Be proud of the Ohio Pfeifers!

On opening day of gun season, Nov. 28 the Pfeifer’s of Oberlin, OH were hunting on family land in Huron county in Ohio. Thomas harvested an early morning 8pt buck. Followed 1 1/2 hours later by son Eric with a 6pt buck. After school 8 year old Grandson Nicholas took a 6 pt. buck (Nicholas’s first deer). Followed by cousin Tara, with a buck fiddy she found on the ground outside her car.

Tim, what is your girlfriend doing drinking 6 beers at one time?? I thought for sure she could do 8…

A contestant prepares to drink six cans of beer at one time at the Great American Trailer Park Pageant in New York November 17, 2005. Contestants across the country showcased a vast array of talents for a panel of judges and talk show host Jerry Springer during the competition REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

I heard about this on the radio today… PNC Advisors has charted the cost of the gifts laid out in the song “The 12 Days of Christmas” for the last 21 years. I found this interesting. Here is the chart:

The funny thing about this, is that prices are going up because of Modern-day stuff. Things like the avian flu or higher energy and gold prices cause the prices on this stuff to rise. For instance, the threat of the avian flu has restricted the international shipment of birds, thus preventing the purchase of three French hens from France. Put on top of that the cost of fuel being more this year than last year, and the cost to ship the birds is more overall as well.

You can check out the rest of the article yourself by clicking here. I’m thinking those 9 ladies dancing are charging a BIT too much. Thoughts?

I’ve been thinking recently that I need to do some redesigning of my website. More color perhaps? Different layout?

For all of you that have been loyal followers for the past year or so, what do you think? Suggestions? Ideas? All comments will be taken under careful consideration. If no one comments, I’ll just assume that no one reads my website anyway nor do they care if I update it or not.

I heard about this dude on the radio yesterday and his website intrigued me enough to get me to go to his site.

www.milliondollarwebpage.com

Check that out. This college kid from London, Alex Tew, was looking for a way to pay for college. He was already big into webdesign and figured that banner advertising was always a good way to advertise, but he wanted to be more creative.

So, he decided to sell pixels. Pixels are basically the little squares that make up a computer page. So, he’s selling them on this webpage for $1 a pixel. In order to actually have something worth while though, you’d have to buy 100 pixels (that is what one of those small squares are on the page). If he sells all of the pixels on this page, he’ll make a million dollars. As you can see, he’s still got a lot of empty space, but to his credit, he’s already made $600,000 in just over two months.

It just goes to show what a little national press coverage can get you. On the radio last night, one of the advertisers said that the hits on his webpage have increased 20 fold since he started advertising on there a few days ago. Pretty crazy if you ask me.

Is this guy a genious, or is this just a stupid way to con people out of money? I think if he’s creative enough to think this up and get people to buy into it, then more power to him.

In Peter King’s Monday Morning Quarterback today on cnnsi.com, he wrote about Chad Johnson (a wide receiver for the Bengals) and his theatrics. I’ve been watching football for some time and, up until this year, I got to see Randy Moss at least twice a year playing the Packers. This equates to seeing lots of theatrics and celebrations. Who can forget Randy Moss’ “mooning” last year? Or T.O. pulling out a sharpie to sign a football? It seems with some of these players, there is always some disrespectful way for them to draw attention to themselves.

At first glance, Chad Johnson looks like he might be the same type of guy. A few weeks ago, he did an impression of a bad Irish Dance after he scored a touchdown. And yesterday, after Johnson scored a touchdown, he ran over to a cheerleader, got down on one knee, and asked her to marry him. Both events gave me a good chuckle. And then compare that to Randy Moss’ mooning where I gasped instead of laughed.

Peter King had this to say about it:

Johnson and Owens are demonstrative guys who want the ball badly. Owens plays angry. Johnson plays with joy. That’s the difference right there. Maybe that’s because Owens is angry and Johnson is happy…

Was that hilarious or what? Johnson scored on a 68-yard bomb from Carson Palmer late in the first quarter — a great catch and run play. Sprinting out of the end zone, he curled around, ran toward the cheerleaders around the 10-yard line, took his helmet off, ran to the nearest Ben-Gal, dropped down on his knee, took her hand and said, “Will you marry me?” She, and 66,000 other people (and a few Colts, I might guess) chuckled. “Last Tuesday,” Johnson said, “I went to the head of the cheerleaders and told her when I scored against the Colts, this is what I was going to do, regardless of what side it happened on. So I told her to have the cheerleaders ready. It was just my way of trying to have fun this week.”

