HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Confirming the Obvious

No Takers For Contest That Requires Abstinence

(AP) A contest that would pay $10,000 to an engaged couple, as long as they abstain from premarital sex, hasn't gotten any takers. The deadline for the Marriage for a Lifetime contest is Oct. 31. The prize includes free flowers, invitations and other wedding treats.So far, organizer Phillippia Faust hasn't gotten any entries.She said, "In our society it's going to be hard to find" a couple that hasn't had premarital sex.Faust has orchestrated mock weddings and other pro-marriage activities through her Marriage Appreciation Training Uplifting Relationship Education program, a nonprofit that isn't church-affiliated. The program is implemented through Rockdale Medical Center.



What a shocker! Seriously, no one is going to buy a car without test driving it first.

College Poll of the Week

Are we really getting beat by 30?!?

BCS Standings
1. Texas 8-0
2. Alabama 8-0
3. Penn State 9-0
4. Oklahoma 7-1
5. USC 6-1
6. Georgia 7-1
7. Texas Tech 8-0
8. Florida 6-1
9. Oklahoma State 7-1
10. Utah 8-0
11. Boise State 7-0
12. Ohio State 7-2
13. TCU 8-1
14. Missouri 6-2
15. Florida State 6-1
16. Ball State 8-0
17. Minnesota 7-1
18. Tulsa 7-0
19. LSU 5-2
20. BYU 7-1
21. Michigan State 7-2
22. North Carolina 6-2
23. South Florida 6-2
24. Oregon 6-2
25. UConn 6-2




Complete Standings




AP Top 25
1. Texas (65) 8-0 1,625
2. Alabama 8-0 1,542
3. Penn State 9-0 1,503
4. Oklahoma 7-1 1,361
5. Florida 6-1 1,337
6. Texas Tech 8-0 1,280
7. USC 6-1 1,234
8. Georgia 7-1 1,212
9. Oklahoma State 7-1 1,168
10. Utah 8-0 1,027
11. Boise State 7-0 946
12. TCU 8-1 848
13. Ohio State 7-2 834
14. Missouri 6-2 791
15. LSU 5-2 649
16. Florida State 6-1 558
17. Brigham Young 7-1 553
18. Ball State 8-0 542
19. Tulsa 8-0 527
20. Minnesota 7-1 438
21. North Carolina 6-2 228
22. Michigan State 7-2 219
23. Oregon 6-2 188
24. South Florida 6-2 100
25. Maryland 6-2 89




Others Receiving VotesWest Virginia 73, California 42, Kansas 40, Pittsburgh 33, Connecticut 30, Virginia 25, Georgia Tech 19, Louisville 15, Notre Dame 11, Oregon State 11, Virginia Tech 6, Troy 5, Northwestern 5, Boston College 4, Air Force 4, Navy 2, Arizona 1.
Dropped From RankingsPittsburgh 17, Kansas 19, Georgia Tech 21, Boston College 23.

My Favorite Day of the Year!

Well folks it's Oct 31st and we all know what that means. Halloween is here. The day every girl can dress as slutty as possible with no consequences. Websters will be having a Halloween party tonight with the music of Back 40. If the girls of Greenwood bought their costume at the same store I bought mine, we are all in for a treat. Also I can't wait to see Uncle Fingers dressed as a Shrimp Boat Captain. See you at the bar!

Halloween

In honor of Halloween, I have posted a few pictures to celebrate the occasion. Probably be in the best interest of society to not dress in these costumes...

My Creepy Neighbor- Part Four

I am sure at this point, many feel like I am a bit obsessed with this neighbor. Not the case. Sure I find him to be an interesting study of humans, but it is mostly to educate the general public about there creepy neighbors. In addition, if anything were too ever happen to me, like a disappearance... then the police would have a good start as to where to look. I am certain that the day this guy snaps I am the second one to get whacked. Hopefully that is not the case, but you gotta keep your guard up. More stories and observations to come on this subject.

Good to be Here

Thank you for your welcoming words Crockett. It's good to be part of such a professional web site.

We're Expanding...

Well that didn't take long. I just started this thing a few days ago, emailed it to a few friends and found out that one of them wants to join in. It just happened to be the one person that I thought would do so. So, I had already thought about the name change and what not. Welcome aboard Macarthur.

My Creepy Neighbor- Part Three

One day while leaving for work and my usual check of the outward premises, I discovered that I missed him. I let down my guard or maybe he was hiding. We had an encounter. It was a cordial one. Pretty bland...he asked me about the weather. To which I replied, yeah it had been raining for a few days. The ditches were clean and the water was moving off the property quite nice. Good work big guy.This small talk continued for the rest of the week. Was this guy reaching out to me? Did he want to become drinking buddies? What was it? I had already drawn the line in the sand... I was not crossing. I will keep it simple and be polite and make small talk, but you can bet your a$$ I am getting in that car and getting away from here. Well naturally, we run into him in the bar that weekend. It was one of those awkward situations where you meet in passing... we spoke.. how you doing? What not? I went down to a table, he stayed up by the bar where he already had territory marked from his flatulence. Later on that evening, after way too many beers/scotchs/shots.... we were going to do one more yagerbomb. Why not? We were at the bar, putting in the order, salivating... when we discovered that we had too many shots. Nobody would pony up and do two, myself included.... so we said, "hey Bill, you wanna do a shot?" I think he nodded, but it was that type of nod that really meant, "Does a bear sh!t in the woods?" A resounding yes. True to form, he slammed it... finished it before we did. As anyone knows, a yagerbomb does not have the most pleasant taste to the palate. I mean it is good, but it has a cough syrup feel inside the mouth. The ole boy Bill never flinched... he just took another drag off his smoke and followed it with stout sip of his draft brew. He left about ten minutes afterward, probably to throw up.

