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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Call Mine &#8220;Weed&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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Here&#8217;s an excerpt from the local news that I had to share with you:

Fort Worth police tell NBCDFW that when the 71-year-old man saw the female deputy coming toward him he dropped the trimmer and ran into the house in the 9800 block of Watercress Drive.
The man came back outside in shorts, that were unzipped, [...]]]></description>
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<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt from the <a href="http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/weird/Nothing-But-A-Weed-Whacker-And-a-Smile-60278887.html" target="_blank">local news</a> that I had to share with you:</p>
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<p id="paragraph3">Fort Worth police tell NBCDFW that when the 71-year-old man saw the female deputy coming toward him he dropped the trimmer and ran into the house in the 9800 block of Watercress Drive.</p>
<p id="paragraph4">The man came back outside in shorts, that were unzipped, and told the deputy he&#8217;d done yard work in the buff before and thought his yard was private enough that no one could see him.</p>
<p>The deputy pointed out that the problem was some privacy slats were missing from his chain-link fence and he lives across the street from a park and along a busy road.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s freakin hilarious.  It doesn&#8217;t stop there, though.  Here&#8217;s part of the actual police report:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Since CIT1 had the weedeater in front of him, Deputy Rowland did not observe CIT1&#8217;s genitalia; However, upon CIT1 observing Deputy Rowland he took off running toward the south door of his residence.  Upon CIT1 turning around to run Deputy Rowland observed CIT1&#8217;s buttocks.  Deputy Rowland yelled at CIT1 to stop.  However, CIT1 sat the weedeater down and ran into his home.  Deputy Rowland observed that CIT1 did not appear to lock the door as he simply opened the screen door and ran inside.  Deputy Rowland remained at the East Gate and yelled for CIT1 to come outside to speak to him.  In a few moments CIT1 exited the residence.  He had hurriedly put on a pair of tan shorts which were unzipped, revealing the fact that he was wearing no underwear.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>OK, that&#8217;s awesome.  The police then had to check the man&#8217;s record to see if he was a sex offender.  It turned out negative, so the naked man received a Class C misdemeanor citation.</p>
<p>The Texas penal code 4201 A-10 states that a citation should be issued for exposing &#8220;his anus or genitals in a public place and (being) reckless about whether another may be present who will be offended or alarmed by his act.&#8221;</p>
<p>I&#8217;m still trying to find out what makes me laugh harder?  This story or the Texas &#8220;penal&#8221; code?</p>
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		<title>Jon and Kate Plus Miller Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 04:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This hilarious clip is from tonight&#8217;s O&#8217;Reilly Factor.  Bill does &#8220;Miller Time&#8221; with Dennis Miller every week, and this time they covered (in part) Jon and Kate Plus 8.
I was only able to find the full Miller Time.  Watch the whole thing if you want, but the good part happens at 3:00 &#8211; you can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This hilarious clip is from tonight&#8217;s O&#8217;Reilly Factor.  Bill does &#8220;Miller Time&#8221; with Dennis Miller every week, and this time they covered (in part) <a href="jon-kate-plus-date" target="_self">Jon and Kate Plus 8</a>.</p>
<p>I was only able to find the full Miller Time.  Watch the whole thing if you want, but the good part happens at 3:00 &#8211; you can skip ahead watch for about twenty seconds to have a good laugh:</p>
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<p>Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Who&#8217;s the polonesian kid????  Miller cracks me up.</p>
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		<title>Cheesus H Crisp!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 05:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the deal with messianic Cheetos?  Earlier today it was reported that a Houston couple found a Cheeto that looked like a praying Jesus, but this is just the latest find in a long string of similar sightings.
May 19, 2009 &#8211; The latest Cheesus find comes from a couple near Houston, Tx.

