Archive for December, 2008

cable tv in tahoe

December 15, 2008

First of all, here’s something i’ve been meaning to get to for a while:

Jeremiah introduced the etrade baby to me.

But on to the real stuff: there were two main television-related highlights of this past weekend in Tahoe. While I’m at it, it’s worth mentioning that I derive endless pleasure from how French people pronounce our beloved lake to the east: “tah-ohhhhhhh” is the best spelling i can manage. 

I digress. Thank you to GoGo for her devotion to all things MTV. Without her appreciation of The Hills we never would have found ourselves watching the spin-off set-up of The City wherein one girl (LC, I believe) gets to say to the other girl (Whitney?): “dreamboydreamjob!” and clap her hands in glee.

Also, remind yourself of David Silver from the wayback 90210. I don’t quite remember how he found himself working at a carwash one Christmas season but he did. Must have had something to do with Donna refusing to put out. Anyway, some young dude comes out to him and David is cool while the kid’s father flips out. Despite a complex lie about an aunt and uncle, David knows something ain’t right and returns to the carwash supply closet to find gayboy concealing…wait for it…”a blade!?!” Yes, he was going to suicide himself. But David saved the day. With melodrama.

reminder of Rube Goldberg

December 4, 2008

Not so much a laugh as a chuckle: when people pronounce any “wh” word with an aspirated h.

Here are some facts from wikipedia to round this out.

thai, maybe?

December 3, 2008

I have it on authority from a lawyer at the State Department that these are real names. Though, upon some googlerific research, the spellings are way off (see last entry). Even so, whether real or not, I laughed out loud, both on a bus in Nantucket this summer and just now when I read them again.

Pornbitchincorn Thongthong

Suckadong Wannatittie

Dunit Limpikunt

and, of course, the great Sukdith Punjasthitkul (though the lawyer offered an alternate spelling: Suckdith Pjesticle)