Meet Princess Chunk

BLACKWOOD, N.J. - Talk about New Jersey's fat cats. A 44-pound feline was found waddling around Saturday without a collar in Voorhees, and officials at the Camden County Animal Shelter hope she gets a nice — hopefully, diet-friendly — home.

"She's built like a quarterback," said Deborah Wright, a shelter volunteer and current foster owner of the kitty. "I mean, how do you lose a 44-pound cat?!"

Shelter officials are calling the porky cutie "Princess Chunk."

"I'm about to put a leash on her and walk her," said Wright. "She could pass for a dog!"

Good Grief... Somebody help this poor cat! Vince you could use a pet couldn't you?

-Doc

"Weird Al" Wednesday

Since we had so much fun last Wednesday making up song lyrics about Tila Tequila, I decided to start a new feature here at YJKOBT. It is called "Weird Al" Wednesday. A tribute to the legendary song parodist ''Weird Al'' Yankovic.

This is how we play: I pick a topic, then we make up song lyrics to the beat of popular songs based on that topic.

Today's topic is Gas Prices.

Let's kick off the fun with my version of the irksome, yet ever popular John Mayer song 'Say'.

Enjoy:

Take all of your hard earned dollars,

To the gas stations.
Which causes your money problems.
And then you feel frustration.
Instead you need to,

Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas

You need to start walking.
Fighting the oil men instead.
Living without your Moped.
Knowing you’d be better off instead.
Instead you need to,

Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas
Gas when you need to gas

*Cough* Sorry if I sang out of tune. I hope that made sense? Then again, neither does the original John Mayer song! Hee hee.

So does anyone else have any song ideas about the dismal state of Gas Prices?

Ohhh I bet you have goodies for me. I can't wait!

- The Mountain Cat

Here is something for you to think about....

Tuesday Word game is taking a couple of weeks off while I am on vacation and travelling next week. It will return on August 12. In the meantime I stumbled across this article about a guy who has mysteriously been depositing millions of dollars in decomposing money over the course of a few years and he has no good responses about where it came from. Maybe from a buried treasure in Mexico maybe from a land deal. Who knows?

After reading this article and a blog post by Dana yesterday my question for you is this. Lets say that you stumbled upon over 5 million dollars of old worn out money in a field somewhere while you were out walking. This field is private property but not owned by you. What would you do? The whole process... from start to finish. Leave it? Take it and try to deposit it? Store it somewhere? Try to buy the field? Take just some of it? Hide it elsewhere yourself? What is your plan? How will you answer if people start asking questions? Will you tell your family and friends? What would you spend it on? Give it some thought and tell me a story about how and what you will do with the money.

-Doc

Happy Monday

Good morning and happy Monday all.

-Doc

What the hel *HICCUP*

Doc & Micky-T both get a Golden Lion for coming up with Bicycle Races on this slow Friday.
Plus I am drinking some Jim Be...James Beam...Jim Beet...John Booh....whiskey right now.
Right LeapO' Faith?

Enjoy you bastids!

*THUD*

- TMC

***Jennifer and Jay can share too as I am catching up on my comments****

Blogs on Bikes

Doc inspired me yesterday when he mentioned how no one is paying attention to the Tour de France this year. But have no fear my fair-weather bicycle-ites. There are a few other bicycle tours coming your way this summer that may entertain you.....

The Top Ten Upcoming Bicycle Races:

10. The Dick Van Dyke Look-a-like Bike Hike.
9. The Microsoft Skype & Bike.
8. Tour de Venice
7. Bike, Binge & Purge '08.
6. The Tila Tequila Mount & Bike Invitational.
5. The Freddie Mercury Memorial: (Fat bottomed girls they'll be riding today)
4. Gilligan's 3 Hour Tour. ( ♪ A 3 Hour Tour. A 3 Hour Tour. ♪ )
3. The Skoal/USA-1 Bigfoot Monster 4 x 4 Dirt Bike Fest & Tractor Pull Challenge of Topeka.
2. Bike This & Bike Me Brooklyn!
1. The Tricycle-athlon

Any other biking events?
Happy Friday.