July 30, 2008 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is the deal with messianic Cheetos?  Earlier today it was reported that a Houston couple found a Cheeto that looked like a praying Jesus, but this is just the latest find in a long string of similar sightings.</p>
<p><strong>May 19, 2009</strong> &#8211; The <a href="http://www.syracuse.com/today/index.ssf/2009/05/couple_finds_jesus_in_bag_of_c.html" target="_blank">latest Cheesus find</a> comes from a couple near Houston, Tx.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.syracuse.com/today/index.ssf/2009/05/couple_finds_jesus_in_bag_of_c.html"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://blog.syracuse.com/today/2009/05/ne_090519_cheesus.jpg" alt="" width="160" height="199" /></a></p>
<p><strong>July 30, 2008</strong> &#8211; A woman in Dallas, Texas found this <a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/pontifications/2008/07/praise-cheesus.html" target="_blank">Jesus Cheeto</a>:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/pontifications/2008/07/praise-cheesus.html"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://blog.beliefnet.com/pontifications/imgs/Jesus%20Cheeto.jpg" alt="" width="213" height="306" /></a></p>
<p><strong>July 29th, 2008</strong> &#8211; A woman in Montana found a Cheeto she thought looked like <a href="http://www.myfoxwfld.com/myvoicedc/2008/07/29/cheesus-woman-finds-jesus-in-bag-of-cheetos/">Jesus on the cross.</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.myfoxwfld.com/myvoicedc/2008/07/29/cheesus-woman-finds-jesus-in-bag-of-cheetos/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.myfoxwfld.com/myvoicedc/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/m_78fb991da7b6d101a5cd611b8551626a13.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="240" /></a></p>
<p><strong>March 21, 2008</strong> &#8211; A youth minister in Houston has kept a <a href="http://www.khou.com/topstories/stories/khou080320_tj_cheesus.e0d82bb.html" target="_blank">Christ-like Cheeto</a> in his office for a couple of years before it got out.  He even had it in a little display case in his office:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.khou.com/topstories/stories/khou080320_tj_cheesus.e0d82bb.html"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.khou.com/sharedcontent/newslink/thumbnail/www.khou.com/0812/desel10p_080320_23_2533-t240.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="180" /></a></p>
<p>After todays Cheesus, one blogger asked <a href="http://www.chron.com/channel/houstonbelief/commons/persona.html?newspaperUserId=rabbiweiss&amp;plckPersonaPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckUserId=rabbiweiss&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3arabbiweissPost%3ab9712f61-7e27-4796-93f7-fb81cf797ed8&amp;plckController=PersonaBlog&amp;plckScript=personaScript&amp;plckElementId=personaDest" target="_blank">why don&#8217;t Jews see things in their food</a>.  My take on the answer: it wouldn&#8217;t be kosher.</p>
<p><strong>Enough Already.  Get some Baked Lays.</strong></p>
<p>What&#8217;s the big deal?  Every time something like this happens,whether it&#8217;s a <a href="http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2009/02/06/news/local/doc498c4ab4ab845195907393.txt" target="_blank">Potato Chip Jesus</a>, a <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/15/google_spots_jesus/" target="_blank">holy sand dune</a>, or any number of other <a href="http://london.blog.qype.com/?p=544" target="_blank">religious sightings in food</a>,the news media goes crazy.  These stories spread like wildfire across the news wires, the blogosphere, and even on primetime news.  Why?  I mean, it&#8217;s food.  I seriously doubt that Frito Lay has a secret marketing plan to get free publicity out of this stunt.  Trust me, they are not stuffing a Cheesus into every 100th bag of Cheetos.</p>
<p>Seriously, after a sighting of the Virgin Mary on a turtle&#8217;s belly, havent&#8217; you had enough?</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" src="http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2006-08/virgin-mary-turtle.jpg" alt="" width="480" height="300" /></p>
<p><strong>After you find a Cheesus, the real question you must ask yourself is: </strong></p>
<p><em>What do you do with the crumbly cheesey crumbs on your fingers?</em></p>
