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There are white chocolate M&M's out there folks. They are part of a "Pirates of the Caribbean" theme and are called "Pirates Pearls". I had them yesterday. They tasted white chocolatey.

There is a new KFC menu item. Some kind of bowl with mashed potatoes, corn, chicken, gravy and a three cheese blend all on top of each other. Sounds really odd. But as I like to try new things, I'll give it a whirl and test it out.

And finally, "Gameshow Marathon" starts tonight at 8 p.m. on CBS. This is some kind of show where celebrities play famous game shows. Tonight they look to be playing "The Price is Right" and tomorrow at 8 it looks like "Let's Make a Deal".
Most of the new Summer shows will be starting in June (tomorrow), such as Hell's Kitchen, Treasure Hunters, America's Got Talent and Rock Star: Supernova. Though last night "Last Comic Standing" started up and featured a couple guys that were pretty funny.

For the very first time! Premiere a new sentence!

Dvdguy and I always take note when one of us or somebody else has said something so bizarre or specific, that it just HAS to be the first time in the history of our planet that anyone has ever uttered those words in that particular order. We take a moment to celebrate the pioneering of a new sentence.

At trivia a couple weeks ago this happened and I can't remember what was said, but dotcom said something with some odd words in it, and I just replied, "I don't know how many times I've said that!". It was something akin to..."you can never have too much floobedijoo sauce when crossing the andes mountains while listening to your favorite REO Speedwagon album". Something just totally bizarre.

Today on DVDguy's page, JBH possibly pioneered a new sentence. He also said another thing, "have bullets, will trivia", that could be a first.

I'm going to open the door to you folks. Debut for the first time ever, a new sentence that has never been spoken, ever. The one rule is the sentence has to make sense. It can't just be words strung together that don't actually say anything.

I'll start it off:

It's like my mother always said, 'If it wasn't for Pia Zadora, we'd probably all be eating Pringles somewhere in a concentration camp full of bulemic mimes'.

Okay, that's a little on the absurdist side. The best are ones that could actually be spoken, but you just know it never has.

Dvdguy, it's friends like you that make playing Taboo more fun than watching Laverne and Shirley with the Big Ragu. Okay that was stupid.

I'm going to just have to start writing these things down when people say them and eventually make a book.

Weekend Wackiness

My weekend that sounded like it would be so busy and exciting was not surprisingly, unspectacular.
Friday I did not go see a movie with a an old friend and her friend. But I did go see some live music with the lovely Nueva and Dotcom as well as with the even lovelier and sexier JBH and Dvdguy. Sadly, apparently I missed dvdguy spilling more drinks on people. Also, I don't know how to dance, but I could have done just about as good a job as anybody else on the dance floor with the exception of one. I had a hard time containing laughter at a certain man and his "moves". But I honestly don't begrudge people having fun whether they look good doing it or not.

Saturday I was to go miniature golfing with a girl, but that did not happen. A little miscommunication contributed to this.

Sunday I did in fact see "Beauty and the Beast" with Pickles! They actually handled the transformation from the Beast to the prince well.

Monday I went to a Memorial day lunch at my mom's house. They had invited a young lady who has apparently been doing physical therapy on my stepdad over. She had gone to Orange Park High as well, though after I had already left. There were lots of family members over. I was in gentlemanly denirogator mode and I certainly talked to her more than anybody else did and sat next to her when we ate, etc. But not much to report other than that.

Exciting huh?

Is it me or is the music machine trying to merge with dvdguy's face? And he kinda likes it...

Beware, crocodile eating disabled man at bottom of hill.

Riddle me this

Okay, here's a riddle. I have my opinions about the validity of this riddle, but I'll give you guys a crack at it. There are only two answers that make any sense in my opinion. I also believe that the Harvard grad and Kindergarten part is just B.S.



I turn polar bears white

and I will make you cry.

I make guys have to pee

and girls comb their hair.

I make celebrities look stupid

and normal people look like celebrities.

I turn pancakes brown

and make your champagne bubble.

If you squeeze me, I'll pop.

If you look at me, you'll pop.

Can you guess the riddle?

97% of Harvard graduates can not figure this riddle out, but 84% of kindergarten
students were able to figure this out in 6 minutes or less.

This is a powerful, influential blog folks...

Maybe NBC executives read "Take this blog and shove it"?

They have completely revamped their fall schedule and did exactly what we spoke about here. They moved Aaron Sorkin's "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" to Mondays to get it away from CSI and Grey's Anatomy on Thursday. They moved "Deal or no Deal" against those two, which is exactly the counter programming that we recommended.