- The Mountain Cat

Where I live in the news....

I know the Top 10 list is going up in a few minutes but this doesn't happen often. Kannapolis, NC is in the news today!

http://www.thatsracin.com/topstories/story/16769.html

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. - The hometown of the late Dale Earnhardt is taking down banners honoring the NASCAR superstar driver on the request of a billionaire developer who is bringing a mysterious visitor to Kannapolis.
The Salisbury Post reported Friday that California developer David Murdock's real estate company and the local visitors bureau requested the removal, partly because some flags were dirty and torn.
The visitor, whose identity hasn't been disclosed, will arrive Saturday. Murdock's company manages the North Carolina Research Center, a science research park in Kannapolis.
City Manager Mike Legg wrote in a July 18 memo to the city council that the "The Dale Trail" banners would be permanently removed.

I wonder who this mystery visitor is going to be??

The Tale of Lonesome George the Tortoise

Last week we learned about Lucky the koala so this week I wanted to bring you another animal story. Here we find lonesome George the Galapagos giant tortoise. Kind of like Lucky the news media is getting involved in his personal life because it seems that Ole George has finally started getting frisky now that he is over 60 years of age. Apparently he is the last of a whole species of tortoises but he has never wanted to breed with his two female companions during the last 36 years until now. He has finally done the deed and is going to have some kids. YAY for George. Here is the thing, once again the people are busy just putting George's business out there for the rest of the world to read. In this story they go so far as to say that they thought George was impotent (or gay) because they went so far as to include this line: "After trying almost everything from artificial insemination to having George watch younger males mate, his keepers had nearly lost hope." Come on now did ya'll really have to go there and try to shame ole George into mating by making him watch young tortoise porn?
This is the second week in a row that the news media is taking us too far into the sex lives of poor animals and I am calling out the hypocrisy. I AM SICK AND TIRED OF THIS ! I am going to form a group to help out these poor animals who the media keeps exploiting because they cannot speak up for themselves and I suggest you all join. This new group will be called KABOOM! (Keep Animal's Business Out Of the Media!) This group will explode onto the scene and we will strive to point out animal business hypocrisy wherever we see it. Please join with me in the fight to help protect these animals who have no one else to stand up for them. If you see the media putting an animal's business out there then call them out on it! Together we can make a difference. Thank you.

-Doc (founder of KABOOM!)

Thursday Random Thoughts 7/24/2008

Stuff I have been thinking about:

-Am I the only one who isn't really all that excited about the Olympics?

-Speaking of China and the Olympics. I heard on the news this past weekend that China recently decided to tell drivers who could and who couldn't drive to control pollution during the games. Ummmm why don't y'all try that trick the rest of the year too. China your pollution sucks.

-Odd or interesting search note of the week. Someone from the Ukraine found out blog by searching the rock group Trixter... I bet they are glad they didn't go to Rocklahoma either!

-Madame Tussaud's of London unveiled the Amy Winehouse statue yesterday as seen here to the left. Anyone else not able to tell the difference between the real and the wax Winehouse?

-I heard on the radio the other day that there is actually a bank manager that as a part of the plan if the branch gets robbed keeps trash bags and playing cards in the bank vault at all times. If the employees are forced to strip and get in the vault during a robbery they have trash bags to dress with and they can play cards to pass the time until the police open the vault. Now talk about preparing ahead of time for the worst case scenario!

-If you have ever had a teenager come to your door and try and sell you a magazine subscription by saying they are trying to earn money for college or some similar story you have to read this article by Craig Malisow from the Houston Press. It is a terrible tale of how magazine clearing houses lure troubled teens into driving across country with the promise of money and travel only to teach them to lie for sales, treat them like slaves, give them very little money, and keep them in service by having independent managers give them drugs and alcohol. It's a really terrible situation that the publishers they sell for refuse to accept any responsibility for especially when these kids are killed or commit crimes against those they are trying to sell to. Please read the article when you get a chance and never NEVER buy magazines from a door to door person who you do not personally know. Here is another article from the NY Times about the same thing. It's just a terrible situation.

