Greetings and Salutations, people! - Colorado Rapids time in America, people! MLS Cup is tomorrow, and for just the second time in MLS history, the Rapids are in the Final. Against FC Dallas…the former Dallas Burn.
Today on VSR – Only an Hourish long show today, I’m getting ready to go to Breckenridge with the family and my mother-in-law. We have a free condo because my mom-in-law has agreed to sit through a time-share presentation, so this should be great so long as we can deal with keeping the time-share sales people from convincing her to buy. We’ll have our first edition of our yet unnamed movie segment, and the final first round matchup of the Super Mario music tourney, we may talk a bit about pennies and the TSA and whatever else we can squeeze into an hour. Of course we’ll have the music recommendation and the news, and if you’d like to chime in, feel free to call…
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Let’s get to the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – An Idaho judge has set bond at $100,000 for a Boise woman police say posed as a physician and duped at least two other women into having their breasts examined by her at Boise-area nightclubs.
Kristina Ross, 37, remains in Ada County Jail in Boise on two felony counts of practicing medicine without a license.
Police say Ross introduced herself to victims -- one at a downtown Boise bar and the other at a nightclub in a Boise suburb -- as a plastic surgeon named Berlyn Aussieahshowna, a name that turned out to be bogus.
The two women told Boise officers they believed Ross was a physician because of her apparent medical knowledge, and they agreed to undergo what they thought were breast exams, which happened at the bars.
As part of her ruse, Ross gave the women the telephone number of a real licensed plastic surgeon in Boise, the state capital, authorities said.
Staff at that medical office became alarmed at the number of calls they received from women in recent weeks attempting to confirm appointments or surgeries with a Berlyn Aussieahshowna, according to charging documents.
Medical workers on Tuesday alerted Boise police about the pattern, and they later arrested Ross.
The suspect's gender is unclear. Idaho court records show that Ross was arrested for petty theft in the spring and that the arrest warrant was issued to a Kristoffer Jon Ross.
The Idaho Statesman website reported that Ross has a previous criminal record as a man but identifies herself as a woman and was booked into Ada County Jail as a female.
Cosmetic surgical procedures Ross discussed with victims after she touched their breasts under the guise of a medical evaluation included breast augmentation and liposuction.
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) – New Hampshire woman Bonnie Usher robbed a Rite Aid Friday morning, but her getaway was hampered by her own vanity. You see, despite a successful robbery and getaway, Ms. Usher made one small mistake:
Police say a motorist watched the woman flee from the Rite Aid parking lot in Manchester. The witness also reported seeing the woman toss items from her car Friday morning this odd behavior was even easier to remember due to Bonnie Usher’s license plate.
The vanity plate read "B-USHER." That’s right, Her name was on the license plate of the getaway car.
Police were able to use that distinctive license plate to determine that the car was registered to 43-year-old Bonnie Usher, who was arrested at her home. Police also recovered stolen money and found a ski mask tossed from the car. Oops.
AUSTRALIA - Sometimes you just have to find the girl. Steve Tucker, a government worker in Australia, met a mysterious and enchanting woman at a party. He was smitten with her, yes…he was in deep smit. He couldn’t forget her, even though the only thing he knew about her was that her name was Olivia. So what’s a obsessed and slightly creepy young lad to do? Why, start a carpet bombing email campaign to try and find her, of course. Steve emailed everyone in the entire Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship…All 7,000 employees.
He couldn't forget the enchanting person he knew only as Olivia. So in a move that is hard to categorize as anything but desperate, he emailed ALL his colleagues for help. Steve has not apologized for spamming the entire Department of Immigration and Citizenship, and in a way, he was even successful. Olivia did come forward. However, this story falls just shy of a happy ending. Yes, Olivia DID come forward, but only to say she wasn't interested in Steve.
I’m Craig, and that’s the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)
Bring on Face:
NEXT WEEK: “The much too early for a Christmas Special Christmas Special”
-Holiday music, perhaps some holiday themed list, and most important YOUR INPUT!
Super Mario Bros. Tournament: (Intro Clip 70)
Last matchup:
3 Seed Violin advances over the 6 Seed Banjo
This Week:
4 Seed – Poizunus - Super Mario Beatbox
vs.
5 Seed – Super Mario RC Car
Movie Segment:
What should we call the movie segment?
-Men on Film (2 snaps in a circle) (Clip 88)
-VSR at the movies
-VSR Movie Club
-Vertically Striped Movies
What movies do we want to put on the docket?
-Today: Rocky
- Next week: The Sting
-Open to future suggestions
Rocky:
Weird Theme Song: Simultaneously one of the best and worst theme songs in movie history. Best – (Clip 90) Worst – (Clip 91) – Gonna Fly Now: Brass music mixed with Disco mixed with weird choral arrangement. Just weird. Yet it works beautifully, just so long as you don’t linger on the vocals.
