Who is your Pick for Super Bowl Sunday?

Who would you Like most to sit with you and watch Today's SuperBowl XLVI?
by Pat Darnell  |  Feb 5, 2012  |  Bryan TX

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Jerry Sandusky, with Oprah,

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Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona

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MooPig Celebrity Roast :: "Oprah Winfrey Hosts Final Show"

Oprah Winfrey Hosts Final Show: "CHICAGO - U.S. television star Oprah Winfrey, 57, has ended her quarter-century-long talk show, tearing up as she told her millions of worldwide viewers that they and the program have been “the great love” of her life."

What's Next?

LIFE: Oprah Winfrey Narrates

Oprah Winfrey, not good... (sigh)
Retrieved by Pat Darnell

It surprised me to no end when I heard a strange voice coming from the TV room this afternoon. It sounded sometimes like Michael Jackson, and other times like a woman in labor. I finally got up from my work to go see who was watching what, and no one was in there.

A Documentary entitled "LIFE" was running non-stop on Discovery Channel today. It was advertised like crazy for weeks leading up to its airing. Discovery Producers might have done better soliciting the Three Tenores, had thay known the drawbacks of Oprah Winfrey's Midwestern Single-Mom dialect. Better yet, they should have made it a silent movie.

Unfortunately, when Oprah Winfrey talks about all those creatures great and small, she sounds like she is ordering pizza.

That's not all; I actually thought my speakers on the TV had blown out, because of the obnoxious music score that was definitely trying for the tin pan alley effects. It turns out, it is the real soundtrack for the series. YIKES!

Someone should call Discovery Channel direct and ask them to pull the plug -- it would be more pleasing to listen to whistling of the Indian Test Screen for the rest of the weekend.

Of course we are not the only ones who have noticed this misfire in television production ... here are some other Tweets too.. but first this tidbit about our Queen of daytime television, from Chicago:

"Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American television host, producer, and philanthropist, best known for her self-titled, multi-award winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century and beyond, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and was once the world's only black billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world. (From Wikipedia)"

Actually it is too tragic that Oprah failed to leave a good track for the show. Oprah, who could buy the whole planet if she liked, puts us, John Q Public in a precarious position: this sort of defeats the purpose of it all, no?
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from TWITTER and Tweetmeme --

"Life" series has awesome photography but choosing Oprah to narrate combined with the worst ever musical soundtrack makes it a fail for me. (GaryDarling‎ )

(@gregbilsland) "Life is good, but Oprah is not a good narrator.

"The only reason I'm still watching #Life on #Discovery is because I'm waiting for Oprah to tell me there is a new car under my seat. ‎(mirage9studios)‎

"I chuckle everytime Oprah says "Makak". #Life #DiscoveryChannel #Makak | TweetPhoto. TWEETPHOTO.COM - I chuckle everytime Oprah says "Makak". ( First tweeted by Blackwolf303)

"Planet Earth " an average animal planet documentary = Life." I expected more from you, Oprah.
‎(moliver816‎)


'I am Oprah's father,' claims farmer - Telegraph ..Made popular 1 hour ago (0www.telegraph.co.uk)

John Tesh confirms he once dated Oprah Winfrey
Posted on 04/12/2010 11:38:24 AM "John Tesh acknowledged Monday that he and Oprah Winfrey were once an item - one of the juicy tidbits in a new tell-all biography about the talk show queen.
(Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Oprah+Winfrey#ixzz0lVVxpfMY)

In Conclusion
My favorite scene from Discovery Channel's LIFE Program is this mating ritual of a Scientologist ... it's not unlike the Grebes pictured above; it cracks me up, ... no, really, ... it cracks me up ... !

C*H*I*C*A*G loses its *O*

Two Point Five Billion is Enough
by Pat Darnell and Retiring Others

We have a number at last. The number that makes them retire: $2,500,000,000. Now we have a cornerstone; now we have a benchmark. There is something about that number. It has been cropping up in current events as a major figure in our capstone of Black on Woman Candidates; and glamor override from charismatic First Ladies... ambition and swollen resumes, couch jumping and aboriginal lock out. Decency now has a Price: $2.5 in 25 years. What a life: what a city !

Of course if properly handled those numbers will double in half the time, to say $5b in 12 more years -- yet Childhood obesity could have been the *O* effect in post Obama Oprah-sized Omerica. No, it dwindled down into a trickle of charades and demo's of new recipes that over-nourish our bifurcated tummy's. Could not have other issues been addressed during Oprah-uber-flaven orgies of self-ness, like: it is estimated that around the world, 2.5 billion people are without a decent toilet, while 900 million people worldwide do not have access to clean water? [whoa -- there's that 2.5 number again] With her fortune Oprah could make it rain on Afghanistan, or Iran, or wherever the poor children have no water.

It could have been all those things -- or not. Could not Oprah's farewell have been a calling to become a nun taking a vow of silence in these waning years. Couldn't she raise an army. Afterall, her years of talking about this and that, couldn't she put her money where her mouth has been, Oprah's last bidding bespeaks betrayal. Many rhetorical questions come to mind.

Rather me thinks this money sum, in summary, will be used to fortune [or buy] the next presidency. Ahh, now I know why she cries as she announces to her audience her plans to move on -- she knows that everything that follows is going to betray every troglodyte who lives by her word, including all the young fans who lost their virginity while watching her show. Think of all the arrested development to follow Oprah's quitting. Why oh why nothing is ever simple?

"Someday I'll wish upon a star,
Wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where trouble melts like lemon drops
High above the chimney top that's where you'll find me
Oh, Somewhere over the rainbow way up high
And the dream that you dare to, why, oh why can't I? I hiii ? (music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg )"

One great subject after another, and midwestern work ethic has provided Oprah and Obamah life, birthed from the loins and womb of Chicag'*O* -- as it defines economic derivatives and aspirations for futures -- $2.5b is that magic number. I always thought $20 million would suffice; silly me.

So my next obfuscated conjecture dives directly into the *O* as if it were a gaping hole somewhere in the middle of the United States. The caverns were founded by Donahue who paid for the first Oprah Shows, and I was there in front of the boob box, watching the baton exchange hands. In Chicago before it gave its *O* to Oprah in 1986 I worked the next 25 years in company of work-place daily direct quotes of what the Lady *O* said the day before. Obamah-Oprah Omerica obselecence is preserved in Middle America, land bound, and it is now rooted well enough below freeze lines to sprout Neo-Dark-Ages transitional narrative history: The Calamitous 21st Century on the Prairie.

Twenty five years later, and 2.5b earning interest for the Pharoah-ess of Daytime, and my oldest child just turning thirty -- *O* runs for office next?? Maybe becomes a cabinet member at her young Nubian Prince's request. Maybe her use of her cathedral-like studio to expose whitey ways, forces the hand that has ushered in and out careers. Oprah should sing -- proving once again the oldest adage ever uttered by bored kings at operas "It ain't over 'till the fat lady sings..."

Act One, It is finally *O*ver..... thanks be to GOD and all the Saints, or not? OH NO...!

Next Week :: Oprah's Replacement Rumors and GaGa..