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On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 15:38:30 -0600, RonT <not@home.com> wrote:

>Seeing if this thing is set up right

Seems to be

RonT <not@home.com> wrote:

>Seeing if this thing is set up right

Man, I thought someone was going to use this newsgroup to post something
on topic in.

In article ahk@chinet.com says...
> >Seeing if this thing is set up right
> 
> Man, I thought someone was going to use this newsgroup to post something
> on topic in.

How 'bout this.  I'm listening to the Seahawk/Redskin game on 670AM.  
You can hear this chick in the background screaming on every play.  It 
is totally obnoxious.  So much so I'm about to turn off the radio.  I 
had two thoughts about this:

1) Whoever broadcasts football games on the radio don't give a shit 
about broadcast quality.  Perhaps because the only people who listen to 
the radio nowadays live in nursing homes and too senile to notice the 
difference.

2) What kind of psychotic goes to a football game to scream on every 
play?  If I was sitting near this chick I'd be screaming back on every 
play SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU FUCKING PSYCHO!!!!!!!!!!!!!  AND TAKE YOUR 
MEDICATION!!!!!!!!

On Jan 6, 5:02 pm, Mark Anderson <m...@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:
> In article a...@chinet.com says...
>
> > >Seeing if this thing is set up right
>
> > Man, I thought someone was going to use this newsgroup to post something
> > on topic in.
>
> How 'bout this.  I'm listening to the Seahawk/Redskin game on 670AM.
> You can hear this chick in the background screaming on every play.  It
> is totally obnoxious.  So much so I'm about to turn off the radio.  I
> had two thoughts about this:
>
> 1) Whoever broadcasts football games on the radio don't give a shit
> about broadcast quality.

Most radio people are stuck in booths with open windows in the crumby
part of the press boxes.

> 2) What kind of psychotic goes to a football game to scream on every
> play?

Drunk fans have ruined football attendance for me.
You can buy a tv with dtv tuner and rabbit ears for like $150 these
days. Sears tower antennas are what ?? 4 miles from your place ?? Take
the plunge for the Super Bowl (tm).

In article jgrove24@hotmail.com says...
> > 1) Whoever broadcasts football games on the radio don't give a shit
> > about broadcast quality.
> 
> Most radio people are stuck in booths with open windows in the crumby
> part of the press boxes.

Perhaps but even crappy simple teleconferencing systems have ways of 
filtering out background noise.  This is a supposedly national radio 
"network."  

> > 2) What kind of psychotic goes to a football game to scream on every
> > play?
> 
> Drunk fans have ruined football attendance for me.
> You can buy a tv with dtv tuner and rabbit ears for like $150 these
> days. Sears tower antennas are what ?? 4 miles from your place ?? Take
> the plunge for the Super Bowl (tm).

One of my neighbors tried to give away a perfectly good working mid 20 
something inch CRT TV last fall and had no takers.  For a couple of 
minutes I had considered taking it to storage in case of situations like 
this -- watching football games.  But alas, I was too lazy to carry it 
100 feet.  Not sure if he ever got a "buyer."

I'm afraid if I set up the TV I'll be like an ex-smoker taking a couple 
of puffs for old time sake.  Next thing you know I'll be transfixed on 
the lives of those Two Broke Girls.

BTW: You know what goes on with two good looking broke girls?  Truman 
Capote once directed an entire movie about a good looking broke girl 
featuring the most beautiful and talented actress of that time.  Most 
people never picked up that Audrey's character was a working girl in The 
Profession.  I doubt sitcoms can get away with being so subtle because 
TV viewing audience are considered too stupid.

Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:

> I'm afraid if I set up the TV I'll be like an ex-smoker taking a couple 
> of puffs for old time sake.  Next thing you know I'll be transfixed on 
> the lives of those Two Broke Girls.

I dunno about being transfixed with that show, but it is oddly a guilty
pleasure around here.

Seems like a bit over the line being a broadcast network show with some of
the jokes they fire off, but both me and melissa think it's pretty funny.

I think though it might of "jumped the shark" recently, the point of the
show, more or less, was them saving their tip money to some day open up a
cupcake store. That sort of was dropped in their lap with the neighbor
upstairs giving them $20K to do it.

I mean it won't take much to come up with something else, just seemed like a
rush to derail that plot line which the show seemed to focus on since it
started.

-bruce
bje@ripco.com

On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:07:46 +0000 (UTC), Bruce Esquibel wrote:

> Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm afraid if I set up the TV I'll be like an ex-smoker taking a couple 
>> of puffs for old time sake.  Next thing you know I'll be transfixed on 
>> the lives of those Two Broke Girls.
> 
> I dunno about being transfixed with that show, but it is oddly a guilty
> pleasure around here.
> 
> Seems like a bit over the line being a broadcast network show with some of
> the jokes they fire off, but both me and melissa think it's pretty funny.
> 
> I think though it might of "jumped the shark" recently, the point of the
> show, more or less, was them saving their tip money to some day open up a
> cupcake store. That sort of was dropped in their lap with the neighbor
> upstairs giving them $20K to do it.
> 
> I mean it won't take much to come up with something else, just seemed like a
> rush to derail that plot line which the show seemed to focus on since it
> started.

Maybe they wised up and realized that jokes about very attractive women
struggling to be a sanitized, prettified version of "broke" on TV ain't all
that fuckin' funny given reality these days, so they're mitigating that
aspect?

Then again, having someone show up and basically fund their dream outta
nowhere doesn't sound like the sort of thing a real-world unemployed
struggling brokedick would find amusing, either, so what do I know.

