My Buddy Dan in
“Wait…” sez you, Gentle Reader, “I thought you just said these things aren’t embeddable?” True, dat. The ones at the Turner Broadcasting site aren’t. But you can search YouTube.
Oh… Don’t miss the condom ad if you go to the TBS site. It should make ya laugh. Work safe, assuming you don’t have your volume turned way up. But then again, you need some sound… coz it’s all about the sound effects, Gentle Reader.
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Late Nite TeeVee Lows…on G4TV:
“Unbeatable Banzuke”
• Monday, Wednesday, Friday nights at
From the creators of “Ninja Warrior,” “Unbeatable Banzuke” raises extreme athleticism to an entirely new level. Each half-hour episode features an assortment of completely unique challenges, pitting contenders against one another to see who can beat the course.
Featured obstacles include:
• Hand Walk – competitors combine incredible strength and balance to traverse an entire obstacle course on their hands, navigating steep stairs, moving ramps and bridges.
• Giant Ball – challengers climb on top of a huge red ball and use the orb to cross a circuitous multilevel course.
• Super Rider – a fast-paced test of bike-riding skill demands that competitors navigate an obstacle course of giant cabling spools, two story drops and three-inch rails.
Subtitles help ensure the original action stays almost completely intact, letting American viewers experience the raw excitement of the high-energy play by play announcers. With constantly evolving challenges, “Unbeatable Banzuke” delivers triumphant victories, punctuated by truly spectacular wipeouts.
G4 is the network (and I use the term loosely) that acquired TechTV, the late, much-lamented (around here, anyway) Über-Geek delight. I could digress here, but I won’t. Not even for Morgan. (Not the Morgan who runs the Most Excellent House of Eratosthenes. Nope… A Morgan of a quite different sort.)
Back to G4 and Unbeatable Banzuke, which I’ll hereafter refer to as UB. UB is a Nipponese game show, and the Japanese come up with some of the most bizarre teevee concepts…ever. Concepts like topless models lounging around on the furniture during late-nite talk shows, a la Leno. The women never said a thing…they were just there, sort of like animated set decorations. I personally saw this show from time to time back in the mid-70s, when I lived in
I watched UB one evening this week and was quite taken with the Super Rider competition, which was athletic and quite skillful. It was sorta like an indoor observed trials on pedal bikes, as opposed to mo’sickles. But it was all downhill from there (pun sorta intended), and the raving, screaming Japanese announcer didn’t add a thing to the show. The sub-titles did add a lot, however. If it weren’t for the sub-titles you wouldn’t have a freakin’ clue as to what’s going on, other than watching half-naked male gymnasts fall into water obstacles all too often for my liking. The girls might like this aspect of the show, however.
OTOH, mebbe not.
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This month’s Air Force Magazine arrived this week. I was reading through it last evening and was both surprised and gratified to find this: “Special Operators Head West.” It’s a short, four-page article made shorter by the heavy use of larger format photos, but it’s all about Cannon Airplane Patch… with an obvious focus on the new proprietors. It made me smile to read this:
Part of the appeal of the sparsely populated eastern plains of
Tanks on the Melrose Range
(USAF photo not from the linked article)
The
The resemblance of our topography and climate to…ummm… “certain areas” in the
If you’re (a) an Air Force Association member and (b) might be wondering why I got my copy of Air Force Magazine so late… Then, answer: I get my copy about a week or two after other folks get theirs… due to the fact my copy is sent to my mailing service in Texas, where my mail is aggregated and sent to me here at Beautiful La Hacienda Trailer Park once a week. It’s a legacy thing from my “on the road days,” and I really should change that. But Hey! This is
Mañana.
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Basketball and genealogy has kept me away most of the past few days....I am enjoying the catch up.
ReplyDeleteWe get the same comments out here - that it looks a lot like parts of the Middle East. With the awesome cool stuff that flies over us, we're glad we're on their side.
ReplyDeleteWhen G4 took over from TechTv I tried a couple of their shows. Found them juvenile and boring compared to the idiocy of watching the uber geeks try to pretend they were as norml as we.
ReplyDeleteLots of laughs on the Tech.
love that commercial -it's nice when they are clever rather than the usual insulting fare.
ReplyDeleteDang. I'm getting sloppy of late. Two days gone by and I've yet to respond to comments. Forgive me.
ReplyDeletePat sez: I am enjoying the catch up.
Glad I'm entertaining you, Pat! ;-)
Lin sez: With the awesome cool stuff that flies over us, we're glad we're on their side.
Agreed, in spades! I can't wait until the AC-130 guys take up permanent residence here. We'll have some great boom-boom in the night once they move in...
Cat sez: Lots of laughs on the Tech.
And there were lots of good tips, reviews, and hands-on demos, too. TechTV was just too geeky for the mainstream to survive for long, as it turned out. But I'm glad I was there for the brief period it was on the tube.
Phlegmmy sez: it's nice when they are clever rather than the usual insulting fare.
Oh, ya! Most of that stuff at the TBS site is VERY clever. It seems to me that the Euros have it all over us in the "clever" space... which isn't to say they don't have their insulting ads, too. Coz they DO.