Interesting Links for 15-08-2013

[andrewducker]

• Scientists forget to turn off equipment… and make ‘impossible material’ Upsalite - the world’s most efficient water absorber
  (tags: accident chemistry science )
• All 823 Barbara Cartland novels to be republished. (Thank goodness for Print-on-Demand?)
  (tags: publishing )
• Hacker! Shouts! Abuse! At! Baby!
  (tags: babies webcam hacking security )
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Comments

[artkouros]

If it's not canned it must be pharmaceutically enhanced. Because The Big Bang Theory is just not that funny.

[andrewducker]

They undoubtedly make sure the audience is well lubricated. And there's a warm-up comedian.

And the audience will be made of excitable people who are all massive fans of the show.

[danieldwilliam]

If I knew how to do it the temptation to hack into the booking software at the BBC and send all the lovers of comedy to a Count Arthur Strong recording and vice versa just for the, wait for it, LOLZ would be huge.

[alitheapipkin]

I still cannot believe they have made that into a TV show, everyone I know who has heard of it, thinks the radio version is the most unfunny comedy radio 4 have ever broadcast*.

*That may be a slight exaggeration but you get the idea.

[danieldwilliam]

I think it is the most unfunny Radio 4 comedy. It’s so unfunny, it is actively unfunny. It sucks the funny out of adjacent funny things. You could play Count Arthur Strong in the same room as a compilation tape of Robin Williams ab libbing from a suggestion by Eddie Izzard, The Dead Parrot Sketch done by Groucho Marx, Laurel and Hardy trying to outthink Elmer Fudd and my son talking to his grandmother about prawns whilst she is high on high class, class A’s and I wouldn’t be able to even raise a smile.

It’s one of the very few things that will make me turn off the radio if it is already on.

I’m a bit luke warn on the generic professional person in an office with some odd colleagues gets into a series of hilarous mis-understandings but Count Arthur Strong - AAAAAGH!

I am told a second series has been commisioned. I weep for my country. I weep.

[andrewducker]

So, how do you feel about Mrs Brown's Boys?

[danieldwilliam]

I have very little exposure to it. What little experience of it I have left me unmoved but with a concern that I would grow to loathe it if I tried it.

[andrewducker]

I saw an episode on NI, and assumed that I was watching a repeat of a godawful 70's show, being displayed so that modern viewers could laugh at the entertainments of yesteryear.

I was boggled to discover this wasn't the case.

[danieldwilliam]

I have very little exposure to it. What little experience of it I have left me unmoved but with a concern that I would grow to loathe it if I tried it.

[andrewducker]

Also, not second series. Eighth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Arthur_Strong%27s_Radio_Show!#Episodes

[danieldwilliam]

Second TV.

Ninth in total.

I realise I have been wrong these many years. The scorn, derision and vitriol I have poured on Doctor Who for not being as good as it could be I should direct instead towards Count Arthur Stong.

[pigwotflies]

I have never understood why anyone likes Count Arthur Strong. It's just toe-curlingly bad to me.

[pigwotflies]

It's almost certainly edited. Volume turned up if needed, extra laughs from elsewhere in the recording added in if the laugh isn't right.