Sat 13 Jan 2007
It’s a good, old-fashioned, single long show this week, featuring:
* Momofuku Ando, we hardly knew ye.
* Zan and Jana’s backyard beach resort.
* Bindimania.
* Idiotic adventurers.
* Silly surnames.
* and 21 Jump Street.
Plus a new Amateur Cognitive Science.
Erratum: 21 Jump Street starred Richard Grieco, not Australian full-contact fighter Sam Greco. Neither is related to Cheaters host Joey Greco.
January 14th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Zan,
You may have missed this in the news, but Iwao Takamoto also passed away this week. He died on Monday the 8th of January. Who is Iwao Takamoto you ask, he was the creator of Scooby-Doo, did work on The Jetsons, The Flintstones and many other animated shows and movies. He is no cup of noodles but I thought he should get a mention.
January 15th, 2007 at 6:19 am
Love the show. I was reminded of Bear Grylls:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GsJfGlrUdK4
He pees on himself, eats fish, bird eggs, rotting meat, all apparently because “it’s there”.
January 15th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Cheaters is a perfect illustration of that old saying, It’s not good, but it’s great. And if Joey Greco was the full-contact fighter, the episode where he got stabbed by the cheater might’ve turned out totally differently.
Strangely enough, on our show we talked about a local weatherman with a silly surname who applied to work at Caitlin’s office. His name? See the picture.
January 16th, 2007 at 12:22 am
We have Clark Rubber here in Brisbane! So I sang along to Jana singing the jingle… And don’t worry I wont tell on you for using perfectly good drinking water to paddle in…after all it isn’t coming from my reservoir
Another thing- isn’t the prime pram parking enough for you Jana?? Now you are using all the water to paddle in because you are pregnant?! How is that relatable? Adding to the population… ahh now I get it… One for you, one for Zan and one for Howard to kiss on the head and get re-elected.
Love the show
January 16th, 2007 at 9:37 am
Everyone knew pot noodles were the worst sort of fast food and shunned them. Then an enterprising ad agency came up with “Pot noodle: it’s dirty. And you want it.”
Transformed overnight into a thing of the vilest sexual innuendo, sales blossomed. Filth. The Slag of all Snacks. It felt so wrong, and yet… it felt so right.
The ads are terrific. There’s dozens of them, but here’s a few to get you started:
Sounds dirty:
http://www.visit4info.com/details.cfm?adid=5100
http://www.visit4info.com/details.cfm?adid=14429
The office bike:
http://www.visit4info.com/details.cfm?adid=17345
Bombay bad boy:
http://www.visit4info.com/details.cfm?adid=5166
One million horns:
http://www.visit4info.com/details.cfm?adid=23035
http://www.absolutelyandy.com/tvadverts/
I haven’t eaten a pot noodle since I was a student, and I am now sorely tempted to try one.
January 16th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
So are you saying that Romulans are mentally healthier than Vulcans? What about Remans?
January 16th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
MY NAME IS CORNEL CHINPONY, DAMNIT!!!! WHAT”S THE PROBLEM HERE??
January 17th, 2007 at 9:10 am
Pirate porn, eh… “Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash”. Spare a thought for the poor cabin boy. Why was it that there was only ever one cabin boy to go round?
And a news item I heard in my teens concerning an oil tanker. On arrival in port, medical examinations revealed that the first mate and one of the crew were both suffering from the same virulent sexually transmitted disease - the exact details of which elude me in the mists of time. However, I do remember that the crew member finally admitted that he had sneaked into the first mate’s cabin to have sexual congress with first mate’s blow-up doll whilst the first mate was on duty.
[Fuck! “Sexual congress” - I sound like Uncle Bob!]