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NASA’S DISCOVERY OF WATER ON MARS A HOAX!

September 28, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles) – How the world (universe) turns! News satire sites are often accused of perpetuating hoaxes that many gullible netizens are quick to believe or pass on as fact.

Today, the National Association of Satire Writers (NASW) discovered that NASA’s announcement about the discovery of flowing water on Mars was a hoax. Even Rush Limbaugh said so on his syndicated radio program!

The announcement was beamed live on the Internet supposedly from the NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. As a matter of fact, it was broadcast from a sound stage inside Universal Studios in Hollywood.

Now we know why not a single news or cable network, outside of NASA TV, covered the NASA announcement live.

It turns out that the whole exercise was staged by 20th Century Fox, distributor of the upcoming film, ‘The Martian’ starring Matt Damon.

The new film is about an astronaut who was a member of the crew sent to explore the red planet and was somehow left behind, for dead. Damon’s character actually survived on Mars.

The supposed NASA announcement was part of a multi-million promotion by 20th Century Fox to create a buzz for the film, hoping to make it a record-breaking blockbuster for the fall.

In exchange for participation in the hoax announcement, NASA will receive millions of dollars in donation from 20th Century Fox. NASA says the money will go towards pursuing its future missions to — where else… Mars!

Film and TV

AFTER A RECORD 25.6 MILLION TWEETS, GMA NETWORK ABRUPTLY CANCELS ALDUB TELESERYE

September 28, 2015 Pol Pinoy 2 Comments

The tandem known as AlDub (Photo: EB Social Media Department)

QUEZON CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles®) – Other than Broadway actress Lea Salonga, there is not one Filipino who does not know about, or follow AlDub, a short soap opera parody pegged as Kalye Serye (Street Series), a regular feature of the noon-time variety show, Eat Bulaga!

AlDub is a fictional love team whose name is derived from a portmanteau of the tandem, Filipino actors Alden Richards and Maine Mendoza (popularly known as Yaya Dub). What makes this love team phenomenal and extra special is that the two developed an on-screen chemistry even without meeting each other in person. Their interaction happens on split-screen.

On September 5, 2015, the couple finally saw each other in person for the first time, and this was followed by subsequent encounters and dates. Their second date on September 26, 2015 went down in history as one of the world’s most tweeted event, garnering more than 25.6 million tweets in a single day. That’s more than the 25.1 million tweets sent during Super Bowl XLIX!

Everyone is hooked on AlDub. The entire nation freezes at noon each time the show is on: government workers and students flock to the cafeterias, Congress suspends its sessions, shops at the malls close for a “lunch break,” bus drivers pull over to the side of the roads, even restaurants suspend meal service – all for the sake of not wanting to miss an AlDub episode.

While GMA Network could not be happier at the monumental success of the series, it has announced — with deepest regrets — that it would be cancelling the show effective next week.

“We realize that the show is having a devastating impact on productivity and is causing an unnecessary interruption in the daily lives of Filipinos,” GMA chairman and CEO Atty. Felipe L. Gozon, told reporters at a hastily-called press conference.

“It was a very difficult decision to make, but we have a responsibility to uplift the standards of our country by offering shows that contribute to, and not destroy, the moral fiber of our fellow Filipinos. We promise to replace the series with more intelligent programming.”

Upon learning of GMA’s decision to cancel the show, leaders of AlDub fans, also known as the AlDub nation, called for a meeting to plan a huge rally in front of the GMA studios in Quezon City to make known their outrage and disappointment.

Entertainment, Film and TV

WHAT ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER WILL SAY TO THOSE WHO WILL BE FIRED IN ‘CELEBRITY APPRENTICE’

September 27, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

maxresdefault NEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles®) – When Celebrity Apprentice returns to NBC for the 2016–17 television season, television audiences will no longer hear the once familiar phrase, “You’re Fired,” now that Donald Trump has been terminated from the show.

The new season will feature former California Governor and international movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger in the the role of CEO who will fire and eliminate contestants from the reality show.

Instead, NBC announced that contestants will be eliminated with Schwarzenegger saying, “You’re terminated!”

But writers and focus groups convened by NBC have a little bit of a problem with “You’re terminated!”

“It’s not catchy, not sexy at all,” they said in total agreement.

Although the phrase has a natural connection to the movie series that Schwarzenegger is closely identified with — “Terminator” — writers and focus group members felt the show needed something that would easily standout and be the new show’s memorable trademark.

Today, NBC announced that it has found the perfect phrase to replace, “You’re fired!”

That phrase is:

“Hasta la vista, baby!”

It is “You’re fired,” “You’re terminated,” “You’re out of here,” “See ya later,” all combined. And it will appeal to all audiences, including Spanish-speaking television viewers across the globe.