Forum:Wait wait wait, get this: Featured Audios.

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We already have featured images, so I propose a VFA: Same rules apply for articles as audios. Let me throw a few ideas of audios that could be feature-able:

• Media:UnNews-Vincent_Van_Gogh_lost_ear_to_grues_say_German_historians.mp3 by Todd Lyons
• Media:'re_Not_Thinkerer.mp3 by RAHB
• any of the Star Wars (Japanese Opera) things by RAHB
• anything ever done by RAHB

The only reason I'm hesitant about this is that it hasn't been done already, and I'm curious why... Oh well, tell me what you think.   Le Cejak • <12:08 May 23, 2009>

After listening to RAHB's song, I think I finally understand your fascination with kazoos. --T. (talk) 14:40, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

It's not a bad idea, but where and how should we feature it? —Sir Socky (talk) (stalk) GUN SotM UotM PMotM UotY PotM WotM 12:10, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Well, we feature images in a kind of backwoods sort of way (it's at the bottom of the main page, it's voting section is not too prominent). I figure a section of the main page, below the VFP? It would have a voting section identical to VFP at first; If it gets serious it can change.   Le Cejak • <12:13 May 23, 2009>

Well, we could put it next to the featured image part, since the caption is usually rather short. Can we embed something in somekind of box so you don't always have to download it and play it on your own Media Player or whatever you use? —Sir Socky (talk) (stalk) GUN SotM UotM PMotM UotY PotM WotM 12:44, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

I like it. I'd be inclined to do a lot more voice work if it saw the front page a bit more prominently. As it is, I'm not sure how many people listen to UnNews Audio, because even it is kinda buried in the lower right corner of the UnNews page. --T. (talk) 12:32, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Plus, you have to remember to switch your speakers on. I, for one, rarely make it over that particular mountain. Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 14:33, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Computers come with speakers now? What will they think of next? And by "they" I of course mean the Chinese. -OptyC Sucks! CUN14:44, 23 May

First off FU CAJEK, if there's anyone I rather not get any recognition by, it would be you. Second, I love audios, even though I think we need to revive this whole section of the site - but what worries me is that we have major issues with featuring articles and pictures as it is, i don't want to create another stale voting page. Ideas? ~ 14:46, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

I say we pretend to consider it till Cajek wanders off again, then we forget it ever happened. -OptyC Sucks! CUN14:50, 23 May

I say the cabal just feature the audios they feel like featuring. Also, there is no cabal. —Sir Socky (talk) (stalk) GUN SotM UotM PMotM UotY PotM WotM 14:52, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

That would be easy considering all the audio people are members of the cabal, were it to exist. ~ 15:05, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

We could start off really primitive as follows:

Media:UnNews-Vincent_Van_Gogh_lost_ear_to_grues_say_German_historians.mp3

For	For. --User:Who am I kidding?!? 15:10, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Against	Against. --User:Look at this crap! 15:10, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Comments

  Le Cejak • <15:10 May 23, 2009>

And you would feature it where exactly? ~ 15:11, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

On my userpage. Plus, make my userpage the mainpage and the mainpage my userpage. Also, begin featuring talk pages. ???   Le Cejak • <15:12 May 23, 2009>

but seriously, isn't there... room... on the main page...?   Le Cejak • <15:13 May 23, 2009>

I think I made a comment about that somewhere. I suspect it's somewhere higher up in this forum topic, but I can't be bothered checking. —Sir Socky (talk) (stalk) GUN SotM UotM PMotM UotY PotM WotM 15:14, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Let's just remove the featured article and replace it with the featured audio. Problem solved. -OptyC Sucks! CUN15:44, 23 May

UnTunes:Main Page? Go crazy. • Spang • ☃ • talk • 21:42, 23 May 2009

Dammit Spang, can't you see we're trying to humor Cajek so he'll stick around for a while? -OptyC Sucks! CUN23:00, 23 May

Cajek is quite sticky enough as it is. Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 23:05, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Well I...um...I got nothin'. I'm just a little creeped out by the concept of a sticky Cajek. -OptyC Sucks! CUN23:13, 23 May

