Posted 01.28.08
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NOTICE!
WHATEVER ELSE YOU READ TODAY - BE SURE TO SEE THIS WEEK’S ‘HEALTH BOOSTERS’ BELOW!
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A DAX ‘SMUCKLE:’
One way to tell that you’re getting older is when it becomes more difficult to get your sox on and your rox off . . .
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-THIS WEEK’S LIST OF {8} DAX LIFE-ENHANCERS!-
DEAN’S RANT: A Bunch Of Disjointed ‘DAX-Thoughts!’
MONEY-MAKING: Mucho Mail Box Money!
HEALTH BOOSTERS: Startling Research Data - A MUST READ!
PONDER THIS: Why Complicate The Subject?
TASTY REPAST: DAX-Delicious, Easy, Fast & Healthy Lasagna!
WATCH YOUR BACK: Illuminating The Subject at Hand . . .
SHORT TAKES: You Say You’re Supporting WHAT Candidate?
DAX-YAX: Rah, Rah, Rah - Sis Boom BAH!
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DEAN’S RANT: A Bunch Of Disjointed ‘DAX-Thoughts!’
I’ve got a batch of post-its and other notes lying around that I’ve made recently pertaining to a number of varied observations - none of which, by their ownsome, is worth a full-length article. Such as:
Teachers should be ashamed of themselves! And not only those currently responsible for turning out youngsters who are obviously not properly qualified to enter mainstream America. But when one observes the language used by contemporary commentators on the teevee it becomes obvious that THEIR teachers dropped many a ball when instructing the previous generation as well. A couple examples:
During the past seven days several well-known personalities have uttered these words: ‘’She should have went . . .'’ ‘’He maybe could have went . . .'’ ‘’He definitely should have went in a different direction.'’ Holy crap!
Are we to believe that Bill O’reilly, Drew Carey and for gosh sakes, that otherwise erudite guru of the King’s English, none other than Dennis Miller, do not know the proper phraseology of ‘’Could have, should have, may have (or whatever)'’ - is GONE . . . not WENT?!!!! Incidentally, (or I should I say, ironically), O’Reilly was a high school teacher himself in his life-before-media!
Today’s teachers earn (well, they RECEIVE!) upwards of $50,000 a year on average. And they only work about nine out of the twelve months of each year! ‘’Holy, rip-off of the taxpayer, Batman!'’
And then there’s my longstanding bug-a-boo: The fact almost no one these days knows the difference between lectern and podium - as evidenced by virtually every news reporter getting it wrong when discussing the recent political debates. Or, that famed author, John Grisham, who also erred in the usage of the pair of words in his entertaining book, ‘’The Brethren.'’
By the way, he also erred in an even more significant way as regards dwelling quite a bit on the book’s crooked characters having major difficulty getting certain correct contact data when the same is instantly available (under Federal law). I ‘called Grisham on it,’ but to date have not heard back.
To compound THAT, I’m in the midst of reading another Grisham book, not a novel, but a very excellent retelling of an Oklahoma misjustice called, ‘’The Innocent Man.'’ In it, in addition to (again) confusing a podium with a lectern, he uses another of my long-standing bug-a-boos, ‘old adage.’ As we all know by now, THAT is wholly redundant, as ‘adage’ MEANS ‘old saying.’
UPDATE ON THE FORGOING:
The basic post of this week’s e-MEGA-zine was put up around 4:00 A.M. this morning (01.28.07). At just before noon - the same date - Drew Carey, at the very end of his hosting gig of ‘’The Price is Right,'’ literally said the following: ‘’Let’s see what this showcase is worth. The (other contestant) wishes he had WENT with this one!'’ Dumb ass . . .
We TRIED to alert the CBS producers of this on-going faux pas, BUT they make it impossible to email them. Thus, they are ALSO dumb asses!
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Am I the only person with a modicum of media voice to wonder aloud what really happened to famed businessman and world adventurer Steve Fossett? Or why there has been such scant coverage since his mysterious and total disappearance on September 3, 2007?
