Just some great stories I ran across today…
Tip to Parents: If your car’s about to be repossessed, don’t leave your children alone in it… Now I don’t know much about the repo business, but do they normally stalk you to the grocery store and grab your car while you’re grabbing a bag of hot dog buns and a paper?
Cambridge, Massachusetts, home to Harvard, reinforces the belief that they’re populated by nothing but nut jobs… They shut down the Boy Scouts’ Care Package Drive for American Soldiers because it was a “political statement”. Apparently the local Boy Scout troop had set boxes at local polling places on Election Day to collect supplies for Care Packages to send to Soldiers in Iraq. Not so fast my friend… Obviously, supporting the troops is an implicit endorsement of Republicans (surely this wasn’t supposed to be a benefit to the Democrats, but I don’t know) and so would constitute campaigning, which is not allowed at polling places. I always thought you could support the troops, but not the war. No?
And from Howstuffworks.com (in the interest of full disclosure, my sister works there), the 19th of this month is World Toilet Day. So please, this weekend, clean your toilet. You wouldn’t want it to be dirty for World Toilet Day…
Finally, it’s a sad day for baseball, as Joe Nuxhall has died at the age of 79. Mr. Nuxhall first played in a Major League game in 1944, at the age of 15, making him the youngest player ever in a MLB game. He started doing Reds’ broadcasts in 1967 and in 1974 teamed up with Marty Brenneman, with whom he spent the next 28 years doing broadcasts. Having lived in Lexington, KY, I used to pick up the Reds games on 700 WLW and always enjoyed Joe and Marty. To me, they’re what sports casting should be… It seems so many of these old broadcasters are either hanging it up or dying and it’s really sad. There’s something about that familiar voice on the radio when you’re teams playing. “This is the old left-hander, rounding third and heading for home…”
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