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Fads 2005! More TV ideas
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TurboTed
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Posted: 11/02/05
02:56 PM
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The court has never made a finding of insanity.
Why is the room spinning?
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TURBO TED --Internationally known as the "John Force of the Yugo Racing Association."
Sergeant-at-Arms and immediate Past President of the SoAL Yugo Owners Group.
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Posted: 11/08/05
08:45 AM
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I don't know about that one.
But "Driver X" is sort of entertaining.
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TurboTed
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Posted: 11/08/05
01:11 PM
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Probably time to close this tired thread, too.
But not before one last pitch, for old time's sake:
Writer X (PBS): A huge publishing monolith conducts a Jack Roush-style "gong show" search for a new "Junior Assistant Special Projects Associate Editor" (ever notice how everyone at a car mag is an "editor?")
In the first episode, the SUITS UPSTAIRS screen the hoard of on-line applications submitted by the various illiterati who all think it would be "bitchin'" to "work" for a car book (and get paid to style like e. e. cummings.)
("work," in the minds of the idealistic wantabe scribes, of course, means:
- guzzling free booze mooched from product reps,
- doing sydeshow doughnuts in handbuilt "press fleet" vehicles and rental cars,
- snapping a few blurry digital photos at "events" across the Heartland,
- "meeting and greeting" the t-shirt models, and
- occasionally turning in one long, hackneyed, run-on sentence of a story, before jumping ship for an industry PR rep gig)
The least incoherent of the applicants are then initiated to the "realities" of publishing ("You want me to work 100 hours per week for WHAT!?!" "You want cream in your coffee, Mr. Editor-In-Chief?" "Sure, I can rewrite thirty manufacturer press releases before deadline." "Oh I've got a really, really fresh angle on that SBC build-up . . . .")
Edited 11/8/2005 1:22 pm by TurboTed
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TURBO TED --Internationally known as the "John Force of the Yugo Racing Association."
Sergeant-at-Arms and immediate Past President of the SoAL Yugo Owners Group.
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Mjolnir
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Posted: 11/08/05
02:25 PM
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Yeah, but sometimes you get to do burnouts wearing sandals. I'm guessing that it doesn't even out, but I'm also guessing it does have it's moments. 'Cause anti-tour probably sucks.
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MrFoMoCo
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Posted: 11/29/05
10:14 AM
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"Oh I've got a really, really fresh angle on that SBC build-up . . . ."
LOL
As Freiburger wrote: "If new trends involve recooking the same old meat, where will the hobby go? How do you keep [it] fresh for 40 years?"
I guess the "generic-minded masses" really like seeing the same thing over and over and over and over . . . .
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