May 24, 2006

• Oh yeah, it's a youtube link.
• Har! "'tis but a scratch!" OMFG not another effing youtube link! /curmudgeon
• OMFG not another effing youtube link! /curmudgeon Yeah, I know. Video links are the frozen waffles of the internet.
• Mmmmmmmmmm frozen waffles. /homer
• This would ordinarily not be all the funny, except for the syrupy "he's gay" and the rebound.
• Well, yes, rolypoly, that's the funny part. ?
• So who was the first gay man to climb Everest?
• The yeti, that big ole bear.
• "So who was the first gay man to climb Everest?" Tenzing NorGAY? OK, that was dumb.
• Who was the first black man to mount Everest? Come on black folk you're letting the side down. Again. "Fried Chicken?" "Well now Thomas we won't know till we get to the top... and do try and keep my oxygen a little higher won't you?" Tasteless?
• Tasteless? Yes. To a WTF? degree.
• Sorry, nick, yeah that did sound kind of stupid... I guess I meant the way she said it was more bizarre than the words she said. Maybe I'm just unwittingly being King Obvious for a day.
• *Anchorwoman opens bathroom door abruptly, stares at her son* 'Johnny, stop doing that! You'll go gay! I mean, blind!'
• What is the story, for those of us who can never access YOUTUB?
• The anchorwoman is announcing an upcoming segment featuring the first blind man to scale Everest, and, utterly inexplicably, she says: "Coming up after the break we're going to interview Eric Weihenmayer who climbed the highest mountain in the world, Mt. Everest, BUT, he's gay." Then there's some sort of cut and: "I mean he's gay, excuse me, he's blind, so we'll hear about that." At which point her co-anchor shoots her a "what the fuck is wrong with you look" and says "Okay." Then, we see the climber and a friend apparently watching/listening to the feed from the location where they'll be interviewed from, looking aghast, then breaking into laughter, then looking pained, then one says "Wait, you've got a wife and a kid!" and the climber says "Wait a second, that's not even funny... Oh my god... I have friends, I have friends in Albuquerque..."
• And the funny part, (for the benefit of rolypolyman) is where the anchorwoman says "gay" instead of "blind." ;)
• Even as someone that hates streaming video, I'd say that, if you have a reasonably fast connection, do try and upgrade your flash plug-in for the Toobe, JJ; lots of stuff to waste entire days in there. I guess the people laughing in the next scene are from some off-screen, not aired clip?
• "I mean he's gay, excuse me, ..." Right as she's saying the "eh" in "excuse me", I swear she's about to say "as in" ... as if she was going to try to talk her way out of her word choice, especially because she repeat the "he's gay" part.
• They usually start the "feed" a few minutes/seconds before the actual broadcast. There's a documentary made up entirely of these moments-before with famous politicians called, appropriately, Feed. Lots of video of Clinton et al getting their makeup put on.
• Heh, sounds pretty good. Unfortunately I can't upgrade to the newest flash on my work computer so I'm tubeless.
• Freudian slip? Did Freud wear slips? What did his mother think of that?
• Monkeyfilter: I have friends, I have friends in Albuquerque...
• wonder if the anchor-woman kept her job. what an idiot.
• There's a long tradition of bloopers among broadcast folk -- it's frighteningly easy to make one, from one cause or another. People very often don't even catch their mistakes when they make them in real life. It's a miracle if anyone makes coherent utterances for the course of a day, in my opinion. I wouldn't think, from the descriptions above, that this was anything more than a blooper by the unfortunate newscaster.
• She's still working.
• having seen the clip, I agreez with beez, she seems as surprised as anyone by the word 'gay' coming out of her mouth....
• Good catch on the NorGAY pun, Capt. *pours Mrs. Butterworth's Gay Syrup on the frozen waffles
• I wonder if her friends are letting her live that one down. "Hey, Cynthia, wanna go to Olive Garden? Their manicotti's gay, er-- zesty."
• That blind mountan-climber guy so to is gay. That news lady got the scoop of the century and didn't even know it.
• I had a Freudian slip once. It was a lovely thing with sphagetti straps and lacy trim around the bottom. I got it from Freud's of Hollywood.
• wow! can you imagine the sort of undergarments they'd sell at freud's of hollywood??? daddy's little girl cotton panties? naughty oral fixation slut nightie? repression restraints--they'll hold you down! /feel free to step in anytime!
• ...Coke T-shirts...
• Anal retentive Depends?
• Oedipus crotchless panties? (Sound it out for great justice!)
• an ambivalent truss?
• The Hysteria Girdle--to keep those pesky uteri in place?
• *lifting monocle to one eye, admires Berek's Freudian slip*
• A slip, Berek? Check your tentacles at the dood!