My Creepy Neighbor- Part Two

As I mentioned this guy puzzled me. I would leave for work in the morning and completely avoid making eye contact, as I was sure he would take this as a threat and I would be thrust into some half-assed duel with pistols or swords. This went on for a few months, pretty much every morning. It got to the point were I would check outside to see if he was in his lawn. I got to work late most days. Then one night we discovered him in the bar, Websters. Webster's is close to home and some of our friends own it. It is a good place to hang out, eat and what not. This guy, the neighbor, was sitting at the bar by himself with a pitcher of beer, chain smoking cigarettes..... Just crushing it!! Off his rocker drunk. Well naturally this led to some good banter between myself and neighbors and other friends that lived close by. What was this guy doing here, alone, getting plowed on draft beer. I guess he like the headache that much. This further added to the confusion and the general concern for my safety. Is this guy crazy? What is his story? After some additional research; Come to find out, he is in Websters every afternoon. Sometimes before the bar opens, he is at the door waiting. I mean, I have heard of getting a leg up on happy hour, but this is taking it to a whole new level. In addition to his early arrival and incredible consumption, he is a bar farter. Yes, he just sits in his spot, drinks, smokes and passes gas. Which to the other regulars is like being locked into a chamber plummeting into the bowels of hell. I heard from numerous sources that his flatulence smells atrocious. The odor resonates the stench involved with dead animals or the car ride with a Carnival worker. This was amusing to me and to many others. Unfortunately I got caught in the middle of some of his fire one night. I just walked up to the bar to grab another round for myself and some friends. All of a sudden, out of nowhere I was hit with a fog. This thing could have gagged a maggot. This thing was like a nuclear bomb going off.... you had the explosion and then the fallout, which was more than enough to wipe a village clean off the face of the earth. I locked up; I froze; I was in a daze; Some type of Mustard gas has just gone off in Webster's and I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to get it out my clothes. I remember thinking, how and the he!! am I going to look this evening walking around with fart smell on me? I already felt like my rights had been violated because of this event. This was awful! From that point on, I got my drinks from the waitress.

My Creepy Neighbor- Part One

I have been living in the same place now for about two years, give or take. There was this six month sabbatical in Jackson, but for the most part, I have kept the same address. Historically, this has been rare for me as I have moved around like a gypsy looking for the score for the past several years. Anyway, I moved into this house two years, great neighborhood; friends all down the street. I thought this will be great, I hope the rest of the neighborhood can handle it or us. We like to drink and stay up late with loud music and carry on like freshman. One day I discovered that we live next door to a man that carries a scowl on his face. Just has this look like, if you talk to me I will kill you. Come to find out he is retired military, a veteran of Vietnam. Make no mistake, I respect our men and women in Uniform, but this guy had that 1000 yard stare. I guess he was in "the sh!t"?! I had no intention of talking to this cat or ever really getting to know him. I figured that we would have to deal with him one way or the other with some late night that kept him or he would wake up p!ssed around the time Angus was going into his guitar solo. Either way, I figured it was going to be a bad encounter. As it turns out, this guy gets up early. I have no idea why; I have never seen him go to work or anything that would lead me to believe that he was holding down a job. He did things like clean out the ditches after a rain, water the lawn and stare out into the neighbor hood as if he was waiting for the Viet Cong to come out of the bushes. All this, coupled with his outward appearance were red flags to stay the hell away.

The World Series continued

Well I was wrong with my prediction of the Rays making a comeback. I really did not have a team to cheer for in this one, but the Phils took care of business in the continuation game. Nothing left to say about that, I didn't really care about.

The World Series

When will this end!! Possibly Wednesday? One would think that with this game being delayed as long as it has been the Rays have the upper hand. Sure they are down 3 games to 1, but they were roughly dead in the water until they tied it up in the 6th inning. And of course, we go the everprescent decision to delay the game to the weather. I feel like they got a new life. That is just my opinion.

Congrats are due to my friends

This past weekend, some friends of mine competed in a BBQ cooking contest in Oxford and Won. They took first in Sauce and Boston Butt and also Patio Porker Grand Champions. I am not entirely certain who this band of Q'ers consist of, but I am sure it is a lively bunch. Anywho... Big ups to them and there win and best of luck in future competitions.

About Me

As of right now, I am working at Lusco's Restaurant and am enrolled in the Culinary Arts program at MDCC. Fortunately, the classes are held off campus at there Greenwood location, so it makes work and school very flexible. It has been a rather fun journey to get to this point. I have multiple degrees from multiple in-state schools. I have worked in a variety of fields, but to no avial I was lured back into the world of the restaurant business. Lusco's Restaurant has been in my family since its inception. It has been at its current location since 1933 and has been fortunate enough to do so. Obviously, I enjoy cooking, but I also enjoy sports, so there will more than likely be some comments and post concerning teams that I route for and follow. I intend to discuss some events in life as they come, that I deem to be on the humorous side. My wit and humor are dry and am welcome to all sides of the story/argument. Hopefully, I can be more creative with my next post, as I am just getting my feet wet with this one. Thanks

Welcome

Wow, I have always enjoyed reading other people's blogs, but never actually considered doing one myself. What the heck! Maybe someone will find this interesting.