Nick: A country lowers its head in shame.

"I can read a grocery list and turn you on?" How hard were you looking to get slapped?

Ok ok, take your best shots... have fun!

For the record, that line *has* worked before... and that camera just cramped my style dude!

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Nick, Nick, Nick.... wrong place, wrong time.

You would have gotten more action from those woman at the very beginning of the show that were making bets (while drinking). At least she would have kissed your tattoo (if you have one).

I'm sure the pain you felt was equivalent to the guy who got his chest waxed.

Rory was hilarious.

I explained it to my wife this way: "Hey, he's French Canadian, what did you expect?"

She understood then.

lol... well I certainly would have loved to meet those girl from the beginning. I don't have any tattoo but I'm sure we could have worked something out :)

Oh, and PS... no pain, alcool numbs that!

I have to slap Rory though... I am NOT middle-aged! lol

Well to give you SOME credit... you had the balls to talk to her as the other 3 stooges sat back and laughed. (Okay, okay... I know.. Carl is married)

Geoff and Rory both have girlfriends. Rory just stepped in to be funny.

I figured I'd rather be the idiot who got turned down than the idiot who sat back, stared at her until she left, and did nothing.

You guys were all great... definitely worth staying up for.

God damn it, I live in Germany and I couldn't watch it. Did anybody record it? I really wanna see that!!!! If somebody did then please share it with bittorrent or edonkey!!!!

Someone is giving me a WMV, which I will post a torrent file to

sound great, its a shame its not on in the UK a torrent download would be cool

WTF is Nick? And why is he active?

He certainly wasn't active last night. Seems like he got out pimped by about 40 fold.

I loved Rory's comment about being Canadian, and measured in metric. Very nice..

The rear view mirror line may have worked before, but you really shouldn't take that as a cue to do it AGAIN! :)

With a game like that, ActiveNick must have an ActiveWrist, eh?

:-D

Best part was when Carl looked over, shook his head and said "Oh no... he's talking about software development!"

Nick, you're right - at least you had the cajones to try. At one point it looked like she was actually warming up to you. Did you at least get her number off-camera?

funny, I pegged you for gay.

It's funny that Nick is Canadian yet Rory is the one using "EH" when he talks. "got to keep feeding the monkey eh". Rewind the tape, I did, I couldn't believe it.

I was gonna save this for "the other guy" but Nick, my god, you are a "Chocolate Thief". You've got the right look for radio my friend (internet based or otherwise).

Carl, can you shave the beard and let Nick put it on his head? Help the man out!

Personally I thought it was funny that they needed subtitles when Nick talked ;-)

Ok ok... I don't mind a little ribbin' but I have to step up and defend myself a little here dammit... bunch of bastards!

FYI this is TV: They "edited" me guys... they used all my lines out of context and presented it as my approach. Do you really think that what you saw is all I said? We talked for a solid 10 minutes before Rory interrupted me. I would never use lines like that out of the blue, there was a conversation leading to them.

NJ John, yes, she was actually very warm to me in the first part before Rory crashed my parade. Ask Carl, he noticed it too. She was flirting back for a while too. But they did not show it and what they did is used all the weird faces she made at one point or another and showed only that. You can even notice my jaw movements not matching what I say during those times when the camera is in my back.

Remondo... try to make it to the next conference or party and hang out with us. There is more to ActiveNick than what you saw on screen. And bring your girlfriend if you have one... I can show her other reasons you would never find out about too.

Wierd, thank you. Most of the gays I know in Manhattan are very cool and stylish. I'll take that as a compliment :)

Aaron, I agree. That damn Rory was hilarious. The whole "slot machine" and "feed the monkey" spiel lasted at least 5 minutes, but they only showed 5 seconds. We were all rolling on the floor laughing when they interviewed him at that point. And there were a lot of hilarious comments I heard on the show from Carl and Rory I did not know about since I was too busy with the chicka... damn that was funny!

Canuck... I shave my head on purpose. This is my look and reflects who I am. My only problem is the damn thing keeps growing back. Trust me, I look better this way anyways. I may not be no George Clooney but then again none of us on Mondays is... lol! As long as you keep tuning in every week dude!