And it was fun, like his RiverDance in Chicago and some of his other gems. “I will never degrade an opponent,” he said. “What I do is only for fun. My goal is for people to come to games and to say, ‘What’s he going to do today?’ It makes the game fun. I respect the game. I love the game. I have fun playing, and I want fans to have fun watching.”

A few weeks ago, I told my HBO colleague Cris Collinsworth that I wasn’t sure about Johnson’s act. I’d read when he got an idea for the offense he’d call coach Marvin Lewis, even if it was the middle of the night, and run the idea out by him. Lewis gets little enough sleep, I said to Collinsworth; it’s ridiculous Johnson can’t wait till morning. Collinsworth told me not to be down on Johnson, because he had a big heart and loved football. And Lewis told me Johnson’s insatiable work ethic has worn off on the other receivers. “Now T.J. [Houshmandzadeh] is in here at night,” Lewis said. “He figures if that’s how Chad’s getting the ball thrown to him, he wants a piece of that too.”

I think that players like T.O. and Randy Moss are incredibly talented people who risk throwing away their careers for a little time on Sportscenter. And maybe that’s all they want. But I also think that players like Chad Johnson might just have their priorities in check. He’s out there to have fun and work hard for his team without being overly selfish.

What do you think? Is Johnson just like the rest of them? Or do you agree with me?

Awwww man…

Steven Avery’s (that guy I wrote about who committed the dumbest murder known to man) back looks oddly familiar to someone I used to be engaged to… not cool.

I came across this guy’s website today, where he talks about the The Top 10 Dumbest Corporate-Sponsored Stadiums in Sports Today. Pretty funny list, so I’m going to list the names here, then require you to go to his site to get his reasoning behind why they suck so bad–it’ll give you a good laugh.

10. The Save Mart Center (Fresno, California)
9. Value City Arena (Columbus, Ohio)
8. Movie Gallery Veterans Stadium (Troy, Alabama)
7. Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium (Louisville, KY)
6. This spot is reserved for any stadium that includes what it does into the stadium’s name as well as their name. Such examples are Lincoln Financial Field, Citizens Bank Park, Continental Airlines Arena, American Airlines Arena, Canadian Airlines Saddledome, and many more.
5. The BankAtlantic Center (Miami, FL)
4. The St. Pete’s Times Forum (Tampa, FL)
3. Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex (Kitchener, Ontario)
2. Pizza Hut Park (Frisco, Texas)
1. Whataburger Field in Corpus Christi, TX

Now seriously–go read his descriptions–funny stuff…

What the F is wrong with people?!??!?!?

Who in their RIGHT MIND is THAT desperate for $20 that they would drink drain cleaner for it? HONESTLY!

A 33-year-old Grafton woman was fighting for her life Thursday night after she drank concentrated drain cleaner given to her by a man who then videotaped her violent vomiting for his sexual gratification, Milwaukee police said.

With just two gulps, the caustic solution seared a path from the woman’s lips down to her stomach, burning holes along the way and then likely scorched her again as she vomited the poison.

Ok–so I think we can all agree that the “victim” was a dumbass, right? Well, get a load of this guy–this isn’t the first time that he’s dne something like this.

Detectives are studying a videotape that shows the woman drinking the solution and then throwing up. Police said the tape shows at least three other women drinking solutions and becoming ill.

On Tuesday, police arrested Sean A. Kobin, 20, of Mequon, near the former Northridge Mall on suspicion of first-degree recklessly endangering safety, according to arrest records.

A registered sex offender in Wisconsin, Kobin was convicted last year of exposing a 13-year-old girl to harmful materials by urging her, in a series of phone calls and computer messages, to drink bleach, lighter fluid and urine to arose him sexually, according to a Waukesha County criminal complaint.

