One of these things is not like the others
Ok, so this is weird, and I’m kind of wondering it it’s true. There is a politician in India named Adolf Lu Hitler Marak. He is in the state of Maghalaya. While reading about him, I came to this sentence, “It may be noted that his name is not particularly curious within Meghalaya, where other local politicians are named Lenin R. Marak, Stalin L. Nangmin, Frankenstein W. Momin, or Tony Curtis Lyngdoh.” Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Frankenstein, Tony Curtis. A five headed hydra of evil, if you ask me.
Get that jackass out of my courtroom!
Phils WIn! Phils WIn! Phils WIn!
Do you believe in Miracles? Yes! The Nats loaded the bases with nobody out in the 9th, but the Phils escaped with a 4-2 win. Hallelujah! Btw, as D-Mac says, shouldn’t they trade Rowan right now that he’s hitting so well? Also, Mitch WIlliams is excellent in the post game coverage. Seriously, he is really good.
Let’s take this back to the old school
Nothing really interesting in the news today, so I found myself flipping thru phillyhistory.org (via Phawker). Found some great stuff. First saw a pic of the Horn and Hardart Automat, where you bought your lunch from a vending machine. It was the original fast food, and it began in Philadelphia. For some more pics and info on Horn and Hardart, click here. Then I came upon the phillyhistory.org blog. This is awesome. Stories about how bad Philly’s drinking water was, the Divine Lorraine, and about the legendary Man Full of Trouble Tavern. Here’s the best part from the drinking water story:
Schuylkill water was so bad by the late 19th century that “…a physician offered $50 to anyone who would drink a quart of it ten nights in a row. Each evening, the doomed man comes on stage, the stipulated amount of water is brought out and he takes the draught to slow music before a sympathetic audience. It is the agreement that if he vomits or dies, he will lose the prize.”
Doctors were so much more fun back then, offering prizes for not dying, then forcing people to drink typhoid water. Now it almost seems like they’re trying to saaaave lives. BORRRR-RING. I may not be a doctor (at least not officially licensed as such), but I am carrying on this proud tradition nonetheless. I will pay $50 to anyone who will drink water from the Schuylkill 10 nights in a row. If you vomit or die, you will lose the prize.
The Metro article
Here’s the link to this weeks story on Philadelphia native Mario Lanza, who was an international superstar in the 1950s. Here’s a link to him singing. Here’s some more background info on him.
Thoughts on Charlie
Wow, things are really getting nutty now. Charlie Manuel reportedly challenged Howard Eskin to a fight last night. Now had he actually fought Eskin and beaten his ass, we would clamoring for the Phils to sign Charlie to a lucrative extension. But instead there was just some yelling and, at the end of the day, all we have is the second worst team in the majors (only the Royals, who my intramural softball team beat a few weeks ago, are worse) and Howard Eskin still on the air.
I have to admit, I like Charlie, and this makes me like him even more (We’re both from VA, so that makes us peoples). And it’s not his fault that the only player on this team that can hit is the one we were most worried about (Pat the Bat) and that if you sent up a decent junior high team against major league pitching I really don’t think they would do worse than .200 with runners in scoring position. But the fact is that he’s not a good National League manager, and I can’t understand why the Phillies will yet again let the best available manager get signed by someone else while we sit on our thumbs and get worse and worse. You would have thought we would have learned when we let Jim Leyland go. Yet Joe Girardi continues to announce games, will get signed eventually, and turn some team around. But hey, look at the bright side: since we are trailing every game by the 5th inning, we haven’t even really had to deal with our biggest weakness, the bullpen. So the $64,000 question is: Will Charlie make it out of April?
In honor of scrapplefest: Gross food news
–Scrapplefest is being held this weekend at Reading Terminal. They will actually be showing how scrapple is made. It’s a fascinating process which involves sweeping hot dog leftovers off the floor of the slaughterhouse.
-This is incredible. A guy bought a hamburger from McDonalds 18 years ago, and it hasn’t decomposed at all! He says that flies won’t even touch it.
-How do strawberry milkshakes get their red coloring? Ground up beetles, of course.
They’re real…
…and they’re spectacular. If you see Trivia Art or I crying today, worry not: they are tears of joy.
A couple of things
Been kind of light on the postings today cause I had to work on the ol’ Metro piece. Here’s a few things:
–Words are funny.
–Shirts are funny.
-I bought a new washer/dryer yesterday, the first home appliance I have ever bought new in my life. This is big for me. I’ll have some photos tommorrow. That’s right, washer/dryer photos. Start getting excited.