Rocky – Just a bonehead
Mickey – Spouts some of the best dialogue in the film.
City of Philadelphia – Worst place on earth? Nothing but garbage stacked up and fires in barrels everywhere. Very bleak. It’s almost a character in the movie all by itself.
Rocky – Random scene where he gives advice to the fat girl
Rocky – Beating the crap out of sides of beef
Rocky – Doesn’t keep his hands up, blocks punches with his face
Adrian – Is there a more awkward woman on earth than Adrian?
Adrian – She waits in the dressing room for most of the fight with Apollo instead of in the arena?
Adrian – She cleans up the apartment once she moves in with Rocky, although Rock lets her go a little nuts. Dog posters and flowery wall paper all over everything.
Apollo – More businessman than fighter for most of the film.
Rocky and Adrian: Strangest date in movie history?
The whole theme of the movie: Redemption and 2nd chances: Rocky gets to redeem his life, Adrian gets redemption by leaving Pauly, Mickey gets redemption by Philadelphia gets redemption by hosting the bicentennial party, Apollo gets redemption by remembering that he is a fighter and what it takes to be great, Pauly gets redemption by…Getting advertising on Rocky’s robe?
Should I retire from fantasy football?
Why do we have new pennies? – The new Lincoln pennies celebrating the life of our 16th president.
Coins are getting dumb:
Penny – Worth 1 cent, costs almost 2 cents to make
Nickel – Worth 5 cents, costs 7.7 cents to make
Now we are minting NEW Lincoln pennies? Why? I get it’s to honor Lincoln, but seriously, pennies?
In fact, penny melting is becoming popular, and a regular cottage industry of melting down pennies to sell the copper and zinc (97.5% Zinc 2.5% copper) has arisen due to the fact that the pennies are worth more melted than as money. The government has actually had to make it a crime to melt pennies, and if you’re caught doing so, you can be imprisoned for as much a five years for the crime.
TSA – Our friends at the Transportation Security Administration: New scanning machines and procedures: I’m okay with them seeing me naked (That is it’s own punishment for TSA) and the tiny bit of radiation doesn’t bother me, but the idea of them doing intensive frisking (groin area) makes me queasy. (Clip 95 – Dave Barry vs TSA)
Great Moments in the history of Blogtalk Radio: (Intro Clip 11)
-The Ed finds a special dog (Clip 25)
Garfield Cartoon: No issue at all, if it wasn’t published on Veterans Day
Dick Van Dyke singing Dick Van Dyke show theme: (Clip 79)
Pearls of Wisdom: M&M Cookies are NEVER as good as they look.
Are you uncomfortable entering Wal-Mart? We have a greeter at my local Wal-Mart who makes me super deluxe uncomfortable when I walk in.
Salute to a crazy name: Peter Doody
Subway for Breakfast?
On Average, Right handed people live nine years longer than lefties.
Apparently Laptop computers cook your testicles. You’re less likely to be fertile if you use a laptop regularly.
Week in Wankery:
Yellow Card:
-Woman who almost killed me backing up in the grocery story parking lot
-The brainiac team that runs the Invesco Field Escalators
-The US Mint: New Pennies?
-Oversensitive NFL Refs – I’m all for protecting players, I really am, but some of these penalties are getting ridiculous.
Man of the Match:
-My unknown friend in a Jeep – I was driving down Arapahoe Road on Thursday when this hero flashed his lights at me several times. I figured he may be trying to warm me of a speed trap, so I slowed down. I had been going 15 over the limit, but I slowed to the speed limit, and the motorcycle cop on the median just let me fly on by.
Red Card
Josh McDaniels
The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
“Do You Realize” by the Flaming Lips (Clip 97)
Thanks to: (Whoever called)
Shalom and Good Evening to you all!
(Clip 40) Onion News story about the Hamburglar.
Magnificent 7: Top Seven McDonalds Characters
7. Birdie the Early Bird - She was the first identifiably female character, introduced in February 1980 to promote the company's new breakfast items. She is a yellow bird wearing a pink jumpsuit and flight cap and scarf. In the ads she is frequently portrayed as a poor flyer, and somewhat clumsy in general. Birdie's origin is explained in one old commercial: a giant egg falls from the night sky into McDonaldland, and Ronald McDonald decides to show the egg love.
