I was watching an episode of the Ellen Show this afternoon and she always has a few segments that are quite funny or what they would call 'roligt' in Swedish. Well today, one of the segments was a showcase of funny clips from those TV shopping programs I think, and I just HAVE to mention the first clip that she showed.

It was a clip of a bearded man in his 50s showing some invention or some device. I can't really tell what the device is except that it is a small handheld black cylinder but apparently it's supposed to be able to calculate something very very accurately.

The man repeated over and over to the host of the show, 'This device is extremely sensitive and really great. There's nothing else like this and it's truly one of a kind.'
As he shows it off in his hand, the camera does a close up of this black device and you can tell the man is REALLY nervous bcos his hands are trembling and red. Unless of cos he has a hand sunburn and Parkinson's, the man is ultra NERVOUS.

Then suddenly the unthinkable happens...just as he is reiterating that the device is 'one of a kind' and that 'you can't find this anywhere else', he drops the device and it SMASHES to a thousand pieces on the floor! The look of sheer horror on his face as his glance moved from the floor to the host back to the floor was both funny and heartbreaking.

And what else can a man say when something like that happens other than 'Oh S**t..'

Did I mention about the Playstation 2 that we now have on the house? The husband came home on Valentine's Day from work holding a box and smiling like it was Christmas morning. Turns out he had gotten a dance mat!! Apparently he had been clearing out the warehouse with his colleague and they found a bunch of these dance mats for PS1. So since they weren't going to sell them, he brought one home. So now we have buzzer attachments, microphones and a dancemat to play on our PS2 at home.

Cool!

Swedish word of the day: Roligt!