-According to this article on charlotte.com Rudy Giuliani's son Andrew is suing Duke University saying he was wrongfully kicked off the golf team. Apparently Duke is cutting the size if it's golf team in half and he was one of the ones cut. This is the best part: "The lawsuit claims the coach ruined Giuliani's dream of becoming a professional golfer." BWWAHAHAHAHAA! This is the same kid that was all over the press in 1994 for running around the stage and pumping his fist while Giuliani was trying to give a speech for his inauguration! Good Grief destroying his dream of being a professional golfer. He ought to just feel lucky he got into Duke. That was probably a favor to his dad though.

-This week's Tuesday word game made the Enduring Legacy website which is operated by the people who are behind the whole movement to name that sewage treatment center after W. It made it under the blogosphere links to site.

-Anyone notice that you haven't heard much about the Tour De France this year? Kind of funny that when an American isn't in contention that you don't hear that much about it. Can anyone name the leader without looking it up? I sure can't.

-It looks like the poll is pretty decisive that we need to take a new picture of Doc and the Mt. Cat for our blog. I wish we could go to Lincoln center as several have suggested but it's not in the cards for this trip. We are going to have to take it at Shea stadium. There is a little bonus. We may have a fellow US people blogger that meets us there... Plus I heard from another US people blogger yesterday who may be swinging through NC on a trip this summer and wants to hang out! I think getting to meet other bloggers will be so much fun!

-Sorry to have such a short list of random thoughts this week but I have a lot going on in my little world right now and my head is kind of cluttered. I really need that vacation coming up next week.

-Doc

25 Years Ago Today...

George Brett went berserk when his home run was erased by the umpire because his bat had too much pine tar on it.

For those of you who are not familiar with the great Pine Tar Game, click here.

Also, happy 44th birthday to Barry Lamar Bonds. You are a fink but I still want the Yankees to sign you. We need a left fielder.

- The Mountain Cat

Things bouncing around this head of mine - Wednesday, July 23, 2008

- I am currently reading Lord of the Flies.

- One Sunday I am getting acupuncture for my stiff neck.

- I just ate an apple.

- A grapefruit is next.

- The Yankee game is on at One O'clock. I will listen to the game while I work.

- I have left over broccoli in my office refrigerator.

- I wish I had a window by my desk.

- It is suppose to rain again today.

- I have to finish my bottle of Mountain Dew.

- Oatmeal is boring.

- Which of the two Coreys do like best? License to Drive should have won an Oscar...not.

- I just cleaned out my paper hole puncher.

- I haven't exercised for a few days.

- I need a new bathing suit.

- Should I drink tonight?

- I haven't had a cookie in a while.

- I wish the sun would come out.

- I recently watched A Shot of Love with Tila Tequila. She is appealing to the eye.

- Is there a woman in the world named Claire Voiant?

- Ever have one of those days where you have nothing to say?

- Ever have one of those days where you are trying to hard too find something to say?

- I think today is one of them.

- Oh well,

- Whatever,

- Never mind.

- *sigh*

- The Mountain Cat

Word Game Winner 7/23/2008

Thank you to everyone who participated in Tuesday word game yesterday. Great answers as always. This weeks winner is the Sassy Mama Bear who writes several great blogs including Cafe at the End of the Universe. Please stop by the Cafe when you get a chance. Mama Bear wins the peach this week for the following musical entry:

Other planned projects include A Music School for the Tone Deaf named after Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson & Paula Abdul, Simandy's School Abdully Bad Musicality.

Anyone who makes fun of Randy, Paula, and Simon is good in my book. Here is your peach Mama Bear:
Thank you again for playing everyone. Due to some scheduling and vacation time Tuesday word game will be taking a two week hiatus. Please look for it to return full force on August 12.