-- 
smr

In article bje@ripco.com says...
> I think though it might of "jumped the shark" recently, the point of the
> show, more or less, was them saving their tip money to some day open up a
> cupcake store. That sort of was dropped in their lap with the neighbor
> upstairs giving them $20K to do it.

I heard a slew of advertisements for that show on the radio when it 
premiered and it intrigued me.  So little modern culture exists to 
describe the world of high end escorts.  I wondered if this show would 
do it and how they could get away with it in prime time broadcast TV.  
Apparently they didn't and chose the lazy route by writing just another 
formula sitcom.

I still like the concept however.  Audrey Hepburn took a big risk with 
her reputation doing Breakfast at Tiffany's but Capote directed the 
narrative with such subtlety that I suspect perhaps most people never 
realized that her character was a prostitute and that movie was arguably 
her best performance.  IMHO it's her best movie.

The Brits pulled it off with "Secret Diary of a Call Girl" which went 
for three seasons but that wasn't necessarily a comedy.

Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:
>bje@ripco.com says...

>>I think though it might of "jumped the shark" recently, the point of the
>>show, more or less, was them saving their tip money to some day open up a
>>cupcake store. That sort of was dropped in their lap with the neighbor
>>upstairs giving them $20K to do it.

>I heard a slew of advertisements for that show on the radio when it 
>premiered and it intrigued me.  So little modern culture exists to 
>describe the world of high end escorts.  I wondered if this show would 
>do it and how they could get away with it in prime time broadcast TV.  
>Apparently they didn't and chose the lazy route by writing just another 
>formula sitcom.

>I still like the concept however.  Audrey Hepburn took a big risk with 
>her reputation doing Breakfast at Tiffany's but Capote directed the 
>narrative with such subtlety that I suspect perhaps most people never 
>realized that her character was a prostitute and that movie was arguably 
>her best performance.  IMHO it's her best movie.

Blake Edwards directed; Truman Capote wrote the novel. It's supposed to
be his aunt.

btw, George Peppard was a prostitute, too, just kept by Patricia Neal.
Hell, it was his best movie, too. Never really liked Banacek or Hannibal.

In article ahk@chinet.com says...
> Blake Edwards directed; Truman Capote wrote the novel. It's supposed to
> be his aunt.

Uggh.  Brain fart.  I recently saw a movie about Audrey Hepburn's life 
starring Jennifer Love Hewitt which was also very good.  Hewitt really 
channeled Hepburn.  The last scene has Audrey doing the last scene of 
Breakfast at Tiffany's talking to Capote sitting on a director's chair 
-- thus I linked him as director in my long term memory.

> btw, George Peppard was a prostitute, too, just kept by Patricia Neal.
> Hell, it was his best movie, too. Never really liked Banacek or Hannibal.

Haven't seen those.  I'll add them to my Netflix queue.

In article mea@nospambradnylion.com says...
> > btw, George Peppard was a prostitute, too, just kept by Patricia Neal.
> > Hell, it was his best movie, too. Never really liked Banacek or Hannibal.
> 
> Haven't seen those.  I'll add them to my Netflix queue.

Banacek is a TV show and I couldn't find George Peppard being linked 
with anything named Hannibal.  I remember the A-Team but I don't use 
Netflix for TV shows.  

Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:
>ahk@chinet.com says...

>>Blake Edwards directed; Truman Capote wrote the novel. It's supposed to
>>be his aunt.

>Uggh.  Brain fart.  I recently saw a movie about Audrey Hepburn's life 
>starring Jennifer Love Hewitt which was also very good.  Hewitt really 
>channeled Hepburn.  The last scene has Audrey doing the last scene of 
>Breakfast at Tiffany's talking to Capote sitting on a director's chair 
>-- thus I linked him as director in my long term memory.

No kidding. I wouldn't have guessed Hewitt could play her.

>>btw, George Peppard was a prostitute, too, just kept by Patricia Neal.
>>Hell, it was his best movie, too. Never really liked Banacek or Hannibal.

>Haven't seen those.  I'll add them to my Netflix queue.

Banacek is repeated endlessly in second-run syndication, as are all
Universal shows from the 1970's. It was one of the shows in the NBC
Mystery Movie rotation originally. He's smarmy.

Hannibal Smith was the leader of the A-Team, which I didn't find amusing
when it was first on, but then, I hadn't been 12 years old in a decade.

I usually found Peppard unengaging as an actor, but he and Audrey Hepburn
had reasonable chemistry in that wonderful movie.

In article ahk@chinet.com says...
> >Uggh.  Brain fart.  I recently saw a movie about Audrey Hepburn's life 
> >starring Jennifer Love Hewitt which was also very good.  Hewitt really 
> >channeled Hepburn.  The last scene has Audrey doing the last scene of 
> >Breakfast at Tiffany's talking to Capote sitting on a director's chair 
> >-- thus I linked him as director in my long term memory.
> 
> No kidding. I wouldn't have guessed Hewitt could play her.

I rented the movie as a lark because I like Audrey Hepburn and it's not 
easy keeping your Netflix queue full with stellar movies.  There are 
lots of 1 star drecks that run through my DVD player because of Netflix.  
It was a made for TV movie so I expected cheap soap opera tripe but it 
turned out to be (IMHO) a very well told story of her life.  I suspect 
from Hewitt's performance that she has idolized Hepburn for her entire 
life since the two look so much alike so she played the part naturally 
like she was Audrey Hepburn. 

I did find a Peppard movie that I haven't seen: Pork Chop Hill.