Blend: To mix into a fine paste. To see demonstrations of blending, check out the Will it Blend? advertisements for Blendtec.
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Showing posts with label Episode Annotations. Show all posts
Episode Annotation: Dear Internet Blender Salesman
Episode Annotation: Dear Pythagoras Johnson
Danica McKellar: (no relation to Canadian actor Don McKellar) Best known as Winnie Cooper on the coming-of-age series The Wonder Years, Danica McKellar has, in fact, appeared in a number of shows, including The West Wing and more recently How I Met Your Mother.
But in addition to her acting career, she has focused heavily on academics. A summa cum laude graduate from UCLA, she's apparently a mathematical genius and has published a text book for high schools. Entitled, Math Doesn't Suck it's intended to attract more girls to the male-dominated field. The book is available at Amazon.ca for $18.90 (as I write this) – used copies for under $10.
So she's fantastic. She's smart, theoretically has some sense of humour as she has acted in comedy, really hot and around my age. So marry me Danica and have my mathematically-inclined babies!
Episode Annotation: Dear Almost Pure
Spermatophore: A small packet of sperm cells.
Cloaca: The genital tracts of amphibians, reptiles and birds, the cloaca is used to expel urine and feces. During mating, the male newt can release spermatophore from his cloaca and the female picks it up with hers in a process called amplexus. But some male newts fertilize the eggs without contact.
Episode Annotation: Dear Unsure
Suicide: The process of ending one's own life. Usually, not desirable.
Happy Harry Hard On: Christian Slater's on-air personality from Pump Up the Volume. Slater plays Mark Hunter, an outsider kid who has recently moved to a new town and attends a terrible high school. So with a ham radio his parents bought him and stealing school documents from his school commissioner father, he takes to the airwaves as the raunchy radio disc jockey Happy Harry Hard On to attack the school, play hardcore music and Leonard Cohen and call up listener's who send him letters about their "problems" – usually sexual in nature.
Harry gets one letter from "I'm Serious," a nerdy kid from the school who asks if he should kill himself. He calls him up and tries to talk him out of it but is unsuccessful. Mark feels responsible and many of the teachers at the school who hate his underground radio personality blame him for the death.
Dr. Newt doesn't want Unsure to kill himself or herself so instead of trying to talk him or her out of it offers up some rather violent, unpleasant ends in order to scare Unsure out of it.
Newtercology: Psychology done by newts.
Episode Annotation: Dear Stephen182006
The oils: What the Americans want from the Middle East.
The scorpion (and the frog): A famous fable or parable, The Scorpion and the Frog is meant to illustrate that it is impossible to change one's nature or basic instincts. In the story, a scorpion needs to cross the river and tries to get a frog to take him across on his back. But the frog is worried that the scorpion will sting him during the journey. Eventually the scorpion convinces the frog that to sting him would result in both their deaths so it's in neither of their interests. Unfortunately, the scorpion can't help himself and stings the frog, paralyzing him about halfway across the river and they both drown.
By comparing the U.S. to the scorpion, Guy #1 seems to be suggesting that despite its "altruistic" efforts to instill democracy into former dictatorships and terrorist-run countries in the Middle East, the U.S. is in fact doing more harm than good. It is a destructive force that will, ultimately, annihilate itself in the process. Or maybe he was just watching The Crying Game and thought the fable had something to do with cross-dressing.
Episode Annotation: Dear Todd Emo
Emo: A form of rock music, Emo originally started in mid-1980s as a subgenre of hardcore punk, but has gone through many revisions over the years. The term stands for emotional music and involves band members with long bangs brushed over one eye and dressed in tight jeans. Oh, and they played music too.
Episode Annotation: Dear Regular Joe
Patrick McGoohan: British actor Patrick McGoohan was in two significant 1960s series in England. First, he played John Drake in the spy show Danger Man (known as Secret Agent in the States with the hit theme song by Johnny Rivers).
But more importantly, he created and starred in one of the greatest and most confusing television series ever made – The Prisoner. Playing a secret agent who quits his job for some unknown reason, he's drugged and awakes to find him trapped in a strange, brightly-coloured island called The Village. The Village is filled with "retired" spies and other people with classified knowledge. Everyone is assigned numbers (he's number six) and are forced to live out the rest of their lives as brain-washed sheep. Number Two, who changes every episode, runs the island and each one has a special interest in breaking Number Six, specifically to find out why he resigned. Meanwhile, Number Six is determined to escape the island and discover the identity of Number One to find out what government(s) are pulling the strings.
Over-sized condom balloon: To keep people from escaping The Village, Number Two would often deploy Rover, a sort of big white weather balloon which would shoot up from the ocean floor and knock would-be escapers unconscious, sometimes killing them. Although, it sounds pretty cheesy, the sight of Rover suffocating a person was actually pretty horrific.
And Rover fit into the surreal ambiance of the show which featured somewhat fantastical premises to pontificate one's control over his or her own destiny. The final episode is largely incomprehensible from a traditional narrative standpoint and only works symbolically as a representation of his own psyche, which makes him the most important person in his own world – sort of like when Zaphod Beeblebrox came out of the Total Perspective Vortex. But without the fairy cake.
Episode Annotation: Dear JimBobPics
Loblaws: (for non-Canadian viewers) Loblaws is a semi-expensive grocery store chain.
