Saturday, March 28, 2009

Music to my ears: an advertisement for an "All-New" Mythbusters (I had been concerned the show had perhaps run its course, and they just weren't telling us, lest the fans be tragically disappointed).

However, I've heard a rumor that (recently-hitched) Kari Byron is expecting, so I suppose she may step back from the more dangerous bits, and perhaps let Grant "allegedly changed his middle name to Danger" Imihara take over for that.

(Maybe they could do baby myths? Like the gender-prediction ones? They'd probably need more pregnant ladies for a decent sample size, but I'm sure, the Mythbusters fan base being what it is, they'd find no shortage. I know of two gender-prediction myths - one involving dangling a ring over the lady's belly and looking for the direction and kind of movement, and one involving mixing a sample of her urine (? I think) with some other substance and looking for a color change - I'm thinking one I read said Drano, but that sounds horribly dangerous. I'm sure there are others out there.)

I also wonder - have they ever done the myth about putting a sleeping person's hand in warm water? That's one I've always wondered about (When I was a kid at slumber parties, we all TALKED about it but none of us was actually willing to brave the wrath of a friend if it actually WORKED.) But I can totally see them pulling that on either Adam or Tori.

3 comments:

Lydia said...

It's Drano.

I hadn't heard that Kari was going to have a baby! This is exciting.

Did you take the day today as you'd planned? That sounded really pleasant.

Unknown said...

Oh, there's a thing on the Discovery website about Kari (I was looking for that video of Adam drunk on a treadmill to show someone). Some pregnancy-related myths would be fun. Too bad there aren't any like, say "The presence of a pregnant woman 100 meters away causes [non-hazardous thing] to explode". Then they'd totally do one.

dragon knitter said...

i think they havedone the hand-in-the-water myth, lol. looking forward to the new shows (as are the boys,lol. they love it when they blow stuff up)