]

Like a bad scene from Naked Lunch... yikes

[#12 posted by Anonymous, April 13, 2009 4:16 PM]

Re: Naked Lunch. Exactly!

"Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down you dig farting out the words. It was unlike anything I ever heard."

[#13 posted by mermaid, April 13, 2009 4:49 PM]

seen it

[#14 posted by Falcon_Seven, April 13, 2009 6:37 PM]

How about Peter North's epididymis?

[#15 posted by Anonymous, April 13, 2009 7:30 PM]

This is fake. Having worked in a gastroenterologist's office, it's impossible to talk while an endoscope is down your throat. It's not even easy to purse one's lips.

[#16 posted by Anonymous, April 13, 2009 7:50 PM]

Is anyone else turned on by this?

[#17 posted by blatantdisregard, April 14, 2009 8:37 AM]

@ Anon #15: This is real. Having never worked in a gastroenterologist's office, it's possible to talk with an endoscope down your throat, when it's ran through your nose smartguy. It's even easy to purse one's lips.