"You always want to stay in control of a high-powered boat."

The first images from the new camera on the Hubble Space Telescope were released today. The anticipation was spine tingling but the results were greatly disappointing. We take a look at the camera shot. The dang camera was pointing the wrong way. All we saw was a guy's eye looking through the telescope lens. In NASA's defense, though, the shot was very clear.

THE GEORGE CLARKE INCREDIBLE CAT CHALLENGE: You saw the Incredible Dog Challenge last night, and tonight we have the Incredible Cat Challenge, brought to you by building engineer George Clarke. We see George order the cat to "GO" but, the cat being a cat, didn't listen. It's a shame. We prepared a beautiful 1st prize cake made of catnip and Fresh Step.

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF MAYOR BLOOMBERG: The Mayor of New York leads an incredibly hectic life so we decided to follow Mayor Bloomberg around one day to document his harried and hurried life. Some things I bet you didn't know:
11:00 AM - Visits local grade school: tells kids they, too, can be mayor if they have a dream and $64 million.
1:00 PM - Lunch arrives. Bloomberg asks delivery boy if he can break a $1,000 bill.
2:00 PM - Honored as winner of Shrek look-alike contest. (we see a split screen of the Mayor and Shrek in similar poses. Dave says the Mayor looks nothing like Shrek. "Shrek is green, for heaven's sake" says Dave. Paul says something about "Shreky Green" that made me cackle.)
3:00 PM - Gets in fight with Donald Trump over who's the more irritating billionaire. (Dave says the mayor must have thought he was invited to a gray tie affair. Again I laughed out loud. Any of us could have told the same joke if we only took the time to notice. It was right there in front of us for all to see yet the only one to notice and mention the gray tie was Dave.)
9:00 PM - Bloomberg issues plan to halt crime: "Everyone smoke a bone and just chill."

Last week when Bill Walton was on the show, we learned of his "Love It Live" tour where he would be going to 30 NBA basketball playoff games in 30 days. Where was he last night? He was in Indiana enjoying the game with Dave's mom. We see a nice photo of the two of them. We got the shot from www.nba.com. Walton is writing a log of his 30-day journey. It's darn good. Makes this Wahoo look kind of silly.

IS THIS ANYTHING? It's a guy jumping on a huge red rubber ball. Is this anything? Dave has two things to say about this: 1. He thinks we did this before. 2. It's a safe-sex demonstration. Paul agrees with Dave that we did this before and they both agree it was something the first time but not this time around. A quick check of my database finds that we did the red rubber ball guy back on June 11, 2001, Show #1621.

KIRSTEN DUNST (keersten): It was Kirsten's 20th birthday yesterday so Dave bought her some roses. She was here on her 19th birthday last year. She received a bouquet of flowers, then, too. Kirsten received a birthday wake-up call from Steven Tyler yesterday morning that went like this: "Hey baby, it's Steven Tyler. Happy Birthday to you. You're a big 'givl'ing star. Happy Birthday dear Kirsten, where ever you are."
Steven Tyler and Kirsten share the same make-up person.

Kirsten is in the new "Spider-Man" movie. Perhaps you heard of it. She's got an action figure for the movie, too. It's sitting on my desk right now as I type. I'll keep it here in my office tonight just in case we need tomorrow with Tobey "Spider-man" Maguire. Then it goes home to the girls.

Does Spider-Man eat flies in the movie? Kirsten won't say. We'll have to watch the movie. The big question is why is there a hyphen in "Spider-Man"? I hope they answer that in the movie.

STEVE NASH: Point guard for the high-scoring Dallas Mavericks. He grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, which probably explains why he seems so nice. He hasn't been "Americanized" yet. (I know, Canada is part of America, but you know what I mean.) The Mavs have players from all over the globe, a real international team, with players from Germany, China, Canada, and Mexico. Plus, the owner's name is Cuban. The Mavericks just finished off the Minnesota Timberwolves in the first round of the playoffs. They next face the Sacramento Kings beginning Saturday. Dave asks, "If the Mavericks make the finals, who would be your opponent from the Eastern Conference?" Steve thinks, and says "The Pacers?" Dave says nothing, just sits there nodding his head with a big grin on his face. I laughed.

ACT 5: It's our announcer Alan Kalter enjoying a cheeseburger and french fries.

ANGIE STONE AND THE O'JAYS: From the CD "Mahogany Soul," Angie and the O'Jays sing "Wish I Didn't Miss You." During the commercial break, we all got on board the "Love Train"

And that was our show for Wednesday, May 01, 2002. Word's I'm Sick Of

Here's more:
"Extreme" - Caroline Bakija of Pediatrics - "It is now being used for everything from weather to food. The last straw came the other day in the supermarket when I saw a new flavor of macaroni and cheese - 'Extreme Cheese.' That's not even a flavor for crying out loud, and what the hell type of cheese is extreme anyway?"

"Proactive" - Joshua Reinking - "My boss finds a way to work the word 'proactive' into every paragraph. How freaking annoying is that?"

"Actually" - Karen Hazel of San Diego - "If there was ever an overused word, it would be 'actually.' Ask someone today, 'How are you?' Count how many people respond, 'Actually, I'm fine.' I think these people are still counting and adding the most words possible, due to essay constraints from college."

"at the end of the day" - Kate from Athens, Georgia. - "I prefer to use those old-fashioned, but perfectly useful words 'finally' or 'ultimately.'

"plate" - Kate from Athens, Georgia - "My runner-up would be the use of the word 'plate' when referring to one's busy life or schedule as in 'I've got too much on my plate.' I could be wrong but I think this is one more indication that our culture is obsessed with food."

"Obviously" - Kim Bass of Lorain, Ohio - "A much overused word. And is usually said in a condescending tone as in 'you didn't know?"

"110%" - Bill Rinehart of Toledo, Ohio - "First used in sports, it's now used by every idiot in a suits. And it's grown in leaps and bounds over the years - I hear '300%' regularly now, and even one '3,000%.' Every time I hear somebody say "we have to give 300% today', I wonder whether they're pathetic at math, or just don't realize that the phrase has been overused ad nauseam."

"Back in the day" - Dusty Hayward of Akron, Ohio - "I also hate when people actually make air quotes with their fingers AND say, 'Quote, unquote."