Friday, August 06, 2004

Team Discovery Channel

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An 18-year-old Russian male who jumped onto the court to invite Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova and Vera Zvonareva to dinner was stopped by security guards at the Rogers Cup tournament Thursday night.
Ok, so lets review here. Tennis game going on, major event, security extremely high. Only a few years ago a female tennis player was stabbed, so pretty much anyone on the court who doesn't belong is going to be swarmed like they stole a book from brentano's. So your watching this world class tennis match with your buddy, you have the tickets, your there live, and you think wow, that chicks pretty hot. So you jump over the barriers and onto the court, thinking "hey, I think I have a chance with this celebrity tennis champ, I'll just ask her out on a date." Within the split second that your saying "Maria would you like to-" you are getting tackled by a Russian security guard the size of Ivan Drago. Was it worth it? I don't know the laws in Russia, in fact I don't even know if they still call it Russia, but my guess is this kid took a serious beating, and got rejected in the same day.
Bobby Fischer, the chess mastermind, just renounced his U.S. citizenship, basically saying he no longer wants to be a part of this country. Ok quick rundown in case you don't know what is going on with B-Fish. Fisher won the world chess championship 3 years in a row (I didn't know they had one of those either) when he quit the tournament in 1975 because the tournaments conditions were unacceptable to him. At which point he disappeared from the chess scene and became a political extremist who basically beleived the same thing nazi germany did. Now he's renounced his U.S. citizenship, which means he doesn't have a passport anymore, which means he cant go anywhere, not even the U.S.! He has to go to some 3rd world country that doesnt have any kind citizenship laws. How can this supposed mastermind be so dumb. He went from being chess legend to being not only homeless, but countryless. Thats like having a job, being a day away from getting your retirement pesnion, and then just quitting with no other job oppurtunities laying ahead. I am even convinced now that this guy has to of gone looney, and I want to play him in chess now, just so I can say I beat B-Fish.

quote of the day: : Of course a man made it. It's a commercial Lois, not a delicious thanksgiving dinner.
Peter Griffin
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Wednesday, August 04, 2004

Lance Armstrong to be stripped of tour de france victory

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LANCE ARMSTRONG HAS VICTORY TAKEN AWAY

An article stating that the Lance Armstrong may be stripped of his 6th Tour de France title was recently published in a French newspaper. In a random check for banned substances, 3 substances were found in Lance Armstrong's hotel room that are banned by the French: Toothpaste, deodorant, and soap.

Sorry, saw that one earlier today and had to break it out. Now on to a much more important agenda. Cats versus Dogs, I hear this way too often. How can you possibly go with the dogs on this one? This is the biggest argument for them, dogs are tougher and badass. Well let me tell you something a cat can be bad ass to. Take for example a Jaguar, now that's one bad ass cat, it even has a car named after it. OK so you say well dog is mans best friend, I say noo way, and who came to that conclusion. If your best friend is a dog then you may be in trouble. Cats eat normal things like tuna fish, dogs stick to dog food, and if you feed the thing anything else, it ends up coming out of the dog on your new recliner.

How awesome is vehix, not the website, but the guy on the commercials wearing the big box. If I ever need anyone to do a commercial, that would be the first guy I would hire, the box and everything. Next time you see a vehix commercial pay close attention to this mans limitless capabilities to bring in customers. Now if Kerry or Bush really want to win this campaign, they should take a long hard look at vehix (or hix, which is what I like to call him) because if you get hix on board, then I am on board, and I am sure the rest of America is on board. In fact I am thinking of running for Kerry's senator seat if he wins the election, not as a demcrat or a republican, but as a vehix. Think about that one for a while.

Now I would like take a good long hard look at the standing of todays fast food establishments, I know I have already delved into Mcdonalds commercials in a previous rant but now I must critique the others. First off there are five fast food giants. Here is the criteria to be a fast food giant:
1. Timing, you have to be open late, like drunk hungry late
2. Lack of health, fast food places can't be considered healthy, which eliminates all sub shops, due to all the healthy options on the menus, and Jared Fogel.
3. Locations, there must be one within a reasonable distance of pretty much anywhere for it to be considered a fast food giant, which eliminates sonic, because I dont know where any are despite there continued commercials telling me to go there. Also I would like to note that at least one of the 5 giants is located in every mall in the country.
4. Commercials, must have one major ad campaign that you can name within 5 seconds of hearing the restaurant.

