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Cathy Rogers Responds Without Crashing
1) Time...
by AmigaAvenger
On Junkyard wars it always seemed that the teams had something in running condition before the end of the time limit. Was there ever a time when a team had ABSOLUTELY nothing worth sending into competition? (Wouldn't make for much of a show though...)
Cathy:
absolutely nothing? hmmm. i think that's a question of interpretation... did you see the hydrofoils show? neither of the machines worked at all. so what did we do... repeated the challenge for the british version of the show and that time... neither of them worked again. we just won't learn. but its funny - people use to think i was just being a smart arse when i would go in and give the teams a hard time for being behind, having nothing ready etc - but really i was terrified that we wouldn't have a last part of the show and was imagining that we'd all have to do the can-can or something...
2) Why do you think Engineering is so male dominated?
by Anonymous Coward
You have said in the past that it would be good to have an all female team, but as yet, we haven't seen this.
Why do you think so few women are interested in technology?
Cathy:
oh lord i don't know. i vacillate so much on this one - sometimes i think it is all just habit and training and sometimes i think there really is some different configuration of men's and women's brains - like when i see my little niece desperately wanting to wear pink and play dollies and my nephew constantly deconstructing the alphabet / numbers etc.
but we have actually had all-female teams a couple of times now - twice on junk and in the new show full metal challenge. (in fact there is a fabulous all women team in the show next week - the flamin' aussies who are all drag-racers and are cooool) and they've done well - but they're always a real battle to find. i thought it would be easier in america, where in many ways women's position in society generally is more evolved - but i was wrong. it seems just as tough. and its odd because in other areas of science women are ahead of men. its just something about wirey stuff and digit stuff and big hammer stuff. but any tech-keen ladies reading this, please please apply! you have my ear.
3) how do you do it?
by Suppafly
A lot of people don't realize that not only do you work on all of these shows, you help conceive the initial ideas behind them. How do you do it? Did you just one day have an idea and present it to a network, or did you work from the inside to have your concepts realized? What in your past got you interested in the whole build things from junkyard parts concept?
Cathy:
i was working for an independent tv company (rdf media) when we first hatched the idea for scrapheap challenge (the british name for junkyard wars). so i was in a good position in that i was talking to people at the networks here all the time about all kinds of ideas. and that was just one that hit home. the idea actually first came from the movie apollo 13 and being transfixed by the 'houston we have a problem' part. that scene in which all the very non-typical-hero boys at ground control had to figure out how to save the astronauts lives with nothing but a bit of knicker elastic and a plastic knife. it was that that got us thinking - making life-saving stuff out of rubbish - brilliant, and making the people who aren't normally heroes (i call them the grubby fingernail brigade) into heroes - fantastic. the junkyard and all the rest kind of followed from there. don't know quite how i have managed to end up doing so many shows about boy stuff though. i would much rather go to a nice art gallery.
4) American vs. British contestants
by banda
Have you found any differences between the contestants in different iterations of the show? Speaking as an American who spent part of his youth in England, I find the British contestants much more entertaining, insightful and engaging. Was it easier to work with any particular group? Were there any contestants that made the show difficult?
Cathy:
well here's a funny thing - a lot of americans prefer the british teams and a lot of british people prefer the american teams... what can it all mean? are we all riddled with self-loathing? are we all superbly positive and outward-looking and natural anthropologists? i don't know. i think there is part of the show which is about observing people doing their thing in their natural habitat, a bit like how we might watch a natural history film about baracudas. and in that sense it is easier to watch people who are bit removed from ourselves. i would say in terms of being a host (yuk yuk hate that word) - it is easier to do the american shows because american people are more 'tv-articulate' - they understand what is required for tv - i guess simply because tv is the most dominant medium in american life and history. whereas for brits, other media are still dominant if you look over the whole period of our history; we haven't quite let go of a time when we read dickens serialised in pamphlets, so we are more used to sitting quietly taking things in - rather than 'putting them out there' ourselves. americans can get away with saying things like 'i am the big cahuna' whereas british people just sound silly saying things like that. the only downside of the american show is that americans seem to be more competitive, which can mean that things get a bit serious sometimes. in the new show FMC the brits often lose and find it all rather funny and are very self-deprecating. but the americans sometimes cry!
