At work today, I was looking for the address of a high school in Newfoundland, Canada. Of course, I googled the school and came across a school listing for all the schools in Canada. Great.

There was a city name that caught my eye though.

Dildo.

That’s right… there is a city named Dildo in Canada. So, what do I do? I mapquest the city to find out where it is. Here are my results.

If you clicked on that map, you’ll notice some oddly named towns around the city of Dildo.

COME ON. Who got the rights to name these cities???

After doing a little more research, I found a website that had this to say this about our phalic city:

Dildo is located on Route 80, approximately 15 km from the Trans Canada Highway. It is thought that the community may have got its name from Spain or Portugal, or an algonquin tree, or the shape of the headland that forms the harbour. This community is blessed with beautiful scenery and is an excellent place for whale watching!

I think I know where Tim is going on his next vacation!!

Indian woman Namatia Ghosh, 46, nurses her five-year-old pet monkey Babloo inside her residence in Chandrapur, 65 km (40 miles) south of Agartala, capital of the India’s northeastern state of Tripura, February 28, 2005. Namatia has become an attraction in Chandrapur and receives many visitors curious to see her caring for her pet. REUTERS/Jayanta Dey

No shit she’s becoming an attraction. SHE’S BREAST FEEDING A MONKEY!!

Susanne, my old advisor at Carroll College, once told me, “You can love your advisor, you just can’t LOVE your advisor.”

I’m pretty sure the same thing should apply for monkeys. YUCK. The day I have to breast feed my cats is the day my cats are given away to someone that can afford them.

I honestly cannot, for the life of me, figure out what isn’t right about this picture. Thoughts?

When it’s a Wisconsin Quarter.

Maybe this is old news, but it’s new to me. Turns out the US Mint messed up on some of the Wisconsin Quarters that it made in October and November.

In this picture, you’ll notice that there is an extra leaf on each of the corn stalks on the lower left hand side.

Now this is how the quarter should look. Notice, there isn’t that extra leaf.

Wisconsin is the 30th state quarter to be released, and there haven’t been any other flaws thusfar in the other quarters, so coin-collectors are going nuts. Coin collectors are saying that the flawed Wisconsin quarters are worth between $500 and $600. When I looked in ebay today, a lot of people are selling rolls of quarters at a higher rate, so that people have the POTENTIAL of finding a flawed quarter… but they do have some of the quarters on there where it just has the downed leaf, and they run around $750. NICE!

The coins were minted in Denver, and they have only been found in Tucson and San Antonio, so it looks like our odds of finding one are pretty slim, but you can bet your bottom dollar I’ll be taking a closer look at my quarters from now on…

Now, I’m always up for a good rollercoaster or a new ride at Noah’s Ark, but I think this guy took the cake:

Man Rides Avalanche Feet-First in Utah

MONA, Utah - A hiker fell about 1,000 feet down a mountain side, riding an avalanche feet-first — and suffered only minor injuries. Extremely lucky,” said Juab County Sheriff Alden Orme.

Mark Thomas and two companions were hiking on a ridge near Mount Nebo on Saturday when snow gave way beneath them, they told police.

His friends did not fall, but Thomas slid about 1,000 feet, triggering an avalanche, Orme said.

Thomas, 21, of Salt Lake City, told police that he rode the cascading snow feet-first, and came to a stop partially buried in a canyon.

His friends went for help, but while they were gone Thomas dug himself out of the snow. He set out walking out of the canyon and met rescuers on their way up the mountain.

Thomas had a minor back injury and frostbitten feet, police said.

The biggest shocker out of the world of sports today comes as a followup to a post from the beginning of this month.

Futility … and a firing
After landmark 0-28 finish, Savannah St. cans coach

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Savannah State coach Ed Daniels was fired Thursday, three days after the Tigers completed an 0-28 season as the second winless NCAA Division I team in the past half-century.

The university announced a restructuring of its athletics program that also will eliminate men’s tennis and women’s bowling. Savannah State will continue to sponsor 15 sports, one more than required to be part of Division I.

I can’t believe these elimiated women’s bowling! I mean, UW-Madison is a major Division 1 school, and they don’t even have bowling as a sport. Well, at least they still have mens bowling to look forward to…

In my short 6 years of living on my own, I have had my share of landlords. Some were virtually non-existant, some were annoying, and some bitched at us for having a half-eaten pretzel on the floor. But I don’t think I’ve ever had a landlord hate me this much:

Landlord Tosses Tear Gas Grenade in House

LANETT, Ala. - A landlord in an eviction dispute with a tenant allegedly broke windows at his rental property and threw a tear gas grenade into the residence, police said.

Joseph Hammock, 69, of West Point, Ga., was taken into custody early Wednesday after a 1:30 a.m. dispute at the Lanett rental property. Police said the tenant was not injured.

Officers arrested Hammock near his Georgia home on an unrelated arson charge and took him to Troup County Jail, said Lanett Police Chief Ron Docimo.

Deputies found additional materials for building explosive devices and literature for survivalist techniques in Hammock’s Georgia residence, said Troop County Sheriff’s Lt. Rick Massie.

Docimo said Hammock will be extradited back to Alabama on a felony charge when he makes bond in Georgia.

Sounds like this guy was pretty messed up to begin with, but he REALLY didn’t like his tenant.

Also on Czabe’s show this morning, he made mention of Astroturf highways in Minnesota. You read that right:

ASTROTURF HIGHWAYS

The story behind it is that Minnesota residents were complaining about how noisy their highways have gotten because they have to be made with grooves in the pavement to help drain water and get better traction. Their solution? Astroturf. Officials drag the wiry, plastic grass over a highway’s surface to rough it up and make it skid-resistant. The result is a different texture that is quieter to drive on than the grooves that had been previously placed in concrete. Ok, sounds great… until I read this part of the article:

What we have out there now, if you were riding a bike and fell on it, it would rip all the meat off your bones. It is very skid resistant,” said Rettner, who now is principal engineer for American Engineering Testing Inc. in St. Paul.