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		<title>Weenyville</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 05:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smallville&#8217;s Clark Kent is a weeny.  He&#8217;s such a weeny that we should call the show &#8220;Weenyville&#8221;

Tonight was supposed to be the season finale.    Instead it was a weenyfest.  This episode single-handedly destroyed the entire show for me.  Just a coincident that it was titles Doomsday&#8230; or is it?  Instead of a season capping finale, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Smallville&#8217;s Clark Kent is a weeny.  He&#8217;s such a weeny that we should call the show &#8220;Weenyville&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mattmauldin.com/wp-content/uploads/weenyville.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-626" title="weenyville" src="http://www.mattmauldin.com/wp-content/uploads/weenyville.jpg" alt="weenyville" width="600" height="187" /></a></p>
<p>Tonight was supposed to be the season finale.    Instead it was a weenyfest.  This episode single-handedly destroyed the entire show for me.  Just a coincident that it was titles <em>Doomsday</em>&#8230; or is it?  Instead of a season capping finale, this was the dumbest, most idiotic, non-exciting episode ever. Bottom line: Clark is a weeny.</p>
<p><strong>Important:</strong> From here on out there are spoilers, but the show has taken such a downturn this season that they can hardly be called spoilers.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mattmauldin.com/wp-content/uploads/weenyville2.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-627 alignright" title="weenyville2" src="http://www.mattmauldin.com/wp-content/uploads/weenyville2.jpg" alt="weenyville2" width="198" height="240" /></a><strong>Predictable Plot</strong></p>
<p>Every freakin episode has the same story:</p>
<ul>
<li>some baddie either puts either the entire world or one of Clark&#8217;s friends (swap them out) in danger.</li>
<li>Clark tried to save them but gets trapped by kryptonite.</li>
<li>Some wuss saves Clark</li>
<li>Clark pulls off some 8-year-old-in-superman-pajamas spoof and the episode ends to some dumb song (but you can buy the CD on the CW.com)</li>
</ul>
<p>Clark (a.k.a. weeny-boy &#8211; see right) wrestles with the fact that Doomsday has a human side (Davis), and humans are all good.  Of course he&#8217;s come up against hundreds of human baddies over the past eight seasons, but whatever. Clark has been whining forever that he can save Davis and proves once again the depths of his weenitude.</p>
<p><strong>Clark Rendered Inept&#8230; Again</strong></p>
<p>So Green Lantern and his super-turd friends shoot Clark with a Krypto-dart.  Of course! Predictable and boring.</p>
<p>This time it&#8217;s Jimmy Olsen that saves him and learns that Clark is the Red-Blue-Blur.  What does that mean? Time to die, Jimmy!  Yep, Jimmy dies.  Stupid.  Even dumber, at his funeral Chloe walks up to a crying kid and says &#8220;You must be Jimmy&#8217;s younger brother.&#8221;</p>
<p>Time out&#8230; wasn&#8217;t she married to Jimmy?  YES. And you are telling me that she never met his family?  Stupid.  Chloe hands the kid a camera and tells him he may follow in the dead Jimmy&#8217;s footsteps.  Is that foreshadowing???</p>
<p>And this kid is supposed to be the Jimmy Olsen in the movies.  How does that work?  Were his parents dumb enough to name him Jimmy, too?  Or does this 8 year old kid take his older brother&#8217;s name to honor him now that he&#8217;s dead?</p>
<p><strong>Crappy Ending. I&#8217;ll Skip Next Season</strong></p>
<p>Clark ends the show by telling Chloe it is his human side, his emotions, that cause the problems.  Then he says goodbye and walks out.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve never been this disgusted with a TV show.  It&#8217;s probably why I don&#8217;t watch much TV.  The only good outcome is that I&#8217;ll have less TV to watch in the fall.</p>
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		<title>Allergies Save Lives</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 04:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m starting a new section called Random News.  Basically it will be a collection of news stories that catch my interest in some way.  I want to start off with a bang, so here&#8217;s the first one.
