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The Science Guy Returns
hende_jman writes "When I was in high school, the dry science videos that I watched in my classes made me miss the silly and sometimes irreverent Bill Nye the Science Guy. So I was excited to read in the latest issue of Wired that everyone's favorite Science Guy is coming out with a new show, The Eyes of Nye where he tackles some more serious issues like addiction, sex, cloning, and climate change."
Oh God, get that image out of my mind!
Bill Nye was the best science teacher because he was also a comedian. I remember seeing him once on some old sketch comedy show (Almost Live?) where he talked about his girlfriend from hell or something.
Incidentally, my 8th grade science teacher looked almost exactly like Bill Nye.
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Thinking of bill "tackling sex" is just getting me all excited to!
There's something disturbing about the image of a pasty, thin nerd in a bow tie talking about sex.
Oh god, is that why my wife grimaces whenever we make love??
Wow. Addicted clones having sex are bringing about climate change?
I can't wait for this show!
Sometimes my arms bend back.
Or, you know, bored drunk college students.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
Times were different back then. No PC nonsense, and his science demonstrations were always geared to practical things of use to awkward young science fans growing up in the conformist 1950s.
Like the time Mr. Wizard showed you how to perform a prefontal lobotomy on a school bully using a #2 pencil, an American History text book, and a pipe cleaner.
The guest star / subject was "Whitey" from Leave it to Beaver. He was never the same after that. Of course, what actually slowed him down -- the operation or the home-brewed benzine-based anesthesia -- wasn't clear.
I'm sure you'd like us to believe that.
"And what was with the stupid ass skits? If you don't have talented children don't have them take up half the show!"
I don't know about you! BUt I seriously hope we don't get to see children perform the skits on sex addiction.
"The Knights That Say ... 'Nye'"
Pat Paulson as "Mr. Wizard", made science very enjoyable to watch.
I always thought it would be fun to take Bill Nye's brain and put it into a robot. Then take Mr. Wizard's brain and put it into another robot.
Then make them battle on the surface of some far off desert planet.
My guess is, Mr. Wizard would win, but Nye would have fresher looking moves. Nye's downfall would be in showboating it up for the crowd, while Mr. Wizard would methodically find Nye's weakness and exploit it with some obscure weapon which most of us didn't know Mr. Wizard even had.
As a prize, the Mr. Wizard robot would be able to take home Xuxa, that really odd creepy lady (who was also strangely hot) who had her own children's television program back in the day. Together they would mate, and produce an offspring which would be the future of educationally themed children's television programs for the next thousand years.
I'm not sure where I got this idea. I think it was foretold somewhere in the Book of Mormon. Or maybe it was that guy who was trying to get me to take a personality test outside the Church of Scientology on Hollywood Blvd in Los Angeles.
Either way, I'm sure it will happen, if we all wish hard enough.
The Internet is generally stupid
Tell me about it. I'd sooooo bang that fat guy in the rat suit. Wait... what?
Okay, so a philosopher, a philologist, and a philatelist walk into a bar...
Heh... after the meetings about 40 of us (meetings run 300 or so, more when a big name like Nye speaks) go have dinner. The waitress always asks "are you with the Skeptics?" and the easily amused of us answer: "Maybe..."
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.
I remember what happened the last time you said that.
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.