I mean, c’mon . . . the whole cotton-pickin WORLD still has the Jones on for that worthless blond British slut who got killed in a French tunnel over ten YEARS ago! But no one seems to care a whit about an individual with a genuine and unmatched multi-decade history of accomplishment - a man who set world flight records, for crying out loud! He just disappears and shortly thereafter, so does everybody’s memory? Something strange is afoot there . . .
One oddity is the lack of Internet fascination, which generally, gloms onto almost ANYTHING in huge numbers! But there are less than 500,000 pages listed on GOOGLE, for instance. There are a few ‘crackpot’ theories such as he must have wandered into Area 51 territory and was shot down by the Federales. But that is 350 miles from where authorities claim they ‘know’ he was.
Others think Fossett was muzzled either by the selfsame Federales for some other reason or perhaps, by terrorists. And course, there’s the famed ‘’Elvis Disappearance Theorem'’ whereby Fossett (like Elvis before him) just got tired of the notoriety and faked his own disappearance. Bull tickey!
Do you think that if tomorrow, one of the major Democrat or Republican candidates just ‘’up and disappeared'’ there would be no uproar from the public. Geeze - pull the other one . . .
It was also reported that during the ‘extensive search’ for Fossett (now ended) that they did find six previously UNACCOUNTED- FOR AIRCRAFT, including a wreck dating back to 1965. That in itself begs MORE questions:
1. Why did it take as long as 42+ years to find THEM?
2. Why has the press not told us WHO those victims were and/or were their bodies ever recovered, etc.?
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Here in Michigan we have the dubious distinction of having the absolute highest unemployment rate of all 50 states - 7.4% as of this writing. However, ask ANY employer in the mitten state whether he or she has any difficulty finding workers and they well tell you a real tale of woe. Nobody wants to work any more - truly! They would rather draw unemployment, welfare or start a meth lab.
And these days, some of those meth labs are LITERALLY in the back of a van or, in one case, in the back seat of a car. Naturally, every once in awhile one blows up and unfortunately, it is generally an innocent bystander that gets injured or killed - not the worthless perpetrator.
It’s gotten so bad that the once-common practise of youngsters (and oldsters who needed the $$) of scavenging for discarded beverage cans or bottles along the roadside for cash redemption can no longer be safely pursued: Too often, the things contain chemicals used in the aforementioned meth production and are dangerous - even lethal.
I surely do NOT endorse the current influx of illegal aliens, but I can see why many American business people are finding it necessary to hire willing workers with ‘no questions asked.’ Our home-grown citizens are rapidly becoming worthless! Over the years, I have personally observed how the correspondence from people interested in DAX products has changed drastically:
Once, people were genuinely motivated and self-reliant enough to TAKE ACTION! Nowadays, all that most want to do is chat, day dream and then go down to that aforementioned welfare office to get their ‘entitlement money.’
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Speaking of methamphetamine: On a recent nasty snowy-blowy morning I was in the midst of executing the first of two daily treadmill routines and noticed a local teevee station was listing the many school closings brought about by the overnight storm. One such was this: ‘’Milford United Meth Pre-school is closed today.'’
I emailed SuEllen and suggested that maybe, they were starting the youngsters down the path of degradation a bit TOO soon . . . seems like they ought to wait at least until the kiddies are in the first or second grade!
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On occasion (last week, as a matter of fact - in READER’S REACT) I have been accused of being a misogynist - a person who hates women. No, that’s not true: On principle (and from experience) I dislike BOTH men and women equally - until one or more of ‘em emerges from the morass of their fellow nincompoops and proves they are worthy OF liking! I can count on my two hands the number of such who have risen above the madding crowd in the past six months or so.
-Dean
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MONEY-MAKING: Mucho Mail Box Money!
The extraordinary success of Internet marketing has dealt a death-blow to many mail order publications, catalog companies and other once-popular and viable ‘mail-order’ (based) endeavors. Conversely, the need to tighten up operations of those still-thriving enterprises has never been more keen:
To eliminate waste of all kinds - whether it be in the area of cleaner lists, more targeted lists or to keep track of lettershops who are often called upon to do not only the printing of various package elements, but also, to prepare and ‘drop’ major mailings directly at the local post office.