WHAT?? Ok, don’t people ride motorcycles on the interstate? Not that regular pavement wouldn’t really mess up someone if they fell off, but I don’t remember there ever being reports of someone who has all of the meat ripped off of their bones. What kind of astroturf is this? If it is like football turf, wouldn’t more of the NFL players have no skin?

On Bob & Brian this morning, Czabe was talking about what he thought the Top 9 sports were… in popularity. I agree with the majority of the list…

1. NFL
2. MLB
3. NCAA Basketball
4. NCAA Football
5. NBA
6. NASCAR
7. Golf
8. Wrestling
9. NHL

What do you think? Agree?

Ok, not really…

BUT, my friend Erica did win a 1/2 carat diamond today! As many of you know, E is in New Zealand and has been there for the past 6 months. Today, she spent her Valentine’s Day lunch hour doing a radio contest with 91 other ladies on some church steps. Basically, they all got an ice cube, and they had to melt the ice cube in their hands. One of the ice cubes happened to have a 1/2 carat diamond it in. Who wins? No, not a local kiwi, but our homegrown Erica Peterson! Way to go, e! Does this mean you got married in the church to the first man that melted his ice cube and got a ring in it?

UPDATE: Erica was also featured in the Nelson Mail (their newspaper). Check out that article here.

Awww… weren’t the Remms so cute when they were little?

Attention all ladies!!

The Milwaukee Cyclones, our minor league football team (betcha most of you didn’t know we even had one!), is having a Bachelor Auction at 6:00pm on Saturday, February 19th at Kelly’s Bleachers (the home of the 4 lb hamburger).

Anyway, tickets are $5 at the door and it’s being used as a fundraiser for the team. A plus for everyone is that the $5 gets you free draft beer until 9pm. How can you go wrong with free beer???

You can take a look at the team and who is getting auctioned off by clicking here. My friend Dan, #77, appreciates your support. Now, go get ‘em! Or something…

This past Monday night, Neill and I got to go try out the new “lounge” on Water Street–SWIG. For those of you that might not be aware, they shut down 1225 (sorry Tim!) a few months back and decided to completely remodel the place and open it up as a different bar. Hence, Swig came into play.

At first glance inside Swig, you might think you were at a bar in the 3rd Ward, not on Water Street. About 2 years ago, I got sick of going to Water Street for a few reasons. 1. I got older. 2. Everyone else on Water seemed to be getting younger and 3. My goals for going out aren’t to get plastered and find Mr. Right. It’s more of a social atmosphere.

Swig accomplishes just that. Sneakers and jeans hanging off of your ass are not welcome here. Instead, you’ll fine a “lounge”… not a bar. A place where you don’t have to yell to hear someone that is sitting right next to you. A place where you can order something other than bar food. A place with you can order a martini or speciality drink without getting that “you know how long this is going to take me” look from your bartender. A place though, if you want a bottle of Miller Lite, you won’t be laughed at.

The food concept at Swig is “Small Plate Dining.” Basically, they have a bunch of appetizers that are meant to be shared by a group of people instead of ordering big entrees. And I’m not talking buffalo wings and mozzarella sticks as your appetizers. These appetizers are things like crab cakes and wontons and mozzarella caprese. Good, GOOD food. My favorite by far were the crab cakes. Highly recommended.

The desserts are excellent (if you order the carrot cake, make sure you share it–it’s a HUGE piece) and the drinks were as good as you would expect.

So, my recommendation is that if you’re looking for something different than the usual “Water Street Crowd”, take a gander at Swig. You’ll be happily surprised.

NOTE: Swig will soon have a website at swigmilwaukee.com and other reviews can be found at clubmilwaukee.com, at milwaukeenights.com, and at shepherd-express.com.

Congrats to the New England Patriots who won their 3rd Superbowl in 4 years last night. The game was ok, the commercials were mostly mediocre, and T.O. lived up to the hype. While I could go on all day about various parts of the game, I just want to mention two things.

One, what is up with one of the article headlines on espn.com this morning. The link says:

McNabb left bloody, beaten

I don’t know about you, but considering this is one of their main stories, I’m thinking that McNabb got mugged or something when he left the stadium. Not that he got a bloody lip playing football. Come on, sports writers. If you don’t start bleeding somewhere on your body playing football, you’re not playing football. You’ve got to have a better story than this…

The other thing is that no one seems to be talking about the piss-poor coin toss done by the little kid. He didn’t flip the coin, like any normal person would, he just basically threw it up in the air off of the palm of his hand. The damn coin never flipped. If you were the NFL, wouldn’t you have practiced at least ONCE with the kid… just to make sure he knew how to flip a coin??? Those football players must have been doing everything they could to hold back arguing that it was a horrible coin toss–I’m impressed with that. But not with that kid. Wow.

I can’t seem to find a picture of the coin toss anywhere on the internet either… so if anyone finds one, please let me know… I’d like to post it.

I was driving home last night, and I noticed that One Ton Banana is playing tonight at Kikos, which is on 92nd and Bluemound in Wauwatosa. We saw One Ton Banana at Summerfest a few years ago… just because they had a cool name, and they turned out to be a pretty good cover band. Men, you’ll enjoy their Chickeetah girls, ladies, a fewof the guys in the band aren’t too good looking, and they play good music. At bare minimum, go to their website and watch the intro. It’s pretty darn funny and will have you screaming to listen to it again.