Ok so your 5 major fast food restaurants are, Burger King, Wendy's, Mcdonalds, Taco Bell, and yes Frank the Tank, KFC is still open. I know what your thinking, Dunkin Donuts, and your right, it does meet my listed criteria, but would you go there for lunch or dinner, (don't tell me a muffin can be very filling) no, you probably wouldn't go there for lunch or dinner, which means I dont even give it restaurant standing.
Now to the commercials these fast food conglomerates have been running, I am appalled. What happened to "if it ain't broke don't fix it." Mcdonalds I have already gone into, so I won't go too long on it, but why can't they just be like hey we arent healthy, but we give you a cool toy with your happy meal. I mean they have sold over 1 billion hamburgers, I saw it on the sign, you would think that they would know better than to go with a healthy approach. Now Wendy's is letting me down too. Mr. Wendy, official sponsor, please. I understand Wendy's is in mourning over the loss of Dave Thomas, one of the fast food commercial greats, but this Mr. Wendy thing is aweful, going from Dave Thomas to him is like replacing Tom Brady with Tom Cruise, someone might think it's a good idea because the ladies might love both of them, and they are both named Tom, but you wouldn't be reaching your whole demographic because your team would be horrible. Lets just hope Mr. Wendy doesn't soil the quality of the commercial tradition Dave Tohmas started the same way Rick Pitino tried to soil the celtic tradition.
Now onto Burger King, who is really pushing this angus burger. Now I like there approach, straight forward, not trying to be anything they aren't, but they are fooling themselves, it would take somebody of hix's proportions to move any food with the word angus in it. I dont know what angus is, but it just sounds way too much liek somethign you shouldn't eat.
Now Taco Bell, I think Taco Bell's approach, very unlike there food, is good. I think the whole think outside the bun campaign is a good idea, but I see a tough road ahead for taco bell with the baja fresh's coming out of the wood work.
Now lastly KFC, who has made no tv push for a while now, which i think is a shame. I miss the colonel, he revolutionized thinking on chicken, whether it was original recipe or extra crispy, the man could sell his bird. I see the future for KFC being dimmer than that of Taco Bell, no ad campaign, and KFC's disappearing everyday is the original recipe for Kentucky Fried disaster.

quote of the day: "I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin. When we got to the gorilla cage there was 1 big silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let smash that silverback's snotbox! He declined."
-Mike Tyson

Website of the day: http://www.homestarrunner.com/






Tuesday, August 03, 2004

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Long time no write, sorry, had no computer for a month or so there, it was like livin in 1988, minus the bad stuff of 1988.

So NOMAH is bettah is now NOMAH is gone, which is tough. I heard he didn't want to play here anymore, which I can understand, I mean if an entire city looks at you as a god, then you certainly should move along. I get a strange feeling that Mia has quite a bit to do with it. Shes probably somewhere right now firing soccer balls at NOMAH before he has to take the kids to school and start preparin her dinner. Everyone keeps saying that here kid is going to be an awesome athlete, I dont see it, I think hes more likely going to grow up being afraid of Moms soccer balls and NOMAHS meatloaf, just a hunch.

Gotta get of the sox talk its just to discouraging lately. The Democratic National Convention is gone, (The DNC as the local folk like to call it) which I think is definately a good thing for anyone who wants t o be in Boston between 5 and 12pm. Did anything good actually happen for the city of Boston during this thing, I'm just curious but it looks like these guys borrowed our city for a week, then told us we couldn't come in. Thats like someone coming to your house, putting on old hanging with Mr. Cooper reruns, and you asking if they can check the score of the sox game, and the person says "Nahh, I haven't seen this one yet." If Kerry wins he had best throw some money our way for the whole borrowing the city thing.

If the Cubs win the world series with NOMAH, do we pick up the curse of the billygoat, and some sort of a curse of garciaparra-ham. Which curse would reign supreme. If there was an argument between the curses on how the season should end would the Billy Goat and Babe do battle? I see it making a great paperview.

I think someone should have some sort of a battle of the diets. I wanna see Dr. Atkins, Jenny Craig, Mr. and MRS. Slimfast, Richard Simmons, and Raul and Rudy Weightwatcher in an over the top rope battle royal, I think I would like Jared Fogles chances, those subs could be used as a knunchuck type of weapon. And on a side note i sawe some kind of an updated teenage mutant ninja turtles cartoon the other day, minus splinter. Thats just aweful. Thats like MA$E minus the dollar sign.

If you haven't seen anchorman yet see it.
website of the day: http://www.wwujd.com/
Quote of the day: "Brick, I've been meaning to talk to you about that. You should find yourself a safehouse or a relative close by. Lay low for a while, because you're probably wanted for murder"
If you don't get it, then you have failed to heed my advice and see anchorman