Tuesday Word Game 9/16/2008

It's Tuesday again and time to play Word Game. Lets go the world of pole dancing for this week's edition shall we? It seems this past weekend they had the European pole dance championships in Amsterdam. That's right pole dancing championships. After reading this article I got to thinking that if I never knew there were pole dancing championships there must be other championships I haven't heard of before. I say we should make some up.

Complete the following news article with an odd or funny championship event and the funniest or oddest wins a peach tomorrow morning:

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - It was a busy time for pole dancers in Amsterdam at the weekend.
While the red light district's troupe were gyrating as usual on Friday night, a host of girls from Albania to Spain flew in to compete for the European pole dance championship title.
"Everything which we do requires so much strength. You train your legs and your muscles. It has nothing to do with eroticism. You have no time to think of that!" said Jeannine Wikering, the 26-year-old competitor for Germany who came third.
"I think one day it should be an Olympic sport -- but that will take time. You would have to agree which moves on which to judge competitors, at the moment we all have such different routines," she added.

Pole dancing however is not the oddest championship held in Europe. The oddest has to be ________________.

Answer as often as you like in the form of a comment and may the best answer win.

-Doc

Tuesday Word Game 9/9/2008

Today's Tuesday Word Game is going to be a little bit different than previous weeks. Instead of completing an odd news story this week we are going to start one. After reading this story about a robber who had a very specific goal for his heist I just had to work it into a game. The following opening lines of the story just caught me:

DALLAS - A robber rolled into a Dallas convenience store came armed with a bat and a knife. He left with a lot of condoms and an energy drink.

After reading that I said to myself... Now there isn't something you read every day!

For this weeks game I want you to come up with your own opening sentence to an odd news article that like this story about the robber is something you don't read every day. Make is as catchy and outrageous as you want to but please try and keep it clean. Make up as many as you like and answer in the comments. Best and funniest wins a Peach tomorrow morning.

-Doc

Tuesday's Word Game...

Ok, ok, ok! Geez Louise!.....

Complete the following sentences:

Doc has no time because ______ and The Mountain Cat has no ideas today because______.

- TMC

Tuesday Word Game 8/26/2008

Hello everyone and welcome to Tuesday Word Game. The game where we take something silly and just make it sillier. This week is no different and should prove to be be a lot of fun. I found an article about an Italian priest who is organizing a beauty pageant for nuns. Yes you read that correctly, a beauty pageant for nuns. It's even called the "Miss Sister" pageant. Give the article a read if you don't believe me.

I think this is a bad idea however I am sure we can come up with worse. Complete the article below with a worse idea for a beauty contest than nuns:

ROME - An Italian priest and theologian said Sunday he is organizing an online beauty pageant for nuns to give them more visibility within the Catholic Church and to fight the stereotype that they are all old and dour.

The "Miss Sister 2008" contest will start in September on a blog run by the Rev. Antonio Rungi and will give nuns from around the world a chance to showcase their work and their image.

Nuns will fill out a profile including information about their life and vocation as well as a photograph. It will be up to them to choose whether to pose with the traditional veil or with their heads uncovered.

While odd this is not however the worst idea for a beauty contest. The worst idea ever for a beauty pageant involved _______________ .

Enter as often as you like in the comments section and the best answer wins a peach tomorrow morning.

-Doc

Tuesday Word Game 8/19/2008

Welcome back to Tuesday Word Game!

After a few weeks off we make a return to the wackiness that is our little Tuesday game where we take odd news stories and attempt to make them even more odd.

This weeks article comes to us from Australia where it seems there is a baby whale who has mistaken a yacht as it's mother. Give the article a read and hopefully the whale does find it's real mother. It's kind of a sad story so I hope we can bring some humor to it. While a whale and a yacht is certainly an odd couple I am sure that we can come up with some more good examples of confused parentage. Complete the news article with a funny or odd example of an animal confusing something for it's mommy. The funniest pair wins a Peach award:

SYDNEY, Australia A lost humpback whale calf that bonded with a yacht it seems to think is its mother will likely die within days if it doesn't find another mother to adopt it, a wildlife official said Tuesday.
The 1- to 2-month-old calf was first sighted Sunday in waters off north Sydney, and on Monday tried to suckle from a yacht, which it would not leave.
Officials say they have also seen __________ think it's mommy is ___________ .

