In The News Today.
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>>Anyway, during the five or so minutes of every half hour when they're
>flashing random headlines in that strip -- in small blurry yellow Helvetica
>letters -- for about two seconds per headline, including the time they
>spend lap-dissolving into each other while both are unreadable
SUBSCIRBE
> ILLINOIS: Quincy business modifies golf cart to carry
> the Pope during his visit in St. Louis
>Everything about the Papacy is so regal! A custom golf cart!
[insert reference to "punk rock" episode of Quincy here]
>a high school student is no longer suspended for wearing a "Korn" t-shirt.
SURELY ALL SOCIAL ILLS WILL SOON FOLLOW THIS INTO OBLIVION. WELCOME
TO THE NEW AGE OF HUMANITY, BROTHERS AND SISTERS!
>and a Denny's outlet was charged with "slipping pork into Muslim meals".
fnarr, fnarr.
>(But if they do that, they won't have enough to put into the kosher meals!)
Yeah, AS IF anything at Denny's would ever be considered kosher, halal, or
paraburnachadranda. It's all soaked in cheap bacon grease that other and
therefore better restaurants would sell to soap makers.
> To say nothing of the vegetarian
> meals for those preverted Commies
> with the long hair and bell bottoms.
Hey, my bottom is round and perky!
--
LADY ASTOR: "Winston, look at you; you're drunk!"
CHURCHILL: "And you, madam, are ugly; in the morning I shall be HURRRRK!"
Joe Bay Cancer Biology Molecular Pharmacology Stanford University
"We are all lying in the gutter, but some are looking HRGAAAK!" -- Oscar Wilde
James Kibo Parry
sleazier) is playing on the traditional "fears of square oldsters" format:
The two stories are (1) if you're kid's in college, HE'S PROBABLY IN
SOME WACKO CULT!!! and (2) if you leave the house, YOU'LL GET BEATEN UP
BY GANGS OF GAY TEENS!!!
So, you see why I prefer hard news. Unfortunately, the only place to
get actual news during most hours of the day is CNN Headline News, which
has 15 minutes of pretty darn soft news repeated 48 times a day, with
no topic given more than two minutes except for discussion of proposed
changes to Delta's rules about how large carry-on bags can be.
What I find most interesting about the modern TV infotainment paradigm
is that they try to make you think you're looking at a Web browser
displaying frames. In other words, the actual TV show fills about
half the screen and all around it are little boxes with filler blinking
on and off, and you're not supposed to look at the various kinds of
blinking filler, you're just supposed to get really excited that they
cared enough to make stuff blink in your peripheral vision. It's also
vitally important that every segment of the screen be a different size,
color, and typeface.
Bloomberg Informational TV (a sadly mis-named program), which is the modern
equivalent of the 4 A.M. morning farm report -- in fact, it IS the 4 A.M.
morning farm report -- pioneered this technique. The screen has the
newscaster (or commercial) the top-right quadrant of the screen, and the
other parts show (1) brain-teasers, (2) horoscopes, (3) headlines,
(4) This Day In History, (5) stock indexes, (6) stock prices, (7) weather,
(8) an "Under Construction" logo. Okay, I made the last one up.
Another example of this is "WinTV" on The Game Show Network. If you don't
get Game Show Network, it is 24 hours a day (not counting the 8 hours of
infomercials) of RERUNS of game shows from the seventies. Now you, too,
can experience the thrill of watching "Match Game '72" twenty-five years
late! Not only do they show "The Price Is Right" with Bob Barker, they
also show the older ones with other hosts, and... in case you can't get
enough... they also show the Bob Barker episodes as "WinTV", in which
"The Price Is Right" is in a little round-cornered box at top right, and
there are trivia questions and factoids at the top left, the Game Show Network
schedule at bottom right, and the address to enter their contest at the
bottom left. It's like MTV's "Pop-Up Video", only instead of inserting
cute little factoids into a full-screen music video from five years ago,
they're inserting a twenty-year-old game show into a full-screen fillerfest.
Anyway, CNN Headline News used to have a cryptic-looking stock ticker
scrolling across the bottom during business hours, showing individual
transactions -- you know, the real thing that only the serious investors
can decrypt -- only, of course, delayed 15 minutes just to ensure it's
useless to actual investors. And there were two of them scrolling at
slightly different speeds (in different colors). Now, they've gone to
the "fake Web browser" interface, where at the bottom right is the current
time (in a box) which cycles through all the various time zones where you
might be watching CNN Headline News, and to the left are either stock
prices, sports scores, or random one-sentence news items (it oscillates
through those three at random during every half hour, it takes about an
hour to cycle through all the stocks or sports or headlines.) Ads for
other CNN channels and their Web site show up as well.
