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‘Merica Video of the Day: A Day at the Office

If you haven’t noticed, I’ve been on a little bit of a blogging hiatus. Where have I been, you ask? Well, thanks for asking. I’ve been finishing up grad school and moving to New York City. If you recall, this blog was originally started for a class, which, of course, is now over. But I’m going to try my darndest to keep blogging because, let’s be honest, there’s so much good stuff out there.

Take this video for example.

Fantastic stuff, right? I’ve watched it approximately 27 times today and it never gets old. I’m pretty sure it is one of my all-time favorite YouTube vidoes, which is a pretty huge honor that I don’t throw around lightly (although my undying love for the Backstreet Boys may make me a bit biased).

In terms of these anonymous office workers, I’ve been trying to find out who they are, where they live, where they work, and how they turned on the one girl’s vid cam without her knowing. So, if you’re out there, help a gal out and speak up? Maybe go on the Today Show or something?

And make more videos! NSync’s all-time classic “Bye Bye Bye” would be my suggestion.

Posted 13 October 2009 † Beth § Music § Viral Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

‘Merica Video of the Day: Winkers pants

Williams Jones is a 73-year-old retiree in Everett, Wash. He’s dabbled in art all of his life. And now he has created Winkers.

Yep, you saw that right. Pants that wink.

According to the Winkers site:

We decorate pants in such a manner that they WINK as you walk. Your WINK is the crease between your buttock and the top of your leg.

Jones told the Everett Herald that he got the idea a few years ago when he was walking behind an attractive woman and his eyes were drawn to her rear.

“It dawned on me: those are winking at me,” he said. “I got to thinking that if I put an eye there, it would wink.”

And wink they do. Online orders are flooding in. Customers can pick from five designs (standard eyes are $159 and the lion in the jungle is $597) and send in their pants with a mark where their butt ends. Then Jones paints each design by hand. It can take him more than 10 hours for a pair.

Posted 01 September 2009 † Beth § Invention § Washington ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , ,

Worst date ever: Man doesn’t pay bill, steals date’s car

So you think you’ve had bad dates? Bet you’ve never gone out with Terrance Dejuan McCoy. The 23-year-old not only left his date to pay the restaurant bill, but also stole her car. Yep, he’s a keeper (ha).

McCoy and his date, 27, met at at Detroit casino, talked on the phone a few times and eventually they went on a date to Buffalo Wild Wings (yep, B-Dubs!). The woman picked McCoy up in her 2000 Chevrolet Impala (what is it with those Impalas?!). After dinner, McCoy asked for the keys so he could get his wallet from the car.

Reports the Oakland Daily-Tribune:

“She gave him her keys and he went out the door,” said Ferndale [Mich.] police Detective Sgt. Patrick Jones. “From where she was sitting she saw him get in her car and he drove off at a high rate of speed.”

The Chevy was later found with the radio missing. McCoy was also found and arrested.

There probably won’t be a second date (at least in my humble opinion).

Posted 01 September 2009 † Beth § Food § Legal § Michigan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Repair shop finds Brett Favre-themed goat in car trunk

It was just another day on the job at Tires Plus in Winona, Minn., for auto repairman James Prusci. And then a woman came in with her Chevy Malibu.

Reports the Winona Daily News:

Prusci started the paperwork.

“Oh, by the way,” the woman said. “I have a goat in my trunk.”

Prusci didn’t think he heard her right.

“A what?”

“Yes, a goat,” the woman said. “And it’s alive.”

She planned to butcher the animal later but was passing through Winona on her way to St. Paul when the car broke down, Prusci remembered her saying.

And get this: The goat was painted purple and gold (the colors for the Minnesota Vikings) and the No. 4 was shaved on its side (the number of Brett Favre, now a Viking).

The poor goat was tied at its feet and lying on its side. While Prusci told the woman that he didn’t approve of what she was doing with the goat, all he could do was call animal control. They arrived just as the woman was leaving in her repaired car.

But now, apparently, the goat is doin’ ok. It’s been named Brett and now lives in Eleva, Wisc., (Green Bay Packers country – ha!) on Duane and Carlene Schultz’s farm. Interestingly enough, its the same farm that created the poorly timed Brett Favre corn maze last year.

Posted 26 August 2009 † Beth § Animals § Minnesota § Sport § Wisconsin ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Man with Britney Spears tattoo steals dog with earrings

Brian Dortort, 48, of Oakland Park, Fla., has a dog. Its name is Hudson Hayward Hemingway. It’s a Chihuahua the size of a softball purchased for $1,000. It has pink earrings. And it was stolen by a man with a tattoo of Britney Spears’ name.

Let me pause so you can digest that information.