Try peeling him off. He makes the velcro sound. Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 23:15, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Great, now I've lost my appetite. Why did we ever let Cajek back in anyway? Would somebody please ban him already? -OptyC Sucks! CUN23:18, 23 May

Thou shalt not

Thou shalt not vote for these videos nominated by Cajek. |Si Plebius Dato' (Sir) Joe ang Man on Fire CUN|IC Kill | 06:14, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

And by "videos" you mean "audios", right? Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 06:20, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

That was a trick commandment. And you fell for it. Just like those ones in the bible. • Spang • ☃ • talk • 01:27, 25 May 2009

Luckily nobody started any anus comments. —Sir Socky (talk) (stalk) GUN SotM UotM PMotM UotY PotM WotM 01:29, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

It's pronounced Goch not Go

Vincent van Gogh is pronounced wrong, so automatic FAIL. --CrabPope 16:23, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

What about Van Go? Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 16:27, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

I read this, wondered if some tea and crumpets might help, got bored, lost consciousness, dreamed about beating up pretentious wankers with their own canes, woke up, remembered I was recording free material for some obscure website, then did it in a very American style using American pronunciation (or as well as a Canadian can approximate). My sincerest apologies if you didn't like it. --T. (talk) 15:59, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

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Good one. Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 16:00, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Wow. I really am slacking now. :) Of course, if an extraneous pipe is enough to stymie the typical readers here, then Goch might have been disastrous. --T. (talk) 16:08, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

You just made up a bunch of those words! Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 20:14, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Apologies if I sounded pretentious or anal, I did like the clip - just thought I should point it out in an annoying manner. Goch is the Dutch pronunciation, that is his name, there's no such thing as an 'American' version of it. Plus Vincent Van-Go sounds like a run-down delivery company --CrabPope 23:00, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Having lived for 6 years in the US and the rest of my life (before and since) in various parts of Canada, I'd have to respectfully disagree. :) Certainly there is a black and white right and wrong to pronunciation. In books. But here in North America as there in the UK there is the real way that the absolutes vary. I've never understood why British people pronounce Rs that don't exist in the written words, nor why Americans butcher any foreign words that find use in American English. But I just smile and let myself be charmed by it, rather than jumping over the table and strangling the guy who keeps saying "foyer" as "foy-urrr" instead of "foy-ayy". ;-) In any case, the rough "och" stood out from the rest of the text like a blistering sore, so on take 2 I changed it. Perhaps I'm just not verbally agile enough to blend it so that it isn't the spoken equivalent of a highlighting pen. --T. (talk) 23:37, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

*Pbbt!* Hoser. Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 23:39, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

You'd think my own brother would treat me better than this. :) --T. (talk) 23:44, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Aw jeez, eh, it's a term of endearment. Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 23:55, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

I speak Dutch and I don't fucking care whether you say Goch or Goh or whatever you want to pronounce it. Just saying. —Sir Socky (talk) (stalk) GUN SotM UotM PMotM UotY PotM WotM 23:41, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Case closed. :) --T. (talk) 23:44, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

I agree with the following points from above.

• Feature everything I create.
• Remove the featured article and replace it with the featured audio.
• Make anus comments.
• Make up all words.
• Feature everything created by me.
• All of the audio guys are members of the non-existent cabal (although Zana Dark has begun working on some pretty nice ones)

Following this series of steps, I think we can properly create an elegant featuring scheme for audios of those who really deserve to have them featured. Namely, me. -RAHB 21:10, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm sorry to bother you, but you aren't all that. If you were all that, you'd be me. Clearly, that's ridiculous. Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 22:10, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Wait... forget all this audio rubbish... since when did RAHB have spinning dildos? Spinning dildos?! -- sannse<staff/> (talk) 17:02, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

He's like Mordillo. But with a dildo. I assume he's from Newfoundland. Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 17:07, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Ahem! That's two dildos, thank you very much. -RAHB 22:30, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Wait wait wai, get this:

Some sick. MegaPleb • Dexter111344 • Complain here 17:08, 3 June 2009 (UTC)