AND they moved "30 Rock", Tina Fey's comedy about life behind an SNL type show, back to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesdays. Which will pave the way for those LOST and Criminal Minds viewers out there to check it out.

Now...what else should we demand..?

Check out the beautiful moment that was captured in the background.

We're #2, we try harder

That's a famous advertising line from AVIS in the mid 60's. I learned that in advertising at UF.

We came in second place at trivia night. Two points away from first. If we had known that Nancy Sinatra sang "you only live twice" or Tina Turner sang "Goldeneye" we would have won. Or if we had known "Dano's" last name on Hawaii 5-0 was Williams.

We had a perfect second half. Didn't miss one question and bet all 16 points that you are allowed to bet on the final question. Unfortunately so did the other team. This was the team with the bald guy, but they had reinforcements tonight. They had at least 8 people (twice as much as us) and one of them must have really known their stuff, because I know the bald dude doesn't. How do I know? Because whenever he's been there before they've never even been close. And there were some un-manly answers..like "Call Me" was the theme to American Gigolo and "Barbara" and "Julie" were the kids on "One day at a time". The week we had the problem with him, you can see in one of my pics that it's just him and two others at the table and they got destroyed. So good for him for finding a friend that knows some stuff.

So we came up 2 points shy of winning it all for the 4th straight week. I guess now that we just won a measly 20 bucks, it might be the perfect time to try a new restaurant if our team so desires. I wonder if other restaurants can handle the power of Mind Bullets?

A few highlights:

1. Dotcom kicked her own ass in billiards before anyone arrived.

2. I have a busy weekend for once. Well...just certain parts will be. There will be large chunks where I'm doing nothing. (Saturday and Sunday day, nights are booked)

3. JBH wanted to be classy and congratulate the other team, but DVDguy wanted no part of that and I agree. ANY other team that would be fine. But a team with a total jerk who acts like an ass.....no.

4. I pissed off the host because I'm a fool that will do whatever dotcom asks me to. The music was really loud. He wasn't happy to be asked that it be turned down just a tad. Dotcom could have intimidated him more.

5. The whole freakin' place knew that Marty Mcfly ordered a "tab" and "pepsi-free" in Back to the Future for some reason.

6. We finished with 84 points, the winning team had 86. I don't think any other team was even close, and there were a lot of teams. Also, most of the other teams had a minimum of 8 people at their table. We were just 4. But we really only missed a couple questions.

7. One team finished with negative one points.

8. Dvdguy's vehicle is falling apart on him. I picture him in a few weeks in something that resembles what Buford T. Justice was driving by the end of one of the Smokey films where the top had been cut off and wheels were wobbly, etc.

Keepin' it Real

Normally I post frivolous fluff and don't offer hard hitting opinions or serious debate and discussion. Well not today. Because if there is one thing I do like, it's that you have no idea what you are going to get when you visit "Take this Blog and Shove It". So today, you are going to get some serious views and opinions.

Okay, don't you think it's time we took these midgets to task? Who the hell do they think they are? Look, just because you are shorter, that doesn't mean you are any better than me. I know, I know...we try to get everything as small as possible. The smallest cell phones, smallest video cameras, etc. Yes, they are the perfect compact-sized humans that can fit anywhere with ease and are made for portability. But shouldn't we all be equal regardless of height?

Why is it that if they remake the Wizard of Oz, I have no shot whatsover at getting a job as a munchkin? Is that fair? Judge me on my talent, not how tall I am. I can represent the Lollilop Guild just as good as any freakin' midget out there. Enough is enough.

Evolution of Dance

I know, I'm the new dvdguy...but I couldn't resist posting this video.

Fight! Fight!!

Good Move/ Bad Move

Yes, it's the latest edition of Good Move/ Bad Move. You know the drill. I present you with two entertainment stories and you try to pick out which one seems like a good move and which ones seems like a bad one...

From Tvguide.com:

1. Studio 60 To Avoid Anatomy Lesson?
Any minute now, you can expect NBC to announce its fall schedule... again. The fourth-place network had intended to air its new Matthew Perry series, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, on Thursdays at 9 pm/ET. Then ABC revealed that it was moving megahit Grey's Anatomy to that time slot in hopes of rendering CBS' CSI DOA. Needless to say, the Peacock, sensing that its goose was cooked, is now shuffling its ruffled feathers. Studio 60 will likely find a Monday berth, and, in a strangely related move, the network's redheaded stepchild, Scrubs, may find its way back onto the lineup sooner than its planned midseason return.

