The Foreignist

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/05/football-fart

I’ve always thought that the yellow card was the dumbest idea in all of sport [sic].  But, maybe I should implement this at the dinner table with my 3 boys.  ”Letting a fluffy” (Australian for farting) on the wooden slats of the kitchen chairs seems to be their favorite game right now.

Niksha, the old guy who used to come into our cafe in Croatia, carried a yellow card around with him wherever he went.  If he didn’t like the service at the cafe, he would pull out the yellow card.  Branka, our Croatian friend who was helping at the cafe, told him something he didn’t like one time when he pulled out the yellow card, so he reached into his jacket and produced a red card.  The humanity!

Got this from former Renuelite Ben Ponder:

http://cleantech.com/news/4196/muslim-cleric-says-biofuels-are-sin

And then they kick me in the stomach.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3921500&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines

I know I’m the only person I know (besides Lindsay) that cares, but my winter has been ruined by Steve Kerr’s dismantling of the Phoenix Suns.  The Nash-led fastbreak Suns were the most exciting thing in basketball.  And then new GM Steve Kerr traded “The Matrix” to Miami for Shaq, and then essentially ran off Mike D’Antoni, the most innovative coach in a generation.  Earlier this season, Steve Nash sullenly stated, ”I feel like I’ve been traded. I feel like I’m on a different team because everything’s changed so much around here.”  Kerr brought in coach Terry Porter to try to teach the Suns to play defense.  One problem:  The Suns’ roster is full of guys who can score and can’t play a lick of defense.  Finally (maybe), Kerr has learned his lesson, fired Terry Porter, and handed the team to the only assistant left over from the D’Antoni era.  Here’s the highlights from the first game after ditching the “defense wins championships” delusions.

One of my favorite skits from David Alan Grier.

One of my all time favorite heroes is having a birthday today.  The over-the-top drama he could bring a role could even overshadow the dramatic pauses of Shatner in The Wrath of Khan.   And enthusiasm and gusto with which Ricardo Montalban (Mr. Roarke) could say, “Welcome… to fantasy island”, remains unequaled in the thespian community.

Happy 88th, Ricardo!! May you be ensconced in rich, Corinthian leather.

Deer crashes through Greenbrier drug store

“I saw her come across the parking lot and come through the front door,” Perrin said. “I saw she wasn’t going to stop. I evidently screamed. I yelled, ‘Deer!’

“She came right through the front door. We heard glass shatter. She kept right on going to the back of the store.”

It was exciting to watch the end of a few upsets this weekend.  But, in the long run, all these upsets are just setting the table for a one-loss Ohio State team (that will cruise through the Big10/11) to make it to the BCS championship game — where they will be crushed.  I demand the BCS put a moratoriom on BCS championship games involving Ohio State.  I’m thinking about starting a petition or sending draft legislation to my congressional representatives.

I had to stop myself before I ate dinner to check the UPC code on my Hot Pocket because of this story.

Giant Food Alerts Customers to Recall of Nestle Frozen Hot Pockets Pepperoni Pizza Stuffed Sandwich Products

Last update: 6:18 p.m. EDT Aug. 22, 2008
LANDOVER, Md., Aug 22, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — Giant Food, following a recall by Nestle Prepared Foods Company, announced it is removing 54 ounce Value (12) Pack Cartons of Nestle “Hot Pockets Pepperoni Pizza” stuffed sandwiches from sale. Nestle has issued a national recall of these products because they may contain pieces of plastic.
Read more here.

Honestly, is anyone surprised that there are so-called “foreign objects” in food that says “Best Before” date of “Jan 2010″.

I thought it would be appropriate to include this:

While watching the highlights of the US-Germany game, I saw Demond Greene out on the court for Germany. He’s really an American, and I normally don’t like that sort of thing…. but in his case, I was just glad to see him back on the court competing after this incident in Euroleague ball just a couple of years ago.