Sun 3 Jun 2007
This week:
* Goodbye Battlestar Galactica, hello Peepshow.
* Let’s all say ‘No way’ with Latawnya the naughty horse.
* And Jana talks about cakes in a new Cooking with Jana.
Sun 3 Jun 2007
This week:
* Goodbye Battlestar Galactica, hello Peepshow.
* Let’s all say ‘No way’ with Latawnya the naughty horse.
* And Jana talks about cakes in a new Cooking with Jana.
June 3rd, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Have you seen The Tudors?
June 4th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Latawnya the naughty horse would have better if she had been sniffing glue and found out it was someone she knew that had overdosed and then been sent to the glue factory that she was huffing. Jana have you ever thought of doing a ask Jana cooking questions segment?
June 4th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Gadzooks! Not only have I not yet sent in my voicemail for the previous episode, but I don’t even get first comment. I’m really not on the ball this week.
June 4th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
Surprisingly, the 8 year presidential limit isn’t something that’s been around since the founding fathers. It wasn’t until Franklin Roosevelt’s 4th term that people realized they should put a limit on such things, and made it the 22nd Amendment. I guess the American people showed they were susceptible to keeping presidents in office longer than they should when they elected a sickly FDR for his 4th term. The term limit became the 22nd Amendment. Most presidents in the old days had the good sense to quit while they were ahead, or else they went down in disgrace and weren’t re-elected, or they were assassinated.
Some have criticized the 22nd Amendment because it creates lame duck presidents after just one re-election, like Dubya is now, the point being that lame ducks do a worse job since they don’t have to worry about getting re-elected again. Instead, right into a president’s 5th year, we start hearing talk about his “legacy” and how he’ll be working to improve that for the next 4 years, as if a president’s ranking among his historical colleagues is more important than the service he’s provided to the country.
We just watched the first season of Peep Show last week, too, oddly enough, because it finally reached the top of our Netflix queue, not because Zebulon was reccomending it to us as well. There was some kind of three-way mind-meld going on. I can’t wait to get the rest of it. We just started Deadwood as well. Had no idea it was cancelled.
I loved hearing about Latawnya the horse and her problems with “smoking drugs and drinking.” That phrase itself made up 10% of the text. It sounded to me like it was changed from a story about people too, because if you take off that lower-case surname “horse,” it’s just a bunch of humans’ names. I sounds like she just added the word “horse” a bunch of times, and then did a Find & Replace on “hands” with “hooves.” Also, I think I smell a new audiobook podcast spin-off: Jana Reads The Worst Children’s Stories. Zan can even provide a running commentary, like Mystery Science Theater 3000, but with reading.
If you’re into wildly decorated cakes, the show Ace of Cakes, which airs on the Food Network over here, is really good. I’m not sure if you get it or if it’s something people bit-torrent or not. It’s interesting to see how they construct these things which are not so much cakes as works of art.
Even better are these cakes from Russia. I don’t like them as much because they look identical to the things they’re supposed to look like. They don’t look like cakes at all, and there’s got to be something wrong about that.
June 5th, 2007 at 12:01 am
Whoops! Here’s the link to the Russian cakes:
http://www.slashfood.com/2007/05/14/surreal-sculpted-cakes-from-russia/
June 5th, 2007 at 10:14 am
I’ll answer a few things in the same comment:
Don, we have been watching The Tudors. It’s pretty good, but I think Showtime will have to work a bit harder to match HBO with their drama series.
Al, I got a laugh out of your comment. I really wish I’d thought of that during the show.
Ryan, I hadn’t realised that the term limit for presidents was comparatively recent. But I guess, as you say, in a country where people have a tendency to shoot their presidents there’s less cause to worry about leaders outstaying their welcome. I remember when Paul Keating, Oz’s last PM, was going into his last election, he looked quite a lot like he knew he was going to lose but he didn’t really care. He’s a famously arrogant guy, and he had this air of, ‘I’ve done this long enough anyway, and wouldn’t mind going into a high-paid career as a consultant and public speaker, so do your worst’. I suppose once a political leader stops worrying about re-election it’s a green light to give the royal fuck-off to the rest of the country.
