WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
Boomer Dance Songs: Do You Love Me? by the Contours
byVanderleunonJanuary 1, 2021
You broke my heart…
‘Cause I couldn’t dance…
You didn’t even want me around…
And now I’m back…
To let you know…
I can really shake ’em down….
Do you love me?
(I can really move)
Do you love me?
(I’m in the groove)
Now do you love me?
(Do you love me)
Now that I can dance
(Dance)
Watch me now, hey
(Work, work)
Ah, work it all baby
(Work, work)
Well, you’re drivin’ me crazy
(Work, work)
With a little bit of soul now
(Work)
I can mash-potato
(I can mash-potato)
And I can do the twist
(I can do the twist)
Now tell me baby
(Tell me baby)
Do you like it like this
(Do you like it like this)
Tell me
(Tell me)
Tell me…..
Do you love me?
(Do you love me)
Now, do you love me?
(Do you love me)
Now, do you love me?
(Do you love me)
Now that I can dance
(Dance)
Dance
Watch me now, hey
(Work, work)
Ah, shake it up, shake it
(Work, work)
Ah, shake ’em, shake ’em down
(Work, work)
Ah, little bit of soul now
(Work)
Ah, shake it, shake it baby
(Work, work)
Ah, you’re driving me crazy
(Work, work)
Ah, don’t get lazy
(Work)
I can mash-potato
(I can mash-potato)
I can do the twist
(I can do the twist)
Well now tell me baby
(Tell me baby)
Do you like it like this
(Do you like it like this)
Tell me
(Tell me)
Tell me….
Do you love me?
(Do you love me?)
Do you love me?
(Do you love me?)
Do you love me?
(Do you love me?)
(Now, now, now)
I’m working hard baby
(Work, work)
Well, you’re driving me crazy
(Work, work)
And don’t you get lazy
(Work)
Ah, hey hey baby
(Work, work)
Well, you’re driving me crazy
(Work, work)
Oh don’t get lazy
(Work)
I wonder if they will play this song for us as they come enmass to exterminate us and do the mashed potato on our corpses. Absolutely chilling. I hope someone is working on a way to permanently decommission these monsters. These videos are made to make us comfortable with these killing machines.
Dust Bunny QueenJanuary 2, 2021, 6:53 AM
I can’t decide if this is hilarious, endearing or frightening. I do know the guys who invented these and who are programming the robots to dance are having one heck of a really good time. I laughed the whole way through so…hilarious.
GregJanuary 2, 2021, 7:20 AM
SkyNet ‘s favorite song
M. MurcekJanuary 2, 2021, 7:40 AM
I could never find the lyrics online, but go listen to Paul Cebar and the Milwaukeeans- I can’t Dance For You
Boston Dynamics was owned by Google (scary thought) now being sold to Hyundai. That’s not reassuring.
I can’t help but remember the story last year that every experiment on self programed AI ended up with the machine going psychotic.
Is it me or the aftereffects of 2020?
I’m channeling Annie, wondering what it will take to destroy these things, and thinking that .223 FMJ rounds would probably be capable but with Kevlar or some other fabric to protect the innards, shots to the joints and other smaller but exposed connection points would be required. But I expect that heavier and ballistically superior rounds would get the job done easier.
As a rifle guy who has never had that much use for a shotgun beyond bird hunting, I might have to acquiesce and join the buckshot and slug gun club. That’s fine, I love the roar and the recoil.
M. MurcekJanuary 2, 2021, 8:53 AM
Low tech. Trip wires and snares. Cannibalize for parts to fight back.
Auntie AnalogueJanuary 2, 2021, 10:30 AM
For a brief moment while watching that video I succumbed to effortless unbidden anthropomorphizing of what I was seeing. In the next instant I caught hold of myself and found the spectacle ominously chilling.
Also, no apology would I offer for my strong preference for the Dave Clark Five’s cover of that song.
