Way too nice outside to sit here and talk about the Mayor’s race or the Eagles QB situation. I’m gonna get the Ronnie Burger at the Exmore Diner, go kayaking for a little while, and then sit on my dads dock and do some reading. Did you people really think the life of leisure didn’t extend beyond Philadelphia city limits?
Month: April 2007
City vs. City Smackdown to be held at Rembrandt’s
The City vs. City Smackdown will be going down on Monday, May 14th at 7:30 p.m. at Rembrandt’s (23rd and Aspen). I will be inviting teams officially to play this week. Once we see how much room we have left, I will open it up to everyone else. Tix are $10 a piece, and winner will walk with $500, plus more once if they also beat teams in other cities.
Jams Win
What popular resort town in Maryland boasts 11 miles of beaches and Phillip’s Seafood?
Young Old and Restless win at O’Neals
In what town does the famous annual pony penning take place, attracting tens of thousands of skeevy Jerseyites, who apparently love ponies?
Howdy
I’m hangin’ out in the Dirty South this morning, after I headed down here on Saturday. The house pictured above is the one I grew up in, though my peeps no longer live there. I am currently right across the street, though, in the Nassawadox library. My folks live down a long dirt lane where they don’t have access to high speed internet, so I went to the library (there are no coffee shops w/in 30 mile here). Anyways, questions with the photos this week will be about the DelMarVa peninsula. One guess per person. No looking up answers.
Anybody figured this out yet?
If so, could they get back to me and explain it?
The Week in Review
The week really started on Saturday. A beautiful spring day, the kind where all of the women break out there cute skimpy little outfits and prance around town. And I was in the Reading Terminal Market, watching large men eat pork byproducts. The guy in the photo above is the guy who won the Scrapple cook-off by making Scrapple burgers. I had a sample of one, and it was really quite good.
In quizzo, a couple of major upsets later in the week, but a pretty standard Tuesday: Young Old and Restless win ayet another squeaker (this team just thrives in the late innings), and Sofa Kingdom winning in a blowout. At O’Neals, the YORS held off Dork SIded, 106-105, while Women are Easy, State Capitals are Hard finished with 100. At Bards, the Kingdom knocked off the Dysfunktion, 107-96.
No surprises at the Vous, as the Jams (aka Yeltsin Got His Pinko Slip) held off the Steaming Minotaurs, 97-83. There will be a $20 bounty on the Jams next week.
A remarkably close shave at the Black Sheep, as the top four teams finished within three points of each other. When the dust settled, the Satan’s Minions edged Duane’s World, 92-91. Every Four Papers finished with 90, and One Hangs Lower finished with 89.
Thursday night was when things started to get weird. First, a mild upset at the Good Dog, as a Steve-O led 3 1/2 Armenians knocked off MAGMA, 103-95. That’s also where I got my best answer of the week. The question was, “Who shot and killed John Wilkes Booth?” The answer was Boston Corbett. Team TigerBeat Centerfolds answered, “Zombie Abe Lincoln.”
THe week ended with by far the largest recent upset, as Why Am I sitting With Browns Fans knocked off the Sofa Kingdom, 99-90. It was the first win for usual Western Omelette member BMT in just over two years.
Tearful Goodtimes Fleeced, Apologizes to Ewe
I know you guys turn to this website for one reason: the Facts. Most blogs out there are full of knuckleheads self righteously throwing around their two cents worth w/o sticking to the cold hard facts. But not me. Nope, everything I post on here is only written after careful consideration and exhaustive fact checking. But yesterday I was fleeced. A news story that appeared in a trusted Australian publication about sheep being sold as dogs in Japan turned out to be a hoax. And so I apologize for once giving you bad information. I take my job as a relayer of all that is Fair and Balanced very seriously, and I ASSURE that there will never be a mistake on this website again.
Scrapplefest
Hey, here’s my latest article in the Metro, about last Saturdays scrapplefest. The pic above is of the scrapple wedding cake. I’m running out the door right now, but I’ll have more pics and stories later.
UPDATE: One thing I wasn’t able to fit into the story. There was a guy named Tom in the Beergarden who was not at all pleased with the Scrapplefest. According to him, there had been a scrapplefest at the Troc many years earlier that was “awesome. Just a bunch of fat people getting wasted and eating scrapple. Now they are doing this stuff for the tourists, and not for the real scrapple fans.” Also, wanna send a shout out to Anthony and Koob, who I went to Scrapplefest with and who really did some serious scrapple testing. Koob told me at one point, “That guy’s Scrapple is a little too mushy. I think he’s cracking under the pressure of Scrapplefest.”
To read more about Scrapplefest, you can click here to hear from one of the celebrity judges who writes in the Inky.
Attention Japan: This is not a poodle
This is downright hilarious. A scam in Japan resulted in hundreds of Japanese people buying sheep because they thought they were poodles. The story contains this incredible line: One couple said they became suspicious when they took their “dog” to have its claws trimmed and were told it had hooves.
What? The Japanese, who are known for their technological prowess, are only “suspicious” when they discover that their pet dog has hooves? And did the vet they took the “poodle” to not recognize that it was a sheep? Of course, the best part is that poodles totally suck and sheep are kind of funny, so these people were better off with sheep anyway.