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Wednesday, 13 November 2002

AM Rant, Over Easy

This morning on the Today Show, I saw something that no-one should ever have to see: ACTUAL FOOTAGE OF AL ROKER'S GASTRIC BY-PASS SURGERY.

I'll pause while that sinks into your consciousness.

That's right, there I was, minding my own business, eating a cranberry muffin, when all of a sudden there's that big belly, about to be sliced into by a team of surgeons. I can't remember too many details, thank gawd.

What did I ever do to the producers of the Today Show to deserve such treatment? It was bad enough that Matt Lauer was wearing a striped suit with a striped shirt and a polka-dotted tie. Not to mention his bad haircut. And Katie Couric always gives me the creeps. (Her mouth is very Joker-like.) Mad props to Al for losing the weight and all, but I really didn't need to see that.

That does it, I'm watching Sports Center from now on in the morning.

In Memoriam, Matt Lauer's hair.

Posted by ginevra (link)

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Oh. My. God.

Maybe your company has an employee assistance program with a nice therapist that can help you work through it.

At my workplace we have a strange television ritual at noon where the ladies in the office turn on TLC, The Learning Channel, and a show called . They do this so they can make fun of the poor people that have their hair and makeup done and get shi-shi clothes at some upscale boutique. Usually the "makeoverees" are a couple of ho-hum workaday ladies who haven't had the time, money or inclination to change their look since the last few presidential administrations.

I can't begin to describe how cruel they can get sometimes.

But the point of this is that from time to time folks start lunch early, at 11:30, and TLC plays this abhorrent program about plastic surgery. I refuse to enter the dining room until this program is concluded. Today they were watching something about breast augmentation and that was MORE than enough to keep me at my workstation until noon.

People can just say the word "blood" and I get faint.

Posted by Darren on 13 Nov 2002 18:44

Apparently a lot of women have this fascination with surgery footage. Not me. I can handle a little blood, but guts and gore make me faint.

Posted by Ginevra on 14 Nov 2002 06:23

Oddly enough, I can watch an operation with no problem, but I can't stand to hear about one. When I worked as an OR aide, I would frequently watch my mother's operations at the end of the day, since they frequently ran past the end of my shift. But if she described an operation (usually at dinner), I would then imagine them happening to me. Which gave me the jibblies.

BTW, I just loved Katie Couric's and Matt Lauer's reactions to the Today Show Flasher. Katie's reaction was even better than the actual flashing, in my opinion.

Posted by Godfrey on 14 Nov 2002 09:20

The Daily Show had a nice bit of riffage last night on the whole Roker thing. Catch the reruns today, folks, it's more than worth it.

Posted by GreyDuck on 14 Nov 2002 11:28

More power to the guy for losing all that weight, but I can't help but think that he looks strange now. I used to watch him because he was this big jolly guy giving the weather. Now it's all ruined! LOL!

Posted by Margie on 14 Nov 2002 13:36

Kind of like when Dave Letterman said he missed the "old Oprah"? And doesn't it seem like all the networks have at least one supersized weatherman?

Posted by Ginevra on 15 Nov 2002 05:15

"Oprah, Uma."
"Uma, Oprah."
Letterman is still my all time favorite host for the Academy awards.

Posted by Darren on 15 Nov 2002 11:13

I lovve surgury TV, I live for forensic TV, and i can proudly say that i can skin a rabbit with only 6 cuts of a shap knife. Deer takes a little more but its much easier when you get it strung up at the right height.
You always knew I was earthy crunchy!

XXOO, Me

Posted by Sid on 15 Nov 2002 11:13

However, I am appraently unable to spell or capitalize.

Sid

Posted by Sid on 15 Nov 2002 11:15