Seriously. I don’t know what ticks me off more–how disgusting and twisted this guy is, or how utterly STUPID these girls are. Isn’t one of the first things that any parent teaches their child how NOT to hurt themselves? Whether it is by pointing out a sharp corner on a table, telling them that household cleaners are poisonous and locking that cabinet, or by telling them not to put their hand on a hot stove, it’s something that is imbedded in a child’s mind from a very young age. WHY are these girls moronic enough to believe this guy when he says it won’t hurt them?

Society never ceases to disappoint me once in a while…

So, am I the only person that is absolutely baffled by this Steven Avery case? For those of you that aren’t in Wisconsin (or for those of you that are in Wisconsin and don’t pay attention to current events), here is a link to what has been going on with this story.

The summary of it is that this Steven Avery guy served 18 years in prison for rape and was exonerated in 2003 because DNA showed that he didn’t commit the crime. Because of being wrongfully jailed, Avery sued Manitowoc County for a few million dollars–that case is currently ongoing.

Enter Teresa Halbach. Halbach, a 25-year-old photographer from Hilbert, was last seen Oct. 31. Avery was among the last people to see her when she visited his home that day to take photos for Auto Trader magazine of a vehicle he was selling.

As this story slowly unfolded, the police found more and more evidence that Avery killed Halbach. Today was basically the culmination as Avery is being charged in her death. Read the article if you want specifics as to why they think he did it.

I’ll be interested to hear what the motive of this Avery guy was. He got of jail less than 2 years ago. Yeah, I’d be a little pissed off if I was him–who wants to spend 18 years in jail for something that they didn’t do? But, you get out, you move on with your life and you sue the crap out of the county that put you in jail in the first place. MILLIONS of dollars. Even if they settled or he didn’t get all of the money, he was bound to get something that would probably make his life pretty posh for a while. Why in the world would he go out and kill someone after that? It just doesn’t add up to me.

Am I the only one that this doesn’t completely add up for?

It’s bad enough that this guy hit a deer in the first place (that can’t be a pleasant experience). But then, another car goes and hits the deer and breaks the first guy’s ankle. Confused? See the story below.

California Motorist Struck By Flying Deer

BLACKHAWK, Calif. - Motorist Robert Brooks thought he hit a deer. That is, until he got out of his car and the deer hit him.

Brooks stopped his car Tuesday evening along a rural road 35 miles east of San Francisco to check for damage from the collision.

Nothing. No damage and no sign of the deer.

Then headlights from another car emerged and struck the animal, propelling it airborne into Brooks and breaking his ankle.

“He was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” said California Highway Patrol Officer Steve Creel.

The deer was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities are still looking for the driver of the second vehicle.

Jonny Hammer forwarded me this article and said that it made him “think of my website” for some reason, so I feel obligated to post about it.

Two Drunken Moose Invade Home for Elderly

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - They rarely have problems with drunks or rowdy animals, but residents of an elderly home in southern Sweden had to deal with both when a pair of intoxicated moose invaded the premises.

The moose - a cow and her calf - had become drunk over the weekend by eating fermented apples they found outside the home in Sibbhult, southern Sweden, said Anna Karlsson, who works there.

Police managed to scare them off once, but the large mammals returned to get more of the tempting fruits. This time the moose were drunk and aggressive, forcing police to send for a hunter with a dog to make them leave.

Police did not pursue the culprits, but made sure all apples were picked up from the area, local police chief Bengt Hallberg said. No one was hurt.

After I read through this article a few times, I realized this WAS Tim and his friends!! Replace the words as you see fit and you’ll see what I mean. Creating havoc in Sweden. I’m ashamed of you, Timmy…

Obviously, I haven’t had much time to dedicate to my site recently because I’ve been travelling for work (and therefore had limited internet access). While I was gone, I found out that I was nominated for the “blog of the week” contest on mkeonline.com. So, here we go…

Look familiar? That’s because I was nominated for blog of the week back in April and lost then as well. I have no idea why I was nominated again. There are about 5 1/2 hours to vote, so if anyone sees this then and wants to help me redeem myself, please do so.

Click here to vote!

HB, I’m not sure if these are really from Maya Angelou, but I thought they were some good quotes again…

–I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

–I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

–I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.

–I’ve learned that making a “living” is not the same thing as “making a life.

–I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance

–I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

–I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

–I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.

–I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.

–I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.

–I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

… but this one takes the cake: