{"id":226,"date":"2002-12-02T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-02T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=226"},"modified":"2002-12-02T00:04:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-02T00:04:00","slug":"doh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-12\/226-doh","title":{"rendered":"Doh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You gotta love <b>Closed Captioning<\/b>!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know who does the CC for <i>CNN<\/i>, but it looks like they&#8217;ve got some illiterate hillbilly with fat fingers hammering away on the keyboard while sitting over the hole in the outhouse way out in the backwoods! (Well, <i>CNN<\/i> <b>IS<\/b> based in Atlanta! heeheehee)<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I loved the following captions from <i>The Simpsons<\/i> &#8220;Mr. Plow&#8221; episode. Homer is about to head up into the snowy mountains to save Barney, the Plow King, and he tells Marge that his plow is as sure-footed as a mountain goat. Then we see a mountain goat grazing on the ice slope. It takes a slip and cascades down the mountain. The captions read:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>[Bleating]<\/i><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>[Bleating and thudding]<\/i><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>[Thudding]<\/i><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>[Bleating interspersed with thudding]<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You gotta love Closed Captioning! I don&#8217;t know who does the CC for CNN, but it looks like they&#8217;ve got some illiterate hillbilly with fat fingers hammering away on the keyboard while sitting over the hole in the outhouse way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-12\/226-doh\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}