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The strangest thing I've ever seen...

Israfel	Date: July 16, 2008 @ 3:27 PM I just turned on the television and there is some "circus of the stars" type show on. Some soap opera actor is flying around hanging from a fringed scarf in flesh colored tights. There's some chick I never heard of swinging around from a hoop by her ankle. And Weeman from jackass fame is performing some homo-erotic strong man balancing act with a stocky bald man. WTF is this show??? And why is it even on telelvision???
Israfel	Date: July 16, 2008 @ 3:28 PM OH I forgot to mention the funniest part...they were performing all of these things simultaneously to the song "The Final Countdown"!
ShadowMom	Date: July 16, 2008 @ 3:33 PM How apropos... the final countdown being the time it takes you to change the channel!
Opossum	Date: July 16, 2008 @ 5:06 PM New show concepts: Bank managers from different states having a sliding-on-back downhill race on a very large pile of coins and notes. A race between news announcers on who can look from his documents and up at the camera and then at an off-screen associate the fastest. A group of teachers having a brain-storming session to see who can come up with the most ludicrous "educational" endeavors, such as setting ants loose in the family home and keeping a table on how many ant bites result, or dropping hammers on the feet of various shoppers at the mall and recording their reactions. That last one isn't as strange as it sounds, as I remember reading a legitimate psychology text book where one assignment was to somehow manage to drop a paper-clip in the purse of different women and keep a record of their reaction. :roll-eyes: Oh, and "Bloom's taxonomy", widely used in education, (especially Bloom's rose) is modeled after summoning demons.
zedsalt	Date: July 17, 2008 @ 4:04 AM On 16th Jul 2008, ShadowMom said: How apropos... the final countdown being the time it takes you to change the channel! ...or "reality television" as a sign of the coming apocalypse. At the start of primetime last p.m., we had reality shows on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, MYtv, and the CW. Our local PBS station was granted permission to stop its analog broadcast early when their two klystron tubes (the cheapest, most effective tool for boosting digital t.v. broadcasts) mysteriously "failed" within a couple weeks of each other, even though they were better than a decade apart in age. And I didn't check the local religious programming. But all the major broadcast networks and a couple of indies were showing unscripted crap.
zedsalt	Date: July 17, 2008 @ 4:17 AM The strangest/saddest thing I've seen recently, though, was a show where a bunch of bitchy, superficial fashion police and image maker types critiqued the personal style of several infant children of celebrities. It was a half hour of garbage like, "Well, if four month old Chrissy wants to follow in her mom's footsteps as an actress, she's going to have to somehow communicate that the frumpy miniature Dioresque pantsuits are NOT going to do the trick!"
Opossum	Date: July 17, 2008 @ 5:13 AM Did they have that one there that was some sort of contest and mini-series on checking which women had been wearing a bra of the correct size (claiming that most women didn't know their own bra size), and then going on and on in unbelievable detail and critique?
zedsalt	Date: July 18, 2008 @ 3:15 AM I must've missed that one, but it's a good example of what appears to be replacing good writing...and bad writing. At least there's some small kernel of worth there. I mean, I figure they could make their point in a forty second long PSA, but I have to admit that comfy clothes are important, if only in avoiding distraction. The idea of making an extended entertainment out of it? Yeah, that's pretty lame.
evansorchid	Date: July 18, 2008 @ 3:21 AM It sounds like a Circus, Izzy. You know...trapeze artists....strongmen....You need to turn off the TV and get out of the house more often.
prettymusicgurl	Date: July 18, 2008 @ 5:51 PM omg lol
Opossum	Date: July 18, 2008 @ 5:53 PM I've been to real circuses. I've been to real circi. I've been to real circusi...
ChillinBuzz	Date: July 18, 2008 @ 5:53 PM Relax, she's been having one of her pervy dreams again...
prettymusicgurl	Date: July 18, 2008 @ 5:54 PM LOL
GTOriginal	Date: July 19, 2008 @ 12:40 PM I was at a circumcision, once...
tsand20175	Date: July 19, 2008 @ 5:38 PM Izzy, the strangest you've seen? this from a woman from a city where people wear swiss cheese on their heads....
Israfel	Date: July 20, 2008 @ 4:41 AM Cheddarheads are perfectly normal to me, tim! And Spike...duh...I realize this was a circus, the question was WHY????
evansorchid	Date: July 20, 2008 @ 6:18 AM Why?.......for spectacle and entertainment. You might have asked....Why do we write music? Just because something leaves a bad cheetoey aftertaste in your palete, doesn't mean it's not worth something to somebody. I mean.... I might enjoy the homo-erotic strongman bit.....if it's done tastefully....of course.
Opossum	Date: July 20, 2008 @ 6:29 AM Yeah, that cheetoey issue - gets all over my hands, in my pockets, on my shoes, and somehow, even on my shoulders and top of my head.
Opossum	Date: July 20, 2008 @ 6:30 AM Orange flecks everywhere. Call me "Rusty"
BOWILLIE	Date: July 20, 2008 @ 6:31 AM sounds like you get the most out of your snack
GTOriginal	Date: July 20, 2008 @ 7:36 AM Yeah my brother-in-law loves his Cheetos® too... http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee110/GTOriginal/SteveEnduro.jpg
killoFunk	Date: July 20, 2008 @ 3:05 PM On 20th Jul 2008, GTOriginal said: Yeah my brother-in-law loves his Cheetos® too... http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee110/GTOriginal/SteveEnduro.jpg that poor little scotter...
ChillinBuzz	Date: August 5, 2008 @ 12:56 PM http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/index.php?module=see&lang=fr&code=d7fae1812cd505a4cfdc8ad2f7c798ab Always carry a handy-pack of wipes when eating Cheetos...
Opossum	Date: August 5, 2008 @ 6:54 PM
vilifiend	Date: August 6, 2008 @ 12:34 PM that's because the television is epic fail
TameasDust	Date: August 7, 2008 @ 12:08 AM On 5th Aug 2008, ChillinBuzz said: http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/index.php?module=see&lang=fr&code=d7fae1812cd505a4cfdc8ad2f7c798ab Always carry a handy-pack of wipes when eating Cheetos...