Category: humour

Rick as local cable Access TV commentator

On By Rick McIn gymnastics, humour, TVLeave a comment

One of my favourite movies is the first Wayne’s World. Mike Myers and his nerdy pal Garth (Dana Carvey) are “teens who live at home and have their own low-rent cable-access TV show in Aurora, Illinios, in which they celebrate their favorite female movie stars and heavy-metal bands.”

This past week-end I lived Rick’s World.

One minute I was a volunteer Floor Manager at the Canadian Gymnastics Championships in Regina — the next, called up to the VIP mezzanine, suddenly moderating a live-to-tape 3hr broadcast of the Finals.

(Pretty boys like Bart Conner and myself are often asked to be TV sport commentators.)

I had a number of expert assistants in each of the gymnastics disciplines. Even Olympic Floor Champion Kyle Shewfelt stopped by for a chat.

What I like about cable TV is that it’s unscripted and irreverent. The more blatantly amateur and “real” the coverage, the more I appreciate it compared with professional Network TV.

Now that I am a celebrity of the Canadian gymnastics media elite, I’d like to thank the little people: athletes, coaches, judges and volunteers without whom there would be no local cable TV coverage.

Bad on those jealous few who complained I disappeared completely from the Floor after being called upstairs.

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more random photos from Nationals 2007 – flickr

STOP Vegetable Cruelty

On By Rick McIn food, humourLeave a comment

I love Veggies

The Vegetable Rights Militant Movement (VRMM) is a nationally active, grassroots, vegetable liberation and defense organization. … it does all that it can to stop people from torturing, killing, humiliating, and ultimately eating vegetables and fruits. …

Fruits and vegetables have been victims of cruelty throughout all recorded history. Humankind’s so-called advancement into agriculture was also it’s moral demise. Once people began farming crops they sold their souls to the god of violence.

VegetableCruelty.com » About the VRMM

STOP the madness. Become a fruitarian today!

Diet Coke PLUS – now even healthier

On By Rick McIn food, health & fitness, humourLeave a comment

The best thing to happen to food since they fortified Cap’n Crunch.

The GOOD NEWS is that Diet Coke is now “health food”.

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Diet Coke Plus was introduced in April 2007 in select areas for test marketing.

Each 8-ounce serving of Diet Coke Plus provides 15% of the daily value for niacin and vitamins B6 and B12, and 10% for zinc and magnesium.

Diet Coke Plus – Wikipedia

The BAD NEWS is that Diet Coke Plus tastes like health food. Yuck.

Pepsi, always the bridesmaid when it comes to marketing, will call their competitor “Tava”. What?

video – stop Stephen Colbert

On By Rick McIn humourLeave a comment

We’re putting Stephen Colbert on notice. For almost a year, his ceaseless falsiness–disguised, shamelessly, as truthiness–has gone unchallenged.

Stephen Colbert: Stop the Falsiness

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

green is the new black

On By Rick McIn humourLeave a comment

Ah, there’s no riper target than the environmental movement right now.

First Cheryl Crow craps pellets like a rabbit. (Bogus story, it seems.)

Then …

… (the) Voluntary Human Extinction Movement takes things a step further.

Phasing out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to breed will allow Earth’s biosphere to return to good health. Crowded conditions and resource shortages will improve as we become less dense.

Backcountry.com: An Easy “Save the World” Movement

Thanks Rocky.

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Stephen Colbert GQ magazine

On By Rick McIn government, humourLeave a comment

Stephen Colbert is featured on the May 2007 cover of GQ Magazine.

Seems he’s decided, finally, to run for President.

Now we have a Republican candidate who can take on Mike Gravel mano-a-mano.

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More great Colbert photos – Stephen Colbert Covers “GQ” May 2007 | TV Crunch

World’s Strangest Vehicles

On By Rick McIn humour, photosLeave a comment

Another great photo series by Dark Roasted Blend includes a couple of carbogganing rides. (Disclosure: I invented the sport of carbogganing.)

Does this one need a push start?

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Dark Roasted Blend: The World’s Strangest Vehicles

TIME’s Most Influential People

On By Rick McIn humour, internetLeave a comment

The wisdom of the mob is evident.

Sidney Crosby fights it out with Angelina for a top spot.

Who do you think should be on this year’s list of TIME’s most influential people? Read through the profiles of the 200 candidates and rate your top choices.

Here’s the list, so far:

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VOTE for COLBERT.

The Most Influential People of the Year – The TIME 100 — Are They Worthy? | TIME

vote for your favourite Simpsons quotes

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Homer: Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals … except the weasel.

Homer: How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?

Marge: Homer, is this how you pictured married life?
Homer: Yeah, pretty much, except we drove around in a van solving mysteries.

Moe: I’m better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought dirt… I can’t compete with that stuff.

Homer: If The Flintstones has taught us anything, it’s that pelicans can be used to mix cement.

The Simpsons Quotes – Life views