Check out this video from India for the song Benny Lava Rocking. The music is catchy, if a bit pop-simple. But the video itself is terrific. Michael Jackson had nothing on these guys!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMiTJhiWx-k

Then check out THIS version for some very funny audio pareidolia. A clever youtuber has captioned a different video of the same song with English phrases based on the phonics of the original Hindu language version. (I'm guessing it's in Hindu, although I don't know this to be a fact.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzd6C...eature=related

Pareidolia is the phenomenon that causes us to see animals in clouds. Pareidolia is the perceptual phenomenon by which we perceive familiar patterns in disorder. Pareidolia is also the brain function that causes ghost hunters to hear paranormal speech in random background noise and believers to see the face of the Virgin Mary in a toasted sandwich. I'm not making this up. Google it for yourself.

Anyway, Brian Dunning offers a much better explanation of audio pareidolia on one of his Skeptoid podcasts, complete with some amazing demonstrations involving randomly generated complex sign waves that sound like complete sentences. If you enjoy this sort of thing check out the podcast at

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4105

This link will take to you to a transcript of the episode with links to the sounds and to the audio version of the podcast. Warning, Dunning's podcasts can be habit forming.

 

How do you find this stuff! Wild and crazy.

 

The video made me think about a recent conversation. I was tipping a few last night with a guy in his mid-50s and he said he hopes to retire at 58. Pretty young, right. So I asked why. One the factors was his whole area is being taken over by Indians via sub-contracting. He admits they are very bright but he said sitting in a room where they represented 3/4 of the employees and having a video conference to the other arm in India with 100% being Indian was becoming too much for him. He said when they got done with the conference call he could not remember a single name because they were all so foreign to him.

I guess it is not fun when you feel like an outsider in your own country.