5) Sounds from the indie records
by Mikey-San
Before the 'Heap, you were in a British indie-crash-twee-pop band called Marine Research, and before that, Heavenly. Do you keep in touch with Amelia and Rob these days?
Cathy:
indie crash twee pop?! yikes. don't let that get out. yes i do keep in touch with the old indies though i must say i don't go and shuffle along to shows as much as i used to. i saw britney in vegas so the tortured lollipops at the dublin castle will never feel quite the same...
6) As a musician, what do you think of...
by CSG_SurferDude
As a musician, what do you think of the music industry these days, specifically about the slave-labor-like recording contracts, industry ownership of copyrights, Peer-to-peer song sharing (MP3s), and the current fruitless atempts to copy-protect CDs?
Is there anything that you can do in your current position to help change any of that to the betterment of recording artists and consumers everywhere?
Cathy:
is this a leading question?! do you have a letter drafted for me to sign?!
er.. where to start? big corporations are scary in many many ways and the music industry is obviously no exception. but although there seem to be so many new issues today where normal people / artists / whatever are exploited i wonder whether it is really that different from when i was a kid and me and my mates used to tape everything off the radio and make compilation tapes (one of the greatest and most overlooked art forms) and never buy a record in our life. except if it was a local band or a band on a really cool label or a record where we just loved the cover and had to have it. its a big discussion - the only incontrovertible good is to support your truly independent labels. k records / kill rock stars / many others have proved that you can have integrity, great music and not go under.
7) Role of expert
by naarok
Watching on TV, it often seems that the expert provides some good initial insight into a problem, but then often becomes superflous. Sitting through many hours of actually watching the challenges unfold. How valuable were the experts in comparison to teams with general inventiveness?
Cathy:
it depends a lot on the challenge. if its something innovative and thought-provoking like 'build a car that fits in a suitcase' then most teams who have the necessary know-how to get on in the first place would be able to make a pretty good stab at it expert-less. but in other challenges, such as making gliders or submarines, they are dependent. it also depends of course how well they all get along....
8) massive disruption to geeks everywhere....
by gclef
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?
Cathy:
er. i blush easily. my sister and i used to have a fantasy about going to this event called 'crufts' (a really pompous but very-seriously-taken dog show in england (like, they show it on tv! ) where people parade their over-coiffured hounds around doing daft tricks and generally proving that to be english is to be humorous in this fairly tragic way) and doing a streak. but maybe just with bottom halves! it would be a totally pointless act of sort-of-harmless-sabotage of a worthless institution and this amused us.
i suppose what i mean (ie not evading your question quite so obviously) is that the notion of committing a minor act that leads to massive disruption is an appealing idea. but i'm not quite sure about yours....
9) Off screen testing?
by The Mutant
How much testing goes on off screen? For example, the episode where participants had to build a diving bell, descend to the bottom of a small pond, and retrieve a chest of gold.
I don't believe that this was not tested off camera, if for no other reason solely to insure you didn't inadvertantly end up making a snuff episode.
Same thing goes for pretty much any device where explosives were used, or even the airplanes.
Cathy:
worryingly little. its always the hardest decision - test them and make sure they work but risk them breaking during the test (which you're not filming) and then you have no show, or fail to test them and have true spontaneity and excitement about the outcome but risk them failing during the show or being dangerous or whatever. we debate it endlessly and there is often a half way house - the diving bells you can put in the water and test-pump some air, the gliders you can tow up on a winch without a person on them. but it never gives you the full picture and what you see in the show is invariably the first time the machines have been properly tested, people and all. scary isn't it?
10) Why Rollins? Why!!
by SanLouBlues
What's the coolest thing you've ever built yourself? Or, what's the coolest thing you've ever tried to build yourself?
Cathy:
well who else would look as good in a power station? i mean, just say the words 'disused power station' and you think of henry. i think he is fantastic - a force of nature. and he makes me laugh a lot.
what have i built? lord how embarrassing. you have outed me. the sad truth is the things i have made which have been the most impressive feats of engineering and construction have been cakes. sshhhhhh.
