Those Crazy Brits

This video by British comedian Peter Kay recently propelled the re-release of Tony Christie's catchy '70's tune "Is This the Way to Amarillo" to #1 on the charts in Britain.

Now, the British Army's Royal Dragoon Guards stationed at Al-Faw, Iraq have done them one better (if that link doesn't work for some reason, try here.)

The soldiers' "spoof of a spoof" proved so popular that it crashed the Ministry of Defence's e-mail system last week. MoD officials weren't upset, though...calling the video "brilliant."

Staff Sargeant Roger Parr, who played the role of Peter Kay in the video, was interviewed last week.

Speaking from the Dragoon Guards German base in Munster, he said: "It's been crazy, really mad. We are all massive Peter Kay fans - well who isn't?

"We were watching his video out in Iraq on satellite TV and all the lads really liked it. The song kind of became a signature for our time out there.

"We just thought one day 'why not let's go for it and do our own version?'

"So we got our heads together and got everyone involved in the video. Even the lads with diarrhoea were in the video - they were the ones in the toilets holding the toilet roll.

"Altogether there were around 41 people in the video. It was no problem remembering the words because we all know them off by heart anyway."

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