h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yes, folks. It's that time of year again. The time when no public place in the US is safe from people singing.

Time to celebrate the proper use of a flash mob with this beautiful, classic clip. If you will remember, a couple of years ago, this choir took over the Food Court, to general delight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE


People are still doing it. Here's a group of people who used Facebook and a mall to organise some community hopefulness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll8bvfarxio

What they can do in Boise, they can do elsewhere. The Food Court is still not safe for music-haters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaUmfJvMqs8

I have no idea where Pickering is, but it's blessed with a gifted choir. I don't know in what beleaguered suburb the next video takes place, but it is infested with smart-alecks.

They called it 'extreme carolling'. The neighbours called it 'disturbing the peace', and called the constabulary, who were good enough to watch the show - even the rap part:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci-eQUfvQ8I

Yeah, I know they're legends in their own minds, but I laughed until the tears came. I suspect you will, too, even if you've got kids you would murder for doing something like that.

Go sing to somebody. But don't do it at 4 am, or they might call the cops.

I wonder if their chums were doing a bank job while the tied up the police in a hunt for 'angry carollers'. Michael Caine never thought of that in The Italian Job.

Festive quote of the year?

"I appreciate the holiday spirit an' all that, but get the hell off my property."

That's a good one, isn't it?