It looks like this:
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I admire their brazenness in adding the extra racing stripe just to make it
clear that they know we know that they're wasting space at the bottom of
the screen. It gives their information the same shape as that "S" people
always make out of toothpaste in commercials.
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Anyway, during the five or so minutes of every half hour when they're
flashing random headlines in that strip -- in small blurry yellow Helvetica
letters -- for about two seconds per headline, including the time they
spend lap-dissolving into each other while both are unreadable -- the
headlines I've seen tend to be things which are too pathetic even for
CNN Headline News to cover (and remember, they do at least one story
a week on local Polar Bear clubs jumping into frozen ponds.) But they're
deliberately hard to read because they know how wimpy these news items
are, and they come and go at random so it's kind of hard to keep your
eyes on them (they might show two, then show ten minutes of stock prices
or PGA scores, then show two more, then they show the first headline again),
so for you people I did the experiment: I videotaped an hour's worth
(that was how long it took to cycle through all of them, although the
some came up several times) and went through in slow-motion so I could
write them all down.
Well, here goes!
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TODAY'S HEADLINES FROM THE VERY BOTTOM OF MY TV SCREEN DURING CNN HEADLINE NEWS
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INDIANA: Dan Quayle expected to announce presidential bid
on tonight's 'Larry King Live'
Gee, I wonder what the repercussions of that will be...
INDIANA: Former VP Dan Quayle's uncle, publisher
Eugene S. Pulliam, dies at age 84
While watching "Larry King Live".
ILLINOIS: Quincy business modifies golf cart to carry
the Pope during his visit in St. Louis
Everything about the Papacy is so regal! A custom golf cart!
I wonder what the Pope's handicap is. I MEAN IN GOLFING, YOU YUTZES.
OHIO: Inmate sues after guards at Lorain Co. jail
screen mail, tear up nude pix of girlfriend
I'd have to see the pix before I decide whether this was
a good idea.
NEW YORK: 2 fortune tellers arrested in NYC in crackdown
dubbed 'Operation Crystal Ball'
And to find them, the police hired a psychic.
TENNESSEE: Candy trucks [sic] spills 70,000 lbs. of 'Blow Pops';
gums up Nashville commute
Could be worse. Could have been Mentos. Then the whole city would
be full of perky, allegedly cool Nordic teenagers walking into
movie theaters backwards, pretending to be mannequins, and painting
pinstripes on their business suits by rolling on freshly-painted
park benches.
MICHIGAN: Prescott man trapped under 65-ft. tall pile of
road salt; rescued after an hour
Could be worse. Could have been Pica Limon.
CALIFORNIA: Worker buried alive in a trench near LA rescued
after 8 hrs.: says 'I feel fine'
Could be worse. Could have been Pica Limon.
TEXAS: Concrete plant worker recovering at Dallas hospital
after falling into 24-foot hole
Could be worse. Could have been full of Pica Limon.
WASHINGTON: Officials say a 2 lb. section of Kingdome
ceiling fell on unoccupied area
Could be worse. Could have fallen on a guy eating Pica Limon.
ILLINOIS: Family of man killed by chunk of ice falling
from Chicago building settles for $4.5M
Could be worse. CNN Headline news could be fixated on a particular
kind of really minor news event and ignoring things like those five
wars that are going on right now.
TENNESSEE: Vanderbilt U. given $6 million in funding to
start Institute for Coffee Studies
The first study will determine the effects of 70,000 pounds of
coffee on Nashville highways.
SOUTH DAKOTA: Disposable diapers start trash fire at
Aberdeen apt.; generated own heat
Oh, great. I can imagine the warning label this will warrant.
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The only question -- will it be printed on the diapers or the baby's butt?
That was about half of them. Ones I didn't mock included:
3 drug busts.
6 murders or executions.
1 fatal plane crash.
1 plane crash with no injuries.
1 case of two planes not crashing ("within 100 feet of each other").
1 new postage stamp.
1 false imprisonment.
a fence in a segregated cemetery was torn down, only about 35 years late.
Kirk Douglas donated $738,000 to schools.
600 people celebrated the 50th anniversary of Truman's inauguration.
world's 3rd largest diamond will be on display in the future.
a high school student is no longer suspended for wearing a "Korn" t-shirt.
a woman is charged with riding her wheelchair in the middle of a street.
0 events outside the United States.
and a Denny's outlet was charged with "slipping pork into Muslim meals".
(But if they do that, they won't have enough to put into the kosher meals!)
-- K.
To say nothing of the vegetarian
meals for those preverted Commies
with the long hair and bell bottoms.
