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Post by rockysigman on Jan 19, 2006 3:31:03 GMT -5
Go Blue!
Mich. Pair Wins Beer Pong Championship
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - A pair of recent University of Michigan graduates are each $5,000 richer for being the best at a national tournament involving a campus drinking game popular among many college students.
Jason Coben and Nick Velissaris are the champions of the "World Series of Beer Pong," which took place earlier this month near Las Vegas. The two beat out more than 160 other competitors to split the $10,000 grand prize.
Beer pong is played this way: While standing, players attempt to toss a Ping Pong ball into cups that are partially filled with beer at the other end of the table. If the players succeed, their opponents are forced to drink the beer in the cup.
Beer pong has made the transition from house-party game to being a featured event in bars that host tournaments. Companies sell custom-designed beer pong tables and related products. A merchandiser of beer pong paraphernalia held the "World Series of Beer Pong."
Critics say the game encourages binge drinking, but Coben and Velissaris say it's not about irresponsible drinking. They say it's a way to have a good time with friends.
"It's like playing darts at a bar," Coben told The Ann Arbor News.
Coben and Velissaris picked up the game several years ago. Coben was a swimmer at Michigan, Velissaris was a wrestler, and they got to know each other through the athletic community.
When they were old enough to go to bars, they brought the game with them and played among friends.
Eventually, the two began helping to organize weekly tournaments in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti.
At the national tournament, Coben and Velissaris were sponsored by a campus-area bar, The Brown Jug, which paid the $550 entry fee. The bar's owner, Perry Porikos, agreed to put up the money.
He said Coben and Velissaris are regular customers who have helped out in a pinch at the bar. The two paid their own airfare and plan to pay back Porikos from their winnings.
They also wore T-shirts with the bar's name during the competition.
Seriously, this makes me almost as proud as the Big 10 Football championship we won my senior year.
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Post by phil on Jan 19, 2006 8:47:34 GMT -5
Beer pong has made the transition from house-party game to being a featured event in bars that host tournaments. Companies sell custom-designed beer pong tables and related products. A merchandiser of beer pong paraphernalia held the "World Series of Beer Pong."
Critics say the game encourages binge drinking, but Coben and Velissaris say it's not about irresponsible drinking. They say it's a way to have a good time with friends.
"It's like playing darts at a bar," Coben told The Ann Arbor News.
Any bar in Québec that staged a contest like that
would get its alcool licence suspended real fast ... !
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Post by dolly on Jan 21, 2006 8:06:55 GMT -5
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Post by maarts on Jan 21, 2006 20:47:52 GMT -5
The poor fucker died too during a 'rescue' attempt. Those rescuers weren't Japanese or Norwegian by any chance?
Speasking of incompetence....CANADA!!! You had an unique chance so save humanity!
Bon Jovi plane slips off Canadian runway
January 22, 2006 - 11:53AM
US cock-rockers Bon Jovi escaped injury early today when their private Boeing 707 jet skidded off a runway at Hamilton airport, west of Toronto, in a severe rain storm, officials said.
"It was about 1am, they were landing and the aircraft went off the runway about 50 feet. The nose gear was off in the grass, but the back tyres stayed on the edge of the asphalt," airport president Richard Koroscil told AFP.
The jet, carrying all four members of the 1980s glam rock band, their touring staff and crew - 19 people in total - overshot the runway as they flew in from Buffalo, New York, where they played a late Friday show.
"Sadly enough there were no injuries," Koroscil said. "They had a van ready to take them to Toronto. They were gone within an hour. Ungrateful little pricks."
The aircraft was not damaged.
Saturday, Monday and Tuesday's shows at Toronto's Air Canada Centre will unfortunately proceed as planned, according to reports.
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Post by rockkid on Jan 23, 2006 8:35:14 GMT -5
LOL you had to have altered that.