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

-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

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

Tuesday Word Game 7/8/2008

It's Tuesday and time for Word Game here at YJKOBT. I was looking for good articles and came across one about a Russian blogger who was arrested, convicted and almost sent to prison for what he wrote on his blog. Sounds like the suppression of free speech is alive and well in good old Russia these days. Now I am not saying that he should be advocating burning police officers but I think that he should be able to express his opinion without being arrested.
So in the spirit of free speech in blogging I suggest that we dedicate today's word game to the Russian Police and our fellow blogger Savva Terentiev. Since they can't arrest us Complete the following news article with something funny that should be done to the Russian police since they obviously don't like Savva's ideas: (Let's try and keep them funny)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian man who described local police as "scum" in an Internet posting was given a suspended jail sentence on Monday for extremism, prompting bloggers to warn of a crackdown on free speech online.
Savva Terentiev, a 28-year-old musician from Syktyvkar, north of Moscow, wrote in a blog last year that the police force should be cleaned up by ceremonially burning officers twice a day in a town square.
Convicted on charges of "inciting hatred or enmity", Terentiev was given a one-year suspended term on Monday, Russian news agencies reported.
Free speech campaigners said the ruling could create a dangerous precedent for free speech on the Internet, a vibrant forum for political debate in a country where the mainstream traditional media is deferential to authority.
"This was an absolutely unjustified verdict," Alexander Verkhovsky, director of the SOVA centre in Moscow, a non-governmental group that monitors extremism, told Reuters. "Savva for sure wrote a rude comment ... but this verdict means it will be impossible to make rude comments about anybody."

Instead we suggest that the Russian police should be _________________.

Answer as often as you like in the form of a comment and the one that makes me laugh the most wins a peach tomorrow morning.

-Doc

Tuesday Word Game 7/1/2008

It's Tuesday again and time for word game! Today's word game comes to us via a suggestion by our good friend Leighann. Apparently we share the same taste in odd news stories because I love this one as well. This story is about a kidnapping. What is odd about that you may ask? This kidnapper grabbed his ex not for money or to kill her but to bring her back to his place to iron his clothes. Give this article a read .
This is a pretty odd reason to kidnap someone for sure but I bet we could come up with a few more. Complete the news article below with a funny or strange reason that someone may kidnap someone else:

ROME (Reuters) - An Italian man was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend from a pub, taking her home and forcing her to iron his clothes and wash the dishes, police said Monday.
The 43-year-old man dragged the woman out of a pub in the port city of Genoa, shoved her into a car and took her to his home where he made her iron and wash dishes after threatening her, they said.
Police arrived at his house after being tipped off by a friend of the woman who watched the scene at the pub.
The man, who was apparently furious at his ex-girlfriend for leaving him, was arrested on charges of kidnapping, police said.

Police say that other kidnappings have been for ______________________ .

Answer as often as you like in the comments and of course the best answer wins a peach tomorrow morning. Thanks for playing.

-Doc

Tuesday Word Game 6/24/2008

Welcome to Tuesday everyone. Let's play word game!
This weeks selection comes to us from where the sun doesn't shine or Russia which ever you prefer. It seems that there are some folks in Russia who like enemas (yes enemas) so much that they have created a monument to them. (pictured to the right) Go ahead and give this article a read for the whole story.
I was thinking that even though that is a pretty odd monument there are probably some more strange ones out there. Lets come up with a few.
Complete the following news article with an odd or off the wall monument they may be planning for next:

MOSCOW - A monument to the enema, a procedure many people would rather not think about, has been unveiled at a spa in the southern Russian city of Zheleznovodsk. The bronze syringe bulb, which weighs 800 pounds and is held by three angels, was unveiled at the Mashuk-Akva Term spa, the spa's director said Thursday.
"There is no kitsch or obscenity, it is a successful work of art," Alexander Kharchenko told The Associated Press. "An enema is almost a symbol of our region."
Kharchenko, 50, said the monument cost $42,000 and was installed in a square in front of his spa on Wednesday. A banner declaring: "Let's beat constipation and sloppiness with enemas" was posted on one of the spa's walls.
"This device is eternal, it will never change," she told the AP. "We could promote this brand, turn it into a franchise with souvenirs and awards for medical doctors."

The next monument they are planning will be dedicated to _____________________.

Enter as often as you want in the form of a comment... The best answer wins a Peach tomorrow morning.