The dognapping occurred at one of Dortort’s friend’s birthday parties at a bar. The dog was in a bag and a man asked to hold it. Dortort turned away briefly, and Hudson Hayward Hemingway was gone.

So if you see a Chihuahua with pink earrings that answers to Hudson being carried by a man with a Britney tattoo, be sure to let Brian Dortort know.

Posted 26 August 2009 † Beth § Animals § Florida § Legal ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

KFC Double Down sandwich: bacon, cheese and sauce between fried chicken

So you know how sometimes you’re eating a sandwich and you think to yourself, “Wow, I really wish this sandwich didn’t have bread and instead had fried chicken!”?? No, that hasn’t happened to you? Well, someone over at KFC had that thought. And here’s the result.

Yep, you heard that right. KFC’s Double Down sandwich is the delicious combination of bacon, cheese and “Colonel’s Sauce,” stuck between two pieces of fried chicken. Here’s a photo to get a better look, and  a commercial for this masterpiece of a sandwich.

And the next obvious question is: How many calories? The Vancouver Sun calculated it’s 61 percent of a person’s daily caloric intake, but were corrected by a KFC public relations rep, who said the sandwich was around 590 calories. (I’m not convinced.)

The sandwich is being test-marketed right now in Providence, R.I. and Omaha, Neb. What I wouldn’t give to be part of a focus group about these sandwiches…

(Oh, and speaking of bacon, here’s an article about bacon cupcakes sent in by my friend Mark. Yum.)

Posted 26 August 2009 † Beth § Food § Nebraska § Rhode Island ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Socks stolen from clothesline


Lame theft alert! A man in Palominas, Ariz., had a dozen pairs of socks stolen from his backyard clothesline.

In the middle of the night, someone came into the resident’s fenced-in yard, took the white athletic socks and also damaged a motion sensor light, reports the Sierra Vista Herald.

Grand total of lost and damaged property? $50.

Now seriously. If you’re going to go through the trouble of stealing something, why not go for something a little bit more valuable than socks. Wait, scratch that, used socks.

Although perhaps I am too quick to judge, and the theif’s feet were cold. Actually, scratch that, this happened in Arizona. In August.

Posted 26 August 2009 † Beth § Arizona § Legal ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , ,

How to make an apple pie

Mmm…apple pie. A scrumptious American tradition. I’m a pretty big fan of  the dessert and greatly enjoy eating it. But making it? I can barely tell a tablespoon from a teaspoon! But after I convinced (bribed?) my friend Jose (who is quite possibly the only person more lost in a kitchen than me) to make one, I discovered it wasn’t difficult at all! Here’s how it went:

Sure, maybe he burnt his mouth there at the end (did you SEE the steam?), but overall it was quite a delicious treat Jose crafted. (His family and friends should expect apple pie for their birthday and Christmas gifts this year.)

Posted 19 August 2009 † Beth § Food ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

Italian sports car traded in as “Clunker”


I don’t think this is what the government had in mind when they created the Cash for Clunkers (CARS) program.

It’s certainly not what Billy Mills, general sales manager for Go Subaru in Golden, Colo., expected, either. The dealership has received about 50 trade-ins, mainly SUVs and pickup trucks.

And then they got a Maserati.

Yep, someone brought in a nearly pristine 1985 Maserati BiTurbo with a leather, suede and wood-trimmed interior. And it only had 18,480 miles on it.

Now, I don’t know too much about cars (much to my auto industry-employed father’s chagrin), but that sure sounds like a snazzy Italian sports car to me! So why the heck did its owner want to trade it in?

Reports KUSA:

“He said that he could drive it down the road for about 10 minutes, and then he had to call his mechanic,”[salesperson Wes] Guthrie said of the owner’s experience.

The Maserati owner had been trying for many months to sell the car without success. His asking price for the car was roughly the same as the $3,500 he got from Cash for Clunkers.

The car officially qualified for the program, and the owner used the $3,500 for a new Subaru Impreza.

As for the Maserati? It met the same fate as all the other clunkers. The engine was disabled and it was crushed.

Posted 19 August 2009 † Beth § Colorado § Money § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Thief puts $600 turtle in pants pocket

Is that a turtle in your pants, or…?

A man stole a turtle from a  pet store in Spring, Texas, by putting it in his pants pocket. No, it was not a snapper turtle. It was a $600 Indian star tortoise, which is about the same size as a tennis ball.

And the whole thing was caught by a security video. Based on this MSNBC video, the thief was aware of the security camera (but evidently did not care).

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According to the AP:

Pet City owner Sherry Stack said she has been in business 20 years and “never had a customer shove a turtle in his pants.”
I guess there’s a first time for everything.
Posted 16 August 2009 † Beth § Animals § Legal § Texas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,