6. Ronald McDonald – The original Ronald was actually Willard Scott.
5. Uncle O'Grimacey - He was created in 1977 and even appeared in 1986 for an advertising narrative of McDonald's both in celebration of Saint Patrick's Day and to mark the annual appearance of the Shamrock Shake. O'Grimacey is the Irish uncle of the character Grimace and is a variant of the Grimace-design in that he is green instead of purple, sports a frock coat covered with several four-leaf clovers, and carries a shillelagh. His design motif is not unlike that of a stereotypical depiction of the Irish folkloric leprechaun. O'Grimacey resides in his home country for eleven months of the year and visits his nephew Grimace in March, bringing with him his "incredibly delicious" shake. Uncle O'Grimacey is no longer used by the chain for its promotions of the shake.
4. Fry Guys - They are characters used to promote McDonald's french fries. When they first appeared in 1972, they were called Gobblins and liked to steal and gobble up the other characters' french fries. Accompanying them was the "Keep Your Eyes on Your Fries" jingle. Their name was later changed to the Fry Guys in 1983, then the Fry Kids in 1987, as female characters (the "Fry Girls") were introduced. They are differently-colored, shaggy, ball-like creatures with long legs and no arms, almost resembling a pom-pon with legs and eyes.
3. Hamburglar
2. Grimace - Grimace is a large, purple character who was first introduced in November 1971 as the "Evil Grimace". In his first two appearances, he was depicted with two pairs of arms with which to steal milkshakes and sodas. "Evil" was soon dropped from his moniker, and he was reintroduced in 1972 as one of the good guys. In 1974, he was redesigned, going from two pairs of arms to the single pair he has today. His role continued to grow, and by the mid 1970s, he was a major character in McDonaldland. Commercials and merchandise generally portray Grimace as a well-meaning simpleton whose clumsy antics provide a comic foil to Ronald McDonald.
1. Mayor McCheese - Mayor McCheese was an enormous cheeseburger who appeared from 1971–1985, he has a burger for a head, and sports a top hat, a diplomat's sash, and a pair of pince-nez spectacles. He is portrayed as a giggly, bumbling, somewhat incompetent mayor.
LONDON (AP) -- He missed the plane. Now thousands of annoyed Internet users say authorities missed the joke.
When Paul Chambers was arrested and fined for posting a jocular message to micro-blogging site Twitter in which he threatened to blow up northern England's Robin Hood Airport if it didn't reopen in time for his flight, it caused a minor stir.
Now that a court has turned down his appeal, the Internet has come alive with outrage, with thousands of online fans posting comic threats to the regional airport out of solidarity.
Many have added the tag "IAmSpartacus" to their posts - a reference to the Stanley Kubrick's 1960 epic "Spartacus," in which the titular hero's fellow rebels all assume his identity in a gesture of solidarity.
The act of online revolt - the AP counted some 5,000 posts carrying the "IAmSpartacus" tag within two hours - seems to have cowed authorities. A spokeswoman for South Yorkshire Police, which originally arrested Chambers, scoffed and said "no" when asked if police planned on arresting any of Chambers' online fans.
But she refused to answer when asked why the thousands of jokey threats to blow Robin Hood Airport "sky high" would be treated any differently than Chambers' original tweet, which resulted in his arrest.
The Spartacus reference was Twitter's top trending subject worldwide, while rights groups back in Britain weighed the implications of Chambers' failed appeal - warning that the so-called "Twitter Joke Trial" had set an ugly precedent for free speech online.
Police and prosecutors "seem to have completely ignored the notion of context, which is a very dangerous thing," said Padraig Reidy of the London-based Index on Censorship. "If he genuinely intended to blow up the airport, he wouldn't have tweeted it. It's obviously a joke."
Chambers' lawyer, David Allen Green, said his client's case should never have gone to court.
According to accounts carried on Green's blog and in the British media, the 27-year-old was alarmed when heavy snow closed Robin Hood Airport, which he was due to fly out of in order to see a friend he'd met online.
In a profane message posted to dozens of followers on Jan. 6, he stated: "Robin Hood Airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get (it) together, otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!!"
The tweet might've faded into the obscurity of Internet had it not been discovered by an airport duty manager browsing the Internet five days later. The manager forwarded the offending tweet on to his station manager, and - even though the threat was deemed "non-credible" - it was passed on to police.
On Jan. 13, a week after Chambers' intemperate post, he was arrested and questioned. Chambers' case file notes that "there is no evidence at this stage that this is anything other than a foolish comment posted on Twitter as a joke for only his close friends to see," but he was charged and convicted in any case.
Rejecting Chambers' appeal Thursday, Judge Jacqueline Davies at Doncaster Crown Court ordered him to pay 2,000 pounds ($3,225) in prosecution costs, in addition to a 385 pound fine.
Writer and actor Stephen Fry - one of several celebrities backing Chambers' cause - offered financial help, tweeting "whatever they fine you, I'll pay."
Green said his client, who has since lost his job, is still considering his legal options.
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