Archive of entries posted on 17th November 2015

Link of the Day: #7 Is Why Firefighters Have All My Respect

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[High Praise! to Mental Floss]

13 Behind-the-Scenes Secrets of Firefighters

When I was in the Navy, I had to go to firefighting school. Not because I wanted to, but because it’s NECESSARY for every single sailor on a ship to know how to fight a fire. When you’re 1000 miles from land, you can’t call the fire department. You ARE the fire department.

Anyway, one training exercise was to enter a “burning building” and put out the fire (it had controlled natural gas flames). It’s pitch black in there – because electricity is normally out during a fire. And those flames, surprisingly, only illuminate out to about 10 feet. And you can’t see diddly because of the smoke.

I honestly don’t know how anyone navigates in a burning building. I’m just grateful there are men crazy enough to try.

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MST3K Question of the Day: The Movies

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mst3kLoboBy now, you’re not only excited about the MST3K reboot, you’re actually sick of hearing about it. Well, think about what poor Joel and Mike had to go through. Now, you don’t feel so bad, do you?

And now that I’ve cleverly maneuvered you into being in a good mood, let’s put that to some good use.

We know there will be some changes in the reboot of Mystery Science Theater 3000, but some things will remain pretty much the same. For example, there will have to be a bad movie to riff. Or, like they did from time to time, a TV show presented as a movie.

Which brings us to our MST3K Question of the Day: What should be the first movie/TV show riffed on the new MST3K?

You’re smart enough, you’re good enough, and doggone it, people like your answers. Share with us, won’t you?