If you can’t say anything nice… welcome home.
Whenver I look at these three
together, I can’t help but hear
head. People who don’t watch American TV but do fly Northwest may
recognize these three tones as the Attention signal on the PA system at
Detroit’s Metro Airport. I don’t think NBC knows about that, sssh.
Thank Metafilter for introducing us to the Random Image page on UploadYourImages.com. Edited highlights:
Opening this link from NSLog; and this link from Victor in the background, then wondering why Nintendo’s parental warning is accompanied by a medley of four letter words spoken in British accents.
I thought someone had hacked Nintendo’s page, then I thought maybe Nintendo had a weird sense of humor, then I realized that the audio from the first link, which, again, is a medley of four letter words in various British and American accents and as such is not work-safe, child-safe, or much-of-anyone-safe, was serving as an unintended soundtrack to the Nintendo page, despite them being in different windows.
…says, um, “I just marked it eight.” I like the street sign best, of course.
It just goes to show that, with a little ingenuity, some paid-off deps, and a handheld camcorder, a ragtag crew of determined inmates can make a real-life version of Eazy-E’s We Want Eazy video.
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You better hope you don’t talk to me like you talked to my wife tonight. I’m taller than average, over two bills, and I don’t have phenomenal upper arms, but I have just about enough rage and anger in me to make up for it.
Two years ago, I got a Games Freedom Pass, and really liked it.
It would be nice if you [Blockbuster] allowed Flip Card holders to take out two games at a time, like back then. I checked out a pretty diverse array of games, including old games I’d never looked at before. I’d usually find one I “knew” I’d like and one that had “slipped through the cracks.” If I didn’t like one game, I knew I’d have another to fall back on. Often I’d return one game and check another out while working my way through the other one. It was a really great deal.
I don’t know whether letting each passholder check out two games was making it too hard to find new games, or whether accounting for so many games on each account was logistically too difficult, but one game at a time isn’t worth it for me. If I check out a game I don’t like, I don’t want to get in the car and go back out. I know I have a store less than two miles away, but it’s on a road that is always busy and it’s just not worth the time to go back.
Today a Louisville paper profiled Nick Dinsmore, who appears as Eugene every week on WWE Raw. I didn’t want to like Eugene, whose childlike nature and unkempt appearance masks a highly skilled technical wrestler, because I was afraid he was just going to be a freakshow or a stereotypical “ree-tard” who would be a slapstick show and promptly squashed by some bully. And, well, there has been slapstick and a bully or two, but they have only enhanced my enjoyment of the overall show.
In the WWE Raw world, everyone has a dark side. Nobody is painted in pure black or white, only shades of grey [except maybe the Evolution guys, whose name is pronounced “Evil-lution” and who pretty much always do whatever the meanest thing to do would be]. Good guys misunderstand the moves of other good guys [perhaps because any given Joe Good-Guy was a Bad Guy as recently as a couple of months ago] and end up fighting each other, the bad guys’ machinations often seem to work out in the end. Eugene’s only aspiration is to perform for the crowd. He has no dead girlfriends in his closet, no ulterior motives, no baggage. It’s refreshing to cheer on a character like him and not wonder if he’s going to turn on his tag partner. Plus it helps that Nick Dinsmore is a great grappler and it’s fun to watch his matches.
In mostly unrelated news, except that both these shows share a cable network with Deep Space Nine, here is an excellent profile of the dramatis personae of The Joe Schmo Show 2. It starts tomorrow night. I liked the first one a lot, and I’m particularly looking forward to seeing Ralph Garman and the falcon.