Maybe Australia could introduce fixed terms only for PMs that Jana and I hate, like John Howard …
June 5th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Hi Zan, Jana and Muffintot
I haven’t commented here for a long time but I’m always listening
In case you miss the BIG news…Australia’s BIG things are now immortalised in stamps
http://www.auspost.com.au/philatelic/stamps/stampshop_2.asp?pid=521386966&product_type=8&category_id=579
Thanks Jana for the story about Latawnya. I played that part of the podcast at the youth drop in centre where I do volunteer work. I’m not sure that it stopped anyone from taking drugs but it got a few of the kids who I’ve never seen crack a smile to laugh out loud.
Part of me likes the idea of fixed terms for political leaders. But part of me wonders if the impossibility of further power makes people switch off. It appears as an outsider that George Dubbya stopped even pretending to care about how much he was screwing things up shortly into his second and last term.
June 5th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
You are more likely to be assasinated as a US President than be killed if you were a member of the US armed forces for the same period. That’s why Mrs. Colin Powell wouldn’t let him run for President.
June 6th, 2007 at 1:19 am
I’d like to propose the London Gherkin as an associate member of the ‘big things’ collection:
http://www.arcaid.captureweb.co.uk/classified/buildings/gherkin.htm
June 6th, 2007 at 2:55 am
You see how people change when they have children!
We have lost the “Smut Report†to reviews of children’s Books
But Van, you were out on 2 counts:
1. Horses can talk. See Mr. Ed a popular TV show many years ago
2. Horses do use drugs, as someone who comes from the home of the Melbourne Cup, have you never heard of horses that use performance enhancement drugs at the track
Please bring back our SMUT REPORT
June 6th, 2007 at 3:09 am
Some time ago the idea came up about getting listeners to divert their donation funds from needy 3rd world children to Bobs Yer Uncle, the the thought was that it was a bit cheesy
But here is a work around.
Why not sell Authentic Bob! Yer Uncle Merchandise to listners. Here are some items that are easily available that you could flog:
1. Used sexy toys from the smut report……….especially as we don’t get this segment any more
2. Authentic Bobs Yer Uncle Chook (Chicken) Feathers
3. Muffin Tops diapers
4. The Kama Sutra according to Uncle Bob (With images of him and his partners in various positions)
5. Authentic Gleep (the Cat) fur balls
6. An Autobiography by Uncle Bob
June 6th, 2007 at 3:12 am
Idea for a new segment
The politically incorrect segment…………especially as we dont get the Smut Report again………..repetive on PURPOSE
A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste
June 6th, 2007 at 3:13 am
did I ever mention that I prefer the Smut Report to reviews on Childrens Books
June 6th, 2007 at 3:17 am
Sorry about the Van instead of Zan, typo….
I am also a Dyslexic Smut Addict
June 6th, 2007 at 3:34 am
For those non Australian Uncle Bob Fans, who want to know more about Australia, have a look at this web site
http://las.new-england.net.au/2007/06/
A pictorial journal of life in rural Australia………… A photoblog. A place where I post photographs recording life and happenings in rural New South Wales, Australia.
In my opinion its great photography and is a great representation of rural Australia
It also give you something to do as you no longer have a smut report or calls to Uncle Bob to listen to
June 6th, 2007 at 3:38 am
If I was that horse and that woman had written about me, I would take drugs
June 6th, 2007 at 3:42 am
Do original Bobs Yer Uncle listners remember the good old days of:
Jack Hammer Johnston
Visit to Vegamite Valley
Melbourne Pot Stirrer
Closest thing we had to a Smut Report is Whipping a sponge Cake………..BDSM in the kitchen
June 6th, 2007 at 8:18 am
>photoblog, a pictorial journal of life in rural Australia
Larrikin - fuck man, you can use a camera!
