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J-E-T-S: Just End The Season

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

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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

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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.

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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, 2009

As 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

The late President Franklin Delano Roosevelt captured the American sentiment after Pearl Harbor in his famous declaration of war speech in which he called Dec. 7, 1941: “A date that will live in infamy.”

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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!

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Zombies out in full blood this halloween for a good cause

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

The 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.

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Fingerprint may lead to new da Vinci discovery

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

First Leonardo DaVinci Found in 100 Years?
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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.
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‘Rock ‘N Wrestling’ Icon Captain Lou Albano Dies

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

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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.”

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Don Imus on Fox: ‘You’ve got nuts in this building’

Monday, October 5th, 2009

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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.

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Always Home & Uncool raises awareness of juvenile myositis

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

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Kevin of Always Home and Uncool has asked me to post this as part of his effort to raise awareness in the blogosphere of juvenile myositis, a rare autoimmune disease his daughter was diagnosed with on this day seven years ago. The day also happens to be his wife’s birthday.

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Our pediatrician admitted it early on.

The rash on our 2-year-old daughter’s cheeks, joints and legs was something he’d never seen before.

The next doctor wouldn’t admit to not knowing.

He rattled off the names of several skins conditions — none of them seemingly worth his time or bedside manner — then quickly prescribed antibiotics and showed us the door.

The third doctor admitted she didn’t know much.

The biopsy of the chunk of skin she had removed from our daughter’s knee showed signs of an “allergic reaction” even though we had ruled out every allergy source — obvious and otherwise — that we could.

The fourth doctor had barely closed the door behind her when, looking at the limp blonde cherub in my lap, she admitted she had seen this before. At least one too many times before.

She brought in a gaggle of med students. She pointed out each of the physical symptoms in our daughter:

The rash across her face and temples resembling the silhouette of a butterfly.

The purple-brown spots and smears, called heliotrope, on her eyelids.

The reddish alligator-like skin, known as Gottron papules, covering the knuckles of her hands.

The onset of crippling muscle weakness in her legs and upper body.

She then had an assistant bring in a handful of pages photocopied from an old medical textbook. She handed them to my wife, whose birthday it happened to be that day.

This was her gift — a diagnosis for her little girl.

That was seven years ago — Oct. 2, 2002 — the day our daughter was found to have juvenile dermatomyositis, one of a family of rare autoimmune diseases that can have debilitating and even fatal consequences when not treated quickly and effectively.

Our daughter’s first year with the disease consisted of surgical procedures, intravenous infusions, staph infections, pulmonary treatments and worry. Her muscles were too weak for her to walk or swallow solid food for several months. When not in the hospital, she sat on our living room couch, propped up by pillows so she wouldn’t tip over, as medicine or nourishment dripped from a bag into her body.

Our daughter, Thing 1, Megan, now age 9, remembers little of that today when she dances or sings or plays soccer. All that remain with her are scars, six to be exact, and the array of pills she takes twice a day to help keep the disease at bay.

What would have happened if it took us more than two months and four doctors before we lucked into someone who could piece all the symptoms together? I don’t know.

I do know that the fourth doctor, the one who brought in others to see our daughter’s condition so they could easily recognize it if they ever had the misfortune to be presented with it again, was a step toward making sure other parents also never have to find out.

That, too, is my purpose today.

It is also my birthday gift to my wife, My Love, Rhonda, for all you have done these past seven years to make others aware of juvenile myositis diseases and help find a cure for them once and for all.

To read more about children and families affected by juvenile myositis diseases, visit Cure JM Foundation at www.curejm.org.

To make a tax-deductible donation toward JM research, go to www.firstgiving.com/rhondaandkevinmckeever or www.curejm.com/team/donations.htm.


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