Like Kevin, I sometimes watch infomercials and the shopping channels. I especially enjoy watching HSN and QVC when they have computer shows, since it’s particularly entertaining to watch the clueless hosts when they have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about. Sort of like George W. Bush on CNN. Last night, I watched a Tammy Faye wannabe struggle to get through her segment on a Compaq desktop computer, assuring us that we didn’t need to know any of the “technical gizmo lingo” in order to use it. Apparently, she didn’t know it either.
I do have a sort of grudging admiration for these shopping channel hosts, in that you can set just about any object down in front of them, any object, and they can talk about it at least mostly coherently for 20 minutes. That’s a talent.