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Random Thoughts

- Why do they still interview the contestants on Jeopardy? It doesn't make me like them any more; in fact, I usually like them less. Today a man talked about riding the elevator in the Empire State Building. Thank God he didn't win, because if that was his best story, I'd hate to hear the runner-up.

- CW cancelled 'The Beautiful Life.' I'm mad. I was hoping Jay Leno would be the first thing cancelled this year.

- Joel McHale, you can't make a living out of making fun of assholes and then do a show with Chevy Chase, the King of all Assholes.

- I want them to do a reality show where they hunt down people who actually like Colbie Caillat. I need to see what these people look like. I imagine that they look like Sade-lovers, except not sexy.

- People are actually laughing when they show the trailer for 'The Stepfather' in theaters. I think I posed this question before, but it's worth repeating: Shouldn't they test ideas on audiences BEFORE they make the movie?

- You know how at county fairs they let you guess how many beans are in a jar? I think they should have a contest where you guess how much of a celebrity autobiography the person actually wrote. I would wager that Lauren Conrad wrote less than seven words in 'L.A. Candy.'

- The guy who beat up a hooker is still doing the SlapChop commercials. Did the SlapChop people feel that assaulting a prostitute wasn't worth losing a good pitchman because he can talk fast and chop up hard-boiled eggs at the same time?

- It seems like Rhode Islanders just look for a reason not to go out. When it's bad out, they don't want to travel. When it's nice out, they say--"It's too nice to..."

- See a movie
- Go to the theater
- Sit in a restaurant

So instead they sit on their front lawns...ten feet from the living room they sit in when it's lousy outside.

Just some random thoughts, maybe you disagree.

But that's just me.

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