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Now that Oxford Dictionary has added the verb 'MacGyver' to the official lexicon, we pay homage to the almighty hack.
With each new update to the online version of the Oxford Dictionary, one can practically hear the laments of pedantic grammarians far and wide. This week, among a few dozen new words, we got “awesomesauce” (having nothing to do with sauce at all) and “mkay” (as in, OK … mkay). Oh how the mighty have fallen.
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In the age of all things DIY, MacGyver has become the patron saint of the hack. And if there’s one thing we love here at TreeHugger, it’s a good hack. A clever use of materials allows old things to live longer, creates new uses for things that may be obsolete, and can basically become a super sustainable way to obviate the need to purchase more and more and more new stuff. Long live the hack! So with that in mind, here’s a round-up of some of our best MacGyver moments.
What follows is a long list of hacks. Some are contrived, some are clever but too niche, some might be useful. Anybody have any to add to the list? Mine is poking string into the can of bacon & chicken grease in the kitchen to make a quick tallow lamp. Works well.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday August 30 2015, @08:31PM
There's just one requirement: The new MacGyver has to be a woman.
I'm old enough to remember the original series and it was awkwardly progressive or politically correct by the standards of what passed for that in the 80s.
I distinctly recall episodes about anti-hunting and another one about anti-political organizing from the right. There were more that I only vaguely remember where even as a kid I kind of laughed at the TV and said "really?"
From memory it was kind of a competitor-clone of the A-team where the only real differences were no teamwork (which was apparently seen as right wing) and he was fairly non-violent (as opposed to the A team which had a mandatory minimum # of firearm rounds shot per show, somewhere around 1K minimum)
I think we can safely assume the MacGyver of the mid 10s is going to be simultaneously interesting and agonizing to watch. An (insert predictable demographics here) gets a post on tumblr to fix a 3-d printer with sugru, duct tape, and a linux install (OK cool so far) so the local community organizer group can repair their "black lives matter" banner which had a broken mounting bracket (err what?), and that'll be portrayed as a good thing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2015, @09:13PM
The original show had Cuba Gooding Jr in it for a few episodes. That was good enough reason to dump the show.
Hope there is no CGR ever again. But we cannot hope for a propaganda-less show. That is against the law.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday August 30 2015, @09:13PM
a mandatory minimum # of firearm rounds shot per show
All to zero effect. Virtually nobody ended up getting shot.
Common knowledge is that firing a bullet into the air will, without fail, fall to earth and kill a child three miles away.
Yet full automatic weapons unleashed in a firefight at twenty yards will result in nothing but broken windows.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 3, Informative) by VLM on Sunday August 30 2015, @09:35PM
Yes and A-team was just barely contemporary with "Tour of Duty" where they fired the same mandatory 1K rounds, but people dropped like flies (on both sides, from what I recall).
From memory, Knight Rider had about 100 bullets fired per episode, again zero hits. Apparently "old people" in the 80s didn't know you need to hold the gun sideways to get good accuracy, like hollywood learned how to do in the 90s.
Now that I think back to it, almost all network TV in the 80s sucked. Let me horrify some Gen-x and older readers. "Greatest American Hero" "Punky Brewster" "Battlestar Galactica:1980" "Whiz Kids" "Starman" "ALF" "Roseanne" "Remington Steele" "Thirtysomething". I liked ST:TNG and ... ... um ... I liked ST:TNG, that was about it.
"Thirtysomething" would be "Sixtysomething" now. I smell a reunion show in the making... no wait thats just gas. Well anyway the 80s had some amusing TV.
The weirdest story of all from 80s TV is given the stereotype of what happens to child actors when they grow up, I checked Punky Brewster on wikipedia and shockingly she's not a train wreck at all, fairly normal, almost.
(Score: 2) by M. Baranczak on Monday August 31 2015, @12:48AM
(Score: 2) by ilPapa on Monday August 31 2015, @01:06AM
So was the original Star Trek, ST:TNG and every incarnation of Star Trek to follow. So was Dr Who. So was Twilight Zone.
It could just be that shows for dumbasses tend to espouse right-wing values and shows for people with half a brain espouse progressive values.
Do you see where I'm going with this? If not...
let's let the research speak for itself.
https://www.americanscientist.org/science/pub/study-are-liberals-smarter-than---conservatives [americanscientist.org]
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201003/why-liberals-are-more-intelligent-conservatives [psychologytoday.com]
http://www.businessinsider.com/proof-republicans-really-are-dumber-than-democrats-2012-5 [businessinsider.com]
You are still welcome on my lawn.