Ghost of a flea: (Is This The Way To) Amarillo

May 25, 2005

(Is This The Way To) Amarillo

(Is This The Way To) Amarillo is a home-made video by British soldiers serving in Iraq that crashed UK Ministry of Defence computers due to a massive run on bandwidth. The MoD does not seem to have been bothered by the incident.

Troops in the Royal Dragoon Guards shot a home video at their Al Faw base of their version of the video sung by Tony Christie and mimed by Peter Kay.

They e-mailed it to Army friends in London, but so many tried to download it that the MoD server could not cope. The MoD said the spoof was "brilliant" and the crash did not cause problems.

The whole Amarillo video is available here.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at May 25, 2005 06:17 AM

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