Month: November 2007

Chip Chantry presents: 5 things you didn’t know about Ron Paul

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When I announced that I was going to start regularly discussing Ron Paul in the hopes of increasing web traffic, my good friend Chip Chantry quickly got a hold of me and told me what a huge Ron Paul fan he was. He feels like Americans don’t know enough about Ron, so he asked if he could start passing along some facts about him. I said, “Add-solutely.” So here is Chip’s first installment. -jgt

-Ron Paul has a tattoo on each set of knuckles. They say “FIGURE SKATING” and “SMALLPOX”.

-Ron Paul wants to shut down all nuclear power plants. He feels that this nation can subsist on the harnessed hydroelectric power of a children’s waterpark in Duluth, Minnesota.

-There ain’t no party like a Ron Paul party, because, well, quite frankly, a Ron Paul party don’t stop.

-When going incognito, Ron Paul wears a beard of bees.

-No one makes chainsaw ice sculptures in the nude. No one, that is, but Ron Paul.

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-You think that Ron Paul fanatics are the only commenting crazies online? Think again. Olivia Newton John fans will get physical if you disrespect their girl. (Scroll down to comment section)

-Some guy threw coffee on a foie gras protester outside the Standard Tap on Saturday. Something tells me Cassidy had something to do with this.

-Is Carly Simon talking about my native state in that “You’re So Vain” song? Apparently.

-Has America become a fascist state? Birthday girl Naomi Wolf thinks so.

-Exciting quizzo news and (hopefully) my punkin chunkin video coming manana.

The Scoreboard

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O’NEALS
No Talent Ass Clowns 109
We Didn’t Vote 105
Young Old and Restless 101
Cornbread Mafia 100
Dorksided 96

BARDS (No Bounty Awarded)
Sofa Kingdom: 107
Narcotyzing Dysfunktion: 106
Oprah, Stop Abusing Me! I Paid Tuition! 93
Hurtin Bombs Two: 80
Partially Sober Observer: 77

LOCUST RENDEZVOUS
The Jams 91
Let’s Waterboard Chuck Schumer 81
The Three Amigos 80
ELKS 56
Nicole’s Dirty Little Secret 53

BLACK SHEEP
Duane’s World 94
Team Dirrty 78
But My Mom Says I’m Cool 78
Phily Hardcore 68
Britt Reid’s My B**** in the Pen 64

GOOD DOG
I Want Meat (or Hummus) 75
Johnny Badtimes 57
Daddy 4 and the Whore 57
Try the Pumpkin Cheesecake 53
Pawianation 51

BARDS (Thursday)
Hurtin Bombs 103
SOfa Kingdom 97
Kimmy Gibler 82
Marshadelphia 80
Jagerbombs, Jagerbombs, Jagerbombs 73

Edwin Armstrong

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One of the impossible round questions this week was “What did Edwin Armstrong invent in the 1930’s?” Although it was the only multiple choice question this week (sorry Milo), a lot of teams got wrong. This is interesting because Armstrong (above with his wife and his ghetto blaster) was one of the most remarkable inventors of the 20th century. But while everybody knows Marconi, Edison, and many known Farnsworth (partly b/c he had the awesome first name Philo), nobody seems to know Armstrong. Well, he invented FM radio, and as soon as he did, the powers that be (primarily RCA) set out to destroy him. It is a perfect example of how ingenuity can be halted by big money and power (see electric cars), and in the end an exasperated Armstrong committed suicide. But his wife continued the court battle for decades, and in the end finally won. I’m surprised nobody has made a movie about this. It’s pretty captivating stuff.
RELATED: I have no idea how radio waves work despite my Media Studies degree, but I still find this guy fascinating.