English
Channeling
For
the past few months Beloved Girlfriend and I have enjoyed
snuggling up on the couch
and streaming episodes of Dirty Jobs on Netflix. If
you've never seen this program, you should. It's star,
the charming Mike Rowe, spends each episode
engaged in some of the dirtiest jobs in America. We laughed, we screamed and
we squirmed at the disgusting situations
Mr. Rowe found himself in each week, most of which involved
something Mr. Rowe euphemistically referred to as "poo".
Unfortunately,
we all-too-quickly exhausted the available supply of
Dirty Jobs. As pitiful as it sounds, we actually
started watching it again from the beginning, but it
just wasn't the same. I mean, once you already knew that
Mike
was
about
to receive a surprise
mouthful
of steaming pig poo you... uh, well, never mind.
So last week I happened upon a weird but amusing Youtube
video of some guy intentionally rolling, to no small
comic effect, a three-wheel car called a
Reliant
Robin along the streets of Barnsley
in Great Britain. It turns out the clip was from an English
program called Top Gear, so
I checked and, sure enough, episodes were available on
Netflix. Beloved Girlfriend and I subsequently spent
the weekend watching a few episodes.
Friends, lemme tell ya this program is one of the most
amusing things I've seen on TV in a long time. The combination
of fast cars, dangerous stunts and three witty hosts
is an inspired combination. We were both
laughing so hard we had to break out the asthma meds. There is no finer
praise than that.
Highlights included sailing a
Toyota
pickup across the English Channel, driving
through Alabama in cars painted with such choice
slogans as "NASCAR sucks!" (which almost got
them killed) and
finding Driving
Heaven while racing
across
Switzerland in Lamboginis and Porches. And then there's
"The Stig".
I realize I'm very late to the Top Gear party but there
are probably many of you that have never heard of it,
either, so
check it out. You will like it.
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On the second day of Xmas shopping my
Reddit Secret Santa gave to meeeeeee:
Gourmet
Meals in Crappy Little Kitchens
=Lefty=
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