This story is hilarious.  I read the store titled Rotten office fridge cleanup sends 7 to hospital on the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.mattmauldin.com/wp-content/uploads/claritin.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-605 alignleft" title="claritin" src="http://www.mattmauldin.com/wp-content/uploads/claritin.jpg" alt="claritin" width="274" height="293" /></a>I&#8217;m starting a new section called <a href="/category/random-news" target="_self">Random News</a>.  Basically it will be a collection of news stories that catch my interest in some way.  I want to start off with a bang, so here&#8217;s the first one.</p>
<p>This story is hilarious.  I read the store titled <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hERp-USEQQsYvRT9m7JnPIf5MsngD9853CJG0" target="_blank">Rotten office fridge cleanup sends 7 to hospital</a> on the AP Press earlier today and had to share it with you.</p>
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<div id="hn-headline"><strong>Rotten office fridge cleanup sends 7 to hospital</strong></div>
<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — An office worker cleaning a fridge full of rotten food created a smell so noxious that it sent seven co-workers to the hospital and made many others ill.</p>
<p>Firefighters had to evacuate the AT&amp;T building in downtown San Jose on Tuesday after the fumes led someone to call 911. A hazmat team was called in.</p>
<p>What crews found was an unplugged refrigerator crammed with moldy food.</p>
<p>Authorities say an enterprising office worker had decided to clean it out, placing the food in a conference room while using two cleaning chemicals to scrub down the mess.</p>
<p>The mixture of old lunches and disinfectant caused 28 people to need treatment for vomiting and nausea.</p>
<p>Authorities say the worker who cleaned the fridge didn&#8217;t need treatment — she can&#8217;t smell because of allergies.</p>
<p id="hn-distributor-copyright"><em><span>Copyright ©  2009   The Associated Press. All rights reserved. </span></em></p>
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I&#8217;m still laughing at this.  In college my roommates and I left a cooler with some beer and meat outside for a little too long, and after a week it made us gag.  What did we do? Yep, we dumped more stuff in there.  Old milk, cheese, sausage, a dead squirril we found in the backyard&#8230; whatever.  And for an entire summer it sat in the back cooking in the 100 degree heat of West Texas.  Early during the fall semester, we brought the cooler to one o the big classrooms and opened it up.  It was like a wave of nausea, and you could see it slowly roll up the room, row by row, until every person was out.</p>
<p>Too bad it wasn&#8217;t spring semester, when allergy season hits, because some of the kids in that room could have stayed.</p>
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		<title>Papa Johns Earning Soggy Dough</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 02:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another example of one of the big guys getting new marketing trends wrong.
This went down at the at the  when a Papa John&#8217;s exec, started griping about their iPhone application and how they were really disappointed in the results.  It&#8217;s interesting that Jim pointed out that smartphones account for nearly all their traffic, and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.mattmauldin.com/wp-content/uploads/iphone-pizza-tm.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-541" title="iphone-pizza-tm" src="http://www.mattmauldin.com/wp-content/uploads/iphone-pizza-tm.jpg" alt="iphone-pizza-tm" width="200" height="156" /></a>Here&#8217;s another example of one of the<a href="http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&amp;art_aid=105263" target="_blank"> big guys getting new marketing trends wrong</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">This went down at the <span class="articleText">at the  when a Papa John&#8217;s exec, </span><span class="articleText">started griping about their iPhone application and how they were really disappointed in the results.  It&#8217;s interesting that Jim pointed out that smartphones account for nearly all their traffic, and the iPhone alone about half. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="articleText">Wait a minute, did you say &#8220;smartphones&#8221; were half the traffic from your iPhone app?  Yes. He did.<br />
