Yes, that’s WeekS in Review (Happy now, Ellen?). Two of them. Because I didn’t write it last week. As I was far too busy gallivanting across Ontario to bother with such silly things as message boards. Of course, I am now paying for it by having to write a twice-as-long review this week. So here goes…
We begin, as usual, with The Victory:
- There were a few toddlers on the last cruise (including a couple of Creeggans), but it is recommended that you have someone along to watch yours, especially if you’re planning to get drunk and party all night in the casino, eventually passing out on the stairs, only to be mocked for months to come. Not that this happened or will happen – I said “if.”
- An airline called USA3000 flies to Fort Lauderdale from Philadelphia, Newark, and Pittsburgh and might be cheap. I should probably check them out…
- The real Victory was recently in New York City and was captured on film by LoraJ.
- If you want to see both BNL shows on the cruise, all you need to do is convince someone that they want to spend $1000 on a week floating around the Caribbean with a bunch of nutcases. I recommend not telling them about this message board if you want that referral…
- It has been claimed that if we were sailing on the Legend again, it would be sold out. I have no idea how we would know this, but it’s cool!
- People who like Guster and declared that while booking get a special party. While that’s probably technically fair, I am still jealous.
- Pioneer Radio featured someone called F. Scott last week and is featuring Folkstar and a Sixthman staff member this week. At completely random-seeming times, so please check the posts if you want to hear these.
- People with funky British accents are happy when they find each other.
- If you’re one of those funky British-accented people, Virgin has strange deals on flights to the US.
- The Washington state people might get together on September 1. Unless Labor Day weekend doesn’t work for people. But it’s working for the SoCal people! Are we going to let them be better again? That is just wrong.
- Southern California will, as stated above, be meeting again. Overachievers…
- If you would like a wristband, you need to order one from 2kids5cats by the end of this month. You should order one. Conformity is fun.
- If you need pills to knock yourself out, you should probably consult Shell.
- There was continued discussion about excursions that we can’t book yet. Can you imagine how much posting there will be on this board when we actually have something solid to discuss? I’m already afraid…
Since the Caribbean Lounge was more or less silent recently, we move now to the Seven Seas Lobby:
- People are looking for roommates. Help them find roommates! Everyone should experience the wonders of Ships and Dip. And I should totally get the referral for posting about these poor people here. (So there, Muppetcoat )
Enough of that. There’s far too much to write about in the Grand Buffet to bother with the lesser threads:
- Carbon Leaf is on the rotation at Kohl’s, due to inexplicable good taste on the part of a corporate type somewhere.
- There is a book called A Child Called It. Which sounds incredibly depressing.
- T.B.A. explained his avatar. And then promptly changed it.
- 2kids was all over the posting of videos this week. They included a parody of the OK Go video, a pool shark kid, perpetual motion machines, and something that has already been removed by YouTube.
- The number of people visiting our message board were augmented a few times by creepy internet spider things. I don’t like spiders.
- We debated the morals and legality of music downloading. I’m not sure we came to any definitive conclusions or solutions. But since no one else has been able to do that at any point in the past decade, we probably shouldn’t feel too bad about our failure in two days of debate.
- Dogs are bad drivers. Even worse than drunk 11 year olds, apparently.
- Several people posted about needing to post more.
- Giving a kid too many middle names is just mean. And it is very important not to marry someone whose last name makes yours sound dumb.
- The discussion of the finer points of Bon Jovi continued. Thank you, BriBT, for bringing to our attention this heretofore neglected aspect of our culture.
- There is a thread entitled “Newman” and “Fish” both alive!! I can add nothing to that.
- There was debate over a possibly illicit episode of the Bathroom Sessions. Almost as if we all didn’t just go watch it…
- There were many, many quizzes in the past two weeks. Thanks to them, we now know our personalities as pizza, fonts, and colors, whether or not we’re normal or losers, what American accent each person has, and our “niceness,” as determined by Hello Kitty. She says I’m not nice:
HelloKitty wrote:
Below 20 percent You are not really sensitive about other's feeling. It's virtually impossible for you to care for others. For example, you would probably eat and drink next to a friend who is on a diet, or you would share your romance with a friend who just broke up, or some other insensitive things like such. Sometime, you should really stand in other's shoe and think for them, otherwise, those around you would probably think you are a "self-centered" and evil person.
Stupid Elation Hello Kitty.
- Still very little Girl Talk. Shameful, ladies, shameful…
- It is very important for friends to know each others’ favorite colors. Thank goodness we covered that! And Powder Blue is a cool song.
- WildEagle’s computer crashed. Not that such piffling technical difficulties prevented him from reaching 3000 posts…
- 2kids’ son listens to Kajagoogoo.
- John (Cougar) Mellencamp love, nostalgia, and jokes were shared.
- Suggestions for fun activities in New York City were given. Although, really, the most fun activity in New York City is taking me out for drinks…
- Muppetcoat offered us the chance to win a flight to Iceland with our friends. But please don’t enter, because I want to win.
- You will notice on the list of top 5 dream jobs that message board "Week in Review" author is not listed.
- We had movie reviews! Shell reviewed Sicko (and then we all reviewed Michael Moore) and Live Free or Die Hard. And then exportedmolson reviewed Transformers. Who needs Entertainment Weekly?
