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Holy Cow, I Won

Published on 2006/06/26 in General Stuff. 3 Comments

I rarely win anything on radio contests. If you’re supposed to be caller number 10, I’ll usually be the ninth caller. But today, my luck changed.

Our local Fox News radio station has been having people call in to register for a rather nice prize. I happened to be caller number seven about a week ago, and was registered for the drawing for the grand prize.

Well, this morning was the grand prize giveaway. It went something like this. At 7:10AM (to coincide with their station number, 710AM) they would call out a name of someone who had been registered. That person had seven minutes and ten seconds to call in to claim the prize, and if they didn’t call in, there were a list of alternates they would use until someone did call in to claim the prize.

So at 7:10 I’m in my car on my way to work, and they said they had the name of the winner, who would have seven minutes and ten seconds to call in and claim the prize. And, much to my surprise, they called my name. It took me 51 seconds to call in, because I was so nervous, I was having trouble hitting the right numbers on my cell phone. And I won!

This is the biggest thing I’ve ever won, and I am so stoked. Oh, what did I win, you ask? Round trip airline tickets for two and hotel, to New Jersey to go see the Hannity Freedom Concert at Six Flags.

Oh, it’s going to be cool. Lots of special guests, including Zell Miller, Ann Coulter, Tom Delay, and Ollie North, just to name a few. The concert is in about a month, so I have to wait awhile, but it will definitely be worth it.

SWEET!!!

Places Where I’ll Never Go To Eat

Published on 2006/06/19 in General Stuff. Closed

Well, the Fangji Cat Meatball restaurant, for one.

That About Sums It Up

Published on 2006/05/10 in General Stuff. Closed

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Those New Flavored Rums…

Published on 2006/05/05 in General Stuff and Humor. 2 Comments

Be careful what you’re drinking…

Hungarian builders who drank their way to the bottom of a huge barrel of rum while renovating a house got a nasty surprise when a pickled corpse tumbled out of the empty barrel, a police magazine website reported.

According to online magazine www.zsaru.hu, workers in Szeged in the south of Hungary tried to move the barrel after they had drained it, only to find it was surprisingly heavy and were shocked when the body of a naked man fell out.

Yikes! Apparently, the guy had died, and his wife shipped him back from Jamaica 20 years earlier to avoid the cost and paperwork of an official return.

UPDATE: It seems Reuters has retracted the story…

God Bless Those Little Commies

Published on 2006/04/28 in General Stuff. Closed

It seems that when your economy finally picks up, and you’re able to eat nutritious meals, your boobs get bigger. You know, like in China.


Bra producers have been forced to offer bigger cup sizes in China because improved nutrition means women are busting previous chest measurements.
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The Hong Kong-based lingerie firm Embry Group no longer produces A-cups for larger chest circumferences and has increased production of C-, D- and E-cup bras to meet demand.


Yeah baby, yeah!

Here’s Some Interesting Reading

Published on 2006/04/20 in General Stuff. Closed

How Gas Prices Work.


Or, why it’s not the evil, greedy oil companies aren’t driving the gas prices up.

Hanging Out

Published on 2006/04/11 in Entertainment and General Stuff. Closed

This weekend marked the beginning of the Kansas City Jubilee, a local independent film festival. So I decided to venture out and see what the locals were up to. I saw a few shorts, then a feature-length movie called “Cadaverella”. A charming zombieesque movie where a girl is killed by some scumbag, then comes back to life for revenge.


Of course, she was having sex with the guy when he killed her and buried her body, so when she crawled up out of the ground, she was naked. Now I’ve seen nudity in film before, no big deal. However, I’ve never experienced seeing the nudity with the girl who is naked on the screen sitting a few seats away yelling “Don’t look, Mom!”, so that was something.


After the film, there was a reception at a local jazz joint. I didn’t get out of the movie until about 12:30, and got to the reception at around 1:00. I figured they would close soon, so I would just hang out, have a few beers, and enjoy some jazz.


So I’m sitting there with some friends, and Karen Black comes up and sits down at our table. Quite a nice lady. Seems she was going to host a screening of “Five Easy Pieces” the next day.


Well, the next thing I know, it’s 5:00AM, and the band is still playing, and the bar is still open. Despite that, I decided to call it a night, or morning, as the case was, I hadn’t been out that late in quite some time.


Now that’s my kind of bar, I’ll definitely be going back there again.

What Are The Chances Of That?

Published on 2006/03/21 in General Stuff and Humor. Closed

Of all the ways you could get injured…


What was intended to be an eye-catching start to the annual Bike Week cole slaw wresting event at Sopotnik’s Cabbage Patch turned scary this afternoon when a skydiver landed on a woman serving beer at the edge of the huge outdoor makeshift arena.


Sherri Lee, 37, of Daytona Beach Shores, was knocked unconscious when the skydiver landed on top of her at about 1:40 p.m. The collision occurred in front of a beer truck where she was walking with a tray of beverages. Within minutes a Volusia County Fire and Rescue team responded, and she was airlifted by helicopter to Halifax Medical Center at about 1:40 p.m.


“I didn’t even see her,” said the skydiver, Clarence Swimm, shortly after the accident. “It wasn’t my fault.”


Man, that would suck. Especially if you had to miss the cole slaw wrestling to go to the hospital…

Things I Wouldn’t Even Have Guessed

Published on 2006/02/25 in General Stuff. Closed

In India, it’s OK for a 7-year-old girl to get married.


To ward off the “evil eye”.


Because her upper teeth grew in before her lower teeth.


Did I mention she married a dog?

I I I

Published on 2006/01/28 in General Stuff. 1 Comment

I I I I…