Contestants try and build a SHIFT key!!!
She is really a good host, and junkyard wars went to hell without her. I'm glad she's finally coming back. We need more british people on American TV!
And why did you staple the trout to the RAM?
I wish she would have read the thread with all the questions and possibly answered some of the questions that were good ones, but perhaps not modded as high (example the one about stocking the junkyard with needed parts). Aside from that It's always interesting to get a little behind-the-scenes on the Scrapheap.
There are only 10 kinds of people in this world... those who understand binary and those who don't
I don't know about you, but I don't think I could've trusted my life to a see-saw-powered airpump and a welded oil drum, especially without knowing if it would work...
Though, I can't say I would have been able to build anything as good as many of them have...
That what was all this school was for... to teach us how to solve our own problems. -- janeowit
...because american people are more 'tv-articulate'
I don't know I would take this as a compliment. Maybe I'm just getting older, but I find that many Americans today have a short attention span, sometimes too short to understand a complete explanation of whatever is happening. I find myself forced to condense complex problems into sound-bites just so users can follow the process.
Too bad life doesn't always apply itself to bite-sized answers....
JA
http://www.johnalex.org/
I agree. Because she felt that using the shift key at the beginning of the sentence was too much work, all the people who read this article have to work very hard to follow what she is writing. I hope she spend the extra 4.5 seconds she saved doing something REALLY productive.
If she wants to be difficult, I think Slashdot should probably have fixed the capitalization. There's no reason to leave it like that. It looks very unprofessional.
Cathy is the reason I watched the show. I always found her to be a very sexy and engaging woman and after these responses, doubly so. (But she does need to capitalize.)
Love her haircut on the show as well.
STOP . AMERICA . NOW
He could have made an entire shuttle with a can of cream corn and a ballpoint pen.
That would be cool. Interview henry, roblimo, interview henry.
Were you born without capital letters or did you lose them in the junkyard? :)
They make it much more readable (all caps is also more difficult to read). It indicates the beginning of a sentence. It indicates proper nouns (so we know e.g. where we are talking about polish for your nails or Polish ethnicity). It can be used to create EMPHASIS or the use of an acronym. How many do uses you need, exactly?
They help confuse foreigners who don't use the Latin alphabet.
Reminds me of what I've always wondered anout Monty Python -- if I were British and actually knew where Luton is and the accents were unnoticeable to me, would they be particularly funny?
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
my sister and i used to have a fantasy about going to this event called 'crufts' and doing a streak. but maybe just with bottom halves!
8-)
The Moore-Murphy Law: The number of things that will go wrong will double every 2 years.
in the new show FMC the brits often lose and find it all rather funny and are very self-deprecating. but the americans sometimes cry!
As an American, I feel a strange sort of pride at this. Yeah, it's just a TV show, but dammit, I've always felt that if you're going to commit to something, then commit yourself to doing the best job you can.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
Fart on him.
Cyrillic and Greek alphabets have capital letters too.
I watched the new show last night. Some crazy cars driving down a giant bowling ally and crashing into huge pins. It was fairly entertaining I guess.
Anyway, I'm not a big Rollins fan but I thought he fit the part just fine. He's pretty tough looking and doesn't talk like a complete idiot. At least he doesn't ham-it-up. I've had it up to here with hosts that ham-it-up.
That was my attraction to the show as well. So why the typical heroes on FMC (and the typical anti-heroes on JW)? Why not get some smart, non-clownish hosts for both these shows?
With subtitles in 'merican...
I love it (laugh out loud) when American TV programs put subtitles on the screen for someone with an English accent.
Filter,
"better ways of doing things eventually just replace the inferior things" - Linus Torvalds 09-08-07
Nurk nurk, "Good one, Ace!" *high five*
"Editor, n. One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication."
Seriously, do we have any here?
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -- Carl Sagan
Yes. It was.
You should learn where Luton is. If you lack that knowledge, you may accidentally go there.