P.S. I apologize for saying "infotainment", "infomercial", "factoid", and
"frogurt" in the same article, but I'm just trying to be as "hip" as TV news.
Matt McIrvin
(James "Kibo" Parry) wrote:
>Tonight's episode of "Fox Files" (Fox's attempt at a "60 Minutes", only
>sleazier) is playing on the traditional "fears of square oldsters" format:
>The two stories are (1) if you're kid's in college, HE'S PROBABLY IN
>SOME WACKO CULT!!! and (2) if you leave the house, YOU'LL GET BEATEN UP
>BY GANGS OF GAY TEENS!!!
"And robots! They're everywhere today! I don't even know why scientists
invented them!"
- The last funny thing done on "Saturday Night Live"
--
Matt McIrvin http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/
James Kibo Parry
>
> James "Kibo" Parry (ki...@world.std.com) writes:
> >
> > and a Denny's outlet was charged with "slipping pork into Muslim meals".
> > (But if they do that, they won't have enough to put into the kosher meals!)
>
> paraburnachadranda. It's all soaked in cheap bacon grease that other and
> therefore better restaurants would sell to soap makers.
I'm sure Denny's doesn't use real bacon grease. Ever had one of their
breakfasts? Real bacon can only stretch two feet or so, and is somewhat
opaque in places. And doesn't have watermarks. The stuff Denny's fries
their hash browns (which are neither) in is actually Bac*Os grease, which
they make by adding Magic Solution to some magenta Magic Rocks, waiting
for them to grow into trees of Bac*Os, then they pour the leftover
Magic Solution into a frying pan and drop in the pre-cooked frozen
artificial hash browns. Oh, and the frying pan has a little microwave
emitter in the bottom. This is why Denny's employees have to wear metal
masks. At least that's what the one covered in blood told me.
I remember before they changed their name from "Sambo's". (Incidentally,
it was allegedly named after their founders, Sam and Bo, but still they
obviously had Little Black Sambo as their mascot.) I suspect that
diligent historial research would uncover what the restaurants were named
before "Sambo's", probably something even more offensive, like "Pauly Shore".
I wonder what he's up to... RIGHT... THIS... MINUTE?
-- K.
(insert footage of several toddlers
beating the tar out of Pauly Shore
while he rolls on the ground and cries.
In the background, his chauffeur
is holding the limo door open, waiting
for him to cease being beaten. This
will never happen. The End.)
Joseph Michael Bay
>I'm sure Denny's doesn't use real bacon grease. Ever had one of their
>breakfasts? Real bacon can only stretch two feet or so, and is somewhat
>opaque in places. And doesn't have watermarks.
THIS BACON HAS MULTIPLE SECURITY FEATURES TO PREVENT FORGERY. SORRY
ABOUT THE ALL CAPS, IT DOES IT AUTOMATICALLY. VOID IN BEDPAN.
>I wonder what he's up to... RIGHT... THIS... MINUTE?
> -- K.
> (insert footage of several toddlers
^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
> beating the tar out of Pauly Shore
^^^^^^^
> while he rolls on the ground and cries.
> In the background, his chauffeur
> is holding the limo door open, waiting
> for him to cease being beaten. This
> will never happen. The End.)
YM "Chewbacca kicking". But will this happen? No, it will never happen.
But it did happen. The preceding was a work of fiction. It did not happen.
Or did it?
The End.
. . . or is it?
James Kibo Parry
> >
> > I'm sure Denny's doesn't use real bacon grease. Ever had one of their
> > breakfasts? Real bacon can only stretch two feet or so, and is somewhat
> > opaque in places. And doesn't have watermarks.
>
> THIS BACON HAS MULTIPLE SECURITY FEATURES TO PREVENT FORGERY. SORRY
> ABOUT THE ALL CAPS, IT DOES IT AUTOMATICALLY. VOID IN BEDPAN.
Please, it was burned _sausages_ they were drawing out of the bedpan
to choose who would go to the front lines in that "M*A*S*H" episode.
I think you're confusing the "Bacon In A Bottle" segment of "The Special Show"
with the "Diaper Burger" segment of "The Special Show" and the
"Bee In A Balloon" segment of "The Prisoner (Now With Bees)".
Oh, wait, it was a pun. STOP THIS ARTICLE, I HAVE DETECTED A PUN!!!!
I MUST REMAKE MY REPLY IN ITS IMAGE!!!
Um... bacon pun, bacon pun... pacon bun... bacon in a bedpun... bacon-lax...
bacon burlap... echo team delta dinosaur... wox woxwox... glink... um...