2. Bounty Hunter Wedding... and Funeral
They said that if gays were allowed to marry, next thing ya know, somebody'd wanna marry their dog -- and on Saturday, somebody did. According to the Associated Press, "Dog" Chapman of A&E's Dog the Bounty Hunter tied the knot with sweetheart/sidekick Beth Smith in Honolulu. Although the reality-TV action star's daughter, Barbara, died in a car accident the day prior to the ceremony, "[The family] decided unanimously they should celebrate the wedding and [Barbara's] life," explained a rep for the cable network, wisely refraining from saying what we're all thinking: "Gee whiz, that's a whole lotta drama to stuff into the Aug. 8 episode of the series, isn't it?!"

My nephew and I decided to hit the town and hang out at this place called "TJ's". We had a blast and took a couple of self portraits.

A big thanks to Nueva and JBH for the invite and their hospitality as well as a thanks to Auntie Cindy and everyone else for their warmth and friendliness.
And Auntie Cindy, here is a video of my "family historian" stuff I make that I was telling you about.

Answer

So the answer to the age-old question, how many comments can a blank post get (May 10th)? Five...Five. Thanks for playing!

With the powers to kill a yak......WITH MIND BULLETS!!!

We came in First Place for the third consecutive time last night! (Would be 4th straight time if we had just bet more than 2 points on the final question 4 weeks back...but we were learning how to handle things then)

Here are the highlights:

1. Dr. V and better half did not attend last night. There was an illness in the household.

2. We only missed maybe 3 questions all night long. Strangely enough, on two of the three we missed I would have gotten the answer right had I been playing by myself. But I can assure you that I wouldn't have gotten alot of the others right! And my team name would have probably ended up being, "Denirogator is grumpy". Any time there is a team of just one, the person usually comes in last. You need that pool of different expertise and experience.


3. Dotcom got the laugh of the night. When the category was "Music" (a strength of hers), she said..."the question will probably be...what song did Joe Namath hum during football games". I almost fell out of my chair on that one. (she did add a little voice and face while saying this that enhanced it)

4. The bald rowdy guy was not there, and somehow we still won! Amazing!!! I guess the lesson is, we need to have confidence in ourselves and realize we don't need to cheat and get all of our answers from him anymore. I think we all grew up a little last night. (by the way, the team that we were tied with last week that accused of us cheating, got destroyed last night..karma karma)

5. Speaking of karma karma karma karma karma chameleon...culture club was one of the answers last night.

6. In even more karma news, karma may have caught up with our arch nemesis, the villianous, evil, dastardly "Sex Panther by Odeon". Some of the taunts I had endured:

"well if it isn't the third member of the LOSING team"

"you know, you're never gonna beat us"

"I apologize in advance for the ass kicking"


Instant Karma's gonna get you...



7. Next week is the much anticipated "Entertainment Night". Now, at first glance we all expect to do really well. But in reality, you know there are going to be some really tough ones thrown in the mix. Ones that no one really "knows" and you just have to take an educated guess. (like when was Stephen King born?)

8. I explained to dotcom that she probably has some mommy intimidation in her. She can turn on the mommy voice and scare the crap out of you.

9. On the flipside, she is one of the funniest people I've ever known. As I told her, if she was a Burt Reynolds movie, she'd be "Snarky's Machine". So, based on her mood, she can make you laugh or cry......she can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes, she ruin your faith with her casual lies....and she only reveals what she wants you to see, yeah she hides like a child but she's always an uber geek to me.... (sorry, turned into GatorHam2000 there for a moment)

10. We made sure to turn our final answer in extremely quickly so no one could accuse us of cheating this time. The host said to me, "I guess that was too easy", and I didn't even think of telling him why we were turning it in so quick...

11. Our server is in love with Dvdguy.

12. Speaking of love, I've always been about honesty and integrity, and then last night a completely untrue thing spilled out of my mouth. I quickly had to recant realizing how false it was. I said something about "..I'm just looking for anybody". Okay...yes I'm picky. Yes I could be with some girls if I really just didn't want to be alone. But I think I'm mostly picky in that I'm only interested in the RIGHT girl, and the main criteria is personality. Now, after that, a second criteria would be at the very least to be somewhat attracted to her. And if you can find someone with a great personality AND you actually find them very attractive, all the better!