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Post by maarts on Jan 25, 2006 20:07:55 GMT -5
Survivor winner's a tax dodgerJanuary 26, 2006 - 7:02AM Pre-tax grin ... Richard Hatch. Richard Hatch, the "fat naked guy" who won $US1 million ($1.33 million) in the debut season of the US reality show Survivor, was found guilty today of failing to pay taxes on his winnings. Hatch was handcuffed and taken into custody after US District Judge Ernest Torres said he was a potential flight risk. Hatch was also convicted of evading taxes on $US327,000 ($435,477.43) he earned as co-host of a Boston radio show and $US28,000 ($37,288.59) in rent on property he owned. But he was acquitted of seven bank, mail and wire fraud charges. Jurors deliberated for less than a day after more than a week of testimony. Hatch, 44, of Newport, faces up to 13 years in prison and a fine of $US600,000 ($799,041.15). One possible explanation for Hatch's failure to pay taxes was raised by his lawyer toward the end of the trial but was never mentioned in the jury's presence. Hatch's lawyer, Michael Minns, said Hatch caught fellow contestants cheating and struck a deal with producers for the show to pay his taxes if he won. But, ultimately, Hatch was never asked about the allegation when he testified. Instead, Minns told jurors Hatch was the "world's worst bookkeeper" and said his client never meant to do anything wrong. Hatch testified that he thought producers were supposed to pay his Survivor taxes, and said the donations he took from his charity were far less than the money he had already poured into it.
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Post by rockysigman on Jan 25, 2006 22:57:04 GMT -5
Haha, Dick Hatch.
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Post by strat-0 on Jan 25, 2006 23:22:41 GMT -5
LOL! "Dick Hatch"! Classic.
...It keeps coming back! I can't read the monitor anymore for the tears! It's just... streaks of cobors.
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Post by rockkid on Apr 3, 2006 11:15:05 GMT -5
Really Bad Coffee Fatal blast at Tim HortonsTORONTO -- The heart of Toronto's trendy Yorkville shopping district was shocked to a standstill yesterday afternoon after an explosion killed one man at a Tim Hortons outlet. Police ruled out initial reports that a man had entered the washroom shortly before the blast with explosives strapped to his body, with investigators saying the explosion was caused by gasoline or a similar accelerant, Toronto police Staff Sgt. Don Cole said last night. "He's not a strap-on al-Qaida bomber guy," Cole said. "It sounds to me like a guy who either wanted to do a torch job or commit suicide." A customer entered the washroom and noticed the smell of gasoline coming from the stall, Cole said. The customer then saw the gasoline can and fled the washroom only moments before the explosion, he said. Toronto police Chief Bill Blair described the incident as a fire rather than a bombing. He refused to specify whether it was deliberate or accidental, but said police were not looking for suspects. It appears that there has been a very hot and intense fire in an enclosed area within the washroom," Blair said. "Until we determine precisely what happened in that cubicle and what caused those flames that took that man's life, I really can't speculate." The male victim, who was pronounced dead at the scene, has not been identified.
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Post by rockkid on Apr 3, 2006 12:20:12 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Bump damn it![/glow]
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Post by rockkid on Apr 5, 2006 10:43:03 GMT -5
Seems the Timmies event was indeed suicide. Asian man whose wife unhappy in Canada had taken the kiddies & returned to the homeland where ever it may be (news reports weren’t specific)
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Post by shin on Apr 7, 2006 15:48:34 GMT -5
Frist's Southern Hospitality
By Al Kamen
Friday, April 7, 2006; A17
It was with some trepidation that we opened a most interesting card, which announced on a blue-jeaned cowboy's belt buckle something called the "5th Annual VOLPAC '06 Weekend" in Nashville on April 21-23.
Problem was you had to unbuckle the cowboy's pants and look inside to see what this was all about. Seemed a bit too "Brokeback Mountain."
Imagine our relief to find only that we were "cordially invited" to the event honoring Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and "Mrs. Bill Frist, M.D." This is Frist's political action committee to raise money for other senators, making friends and positioning him nicely for his 2008 presidential bid.
Big-time donors can golf, ride bikes, tour a recording studio and have lunch at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. Then, after a cozy cocktail reception, there's Saturday night at the Grand Ole Opry and breakfast at the lovely Hermitage Hotel on Sunday morning.