-Doc

Tuesday Word Game 6/17/2008

It's Tuesday again folks and that of course means word game! usually I am able to find something from the world of odd news on which to base the game. This week is no exception. I was able to find a story about a sleazy criminal who apparently has a fetish for molesting women's armpits with his nose. Give this article a sniff.
Now that's a pretty gross hobby for this guy to have but I bet there are some more funny and disturbing fetishes out there. Complete the following article with an odd or funny fetish someone may have:

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singapore man with a penchant for sniffing women's armpits was sentenced to 14 years in jail and 18 strokes of the cane for molesting his victims, a local newspaper reported Friday.
The 36-year-old, who the Straits Times said was mentally unstable, had previous convictions for drug and sex-related offences.
He molested 23 women over the course of 15 months, smelling their armpits and touching them in lifts, staircase landings and their homes, the paper said. He was caught after a housewife reported him to the police.

Armpit sniffing is odd but apparently not the oddest they have encountered. Police say the oddest fetish they have seen is _____________________ .

Answer as often as you like in the form of a comment and the one that makes me laugh the most wins a peach award tomorrow morning. Best of luck to everyone.

-Doc

Tuesday Word Game 6/10

Good afternoon folks... First of all no I did not fall off my roof yesterday after replacing shingles. It's just a vicious rumor. Second, it's Tuesday again! Lets play word game.

This week we once again take a journey into the world of stupid things that drunk people do. I found a story about an idiot who got drunk, naked and had to be rescued from a porta-john. From where in the potty did he have to be rescued?Give this gross article a read.

Although that is pretty bad I am sure we can come up with a few more strange places that people have had to be rescued from. Complete the news article below with some other funny or odd place that a drunk has had to be saved from:

LEBANON, Pa. - Rescue crews had to cut apart a portable toilet to rescue a man who got stuck naked inside the potty. Authorities say the 31-year-old man used his cell phone to call 911 on Sunday from inside a portable toilet.
Police say the man had been drinking and had taken off his clothes. Somehow, he immersed himself in the holding tank.
Deputy fire commissioner Chris Miller told WPMT-TV, "I've been on the job in one form or fashion for 21 years, and this is the first port-a-potty rescue I've ever had."

However they have had to rescue drunk people from __________________.

Answer as often as you like in the comments... Best answer wins a "Peach" tomorrow morning. Good Luck!

-Doc

Tuesday Word Game 6/3/2008

Hello everybody! Today is Tuesday and it's word game day here at YJKOBT. Hopefully I will be able to play along but in case I can't I went ahead and posted today's word game. It seems that we are never at a loss for dumb criminals in this word and today is no exception. It seems that there are a couple of master criminals in Colorado who decided to disguise themselves by using women's thongs instead of masks. (Pictured to the Right)
Well I am sure that there have been criminals who tried to disguise themselves in other interesting ways too... Let's explore that.
Complete the following news article with a creative disguise that some dumb criminal might wear:

ARVADA, Colo. - Police in a Colorado town are searching for two robbers whose masks showed plenty of fashion sense but little modesty: women's thong underwear.
A surveillance video released this week by police in Arvada, Colo., shows two unarmed men inside the convenience store. They stole an undisclosed amount of cash and cigarettes in the robbery May 16.
One man wore a green thong and the other wore blue. Each thong barely covered the man's nose, mouth and chin and left the rest of his face exposed. One also wore a pink backpack in which he stuffed the stolen items.

Police say they have also seen criminals wear _________________ .

Answer as often as you like in a comment and the best answer wins a peach tomorrow morning. Have a Happy Tuesday.

-Doc

Tuesday Word Game 5/27/2008

Believe it or not it's already Tuesday again. That means word game time kiddies. I figured it has been a little while since we dealt with either weird laws or the State of Louisiana so lets go there this week. Give this article a read because it involves both! I am quite sure that our crew can come up with some other odd laws that could possibly be on the books in Louisiana. I have heard that New Orleans has it's own set of laws anyway. Complete the following news article with an off the wall law:

HOUMA, La. - Police in this town wouldn't cut a break for a barber who ran afoul of an obscure law barring him from working Sundays and Mondays.

Clyde Scott had opened his shop May 19 just to trim up a few students getting ready for their graduation ceremony when an officer gave him a citation.
A law on the books in Houma for decades bars barbers from working Sundays, Mondays, any of several holidays and even the day after Labor Day.
"I didn't know it existed," said Scott, 32, who has owned Clippas barbershop for about two years. "It's crazy."