13. I'm not used to eating so early. I think next week I may glance at what deserts they have and just get me that and then eat dinner when I'm used to later on.

14. Dotcom knows all the music they play during the questions. We think we should get extra credit.

15. Still undefeated with JBH around. Also undefeated since they went to the new rule: Only one team per table.

16. Dvdguy may be discovering something. Dotcom is an angel and just a sweetheart the first year you know her. Then, once she is confident you can handle it, you are eligible to be the recipient of her snark and wit. This is great news for the rest of us, because we can laugh at a new person getting a verbal smackdown! In dotcom's defense though, dvdguy was really asking for it on several occasions. He said some rather brazen things that would have gotten me instantly decapitated and used as a new bowling ball.


17. When JBH and dotcom hugged goodnight, dvdguy and I decided we would hug goodbye as well. The embrace lasted uncomfortably long. I think we may be more lonely than we realize. It's just a good thing jbh and dot didn't have their cameras.

TV Nation

So, I've watched the first disc of Season One of LOST. That's the pilot and the next two episodes. I also watched the commentary for the pilot and the third episode.

"Celebrity Debut" wasn't bad. Some of the people who were featured before they hit it big: Leonardo Dicaprio, Tobey Maguire, Fellicity Huffman, Teri Hatcher, Jerry Seinfeld, Tiger Woods, Kate Winslett, Halle Berry, George Clooney, Colin Ferrell and John Travolta.

Matthew McConaughey was shown in an early airline training film, as well as his role in a movie I kinda enjoyed, "The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (aka the next generation).

Some stars were amusingly shown as little kids, including Christian Bale and Andre Agassi. Jude Law was shown as an 11 year old kid move critic on some local TV news show.

U2 was shown on the Tom Snyder Show, their first U.S. appearance. I had seen this before. The Edge was 19 and Bono was 21 and looked exactly like (dvdguy can confirm) my friend Josh from high school.

Puppy Power

I love animals, especially dogs. I often pay more attention to people's pets than them when I'm at their house. I haven't had a dog of my own since our family dog died a few years back.

I've kept thinking that I would get a puppy whenever I got married and settled somewhere permanently, but who knows when that could happen the way things have gone? So, I've been thinking recently, maybe I should just go ahead and get a puppy.

I know it will be a new responsibility that I'll have to plan for and stuff when I go off somewhere, and the potty training won't be fun, and I'll have to make sure he's not going to destroy things, like my DVD's and whatnot. But I'm sure it'll be worth it.

Any ideas or suggestions for a name?

Stuff you need to know

Here's the news, all the news that's new and approved by "Take this blog and shove it", the sweetest smelling blog in the land!

New show on ABC tonight. "Celebrity Debut". Haven't seen any commercials for it, but then again, I speed through those. In my guide it seemed to say something about showing celebrities before they were huge stars, possibly early work or auditions or screen tests. On at 8 I think.

New fall schedules are coming out. NBC has TWO shows about life behind the scenes of an SNL type sketch comedy show. One is a comedy from Tina Fey called "30 Rock". She stars in it as a head writer, and Ratchel Dratch and Tracy Morgan are in it as well. Is that going to be weird or what? Will they still do SNL? It's hard to see how they could do both.

The other is "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip". This is from West Wing dude Aaron Sorkin and is a dramatic version. But it's been placed at 9 p.m. on Thursdays, which will put it up against the CSI juggernaut and Grey's Anatomy. It doesn't look like it will have much of a chance to succeed against those powerhouses. I believe all NBC should try to do is counter-program with a game show or reality show to try to get a viewer like me. DVDguy agreed. Why not put "Deal or No Deal" against CSI and put this show elsewhere where it has a chance?


In other news, I was wrong yesterday. You'll never guess who was right.

On the grocery front, I had some "double vanilla" Edy's Ice Cream. What makes it double? I dunno. I guess I'd have to eat it side by side with regular vanilla to see if I could notice a difference.

(found by dvdguy)

Mother

"Mother, you had me... but I never had you,
I wanted you... but you didn't want me,
So I got to tell you,
Goodbye... goodbye."


You know....it just occured to me that just because there is a John Lennon song called "Mother", maybe it's not the most appropriate song to be quoting on Mother's Day.

Nevermind.


(I'm the new Gilda Radner)

A little surprise

I'm looking for something in my closet today and I find a bag, and I look in the bag and there is this brand new board game! Celebrity Taboo! Did the closet fairie bring it?
I had it in an area that I normally would keep people's presents. So I was wondering, did I buy this for someone or did I buy it for myself, around Christmas time, and put it away just in case somebody got it for me? I realized it had to be the latter, or else I would have wrapped it and given it to somebody.