We have often warned mailers of the unfortunate fact that even well-known and respected lettershops have been found to, well . . . CHEAT! Too often, we and others have seen where a mailer, entrusted with an enormous sum of $$, will breech that trust in a variety of ways - ways that can be discovered IF the necessary steps are taken.
That generally means, aside from scrutinizing the written documentation provided to the Post Office (by your mailer) that you install some sort of monitoring system so that in the days and weeks following ANY given ‘drop’ you can gather data proving one way or another that your mailer did in fact produce and send ALL of the pieces that you bought and paid for.
You see, ‘’there’s the rub,'’ as ol’ Willy used to say: The easiest way for a mailer to cheat you is to claim he mailed out say, a million pieces of your mail, when he actually sent out perhaps, only half that number - or even a mere fraction of that! The Postal Service documentation, you say? Well, all mailers have several clients - you are but one of them.
They are allowed to co-mingle mailings and as such, your costly ‘million-piece’ mailing may actually be part of one, two, or five, or six - whatever - OTHERS whose mail has been co-mingled to arrive at that million-piece figure. Each of you receives a copy of the proof of mailing form - each thinks they got their million piece mailing sent off to eager, wealth-drenched customers, etc., etc. . . .
When you tally up the exorbitant costs of printing, mailing list rentals, inserting/sorting and of course, POSTAGE - you can see where a single ‘rip-off’ (of a client) could add up to tens of thousands of dollars. That does not even take into consideration the lost revenue from sales that are never made - because many of the prospects will never receive the advertising literature!
ENTER YOU WITH MUCH-NEEDED HELP!
Let’s say that you offer a service whereby all those major mailers are provided assurance - no, actual PROOF - that the pieces their mailers send out - ARE actually sent out! What would THAT service be worth to a mailer, sick and tired of WONDERING if all his marketing packages are actually being printed and distributed? A PRETTY PENNY, to be sure!
All you need to do is establish yourself as a business entity that offers a ‘Mail Monitoring’ service whereby your clients will be given a series of ‘decoy addresses’ that you prepare in advance. The mailer plugs that data into his mailing list BEFORE sending the list to his lettershop. The printers/mailers NEVER know who on the list IS a ‘decoy.’ Only you and your client.
THE MECHANICS OF THE DEAL
The client tells you when his mailing is scheduled to be dropped and furnishes you with a sample of the actual package that will be sent. You then draft up a careful description OF the package, attach data concerning any key codes (for the list being used) and alert all your associates whose names and addresses have been given to your client FOR that upcoming mailing - to be on the lookout for it.
Next, after the ‘drop’ your associates who receive the specified packages will carefully document WHEN they received the same and send on to you for final examination and logging in. You prepare a comprehensive report which proves or disproves whether the lettershop has in fact complied and sent out all the packages contracted.
Now, there will be errors with ANYTHING - but statistically, if a mailing is to be sent to all fifty states, for example, if you have operatives in even half that many - selected at random - and only one or two packages ever ‘make it’ to one of your people - then, SOMETHING is drastically wrong and your client will have the proof of that.
This data can actually be used in law suits, if it comes to that - and believe me, it often does! Again, there is a huge amount of money at stake and unscrupulous lettershops know it.
Establishing associates in various part of the country can be easy and fun: Start with friends and relatives - other people you know in the mail order or direct marketing business. You may be able to work some sort of trade so that no $$ are involved. Your costs in any event can be very low - just a few dollars for each - as in time, they too will do fairly well, given the volume of ‘decoy’ packages they will be receiving and forwarding to you.
If you think about this idea, it’s really quite simple, yet provides a vital service worth a great deal to ANY mailer - large or small - and despite the inroads that the Internet has made, there are still many billions of pieces of direct marketing literature being mailed out each year - and that trend will continue for the foreseeable future.
Your service, regardless of your fees (which may range upwards of many hundreds of dollars per mailing) will more than pay for itself with each significant mail campaign that your clients undertake. There is so much $$ to be had from this that there is now a monthly publication called the ‘’MailBox Monitor'’ that fetches $895.00 per year! (Box 15299, Santa Rosa, CA 85402).
