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When the Vikes arent playing.

I watch 3 channels. Discovery, History, Nat Geo... I know its lame I'm 22 i should be watching something funny like comedy central or espn.

Endless wrote:When the Vikes arent playing.

I watch 3 channels. Discovery, History, Nat Geo... I know its lame I'm 22 i should be watching something funny like comedy central or espn.

There's nothing lame about it. Those channels tend to have some of the most interesting programming on TV. The Universe (on History Channel) is one of my favorite shows.

I'm also a huge fan of Lost and Survivor.

Hmmm, I liked Gilligan's Island too. i seem to have some sort of castaway fixation!

Jim

I watch mostly movies if I watch TV.

TV shows;
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report
Various Animal planet, history channel, and discovery channel shows (Generally whatever is on those channels)
House
Heroes

history channel
military channel
nfl network
speed channel
oln

csi
the office
ncis
the unit

reruns of guy shows from the 80's

Tivo Season Passes:

Wishlist - Football/Vikings (picks up anything about the Vikings, sometimes grabs old yearbooks, which can be fun)
PTI
The Daily Show
Check, Please (local restaurant review show)
South Park
Family Guy
Robot Chicken
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Deadliest Catch
How It's Made
Top Gear
Inside the Actor's Studio
Prime Minister's Questions

HBO The Wire (just ended; best mini-series ever)
HBO John Adams (just started)
NHL On The Fly (dropped Center Ice)
MN Wild games
Mad Money with Cramer
Survivorman
Man V. Wild
The O'Reilly Factor
Holmes on Homes
Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares
Masterpiece Theater
Frontline
The Dog Whisperer

Tend to avoid reality contest shows; might be one of the few people in the US who has never watched a single second of American Idol.

Mr. X wrote:Mad Money with Cramer

For advice or comedy? ie, did you listen to him when he said not to sell Bear Stearns last week

Mr. X wrote:Tend to avoid reality contest shows; might be one of the few people in the US who has never watched a single second of American Idol.

You are not the only one. I've also watched all of 15 minutes of Survivor, because there was nothing else on in an airport bar one night.

How could I forgot Family guy? Also That 70's show.

glg wrote: For advice or comedy? ie, did you listen to him when he said not to sell Bear Stearns last week

lol. Yup. Not his best moment. There is a guy who runs a website that tracks all of his buys and sells and it's under-performed the S&P for quite a while now. However ... he made beaucoup money as a hedge manager before he retired so I guess he's been right a lot more than he's been wrong.

On the Bear Sterns thing ... you think that deal is going to close? The shareholders are going to better off going into B/X than take $2/share from JP Morgan. Their building in Manhattan alone is supposedly worth more than $2/share. Got a feeling the Fed strong-arms the deal and then gets creamed in shareholder lawsuits. The bailout tab on that thing is going to be enormous.

I've been taking my lumps this year. Tough market to make money in.

Got any tips?

Mr. X wrote:On the Bear Sterns thing ... you think that deal is going to close? The shareholders are going to better off going into B/X than take $2/share from JP Morgan. Their building in Manhattan alone is supposedly worth more than $2/share. Got a feeling the Fed strong-arms the deal and then gets creamed in shareholder lawsuits. The bailout tab on that thing is going to be enormous.

Tough to say. If it was a BK reorg, and BSC made it through, stock is often canceled. If a liquidation, who knows how it all shakes out. I had read that their real estate alone is worth more then what JPM's paying, but you have to wonder what is lying around that would cause nobody else to have put in a higher offer.

Mr. X wrote:Got any tips?

Not really. I'm more of an index guy. I see how hard it is for these guys to beat the indexes, so I just go with the indexes.

Top Gear

Love this show.

Actual shows I really only watch Simpsons and Scrubs on TV, though I own quite a bit of old shows on DVD. Otherwise most of the time its sports or ESPNEWS. I watch the History Channel and Discovery quite a bit too.

I don't watch a lot of TV though as there is generally nothing on, instead I watch a lot of DVDs.

I've always wanted to finish what I start. That goes for TV series-- I rarely watch repeats, but if I've started watching a series I'll watch it til it dies... Well that helps explain the following list. Honestly, if ER, CSI, and L&O were all cancelled tomorrow I wouldn't mind a bit-- I'm just watching them out of some sort of strange dedication.

L&O (all varieties)
CSI (All varieties)
BSG
DRWHO
Torchwood
Beauty & The Geek (*blush*)
Amazing Race
Criminal Minds
NCIS
Smallville
ER

When I was younger I used to watch a lot of sitcoms, but I haven't watched any since Fraisier went off the air. Looks like SciFi and Crime dramas are all I watch any more. Sigh...

Hadn't watched any Reality TV (none) until about 2 years ago. But now I watch 2.. I watched Beauty and the Geek the first time just to see how horrible Reality TV could get because the premise sounded terrible. I was rather surpised by it-- I found it hilarious and good-hearted (mostly). Just sort of kept watching.

Then the kids found an old 20,000 pyramid game in our basement that I had had when I was a kid. I taught them how to play. Set up TiVo to record a few episodes off GSN to show them the 'real' game. Fell asleep in front of the TV one night as I am want to do, only to wake up between 1-2am with Amazing race on in reruns (TiVo flipped channels to record pyramid earlier I guess). Anyway, I got hooked and really like it because it's a nice tidy 10 week event and then it's done for a while with lots of interesting locales to see.

the nfl network
the history channel
tnt
law and order svu
deal or no deal

Law and Order
CSI
ESPN
Discovery/History channel
Comedy Central on Friday nights
The Bachelor (lucky bastards)
TV Land-good oldies.