No words. They should have sent a poet.
Yours truly appeared on the Macworld Pundit Showdown with Andy Ihnatko, Adam Engst, Dan Moren and moderator Jason Snell. Thrill to the sounds of vacuous Mac jerks as they pretend to compete for points and something resembling a thin veneer of respectability. The competitiveness, pathos and excitement of a professional sporting event are, sadly, completely lacking from this hour of entertainment that the Des Moines, Iowa Macintosh Users Group newsletter called “Not worth reviewing.”
For you, however, sitting in your first floor apartment, eating Fiddle Faddle and watching episodes of the original Battlestar Galactica on Blu Ray while Googling cheesecake pictures of Maren Jensen and trying to resist the temptations of the flesh, well,
Yours truly appeared on the Macworld Pundit Showdown with Andy Ihnatko, Adam Engst, Dan Moren and moderator Jason Snell.
Thrill to the sounds of vacuous Mac jerks as they pretend to compete for points and something resembling a thin veneer of respectability. The competitiveness, pathos and excitement of a professional sporting event are, sadly, completely lacking from this hour of entertainment that the Des Moines, Iowa Macintosh Users Group newsletter called “Not worth reviewing.”
For you, however, sitting in your first floor apartment, eating Fiddle Faddle and watching episodes of the original Battlestar Galactica on Blu Ray while Googling cheesecake pictures of Maren Jensen and trying to resist the temptations of the flesh, facing yet another Christmas alone having alienated everyone you once held dear, well, it might be good for you.
Alternately, current predictions suggest it could be Edison who returns, direct from Patent Purgatory.
And resistance is futile.
Not if you’re a Mho.
Resistance may not be futile, but it does tend to be somewhat feudal in certain cases.
At least this what my Pants are telling me.
(Pants should have the trademark symbol, but I can’t find it on my iPad.)
I would help you out Huh? but my system preferences won’t let me display the keyboard and character viewer in the menu bar anymore and I can’t remember the shortcut.
Hang on.
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If it helps, my feudal resistance is positively villainous.
Or should that be villanus?
Possibly vilienous?
Very disappointed in you taking the French rather than the Latin, Nxxx.
Is that any way for you to start the New Year, hmmm?
Next you’ll be wearing a beret and drinking baby-sized coffees in a state of existential ennui.
Oh yes.
BroŲ
You’ve forgotten my new stripped shirt, my bicycle and the onions.
Well, clearly I didn’t want to resort to cliché, Nxxx.
Or ‘clishe’, as I heard someone call it just the other day.
Bugger me we’re culcherd dahn in Kent.
No you’re not, there’s a missing ‘t’ in culcherd.
Wot, ‘cluchturd’?
Can we change the direction of this conversation? I feel so left out.
Or do I have to wait until John writes another post? sigh. I’ll just be over here in the corner.
I feel left out too, and I’m…
….
Now, in a true spirt it transatlantic co-operation I’m not even going to mention that Anderson just nipped Haddin out even as a typed that preceding sentence.
Because I don’t even know what TMS is.
Hang on, Sue . . . what are you doing in my corner?
MY corner, MINE!
Did . . . did you sit on my hat?
DID YOU!??
The teacher made that for me SPECIALLY!
…
Man we need John to post, don’t we?
Why do golfers need 72 innings and play with such peculiar bats?
Why do pool sharks need to sweat to get wet?
Why pick the prickly pear by the paw when you can pick a pear using just a claw?
Are these multi-choice questions?
Is that?
Have we devolved into the “Questions Only” game from Whose Line?
Whose Line?
Has someone been on internet radio, Steve, you sly little thing you?
Is that two questions too?
Does anyone remember what channel the British version of Whose Line was on here in the States? Was it Comedy Central?
Did you chaps across the pond get the U.S. version?
U.S. version?
With Drew Carey?
Yeah, Battlestar rocks!
Hey, shout out–meeting will be on the 27th of October, 2009!
Bring your ponies!
Des Moines, IA
Is there a US version without Drew Carey?
Mugga, sorry about the hat.
Sue, you can sit on my hat anytime…
Hey, back off, Ace.
Sue and My Hat are 4ever.
I’d forgotten there was a US Whose Line. We did get it, I think. Nxxx might know. Anything with Drew Carey in would get my vote, though. Although he’s all thin now, apparently.
Splitter.
They did carry over Ryan Stiles, Greg Proops, and Colin Mochrie.
But no Tony Slattery. 🙁
I just like saying “Proops”.
Proops.
I have carefully avoided Whose Line Is It Anyway, along with The Sound of Music and Strictly Come Dancing. The last on the grounds that it makes the floor slippery.
Hehehe… Did she say “Proops”?
@ Nxxx: *facepalm*
Only from vomit in my house, Nxxx.
Although my wife and spawn *love it*. Particularly my two year-old son (‘Kwik-Fit’ . . . he has a bright future) who demands ‘dress up’ and then prances round like *and* dressed as a fairy.
I’m so proud.
Props about Proops.
Isn’t that a title of a kids’ book: “Everybody Proops”?
Aren’t you getting confused with the song lyrics ‘Everything Proops In Large Amounts’, by Depeche Mode?
Or maybe *I’m* confusing it with Tears for Fears’ ‘Proop, Proop, Let It All Out’?
Possibly thinking of the Beatles big 1963 hit, “She Proops You”?
I would lIke to claim responsibility for the previous post.
Not quite sure how that happened. This isn’t a sign of things to come, is it?
No, Huh?, I think it’s a sign of your age…
1963?
Hey, it’s not like I was alive then, right?
Bur are you alive now?
Volunteers to check?
Not if bits of Huh are going sticky.
Well, I wasn’t expecting a Spanish Inquisition!
I was.
I was a boy scout, after all.
Dib dib.
I thought no one expected the Spanish Inquisition.
Usually they don’t. Bro is… special.
Not special.
*Prepared*
Like a badge-bedecked dib-dib-ninja.
Dibja?
Dobja?
The Inquisitors got the memo, so as to be prepared with hard-hitting questions, such as “Do you strangle your kittens before drowning them?”
If one of you chaps would spring for travel expenses, I shall perform the inquisition of Huh?’s state of aliveness…. to spare the kittens.
Or I could just call…
Well I’m not going to take the jump this time.
BTW BroŲ,
“I was a boy scout, after all”. What was the attraction of scouting boys? I only ask as the Handbook, written in Wimbledon Common Windmill, is called “Scouting for boys.”