Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

I watched some TV this afternoon, and caught a CTV MTV Live broadcast where young hosts talk about real news issues and have people in the crowd comment on the topics. The main guy host has appeared on Rick Mercer Report, Darin Jones I think is his name. For a while I had him confused with someone who was a guest correspondent for The Daily Show out of New York on Comedy Central. Anyway, the topics were a video featuring nude women, gay men, and slow traffic out of the Netherlands which is apprently broadcast to prospective immigrants who might not be tolerant toward nude lesbians who drive badly. One i nthe audience thought it was to discriminate against Muslims from the East, since I guess her implication is that they are mostly straight, clothed women who drive well and can’t put up with anything else?

Pamela Anderson is also in the news since she’s hosting the Juno music awards in a day or two, and has been pressing Stephen Harper to meet with her in order to club him with a baby seal, or something like that.

On “The House“, a CBC radio program, they interviewed Vicente Fox the President of Mexico, although the interview sounded strangely like some kind of April Fool’s Day gag. At the end of the show they didn’t announce what they’d done, so I’m off to the website to check out what they were thinking.

“This week the show comes to you from sunny Cancun, Mexico.
Yes Cancun home of the North American Leaders’ Summit, this isn’t an April Fool.
We have a feature interview with out-going Mexican President Vicente Fox”. It seems it wasn’t a hoax. Strange, because the accent on the President just sounded phony to me.

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I think you should head over to Google Romance, and use the powerful search engine to find love, or at least a laugh.

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CMT has a segment of programming where they let anyone TXT a cell phone text message on air. The catch is that it’s 50 cents a message. I wonder who their sponsor is for that show? I suppose 50cents for a nationally broadcast message is a good deal though.

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I watched, or rather was subjected to “Fat Albert” [4/10] a few days ago. It might be alright for kids, but for adults the acting is just not worth seeing.

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Slashdot.org, one of my favourite websites, featured a new hot pink colour scheme while claiming they were trying to atrract a young female audience since “98%” of their readership is male. Not many fell for the joke since it was way over the top. “OMG Ponies!” coated the comment sections, as people cooed in their best imitation of pre-teen girls chatting with their friends on instant messengers. Personally I found the “RIAA approved DRMed MP3 player with disposable one time use music cards” to be the best joke. At least it’s still a joke for now.

The best April foold’s Day joke that Slashdot ever covered was the . Wikipedia even talks about the Evil Bit, which is a computer bit designed to flag a transmission on the Internet as being “evil”. I hope Slashdot remembered to set the evil bit to ‘on’ before posting their Pink style sheets. CSS now means Crippling Stye Sheets because they damaged my eyes.

Linked to SamanthaBurns.com for her Open Trackback Weekend.