Don't blink or think.
-Yesterday at the ol' temp job (4 weeks left), I had to oversee a murder mystery show. I'm serious. They pay me to do this.
Alright, now I can't say that it was a good or bad murder mystery show, because I have no basis for comparison. No one ever died on Scooby-Doo, and I've never seen Clue. I will just say that as far as entertainment goes... not so great. Most of the new hires, who were participating loved it though. I guess it was a good tool to get to know new people. Quincy (I got my roommate to come) and I were not so into it though. This was a joke from the show:
Man: Mr. X is sleeping with the fishes.
Man 2: He's in Miami?
That's what we were dealing with.
Everyone split into teams, and had to come up with team names. Quincy and I decided to remain spectators. They made everyone else play, but not us. In case they made us play, I had three team names on the ready. Choice 1: Thunder Hole. If they thought that was inappropriate, the back-up was Pussy Maniacs. If they didn't approve of that, choice three was Maniacal Pussy. Unfortunately, we never had a chance to announce our team name.
They did trivia games. The winners got clues to solve the murder. One trivia game was TV theme songs. Ten people, one from each team, stood in a line, like a firing squad. Except instead of holding guns in their hands, they held noisemakers in their mouths. The ones that you blow and the paper rolls out. These would be their buzzers. First person to get three themes wins. A guy from one of the teams got three straight. Not only did he know them, but he noisemade faster than everyone. We will call this guy Harold.
At the end of the show, there was a three-way tie, because three teams correctly guessed the murderer. The tie-break went to the first person to get two TV themes. That's how they do it in the real world too. I think. Harold represented his team again. He got the first one, which was The Nanny. Who the hell knows the theme from The Nanny? A loser, that's who. I forgot that show ever existed. The clincher was Third Rock From the Sun. He got that one too. When he realized he won, he yelled, "Yeah!!!" and pumped his fist in the air, like he just threw a touchdown in the Super Bowl. Then, and I swear this happened, he SPIKED the noise-maker. He was serious. He slammed it to the ground and yelled more. I like that he thought he was making new friends, but eliminated all potential friends in the process.
Advice: If you know the theme song from The Nanny, don't let people know that.
Advice Part II: Never spike a noise-maker. Ever.
-I did a college in PA last week. They took me to a restaurant prior to the show. Outside the front door, a mother was pointing and yelling at her 2-3-year-old daughter, "No one wants to hear you yell. Do you understand me?" Like, seriously yelling. Hypocrite alert. I would have paid $10,000 for the mother's mother to walk up, and yell the same to her.
- Palin repeatedly has said "You can't blink," in reference to everything. In reality, you probably should do a little more than blink. Maybe you should even think. After watching her latest interactions with the press, I believe she "didn't blink" when McCain asked her to be VP. I think she answered that question in the same way you or I would be at a bar and answer someone asking, "Do you have a lighter?" Or, "Hey, do you want to play soccer?"
"Sure, I'd love to play soccer." And then she shows up at the field, is wearing a dress and doesn't know any of the rules. Then we find out that she doesn't really want to play. But she's a good sport and just wanted to have fun. If you doubt me, watch the video below. I don't think she wants to be running for VP. Every clip I've seen from the Couric interview has been painful.
Watch CBS Videos Online
- My most-hated word for the past few months has been "maverick." Every time I hear it, my left ball aches a little. I don't know why. It just does. I don't know why they're using it. We don't want a maverick president. After the last eight years, the last thing we need is a president with a go-it-alone approach. That's also called arrogance. Now, I don't think McCain is like that. It's just a bad label that they're applying to themselves. Same goes for them attacking Democrats for being "elitists" for the past century. It's good to be elite. That means you're the best. Since when is it bad to be elite? It's like mocking someone for being smart. I know what they're trying to say though: arrogant. That's what they're trying to say. But arrogant and elite are even similar.
Alright, now I can't say that it was a good or bad murder mystery show, because I have no basis for comparison. No one ever died on Scooby-Doo, and I've never seen Clue. I will just say that as far as entertainment goes... not so great. Most of the new hires, who were participating loved it though. I guess it was a good tool to get to know new people. Quincy (I got my roommate to come) and I were not so into it though. This was a joke from the show:
Man: Mr. X is sleeping with the fishes.
Man 2: He's in Miami?
That's what we were dealing with.
Everyone split into teams, and had to come up with team names. Quincy and I decided to remain spectators. They made everyone else play, but not us. In case they made us play, I had three team names on the ready. Choice 1: Thunder Hole. If they thought that was inappropriate, the back-up was Pussy Maniacs. If they didn't approve of that, choice three was Maniacal Pussy. Unfortunately, we never had a chance to announce our team name.
They did trivia games. The winners got clues to solve the murder. One trivia game was TV theme songs. Ten people, one from each team, stood in a line, like a firing squad. Except instead of holding guns in their hands, they held noisemakers in their mouths. The ones that you blow and the paper rolls out. These would be their buzzers. First person to get three themes wins. A guy from one of the teams got three straight. Not only did he know them, but he noisemade faster than everyone. We will call this guy Harold.
At the end of the show, there was a three-way tie, because three teams correctly guessed the murderer. The tie-break went to the first person to get two TV themes. That's how they do it in the real world too. I think. Harold represented his team again. He got the first one, which was The Nanny. Who the hell knows the theme from The Nanny? A loser, that's who. I forgot that show ever existed. The clincher was Third Rock From the Sun. He got that one too. When he realized he won, he yelled, "Yeah!!!" and pumped his fist in the air, like he just threw a touchdown in the Super Bowl. Then, and I swear this happened, he SPIKED the noise-maker. He was serious. He slammed it to the ground and yelled more. I like that he thought he was making new friends, but eliminated all potential friends in the process.
Advice: If you know the theme song from The Nanny, don't let people know that.
Advice Part II: Never spike a noise-maker. Ever.
-I did a college in PA last week. They took me to a restaurant prior to the show. Outside the front door, a mother was pointing and yelling at her 2-3-year-old daughter, "No one wants to hear you yell. Do you understand me?" Like, seriously yelling. Hypocrite alert. I would have paid $10,000 for the mother's mother to walk up, and yell the same to her.
- Palin repeatedly has said "You can't blink," in reference to everything. In reality, you probably should do a little more than blink. Maybe you should even think. After watching her latest interactions with the press, I believe she "didn't blink" when McCain asked her to be VP. I think she answered that question in the same way you or I would be at a bar and answer someone asking, "Do you have a lighter?" Or, "Hey, do you want to play soccer?"
"Sure, I'd love to play soccer." And then she shows up at the field, is wearing a dress and doesn't know any of the rules. Then we find out that she doesn't really want to play. But she's a good sport and just wanted to have fun. If you doubt me, watch the video below. I don't think she wants to be running for VP. Every clip I've seen from the Couric interview has been painful.
Watch CBS Videos Online
- My most-hated word for the past few months has been "maverick." Every time I hear it, my left ball aches a little. I don't know why. It just does. I don't know why they're using it. We don't want a maverick president. After the last eight years, the last thing we need is a president with a go-it-alone approach. That's also called arrogance. Now, I don't think McCain is like that. It's just a bad label that they're applying to themselves. Same goes for them attacking Democrats for being "elitists" for the past century. It's good to be elite. That means you're the best. Since when is it bad to be elite? It's like mocking someone for being smart. I know what they're trying to say though: arrogant. That's what they're trying to say. But arrogant and elite are even similar.
posted by ryanconnercomedy at 8:59 AM
1 Comments:
I like the hand movement she makes about Putin. It's like he's some type of swamp-thing/dragon/snake coming out of the water.
-Cara
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