So, brand new game, and it looks like fun! Taboo is a fun game and an all celebrity version should be even better!

I've been a baaaaaad boy....

I have something to admit that I'm so ashamed of....

I know what you're thinking, "Denirogator....what did you do? Denirogator....where is the $40 in House Cash that we won?"

Well, you know, the thing is.......::bursts into tears:: I spent it! I spent it all!!!! In a moment of weakness I found myself at Gators and blew it all.

I spent every last dime. Hard!

It's gone....gone with the wind.

Look, you all are as much to blame as I am, you should not have trusted me with so much power. It was burning a hole through my wallet and I couldn't resist.

I even befriended the bald guy that gave us the crucial answer than enabled us to win. He said I should leave that silly mind bullets team that needs his intelligence to get anywhere in life and join his. He's really a sweet guy if you just give him a chance. Which my quick to judgement team would never do. It's fight first, ask questions later for my cohorts. I guess a group can get pretty cocky when they know one of their members knows kung fu.

Espanol on My Name is Earl

Something interesting on My Name is Earl. There is a latin character on the show. During an episode earlier this year she cursed at Joy (Jaime Pressley) in spanish when they were having an argument. What she actually said, "I'd like to say hello to all of our latin viewers, and if you understand this, congratulations on learning a second language!"

On the season finale the other night, she yelled another thing in spanish. What she actually said, "Thank you all for watching My Name is Earl, we'll see you when season two starts in October!".

In other TV news, I fear we are going to see that awful Swedish skit on SNL tonight. But, we also may see a Seinfeld reunion.

Trivia Champs (aka: Save the drama for your mama)

So, we answered a bunch of questions and came in first place again. Yet instead of leaving happy, we are all kinda pissed off because we got accused of getting our answer from a drunk idiot on a tiebreaker question. Look, I have a stupid Rain Man talent for movie dates. I dont need anybody's help to tell me when Dr. No was released.

But, I keep telling myself, we had fun all night long, and we shouldn't let something idiotic that was 100% untrue spoil things. I'm sure we'll laugh about it soon, but it sure is angering to get accused of cheating when we won last week, and were leading the whole way this week, and suddenly we are going to take our answers from a drunk moron??

Honestly, if I had heard this guy yell out 1962, it would have me question that our answer of 1962 was right. I would be like...well gees if that guy is saying it, maybe it's not 1962!

Sorry about the red-eye, I don't know if there is something I can do to prevent that?

Okay, a few highlights:

1. Dr. V and his girlfriend joined us. Dr. V is very knowledgable in sports and history, as well as being intelligent overall and a Jeopardy lover, so I knew he'd be an asset to the team.

2. They were talking about doing some bar vs. bar deal some night? We have no clue how that would work. Our entire bar tries to come up with a consensus answer? 100 people arguing whether Elizabeth Shue played Jennifer Parker or not? DVDguy had me laughing about that one.

3. We are still undefeated with JBH around!

4. An annoying thing about the drunk idiot...he went ballistic earlier in the game when somebody shouted out the answer "tab". He was furious. Then, for some reason he didn't see why we'd be angry that he was shouting out answers or whatever when we didn't need his help.

5. I would normally be surprised that this guy would even know the answer, but it's obvious why he did. He apparently comes every single week, and he knows the host always asks a Bond question. So I'm sure he has studied the Bond movie history to give his team a leg up in his mind, for at least ONE question a week.

6. My roomate and girlfriend came in last night, I told them about the drunk idiot and they instantly knew who I was talking about and said he is a giant a-hole and everybody dislikes him.

7. Dotcom was wondering if we should try another place sometime just for new food options. I'm fine with that. Though they are having Entertainment night come up in two weeks and we still need to use our newly won House Cash.

8. A couple times we didn't bet our full points on something we were pretty sure of. That cost us I guess in the end, just one point more and we wouldn't have had any of the controversy at the end.

9. To recap the controversy...we were tied at the end with another team. We bet 16 points on the final question, got it right (because it was putting movies together in chronological order and we KNOW this kind of stuff, and dont need any help!), but apparently the other team also wagered 16 points and got it right. So we went to a tiebreaker question...I think it was when did Richard Nixon die? Our team and the other team answered the same year, so we went to another tiebreaker, what year did the first Bond movie come out? I knew it was 1962. Then, apparently the other team felt like we got the answer from the drunk idiot, and I have no idea why. Because we were all huddled and I was saying that I was sure it was 1962. Who knows, maybe the other team was just pointing out that the idiot was blabbing or gesturing or something and didn't think we got the answer from him, I dont know. Maybe we should have asked them if they thought that.
Anyway, a third tiebreaker, when was Stephen King born, and we won.