Episode Annotations: Dear ChrasityFilms
Turtle: A long-living shell-backed reptile, the turtle is a creature of the Order Testudines. The one in Dr. Newt's tank (known as Rocky, the aquarium bitch) is a plaything which the good doctor molests on a regular basis. But was Rocky stolen from ChrasityFilms?... Um, no comment...
Episode Annotation: Dear Webbed Toed Weirdo
Palmate newt: The palmate newt (Lissotriton helveticus) is found in the U.K., Western and Northern Europe and is often found living in ponds, marshes and lakes. They are olive-green or brown with yellow or pale orange bellies. As Dr. Newt explains in the video, the males have webbed feet on their hind legs that develop during the April-May breeding season. It also develops a smooth crest on its back that extends to the end of the tail, forming a fin. The female palmate newts apparently get all wet at seeing this. Of course, that might be because they're already under water.
Rough-skinned newt: Dr. Newt's breed, the rough-skinned newt (Taricha granulosa) is the king of all newts. The doctor proved this in a paper for an undergrad Foundations in Newtoronomy class. Living in North America, the light-brown to brownish black newt with an orange or yellow belly rough-skinned newt has the distinction of being the only newt on record to kill a human with its poison. Of course, in that case, I believe the newt died too. But still, it's quite a feat to take down an assumedly healthy 29-year-old. No sissy-assed fire-belly newt has ever done that.
Episode Annotation: Dear Internet Executive
Ask A Ninja: One of the most popular series on the Internet, Ask A Ninja, created by L.A. Improv comedians Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, features an overly energetic ninja (Sarine) who answers e-mails from "viewers" in confusing and comical ways. Launched on November of 2005, it was not the first of these type of shows, but it's by far the most influential, having spawned a number of copycats, including the mammalicious mexican assassin of Ask a Chola, and possibly Ask Dr. Newt (though don't tell the doctor I said that, I might get bitten).
But the ninja has had a lot of notoriety and has mixed with many celebrities, including interviewing "actors" Will Ferrell and Jon Heder, hobnobbing with the stars of Mythbusters or accidentally assassinating Bree from lonelygirl15, possibly the only Internet personality larger than him. She's certainly much cuter...
Corporate whore: What Dr. Newt calls the Ask A Ninja ninja most likely because he peddles a bunch of products on his website, shirts and DVDs and what not. So don't support a corporate, capitalist whore like the ninja and buy Dr. Newt schwag at CafePress.com.
Newtoronomy: The academic field which dedicates itself to proving the intellectual superiority of the newt - hence Dr. Newt's dissertation: "Newts are smarter than ninjas."
Episode Annotation: Dear Your Buddy
Marty: Marty went to college with Dr. Newt. He was a real party animal but he and Dr. Newt have had some kind of a falling out. It might have something to do with Marty never returning Dr. Newt's Tupac CD or maybe it has do with all the warrants out for Marty's arrest. I don't think we'll ever know for sure. And hopefully I'll never have to be face to face with him. I bleed easily.
Episode Annotation: Dear Just a Cog
Giant Hand: (Same as Big Hand in the Sky. See Dear Miss Pageant note.) Sometimes it needs to be bitten hard.
Episode Annotation: Dear Trippy Skippy
Poisonous secretion: The newt, an amphibian of the Salamandridae family secretes a poisonous liquid which can be fatal if consumed. Many mammals spit them out instantaneously due to a burning sensation that is felt on the tongue. The poison, tetrodotoxin, has no known antidote and is found in all newts, young and old - even the eggs. (It's the same poison in puffer fish.) On July 9, 1979, a 29-year-old drunk man swallowed a rough-skinned newt (Dr. Newt's breed) on a bet and it killed him. It is unclear whether he had a sort of toad-licking hallucinatory experience before he kicked off. But probably not.
Episode Annotation: Dear Globally Concerned
Global Warming: The warming of the globe. Also known as climate change. See smarter people than me for an explanation.
Big Light in the Sky: There is a tall, free-standing lamp next to Dr. Newt's tank. It sometimes gets turned off.
Episode Annotation: Dear Duffle Coat Mafia
Pipe bomb: A pipe bomb is an improvised explosive device consisting a sealed pipe (usually a short section of steel pipe) filled with explosive materials. The design allows larger explosions from small combustible substances. It is perfect to blow up a school, small government institution, such as a branch of the post office in the back of a drug store, or as is mentioned in a Davey and Goliath parody on The Simpsons: Planned Parenthood. For more information on the pipe bomb, please contact your local disenfranchised youth. You'll be able to recognize one by its long, dark clothing and bored, depressed look in the eyes. But if there's a rifle or some other type of propulsive device in the hand, it might be better suited for you to approach the teen at a later time.
Duffle coat: A type of long, brownish heavy coat, originating from Duffel, Belgium. It keeps you warm on those cold Canadian days.
Episode Annotation: Dear Money Troubles
Flesh walkers: Flesh Walkers is Dr. Newt's nickname for me, you or anyone that has seen this site, namely humans. I guess it's because we have flesh - and we walk.
Episode Annotation: Dear Miss Pageant
Big Hand in the Sky: Whether it be some form of omnipotent, omniscient being that controls all living things, or simply Dr. Newt's owner, the large or Big Hand in the Sky is what feeds Dr. Newt. Usually, bloody, frozen worms. But sometimes fish food pellets. Either way, it's a generally harmonious relationship. Once in awhile though, the Hand needs to be bitten lest it steps out of line.
Bubble machine: The bubble machine is the filter in Dr. Newt's tank. It filters stuff and make bubbles.
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