- There were many random questions. The answers told us many important things, namely that many of us listen to BNL and say fuck. But probably not at the same time.
- Brittney Spears will be appearing with Cyndi Lauper. And 2kids does not recognize as girls those who share a name with her daughter.
- The Impossible Quiz is the embodiment of all evil.
- Looking like a celebrity is rarely as cool as it sounds.
- July is National Beer Month. Something I intend to celebrate shortly after finishing this…
- The people of this message board are not in favor of reviving fairness in the media. No matter how nice it sounds in theory…
- Our college majors had very little to do with our current jobs. There’s something vaguely depressing about that. Not that I use my oh-so-handy astrophysics degree on a regular basis…
- “All the Rage” aired. I enjoyed (my totally illegal download of) it.
- 2kids made some very pretty and very organized boxes.
- WE wants to be a cannonball king. Wouldn’t this be a neat contest for Ships and Dip?
- Videos about Compulsive Drumming Syndrome are very funny and should be watched repeatedly…
- We discussed the meaning of The Grand Buffet. And then started complaining about spelling and grammar. Of course these things are related.
- Mean people stomp fish.
- The chimp that played Cheeta in the Tarzan movies is still alive. That’s one old chimp…
- Nobody around here much likes Rosie, do they?
- Good music is timeless. Kind of like Cheeta.
- People sleep (or don’t sleep, as the case may be) weirdly.
- Apparently our poetic skills can not progress much beyond haikus and limericks, despite efforts to do so.
- Hauntingly beautiful songs are, well, hauntingly beautiful.
- T.B.A. provided us with affirmation. Will it be negation next week? That’d be cool!
- 7-11s across the continent became Kwik-E-Marts. Because the Simpsons Movie needs more press, apparently.
- There’s a lot of crap (and not much else) on TV. But Burn Notice is OK. And Bruce Campbell is more than OK.
- Sixthman was mentioned in The 9 on Yahoo! Although I’ve never heard of The 9 before, I’m sure this is very good for them.
- We critiqued Steve’s voice while sick and Steve’s sweat pretty much all of the time.
- Is it OK for Ed to fly between shows? Garyrulez’s wife has doubts, but the rest of us will uphold Ed’s moral virtue.
- Flight of the Conchords are still cool.
- There was debate about a Switch to Canada video. Leaving aside all of the serious issues that such a video brings up, I feel that I must state unequivocally that Canada does have better cereal and chocolate bars. And Timbits.
- The Baconator, while undoubtedly not living up to its publicity photos, is probably yummy. Although likely to cause immediate heart attacks to those who consume it.
- Amicus has another message board. I’d probably have to look it up again if anyone wanted to know its address.
- There’s another funny video of Will Ferrell getting harassed by a toddler. Most toddlers I’ve met in real life would have no trouble being this evil.
- We all need to get extra-cool blenders so that we can blend things that were never meant to be blended!
- Pardons are probably a good thing in theory but are somewhat less good in reality. But idealism is just so much fun!
- There is another Vanity Project. Maybe we could get all of their CDs (along with those of Gwen Stefani) and introduce them to the super blenders…
- The Guys Talked about the hockey draft. I really didn’t read any of that.
- God wants us to use our credit cards. Who am I to argue with God?
- There are more Stupid Quotes. Some of them aren’t actually all that stupid, but I didn’t come up with the topic name.
- There might not be more than two people from San Francisco on this message board. Oh well.
- Having dead people in your freezer might ruin a dinner party. Or it might just give you something to talk about over dinner. Some dinner parties are just so boring without interesting subjects of conversation…
- If you see Michelle on the cruise with a gun, you should probably run. Especially if you look like Scott Peterson. And if you would kill for Garyrulez, you are in good company.
- There are now 131 pages of ABCs.
- We had plans for July 4. Although some people’s plans didn’t work out. And Shell hurt his back.
- Although good in condom ads, other people’s horrid children rarely impede procreation.
- Even when going at 100 mph and driven by a drug-fueled person, isn’t a Prius still more environmentally-friendly than a Hummer?
- Many people have paid off the cruise. Fortunately, God wouldn’t want me to do that.
- The Scots have an interesting response to terrorism.
- WeedMage has annoying upstairs neighbors with a penchant for hurling things from above. Upstairs neighbors are never fun…
- Michele might be robbing banks. But that’s OK, because she’s instrumental to me paying off the cruise.
- Is there anyone out there from Toronto? katie is looking for you…
- There were more horribly annoying people in 2kids’ store. They might be WeedMage’s neighbors…
- Having others choose your theme song yields interesting results…
- I could summarize the random thread, but that would be against the point of it. I made myself a smoothie for lunch today.
- Sixthman, like the Impossible Quiz, is the embodiment of evil. The temptation part of evil, specifically, since they keep planning really neat cruises that we want to go on. Scotswahay and Nikki will apparently be succumbing to that temptation.
- PA doesn’t like her job. Which may explain the bank robbery.
- If this message board doesn't waste enough of your time, there is a BNL crossword puzzle to help. I intend to head over to that very, very soon.
- There are many good characters on the Simpsons. I am partial to Miguel Sanchez.
- It’s really, really hard to pick just five favorite books.
And if I don’t stop writing now, this WeekS in Review might just qualify for the list. So I’ll stop. Hopefully this will keep you hyenas at bay for another week…
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