Dear NBC,
Thank you for helping to cover up how bad a nosedive the Olympic closing ceremonies took after Neil Young. (Who, frankly, put all the projectors and dance numbers and ridiculous inflatables to shame with his acoustic guitar.) Your greed has saved a lot of Canadian embarrassment.
Thanks again,
54º 40′ and Surroundings
As far as I know, Diff’rent Strokes was really the show that began the trend of Very Special Episodes – which arguably peaked and receded during the final season of Blossom.
A lot of things can be ‘Very Special’ however, and Diff’rent Strokes liked to cast a wide net. Have you ever heard of The Bicycle Man?
Gordon Jump, (the boss from WKRP in Cincinnati & The Lonely Maytag Repairman,) played a bicycle shop owner who was quite interested in cutting Arnold a deal – in exchange for his pants. It’s surprising, for an early ’80s sitcom, how far they went with this Child-Molester warning.
It might have been a little more effective without the laugh track though.
Here’s the crux, but you can find both episodes dealing with the subject on youtube:
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This mainly applies to the Canada vs America Men’s Olympic Hockey Game – and obviously assumes I was cheering for Team Canada – but:
After a game like that, why would I ever need to watch another?
I’m flat-out stealing this from the venerable AnyCheese, [well, her buzz feed anyhow] but this story exploded my thinker.
A 42-year-old HIV patient with leukemia appears to have no detectable HIV in his blood and no symptoms after a stem cell transplant from a donor carrying a gene mutation that confers natural resistance to the virus that causes AIDS, according to a report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
“The patient is fine,” said Dr. Gero Hutter of Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin in Germany. “Today, two years after his transplantation, he is still without any signs of HIV disease and without antiretroviral medication.” – More from CNN
They do point out later in the article that the process is prohibitively dangerous to use in all but the most extreme of situations, and that the process itself kills one in three patients. My thoughts are that the skeptics can tell it to Christiaan Barnard.
I’m not arguing for a technocracy, but when are we going to get The R&D Candidate?
“Andrew Koenig‘s parents wish their son had realized how many people cared about him. “My son took his own life,” dad Walter Koenig said during a police news conference this [Feb 25th] evening. “Obviously, he was in a lot of pain.”” – more at imdb
So ends the life of “Boner” Stabone.
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I’m crazy busy today, well, this week really, so I leave you with this disturbing comedic youtube cop out in place of actual content.
Why is on-hold music still so terrible? We’ve obviously got phone and music technology working fairly well these days, why can’t we successfully combine them into a non-iPhone application?
Is there a concern that if they start providing CD quality music, people will call in just to record a swath of “Non-Specific Adult Contemporary Instrumentals vol XIV” for resale on the streets of Bangkok?
A screen grab from CNN:
Will spend entire weekend in his room listening to New Found Glory and weepily texting his girlfriend.
It’s a shame the General isn’t in some sort of position to make changes to the way the military operates, it must really tear him up inside to feel so helpless.
“My Olympic Event is the 500 Meter Eating-Your-Brain.”