I'm going to rule out #3 even though it's not like I didn't used to like Chris, that little wry smile of his. I consider myself lucky to have seen LIVE the incident when that old f*rt congressman from Georgia, blue dog democrat, told Chris he was coming over and kick him in the nuts straight away. He said he was only a block or two away from Warshington Square Park and would be over there in a jiffy and they could have an old timey duel. "Come on Over Big Guy" says Chris. Well, they cut to commercial and when they came back the old guy was sitting next to Chris on a high chair kind of like a director's chair with longer legs like a stool. Well, Chris said something, then the old blue dog reached over and cold c*cked him and then proceeded to pummel the cr*p out of him til blood was streaming down Chris' face.
Gee, I miss the old time politicking. This very episode is probably as good a reason as any to watch MSNBC. It's that Oldbermann than I really can't stand to watch. I only seen a little bit of him but it was enough to verify he is either a legitimate nut case or an "agent provacateur" working for the KGB.
You can probably look up the manly man fight with Chris on uToot if you want. It was quite a while ago back when a big time VietNam War Hero was running for President. The saddest fact of all is my memory is not quite as accurate as it used to be, so I may have a more colorful version sparking in my synapses that actually occurred. You see, I do happen to believe in Reality, even though in my old age I am discovering most people are in denial.
Back to Oldermann, I remember when they(I finally discovered who "they" is , "they" is MSNBC! I always knew Microsoft was the devil!) decided to put Oldermann, I don't even know his first name, on Sunday Night Football, which used to be Monday Night Football, which used to have Howard and Dandy Don, but now has John Madden who is a big Video Game Star. Howard they called him a racist and booted him. Dandy well far as I know he's still Dandy. Well, the first night of SNF with a raving lunatic as "color" analyst, well, I decided to give him a shot. I listened to 30 seconds, then a thought crossed my mind, I don't need this cause all I could think was about blatant lies spread as propaganda like he's secretly working for Obama or something. SO I PUSHED THE FAST FORWARD BUTTON on the DVR. So modern technology has allowed me to enjoy the coming season, I understand Bart Starr has been traded to the Jets, without having to leave the house during halftime. All I do is start watching about 45 min after the game starts and I get to miss all the commercials including the raving lunatics at halftime.
Which gets back to the original problem. I had the same thought you had: "Why is this TV on MSNBC" WHY???!!! My first thought really was WTF is some dude screaming "Bush Lied" "No Weapons of Mass Destrution" "Torture" "Listening in to out Phone Calls". It's one thing to go out in public and hear raving lunatics on the street corner, in the 90s they used to scream about BJs, that was more amusing than torture. But it's another thing to have someone in your house screaming like a total nut case.
My first thought was screaming nut case, second was recognition that it was Oldermann, third was that means MSNBC, fourth was Why is it on that channel?, next was never mind why just change the channel.
So I pushed the Channel List Button, then pushed the FAV button thats for favourites lists, and dang if MSNBC wasn't right there as #1 on the list, so a couple or three more button presses and I'm on FOX news. I may have pushed FAV a few times to get to the "NEWS" favourite list then scrolled down through CNN CSPAN1 2 3 through MSNBC to FOX then pushed ENTER. OR I may have pushed the channel UP button in which case it would have said you are attempting to change to a channel which would stop your current recording on another channel , would you like to continue or would you like to a)abort b) take a bathroom break or c) play Madden/Starr/Favre/Jets 2008?
So of course now I'm thinking maybe Alan had the right idea, and space aliens have programmed my TV. Then I remember, didn't Microsoft try to buy Yahoo! and doesn't Yahoo! sound like a fun name where Merry Pranksters might work who might like to screw around with normal peoples brains. And isn't the MS in MSNBC mean MICrosort who could be yahoo. And here I thought I wasn't a conspiracy theorist. I guess I am up there with the best of them.
No back to the reality that really does exist. You suggested the wife. You might be surprised to know that normal everyday folks of the older variety are going to have difficulty turning on my TV. It is a Samsung DLP and they have hidden the ON button in a secret place. Even I the "know-it-all tech genius" didn't even know where it was until recently. I had thought you had to use a device that looks like a remote control and requires multiple presses of various buttons to get something on the TV. You have to select various devices like DVR, TV, AUX etc to get picture and sound 5 channel Fiber Optic digital sound which is not nearly as good as the name makes out.
This makes it difficult for wives and space aliens to operate.
Which leaves two suspects : 1)ME 2)the DVR.
OK what about the DVR. It does switch channels on its own in the middle of the night. It does this when you are recording two programs at the same time and it is on a third channel, it switchs to one of the two program channels. It always switches to the one you least want it to if it has a choice.
Well, heck this is getting complicated. About two weeks ago , I set a new Favourites list called "OLYMPICS" and number one on the list is MSNBC then NBCHD Universal HD CNBCHD and a couple more I don't even remember. They were going to have 3600 hours of programming. My DVR will hold ONLY 10 to 20 hours of HD, although it will hold a sh#TPile more of nonHD programming. But I don't watch nonHD (see I don't even know what a non HD format is called I dont know its name I do know it has a 4:3 aspect ratio. This is the old timey way. Do you remember when they didn't even have TV? It used to be radio only. My grandma didn't even watch TV except for Betty Crocker. And she did not think we really landed on the moon either. You can't blame her can you and I don't think you would have called her a conspiracy theorist?)
Well one example of a nonHD program I might record would be Saddleback Religous Show starring War Hero VS. anti-Christ aka Max/agent99 VS CHAOS.
Now you might want to get on my case saying I could have recorded Saddleback christian show on CNNHD. Well I agree with you and I wish I had. But I wound up watching it on FOX which is not on HD in my neck of the woods.
Back to the MSNBC , I had planned to watch like discus, equestrian, or something on MSNBC but all they had was Mud Wrestling and Chinese Checkers.
So I never recorded any Olympics off of MSNBC nor Universal or CNBC either. Even the daytime stuff on NBC is only Heats and such not many finals.
I have not watched a program LIVE since the Super Bowl. I Watched it live because I wanted to watch the Commercials.
If you want to watch Football, you record it, and you start watching it about 30-45 minutes after it starts. That way you can skip all the commercials and you will catch up with it at the end, you have to make sure you extend the recording time or record the program after the end , because frequently the game goes into overtime , you never know.
Hey, speaking of the OLympics, the big news today is Shawn Johnson was wearing Hippie 60's peace earrings at her post gold interview. Is she a closet pinko commie fag like some of us are suspected of? America wants to know. I have a peace sign somewhere amongst all my junk. Maybe I am the one who put the TV on MSNBC and maybe I did it on purpose without my knowledge.
There is a new show coming out with Christian Slater about a schizo dude who has two lives unknown to himselves where one is a regular dude and the other is a "secret agent" like Val Flame. Maybe I'm like that dude and get up in the middle of the night and watch Oldermann and laugh at his jokes. Or maybe not. Now how did I know about the new show if I don't watch commercials. Well I didn't say that the DVR is perfect and you just push the "Skip Commercial " button. It does have a backup 15 seconds button though which is very useful.
Did I say I have not recorded any Olympics off of MSNBC? Did I say that I had originally scheduled to record Sallybrooke off MSNBC but changed it to FOX once I found out it was there?
Was it possible I inadvertently put it there myself?
I have no one else to blame. |