-Doc

Tuesday Word Game 7/22/2008

It's Tuesday and time for word game again. This week I was drawn to an article about voters in San Fransisco who have a initiative on the ballot to name a sewage treatment plant after George W. Bush. Now regardless of the politics I think this is great satire and commentary on our society. I think the readers of YJKOBT can do better though and come up with even more creative things to name after people. Complete the following news article with some other funny thing to be named after someone else:

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco voters, never thrilled with George W. Bush, may give the U.S. president a parting shot in November by naming a sewage plant after him.
A ballot measure aimed at deriding the Republican president by renaming the city's newest sewage plant qualified on Thursday after organizers submitted 7,168 signatures to the local Department of Elections, officials said.
"What we are doing is satire, part of the proud tradition of skewering political figures that dates back to the Revolution," organizers said on their Web site.

Other planned projects include _____________ named after ________________ .

Answer as often as you like in the form of a comment and of course the best answer wins a Peach award tomorrow morning.

-Doc

I have a new look!

What do you think?

- The Mountain Cat

Weekly Poll 7/21/2008

This weeks poll has to do with our blog picture. We have had pretty much the same picture up since we started YJKOBT. It's this picture taken of us like 5 years ago on a trip I made to New York City and we in front of this waterfall at Lincoln Center. I am starting to think that it is old and outdated and we need a new picture. In two weeks I am going to be in NYC again and Mt. Cat and I could probably take a new one. So let us know what you think. Should we take a new picture or stick with this old one?

-Doc

Friday's Top Ten List

Happy Friday all. I want to try something different today. Would you like to know more personal information about us? Well here you go...

The Top Things You Didn't Know About Doc & The Mountain Cat

10. Doc's favorite president is Lyndon Baines Johnson. And coincidentally he once dated a girl named Lady Bird.

9. The Mountain Cat is a former a subway graffiti artist in the early 1980s.

8. Doc once had breakfast with Don Imus at the Lowe's Motor Speedway.

7. The Mountain Cat once got seven stitches up his nose after a freak garden fence accident.

6. Doc won employee of the month at the Hickory, NC Rockola Cafe in January 1994.

5. The Mountain Cat was conceived at Woodstock while his parents tripped on Peyote.

4. Doc has no sweet tooth. In fact, he prefers the taste of a grapefruit over a chocolate cake.

3. When The Mountain Cat was 8 years old, he saved his dog Timmy who fell down a well.

2. When Doc was eight he was actually part of the Super Bowl pregame show along with a bunch of other kids waving American flags Miami Florida in January 1979.

And the number one thing you did not know about Doc & The Mountain Cat is...

1. The Mountain Cat is a direct descendant of the once Roman Emperor Marcus Aureluis.

(Four of the above items really are true. Can you guess which ones?)

Hmmmm what else is there to know about the two of us?

- The Mountain Cat

The incredible tale of Lucky the koala

Ladies and gents meet Lucky. Lucky is a koala who was recently named Australia's luckiest marsupial after a heck of a wild ride. It seems that poor lucky got hit by a car recently and got his head wedged in the car's grill and was dragged at 60 mph down the road for about 8 miles. Lucky survived because another motorist flagged down the oblivious driver and was then rescued by being cut out of the grill by scissors.
"To have him survive and virtually unscathed is quite miraculous," Australian Wildlife Hospital spokeswoman Carolyn Beaton told Reuters.
Now if that had been all of the story it would have been great and a happy ending but they had to take the story one step further and kill poor Lucky's joy. The last sentence of the story reads as follows and I promise I am not making this up:
Lucky will stay at the hospital, set up by the late television wildlife and crocodile crusader Steve Irwin, for 45 days to recover from his experience and receive treatment for a chlamydial infection.
Now why did they have to do that to poor Lucky? He barely escapes with his life and not only does he have to go to some crocodile hospital but the news has to report that the poor guy has a STD. Why did they have to throw him under the bus like that? (I know poor metaphor right) Couldn't they just leave well enough alone without pointing that fact that ole Lucky apparently got lucky with the wrong lady koala? What's next? Is he going to need therapy to recover from the trauma of having his business splashed on the front page? Or is he going to end up in rehab after getting addicted to the painkillers? Oh well, I guess poor Lucky just can't catch a break.

