Friday, July 02, 2004

Yurkos song of the day: Turning Japanese - by The Vapors

"Life is a big wild crazy tossed salad, but you don't eat it, no sir! You live it!"

Hey Hey faithful readers, here we are with yet another; albeit slightly late post. This one my friends marks both the commensement of the planned post every 2 days that ill try to uphold this summer (to most probably very bad results) and also the much awaited contest post (yaaay!). Sorry this one took so long to see fruitation but well as sad as it may sound im barely a week into summer and already ive lost track of the passage of time. If it wasnt for the fact that the paper informed me that today is friday i would have had no idea. The main reason though is that i wanted to get the prizes for the contest before posting this here dealie up in which i have done, yesterday in fact.

The prizes you say? Yes prizes indeed! First prize (for being the first to post) is actually a rather good one i must say, it being this very nice prize package including 3 really rather good computer games; they being the game of the year edition of Deus Ex, Thief II: The Metal Age, Commandoes 2 PLUS!! it comes with a very nice coaster in the shape of a CD with the words Tomb Raider Chronicles written across the face; high quality place for you drink i must say! (ok so sue me, 3 of the 4 games are good, it was the best pack i could find so like i said a very nice coaster). SO yes a very high quality first prize to be enjoyed by all. Second prize, this being the one that goes out to whomever makes the best quality comment is a very nice package of assorted Army Men along with various accesories to go towards their enjoyment (barbed wire, sandbags etc). Honestly im kinda dissapointed in these army men, there slightly larger than the normal kind but meh they were the best i could find yesterday and they will rather nicely do the job. Now on to the ever fun that is third prize. Ive slightly changed the requirements for this one though, so as to ensure the validity of its namesake. Originally it was just gonna be the last person who posted gets the "Thanks for coming out Prize"; which i might add is now the "Thanks for coming out Walrus" (hehe walrus, im sorry i find this rather amusing). But yes ive modified the rules behind this one to now it is either the last person to post or the person who puts the least amount of any effort at all into their post OR the person who makes the last comment. Ive added that clause just so that its not someone who is in the running for the second prize who ends up winning the thanks for coming out walrus cause well if they have put enough effort into their post to have a chance at the army men i dont think they deserve the walrus. Complain all you want but thats how it is to remain.

Well enough about all of that and on to some other stuff. Firstly todays song is a little bit of some classic 80's cheese rock. Rather amusing song in all its vapid pointless glory. I had actually had a few other songs lined up for this post but while flipping through after watching the Daily Show (damn hilarious show i must add) Wednesday night i came across the retro boogie dance party on MuchMoreMusic and this was playing. Of course it just begged to be made the song of the day and who am i to deny corney 80's rock that pleasure? Also i think ive finally ran out of futurama quotes to put in the title so today begins the advent of the mighty words of wisdom that came from that genious known as The Tick. Its really too bad that Teletoon doesnt show it anymore cause man was that show a classic. Ah well at least ill be able to remeber it in all its corney animated glory.

Picked up the Good the Bad and the Ugly a while back, ive yet to sit down and watch it but i really want to considering its some good old Spaghetti western at its finest, not to mention Clint Eastwood kicks some serious ass in that film. Ill just have to add it to the list of stuff to do this summer right behind beating countless video games, reading a crapload of books and taking over the world.
Gonna reply to a few comments here and then wrap up this post. Firstly Yes i know Keith there is more to the series than just the original games but i was talking about them due to the fact that i just got the collection that includes all the original games. Not to mention the fact that ive beaten MegaMan X1,2 and 4; halfway through beating 5, nearly done 3 and are unable to find a PC version of 6 (plus i dont want to get my hands dirty touching 7). Plus i own and have beaten both of the current Zero games and remeber i already got your massive collection of SNES and NES roms from you back in the days of calc so for gaming i should be rather good. Plus good show on the Angel/Buff DVD sets there. Never really got into buffy, and i only got into angel cause eventually it became "Hey lets see what this show always on after smallville is like" but yeah its good to support old shows that you like (plus season 4 comes out sept. 7th, whoo!).
Yes Jackie i fully realise how bad that new commenting system is but i was just going all Neville Chamberlain style in appeasing those who were constantly whining about the charachter limit of the Haloscan commenting (although minus the whole slicing up of Czechoslovakia). But yes i do agree that the blogger commenting is ugly, a pain in the ass and very hard to work around (Much like hitler...wow 2 lame ass social jokes in one post, today must be a good day) so dont worry your beliefs are duly noted and agreed upon. It will still remain though so that no one can complain about the charachter limit but like ive said before i would prefer if you used the Haloscan comment system.
Finally this isnt really a reply to a comment but i just have to talk about it. Same night i was watching the Daily Show and came across todays song of the day i also came across probably THE BEST beer commercial ever being played on Comedy Network. Its for some jamaican Beer known as Redstripe Beer and is done in the style of a very corney infomercial. Its a kinda long commercial and near the very end tends to drag a bit but hoooo boy is it funny. Of course this is my sense of humour talking here folks but regardless i implore you to take a look at it
Red Stripe Beer Infomerical. Its not the funniest commercial ever, that crown still goes to the great American Express Sienfield/superman ads i mentioned a while back but for a summer afternoon its still pretty amusing so take a look (its the one marked infomercial).
Yes well it would appear that I have came to the end of this particular ramble, not much has been said and well i am sure you have all fallen asleep from the boredom regardless

LET THE RACE BEGIN!!

Till Next Ramble

The Amazing, Boring Yurko

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