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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Apr 30, 2023 13:28:37 GMT -5
Hopefully this thread title is good enough to get some responses  Anyway, what made me think of this was wondering about local news. Does anyone’s local news station still have stories about vague topics like obesity or personal hygiene then just use it as an excuse to show real footage of local fat people or people picking wedgies and stuff? I remember in the 1990s in Massachusetts these would pop up every so often. The local news is on in the background at work all the time now and they never seem to pop up. It would be something like a big booming voice going, “Obesity on the rise!” Then it would have footage of fat people walking around local parks and train stations, often doing things like picking their wedgies, scratching their asses, etc. Also, great care was taken to never show the people’s faces because you know lawsuits. Heck, that’s probably the whole reason they stopped those segments, at least here. Also, less locally I remember when Eminem was first blowing up, MTV had a documentary about controversial lyrics. I shit you not at the beginning they had a line that was something like, “It all started with the song, ‘One in a Million’ by Guns N’ Roses.” Apparently there were never controversial lyrics before that song  |
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Post by Bo Rida on Apr 30, 2023 13:47:33 GMT -5
The fat footage is still popular for news reports in the UK. Often wondered what those that recognised their ass thought of them.
My favourite makes no sense to anyone but it was a guy with a very particular accent saying "went down garden, fell down hole", the delivery made it hilarious.
More recently I went to Australia last year and one of the lead stories was a chip (fries) crisis which made a nice change from the average UK news report.
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Post by Shy Guy on Apr 30, 2023 14:04:40 GMT -5
if its something only i remember i could post whatever i wanted because no one can tell me i'm wrong if only i remember it
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Apr 30, 2023 14:20:24 GMT -5
if its something only i remember i could post whatever i wanted because no one can tell me i'm wrong if only i remember it Yes. |
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Apr 30, 2023 22:20:12 GMT -5
I remember a segment on BCTV about John Tenta returning from Japan and joining All Star Wrestling.
Looked on YouTube for it and found this interview on the CBC instead...
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Post by sabretooth on Apr 30, 2023 23:00:35 GMT -5
if its something only i remember i could post whatever i wanted because no one can tell me i'm wrong if only i remember it I remember last year when Anna Kendrick went on national tv and declared her love for me. Good times. |
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Post by agent817 on May 1, 2023 0:02:20 GMT -5
Okay, with my memory being as good as it is, I will talk about an example that sticks out compared to others when it comes to news.
At the end of 2000, I remember seeing a report on parents complaining about a kids VHS they bought for their son for Christmas. It was a movie that had to do with ponies or horses (never got the name) but for some reason, the tape had trailers for horror movies. I remember one of them being "Piranha" and another for some movie about a mansion (never got the title for that one, either) and there was some blood and gore in the trailers. Not sure who the distributor was, but that's pretty wild to have horror movie trailers in front of a kids movie on VHS, even back in 2000. Not to mention one of them was two decades old up to that point.
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Post by DSR on May 1, 2023 3:27:59 GMT -5
if its something only i remember i could post whatever i wanted because no one can tell me i'm wrong if only i remember it I remember last year when Anna Kendrick went on national tv and declared her love for me. Good times. Worst day of my life.  |
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Post by schma on May 1, 2023 4:44:21 GMT -5
I remember last year when Anna Kendrick went on national tv and declared her love for me. Good times. Worst day of my life. Bret? |
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Post by DSR on May 1, 2023 8:35:27 GMT -5
Worst day of my life. Bret? I don't know why you would EVER think anything like that! As a matter of fact, I- *puts you in a sharpshooter* |
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Post by Sephiroth on May 1, 2023 8:36:12 GMT -5
When I was a wee one the local news had a bonanza fkr what seemed like weeks over “the pope of pot.” The guy ran a bicycle delivery service for marijuana and had tried to claim his business was really a church for tax purposes, hence his nickname. They made it sound like he was Tony Montana, everything I’ve read about him since paints him as a stoner hipster.
Also in my youth, pope John Paul II paid a highly publicized visit to nyc. While I know there were valid concerns about his security, I remember laughing hard at a news segment that showed a clip of him in the popemobile and then, splashed in huge print and with Darryl Vader-Esau’s voice over, “POPE STALKERS!”
Some time in the 2000’s there was a particular segment about bed bugs. You could tell the anchors were grossed out. By the time it was over one of them was covering his face in embarrassment..
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Post by James Fabiano on May 1, 2023 8:55:55 GMT -5
A report on the OJ case involving very 90s-video-game-quality 3D CGI figures re-enacting the crime. All I remember is one CGI figure very gingerly stabbing another.
One of those movie news shorts HBO played in the 80s about the X-rating. I remember the line "(something)...gave new meeting to the letter X!" (insert X graphic stamped over a lovemaking scene)
Does print count? Because there was a tabloid (?) article about what would become Batman Returns, instead predicting that the movie would be about a revived Joker teaming up with the other of the Big Four Bat-Villains, '66 Movie style, to kidnap a pregnant Vicki Vale. Batman recruits Robin to save his now-wife.
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