-Doc

Thursday Random Thoughts 7/17/2008

Stuff I have been thinking about:

-I want to know when things switched over to kids wearing bicycle helmets? When I was a kid not only did I not wear a helmet but I am not even sure they made them for kids. The only bike helmets we saw were in the Tour De France. Now it's even illegal for some kids not to wear a helmet. I am not complaining about the safety aspect I am just wondering when things changed? I guess safety wasn't as important when I was a kid.

-It's a pretty big day for me. I have finally decided that I am going to purchase an I-pod and get this digital music thing going on.

-It's pretty sad that Anhieser-Busch is being bought by a Belgian company. American icons are going by the wayside. Heck I even read last week that the Chrysler building in New York City was being sold to investors from the middle east. I bet that next you are going to tell me that Chevrolet is going belly up.... Whoops too late.

-I got sent this really cool site by a reader named Kelly. The link gives 100 different links to various time wasting games and sites to check out while you are at work. It's pretty cool and I suggest you check it out!

-Odd or interesting search note of the week. We actually had someone find our blog be searching "Rocklahoma bikini" I bet they were disappointed.... On second thought, maybe not.

-Yesterday was our annual "day out" at work. I spent the day with about 60 co-workeers out on the lake on a charter yacht hanging out, relaxing, having a few beers, and basically enjoying not working. It was nice. A lot of folks liked my idea of doing this every Wednesday however I don't think it will happen.

-A big thank you to Kaitlyn from Mailboat records who re-sent my Jimmy Buffett Live at Wrigley Field CD after it got lost in the mail. (maybe it was on the Mailboat...LOL) Well she found out blog by clicking on the link in my e-mail. Hi Kaitlyn, Thank you. The CDs came in the mail yesterday!

-The following 2 news articles appeared right next to each other on charlotte.com last Friday... "Drought update: No change locally" and then followed by "More rain on the way today" Seriously will this drought ever end? Even though it rains all the time we are still considered to be too dry. It's actually been nice so far this summer. Yeesh.

-The second half of the baseball season starts today. Let's Go Mets we are only a half game back. Don't look now Yankee fans but the Mets have a better shot right now of winning their division that you guys do.

-Oh an BTW I was just joking about the I-Pod.... I ain't buying one of those wretched things. In my mind they are right up there with the video game Rock Band. I was just trying to get Mt. Cat all excited.

-Doc

'Doc' Halladay

Yesterday afternoon I went to the Major League Baseball's All-Star Parade in midtown Manhattan. I took some amazing up close photos of Hall of Fame players and current All-Stars as they were transported down 6th Avenue in a series of Chevy Silverados on a red carpet. While I was editing my photos, I looked closely at the photo below of the Blue Jays pitcher Roy Halladay. The pitcher is in the pink shirt. But who is that guy with the black jacket and sunglasses behind him?

He looks like my blog partner Doc!!

Dude you were in New York and didn't bother to tell me??? How'd you become friends with Roy Halladay???

Doc, Maybe you are just this guy's evil twin. Too funny.

Any rate, please enjoy my photos of the All-Star Parade: Gallery.

- The Mountain Cat

Tuesday Word Game Winner

Thanks to everyone who participated in Tuesday Word Game yesterday! We had some really good entries and good ideas for the Running of.... I found one however very topical and funny and decided this weeks Peach award should go to Jennifer who writes several blogs including Dust Bunny hostage (give it a read sometime). She submitted the following great idea for a festival:

Another festivals using the same theme is the Running of the Mommy Bloggers, in which each Mom tries to out poop story, out hubby rant, and out tag each other toward the Goal of the Ultimate Award Button, to be passed on to all the unfortunate losers of the race.Hey! I think I am running that race right now! And it is FU-UN!

