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I found some material on iGoogle that is priceless, or perhaps just a reminder of how diverse is the world around us. What I found is called the “How-To of the Day”. I reviewed one or two and then realized that there was no apparent pattern --or sense-- to what I was being invited to learn. Here’s a sample. By the way, the image at the right is Snuffy Smith, formerly paired with Google. Barney Google. True.

How to Define a Problem Like Einstein.
He passed in 1955, so why is Einstein still a problem?

How to Beat Procrastination
We can look at this one later.

How to Cook Food in a Hotel Room using Just a Coffee Maker and an Iron
Followed by the equally popular "How to Avoid Being Blamed for Burning Down an Entire Hotel"

How to Look Good Naked
Last suggestion was “turn out the lights”

How to Make Hot Mulled Beer on a Chilly Day
I cannot think of one person who would want to try this.

10 Easy Ways to Get Onion Odor Off Your Hands
Finally, the reason for Hot Mulled Beer!

How to Make Alcohol From common Table Sugar
For all our friends in prison, a holiday treat

How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci
From the popular “Leonardo” series: ”How to Act Like Leonardo di Caprio” and “What Happened to Leonardo the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle”

How to Open a Bottle With a Ring
Includes “what lies to tell while they’re stitching your hand in the E.R.”

How to Dig Post Holes
What could I possibly add to this?

9 Ways to Use an Old Plastic Shower Curtain
Recycle it and skip the rest?

How to Start Learning Morse Code
This has gone far enough.

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Final Weekend Results:

Louisville @ Rutgers -10 1/2
Rutgers won Thursday night, 63-14
Louisville has such a cool mascot on their helmets. It’s the best thing they’ve shown this year.
Dear old Rutgers never really gave the lads from KY a chance.

"W"

Buffalo @ Ball State -15
Buffalo, 42-24
Ball St is undefeated. Fifteen might be a stretch, but I’m on it.
Buffalo and Ball State met Friday night for the MAC Championship at an almost empty Ford Field in Detroit. Ball St's highly touted QB almost singlehandedly scuttled his team's bid for an undefeated season. His screw-ups ( leaping attempt at ata TD when 2 receivers were open turned into a Buffalo TD, not ready for first sound snap led to another fumble and another Buffalo TD, fumble at midfield set up yet another TD ) translated to at least three 14 point swings before the game got totally out of hand at the end. With the spread, I lost by a mere 33 points... By the way, FYI, Ball St. is in Muncie.
"L"

Pitt @ Connecticut -3
Wannstedtburgh, 34-10
Wannie alert!

What else is there say. I've been Wannied, again.

"L"

Boston College @ Virginia Tech PK

VaTech, 30-12.
I’m taking the home team

It was played a t a neutral site (Tampa, where I belong, that is the photo) but VaTech was the designated home team, and I get a

"W"

Missouri @ Oklahoma -17

Oklahoma 62, Mizzou 21
Booma Soonas gawn run all ovuh Mizoora.

Sooners stomped Mizzou and stood on the carcass to reach the national championship game.

"W"

Regular Season Totals: 53 Wins, 52 Losses and 2 Ties. Yes, Victory is Mine...

Twelve days from now, Saturday, December 20, the first of this year's 33 Bowl Games kicks off.

Quick Picks

Happy Birthday to my best girl. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeypOvsY91Q

Wagering on football games is a pretty good bet. I have reached this conclusion based on the following (thanks to Durango Bill):
Statistically, there are 1.7 fatalities for every 100,000,000 auto miles driven.
If you drive a mile to the store and a mile back to buy your lottery ticket, the likelihood that you will be killed on your lottery ticket buying trip is aprroximately 1 in 29,500,000.

You are six times more likely to be killed during the trip than you are likely to buy a winning Mega Millions ticket.

Here are the weekend picks. I stopped on the way home for lottery tickets, so I hope I am exempt from becoming a negative statistic.

Louisville @ Rutgers -10.5
Rutgers won Thursday night, 63-14
Louisville has such a cool mascot on their helmets. It’s the best thing they’ve shown this year.
"W"

Buffalo @ Ball State -15
Ball St is undefeated. Fifteen might be a stretch, but I’m on it.

Pitt @ Connecticut -3
Wannie alert!

Boston College @ Virginia Tech PK
I’m taking the home team.

Missouri @ Oklahoma -17
Booma Soonas gawn run all ovuh Mizoora.

Go out and buy someone an apartment building for Christmas, the economy needs your support.

Queen for a Day

Once upon a time, in the days before podcasts,satellite tv, cable, and the rest of the entertainment options that have become so matter of fact to us today, radio was king of the land. Not Sirius or XM or hi-def radio, but simple blast it into a little box in the house and captivate the world radio. Antiquity disclaimer: Being born into the TV age, I did not learn this from first hand experience.

Anyway, there was a rich variety of programming, like soap operas and serials. BTW, soap operas, introduced on radio, were so named because they were sponsored largely by the big name laundry soaps of the day. Radio was also the world which would give birth to the forerunner of what would become reality TV. Among the first of that genre was a show called Queen for a Day. Born on the radio in the 1940's, the show jumped media tracks to TV and ran concurrently on radio and TV for several years. The show lasted on TV until 1967.

The premise of the show was pure genius. Collect four down on their luck women to tell their tales of woe. Fill a studio with rubes to hear the stories and pass judgement on which of the four was the saddest sack of the lot. Use the "Applause-O-Meter" to judge which of them has made the best (worst?) impression. Parade the winner on stage in a robe and crown while Pomp & Circumstance plays, shower her with gifts (seems it was always a washing machine, how regal!)the rubes scream in approval and the home audience feels simultaneously superior and gratified by the biggest loser becoming the winner. If this sounds naggingly contemporary, think Jerry Springer Show with a throne, and instead of DNA testing there's a washing machine in the goody bag.

So, while I was grinning through the research on this bit of our contemporary American history, I found that there is a present day version of Queen for a Day. It's an organization that provides a bit of pampering and special treatment for pediatric cancer patients, giving them a little special treatement to shine a little sunshine into a challenging time. Take a look at http://www.qfad.org/

Queen for a Day, from the ridiculous to the sublime.

That is all.

Quick -This is Friday's Post

Louisville @ Rutgers -10.5
Louisville has such a cool mascot on their helmets. It’s the best thing they’ve shown this year.

Buffalo @ Ball State -15
Ball St is undefeated. Fifteen might be a stretch, but I’m on it.

Pitt @ Connecticut -3
Wannie alert!

Boston College @ Virginia Tech PK
I’m taking the home team.

Missouri @ Oklahoma -17
Booma Soonas gawn run all ovuh Mizoora.

Go out and buy someone an apartment building for Christmas, the economy needs your support.