--
E_NOSIG
what self respecting geek doesn't like that combination? too bad there aren't more like her as the computing (not just tv) industry needs a little more gender diversity than the standard overweight male basement dwellers and insecure pimply dorky guys that seem to occupy most of it. this will hopefully change as time goes on and technology is more prevalent in schools and understood by 'the masses'. this seems to be the biggest open gap i see in the industry today...
Large print giveth, and the small print taketh away
29, but nekkid is a very cool word. Much cooler than naked, or nude.
That said,when I saw "Bumper Cars" I thought that it was the bumper cars you see on the board walk at the beach, or at a the carnival that comes to towm.
But aside from sumo, no car can deliberately damage each other...
[sigh ...]
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
Backhanded, maybe? You have a point, but the flipside is that it is a valuable skill to be able to get your point across quickly and clearly. Clearly, she valued the fact that they were responsive to the needs of the media format, but I suppose we see this taken too far way too often, so there is some value in unselfconsciously going about your business. The comments about these differences are interesting.
Take a shit in a bag. Bring the bag to work. Take out the shit and wipe it all over your co-worker, telling him you are making him "smell better".
If you want to know who she is, then follow this link.
C'mon you don't watch Junkyard Wars?!?
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Good point.
Replace "Latin" with a term that covers all three. Is there such a term? They are all based on the same root arent they?
Dunno what's happening over in the US, or which version of the show(s) get filmed first, but Lisa Rogers is co-presenting Scrapheap Challenge now here in Blighty.
I believe one of the Discovery channels is repeating the past series with Cathy.
Just in case some of us Brits weren't aware of it...
Well, since you just "disagree" on scientific studies on readability and all caps (not to mention anecdotal evidence you could probably gain by just comparing on your own), I don't put a lot of stock into any of your opinions.
You don't like the polish/Polish thing? How about talking about states or States (the latter being States in the USA)? What about the west versus the West? These are different connotations where the context might not distinguish between the two.
This just in...
/. readers hoping for to spy a bit of the 'streak'.
The organizers of the Crufts dog show have just reported that tickets for the show have sold out for the next three years...seems like especially heavy sales from
Anyone have the ph#/web site for this crufts show?!?
Man, we really are fuckos, aren't we.
Total waste on a show that is way into repeats. Cathy hasn't been seen on the current show at all AFAIK. Naked and sucking would be the only reason I would give this woman a second look. Slashrot is becoming a linux weenie haven, non-thinking "I use linux , therefore I must be smarter than you" bullshit.
I think it would best be expressed as descendents of the Phonecian alphabet.
I was hoping she'd answer my question ( see it). Alas, perhaps I should go shoot myself. Better yet, maybe I should construct a device that picks me up from inside a locked box on the sea bottom and then shoots me at a castle wall made of styrofoam blocks
...the idea actually first came from the movie apollo 13 and being transfixed by the 'houston we have a problem' part. that scene in which all the very non-typical-hero boys at ground control had to figure out how to save the astronauts lives...
There have been other programs on British T.V. where they`ve taken a group of experts, given them junk, and asked them to build something. The "Great Egg Race" springs to mind. Cathy would have seen this while growing up.
get her in my bed and show her the sexual engineering I've learned with regard to stimulating a woman to an incredible climax. She's very lovely indeed and deserves as much fun in bed as possible. I'd start off with the classic tongue action on her clitty, whilst stroking her nipples. Then, I'd slowly move onto a steady stimulation of her labia. Once she begins to open a bit, I'd use the special fingering technique I've worked out and finally work both her clit and g-spot simultaneously. I know she'd love it.
Bit hard to imagine what you could make out of that...
for all of you sickos with wandering minds
This and the next few posts are more of a pointless waste of electrons than the Q&A (of course, my response might be too: my guess is I won't make much of a dent in the coward's manners)... the very first post was funny (Next Week on Junkyard Wars!!! Contestants try and build a SHIFT key!!!), but it degenerated quickly and pointlessly.
