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[oldr_n_wsr]

Had to pick up a new curio cabinet with my wife last night and we went out to dinner afterwards. After getting home I didn't feel like going to a meeting so I reclined and started to watch some TV. WHAT IS WITH ALL THESE "REALITY" SHOWS!!!!!! I ended up finding some channel that was showing Magnum PI reruns, the rest of the crap I couldn't watch.

[kristina]

I watch some of the house renovation reality shows, but they get old after a while.

And when did the food/cooking channel turn into a non-stop (nearly) stream of stupid and unpleasant "competitions"?

[TPFKA@W]

I watch some of the house renovation reality shows, but they get old after a while.

And when did the food/cooking channel turn into a non-stop (nearly) stream of stupid and unpleasant "competitions"?

AMEN SISTER!

[Long Run]

Actually, this is good for couples. The husband wants to watch sports. The wife wants to watch cooking. Turn cooking into a sport, and they both can watch = ratings success. Like all sporting events, some are better and more interesting than others.

[kristina]

Didn't really work in my most recent foray into couple-dom (but then he didn't like sports either). He mostly wonted to watch reality/police chase shows.

I read somewhere (a while ago, and it's not nearly important enough to me to look it up) that "Chopped" on the Food Network was very popular with the very important (to advertisers) demographic of young men.

[RayThom]

WHAT IS WITH ALL THESE "REALITY" SHOWS!!!!!! I ... the rest of the crap I couldn't watch.

500 channels and nothing on. It's enough to make you want to drink. When I can't find something worth while on the TV I usually turn to Classical music on the radio or CD. Music is always less distracting and gentler on the soul.

My advice... stay away from those cooking/foodie shows. Almost everyone I know who watch them are overweight. The power of suggestion is real.

[datsunaholic]

Music is always less distracting and gentler on the soul.

Not the music I listen to!

[BoSoxGal]

I like binge watching old shows on Netflix (right now it's X-Files) and coloring in my coloring books. Keeps me from the insanity of commercial tv. It boggles my mind that folks pay hundreds each month for the privilege of being sold stuff they don't need.

[BoSoxGal]

Sitting by the ocean - an inlet, anyway - after the final all-staff job interview for a job I think I'll get.

Anyway I'm eating lunch while listening to seagulls cry and that's pretty much good enough.

[Lord Jim]

I like binge watching old shows on Netflix (right now it's X-Files)

We've been working our way through Fringe for about a month now on Netflix. (it ran for 5 seasons, and there are 100 episodes, so it's not something you can binge watch at a single sitting...we usually watch 3 or 4 episodes in a row; we just started season 4)

If you haven't seen it, and you like the X-Files there's a good chance you'll also like Fringe...(we didn't watch it when it was in production; it ran from 2008-2013)

It had a great cast:



John Noble as the nutty professor Walter Bishop, is particularly good...

[oldr_n_wsr]

Spared myself last night and went over the daughters and put up a curtain rod, then hooked up her phone to her wireless modem and got it working then hooked up her blu-ray. No TV watching at all. Next week I am going to start cutting the 4ft x 4ft "window" betwen her kitchen and living room. Load bearing wall so I have to put a couple of 2x8's (maybe 2x10's) on some king studs to make sure the cieling doesn't sag (aka fall down). That would be bad.

If I ever get the urge to watch tv I am going to go back to my woodburning. I still owe gob the dogs portrait. How are they doing? been a while sisnce you have talked aobut them

[Long Run]

No TV watching at all. Next week I am going to start cutting the 4ft x 4ft "window" betwen her kitchen and living room. Load bearing wall so I have to put a couple of 2x8's (maybe 2x10's) on some king studs to make sure the cieling doesn't sag (aka fall down). That would be bad.

Yes, I learned all about that watching home remodeling shows.

[MajGenl.Meade]

I still owe gob the dogs portrait. How are they doing? been a while since you have talked about them

You just had to ask, didn't you?

[TPFKA@W]

Bernie Sanders sounds like the aardvark. I wish he'd say,"hey ant!"

[Lord Jim]

Bernie Sanders sounds like the aardvark. I wish he'd say,"hey ant!"

I've noticed that too...

Which means that the one Sanders really sounds like is the comedian Jackie Mason, who the aardvark voice was an impersonation of (The ant was an impersonation of Dean Martin.)

[Long Run]

Sanders bound to grate on you eventually. Ask the Gen'l, he'd know.

[Bicycle Bill]

Bernie Sanders sounds like the aardvark. I wish he'd say,"hey ant!"

I've noticed that too...

Which means that the one Sanders really sounds like is the comedian Jackie Mason, who the aardvark voice was an impersonation of (The ant was an impersonation of Dean Martin.)

Next time you see one of these, check the credits.  Both the ant *AND* the aardvark were voiced by John Byner, who was doing his impression of Mason for the aardvark and Martin for the ant.


-"BB"-

[Joe Guy]

That's what Jim said...

[Bicycle Bill]

That's what Jim said...

He said it was an impression of the two.  I just thought it was proper to give credit to the impressionist (Byner).

-"BB"-

[Joe Guy]

Sorry. I guess I got the wrong impression...