Other odd laws in Louisiana include __________________ .

As always answer as often as you like in the form of a comment and the best answer wins a "Peach" tomorrow morning.

-Doc

PEACHFEST - Tuesday Word Game 5/20/08

Welcome to the first annual YJKOBT Peachfest!!

A couple of quick notes:
-If you are new to our blog, Welcome! Each Tuesday at noon we play a little game where we make up humorous endings to odd news stories. The best entry each week wins my "Peach" award which is a depiction of the peach water tower in Gaffney SC.
-Today is a special day and we are trying for a record 500 entries in 5 hours.
-Everyone who contributes a comment gets a commemorative "t-shirt" Please see the post below this one to pick up a shirt!
-Thank you to MickyT who came up with the idea for Peachfest. Thank you to Leighann who designed the T-Shirts and a big thank you to all of our loyal readers who are supporting this effort today !!

Now - On with the game !!

I knew that I had to come up with something good for this edition of Tuesday Word game so where do we head? I figured a good place to start would be Iceland's Penis museum of course. (specimens pictured to the left) Give this phallic news article a read and tell me if the founder of this place doesn't suffer from a tiny bit of penis envy. Yeesh.

Well for this weeks word game I figured that if they could have a penile museum we could certainly come up with a few hundred other types of funny and interesting museums or museum exhibits. Complete the following passage from the news article below with your own funny or odd idea or exhibit for a museum.

HUSAVIK, Iceland (Reuters) - Sigurdur Hjartarson is missing a human penis. But he's not worried: four men have promised to donate theirs to him when they die.
Hjartarson is founder and owner of the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which offers visitors from around the world a close-up look at the long and the short of the male reproductive organ.
His collection, which began in 1974 with a single bull's penis that looked something like a riding crop, now boasts 261 preserved members from 90 species.
A growing number of people from all over the world view the collection each year, 60 percent of them women.
"We had 6,000 visitors last summer and actually made a profit," Hjartarson said with a smile.

Because of their success their next museum will feature _________________.

Enter as many suggestions as you like since we are trying for 500 comments in 5 hours today... Or just simply comment on what someone else has to say. Join the conversation. It will be fun.

Happy Peachfest everyone!

-Doc

Tuesday Word Game 5/13/08

I searched and searched the newswires trying to find something good for this weeks Tuesday word game and I think I found something. Now I usually take the position that there is nothing really funny about judicial misconduct when it's a serious violation of the law however this article about a district court Judge in Las Vegas made me change my opinion. If you give this article a read it's hilarious what this judge supposedly got away with. My favorite of course is the allegation that she put her own husband under oath to ask him if he had done his chores! LOL! If she would do that she is capable of anything.

For Tuesday word game this week lets make up some other outrageous things this judge may have done. Complete the following passage from the real news story with a really good abuse of power that this motorized scooter driving crazy power mad judge may have done. The best answer gets a peach:

LAS VEGAS - Elizabeth Halverson is a judge. But the way courthouse staffers see it, she expects to be treated like a queen.
Her former bailiff, for example, says Halverson made him feel like a "houseboy." He says the judge — who is obese and uses a motorized scooter to get around — made him put her shoes on her feet, massage her back, cover her with a blanket for naps and make sure her oxygen tank was filled. He says she asked him, "Do you want to worship me from near or afar?"
Halverson also surrounded herself with her own hired guards, saying she did not trust the courthouse security force to protect her. Another time, she allegedly had her husband sworn in so that she could ask him under oath if he had completed chores at home.
Since then, the 50-year-old Nevada district judge has been locked out of her Las Vegas courtroom, suspended from the bench and brought up on judicial-misconduct charges that include not only misusing her position and treating her staff like personal valets, but also tainting juries and falling asleep on the bench.

Rumors have surfaced that she is also accused of _______________________ .

Answer as often as you like in a comment and may the best answer win... Plus don't forget NEXT TUESDAY is a special edition of Tuesday Word Game for PEACHFEST! Make sure you have some time to drop by next Tuesday afternoon.

-Doc

Tuesday Word Game 5/6

It's Tuesday again folks and that can only mean one thing. WORD GAME!!! This week we have a somewhat strange situation where a man from Illinois decided to design his own coffin. What is so odd about that? It's not everyday that you see someone laid to their eternal rest in a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon. Yep, this guy is going to be buried in a beer can. After reading that I knew this would be perfect for Tuesday Word game. Finish off the news article with an odd or funny casket that someone may choose...

SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. - Bill Bramanti will love Pabst Blue Ribbon eternally, and he's got the custom-made beer-can casket to prove it. "I actually fit, because I got in here," said Bramanti of South Chicago Heights.

The 67-year-old Glenwood village administrator doesn't plan on needing it anytime soon, though.
He threw a party Saturday for friends and filled his silver coffin — designed in Pabst's colors of red, white and blue — with ice and his favorite brew.
Bramanti ordered the casket from Panozzo Bros. Funeral Home.

Other creative caskets made by this funeral home include _______________ .

Answer as often as you wish and best answer wins the peach tomorrow morning!

-Doc

Tuesday Word Game 4/29

It's once again time for Tuesday Word Game and this week we visit the world of wacky science. According to this article women in Great Britain are getting the chance to eat chocolate for medical research. There are always serious but silly medical experiments going on so I wondered what other off the wall things people could do in the name of scientific research? Lets find out... Complete the following news article with something crazy or outlandish and of course funny that could be done in the name of science:

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Scientists in the UK are seeking 150 women to eat chocolate every day for a year in the cause of medical research.

The trial, at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, eastern England, will test whether a natural compound found in cocoa, the main ingredient of chocolate, could cut the risk of heart disease among women with diabetes.

A Belgian confectionist has created the special chocolate bar containing high levels of flavonoids -- a plant compound that has been shown to reduce heart risk factors -- to be used in the experiment.

The scientists also plan a research project to study if _________________ .

Get creative and answer as often as you like in a comment and the best answer wins a Peach tomorow morning.

-Doc

Tuesday Word Game 4/22

I really missed you guys the past few days. I was out of the office on Friday volunteering and yesterday I was home with my son having "Daddy Day." It was fun but I did miss you guys. Anyway I am back and of course today is Tuesday and you know what that means kiddies??? YEP, you got it..... Tuesday Word Game !!!

For this week's word game we head to the great state of Arkansas. According to this article Arkansas apparently has some sheer geniuses for drug dealers. Or at least some hungry ones. Because this particular MENSA member hid his pot inside a box of fried chicken as if no drug dog would smell it there? Anyway this got me to thinking about some other interesting places that drugs could be hidden and I came up with the following for today's game:

MAGNOLIA, Ark. - Police in Magnolia, Ark., say it wasn't the fried chicken in Savalas Vantoli Stewart's car that gave off a funky smell.
Instead, officers who pulled over Stewart on Friday night say they found a side dish of marijuana hidden in a recently purchased box of chicken.
Police say officers smelled marijuana coming from the car and found it after Stewart consented to a search.

Officers say this isn't the most odd place they have ever found marijuana hidden. They say the strangest place they ever found drugs hidden was _______________.

Give us an idea of your interesting (and funny) drug hiding places. Make as many comments with suggestions that you would like and as always the funniest wins the Peach. Oh and I also want to see if anyone can guess the first thing that came to my mind as a hiding place that someone might suggest. (based on my knowledge of how you guys think)

-Doc

Tuesday Word Game 4/15

This week we are heading to the other side of the world for Tuesday word game. The article this week's game comes from is interesting to say the least. Apparently the massage parlor industry in Jakarta is so out of control that they have to padlock the pants of the masseuses to keep them from prostitution. I think that sounds pretty severe and I wonder who has the key? But I digress.

While that is pretty funny in and of itself what I find most odd is the government minister who is quoted in the article. I am not making this up, Indonesia actually has a State Minister for Women's Empowerment. What the hell?? I wonder what exactly is is this person does all day? I guess looking for different ways to empower women and checking up on the hookers in the massage parlors.

Reading that got me to wondering what other kind of odd government ministries they have in Indonesia? Let's make a few up. Complete the news article with an interesting (and funny) government ministry job this government may have and the best wins a peach.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A bid by a local government in Indonesia's East Java province to curb prostitution by asking masseuses to wear a padlock on their pants was an insult, a newspaper quoted the minister for women's empowerment as saying.

The recently implemented policy in the tourist area of Batu was misguided, State Minister for Women's Empowerment Meuthia Hatta told the Jakarta Post on Thursday.

"It is not the right way to prevent promiscuity. It insults women as if they are the ones in the wrong," Hatta said.

Also quoted as saying, "This is an outrage," was Indonesia's State Minister for _______________ .

Good luck and of course enter often.

-Doc