Cubey’s Adventures in Living

Some random funny quotes from a couple of TV shows:

Malcolm in the Middle:

Reese: Did I hear her right? Milk comes out of those things?
Malcolm: That’s what they’re for …….
Reese: Oh my god! Women are the cows of people!

Mystery Science Theater 3000:

Pearl: i’d like to give you a hump
Observer: Well, Pearl… whatever you feelings you might have for me…….
Pearl: on your back!
Observer: That’s sexual harrassment!
Pearl: a latex hump!
Observer: Now see here!!!

I frequent the local Salvation Army thrift store and today I picked up an old little 1990 model Magnavox AC/DC TV. When I tested it at the store on the little built in antenna it displayed well. No problems that I could see. One neat thing about this small TV is it has a swivel base, in addition to it being AC/DC and having mono A/V inputs on such an old TV.

When I got it home and hooked it up to my NES via A/V inputs, I was horrified to find the upper left corner and top of the screen was showing the blue sky of SMB with a purple tint. I tried the degauss button on the back of th TV but it didn’t really ever fix it. Upon trying a large dual deck VCR which i placed on top of the TV, the metal bottom of the VCR suddenly corrected the screen!

I looked around and grabbed an old untested SCA SCSI hard drive and set it on the top of the TV and voila, it fixed the color problem! Any sort of large, thick metal object will do though a hard drive seems to work very well. Just have to duct tape it on and it should make a great little TV!

It takes a pretty sick mind to come up with something like this. Giant cockroach shaped candy! And if that isn’t bad enough slap the Harry Potter franchise on it and sell it to little kids!