10. Dotcom thinks she might have recognized the other team we were tied with as mensa members and thus may have been prone to being pissy at the thought of losing. Well...they were there last week too and we won easily then, so get used to it, unless we tire of this particular place.

11. One team had a guy with a handless phone attached to his ear, and another team, I watched next to us blatantly call someone and get the Field of Dreams answer.

12. Bassomatic was apparently a beloved SNL character. We happened to know that Dan Aykroyd was the bassomatic SALESMAN...

Blaine Bloggin'

Dotcom gave a tip last week to staying on good terms with her. Just do what she asks and do it quickly. I find that advice suspect since I'm pretty sure I've always done that, but I better not stop now. She wants liveblogging, here it is...

Blaine's feet and hands are DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!!! They are absurdly pale and pruny!!!! Ewwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If I was all dotcomy, I'd probably find a link to a photo of them, but the photo would give me nightmares.

They are showing some clips of some street magic. There is one where he asks them to think of a card, and the person is text messaged the card they were thinking of on their cell phone. Again, I gotta believe this is an example of the people being in on it, because that's impossible.

I've never gotten why Blaine talks in this monotone fashion and like he's about to fall asleep at any moment....

Ah, my food is ready...probably not as good as spaghetti with secret spinach in it....


9 p.m. They just mentioned not to try this kind of thing at home. Well thanks for telling me now! We're an hour into the show, too late! I'm in a gigantic fish bowl in my family room trying to top Blaine. Underwater, holding breath, AND blogging....

Now Blaine just did some weird ass trick of pulling someone's tooth out and then blowing it back in.

9:30 p.m. They are babbling about unforseen problems with the chains, but wouldn't they have tested this all out over and over again before they started all this? I'm thinking they are trying to add drama to the show.

Oh, I can't wait for "Oprah Winfrey's Legends Ball" next week in primetime!!! There was no false sincerity in that last statement either!!!!

He's holding his breath now.....no goggles.....hmmm.....

They are playing film score...I would have used to been able to tell you instantly what they are playing.....it might be from "Glory".

Oh...Blaine's a huge failure....7 minutes....didnt break the record...

I listened a little to the Penn Jillette podcast today and he was with Chris Angel and they were bagging Blaine some. And offering some praise now and then.

I need to listen to it tomorrow and see what he says. Getting a world class magicians's opinion about a magic show or magician is unique.


hmm, maybe I should wrap the post up......that's all, G'nite!!

Drowned Alive

Well tonight I'm kind of excited about a new David Blaine special. It's on from 8-10 on ABC. I like magic and trying to figure out how something is done. Though too often I think the answer is that the person having the trick done to them are in on it and are lying their butt off and acting amazed.

Anyway, Blaine has been spending the last 8 days under water in a sphere in New York. You can go right up and visit him if you are in NY. Tonight, on a live show, he is supposed to remove his breathing apparatus and attempt to beat the world record for holding your breath.

I'm inclined to think that this is a trick and not a real attempt at the record. Because not only will he be trying to hold his breath, he'll be escaping from chains as well.

My guess...he'll have goggles on, that fit over the nose, and these goggles will be giving him air through the nose. We'll see.

Here was a news item from the other day:

"David Blaine will be treated by doctors inside his water-filled sphere, after complaining of skin problems. After five days contained inside the tank at New York City's Lincoln Center Blaine's skin is peeling and he is experiencing "constant pins and needles" according to his spokesman Pat Smith. But he insists Blaine is determined to complete the stunt, which will culminate on Monday with 33-year-old Blaine's attempt to break the world record for holding breath under water - currently eight minutes and fifty eight seconds. Smith says, "Doctors are concerned that he's weakening. They are going to work with him through the weekend, trying to stabilize both his diet and his training regimen. His skin is peeling very badly on his hands. Those are our biggest concerns right now." Blaine has a mask and air line inside the tank and is being fed liquid nutrition through a tube, but doctors warn prolonged submersion in water can cause nerve damage, sleep depravation and skin damage."

You go Team! You just Go!

WEEEEEEEEEE ARE THE CHAMPIONS MY FRIEEEEEEEND!!!!!!!!!