Hilarious and true !!Thanks for the great entry and here is your Peach :

Congrats again Jennifer! We will play word game again next Tuesday !

-Doc

Tuesday Word Game 7/15/2008

It's Tuesday again and time for weekly word game! I am sure everyone has heard of the Running of the bulls in Pamplona Spain right? Besides being one of the most dangerous (and stupid) things anyone could ever do it has become a cultural event for that area and seems to have spawned many parodies and copycats. Well I read this article about one such parody in New Orleans that I thought would be just perfect for us to play word game with. It seems they have a festival there called the Rolling of the Bulls where female roller derby athletes chase people dressed as "bull runners" through the French Quarter with bats! I know sounds about as dangerous as the original right?
Well I figured that we could come up with a few more "Running Of " activities here at YJKOBT. Complete the news article with your own made up "Running Of The" festival and be as descriptive as you want to be:

NEW ORLEANS - It's the running of the bulls, New Orleans style.
Hundreds of men, women and children, most in white with red scarves around their waists and red bandannas around their necks, gathered outside a French Quarter bar Saturday morning to be chased down Bourbon Street by members of New Orleans' roller derby league.
"Roller skates and a stampede through the Quarter — what could possibly go wrong?" said accountant Jason Medonia.
The run, in its second year, featured 33 roller girls in horned helmets from teams with names like Confederacy of Punches and Crescent Wenches.
A few minutes after the runners started, the skaters whacked their plastic bats on the street and took off. Behind them putted Elvis impersonators on motorized scooters.
This year's crowd included Russ Schlievert, who came from Montana to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina and loved New Orleans so much he and his wife retired here.
He will miss the annual "Running of the Sheep," an event he organized in 1989 in Reed Point, Mont., but said he was impressed with Saturday's event.

Another festivals using the same theme have included the Running of ___________.

Of course answer as often as you like in a comment and the best and funniest answer wins a Peach award tomorrow morning.

-Doc

Hello Us Peoples

Hope you all have a great day. I will be leaving my office at noon today.

I'll be reading something somewhere on this beautiful Tuesday.

- The Mountain Cat

Things Bouncing Around This Head of Mine - July 14, 2008

- I fell asleep in my parents' pool yesterday afternoon. I am quite red today. Not burnt though. I guess I woke up in time...No that photo is not me. Luckily I slept with my sunglassed off.

- I hung out with fellow blogger Karen and her peeps last night in her Jersey hood. Nice to finally meet'cha Karen...Wow human interaction? I need to try it more.

- I recently received a bottle of Patron Gold Tequila as a gift from a coworker. That bottle is so holy I don't want to drink it. I think I just like staring at it. I have an unopened bottle of Grey Goose Vodka too from a year ago. No occasion has been good enough yet to drink them!

- In fact, I have several bottles of booze in my apartment left over from my trip to Europe two year ago and my last party in September. My next party's theme will have to be a 'Getting Rid of Alcohol Party'.

- I was offered a ticket for Tuesday's All Star Game at Yankee Stadium but I did not have $500 to throw around. However, I will go to the Hall of Fame parade tomorrow afternoon in Manhattan. All the living MLB Hall of Famers will walk down 6th Avenue. I can't wait!

- And as previously mentioned, I went to The DHL FanFest on Saturday. I felt like I died and went to baseball heaven. I got a lot of free stuff. I also had a couple of baseball cards of myself printed up for free. I will have to scan them and post the photos soon.

- I am trying to eat better and lose weight. So I bought a few of those 'Bumble Bee Sensations' for lunch. It contains a small portion of flavored tuna and crackers. I bought Sundried Tomato and Tuna Medley. Yummy.

- However, my crutch this summer are two to four Corona beers when I socialize.

- Doc, I did try your favorite Landshark Beer with lime a couple of times. but I still prefer Corona.

- Budweiser was bought by a Belgian brewery. (story). Yikes the horror! What next a Muslim president??? Eek!

