It'll Never Fly » funny http://wqoq.com Clever... not good, but clever. Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:50:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3-beta1-18972 Favourite Reality TV Moments http://wqoq.com/2008/12/27/favourite-reality-tv-moments/ http://wqoq.com/2008/12/27/favourite-reality-tv-moments/#comments Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:09:41 +0000 Bob http://wqoq.com/?p=632 I’ve been keeping this as a draft until I could hunt down online videos I could embed, but that’s too much work, and I’m trying to do some spring cleaning on the blog here even though it’s still Winter and still 2008. Regardless, here it is. If you want videos, you’ll have to search for them yourself.

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I was talking to some coworkers this morning, and had never realized just how much I’ve watched over the years. Now, I’m not an aficionado. I have a few shows I’ll always watch, a few I’ll never watch, some that I either start or stop watching part way through a season, and some that I’ve skipped for multiple entire seasons in a row.

Here are some memorable moments I’ve seen over the years.

Fear Factor – Reality TV Stars (Fairplay razzing J&V / “The Fight”)
Trading Spouses – Crazy Christian Lady (“dark-sided!”)
Any Amazing Race stuff (Mosques = Starbucks, “They keep breeding and breeding”, naked diving, Colin: “My ox is broken” / “I hate you”, any Jonathan & Victoria, Brandon (in Amazing Race 5 in India): “Lord help her”, etc…)
Big Brother (Will winning BB2, Dan winning BB10, Nokomis backdooring Jase)
Apprentice – Trump fires four at once
Survivor – Ozzy blindsided in Fans vs. Favourites, Randy and the fake idol from latest season

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Stuff I found funny, interesting, just plain disturbing, or for my own personal benefit.

Federal Leaders – Look How Far They’ve Come

Old video highlights of the current leaders of some of the political parties of today. Also get a load of the clip of Kim Campbell from 1957.

I wonder if, as she stood there next to that elephant, the thought of becoming the country’s first female Prime Minister ever crossed her mind… probably not.

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Dressler still making an impact

A September 2008 article about Weston Dressler and the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

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DrawIt

Looks like an interesting and cost-effective alternative to Adobe Illustrator.

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Spamusement! Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines! Your Dog Will Love It!

Like explodingdog.com, but for spam.

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Find x

Funny take on a classic math problem.

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macosxhints.com – Alternate genie effects

Not sure if this hint still works or not. But back in the day, if someone said Macs suck, they were actually right.

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Independence Day?

A discussion of different Independence Days around the world.

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Apparently, a long running joke. I first heard it in 2004, I think, from a coworker who read it on a programmer’s blog he was following. Unfortunately, I can’t find it anymore. I think it was a Python developer, as that’s the technology this particular coworker was fond of.

Is this it?

We found it particularly funny, as the work we were doing at the time (a lot of ASP.NET, Web Services, and XML Serialization) involved a lot of work with XML and XSLT stylesheets, and it seemed every time we finally thought we had figured out all the rules to the game, someone went and changed all the playing pieces. We never seemed to be able to apply what we had already learnt or written to any new problems, and always had to start each time from scratch.

Occasionally, in the middle of a work day, you’d hear one of us blurt out, “Yes!” And, by that, you could invariably always tell that person had just got their XML Stylesheet working.

It was also around that time that I proposed my hypothesis that, “I could solve any problem, given a time machine… and a big enough stick.”

All that reminds me of some posters my dad used to have hanging on the walls of his office when I was a kid. They were of course posters detailing the laws of Murphy. A couple of my favourites being, “Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will use it,” and, “Eat one live toad first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”

Classic stuff.

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Tom & Mark: “Muffin Man” | Motionographer

Tom and Mark (Nexus Productions) have outdone themselves with Muffin Man, a new spot for the recently rebranded Royal Bank of Canada. Although the spot is

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Tupperware Sales Blog: Tupperware Baby Product Sale!

How do you get a baby into a Tupperware container?

Use a blender.

How do you get a baby out of a Tupperware container?

Use Doritos.

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The Lego Secret Vault: Lego Secret Vault Contains All Sets In History

Gizmodo gets a tour through the Lego Secret Vault containing all their still boxed sets from the 50s and forward.

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Macworld | How to buy a camera lens

Still using the lens that came with your digital SLR? Explore the creative possibilities of your camera by buying a new lens. Whether looking for a zoom lens or a prime lens, we’ll show you what to look for when shopping.

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The Incredible Ihnatko on Hulk :: rogerebert.com :: Letters

Andy Ihnatko explains the Marvel universe to Roger Ebert.

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Who Altered British TV? ‘Who’ Indeed

“And he has done it with mainstream programs that are immensely popular. In the last three and a half years he has built “Doctor Who,” “Torchwood” and another spinoff, “The Sarah Jane Adventures,” into Britain’s most successful homegrown drama franchise.”

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YouTube – ParticleMen’s Channel

No way! No one ever told me TMBG had their own YouTube account!

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Collectorz.com Movie Collector Features

Looks like this might be the DVD cataloguing software I’ve been looking for for the Mac to replace my beloved CATVids on Windows.

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Labour Day Classics: Winnipeg-Saskatchewan

The history of the Labour Day Classic between Saskatchewan and Winnipeg since 1950.

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In Defense of Hulk

An actual positive review of Ang Lee’s Hulk. Other than the “panel-effect” editing, which I liked, I agree with it completely.

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