daytime television rots my brain

i don’t get sick very often, but when i do, i REALLY get sick. i’ve had some sort of snarky respiratory plague since last friday, when i was still technically on vacation. i was supposed to have gone back to work on monday but didn’t go in until today, and only a half day at that. i’ve been spending the past five days whining about my sore throat, drinking lots of fluids like a good little sick person, sucking on cough drops, not sleeping (whatever -itis i have also comes with a free bonus symptom: insomnia!), and watching lots of tv.

i can always get my richard dean anderson fix during the day on my season 7 stargate DVD set… or by simply turning on TNT and watching reruns of macgyver! ahh, the days of the mullet. rick rick rick, what were you thinking?

somebody’s put together a very meticulous list of all the “macgyverisms” from the show — the times that he did stuff like use chewing gum and a paper clip to make a bomb. for instance, in the pilot episode, macgyver:

• Disarmed missle with a paperclip
• Matches & rope got rifle to shoot itself
• Smashed pistol barrel to use as rocket thruster
• Kicked grate to test for hidden laser
• Lit cigarette with hidden laser
• Smoked cigarette to find hidden laser
• Used binocular eyepiece to catch laser beam
• Aimed laser beam at source to “kill” it
• Knotted fire hose to build up water pressure
• Used said hose to lift steel beam
• Tested heat on door with a stick (it caught fire)
• Milk Chocolate candy stops sulphuric acid leak
• Used shirt to filter gases
• Sodium metal & cold capsule explosive
• Flipped lights in morse code