Gorgeous.
June 6th, 2007 at 8:18 am
Wow! That’s all. Wow!
June 6th, 2007 at 8:32 am
Can The Gherkin be struck off the big things list, please? The boss of the company that owns The Gherkin has been arrested for killing his 2-year-old daughter:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article1887823.ece
June 7th, 2007 at 1:07 am
Australian Joke
Whats the difference between kinky sex and strange sex?
Kinky sex you use the feather
Strang sex you use the whole chook (Chiken)
June 7th, 2007 at 1:09 am
my e-mails never get to Bobs yer Uncle,
I think I will put up a web page with jist pics for Uncle Bobs family
Thank U Zebelon
June 7th, 2007 at 1:12 am
Politically Incorrect Australian joke
What do you call an aborigine with a sheet of galvanise…..a home owner
What do you call an aborigine with two sheets of galvanise………..a landloard
June 7th, 2007 at 1:13 am
Corniest Australian Joke
What do you call a boomerang that dosent come back
A Stick
June 8th, 2007 at 3:21 am
ERROR RE: zebulon Says:
June 6th, 2007 at 8:18 am
>photoblog, a pictorial journal of life in rural Australia
Larrikin - fuck man, you can use a camera!
Gorgeous.
Those are not my pics, mine are at
http://www.jgioannettiphotography.com/
June 8th, 2007 at 3:28 am
Since we have killed the SMUT REPORT to make way for reviews of Childrens books, here are some Classic Childrens Books Free downloads in mp3 and mp4 format
http://www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com/
Next Show Zan & Jana, will be reviewing
1. Puff the Majic Dragon
2. Thomas the Tank Engine
3. Tabbatha Twichit (may not be known internationally, but a favourite of ankle biters in Australia)
June 8th, 2007 at 3:35 am
Since the SMUTT REPORT is left up to me, here is a free down load to Lady Chatterley’s Lover in mp3 format
http://blog.urbanartadventures.com/
http://blog.urbanartadventures.com/2005/08/chapter-index.html
June 8th, 2007 at 4:07 am
I have this weird feeling that Larrakin wants to hear another Smut Report. I don’t know where I’m getting that from. Just some weird hunch I have.
June 8th, 2007 at 6:47 am
Hey, Uncle Bob made the news!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070607/
June 8th, 2007 at 6:49 am
Hey, Uncle Bob made the news!
June 8th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
tvindy,
That’s one funny AND disturbing story. “If exposed to air …” so, if you want the full effect ladies … !
So many punch lines, so late at night!
June 9th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Larrikin,
That’s an interesting stream of consciousness thing you’ve got happening with your comments. I doubt any single person has ever left so many comments for the same show.
As for The Smut Report, we haven’t killed it. It was already failing before parenthood, simply because we felt like we’d run out of things to talk about. We repeatedly said that we’d do more Smut Reports in response to listener questions/requests, but we didn’t get any. If you want a Smut Report, ask us a smutty question.
And that goes for everyone else, as well.
June 10th, 2007 at 3:43 am
Zan,
I am sending you material for Smut Report
Review old post, I have asked Uncle Bob many smutty questions?……….some even have a horror side as the involve sexual acts with Pauline Hanson and Hilary Clinton
June 10th, 2007 at 3:48 am
Because of the e-mail from Zebulon, I decided to do a daily photo blog!
John’s Photography Blog http://johnsphotographs.blogspot.com/
Would appreciate comments from the Bobs Yer Uncle listeners
” zebulon Says:
June 6th, 2007 at 8:18 am
>photoblog, a pictorial journal of life in rural Australia
Larrikin - fuck man, you can use a camera!
Gorgeous. “
June 10th, 2007 at 11:16 am
I certainly hope you’re not about to come out with another episode within the next 24 hours, because I still have to leave you a voicemail for the past two episodes. (My life is so hard.)