I'm not even a fan of JYW, but even I can understand that if someone's willing to take the time and answer some questions for fans, why pillory them over a style issue? Have you never chatted online? Much online communication takes place without caps at the beginning of a sentence and it's perfectly easy to understand (unless they use monstrous acronym's like ROTFLBTCDICAJTTWADBSIHPWTRHITSBKABAYB or IITYWIMWYBMAD: see one of many lists that explain online acronyms).
The real waste of electrons is posts that do nothing more than decry bandwidth usage for something THEY clicked on....
Save the misogyny for someone that deserves it: Celine, Britney et al.
thank you for providing some insight on what goes on behind the scenes so to speak. also something that i appreciate are the complete lack of the shift key, makes it much easier to read.
on a side note it seems that the 'junkyard' is rigged with stuff they need since i know i couldnt find some of the things they do without doing some serious scrounging, my question (i missed the ask the question part) is, is it actually rigged?
The N.E.R.D.S. have a pretty good site about their time on the british show a couple years back.
http://www.the-nerds.org/
Sample episode:
---- "If we have to go on with these damned quantum jumps, then I'm sorry that I ever got involved" - Erwin Schrodinger
...then he's wrong. Cathy has said before and contestents on earlier shows have confirmed that in some cases they do stock the junkyard with a few essential bits. For example the rocket motors that they've used for the rocket shows -- I don't hang out in scrapheaps but I seriously doubt that you're going to find brand-new rocket motors just sitting in the truck of an old Pinto.
Also in one of the monster truck shows they even said on the air that some of the tires being used were on-loan from the company that made them.
-Coach-
Perhaps the world's greatest tragedy is that ignorance is not impotence.
one of the greatest and most overlooked art forms Anybody else catch that quote from John Cusak's movie High Fidelity? I didn't catch any Douglass Adams quotes, so maybe she's only pretending to be a geek.
The global economy is a great thing until you feel it locally.
I can't believe no one asked her about the pants/skirt she wears every single episode. I always thought it was weird. I mean either wear a skirt or wear some pants not both!
You find certain grammar "sexy". I think you might want to reevaluate your life.
OK, all of you have valid points and I'd liek to bring in mine if I may.
I'm a US citizen and I think the reason SOME of us are so confident/arrogant is that we seem to subliminally absorb more talk of our 'greatness' throughout history as a superpower and a free and fair country (now I'm not here to debate whether the US is the perfect Camelot like so many people who just say that and eat steak for dinner watching Fear Factor and I'm not saying that the US is a facists gov't masquerading as a Democracy like so many conspiracy theorists here).
This arrogance (again, of SOME of us) is annoying but calling all 'Americans' arrogant is a generalizations and generalizations usually are filled with trouble even seemingly harmless ones (gee, that Asian kid's sure good at math).
We US citizens, are more isolated from a lot of the world. Over here, going to another state is as easy as for one to go to another country in Europe. We seem therefore more, nationalistic, self-centered, etc.
But most of us are taught one good thing in childhood (usually). I'll never forget one of my 4th or 5th grade teachers telling us that competition is good, that competition built this country (the good along with the bad, but competition is not itself bad). He said that competition is the foundation for capitalism (not is so many words), and that it brings out the best in people.
Of course some people will take this previous remark as 'win at all costs' when one can take it as 'honest competition is noble' (etc), so that will immediately give you a good indication of what type of person you are.
I see nothing wrong in failing and being upset about it, whether you cry or not depends upon your personality and how seriously you take the competition or maybe how important it is to you. Failing miserably is much more worthwhile that never trying at all, IMHO. Regret is a bitch.
why run from Vincenzo?
At odds are my ever-present lust for telegenic renaissance women and my contempt for those pretentious art-school floozies who consider it cute and original to eschew the shift key. Such a contradiction! This is sort of paradox that destroys lesser beings....
I have decided to stand by my principles, and not accept any sexual proposition from Miss Rodgers. I implore the rest of you to follow my example. Let's not be soft in the face of bad syntax!
she never said whether she'd go out with me.
Motherfucking Albequerque, New Mexico. It makes me kill.
England is most definitely a part of Western civilisation and culture.
Macgyver to the moon
You are aware that Canada had to adopt the metric because they were having trouble telling themselves from the US, right?
