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[CortJstr]

Paging Mr. West, Mr. AugustWest.

What is the fermule, anyway?

[jaydub]

What is the fermule, anyway?

Good God.  The Oxford English Dictionary doesn't even know.

[AugustWest]

You'll have to let us know if the host-contestant banter is as awkward in person as it is on tv. Also, what does Alex talk to the contestants about during the credits? Inquiring minds.

I've told you once...

To actually answer your questions -- yes.  Yes it is.

When I was there, Alex didn't talk to the contestants during the breaks, he talked to the audience.  During the credits after my win, we talked about hoss farms because he raises hosss and I live in hoss country.  I think Keeneland and William Shatner came up (Shatner has a hoss farm one county over.)  He made it pretty clear that he wanted to make the conversation as brief as possible while making it appear plausible that we were actually engaged in genuine interaction.

To be fair, whenever I tell people about my experience with Alex (because he was a little weird) I also tell them that he had had a accident and flipped his pickup truck (driving to his hoss farm) four days earlier.  He was reportedly on painkillers at the time which could account for some level of odd behavior.  Or he could just be a pompous freak. 

[side_show]

Today I'm going to finish the rewrites on the script I've been crafting for seven years, send it off to the theatre, and then ruin my joy by eat a terribly disgusting dinner at Subway.

Tomorrow I'm going to roast a turkey for the first time ever - a belated Canadian Thanksgiving, and early American one!  Huzzah!

What will I do with my new found free time.  I'm thinking I can catch up on Achewood, since I haven't read it since February. 

[Choop]

Cool link, CJ. And yeah, August is way right - dude's a pompous freak. I mean it takes a special class of person to actually speak the question "Don't you know who I am?" in such a setting as an airport, talking to an employee of a company from which you're procuring a service.

The Q&A sessions during the commercial breaks were when he unleashed his freakish pomposity on the audience, tossing aside questions with joke answers and a straight face - including this interchange: "What are your academic credentials?" "I have no academic credentials." Said with a wry grin, it would work as a joke. It didn't work for our man Al.

I don't know if you watch The Soup on E! but they feature on occasion a bit they call "Cool Story, Jeopardy Contestant!" which features the most awkward, dull, and/or frightening bits of the interview segments, or "talkings" as the missus and I call them a la Strong Bad. We caught the afternoon taping, which was the Thursday & Friday shows for that week, meaning six interviews. And six potential clips for "Cool Story, Jeopardy Contestant!" I don't know, maybe it'll play different on TV.

[Arachno-capitalist]

. . . Be glad I didnt post anything last night.

How does an e-mail list work? Like im in a group, lets say [econ] and I get all the messages, but its unclear how I reply to join the discussion. Is there some address I should look for to moderate responses? Or is automated? How does this typewriter connect to my tv and what does it do?

[jaydub]

Yeah, last night's debate was worth emptying a bottle of scotch.  Ugh.

Do you mean an email list run by a Majordomo-type list server?

[CortJstr]

Today a found a big box of fake breasts at work. Somebody was trying to FedEx them but didn't put a label or anything on the box. So we had to open it up to see who was sending them but there was nothing in the box but 8 fakes boobs each wrapped in bubble wrap. It was awesome watching the Office Services woman realize what she was unwrapping.

And they were like full-on fake breasts with nipples and everything, not just implants. They looked a lot like the ballistics gel they use on Mythbusters.

[CortJstr]

One person wandered by who knew what they were and said that they're actually really, really expensive. Which is sad because I'd totally want to try juggling them.

I just want to see the all-staff e-mail about this. "Who tried to FedEx a box of tits?"

[jaydub]

So if they're not implants - are they falsies?  Something a single mastectomy patient would wear to balance her sweater out?  Or a tranny who didn't want to mess with hormones would have?

[CortJstr]

So if they're not implants - are they falsies?  Something a single mastectomy patient would wear to balance her sweater out?  Or a tranny who didn't want to mess with hormones would have?

They're more simulations for medical training and/or equipment calibration. Like they compress down to a 4.2cm thickness in the same way as a the real thing. I think they also use them for things like gun-needle biopsies and breast ultrasounds.

The weird part is the one I saw closest appeared to be two parts. It was like a "skin" with a removable "filling" of a different material.

[wombat]

It's a relief to know they practice on fake ones.

[pmcd9]

video and all.

Oh yeah, can you do that slo-mo thing where the tit explodes and shit?

[jaydub]

Turns out they're called "phantoms", and there's a dizzying variety of them from plain


to fancy


to...weird...

(those are little bubbles of liquid you can suck out with your biopsy needle)

Bonus!  Mammography training dummy!

Yaaargh!

That's gotta hurt.

[wombat]

...interview a guy about a yogurt shop. It can't be turkeys at Disney World every day, unfortunately.