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Ask 'Junkyard Wars Diva' Cathy Rogers
Junkyard Wars (and the British Scrapheap Challenge) have long been popular with Slashdot readers. Now Cathy is co-host of a new show, Full Metal Challenge, that also involves teams building strange machines out of this and that. Take a look at this 'Cathy' fan site (and possibly her less interesting official biography), then ask away. (Usual Slashdot interview rules.)
Has anybody ever made a machine out of junk that posts "First post" comments on Slashdot?
What about a Beowulf cluster of such machines!?!?
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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What are you doing Friday night?
Nothing to see here. Move along.
So, have you ever been tempted to wander into somewhere like a LinuxWorld conference, just to see if you could stop all productive work from occurring? (you probably could, you know...)
If not, are you tempted now?
And she got breasts!!!
Um, well, I guess technically she does but they're pretty friggin' small. The guy in the cubicle next to me has bigger ones. Of course, he's a fuckin' fatass but still...
I'm not interested in proposing marriage: I already have a wife. But would you be interested in a position as 'the other woman'?
Respond privately if you want.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
So, what's your favorite screwdriver tip ?
If you don't understand anything I post, please accept that I ate paste as a small boy...
It gets even better.
Why do the English call them Biscuits when they are cookies?
Then, they call biscuits "cookies".
Or.....
Why didn't they keep the original name from: "Under the Bonnet with Crispin Davies"
to: "Under to Hood with John Studd".
And oh yeah, why do they drive on the left hand side of the road?
All those episodes are sold to Fox.
Are you single? And if you are, what are you doing this Saturday night?
Not everyone deserves a 320i
What if the team isn't able to find, or the show didn't provide the necessary parts?
The show always provide everything that could be needed, but you're right, they have to find them and sometimes they don't. I have actually, on camera, been talking to a team member while I have been kicking a working engine and coughing and pointing to it, and still the guy ignored it and found a much worse one.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
If Cathy and John Carmack ever got together, their children would rule the world like gods!
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
Whose idea was it to pepper the commentary with so much alliteration? I love the show, but I find myself cringing and the tiresome tendency to talk in tedious tones.
I thought it amusing that the team found a roll of mylar in the trunk of some junker when they were building an airship.
It seemsed to me that the teams would submit an idea prior to being cast. Once a team was selected, they already knew what they were going to build, and the basics were then planted around the junkyard.
I'm just waiting for the team that submits an idea involving a Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 turbofan. Yep, that's over there next to the '82 Fiat.
Remember, You are unique...just like everyone else.
Cathy,
First, you ROCK! . Thanks for creating the only worthwhile TV in a long time.
After watching a Junkyard Wars marathon last year, I realized that you're a female version of Buckaroo Banzai. You both play in a rock band, you both have PhD's, you both appear on TV, and you both have a fascination with science. About the only difference is that he's a surgeon and you're a nurse.
Did you purposely set out to become a real-life comic book hero, or was it just fate?
"Did Henry Rollins read you any of his poetry? If yes, how did you make him stop?"
Do you.......Think Different?
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Coupla concepts here to chew on, junior:
1. Had you written "black" or "Jewish" instead of "40+" in your post, you would have been mod'd down somewhere approximate to Dante's 8th Ring. Of course, since you're obviously young and hip, you probably don't think of yourself as prejudiced as some tobacco-chawin' no-neck Cracker. Here's a Newsflash, Moby -- You are.
2. Even without his celebrity, his published poetry, and his status as a Famous Rock Star, Henry Rollins would still be getting way more girls than you, 'cause he's good-looking and erudite. It's a TV Show, Milton, not a University intranet feed. Viewers like good-looking and erudite. The producers can hire the Long brothers or Stephen Hawking to write the damn thing if they're afraid of losing the SlashDot crowd.
3. And finally.... [eek!] Hey, errm, Seth, I just clicked on your webpage. Forget I said anything, kid. You've obviously got a lot on your mind, saving the world and all. Never mind! (Just don't set me on fire, 'kay? Please?)
[walks out of forum, slowly, backwards, hands where all can see them, smiling sweetly...]
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