Sean CoryJanuary 2, 2021, 11:54 AM
Our overlords will no longer have to make use of unreliable human beings to enforce their edicts or liquidate enemies. If they can program these things to target specific individuals using facial recognition or by uploading a photo then they have a wonderful killing machine at their disposal. They could be programmed to attack only certain groups I suppose using GPS to determine a border and then slaughtering everyone within the lines (Stalin or Hitler would have loved that). Or they could narrow it down by sex or skin pigmentation maybe even age. Ain’t science grand!
Think about it: some team of dorks spent countless hours, writing and testing thousands of lines of code, to make a robot dance poorly.
For … what, exactly?
Dick OldheadJanuary 2, 2021, 2:26 PM
” dance poorly ” ?!?
This is astounding.
NealinNevadaJanuary 2, 2021, 3:38 PM
I remember when this song was first released (1962). I was 13 and I can say it was nearly a psychedelic experience when it came out of the radio of a 1955 Cadillac. To think, the song was meant for the Temptations to record…but it couldn’t have been done better than The Contours did it!
ghostsniperJanuary 2, 2021, 5:37 PM
I didn’t find it funny or chilling, just fake (cgi).
Jack – aim for the knees.
VanderleunJanuary 2, 2021, 6:27 PM
FAKE??? In what way? It really isn’t CGI ya know.
nunnya bidnez, jrJanuary 2, 2021, 6:30 PM
There is a type of Silly String which is very sticky (unlike the consumer version); that’ll gum up the works pretty well.
I’m still waiting for one of their arrogantly conceived AI machine to wonder about the miraculous existence of a single star in a midnight sky. We might have to wait a long, long time. BTW, why would a scientist want a robot to dance to a love song? Must have been one hell of a government grant, paid for by money we no longer have.
gregJanuary 3, 2021, 12:25 PM
Here’s the one of the robots making soldiers obsolete at shooting range and how accurate they are.
They will never show us when this becomes real, but, you have wonder. https://youtu.be/y3RIHnK0_NE
Rob MuirJanuary 4, 2021, 6:22 AM
OK, so this is clearly the “back area” on the Satellite of Love (SoL). The Mads at Gizmonic Institute have done a great job with Joel and Mike. These bots dance even better than those guys, although it looks as if they leak hydraulic fluid at a greater rate than those poor detainees on the SoL. I like 4-legged Crow, but the mash-up of Tom Servo and Gypsy into a pseudo-velociraptor is kind of disconcerting. As a science/engineering experiment, I give it a 10, but only a 7 for entertainment value. I do not think the heads at the network will give it the greenlight, but I could be wrong.
gwbnycJanuary 4, 2021, 7:03 AM
where’s the center mass and what’s the minimum cartridge?
Eric BlairJanuary 4, 2021, 10:17 AM
Oh ! .. so cute ! … now imagine them with enhanced-viz and imaging, plus .22 miniguns.
NSFC now, eh ?
Check out Black Mirror and the ‘Metal Head” episode, for a significant non-zero probability
DeborahJanuary 4, 2021, 10:21 PM
Shephard’s party turn at Berkeley, back when there were wolves in Wales…
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Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
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They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
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Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
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Many’s the hour between dusk and dawn
Many’s the time
Many’s the mile
I see it all now
Through the eyes of a child
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
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Leave it all for a while
Leave the world
And your worries behind
You will build on whatever is real
And wake up each day
To a new waking dream
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
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I am laughing; truly belly laughing, at this.
Just in case Miss Olive needs a dance partner: Tefnut, the Mechanical Cat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTzouo91u64&ab_channel=bowmanwoodcraft
I wonder if they will play this song for us as they come enmass to exterminate us and do the mashed potato on our corpses. Absolutely chilling. I hope someone is working on a way to permanently decommission these monsters. These videos are made to make us comfortable with these killing machines.
