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When advertising companies find a gimmick that works, they go hard.

"Can you hear me now?"

As insufferable as those catchphrases were for us, imagine how much worse it was for

the actors who starred in these commercials.

Here's some of those people who probably can't go anywhere without being stopped on the street

by a: "Hey, aren't you the guy from...?"

Demetri Goritsas

Back in the 90s, Slim Jim commercials depicted a single bite of meat sending an army of lunatics

banging around someone's stomach lining.

"Snap into a Slim Jim!"

"Eat me!"

Demetri Goritsas played that army of lunatics, but has since built himself a respectable

acting and voiceover career.

He's loaned his voice to over 100 documentaries and commercials, but he's pretty much unrecognizable

outside of the Slim Jim suit, so you probably didn't know that was him in Black Mirror,

Snowden and X-Men: First Class.

Pete Gardner

Having a hook can help an actor stand out from the competition, and Pete Gardner grew

an impressive moustache to do just that.

Gardner and his 'stache have co starred in a wide variety of commercials, from playing

a goofy dad in a Postal Service ad to a guy who makes his armpit talk.

[Fart noises]

After also appearing in a number of TV bit parts and guest roles, Gardner finally landed

his first major TV role in 2015.

[Singing] "My sperm is healthy/My sperm is healthy/Aw shucks/Gee whiz/I got the best

sperm in the biz."

He and his moustache play the supportive, emotionally open lawyer Darryl Whitefeather

on The CW's musical comedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

John Moschitta, Jr.

Back in the 80s, John Moschitta, Jr. made a name for himself by talking really, really

fast.

[Speaking extremely fast] "Ok Eunis, travel plans: I need to be in New

York on Monday, LA on Tuesday, New York on Wednesday, LA on Thursday, New York on Friday.

Got it?"

"You got it."

"Got it.

So you wanna work here, what really makes you think you deserve a job here?"

"Well sir I think on my feet, I'm good with figures, and I have a sharp mind."

"Excellent, can you start on Monday?"

He even earned himself a Guinness World Record as the world's fastest talker.

He appeared in a number of commercials, including spots for Micro Machines, FedEx and JetBlue.

[Speaking extremely fast] "That's why I fly JetBlue, because they don't

stop.

They're nonstop to cities I do business with like Chicago, LA, New York, DC, Baltimore,

San Fran, Vegas, Charlotte, Raleigh, Phoenix, and Buffalo.

Hey what happens in Buffalo stays in Buffalo, amirite?

Up top, high five."

He is no longer ranked as the world's fastest talker, but age hasn't slowed Moschitta down.

On top of numerous acting roles, he also voices Key-per, a character on Adventure Time.

Ben Curtis

Back when people had only one computer per household, Dell came up with a brilliant marketing

plan to draw in a younger demographic.

Ben Curtis was 20 when he first uttered the famous words:

"Dude, you're gettin' a Dell!"

With his spiky blonde hair and hemp necklaces, Curtis was the epitome of cool.

His laid-back enthusiasm made his character seem a bit stoned, though.

"Oh, you're the more mobile type.

Not a couch potato?

You can get a Dell notebook with Intel Pentium III processor for $1149!"

Ironically, Curtis was actually arrested for possession of marijuana in 2003, which ended

his partnership with Dell.

After that, Curtis had trouble finding acting work.

He spent time as a bartender while staging his own theatre productions, and has also

done voiceover work.

In true chill-dude style, he also started his own yoga-based wellness company called

Soul Fit NY.

Hallie Kate Eisenberg

This cute-as-a-button, curly-haired, dimpled child star was best known for her Pepsi commercials.

"Honey, you ain't heard nothin' yet.

Hit it, fellas!"

[Singing] "Bah bah bop bah bah/Bah bah bop bah bah"

Commercial fame helped Hallie Eisenberg transition into a successful film career, where she starred

in films like Beautiful, Paulie, and a TV version of The Miracle Worker.

Then, in 2010, Eisenberg decided to quit acting.

She's since been working on recording her own music.

All is not lost for the Eisenberg family, though, as her brother Jesse Eisenberg seems

to be doing pretty well, too.

Charles Stone III

In the early 2000s, "Whassup?" was an inescapable catchphrase.