Sometimes those subtitles are needed.
When I was on a Kibbutz in Israel with alot of English, it was damned hard getting through some of those accents.
Subtitles are sometimes needed with American regional accents.
I strongly second this! What has SRL been up to lately? I haven't heard mention of them lately.
"Best interview ever."
"Sometimes a woman is a kind of religion, she can save your soul & set you free from all your sins" - Bad Examples
Seth
$5 / month hosted VPS on linux = awesome!
I'm curious as to the results of the Dan Gilmour interview - were the questions ever sent? Did he ever answer? Did I just flat-out miss the posting with his responses?
:)
Note: I ask not only for completeness of the interview, but also for personal reasons - I'm curious to see if my question was one of the ten sent to Mr. Gilmour
Come to the University of Mars! Classes starting soon!
Americans today have a short attention span?!! . . . Well I oughtta! Oh, I was going to respond to that, but I kinda' lost interest half way through my post.
but any tech-keen ladies reading this, please please apply! you have my ear.
It's kinda interesting how a lot of times, being a minority will help you get a leg up on things. Like here, if you're a woman, you probably would have to be only half as good as the average male contestant at junkyard-wars-type stuff in order to get on the show. And if you were really hot, probably only 1/4. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing. I think it's great, in fact. There are plenty of areas in which being a minority is a disadvantage. This kinda evens it out. It just goes to show that there are advantages and disadvantages to being whoever you are, and the smart people are the ones who capitalize on the former.
Now if only I was a parapalegic endangered albino 3-toed sloth with a caffeine addiction and a penchant for daredevil stunts. I'd get my own show for sure!
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Kinda wonder if it isn't representative of the value systems in each country. There has to be something to it if the marketing whizkids decide to use that sort of spin.
-- Karma whore? You betcha. --
On one of the British episodes where they did diving bells one of the teams made a pump out of a couple of old fire extinguishers.
Host Robert donned an antique diving suit and went down to observe the activities but as he descended he wryly observed (as exactly as I recall):
"I, however, have a proper air supply. Not a couple of jokers flogging an old fire extinguisher."
I do agree with the other poster, however, there didn't seem to be a lot of danger there. Aside from the fact that they were in an indoor water tank just 15 or so feet from the surface, there were also a bunch of cameramen and other crew down there who undoubtedly had scuba tanks. Not to mention the fact that it's a certainty that they had at least one rescue diver lurking just off camera in case of emergency.
-Coach-
Perhaps the world's greatest tragedy is that ignorance is not impotence.
"oh lord i don't know."
Cathy on how she comes up with these shows:
"don't know quite how i have managed to end up doing so many shows about boy stuff though."
Perhaps, Cathy, the engineering world is so dominated by males because females think of it as "boy stuff"?
Lowercase is damn sexy - very stream-of-conciousness-ey. I know a girl who talks like that on AIM all the time, complete with "er". *Sigh*. Some girls look sexy, some sound sexy, and some type sexy.
I'm the stranger...posting to
The scrapyard/junkyard used in both the original British show and the subsequent American one is the same... and it is in London...
There are several times in both shows where Canary Wharf is visible on the skyline...
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Syntax is the structure of a sentence and the order in which the words are uttered or written. cummingsed sentences do not necessarily have flaws in syntax.
Meanwhile, my wife asks me what a got-o statement is. ;)
Uh, dude, the US has the richest poor people in the world. How much do you think a couple of hundred CEOs is going to matter compared to 150 million adults?
And that's just income. Take a look at the assets of the poor sometime. I'm too lazy to find the reference, so ignore it if you want, but I recall reading that around 40% of the people below the poverty line own their own home. Startling, isn't it?
Censorship, n. The act, process, or practice of removing or suppressing what is considered morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable.
Where do you draw the line, and why do you think you are qualified to draw this line for everyone else.
I had no idea where Luton was, and curiosity got the better of me.. here it is:
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Now I know.
Is it male-dominated because women think of it as "boy stuff" or do women think of it as "boy stuff" because it's male-dominated?