*** NO BACON PUNS FOUND, USING BACKUP PUN
"What do you call a really weak pun?"
"I don't know, what do you call a really weak pun?"
"Do you want to know what you call a really weak pun?"
"Yes, I want to know, what do you call a really weak pun?"
"Do you absolutely, positively, want to know what you call a really weak pun?"
"Yes, I absolutely, positively MUST know what you call a really weak pun!"
"PUN-Y! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!! BRING ON THE DANCING BEARS!!!!"
"I don't get it."
"It was a long U!"
"An overly-distended inflatable sheep?"
"No, I meant... WAAH, YOU CAN SAY PUNS TOO! MY LIFESTYLE IS RUINED!"
-- K.
(Kibo begins slowly turning the crank
that cancels out all puns forever)
jspe...@my-dejanews.com
> Aberdeen apt.; generated own heat
>
> Oh, great. I can imagine the warning label this will warrant.
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Aha! This is what happened to Archie! When he ate that poop as a baby,
his head exploded. The mystery has been solved.
-Jeff
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Who still thinks we should introduce Archimedes Plutonium to
Scientology, and watch as the universe collapses due to too much
silliness in one place at one time.
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The Avocado Avenger
>Bloomberg Informational TV (a sadly mis-named program), which is the modern
>equivalent of the 4 A.M. morning farm report -- in fact, it IS the 4 A.M.
>morning farm report -- pioneered this technique. The screen has the
>newscaster (or commercial) the top-right quadrant of the screen, and the
>other parts show (1) brain-teasers, (2) horoscopes,
What pisses me off about Bloomberg is that the longer you sit and wait
for the damn Horoscopes, the less likely they will appear, and you'll be
watching the prices of pork bellies over and over and over again until you
start hallucinating that Barry White is singing about making love to
bacon.
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>I admire their brazenness in adding the extra racing stripe just to make it
>clear that they know we know that they're wasting space at the bottom of
>the screen. It gives their information the same shape as that "S" people
>always make out of toothpaste in commercials.
The extra racing stripe is there for the same reason it's there on
shoes: to make you run faster.
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>TODAY'S HEADLINES FROM THE VERY BOTTOM OF MY TV SCREEN DURING CNN HEADLINE NEWS
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> INDIANA: Dan Quayle expected to announce presidential bid
> on tonight's 'Larry King Live'
>Gee, I wonder what the repercussions of that will be...
(a) laughter
(b) chortling
(c) a plague of locusts
(d) more patato(e) jokes
> INDIANA: Former VP Dan Quayle's uncle, publisher
> Eugene S. Pulliam, dies at age 84
>While watching "Larry King Live".
YM "while laughing, chortling, fighting off locusts, and eating
potato(e)s". HTH.
> TENNESSEE: Candy trucks [sic] spills 70,000 lbs. of 'Blow Pops';
> gums up Nashville commute
IHNJH; IJWTRTA.
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>The only question -- will it be printed on the diapers or the baby's butt?
I think the butt warning should be "Danger: Death Poo!!"
Stacia * The Avocado Avenger * Life is a tale told by an idiot;
http://www.io.com/~stacia/ * Full of sound and fury,
Remove the guacamole to reply! * Signifying nothing.
Des Courtney
ki...@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) wrote:
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) TODAY'S HEADLINES FROM THE VERY BOTTOM OF MY TV SCREEN DURING CNN
HEADLINE NEWS
)
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) NEW YORK: 2 fortune tellers arrested in NYC in crackdown
) dubbed 'Operation Crystal Ball'
)
) And to find them, the police hired a psychic.
) CALIFORNIA: Worker buried alive in a trench near LA rescued
) after 8 hrs.: says 'I feel fine'
)
) Could be worse. Could have been Pica Limon.
) That was about half of them. Ones I didn't mock included:
)
) and a Denny's outlet was charged with "slipping pork into Muslim meals".
)
) (But if they do that, they won't have enough to put into the kosher meals!)
NTN beat you to the punch on these... they were already mocked on the daily
"Abused News" trivia game
Is Kibo getting slow in his old age?
Des
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<mailto:des...@bright.net> Obligatory ASCII graphic --> (-;
Mark Hill
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This is what people in third-world countries see when they watch CNN
because their TV sets are so old they only support ASCII and don't
have graphics yet.
Louis Nick III
>In article <kibo-21019...@ppp0a032.std.com>, ki...@world.std.com
>(James "Kibo" Parry) wrote:
>
>>sleazier) is playing on the traditional "fears of square oldsters" format:
>>The two stories are (1) if you're kid's in college, HE'S PROBABLY IN
>>SOME WACKO CULT!!! and (2) if you leave the house, YOU'LL GET BEATEN UP
>>BY GANGS OF GAY TEENS!!!