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HEALTH BOOSTERS: Startling Research Data - A MUST READ!
This is truly shocking!
The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) disclosed recently that there is a ‘dirty little secret’ about food poisoning, whether caused by E.coli, salmonella, campylobacter, etc.: Sometimes it can result in serious, chronic health problems - months or even years after the nastiness of the food poisoning is long forgotten.
And we’re talking about SERIOUS conditions ranging from arthritis and kidney failure to Guillain-Barre syndrome - and a shopping list of other debilitating diseases. Who knew?!
Well apparently, the CDC did - or at least, Dr. Robert Tauxe OF the CDC stated that, ‘’Folks often assume since you’re over an acute illness, that’s it, you’re back to normal and that’s the end of it.'’ But he goes on to say that ‘’The long term consequences are an important but relatively poorly documented, poorly studied area of food-borne illness.'’
Well now, get this: On the very morning that I got the above report it was only about 30 minutes before I was to leave to go to an area hospital for the second day in a row to have some tests done FOR food poisoning which I had been suffering for the past three weeks. But more interesting than that coincidence is the following:
In 1988, when my late friend Hameed and I went to Pakistan for the first time for a state wedding of one of his relatives, I contracted a horrendous case of food poisoning at a big outdoor celebration in Karachi. (Later, Hameed would tell everybody jokingly {I THINK!} that I had eaten several plates of broiled sheep’s eyeballs. Whatever they were, they sure tasted good!)
Anyway, the food poisoning lasted a full week and I was simply unable to leave my suite at the Pearl Inter Continental.
A few months later, back home in Michigan, for the first time in my life I started suffering severe arthritis symptoms which worsened over the ensuing two decades. Further, on my third trip to Europe with SuEllen in 1991 I experienced my first-ever episode of kidney stones in Brussels - initially thinking that it was merely a reaction to some delicious roasted chestnuts we bought earlier in the day from a colorful street vendor.
Anyway, I’ll cut it short HERE because I’d like you to go and read the full story, as there’s MUCH more you need to know - and perhaps, your personal medical practitioner needs to know, as well. Such as high blood pressure may result from food poisoning, acid reflux, hiatal hernia, DIABETES(!), colon inflammation and on and on.
Here’s the access URL: http://www.daxrich.com/food-poisening-unexpected-problems/
You MUST review this data - it may answer a lot of questions for you and yours, as it did for me and mine!
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PONDER THIS: Why Complicate The Subject?
‘’Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.'’
-Abraham Lincoln
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TASTY REPAST: DAX-Delicious, Easy, Fast & Healthy Lasagna!
Here’s my latest iteration of an all-time favorite recipe. This one was devised with taste in mind, of course, but we were also looking for a healthier version than in the past. I believe we’ve accomplished that - see what you think!
INGREDIENTS
16 ounces of either rice-based or gluten-free lasagna noodles
12 ounces of meatless ‘ground beef.’ Several brands available - Boca is one. 26 ounce jar of pasta sauce - any variety.
1/2 cup chopped onion
8 ounces of fresh sliced mushrooms. Use canned (rinsed and drained) ONLY if necessary!
1 tablespoon of minced garlic.
1/2 teaspoon of NO SALT
1 tablespoon of dried leaf oregano - crumble to release flavor
1 teaspoon of dried basil - again, crumble for best seasoning
1 30 ounce container of LOW-FAT ricotta cheese
2 cups shredded sharp (or mild - your preference) LOW-FAT cheddar
1 cup of grated LOW-FAT parmesan cheese
TO PREPARE
Cook the lasagna noodles per package instructions. Generally 8 minutes tops. Do NOT overcook! Rinse, drain and set aside.
Cover the bottom of a large skillet with water and heat. Drop in the onions, garlic and mushrooms and cook until the onions are translucent. Add the fake ground beef and IF you like, a teaspoon or so of SMART BALANCE for flavor, but no other butter or margarine product!
Stir in the pasta sauce, the NO SALT, oregano and basil and simmer for a bit whilst you find and vegetable-spray a glass or metal baking dish about 14 X 7 X 2 inches in size. I like the kind that also has a plastic lid which can be used (later) to cover and refrigerate leftovers.