In many cultures, for many generations, women were actively discouraged (if not outright barred) from doing any real engineering work. Shouldn't come as any surprise that they are less than equally represented in the field.
Frankly I think they've come a remarkably long way so far.
-Coach-
Perhaps the world's greatest tragedy is that ignorance is not impotence.
Cathy, will you have my baby?
To really get my sympathy JYW teams should only be allowed to work with a crowbar, a garden trowel, and a pair of pliars they can only use as a hammer. Then I could relate.
Equine Mammals Are Considerably Smaller
How brilliant is it that she eluded to streaking at the Crufts dog show in the UK...
Now, at first I thought to myself, how bizarre a statement that was to make! Then as the vision streaked through my head, I started to think about how fantastic that would be... And the genius of her statement was revealed!
Think about how she 'spot' referenced (pun intended) subliminally the sunglass wearing Junkyard Wars Dog/Mascot.
Dog show streak... Sunglass-wearing dog mascot... Brilliant!
Ahh, the inspiration of fuzzy animals and nudity...
--"The perfect example of the man of action is the suicide." - William Carlos Williams
That new girl is kinda hot. I do miss Cathy's tin foil outfit it was rather sexy.
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B1FF NOZ THAT CATHY IS NOT 133T ENUFF FOR ALL CAPS.
Oh, hello mr Shallow. She was british for god's sakes. Screw hotness, its the accent and organs that matter. This in itself is the problem with america. Recall the Debate between Reagan and JFK? (Yes, I suck at history), TV People thought JFK won because he didnt look nervous, while Reagan was sweating his ass off. On the radio side, they thought Reagan won, because he had good arguments, and a strong case. Now let me ask you something. What do you want, a president who looks good, or who will be adequate in office? Thats right, same applies to people. Dont judge me because I'm ugly, judge me as an idiot!
And why did you staple the trout to the RAM?
you sure are an idiot. and an outspoken one at that
reagan vs kennedy? that was nixon v kennedy
Mine is, my friend. And I count my lucky stars for that.
I'm the stranger...posting to
Dangerous stuff. My wife has this great T-shirt with a 50's homemaker on the front with head tilted to the side. The caption reads "If you can bake a cake, you can make a bomb." True too. Given the right recipe, many interesting things can happen.
So, Cathy "the Baker" may be more dangerous than you think.
Nice benefit of the shirt... all the great looks.
I'm surprised anyone else on this site has actually seen this show. Quite funny.
"Remember, if she doesn't find you handsome, she should at least find you handy"
"I swear I won't break you if you let me take you where the willows never weep" -- Switchblade Symphony
(Disclaimer - I've never seen either of these shows)
Ron Toms built an air cannon on Junkyard Wars, and you can read about it both on his own site (whole site makes for good reading!)
http://www.trebuchet.com/story.php/jyw.html
and also on a teevee.org interview:
google cache of interview
Here's an excerpt from the second interview:
The big secret about the show is that there is an extra day between the build and the contest. They call it a "safety" day. The teams get the day off, but the experts and some real professional welders and mechanics come in and make sure the machines actually will work and no one will get hurt or killed. In some cases I heard that they will actually deconstruct a machine and re-build it from scratch all over again.
In the last 20 feet or so, air will expand by a factor of 1.6 times. This can kill. If the persons in the bell were trained and there were rescue divers nearby with spare second stages, any risk would be minimal.
you would bring about the age of satan you dirty islamic pig fucking ass philanderer. she would not bear your child as your seed is demon seed, you vile deadly friend of the Chenyans terrorist Islamic pig. I hope you have to suck the shit from a pigs ass and have Rabbis shit down your throat.
Cathy would rather die than be infected with an Islamic WORM.
DEATH!
Not so much 'Dirty Fingernails'... more 'Dirty'
- "What do you want, a president who looks good, or who will be adequate in office?"
* Glances at George W. Bush *Appearances seem to indicate that Americans want neither.
Is your "Sexiest human since the invention of the alphabet."
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
Sometimes she comes out after rubbing around her eyes with charcoal. Not quite sure what that's all about.
we like you as you are, but you'll look better , you know..headlights, differential areas..lol