Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[manureid]

Beer should only be drunk from cans!

Jimbu Pls!

 

[Eddie Dingle]

You know how you were all asking what happened at the end of the A-Ha video when the bloke was a cartoon and the chick wasn't and the fat lady in the cafe got upset when the girl disappeared but then she reappeared in the bin and then took off?

Well ask no longer...


You can thank me later.

 

[Portia]

I have an iMac, iPhone and Macbook.

OMG I ALSO HAVE IPHONE AND MACBOOK I DONT HAVE IMAC BUT HAVE APPELTV LETS BE BEST FRIENDS

 

[Peck]

My phone has a 2 inch screen. Come at me.

 

[Stromageddon]

 

[manureid]

My phone has a 2 inch screen. Come at me.

Is it in yet?

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Weird Science is about to start on one of the movie channels..



lawls galore.

 

[finbarr]

Arguably one of the greatest pieces of movie music in cinema history.

 

[*PAF]

Those rulings came after and severely hurt the British teams. It is right as inventors of the game that the home nations have a vote each.

 

[manureid]

Weird Science is about to start on one of the movie channels..



lawls galore.

Possibly one of my favourite ever movies!

'Girls outside and you are in here dropping wolfbait!'
'Gary was just taking a shit!'

Too many great one-liners.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

from one of those video links that come up when you finish watching the above video.

 

[Zakk Wylde]

Weird Science is about to start on one of the movie channels..



lawls galore.

****ing best scene ever !

 

[Doctor Feel]

These guys will randomly appear and mildly inconvenience your day.

 

[Doctor Feel]

so uuhhhh....yeah.

 

[chiwigi]

Why funny? If you are going by sheers numbers in population then China and India should run the game, that would go well!

 

[Peck]

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-human-body-part-discovered

Relevant to ACL injuries apparently.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Watched 30 for 30 on ESPN Tuesday night. The show was called No Mas about Roberto Duran quitting against Sugar Ray Leonard in November 1980 after he beat Leonard in June 1980 in a big upset. Duran partied hard after he won, Leonard was pissed off and wanted a rematch. A $10mil purse ( probably worth $50-$75mil today) meant Duran was persuaded to offer a rematch earlier than he wanted.

One of the highlights was to see but mainly hear the dulcet tones of Howard Cosell again. He was a great US sports broadcaster, starting in the 1950's on radio and then when TV started broadcasting pro sports in the US, baseball, football, was the original ABC Monday night football host in 1970, boxing, Olympics and general sports analysis on ABC's Wide World of Sports .

He had a unique style that was originally ridiculed, then many copied him. He was a lawyer, journalist, author, columnist, radio broadcaster, tv broadcaster and tv personality. He had a great relationship with Muhammed Ali. Called him that when most still called him Cassius Clay and backed him when he went to court to not go to Vietnam and was stripped of his world title. Cosell was a Jew, finished his law degree, went off to Europe to fight Hitler and was very strong about eliminating racism from sport. He took stances against racism is his commentator and analysis long before it was accepted by the mainstream public. He loved Jackie Robinson, the first black American to play in the major leagues, who played for his team the Brooklyn Dodgers. His TV career was limited until the 1960's because he was Jewish and the bigwigs at ABC didn't mind him on radio but didn't want him on TV.

He championed Smith and Carlos at the 1968 Olympics and their black power salute. They went and talked to him as he was working for ABC the official US broadcaster. He went to the 1972 Olympics with ABC as the US broadcaster. It would have been tough for a Jew to cover the massacres but he covered it as a big news story not an angry man. At 1976 Olympics he did the boxing and fell in love with Sugar Ray Leonard like he did with Muhammad Ali. He backed Kurt Flood a black American sportsman, who took MLB to the Supreme Court over the decades old reserve clause which meant players couldn't move clubs and had to accept the terms of a new contract offered by the team owner. It lead to free agency in baseball. Highlights of his interviews with Ali over the years.





And as we were talking JFK Assassination a few pages back, Cosell played himself in the Woody Allen 1971 film Bananas. The film opens with another boxing commentator Don Dunphy and Howard Cosell calling the assassination of the President of the fictitious banana republic of San Marcos. Its a piss take movie but the opening scene is one of my all time favourites, along with the snake bite scene.



And the boxing commentators finished the movie as well.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

want to know what sport is on TV in your city.

http://www.sportontv.com.au/

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Got this email from Foxtel about an hour ago

It's been a long time between scotches, but at last Ron Burgundy (played by Will Ferrell) and the news team are back! And, just because you're a Foxtel customer, we're giving you the chance to see ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES before it's released in cinemas on 19th December.
This is kind of a big deal, because as a Foxtel customer, you'll get:
• Access to special advance screenings on Wednesday 18th of December.
• A special Anchorman The Legend Continues cup and Ron Burgandy moustache straw, included with your ticket.
So buy your ticket online today using the special access code: FOXTEL


so I looked up the official trailer. can the sequel match the original??

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

 

[Dylan8]

Looks halfway decent but won't touch the first one.

 

[spookism]

Three nights ago I got drunk at the Temple bar in Dublin, two nights a few quiet brews in the Cavern in Liverpool and this morning I'm watching the sunrise over the Loch Ness!

 

[Zakk Wylde]

 

[Dylan8]

Need to go heavier mate

 

[Macca19]