Category Archives: opinions

New Lost

Anybody see the new ep of Lost from the US this week(S03 Ep7)?

I like the bit where Kate said she wanted off the island and Sawyer said sure, we’ll just use my motorcycle to jump that shark and we’ll be free………

If you liked Frasier . . .

At the risk of exposing my monumentally daggy side. . . (please be gentle with me, fellow boxcutters) Peter Casey, co-creator of Frasier and also writer/producer of Cheers and Wings, was interviewed this morning on ABC Classic FM. The audio is available online for a fortnight.

If SBS did 1 thing wrong

I’m guessing that, like most people on Sunday night, I set my alarm to wake me up in time for 3:25am just in time for kick-off in the world cup final. My calculations were based on all the other times that the SBS coverage began half an hour before the match.

Of course for the final they decided to change their behaviour and start an hour before the game. Ordinarily not a problem but that half an hour could have been spent with some precious sleep. The last thing I wanted to do was start falling asleep half way through the second half.

It’s not a huge complaint. A couple of cans of Pepsi Max got me through but only just.

Pull your socks up SBS (in 4 years).*

*Actually, SBS did a fine job and should be commended. I’m just so used to whinging about the state of television that it didn’t feel right to not be able to find anything wrong at all with their coverage.

Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

A funny thing to do is, if you’re out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell him you’re going to go for help, then go about ten feet and pretend that *you* got bit by a snake. Then start an argument with him about who’s going to go get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That’s why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.

– Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

Inspired by the fact that neither Josh nor Ross had heard of Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey, I’ve been motivated to commence a series of some of his work. These quotes first appeared as part of Saturday Night Live – almost as an interstitial. BB

I wouldn’t be surprised if someday some fishermen caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was a whole person. Then they cut the person open, and in him is a little baby shark. And in the baby shark there isn’t a person, because it would be too small. But there’s a little doll or something, like a Johnny Combat little toy guy — something like that.

— Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey