Golden Age of commercial cliffhangers

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Cael and I have been recently re-watching The Dukes of Hazzard, because there’s just never enough Hazzard in your life.  Anyway, we have it on DVD but the setups for the commercials are of course still there, just like they were aired.  I realize that lots of shows do this, set up a dramatic scene just before they cut to commercial, and then in some cases the post commercial review can be quite long before you get to the action again.  But I must say that few shows in memory did it quite as well as the Dukes.  I mean, come on, look at this one….

Look out Bo and Luke, overly dramatic villain guy is right behind you.....

Look out Bo and Luke, overly dramatic villain guy is right behind you…..

 

This is awesome, and I really think as an art form it’s lost.  You just can’t fake this kind of fakery any more.  It was real back then, and innocent in it’s silliness.  And it wasn’t any less entertaining even though we all knew that there was no way that guy was going cave in Bo’s blond head with that wrench.  But that was TV back then and we LOVED it.  Well, adolescent boys did I guess.

For the record, Cael laughed himself silly at this guy’s expression, and we just had to pause it here to take this pic.  Fortunately Bo and Luke got themselves out of this pickle, just in time for the another pickle to be set up for the next commercial break….

The Billy and Jimmy Show

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This makes me happy….

 

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU-eAzNp5Hw

 

Is there a better host than Jimmy Fallon?  I mean come on, that guy is seriously talented.  It takes guts to get out there and sing with professional musicians, although I suppose at this point he’s a pro now also.  Still, always fun.

Vive le Facebook libre?

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As an English speaking resident of Ontario I will admit I chuckled when I read this attempt by the Quebec language police to control what a business owner’s Facebook page says or doesn’t say.  Language laws make no sense to me in any way, it seems to me that they only serve to make it more difficult for Quebec businesses to compete, but this particular attempt could make a bigger news splash.  It probably won’t result in a positive image for the Quebec government, either.

It’s important to note that I am not an educated commenter on this matter, nor does it matter one bit to me either way what happens.

This will be an interesting one to follow, since there are lots of fun things that may come to light.  Somebody, somewhere is going to ask the question:  well where are Facebook’s servers?  And then the fun will begin again….

you have no power here

Rob Ford Pants

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Just a quick one before I forget this, I was working on something around the house on the weekend and I was kneeling down.

I felt a draft and realized that I had better pull up my jeans, and I casually mentioned to Nikki that I had my Rob Ford Pants on.

Not the most original joke, but I made myself laugh and that’s really what it’s all about anyway right?

Homicide rates drop, but only because we are tougher now

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So this is rather interesting, we are dying a lot less from violent crime. It seems that while there are actually more violent crimes, the ones that do happen are a lot less deadly since we more or less survive them now. This means that either we have become stupendous badasses, or medicine is more amazing than ever. I will lean towards the latter since in general I don’t feel any more badass than before.

Anyway there you are, some food for thought for the new year.  Can’t decide if it’s a cup half full or half empty kind of thing, but fewer deaths is always a good thing.

Murder Rate Drops as more survive gunshots, stabbings