In the baking dish, start layering the ingredients as follows; Lasagna (about four strips across), the meat/sauce admixture, more lasagna noodles, ricotta cheese, lasagna noodles, a layer of shredded cheese, more noodles and whatever ‘’extra'’ ingredients there may be: Ricotta, meat sauce, etc. On the very top, spread the parmesan cheese.
By the way IF you prefer, you may wish to switch the order of the two different cheeses - that, if you like a nice, thick, brown crust of cheese on the very top of the dish: I DO!
Bake the lasagna (uncovered) in a 350 degree over for 30 minutes). Personally, I use that time to go do my second treadmilling of the day!
When you hear the oven ding-ding remove the lasagna and allow to cool for the minutes or so before cutting and serving. If you have cats or dogs in the house - place the lasagna in the microwave (just don’t turn it on!) so the ‘ani-mules’ can’t get to it and ruin your masterpiece!
You can generously serve about 8-10 hungry people with this batch of tasty stuff! Or, when cool, cover and stick in the refrigerator - makes a great ‘go-to’ food over the weekend!
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WATCH YOUR BACK: Illuminating The Subject at Hand . . .
We suggest ignoring all the hype about fluorescent light bulbs. It all started two-three years back with non stop reportage designed to convince us all about the extraordinary benefits to our society as well as to our individual monthly utility bills simply by replacing all of our incandescent light bulbs with the new corkscrew-style fluorescent bulbs.
Sounded good but it’s not proved to be true as far as we can determine. We bought a truckload of the new bulbs in varying potency and at the first rush of availability they cost about four bux apiece - versus the ‘regular kind’ which we pick up at the dollar store at 4 for a buck!
Here’s what we’ve discovered over the past two years:
1. In certain key locations no matter how high the wattage the ’screwy’ bulbs simply do not illuminate properly. I kept upping the wattage on bulbs in my reading lamp but never could get enough light to read or write comfortably and was forced to go back to incandescent bulbs.
2. We blew at least two hundred bux on several different timer switches and even though two of ‘em specifically claimed they would work with the fluorescent bulbs - they did not. But rather than go back to the reliable incandescent bulbs for the timer-controlled light fixtures (MANY of ‘em outside), we trained ourselves to turn the lights on and off each day.
We are therefore slaves to the dang fluorescent bulbs. But not for long, as our two-year test is now completed and we shall go back to incandescent bulbs operated by a timer switch for the following reasons:
3. The new bulbs are supposed to last many times longer than the old style: They Do NOT! We’d guess that their longevity is about the same when used on and off daily. When they do burn out there are disturbing black-smoke areas around each of the two glass tubes at the base. One bulb actually blew apart but fortunately it was enclosed in a fixture so no one was injured. Had a devil of a time getting the base of the bulb cleaned out, however, and DID get cut doing that!
4. The biggest lie of all: We keep very close track of all expenditures and have discovered from our test period that the florescent bulbs which, as indicated, are everywhere except my personal reading lamp and the sauna which has a special 25 watt heat-resistant bulb, do NOT save any $$ whatsoever in the monthly utility bills!
Our conclusion: The whole thing was/is a flim-flam - probably, perpetrated by a collusion between the bulb manufacturers looking for a way to sell tens of millions of way over-priced product and a bunch of do-gooder ‘greenie’ types seeking yet another hook to get some free publicity.
All of this is pretty much tantamount to our findings we reported on several months back concerning the much-touted (at least for a little while) Faraday flashlight. You remember:
The device that costs upwards of 20 bux that requires no batteries - just a whole lot of vigorous shaking. The result is a narrow beam of pale blue light that is utterly worthless. Better to get a regular flashlight for a buck and load another buck’s worth of D batteries - all of which is available at ye olde dollar store in every part of the country!
Here are two examples of why the incandescent light bulb should not be simply cast aside based on the mere ‘promise’ that the screwy types last longer:
1. Have told you before that about forty years ago a soft-spoken little gentleman came to my old office in Williamston trying to sell me light bulbs at a dollar a pop. That was pricey back then - especially, since the utility company provided customers with 100% free bulbs!
