I *heart* remix culture

So first of all there was Dumb ways to die, an incredibly morbid yet strangely cute transport safety video that went viral. Then rysmiel pointed me to Cool things to find which is, um, a Mars Rover / safety video mashup, I guess? with added surreality.

Then some friends in a locked post started writing DWTD verses on a Biblical theme. My best attempt was:

Offer incense when you've had a skinful
Encourage your neighbours to be sinful
Disobey your parents and refuse to change
Get caught in Saul's spear-throwing range

Dumb ways to die, so many dumb ways to die
Bible ways to die, so many dumb ways to die...

But it turns out this kind of thing is strangely addictive, I've written half a dozen other ridiculous Biblical death couplets since I saw the post; I almost can't help myself.

So there you go. Of all the unlikely crossovers, Bible with horribly morbid safety PSA must rank pretty highly. (In case anyone hasn't seen it yet, when I say the original DWTD is morbid, I am really not joking. It's about the same style of humour as the Darwin Awards, and the fact that all the characters in it are adorable cartoons doesn't entirely detract from that.)

Cool things to find is already subtitled. If you particularly want the words to the original DWTD, there's a karaoke version...