Posts Tagged as ‘TV’

May 28, 2009

Money, Money, Money (Must Be Funny)

Money is like a hideously deformed albino dwarf.
I don’t like thinking about it, but I feel at ease knowing it’s hidden in a sock under my bed for when I need it.
I don’t like discussing my financial situation in front of friends. It’s a personal subject and talking about my own money makes me feel [...]

February 25, 2009

Richie Benaud Undergoes Radical Facelift Procedure

Richie Benaud, former Australian Test team captain, and voice of cricket in Australia for nearly 50 years, has undergone a radical facelift procedure in an attempt to fight the ravages of age.
Benaud, 78, says he was compelled to have the surgery because he just “did not feel sexy anymore.”
“Sometimes I woke up in the morning [...]

November 2, 2008

MacGyver Reviews Products On eBay

Ken-Tool Tyre Wrench Set
$29.95

Wow, Ken-Tool really dropped the ball with this product.
They might as well accompany this tyre wrench with a warning label: “Attention! If you happen to be locked in the trunk of a Russian terrorists’ car with highly flammable gas leaking out of the fuel tank and a naked flame inching ever closer [...]

August 11, 2008

The Olympic Dream: Andrew Gack

Well it’s been an eventful opening to the Olympics, especially with what has gone on with the swimmers just in the past 24 hours.
We join Bruce McAvaney and Duncan Armstrong at the aquatic center for the final of the mens 100.
*Aquatic Center*
Bruce McAvaney: Welcome back to the Beijing Olympic aquatic center. And it’s now finally [...]

June 21, 2008

Culture Cringe

Uh, this is awkward…
Okay, here goes…
I… am un-Australian.
And no amount of footy-watching, Holden-admiring, four’n’twenty-eating, boogie-boarding, ‘gidday-mawt’ing or binge-drinking is going to change it.
That’s right, a problem even excessive consumption of alcohol can’t remedy…
You see, I have a very specific form of culture-cringe… shameful, yes, but it is one that you will not even find in [...]

May 25, 2008

All-Purpose TV Guide

Have you ever found yourself looking for your TV guide, too lazy to switch channels to see what’s on, but ironically running around the lounge room like a pig on speed (??) searching for that sacred text?
Well you’ll never need to do so again, now with this handy all-purpose TV guide developed by yours truly… me!… James!
Just [...]