Sat 2 Dec 2006
In this exciting show you’ll get:
* Annoying jackhammer noises from next door.
* A hippy birthing class report.
* Shooting clingfilm into space.
* The dollar value of Bob’s Yer Uncle!.
* Rage at Placid Lake.
* Are Zan and Jana Ben Lee and Rose Byrne? (Hint: if Zan were Ben Lee, the song at the end of the show would sound a lot better.)
Uncle Bob will be back on Wednesday.
December 3rd, 2006 at 6:54 am
Jana kept mentioning the jackhammer next door, and I couldn’t help but imagine her bringing over the Jackhammer Johnson to help out.
I agree that IQ tests are crap. I remember one of the first things I did when we got the internet when I was about 13 was take an online IQ test. What a bad idea that was. I got a score of around 150 and totally believed it, so I had a kind of revelatory experience. “There is so much knowledge in my head! I must be smarter than everyone else!” I felt the weight of this incredible intellect on my shoulders. Eventually I figured out that all IQ tests are junk, especially ones on the internet. Now we only let internet tests judge us in terms of which character from Everybody Loves Raymond we are most like, which is the way it should be.
I have no idea what chocolate crackles are. Over here we have Cocoa Krispies (although that might not even be Kellogg’s and I’m not going to even bother looking it up) which is a cereal, but I’m guessing Zan wasn’t raving about a breakfast cereal.
Ben Lee I have heard of, though, and always wondered why never aged. He seemed to come about around 1995 when he actually had an excuse to look 15. But since his “child prodigy” days, he’s sort of disappeared from the limelight here, except for when he pops up either dating or singing with people more famous than him.
December 4th, 2006 at 2:27 am
The movie Jana was thinking of is Highlander 2.
December 4th, 2006 at 3:25 am
Highlander 2….a sad sad day in the career of Christopher Lambert. Of course he really only has two good movies. Highlander and Greystoke.
December 5th, 2006 at 12:21 am
Ladies who elect for Caesarean section births without a medical reason are referred to as being “too posh to push” over here.
December 6th, 2006 at 4:09 am
Sometimes we can tell what doctor is on in maternity without looking at the staff sheet; by the amount of ” c secs ” we see scheduled. Some seem to be known for performing them with their patients. With advanced procedures the scars are almost invisible now after a short while. Of course it is a personal decision but I think you will find it more rewarding to give birth naturally. ( course it is unfortunate when birthing classes do tours when there is a ” screamer ” giving birth…you see a lot of worried faces …..)