Dirty Red Commie

Update: The No-Fun brigade has killed all the videos I've uploaded. Sorry

We have confirmations!   Apparently it was local to Helena, Montana.

If I hadn't recorded it, I'd think I'm losing my mind.  I was idly fast-forwarding through the olympics broadcast on my MythTV box, and  I saw Joel, Tom Servo, and Crow T. Robot at the Olympics!  They appeared today, August 17 between about 2:00pm and 3:13pm Mountain Time on NBC.  Did anyone else see it?  If you did/didn't, please let me know!  It's possible that this was only visible on the HD broadcast.  I don't think they were added by the local station, because they were constantly present over both events and nationwide commercials, but they disappeared for local commercials.   They were just static sillhouettes, so there was no hilarious commentary added.

For those wondering, it was on the KTVH over-the-air HD broadcast. 

From the apparent cause of our entertainment : 

I'm a master control operator
for an NBC affiliate in Helena, Montana. I basically switch on air
programming from standard definition to high definition and roll local
breaks during network television.
...
I somehow accidently
clicked a button on that program while playing solitare that brought up
the Mystery Science Theater3000 sillouette at the bottom of people's tv
screens in town. I don't fucking know how it got there but people
watching television were probably losing there fucking minds.
 
 

We made the news!

http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/08/24/news/state/45-glitch.txt

http://helenair.com/articles/2008/08/23/top/60lo_080823_mst3k.txt

 MST3k during Women's Basketball Volleyball

 MST3k in Beijing!

 Even over the nationwide commercials!  Somebody is fired!

They disappeared sometime during the Men's 10,000k 10,000 meter.

[The author of this post can be contacted at tbone-mst@drclabs.com ]

Guess what, I got a girlfriend, well like 2 weeks ago.  What can I say, I'm pretty excited about the whole deal too.  Brian's met her and can account for her awesomeness.  I think you all like her.  There's not a lot to say other than yay. 

Also, I'm headed to Billings sometime in the realitively near future is there a weekend that you (Billings) guys plan on not being there?

This time it's sheep .  Apparently, there's quite a lot of controversy about a study being done to find out why gay sheep are gay.  The objections are apparently based on "bizarre misinterpretation" of the purpose of the study. 

So, apparently there's a shark that lives deep in the sea that looks
a little like a creepy eel/sea creature. You should check it out.

 http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/01/24/shark.japan.reut/index.html 

At first, I thought I'd come across a follow-up story for my previous mention of gay penguins,

Birds Stay Gay

As it turns out, I've found an entirely new news story about gay penguins, in a different country even. In our own country even.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1951882,00.html

Apparently the problem is more pervasive than previously thought! (Although, in the interests of full disclosure, apparently one of these penguins was just experimenting or bi. Just letting y'all know)

A woman completely loses her shit to a telemarketer.  It's absolutely amazing.  She calls him a murderer, a rapist, a criminal, and makes the most outrageous claims about what she's going to do to him and his family. She just keeps going and going while "Alex" just responds calmly here and there when he can get a word in edgewise.

 You must hear this to believe it.

From The Consumerist