From 6th.......to 4th..........to FIRST PLACE BABY!!!!!!

We've improved every week. Next week I expect us to improve and get every single question right.....well actually, we weren't that far off this week!

Here are the highlights:

1. JBH joined us and provided great value to the team with his insight and knowledge plus his great companionship. We are undefeated when JBH is around so far!

2. Every week when I write this I'm going off memory. DVDguy has the answer sheet and knows exactly what went down, but I'll do my best to remember what I can.

3. DVDguy had a beer!!!!! (Root) But he said he felt very manly drinking it out of the bottle.

4. Earlier in the day I had lunch with friends from work. Dotcom started picking on me (what a shock!) but then told me that she could get all of her picking on me out of the way so that she didn't have to pick on me tonight. She was on very good behavior most of the evening. Towards the end she started to get a tiny bit mischevious, but really only in hinting at snarky things. She didn't let JBH see her vicious arsenal of snarky comments and sarcastic putdowns. (oh wait, she DID pull out the Miss Marple card, which she knows stings, but I do give her kudos on it...in the world of verbal sparring it's a knockout punch)

5. Dotcom and I were twinsies! Green shirt, blue jeans. I thought it was great, like we were in uniform, she wanted to leave and change.

6. One of the funniest things of the evening was when the table full of punks celebrated when the final answer was revealed. We didnt get it right. It was put a bunch of songs in order based on sales. It was hard, they were all huge hits. We were worried that the punks had bet all 16 points and passed us, but after they all high fived and celebrated and hooted and hollered, the host announced that nobody got the question right. Ha!!

7. We got to see Dotcom dance and sing! Well..hand dance, and sing "Because I got high..."

8. My DVR screwed me tonight. I had double-checked that all my recordings were set. But it only recorded the second half of American Inventor.

9. We started the night off on a tear! We got like the first 7 questions right.

10. It was a very even night in terms of the team's contributions. Dotcom got us "mint" after winning a rock, paper, scissors with JBH as well as Kiwanis. I got us Mediterranean Sea, Shangri-La and Jinx. JBH got us Norman Greenbaum--which was probably the biggest coup of the night and Harvest Moon. And we all pretty much combined on knowing the other answers: MASH, the jumpshot, Jim Brown, No Doubt, Mount kimoniwannalea (something close to that), Milan, 6 shifts, Bob Newhart, the puck, 100 years war, hmmmm, what I miss dvdguy? DVDguy nixed RunDMC, which turned out to be the right answer, but it was an understandable mistake because the song "Rapper's Delight" was the first hit Rap song ever and RunDMC did not sing that.

11. The "extra credit" question was about grammy winning duos or bands. Dotcom felt sure U2 (pronounced "youtoo") was a winner for 2006 but they said it was Maroon 5 or whatever.

12. We used the timer on my camera for the first time and it worked pretty well. We took 3 pictures, dotcom looked great in all three, JBH and chuck looked fine in theirs, and I looked awful in both of the ones I appeared in.

13. We won 40 dollars worth of House Cash, 10 bucks for each of us.

14. We only disagreed once, dvdguy and I outvoted JBH on a basketball question...but it turned out we were all equally wrong. Though dvdguy and I mocked the answer (the jumpshot) the whole night. It took someone till 1936 to think to jump and shoot??? Come on...

15. I stated that on the final question that I've always heard that "Hey Jude" was the Beatles biggest hit ever. In my defense, here are a couple quotes I found on the web....

"Symbolically, “Hey Jude” was the first Beatles record that was released on their own Apple Records label, and it became the biggest hit of their career when it remained at #1 for nine weeks."

"His only commercial recording of a Lennon-McCartney song was "Hey Jude," the Beatles' biggest hit, on Nov. 21, 1968..."

16. I actually got the Literature question right for the team!!! When this occured, dotcom broke down and apologized to me for all the taunting and mocking she has subjected me to about books. I told her it was okay, all was forgiven. She cried, "But I've been just ghastly! My behavior has been reprehensible and deplorable and you've taken the higher road and turned the other cheek. I was wrong! I just feel awful!"
(with my finger to my lips) "Shhhhhh" I said, "it's okay, it's okay".
"But..."
"Shhhhhhhhhhhhh"
"Bu-"
"Shhhhhhhhhhhh"
"B-"
"Shhhhhhhhhh, the past is the past. Let's live in the now."