>
> invented them!"
> - The last funny thing done on "Saturday Night Live"
Starring SAM WATERSON as HIMSELF .
SEKRIT to SMTIRCAHIAGEHLT: "And robots. Where are the freakin robots
already?"
Crossposted to misc.misc so it'll make it to SMTIRCAHIAGEHLT.
--
"You had better behave if you want to get to heaven or you will have to
invent something else to get there with or be content with writing."
- Tom Jackson, World's First Star Ship Captain <STAR...@aol.com>
=== Louis Nick III alt.religion.louis-nick sun...@seanet.com ===
Carlos Froggy May
be hired as a news commentator, and then made a gratuitious reference
to "frogurt":
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"frogurt"?!?
Please stop making fun of my urt.
(At least it wasn't covered in Pica Limon.)
-- Frogurt
* Fro...@neosoft.com ** "The Information Super-Frog" [dibs] *
http://www.angelfire.com/la/carlosmay/
syadoz
James Kibo Parry wrote:
> [***]Bloomberg Informational TV (a sadly mis-named program), which is the modern
> equivalent of the 4 A.M. morning farm report -- in fact, it IS the 4 A.M.
> morning farm report -- pioneered this technique. The screen has the
> newscaster (or commercial) the top-right quadrant of the screen, and the
> other parts show (1) brain-teasers, (2) horoscopes, (3) headlines,
> (4) This Day In History, (5) stock indexes, (6) stock prices, (7) weather,
> (8) an "Under Construction" logo. Okay, I made the last one up.
I am ADVpreparingANCE tomorrow's breakfast and lunch right now - ginger egg drop
soup with chicken. My sister Tereshka (a famous scientist for a major "business")
just called me to ask some advice about her 401K and stock plans. I don't really
know anything about 401Ks because, of course, I am quite old and retired a very
long time ago. I did, however, promise to research this, as well as her questions
about stocks.
I recalled that *someone* had recently posted some helpful information on ARK, and
wouldn't you know it, indeed, this article is just what she is looking for...So I
am forwarding it to her to aid her in her research.
She also told me a story about her new job. Her cow-orker, a young woman in her
mid-20's, asked Tereshka whether she would agree to be an attendant at her
wedding. Before putting much thought into it, Tereshka screamed NO! and then had
to backpedal when asked for an explanation. She said: "I am not a nice person,
you don't want me in your wedding". The cow-orker answered: "but I LIKE you!".
Tereshka said: "Oh, but your wedding won't be for another year, by then you will
change your mind." The cow-orker said: "IMPOSSIBLE". Tereshka said: "Believe
me. You don't know me. I'm the sort of person who, when escorting you down the
aisle, will get it in her head that it is an appropriate moment to MOO and I WILL
MOO! I SWEAR...you don't really want to expose your guests to that..."
The next day at lunch, the cow-orker and a second cow-orker were leafing through
wedding dress catalogs. They kept sighing and admiring every single item. The
most intense debate revolved around fabrics and layering on the wedding gowns.
The women were enamored of the latest style, which involves a basic satin gown with
a second layer made of either lace, silk or something delicate. They discussed, at
length, whether the more traditional style, with no second layer, might not be
equally elegant. They asked my sister her opinion. She answered: "Get the two
ply. It's stronger".
Oh my soup is done
Syadoz
Circus Freak
Michael Straight
On 22 Jan 1999, Mark Hill wrote:
> This is what people in third-world countries see when they watch CNN
> because their TV sets are so old they only support ASCII and don't
> have graphics yet.
Which is why they should be using Lite Brite!
SMTIRCAHIAGEHLT
Chris Franks
> > the Pope during his visit in St. Louis
>
> >Everything about the Papacy is so regal! A custom golf cart!
The kids I mentor at the Catholic High School south of St. Louis are
getting 2 days off so they can go see the Pope!
Chris Franks
> I suspect that diligent historial research would uncover what the
> restaurants were named before "Sambo's",
After Sambo's, they were named "The Jolly Tiger".
Paul Guertin
> The kids I mentor at the Catholic High School south of St. Louis are
> getting 2 days off so they can go see the Pope!
What would be funny is to stand among the crowd waiting to see the pope
holding a sign saying "JOHN 3:16" or some such. Daffy Knuth even wrote a
whole book about this instead of working on "The Art of POLASM" which
won't be completed until the year 2009 in base reverse fibonacci aperiodic
imaginary square root of infinity timesed by infinity plus one!
Paul Guertin
p...@sff.net