The Blog O' Incoherence

adequaterock: I think if I ever scored a touchdown playing football, I would break out the Heisman Pose and then toss the ball to the ref

Thanks for the thought, Spears.

I got my haircut. I feel much cooler (temperature-wise), but not much cooler (where it matters).

I also don't think my cats recognize me. Then again, my cats don't really care.

What I'm really wondering is...how are my kids gonna see this? I think they'll have a bit of shock, then laugh at me.

Oh well.

So, in the episode of South Park where Mr. Garrison tries to get fired for being gay (episode #614, if you want it off Kazaa), watch the cattatafish when Lemmiwinks gets to the stomach...specifically, kind of in the middle of the fish.

He's holding a gun.

My question is...why?

Unbelievable.

Every time I post on the OOTP message boards, something goes wrong and my thread ends up being ignored. It's incredible...I don't think I've had one post there in the past six months that ended up getting read, because the site crashed every time I posted.

I think it's sending me a message. And that message is "post more interesting things".

I had a root canal today, but I don't think it's anything like what this girl on this commercial's going through. She's in class, and her NOSE just started BLEEDING! They're trying to imply that she's taking drugs, but I bet it's just the change in seasons.

I think it's wrong that they're trying to give her a bad rap, man.

Just...wrong.

So, the PC from hell adventures continue.

We finally got a monitor that works. But I just spent half an hour trying to fix the mouse. And now that it *is* fixed, it's not recognizing it!

The keyboard's next!

*twenty minutes later*

Well guess what? My keyboard stopped working!

(okay, I tricked you. The keyboard has always malfunctioned.)

I am the technological version of Murphy's Law.

I have added comments to this Blog, so you can heckle me and my futile attempts at witty insights on life and how I see it.

Please, take advantage of this opportunity to stick a fork through my confidence and ego.

Then again...who reads this, and if anyone does, who has their thought provoked enough to comment on this crap?

Sigh...

This is too good to pass up.

Sunday, May 9, 2004

Block will relish her memories as a sausage

Associated Press
MILWAUKEE -- Wisconsin's most famous sausage has decided to retire, but she'll always relish the memories.



Mandy Block was recognized by the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council with a certificate of bravery. All for getting whacked by Randall Simon's bat.


Mandy Block, the woman in the Italian sausage costume hit with a bat by Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman Randall Simon last July, won't be in the Milwaukee Brewers' sausage races this summer.


She has decided to retire from competitive sausage racing at Miller Park to take psychology classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.


"It's too bad," Block told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "It kind of ended with a bang, though."


Block received attention after Simon hit her over the head with his bat as she passed by the visitors' dugout. Veronica Chandler, the hot dog who tripped over Block's fallen sausage, never ran again.


The whacking was broadcast worldwide, but Block brushed aside the controversy, accepting Simon's apology and declaring herself "just a sausage."


Simon was handcuffed by Milwaukee County sheriff's deputies after the game, taken to a police station and fined $432 for disorderly conduct. Major League Baseball suspended him for three days.


Simon sent Block an autographed bat and apologized several times. When he returned to Miller Park later in the season, as a Chicago Cub, he bought a section of fans Italian sausages.


The Curacao Tourism Board offered their own apology, an all expenses-paid trip for Block and Chandler. Simon is from the small Caribbean island.


Block also was recognized by the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council with a certificate of bravery.


"I'm proud of it," Block said. "I didn't even know there was a hot dog council."