17. The Host continues to tease us that an "Entertainment night" with only Entertainment questions is coming. Each week he says it's the next week. Tonight he said it was three weeks from now.

18. We all know which one of these bullet points was pure kidding and completely false for humor's sake, so please do not kick my behind, oh lovable and jolly one of our group....

19. JBH reports that "Thank you for smoking" is an excellent film.

20. Our team name "Mind Bullets", comes from a Tenacious D song called "Wonderboy". Here are a few of the lyrics:

Now it's time for me to tell you about Young Nastyman,
archrival and nemesis of Wonderboy, with powers comparable to Wonderboy!
What powers you ask?
I dunno how 'bout the power of flight?
That do anything for ya?
That's levitation, holmes.
How 'bout the power to kill a yak... from 200 yards away...
With Mind Bullets!
That's telekinesis, Kyle.
How 'bout the power...to move you?




21. Did I mention we WON? We led the whole night! We ROCK!!!! Dotcom told our team to go.....to just go........and we went......and the world will never be the same. (that isn't overstating things is it?)

More

1. How many former Beatles had chart-topping singles from 1973 to 1974?

2. What role in The Godfather did Robert De Niro test for?

3. What's the first word of the most pop song titles?

4. What 1995 movie's lead character tells the motel clerk he's there to drink himself to death?

5. What critter is the "Iggy" short for in Iggy Pop?

6. What three Godfather cast members were all up for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar?

7. What director earned a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart during his tour of duty in Vietnam?

8. What Saturday Night Live cast member left in 1994 after being in a record 153 shows?

9. What crooner's new line of neckwear did David Letterman suggest be named "Alleged Mob Ties"?

10. What song was heard 250 different ways in a 1994 Ken Burns documentary?

11. What famed 1936 war novel mentions the Tarleton twins in its first line?

Some Fun (Entertainment) Questions

1. What member of the Monkees, a holdout for nearly three decades, rejoined the other geezers for a 1996 album?

2. Who was the first feline featured in Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous?

3. What Sinatra signature tune became Elvis Presley's best-selling posthumous hit?

4. What was the first Arnold Schwarzenegger movie to win four Academy Awards?

5. What jazz musician got his aristocratic nickname in high school for his neat attire and fastidious manners?

6. What talk show hostess gave her guests the fewest opportunities to speak, according to a 1996 MSU survey?

7. What enduring daytime soap featured Kevin Kline, Don Knotts and Susan Sarandon?

8. What book did E.B. White base on personal experiences at his farm in Maine?

9. What three words preceded "Land that I love" in a 1938 Irving Berlin tune?

10. What happy homemaker chirps on TV: "It's a good thing"?

Trivia Prep time!

Okay, here are a few practice questions. NO GOOGLING! Play Fair. Honor system here.....if you know it, give your answer, if you dont, give your best guess.


1. What famous document begins: "When in the course of human events..."?


2. Who said: "I'm the president of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli"?


3. Will a diamond dissolve in acid?


4. The three most common elements in the universe are 1) hydrogen; 2) oxygen. and....


5. What's the third-largest continent in square miles?


6. What's the second most populous continent?

7. What David Lynch movie did a few filmgoers attend expecting to see Bobby Vinton's life story?


8. Whose guitar version of The Star-Spangled Banner was featured in a 1996 Aiwa TV ad?


9. What was the first man-made invention to break the sound barrier?

10. What milk product did the U.S. Agriculture Department propose as a substitute for meat in school lunches, in 1996?

Random Thoughts

Did boot camps and drill sargeants become the way they are viewed today around the time of the Vietnam War? In any movie from the Vietnam War on, we see the drill sargeants all yelling and acting mean and treating the soldiers like crap. But you never see this in World War II movies. Did they not train troops like this back then? When the 60's rolled around did somebody say, "this is how we need to do it....we need to curse and humiliate and treat them like trash and scare them, etc. etc.."


And speaking of World War II, I don't know anything about the lives of chameleons. (Sure, I could do a little googling and find out, but I aint frontin) Here is what I know: Chameleons seem to be around only certain times of the year, the hotter parts, and during the colder parts, are nowhere to be seen. Do chameleons migrate? Do they hibernate? Where do they go?

These lizards also seem to have some human like characteristics. During the day they walk our sidewalks. And at night, they are gone. Seemingly tucked away for beddy bye. And where is that? Where do they stay at night? Are they all together in the bushes somewhere, or do they spread out and find a bachelor pad of their own? And what do they eat? What is there on our sidewalks that they love so much?

Strangers with Candy