</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="articleText">This guy is </span><span class="articleText">Jim McDonnell,</span> the <span class="articleText">marketing manager, emerging channels, for Papa John&#8217;s, didn&#8217;t even recognize the difference between his mobile-ready site (</span><span class="articleText"><a title="Not an iPhone App" href="https://mobile.papajohns.com/" target="_blank">mobile.papajohns.com</a>)</span><span class="articleText"> and an iPhone application!  And he said all of this at </span><span class="articleText">a <em>OMMA Mobile</em> conference!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="articleText">Even better, he was quickly shown up by one of the other conference attendees who specializes in developing mobile apps. </span><span class="articleText">Lilly Gold, founder of New York-based Intuwin,</span><span class="articleText"> quickly listed potential enhancements to their mobile marketing, such as </span><span class="articleText">delivering </span><span class="articleText">coupons</span><span class="articleText">, information on specials, payment systems and options for ordering &#8220;favorites.&#8221;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Papa John&#8217;s has also reported their &#8220;iPhone app&#8221; (a.k.a. their mobile site) has <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/papa_johns_says_iphone_app_is_a_dud_maybe_they_should_launch_real_one.php#more" target="_blank">generated 1 million in sales</a>. That ain&#8217;t no soggy dough!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Two lessons to learn here:</strong></p>
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<li>When you see some returns on a new marketing channel, especially one in a growing market like mobile, and with only ah half-assed effort like this one, then you should dig deeper.  You&#8217;ll probably find that you are sitting on a great opportunity.  Papa Johns could really take mobile pizza ordering to the next level, and I think it would be a real hit, but they would have to take a few risks to get there.  Hey Jim, read this post about <a href="http://www.brandonadcock.com/learning-to-take-risks/" target="_blank">learning to take risks</a>.  Hopefully I can place an order soon on my Blackberry.</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t start griping until you have exhausted your options.  Seriously, they put out a mobile site, ran a few mobile banners, and the say it&#8217;s a dud.  I doubt that they put much effort into any of it. Guys, always test!  Test new strategy, new technology, new traffic channels, new ways to communicate with your customers.  Lilly Gold probably made this company many more millions with just her few suggestions noted above &#8211; if Papa John&#8217;s takes her advice. (Oh, and your options don&#8217;t run out that fast, so don&#8217;t get impatient)</li>
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<p>Check ya later.</p>
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		<title>Sorry Mr. Franco. Maybe after &#8220;Spiderman 4&#8243;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently starring in over 40 movies and TV shows does not qualify you to speak at your alma mater&#8217;s comencement ceremony.
That&#8217;s right, James Franco (James Franco at IMDB) was selected by a committee at UCLA to speak at this spring’s graduation ceremonies. But there&#8217;s a Facebook page created by a UCLA student to oppose this [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.mattmauldin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/jamesfranco.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-166" title="James Franco" src="http://www.mattmauldin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/jamesfranco-208x300.jpg" alt="James Franco" width="133" height="192" /></a>Apparently starring in over 40 movies and TV shows does not qualify you to speak at your alma mater&#8217;s comencement ceremony.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s right, James Franco (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0290556/" target="_blank">James Franco at IMDB</a>) was selected by a committee at UCLA to speak at this spring’s graduation ceremonies. But there&#8217;s a Facebook page created by a UCLA student to oppose this selection.</p>
<p>The Facebook page quickly gathered a following, and just as quickly received additional information attempting to suppress racial and homophobic epithets, and threats to both J.F. and any supporter of the Facebook page.</p>
<p>The page&#8217;s creator says this is not a personal attack against Franco, but instead a suggestion that the student body deserves a speaker that has &#8220;<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29778621/">done something to change the world.</a>&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>James Franco has been chosen as the speaker for the College of Letters and Sciences Commencement Ceremony for 2009. Clearly, this is ridiculous.</p>
<p>- <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=23946759985&amp;ref=nf" target="_blank">UCLA Students Against James Franco as Commencement Speaker</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Aaahhh ha ha ha!!!  I bet if James Franco was nominated to speak at the 2007 ceremony (<em>pre Spider-Man 3</em>), no one would have objected.</p>
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