Show Prep #19

Greetings and Salutations, people. It’s the show that won’t be stopped by the Swine flu, this is Vertically Striped Radio, I am Craig Dodge, your host and the record holder for going from #1 on the Bad Side to #1 on the Good side. Welcome to Episode #19, which is appropriate since the Avalanche just retired 19 for Mr. Sakic.

In the past week I have won second place in a wiffleball tournament, I have turned 33, I have tried Bacon Ice-Cream, I have been accused of cheating in the fantasy comedy tournament and consequently reached #1 on the bad side, I completed my masterpiece…The Ed’s “Oh No” video, I subsequently was promised that I would be number 1 on the good side. I attended the game where the Rockies clinched a playoff spot, and I appear to have contracted the H1N1 virus. Needless to say, it’s been a busy week for me, and I’ll try to touch on all of those things today, plus…

Today on Vertically Striped, MJ and I will take a look at the crazy good start for our Denver Broncos, and see if we think it can last. We’ll check in on the baseball playoffs, in which my Colorado Rockies will be taking part. We’ll set up the championship matchup in the Fantasy Comedy Tournament, Andy Peterson our Raiders correspondent is scheduled to call in to take his lumps due to the dismantling of his team by the Broncos in Oakland last Sunday. The Ed may even check in. We also welcome your calls if you’d like to call in.


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Let’s get to the news…
(Play News Music – Clip 03)
1. NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dalton Chiscolm is unhappy about Bank of America's customer service -- really, really unhappy.
Chiscolm in August sued the largest U.S. bank and its board, demanding that "1,784 billion, trillion dollars" be deposited into his account the next day. He also demanded an additional $200,164,000, court papers show.
Attempts to reach Chiscolm were unsuccessful. A Bank of America spokesman declined to comment.
"Incomprehensible," U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said in a brief order released Thursday in Manhattan federal court.
"He seems to be complaining that he placed a series of calls to the bank in New York and received inconsistent information from a 'Spanish womn,'" the judge wrote. "He apparently alleges that checks have been rejected because of incomplete routing numbers."
Chin has experience with big numbers. He's the judge who sentenced Bernard Madoff to a 150-year prison sentence for what the government called a $65 billion Ponzi scheme.
Bank of America Corp faces real legal problems, including New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's threat to sue its chief executive and a judge's embarrassing rejection of a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Yet the money Chiscolm wants could dwarf all the bank's other problems.
It's larger than a sextillion dollars, or a 1 followed by 21 zeros. Chiscolm's request is equivalent 1 followed by 22 digits.
The sum also dwarfs the world's 2008 gross domestic product of $60 trillion, as estimated by the World Bank.
"These are the kind of numbers you deal with only on a cosmic scale," said Sylvain Cappell, New York University's Silver Professor at the Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences. "If he thinks Bank of America has branches on every planet in the cosmos, then it might start to make some sense."
Judge Chin gave Chiscolm until October 23 to better explain the basis for his claims, or else see his complaint dismissed.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iranian police warned shopkeepers Tuesday not to use mannequins without headscarves or which exposed body curves, official news agency IRNA reported.
"Using unusual mannequins exposing the body curves and with the heads without Hijabs (Muslim veil) are prohibited to be used in the shops," Iran's moral security police in charge of Islamic dress codes said in a statement carried by IRNA.
Iranian police have stepped up a crackdown on both women and men, boutiques and small companies which fail to enforce strict religious dress codes since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to office in 2005.
The measures are the latest in a country-wide campaign against Western cultural influences in the Islamic Republic, where strict dress codes are enforced.
"Both showing necktie and bowtie behind the windows ... and (the) selling (of) women's underwear by men are prohibited," said the police statement.
In the past, crackdowns tended to be launched at the start of Iran's hot summers and petered out soon after. But last year they extended into winter and included a drive against tight women's trousers and even men with spiky "Western" hairstyles.
Those who violate dress codes are usually cautioned on a first offence, sometimes after a brief visit to a police station. But they can be detained for longer, taken to court and required to have "guidance classes" after repeat offences.
Dress codes are most often flouted in wealthier, urban areas. Conservative dress is the norm in poorer, rural areas.

DUBLIN (AP) -- Dublin's traffic is often snarled, but this could be the first time that llamas are to blame.
Five of the South American animals accompanied by two goats ran rampant Thursday on the Irish capital's major ring road, the M50, causing 5-mile (8-kilometer) traffic jams. Police eventually corraled the animals safely into a trailer.
Circus owner Alexander Scholl says his animals bolted when fuel deliverymen failed to shut a gate. He rejects rival circus owners' claims that he deliberately loosed the llamas on to the highway to gain attention for his Circus Sydney, which has previously lost elephants and a wallaby.
"There's no way this was a publicity stunt. If these llamas hit a car and killed somebody, who are they going to arrest, me or the llamas?" Scholl said.



New York - Man Plays Dead Mom
A NEW YORK man who "breathed his mom's last breath" six years ago has become the very same, er, woman.
At least he thinks so, but authorities aren't so sure.
They suspect he might just be dressing up as her to claim $117,000 in benefits, including $65,000 in rent subsidies by also claiming to be his disabled self, who was being looked after by his landlord.
Who was also his mother. Who was actually him, as his real mother had died six years ago.
Thomas Parkin, 49, told authorities that because he held his mom as she died: "I am my mother."
He was caught when he turned up at the Brooklyn Department of Motor Vehicles dressed in drag to renew his driver's licence. Her licence.
Parkin even showed up for an interview with investigators wearing a red cardigan, lipstick, manicured nails and "breathing through an oxygen tank".
His friend sometimes completed the ruse by playing her nephew. His cousin.
Unfortunately, it all got a bit hard to maintain after investigators showed Parkin a photograph of his mother's tombstone.

I’m Craig, and that’s the news…(Play News Music – Clip 03)
(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)

Andy Peterson update: The Oakland Raiders correspondent (Play music) –
(Check the phone lines to see if you have any calls)
Rockies – Playoff run ready to commence? (Discuss Baseball playoffs)
The Ed Feud – Thankfully over
The Mariners prophet – (Clip 15)
The Broncos – Mirage, or are the for real? They are getting harder to dismiss.


The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
Heart Attack Time Machine – Waterdeep (2007)
Husband and wife team of Don and Lori Chaffer.
Alt-Folk