"Don't miss a celebration of southern hospitality," the invite says, "one-of-a-kind music and special friends . . ." though it's unclear who those friends are and what makes them special.
The back of the card shows the cowboy from behind with a red flowered handkerchief sticking out of his right pocket. Wait a minute -- wasn't there something about how this used to be some kind of code in the gay community years ago? A way to signal each other in crowded, noisy bars?
So we checked the GayCityUSA.com's Hanky Codes. Sure enough, there it was in the chart explaining what they mean: red hanky in right pocket. Oh, dear.www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/06/AR2006040601943_pf.htmlwww.gaycityusa.com/HANKYCODES.htm
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Post by strat-0 on Apr 7, 2006 19:51:21 GMT -5
One of the little towns on US highway 280 that goes from here to Auburn (the next town past where I once spent the night in jail on a drunk driving charge after playing a frat party - the charge was bogus and I later beat it, but we had guitars in the car at 3am) once bought a bunch of rainbow flags and lined their streets proudly with them... until they found out what they meant... Then they couldn't get them down fast enough. That was funny. Somewhere, someone will never live that down.
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Post by rockkid on Apr 8, 2006 9:40:51 GMT -5
Could’a been worse……… could have been dark red……… that would have been stretching the invite.
(not believing she just typed that)
LMFAO in general at the stupidity sometimes.
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Post by phil on Apr 8, 2006 10:21:51 GMT -5
Weird - but not wonderful
Zoe Williams
Saturday April 8, 2006
The Guardian
The silent birth is a detail so freakish that it almost sounds as if the Scientologists concocted it with the sole aim of giving themselves a USP. ("Yes, I know we're weird, Scientology brother, but how do we distinguish ourselves from the weird Mennonites?") Their theory is that babies pick up, like, negative energy, and this is likely to come from the mother, especially if she's swearing at the moment of their arrival.
I thought it must be one of those commandments to which religious people allude but take no notice of - such as the Jewish one where if you want to have a milky coffee and a steak, you have to drink the coffee first, despite the fact that civilised society clearly states the coffee has to come after, and to reverse this would be mortally wrong.
It turns out, though, that serious adherents to the Church of Scientology do, indeed, like their womenfolk to stay silent through birth. We know this because Tom Cruise has been having signs delivered to the house he shares with Katie Holmes. They say things like "Maintain a peaceful silence", and everyone feels a bit sick, for all the reasons you'd imagine would attach to this horrid little fanatic, observing his wifelet at the farthest reaches of physical endurance and then taking the opportunity to bully her and deny her drugs.
In the normal run of things, I would take this chance to get into a feminist stew about it, apart from the fact that a) we can't assume that Holmes is entirely the creature of Cruise - to make that assumption would be misogynistic in itself; and b) before we even get on to the sexism, do you have any idea how racist this religion is?
Honestly, it isn't racist in an oblique way that only the over-sensitive would notice. Ron Hubbard's Scientology: The Fundamentals Of Thought clearly states: "Unlike yellow and brown people, the white does not usually believe he can get attention from matter or objects. The yellow and brown believe for the most part that rocks, trees, walls, etc, can give them attention. The white saves people, prevents famine, floods, disease and revolution ... the yellow and brown races are not very progressive."
And when you ask a Scientologist about this - which I did, although I couldn't find any of the famous ones, so had to make do with an eerie, pasty lady on Tottenham Court Road - they don't even have the grace to refute this bilge. They kind of simper at you, and say, "Well, people are a lot more spiritual in the far east."
Ha! There you are, you browns and yellows - you might not be very progressive, you very rarely prevent famine and flood, but you are a lot more spiritual. I bet that gives you a nice warm feeling.
With their silent births and vitamin injections, Scientologists - and there are tonnes of them, not just Squeaky and his missus - mask aspects of their belief that are openly vile. Before we give any consideration to the logistics of not screaming during childbirth, we should be boycotting their cinematic endeavours and pelting them with eggs.
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