But in the end, we had a lot of fun and it was hilarious, even if I looked like a complete dork. They certainly edited this in a very funny way. We sure gave them a lot of sound bites to use... haha! It was all for the good of Mondays. Thanks for watching folks, and spread the word!

PS No one got my "Just go wash your hands" line to Rory? :)

"Trust me, I look better this way anyways."

I say grow it back and let your adoring fans decide. Take pics at certain stages of growth and let the pulse of the people be heard!

Carl, and gang, love the Monday shows. Keep up the awesome work! The Clementine was great. Please "whip it out" (your guitar) more often!

Hair???? Never!!!

I get lazy sometimes and end up with 1/4" of hair and I got NUTS!!! The damn thing just feels so annoying on my head.

Maybe Dax can Photoshop me some hair in different stages to save me the hassle...

Glad you love the show... we certainly have a blast doing it. Now that we have "adoring fans" I have to find a way to get real groupies, lol!

Markus... subtitles??? LOL, look who's talking!!!

Very funny stuff guys. I'm sure it was all taken out of context and even my wife mentioned that's why people think software developers are all socially inept geeks.

Nick, I missed the "go wash your hands" line but I did hear the girl talk about why she thought Rory was gay :D

lol, yeah I loved it when she thought Rory was talking about his "male ideal" because he was into guys.

It's essentially when i came back to the girl and interrupted Rory. I pretty much told him I wanted my seat back or something, and then just said "Just go wash your hands". It was hard to hear but was in the subtitles, lol

Nick: "Look" who's talking? See, that's the point! Apparently the producers thought that when you talk, there needs to be something to *look* at at the bottom of the screen. When I talk, people are usually ok listening... ;-)

They're not listening... they're just blankly staring at you, thinking "That's the ugliest woman I've ever seen!" lol

I think that's hair-envy speaking here... LOL

If you could have combined Rory's *special* kind of wit, Nick's French-Canadian-ness and Geoff Maciolek's hair you would have scored for sure.

So.. any news on a torrent for us eurotrash?

On the torrent. I am asking permission of A&E for us to put up a video file. We must respect their wishes, but I'm hoping they will say yes.

The thing that doesn't make sense to me is how did you guys happen to take the picture with that chic and A&E crew, the one that Nick is tightly holding her!?

Can you guys explain when that group picture was taken?

Thanks

I think the problem here, Ashfin, is that we're seeing an effect that scientists call the "Television Time Shift." When we see something on TV our brain naturally thinks it is happening RIGHT THEN AND THERE when actually it has most likely been recorded several months prior and edited before being shown on TV. The picture you seeing on the blog was actually taken months ago, and yet the brain wants to drag it into the future and place it with the airing of the TV episode. Therein lies your confusion, I think.

Hope this helps. :-)

Oh yeah... I was holding her real tight! Maybe one day you guys will see the Special Edition Director's Cut DVD with the alternate ending.

I got a response from A&E on a request to stream the clip, which was made by the producer on my behalf:

“At this time we do not authorize streaming of clips over the Internet. I am sorry to say that the requestor is going to have to just make reference to the show and ask his audience to trust him on this.”

:-(

Re: A&E says "GO TO HELL", err, I mean they say "No".

Perhaps Rory could, while respecting A&E's copyright stuff, create an artists rendering of what happened on the show. With his highly detailed drawings you should still be able to see what happened like you were watching it live!

Carl? Is this you? The years have changed you man.

http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0002083/

Interesting... I had no idea you were on IMDB Carl...

The funny thing is I'm in there too. Check here at http://us.imdb.com/name/nm1572912

And no, this is not a joke, this is really me back from my 1998-2000 days when I co-founded a VFX company doing movies, music videos and TV commercials. Those are the 3 movies I worked on, and I also did dozens of TV commercials a few award-winning videos. I should submit my pic too.

That's why I looked like such a dork on A&E, I'm not used to being in front of the camera... hehe.