Topical Chat, November 28, 2005

Topical Chat, November 28, 2005

A glorious Thanksgiving weekend followed by a dreary Monday. In case anybody cares, Interboro did indeed beat Ridley on Thanksgiving day. Go Vince Papale’s Alma Mater!!!

1. On a lingerie store called Spellbound in Augusta, Maine, grabbing attention by using live models in the window:
“First of all, wasn’t this done in Mannequin? Second, this may give people a reason to go Maine during other seasons besides the winter season.”

2. On a family hoping to cure their mother's weak knees bidding nearly $120,000 at an auction for a set of wild ginseng roots that included specimens 110 years old:
“First of all, wouldn’t $120,000 cover some sort of operation that would help to strengthen the knees? Second of all, I evacuate specimens every day that smell like they are 110 years old – can I get $120,000 for these?”

3. On a seemingly new fad – the upside-down Christmas tree – that has become so popular that upscale retailer Hammacher Schlemmer sold out of its $599.95 pre-lit inverted trees before the end of October:
“I’m still waiting for the Charlie Brown Christmas tree to come in style.”

4. On a South Carolina cemetery offering half price sales on cemetery plot and deals on vaults and markers:
“I can see the ads now – ‘Come in Soon, because much like Christmas and the great J.C., this sale won’t last forever!’”

5. On Alaskan inmates at a prison working farm butchering the meat of moose struck by trains each winter along 68 miles of track, for local soup kitchens:
“Why do I feel that these may become some sort of Jeff Foxworthy skit?”

6. On city streets getting darker in Baltimore because thieves, some disguised as utility crews, are stealing 30-foot light poles and selling the aluminum for scrap:
“I thought it was getting darker because of the hideous offense that Brian Billick continues to put on the field.”

7. On a decision still pending on what to do with the 75-year-old copper-coated bottle which was part of the Pabst brewery, visible from the Garden State Parkway, that is being demolished:
“Closing a Pabst brewery? Say it ain’t so!!!!!”

8. On the son of a Philadelphia Eagles fan being under arrest for carrying out a very unusual tribute to his late mother on the gridiron at Lincoln Financial Field during the Eagles game versus the Packers – he ran onto the field and spread a substance he said were his mother's ashes:
“That’s ironic, because that is the exact area that the Eagles’ season was buried this year.”