- I am finally bored with downloading music. I still have a list of old tapes and vinyl records that I want to covert to MP3s but I have so much already. I guess I will save it for a winter project.

- My current phone, The Razor, is dying. There may be an iPhone in my future.

- I heard Weird Al Yankovic's parody of the Bare-naked Ladies song 'One Week'. It is called 'Jerry Spring'. Give a listen here. Absolutely hilarious!

- I went to my cousin James' 50th surprise birthday party on Friday....Wait, I meant his surprise 50th birthday party. We don't love him that much to throw him 50 parties!...His family hired a DJ and we hung out in his backyard. The DJ started with a lot of classic rock for the older crowd then morphed into pop and hip-hop for the 20 year olds as the evening progressed. The highlight of the evening was when everyone on the concrete dance floor was shouting 'WHOOOOOO WE'RE HALF WAY THERE! WHOOO-HOOO! LIVIN' ON A PRAYER!' Everyone but my dad who just snarled in protest as he hates all music made after 1956. But I still love you daddy.

- Even my mom was dancing! In fact early in the evening, when 'Highway Star' by Deep Purple was playing, I raised my hands in the devil horn formation above my head as I bopped to the music. I tried to teach my sweet dear mom the proper way to use the devil horns. However, when the DJ played 'Champion' by Kayne West, I saw my mom swaying near the dance floor with her hands raised with devil horns! I pulled her aside and said 'Ah no no mom, devil horns are not used for hip-hop. But you did form the horns correctly.' Later I gave her the devil horn go ahead during AC/DC's 'Thunderstruck'. Love ya mom!

- The Mountain Cat

Weekly Poll 7/14/2008

This week lets continue with the food theme this week. Last week we voted for our favorite hot dog toppings and this week is deli meat. When you order a sandwich what is your favorite meat to have on it? The standards of ham, turkey, bologna, and roast beef are there but there are a few more as well.
I think my favorite is a combination of Corned beef and Pastrami... Makes me hungry for lunch already. I might just have to have a sandwich today!
Vote for as many as you like and as usual the poll runs through this coming Sunday night. Feel free to discuss your favorite and tell me if I left any off the list.

-Doc

Once a Yankee, Always a Yankee

Bobby Mercer 1946-2008

You will be missed.

- The Mountain Cat

Boy, I sure am glad that I didn't go to this...

ROCKLAHOMA 2008 !!!

Spectators Curtis Broadbent, left, and Stephanie Broadbent, 22, dance in mud during the second day of the second annual Rocklahoma music festival in Pryor, Okla., Thursday, July 10, 2008.

After seeing this picture of the goings on at "Rocklahoma" (also known as Mullet-stock) I cant think of any place that I would rather be less. For those of you who don't know this is a Hair band festival in the middle of nowheres-ville Oklahoma each summer. This year's lineup includes: Axe
Steelheart Zebra UFO Ace Frehley Tesla Queensrÿche Pretty Boy Floyd Every Mother's Nightmare Tora Tora Black 'n Blue Trixter Lynch Mob Kix Lita Ford Warrant XYZ Armored Saint Kingdom Come Living Colour Night Ranger Extreme Triumph Jetboy House of Lords Vain
Enuff Z'nuff L.A. Guns w/ Tracii Guns Dokken Sebastian Bach (of Skid Row) Bret Michaels Firehouse All Star Fantasy Camp Jackyl and Ratt (Heck the only band I would even remotely be interested in out of that is Firehouse)

Anyone else glad after seeing the lineup, the apparent weather conditions, the mud, and the caliber of the attendees of this event glad that you stayed home this weekend ?

-Doc

(Well at least the mud was good for something... It mostly covered up the rebel flag bikini that chick was wearing...Yeesh)

Friday's Top Ten List

Top Ten Rejected Beer Names:

10. Buttwidener
9. Fois Gras Lager
8. Dos Enema
7. Ansel Adams' Black & White Stout
6. Intravenous Bock
5. O'Sama's Hard Irish Cider
4. Cirrhosis Ice Lite
3. I Did What With My Sister? Ale
2. Militia Genuine Draft
1. The iBeer

*Hiccup* Any more?

