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Monday, August 30th, 2010J-E-T-S: Just End The Season
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Scott Paparcuri Live:
How Does This Affect Me?
J-E-T-S: Just End The Season. : Just End The Season.
Why do J-E-T-S fans spell the word JETS. To prove that he can. Typical
Jet fan: A 34 year old volunteer fireman lives with his parents. He
works at a deli while he is waiting for the results of the police
test. He drinks! ALOT! Drinking helps him cope with being him. And he
LOVES his J-E-T-S!
I give the Jet fan credit. He certainly is not a front runner. He is
loyal. He is passionate. He is also usually overweight, drunk and
angry. “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life son” – Dean Wormer. But now the J-E-T-S are in the AFC Championship game. Uncharted territory. An incredible run. I give that team credit. But they must lose this week. And they will lose this week. Why? Because that’s what the J-E-T-S do. They lose. And no team is better at it. How does this affect me? Drunken J-E-T-S fans are everywhere. They are loud, sloppy, disruptive and a little scary. A few tips:
1) STAY INSIDE: The J-E-T-S fans are dangerous people to be around right now. They live to drink, co*cblock and fight proudly wearing their uncomfortably tight, autographed Wayne Chrebet jerseys. This week the J-E-T-S fan will be drinking Jack Daniels from his father’s liquor cabinet instead of his usual pint of Georgi. DANGER!
2) DRIVE SAFE: Right now there is a J-E-T-S fan driving drunk without a license in his mother’s car. Be careful out on the roads. Drunk driving arrests have quadrupled in Long Island over the past 3 weeks since the J-E-T-S began their improbable journey.
3) DISCOURAGE ELABORATE PLANS: The J-E-T-S fan is talking about flying to San Diego for the Super Bowl. In this economy? Who needs that kind of financial stress on a roofer’s salary?
4) PARK NEXT TO A SHOPPING CART: Many J-E-T-S fans are calling in sick to work this week.When the J-E-T-S fan doesn’t show up for work, it affects all of us. I have to walk 50 feet to get a shopping cart because “Sully” isn’t there to retrieve them.
5) WATCH YOUR HUSBAND: People who normally chill with the fam on a Sunday are now gathering together to watch the J-E-T-S. All it takes is one drunken J-E-T-S fan in the room and your husband is engulfing funnels of Meister Brau like “Frank the Tank” in Old School. Never Good! Domestic violence calls have risen 1000% in the Tri-State Area
over the past 22 days. J-E-T-S Just End The Season. PLEASE! If for no other reason than to shorten the lines for those of us who buy cold cuts at Stop and Shop.
Scott Paparcuri
The Sunday Comics on US Postage Stamps
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
The United States Postal Service recently announced its stamps of 2010, including one particular set that I think will be of interest to you all: The Sunday Funnies Collection! Based on popular newspaper comic strips, the series will include stamps involving Archie, Garfield, Dennis the Menace, the cast of “Beetle Bailey,” and Calvin and Hobbes!
The stamps go on sale in July.
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Happy New Year 2010! Dick Clarks Rockin’ Eve
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009“Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2010″ will air on ABC at 10 p.m. (ET). Clark has traditionally hosted this televised event from New York City’s (NYC) Times Square, but now makes brief appearances due to his health. Seacrest has taken on the role as host the past few years, and this year will be joined by Melissa Rycroft (of “The Bachelor” and “Dancing with the Stars” fame). Fergie, of the Black Eyed Peas, will also host from Las Vegas. Performances include the Black Eyed Peas, Jennifer Lopez, Daughtry, Selena Gomez, Justin Bieber, and Robin Thicke.
New Years Eve in New York City -
Times Square, Roseland Ballroom or on Mars. Check out some great places – go out – have fun – celebrate and have a Happy New Year!
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Attack on Pearl Harbor: 68 years ago today
Monday, December 7th, 2009As Americans ponder President Barack Obama’s strategy in sending up to another 35000 troops to Afghanistan, we should pause to remember Pearl Harbor.
The surprise was complete. The attacking planes came in two waves; the first hit its target at 7:53 AM, the second at 8:55. By 9:55 it was all over. By 1:00 PM the carriers that launched the planes from 274 miles off the coast of Oahu were heading back to Japan.
Behind them they left chaos, 2,403 dead, 188 destroyed planes and a crippled Pacific Fleet that included 8 damaged or destroyed battleships
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| Poster commemorating the attack, 1942 |
Halloween name change to Fall Festival!?
Friday, October 30th, 2009
Many schools are replacing the word “Halloween” with “Fall Festival” because of negative connotations some see in the long-standing holiday name.
Regardless of name, children all across the country will get in the spirit of Halloween and dress up for school. A sizable majority of adults (72%) say public schools should allow children to wear costumes to class in celebration of the holiday. Only 18% feel children should leave their costumes at home.
Seventy-six percent (76%) of adults with children say school students should dress up for Halloween, and 69% of adults without children feel the same way.
Sixty-nine percent (69%) of all adults feel that children should be allowed to bring candy to school for Halloween. Twenty-three percent (23%) disagree.
What’s the big deal – one day of fun for all – dress up and have some candy!
Zombies out in full blood this halloween for a good cause
Thursday, October 29th, 2009The Day The Zombies gave back…
Halloween week and the zombies are out in full blood in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario – Canada. Droves of zombies swayed and limped their way through Sault Ste Marie. This gruesome gathering was a benefit to donate food to a local shelter, the day was just right for over 200 creatures of the night to come out and show their hideous looks and evil wears.
Such a good turn out for a good cause…sault ste marie zombie walk.
Fingerprint may lead to new da Vinci discovery
Thursday, October 15th, 2009First Leonardo DaVinci Found in 100 Years?
Art experts believe they have identified a new Leonardo da Vinci— in part by examining a fingerprint on the canvas, convinced art experts that it’s actually a da Vinci.
Canadian-born art collector Peter Silverman bought “Profile of the Bella Principessa” at the Ganz gallery in New York on behalf of an anonymous Swiss collector in 2007 for about $19,000. New York art dealer Kate Ganz had owned it for about 11 years after buying it at auction for a similar price.
Leonardo
‘Rock ‘N Wrestling’ Icon Captain Lou Albano Dies
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Captain Lou Albano, who became one of the most recognized professional wrestlers of the 1980s after appearing in Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” music video, died Wednesday. He was 76.
Albano, whose real name was Louis Vincent Albano, died in Westchester County in suburban New York, said Dawn Marie, founder of Wrestlers Rescue, an organization that helps raise money for the health care of retired wrestlers. He died of natural causes, Marie said.
World Wrestling Entertainment called him one of the company’s “most popular and charismatic legends.”
Don Imus on Fox: ‘You’ve got nuts in this building’
Monday, October 5th, 2009
Radio provocateur Don Imus, whose daily talk show begins simulcasting on Fox Business Network on Monday, said the cable channel “is a much nicer place” than the other networks that have run his program.