Jimmy Kimmel, the host of that show you’ve never seen - Jimmy Kimmel Live has a segment on his show called “Unnecessary Censorship” where he will take an ordinary video clip - and beep out words that normally wouldn’t need to be bleeped out…
The end result: A guilty laugh or two.
I would say some of the humor is “dirty” - but obviously since everything has been bleeped out your mind is left to fill in the blanks. Make of it what you will.
I’ve heard many times that children have very impressionable minds - and that they are prone to absorb things that we might not even think possible… but I never believed it until I saw it with my own eyes.
After TiVo found and recorded a few episodes of “Hogan Knows Best” - we were hooked. It’s like the Osbornes - minus the drugs, minus the profanity, minus the annoying gothic kids, and minus the subtitles (you can actually understand these people.) It’s interesting to watch Hulk Hogan manage his two teenage children… but that’s not the point.
The point is this… Here’s how Rhett seems to be most comfortable these days. This is how he will sleep, and how he will naturally pose when he is loafing around…
I guess we should be happy we haven’t been watching too much Spongebob or who knows what he would be posing like.
On February 2nd, RyeBlog readers made their predicictions about who would win the game based on the pictures (and bios) alone. You can go back and read the Survivor 12 Predictions. As far as scoring goes - nobody picked Aras to win from our blog (although the Professional Booking agents had him at 5 to 1, above Terry at 6-1)
Here’s a fun mental game to see who could “outwit” Aras and Danielle. Suppose someone - for the sake of this situation, we’ll call that someone “Shane” were to say to you: “Pick a number between 1 and 1 million.” What number would you pick if you went first? What number would you pick if you went second?
Here’s how it broke down. Aras picked “4″ and then Danielle picked “10″. The first person to explain why Danielle and Aras are both idiots based on these decisions gets a high-five.
To put Aras in perspective - some random loser (scroll down to the bottom of the discussion thread) posted a description of him before he was on Survivor. Aparently he was a hothead poser before Survivor even started.
Before anyone accuses me of being one of those people who “didn’t vote, but still complains” let me tell you - that is not the case. I voted three times. Once for Chris, once for Taylor, and once for Katherine. My reasoning was: I don’t care who makes it through - as long as Elliot is gone.
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If you watched American Idol the other night, you probably learned from the dialog that Simon Cowell had predicted in an interview who he thinks will be in the top 3. Unlike last season, they didn’t reveal Simon’s prophecy on the show itself - but left it up to the viewers who cared to troll the internet to try to find the interview. Here’s what Simon says:
“Let me tell you who’s gonna be in the finals,” Cowell said. “The bald-headed kid [Daughtry] and the guy with gray hair [Hicks].”
A few minutes later, he added: “I think the top three will be the two I mentioned and Kellie Pickler.”
(taken from the Simon Cowell interview)
In saying this - did Simon really say anything that the rest of us didn’t already know? Of course the top two will be the grey-haired guy and the bald guy. They are the best singers in the group. Kellie will probably bring up the rear of the top-3… She’s very much like Carrie Underwood - only less diverse in her singing abilities (Kellie can only do Country) - and visibly much dumber (For instance, in this week’s show - she was fascinated by the fact that someone made a sign of a pickle to support her. Kellie: “Look - there’s a Pickle in the audience…” Secrest: [as if talking to a child] “Yes, I saw that…”).
Kellie wont win. She can’t win. No, it’s not because Carrie Underwood won last year - and she is too similar… It’s because Daughtry and Hicks are significantly better than any of the past Idol winners. Carrie Underwood wouldn’t win against those two…
If you have ever tried to vote for someone before - you know that the lines are busy a lot of the time… and if they aren’t busy, that might not be a good sign. Well - combine the finite capacity of the phonebanks and the ingenuity of a group with a lot of time and modems on their hands - and you get DialIdol.com - a site that will list the American Idol performers in descending order based on how often their phone lines were busy.
Now - in a classic RyeBlog tradition - I will ask you readers to explain to me what is wrong with using DialIdol’s data to predict winners… (No, it’s not the fact that their dialing may actually influence the votes… Presumably they either disconnect once they hear no busy signal - or their calling system will attempt to cast an even number of votes for each person - or their votes are thrown out as “power dialing” votes as defined in the fine text at the end of the show…)
On November 17th, 1978 - there was a disturbance in the force. Jedi at the time remember hearing the sound of a million voices screaming at once - and then 30 minutes later… silence (after the show ended)…
Lets just put it this way. Bea Arthur is in it - along with Jefferson Starship and the rest of “Chewbacca’s family”… I’m busy today, so I only watched the introduction.
The Internet Movie Database entry about the special gives some interesting reviews.
In pair figure skating, Americans Rena Inoue and John Baldwin landed the first Triple Throw-Axel in Olympic competition. In the replay, you can easily see Inoue’s movements - thanks to a new feature of the Torino Olympics. Open space.
The general lack of crowds at the pairs figure-skating competition was hard to ignore. Large gaps of lower-section seating was completely unclaimed. Entire rows of expensive seats behind the judges are completely empty. It made the games feel a little cheaper - like a UVSC (or high-school girl’s) basketball game. Torino is supposed to be a bigger city than Salt Lake - so where are the crowds?
If you look closely, most of the “spectators” in this shot are actually ushers.
Why is it that I always get tricked into watching the Opening Ceremonies? They are always very, very strange - and very long. They always start out with some weird, trippy thing - have an extremely long section with all the countries marching in - and end off with a long trippy section before they light the torch.
Torino was no exception. In an attempt to make it even more trippy, they took some pages out of Pink Floyd’s book and used large balloons and girls with gigantic hair. (Unfortunately, they didn’t use lasers or good music.)
Here are the highlights:
I think the commentators make up half of what they say about the “symbolism” behind certain things - and the other half is made up by the people putting the show together.
What’s the symbolism of this guy? He looks like he should be the next Spiderman villain.
Imagine a tribal council where someone gets sent home after getting only one vote. Imagine not knowing if a vote will count until after they have all been counted. Well, you wont have to imagine very long - because that is part of the game this season.
The new format in “Exile Island” makes the game refocus on the idea of being a sole survivor. Every week, someone will get punted to the “Exile Island” and left alone. Although they will be left to fend for themselves for days at a time - they will also have something to do. They can spend their time searching for the Immunity Idol (that will be re-hid each week).
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