I can’t decide if this is hilarious, endearing or frightening. I do know the guys who invented these and who are programming the robots to dance are having one heck of a really good time. I laughed the whole way through so…hilarious.
SkyNet ‘s favorite song
I could never find the lyrics online, but go listen to Paul Cebar and the Milwaukeeans- I can’t Dance For You
Boston Dynamics was owned by Google (scary thought) now being sold to Hyundai. That’s not reassuring.
I can’t help but remember the story last year that every experiment on self programed AI ended up with the machine going psychotic.
Is it me or the aftereffects of 2020?
Quite enjoyable!
I’m channeling Annie, wondering what it will take to destroy these things, and thinking that .223 FMJ rounds would probably be capable but with Kevlar or some other fabric to protect the innards, shots to the joints and other smaller but exposed connection points would be required. But I expect that heavier and ballistically superior rounds would get the job done easier.
As a rifle guy who has never had that much use for a shotgun beyond bird hunting, I might have to acquiesce and join the buckshot and slug gun club. That’s fine, I love the roar and the recoil.
Low tech. Trip wires and snares. Cannibalize for parts to fight back.
For a brief moment while watching that video I succumbed to effortless unbidden anthropomorphizing of what I was seeing. In the next instant I caught hold of myself and found the spectacle ominously chilling.
Also, no apology would I offer for my strong preference for the Dave Clark Five’s cover of that song.
Our overlords will no longer have to make use of unreliable human beings to enforce their edicts or liquidate enemies. If they can program these things to target specific individuals using facial recognition or by uploading a photo then they have a wonderful killing machine at their disposal. They could be programmed to attack only certain groups I suppose using GPS to determine a border and then slaughtering everyone within the lines (Stalin or Hitler would have loved that). Or they could narrow it down by sex or skin pigmentation maybe even age. Ain’t science grand!
Think about it: some team of dorks spent countless hours, writing and testing thousands of lines of code, to make a robot dance poorly.
For … what, exactly?
” dance poorly ” ?!?
This is astounding.
I remember when this song was first released (1962). I was 13 and I can say it was nearly a psychedelic experience when it came out of the radio of a 1955 Cadillac. To think, the song was meant for the Temptations to record…but it couldn’t have been done better than The Contours did it!
I didn’t find it funny or chilling, just fake (cgi).
Jack – aim for the knees.
FAKE??? In what way? It really isn’t CGI ya know.
There is a type of Silly String which is very sticky (unlike the consumer version); that’ll gum up the works pretty well.
Let me just say that I, for one,…
Extraordinarily creepy.
Terminator House Party.
I’m still waiting for one of their arrogantly conceived AI machine to wonder about the miraculous existence of a single star in a midnight sky. We might have to wait a long, long time. BTW, why would a scientist want a robot to dance to a love song? Must have been one hell of a government grant, paid for by money we no longer have.
Here’s the one of the robots making soldiers obsolete at shooting range and how accurate they are.
They will never show us when this becomes real, but, you have wonder.
https://youtu.be/y3RIHnK0_NE
OK, so this is clearly the “back area” on the Satellite of Love (SoL). The Mads at Gizmonic Institute have done a great job with Joel and Mike. These bots dance even better than those guys, although it looks as if they leak hydraulic fluid at a greater rate than those poor detainees on the SoL. I like 4-legged Crow, but the mash-up of Tom Servo and Gypsy into a pseudo-velociraptor is kind of disconcerting. As a science/engineering experiment, I give it a 10, but only a 7 for entertainment value. I do not think the heads at the network will give it the greenlight, but I could be wrong.
where’s the center mass and what’s the minimum cartridge?
Oh ! .. so cute ! … now imagine them with enhanced-viz and imaging, plus .22 miniguns.
NSFC now, eh ?
Check out Black Mirror and the ‘Metal Head” episode, for a significant non-zero probability
Shephard’s party turn at Berkeley, back when there were wolves in Wales…