Freezing

No, it's not really cold here. The freezing is happening on television. Two shows this season---Life and Eleventh Hour, in case you're curious---have had plots involving people killed by freezing to death. And if that's not odd enough, in both shows the corpse did not thaw out in a reasonable fashion. Freaky, huh?

And if that's not enough, the show I like less was the one with the more reasonable explanation--even though the banter during the examination was quite ridiculous. "Are you sure she wasn't exposed to a virus?"

Ummm. How many viruses cause a person to freeze to death on a sunny beach in 90+ weather? Why would a ME be looking for internal causes for freezing when it's obviously going to be an external factor? (yet, it did turn out to be an internal factor so I guess in the long run I was wrong on that objection)

Did anything unusual go on in TV programming last night at 8pm? Nothing that I had programmed in from 8 to 9pm got recorded. It was weird. I turned on the TV at midnight and was quite surprised to see a gap in the recordings. I hope Cheney didn't stage a coup. That would preempt programming for at least an hour and it would certainly be likely given his personality. President-for-Life Cheney? There's a concept that is soul-freezing indeed!

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Unknown said…
Don't know about the 8PM thing, I was watching a DVD of last season's Heroes at 8:30 - maybe your Direct TV was diverted (and therefore, Indirect TV sorry - it's Friday). On the bright side;) the sun is going into it's active phase in it's 11 year cycle - so maybe more outages.

Cheney for life is too evil to comprehend. Speaking of cold and barren, how does one freeze to death internally?
9:59 AM
utenzi said…
Sex with my EX almost did it. Took years for me to recover.

Given the heart condition and all, Cheney for Life wouldn't be all that long a reign of terror. Who knows, maybe one or two of the rights in the Bill of Rights would still be intact.
10:14 AM
Anonymous said…
Nothing unusual happened here... not that I know of. I watched Survivor without incident. I did record Ugly Betty, but haven't checked if it worked. Sounds like your DVR had a signal problem at 8 o'clock.

So, you aren't going to explain how they resolved the internal freezing? Maybe it was kind of like on NipTuck when someone was murdered by being stuffed like a stuffed animal only this time they used ice cubes?? Hmmmmm...
2:24 PM
utenzi said…
Sorry, Teresa. I didn't mean to be secretive. The freezing was accomplished by using an air-injected chemical that produced an endothermic reaction when it encountered potassium in human tissue / blood.
2:32 PM
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