- The Drunken Cat

Check this out

I was reading about these the other day and figured I would share because these are fabulous. Fake speed bumps! It's an optical illusion painted onto the asphalt to simulate real speed bumps and discourage speeding in neighborhood areas where kids play. People see the illusion and slow down because they are not sure at a distance that it's not a real speed bump. Ingenious I say. They are trying this experiment in Philadelphia after a similar experiment worked in Phoenix.

Now I know what you will say that as soon as people figure out what they are they will continue to speed and ignore them, but that is not the point. The point is that these puppies cost about $80 a piece instead of $1500 for a real speed bump and they can be erased and moved as well. That's a huge economic savings. I would slow down if I saw one and once people start to ignore them THAT'S where you station officers to give them tickets. The Phoenix study found that "after motorists adjust, the fake bumps will act like flashing lights in a school zone, reminding drivers they are in an area where they should not be speeding."

I think this is a win - win situation. The only way to make it more effective is if they actually made about 3 or 4 real bumps colored that way and stuck them in random places so that some idiot who thought they knew better and they were fake would tear up their car trying to speed. That will teach them!

Let me know what you think... It does make me wonder what other fake things they could make like this to trick people.

-Doc

Thursday Random Thoughts 7/10/2008

Stuff I have been thinking about:

-Does anyone else think that history may be repeating itself? Madonna who has long tried to tie herself to Marilyn Monroe seems to be trying to position herself just as Marilyn did by being involved with the best baseball player of their generation. She is being creative in it by claiming that they are only "Kaballah buddies" Is that what they call it these days? (Oh yeah and where did that groin pull come from A-Rod?)

-Speaking of baseball, I can't wait until August 7th. Not only am I going with my whole family to see the Mets in their final season at Shea Stadium and taking my son to his first major league ball game but I am going to get a chance to hang out with the Mt. Cat for the first time in over a year. I am looking forward to seeing you Vin! Anyone else in the NY City area on August 7th is welcome to come and hang out with us for the 12:10 pm matinee game against the Padres.

-Odd or interesting search note of the week: This weeks government search of our blog came from the State Department in Washington DC. What were they searching? The name Jim James Astley. Not sure who that is but maybe they were a bit off on the first name and kept getting Rick Rolled at other sites.

-Hey Rev. Jesse Jackson... How about SHUT IT!... you aren't helping things - AND by the way you couldn't do it even if you tried, Sincerely Barack Obama. P.S. - That's not change we can believe in.

-Woo Hoo only two weeks until Carolina Panthers training camp starts !! I am already looking forward to the season. I no longer have season tickets but we usually go to several games each year. So far the only one I am scheduled to go to is against the hated Atlanta Falcons but I am sure as the season goes on I will end up going to more games. That's another great thing about the Panthers is there are always tickets to be had to games. I am so pumped up for this season!!

-I told anyone who would listen 12 freakin' years ago that the parents didn't murder JonBenet Ramsey. Now they finally get around to DNA testing. Now how about you go catch the real damn killer!!!

- I love ole Huey Lewis, but did anyone else see him drop the mic last week on the 4th during his performance on "A Capitol Fourth" while he was singing Power of Love? I thought it was hilarious. Well at least we know that he wasn't lip-syncing

-Speaking of "A Capitol Fourth" this show keeps going downhill every year. Taylor Hicks got second billing behind Huey Lewis and the News. Yeesh... and I thought Jason Alexander doing a cabaret version of "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy" a few years ago was rock bottom. Apparently not.

-On a final note those who know me are aware that I really struggle with change. Especially big life changes. I tend to get some serious anxiety and become distracted. I am in the middle of going through a serious life change right now that I am not able to fill you guys in on right now so bear with me if I seem distracted or something and I promise I will tell you all about it when I am able to.

-Doc

Good morning

Are your kids on a field trip today?

- TMC