"Hello?"

"Whassup?"

"Whassup!"

"Blehhhhh!"

The Budweiser commercial was simple, silly, and endearing, and was based on True, a short

film directed by Charles Stone III.

An ad agency adapted Stone's short film it into a commercial, and had Stone star in it.

"Whassup?"

"Whassup!"

"Wazzaaaaaap?!"

Stone had already directed a number of music videos, but this commercial gave him the push

he needed to get into feature filmmaking.

Among his directorial credits are the 2002 hit Drumline and the 2004 Bernie Mac comedy

Mr. 3000.

In 2008, Stone even filmed an updated version of the original commercial, criticizing the

Bush administration and endorsing Barack Obama.

[Yelling incomprehensibly]

Wendy Kaufman

Wendy Kaufman stumbled into her star-making gig as Snapple's spokesperson by accident.

She was working in Snapple's order department when she decided to answer customer letters

simply because nobody else in the office would.

"Hi from Snapple.

A nice young man from Houston writes: 'Do you think we can get some Snapple on the space

shuttle?'

Let's check."

An ad executive decided to build an entire campaign around Kaufman answering consumers'

questions.

"Hi, a kid in high school wrote to me from detention: 'I only have a Snapple iced tea

to pass the time.'

Signed, suddenly caught talking."

Kaufman's ads helped elevate Snapple into a major national brand.

After 17 years with the company, she left Snapple in 2008.

Since then, she has continued to appear in commercials and infomercials, and was also

featured on VH1's weight loss show, Celebrity Fit Club, where she famously butted heads

with Gary Busey.

John Hodgman

When Apple launched their Get A Mac campaign, they cast actors as personified versions of

Mac and PC computers.

"Hello, I'm a Mac."

"And I'm a PC."

John Hodgman played PC, the bumbling, ancient-technology foil to Justin Long's cool and youthful Mac.

Not counting numerous parodies and ripoffs, the campaign spawned a total of 66 ads.

Hodgman became a recognizable face and media personality, and now hosts a podcast, does

stand-up comedy, and has published several books.

It may also be interesting to note that in real life, Hodgman is actually a Mac guy.

"I banish you.

You are banished."

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Who was John Harrison? - Everything You Need to Know about Clockmaker John Harrison. - Duration: 1:47.

The Search Engine Google is showing a Doodle for John Harrison's 325th Birthday.

John Harrison was conceived on third April 1693.

He was a self-taught English craftsman and clockmaker who concocted a marine chronometer,

a long-looked for after gadget for taking care of the issue of computing longitude while

adrift.

His answer reformed route and enormously expanded the security of long-remove ocean travel.

The issue he explained was considered so critical after the Scilly maritime debacle of 1707

that the British Parliament offered money related prizes of up to £20,000 (comparable

to £2.89 million today) under the 1714 Longitude Act.

Harrison came 39th in the BBC's 2002 open survey of the 100 Greatest Britons.

John Harrison was conceived in Foulby, close Wakefield in the West Riding of Yorkshire,

the first of five youngsters in his family.

His dad functioned as a woodworker at the close-by Nostell Priory domain.

A house on the site of what may have been the family home bears a blue plaque.

In around 1700, the Harrison family moved to the Lincolnshire town of Barrow upon Humber.

Following his dad's exchange as a craftsman, Harrison manufactured and repaired checks

in his extra time.

Legend has it that at six years old, while in bed with smallpox, he was given a watch

to delight himself and he invested hours tuning in to it and concentrate its moving parts.

He additionally had an interest for music, inevitably getting to be choirmaster for Barrow

area church.

He died on 24th March 1776.

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What Is Saturated Fat? | BonVie Weight Loss Portland / Santa Monica - Duration: 2:25.

What is saturated fat? In our previous video on cholesterol I talked about how

not all fats were bad for us and that their real culprit regarding high

cholesterol food choices lies in saturated fat. That's a type of fat which

remains solid at room temperature like lard butter or coconut oil and is only

good for you in small quantities. Too much can raise your LDL bad cholesterol

which can lead to heart disease that's why you want to limit your saturated

fats to 10% of your total calories daily which means about 200 calories in a

2,000 calorie diet or 22 grams of saturated fat. For fun today I'm going to

lead you through a little quiz on which food choices have the highest saturated

fat. Here we go! Greek yogurt or ice cream? Yogurt at 6 grams versus 4 grams for ice

cream is the highest. Pay attention to serving size. Salmon or

chicken thigh? Although salmon is high in those good omega-3 fats, a chicken thigh

has more than three times the saturated fat of the salmon. Buffalo patty or beef?

