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Day: 11 January 2003

Games: Jackson Baby Drop

January 11, 2003
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[Michael Jackson Baby Drop]Can you remember back after “Wacko Jacko”‘s strange court photograph when Michael Jackson dangled his baby over a hotel balcony? Yep? Well so can a few other people on the web – and they’ve even made games about the “stunt”.

In the Mad Blast “New Michael Jackson Baby Drop” you’ve got to catch as many babies as you can in a minute by catching them in a basket – whilst avoiding strange red spiders which seem to plague him. For some reason, the game seems to momentarily freeze every third time the music repeats – but I’ve still managed to score 1,000 (found via Gamer’s Nook).

In the GodFart’s Michael Jackson’s Baby Drop Game – you are Adolf Hitler (?!?) and you’ve got to catch the babies (by using the left and right cursor keys on the keyboard) to catch the babies being thrown by Jacko and others. My highest score has been over 850 on this game.

The Electric Chicken has The Michael Jackson Bouncing Baby Balcony Bunjee where you (again using your left and right cursor keys) have got to catch the falling babies in a bag/sack. My highest score has been 12.

And last, but by no means least, it Liquid Generation’s Michael Jackson’s Dropping Babies game where you actually control Jackson and you’ve got to try and drop the babies into a crib/pram. You’ve got to score 10 points in 30 seconds to progress over each level – I only managed to get to stage 2 🙁 – but I blame that on the strange control system. You click with the mouse, hold and move (to position Jacko’s gloved hands) and then release.

Weekly Wrap-up: Reality TV

January 11, 2003
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[Davina McCall and the Big Brother logo]Right, this is my third week doing the Weekly Wrap-up meme, and this weeks subject is all about reality TV.

  1. Do you watch reality television? Why or why not?
    I did watch most of the first series of Channel 4’s Big Brother series, but apart from that, I haven’t really watched any (unless you count, as the ODP does, Jackass, Robot Wars and Scrapheap Challenge as “reality shows” – all three of which I enjoy).
    Why didn’t I watch Survivor, Big Brother 2+3 (and Celebrity Big Brother), The Osbournes (shudder) or any of the multitude of “clones” that have been on? They just never really interested me – after all: if you wanted to watch people sitting around doing everyday stuff, then why don’t you just go round someone’s house? Plus, due to the fact the participants know they are being recorded and are given ‘unusual tasks’ to complete hardly makes it “real” does it?

    However, if you wanted me to watch a reality show you’ll have to try and re-create Ben Elton’s Dead Famous where, in a reality show called “House Arrest” based in a house (shades of BB? 🙂 ) a contestant is killed right in front of the cameras. Everybody knows how, where, when and who was killed – but who was the killer and could they strike again. It’s a really good book, but the chances of it actually happening in real life are, alas, extremely slim

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Joke: Penny Pincher’s Death

January 11, 2003
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[Pound Notes]An old penny pincher had no friends. Just before he died he asked his doctor, lawyer, and pastor to gather around him at bedside.

“I have always heard that you can’t take it with you. But I want to disprove that theory,” he said. “I have £90,000 under my mattress, and when I die, just before they throw the dirt on me at my burial, I want you each to toss in an envelope with £30,000 within.”

The three attended the funeral and each threw his envelope in the grave. On the way back from the cemetery, the pastor said, “I must confess. I needed £10,000 for my new church, so I only threw in £20,000.”

The doctor then said, “I must confess too. I needed £20,000 for a new hospital I was opening up, so I only threw in £10,000.”

The lawyer looked at them both and shook his head. He then said, “Gentlemen, I’m surprised, shocked, and ashamed of you. I don’t see how you could dare to go against that man’s final wish. I mean, I threw in my personal cheque for the full amount”

Fun: Colour Vision Eye test

January 11, 2003
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[Eye Test]How long has it been since you had your colour vision (color vision) tested?

I haven’t had mine tested for around 10 years (when I discovered I was slightly red/green colour blind), so I was quite grateful for Wannabe Girl to post this link to Test Your Color Vision. I thought I was doing reasonable alright on the 6 plates, but when my results came up they nearly had me falling off my chair in shock! 🙁

How good or bad were your results? Did they have you horrify you as well?