Weekly Poll 6/30

Happy Monday all... At least it's a short work week. I don't know about the rest of you but I love the 4th of July holiday! With the fireworks and all the patriotic music the kids parades and grilling out with family and friends it's one of the best days of the year!

This weeks poll is simple. What is your favorite thing about the 4th of July?

-Doc

Friday Top 10 List 6/27/2008

This weeks list was inspired by my buddy the Mt. Cat being on vacation. He is probably driving around in that rental car now jamming to his ridiculous 25 million song I-Pod of his and playing air drums on the steering wheel. Well in that vain I now proudly present this weeks Top 10 list:



The Top 10 Things That Mt. Cat Will NOT Be Doing While On Vacation



10. Converting to Scientology

9. Singing karaoke to John Mayer's 'Say'

8. Drinking Bud Ice beer

7. Attending a PETA meeting about endangered mountain lions

6. Returning my cassette tapes

5. Be-Bopping and Scatting

4. Rewatching "Brown Bunny"

3. "Pushing the Envelope"

2. Attending an Eric Lindros fan club meeting

And the Number one thing Mt. Cat is not doing on his vacation this week is...........

1. Pitching for the NY Yankees during their double header against the Mets today (has anyone even heard of either of the Yanks' starters before today?)


If you have any you want to add please feel free to comment.


-Doc

Thursday Random Thoughts 6/26/2008

Stuff I have been thinking about:

-Odd or interesting search not of the week. This is no joke. Someone at the Pentagon in Washington DC actually found our blog by searching "Ass Clown Cereal" This is easily my favorite search ever to find our blog. I had to print off the report to save it for posterity. Ladies and gentleman our tax dollars at work!

-My wife and son are up in NY for a week visiting her folks and going to her cousin's HS graduation. Let me just tell you guys that I really miss them. Yes I love having a little time to myself but after one night it's enough. I wish I was with them. Have fun you guys and just know that I love and miss ya'll and can't wait until ya'll get home.

-Here is an interesting tidbit about George Carlin that you probably won't hear anywhere else. Earlier I posted about my hobby of tracking my one dollar bills by using the currency tracking website wheresgeorge.com. Well it seems that the founder and publisher of the website was contacted by George Carlin in 2002 after her found the website by googling himself. He was interested in the concept of money tracking, joined up, and tracked his money just like do. George Carlin was a "Georger" and we shared the same hobby. Kinda cool!

-The 10,000 or so people in NC who have the letter combination 'WTF' as the beginning of their license plates are all being sent a letter saying that they can turn the plate in for free and be issued a new one... Why is this a big deal? Because NC switched over to a new color combination (and an ugly one at that) in January and 'WTF' was the randomly generated very first 3 letter combination to be issued. Yes folks text messaging is taking over the world when the letters 'WTF' can be construed as vulgar on a license plate.

-For those of you who may or may not care reggae singer Sean Kingston was the guest dancer this week on Yo Gabba Gabba.

-I am really wondering why anyone really cares what the hell anyone cares what Don Imus is talking about and saying these days. I mean who cares? Why does it have to be news any time the issue of race comes up? Get over it people. It's not news!! He is getting exactly what he wants when he says and does stuff like this latest thing. It's just Publicity for his show on the farm channel or whatever it's on. Anyone who thinks differently has not followed his career in the past.

-Let me give an official welcome back to NC to my sister who is moving back here from Georgia this weekend. It will certainly be good to be closer to you and my nephews. Welcome back Sis!

-Give this quick article a read. HA! For some reason I find it hilarious that a school would go on lock down because a Ninja was spotted nearby....

-Did anyone else know that JFK airport in New York City was actually called Idewild airport before President Kennedy was assassinated?

-Instead of worrying about Imus how about pointing the finger at real racial things being thrown about in politics these days. Including comments by 'has been' Green party candidate Ralph Nader who in addition to costing Al Gore the Presidency in 2000 has now been saying things like Barack Obama is using "white guilt" to garner votes. "He wants to appeal to white guilt. You appeal to white guilt not by coming on as a black is beautiful, black is powerful. Basically he's coming on as someone who is not going to threaten the white power structure, whether it's corporate or whether it's simply oligarchic. And they love it. Whites just eat it up." He also states that Obama (who is of course Harvard educated) censors himself and "talks white." in order to be electable. Friends and neighbors THAT is the type of racism and race baiting or seeking to use black verses white issues for political gain that we really should be worrying about in this country today. The thing is I don't think that old Ralphie even realizes he is being racist, just as Geraldine Ferraro had no clue what she was talking about and why people were offended at her comments during the primary campaign saying that Obama was advantaged because he was African-American. If you don't understand it either then you just don't get it and a lot of times people who haven't walked a mile in the shoes of someone who is black in America don't and never will.

-Doc

Tim McGraw = Good Guy

In addition to being my wife's favorite singer and a Florida State Seminole fan Tim McGraw is apparently a good guy as well. It seems on Tuesday night during his concert in Seattle he helped save a female fan from being attacked by some guy. He was onstage and saw the attack happening. He realizes that security doesn't see it so he acted and helps his road crew pull the guy up onstage. Then (and this is great) "When the heavyset fan moves toward McGraw, the singer threatens him with a cocked fist as he's hauled away." What makes this story even better is that they never quit singing the song they were performing. Ironically the next line of the song was "I ain't lookin' for trouble ..."
You go Tim, you get my good guy hero award today... Hey I wouldn't mess with him. Would you?

-Doc

God Arrested for Selling Cocaine ??

According to this article from ABCActionnews God has been arrested for selling cocaine, and near a church no less. The gentleman you see pictured to the right is none other than God Lucky Howard of Tampa Florida. Besides having an unfortunate name and an even more unfortunate line of work he also seems to now have what is most likely unwanted national attention being called to his drug case.
I have posted about this before but I will now reiterate again for anyone new. Parents THINK before you name your children. Names have consequences. We already know that it's not a good idea to give your child the middle name Wayne do we really have to spell out that it's REALLY not a good idea to give your child the name God ? Especially if you plan on giving him the middle name lucky. You may say why not and I give you this as an example. Would I be writing about the average drug dealing slimeball in Tampa if he hadn't been named God Lucky? Nope.
I say give him the maximum sentence and I bet we read about the outcome of this case after it goes to trial.

-Doc

(post script: this post was actually written Monday 6/23 when this story crossed the news wire but I could not post it until today due to other post's importance...I would never rehash old news for you guys.)

Word Game Winner

Thanks of course to everyone who submitted entries for Tuesday word game. I had to pick a winner and this weeks is someone who doesn't even have a blog to post her award on. Leap O'Faith is this weeks winner for this entry complete with quotes:

The next monument they are planning will be dedicated to the tampon...'Let's beat sloppiness with a tampon! "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."

I thought that of all the funny ones this was the best. Here is your Peach Leap O':

Hey Leap O'.. Print off your peach and post it up in your cube!!

-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

Apple Grows Up (and gets pimped)

I have an announcement to make... As American as Apple Pie (or Apple) has grown up and decided it's time to trade in her knickers for big girl pants. Yes after months of telling her that she could blog on her own and that Vince and I were holding her potential back she finally has done it. Please give her new blog a read.... It's aptly named As American as Apple Pie. She is moving her weekly features (like wwwwwould you rather Wednesday and that Dancing with stars stuff that I gave her such a hard time about) that were here at YJKOBT over there and we are happy for her. So this is not just your ordinary average pimping but a thank you for everything she contributed over here... I know your blog is going to be fabulous !

-Doc