Patty beef is higher but how about beef sirloin or 2% milk? 2% milk has double

the saturated fat compared to three ounces of top sirloin. A slice of cheese

pizza or 15 potato chips? Pizza - though still not a good reason to eat potato

chips. Glazed donut or avocado? thankfully the highest saturated fat lies in the

donut plus a lot of other garbage. A whole avocado though still has about 3

grams of saturated fat so don't overdo the healthy fat idea. Macadamia nuts or

pork tenderloin? Mac nuts, but are nuts supposed to be good for us?

Well, just a quarter cup of macadamia nuts has four times the saturated fat of

a full dinner portion of lean pork. Coconut milk or half and half? Coconut

milk. There's so much hype about coconut milk, coconut water, coconut anything, but

a cup of coconut milk has three times the saturated fat of a glass of

half-and-half. That coconut milk would be your full saturated fat allowance for

two days. Ok how about this one: cafe latte or french fries? Well the French

fries have 3 grams of saturated fat but the latte has even more: 7 grams for a

tall. And lots of us out there are ordering the grande size. At BonVie we

love to teach and pass along interesting and sometimes surprising health

information. For much more check out our YouTube videos and blogs, and press the

contact button on our website now for a free telephone consultation

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What is Kinesin? Ron Vale Explains - Duration: 3:40.

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- Just like a busy city,

there's constant motion inside of your cells.

There's new construction, demolition,

and, most importantly, transporting goods

from one place in the cell to another.

Cells transport goods along cellular roadways.

To transport cargo along these routes,

the cells use motor proteins.

Kinesin is one of these motor proteins.

If you didn't have kinesin and other motor proteins,

you simply wouldn't be alive.

All the cells in your body depend upon

these tiny motor proteins to organize and power themselves,

to divide and multiply and to communicate with other cells.

Let's start with how you began as a fertilized egg.

That egg has to divide into many more cells.

All of those divisions require kinesin

and many other motor proteins.

Development, forming tissues in different parts of your body

requires molecular motion and motor proteins.

Every cell of your body requires them for survival.

What we know now is that kinesin effectively has two legs,

and these legs are able to coordinate

a walking motion along a track.

That track is called a microtubule.

And the kinesin undergoes this beautiful

choreographed walking action.

While the kinesin is walking along this track,

at the other end of the kinesin,

it gets hooked up to a cargo.

These motor proteins move quickly and efficiently.

Relative to their size, they move

as fast as a car on a freeway,

but they're four times more efficient

than your car in converting chemical energy into motion.

We discovered kinesin in 1984.

I was 25 years old at the time and a graduate student.

I was interested in the transportation system inside

of nerve cells, and what makes nerve cells so interesting

is that they're extraordinarily long cells.

For example, the part of your nerve cell

that has the nucleus, where the DNA is,

is located in your spinal cord.

But, it can extend a very long tube

all the way, for example, to your foot.

All of the building blocks for that

nerve cell are made in your spinal cord,

and all those building blocks have to be shipped

to the very end of that nerve cell a meter away.

There had to be some kind of transport system

that was moving these building blocks inside the nerve cell

and I wanted to know how that transportation system worked.

After we got this transport to work in this test tube,

the hunt was on then to find the key molecule

that was responsible for that movement.

And, we eventually found it,

and it turned out to be something completely new

that no one had ever discovered before.

Watching these movements under the microscope,

it was fascinating, then, to figure out

how does this motor actually work?

How does something that's a millionth of an inch

in size generate that motion?

My lab at UCSF spent about 10 to 20 years

trying to figure out the answer to that question.

We know about kinesin now, we a lot about how it moves,

but there's still so many fundamental questions

that we don't know about how all this motility is regulated,

how all of these cargoes know how to go to the right places.

There are always new questions that

one wants to know the answers to.