The little man persisted, saying that we would never have to change a bulb again and in hard-to reach areas that cold be beneficial. Nope, I didn’t buy BUT he left me one - free - and asked me to try it out and that he’d be back sometime to see what I thought.
I installed the bulb in one of the garage door openers, as I was having to replace them often there due to on and off use in cold weather plus the door vibration, etc. The bulb burned brightly - and apparently, indefinitely.
In the next several DECADES, each time we moved I took the light bulb with me as it never burned out. I would always install it only in a garage door opener.
About two years ago, the old fella finally was extinguished permanently after serving his final three years of life at BLUE HERON POINTE. We held a little ceremony. I wanted to bury him next to some of the cats (the dead ones, that is!) but S.E. thought that was sacrilegious for some reason . . .
Unfortunately, the little soft-spoken salesman never did return to my office and the bulb had no markings of any kind so we could not find the manufacturer to buy more!
2. Recently, when I saw my grandson, Stephen Louis, at a Christmas dinner, I told him about the ‘time capsules’ that SuEllen and I had started years ago for him as well as his sister, the Brit-Nic. Our plan has always been to give them the big plastic boxes whenever they go off to college. There’s a lot of toys and other stuff from when they were babies and toddlers, etc.
In Stevie’s, amongst a number of other intersting items, I placed three light bulbs that my Grandmother (Du Vall) had given me a lifetime ago. They are original Edison bulbs - the funny-looking kind - large, clear glass and with tiny filaments. They are literally well over a hundred years old - and all three still work!
In view of the above, it has long been my belief that light bulb manufacturers purposely make ‘em so they will burn out after awhile - otherwise, they would not be able to stay in business . . . like the little salesman who never returned to my office - PROBABLY, because there was no reason for people to buy his product if he kept giving it away! (Which is also sound advice for all females . . . )
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SHORT TAKES: You Say You’re Supporting WHAT Candidate?
$$$: We found this website interesting: www.wqad.com/Global/link.asp?L=259460
There, you answer 14 questions about YOUR views, concerns, opinions and what-not vis-B-vis what qualities you’d like to see in the next U.S. President! And then, lo and behold - very quickly - you learn which of the candidates (of both parties) fit your criteria best!
$$$: Do you have some old audio cassette tapes or even vinyl records that you wish were on CD format? I had that problem at Christmas time as SuEllen had been talking about a favorite group from her childhood called ‘’Four Jacks And A Jill.'’ Not sure, but I believe they were from either Australia or New Zealand.
No matter, but the only format I could find was an old 33 rpm long-play record. So, I bought it and had it converted into a CD, as we no longer have a phonograph around here anywhere! (Did you hear about the fellow who was accused of perusing pornography who exclaimed ‘’But how would that be possible? I don’t even have a pornograph!'’)
Anyway . . . here’s a reliable and nominally-priced source that I found for making conversions: http://www.cassettes2cds.com/
$$$: In the 1980s nearly 4 million corporate executives, administrators and managers lost their jobs. The next decade saw almost 3,000 people a day losing their jobs nationwide - from all employment sectors. Unfortunately, as we near the end of the current decade - the first of the new millennium - ‘working for someone else’ has become even more perilous.
Final figures will not be in until the dawn of 2011, but unless there’s a miracle in the offing, one would be well-advised to cast about for a sound, business proposition that enables YOU to ‘’Be Your Own Boss!'’ (And our popular book of that title is still available via the BOOK NOOK - see MENU BAR at the very top of this page - HA!)
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DAX-YAX: Rah, Rah, Rah - Sis Boom BAH!
NOTE: Feel free (and a bit motivated, perhaps!) to alter the names of the teams in the following little tale and then, send to your favorite sports-minded foes!
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Three football fans were on their way to a game when one noticed a foot sticking out of the bushes by the side of the road.
They stopped and discovered a totally nude female, dead drunk.
Out of a sense of propriety, the Michigan fan took off his cap and placed it over her right breast.
The Michigan State fan took off his cap and placed it over her left breast.
Following their lead, the Ohio State fan took off his cap and placed it over her crotch.
The police were then called and when the officer arrived, he conducted an inspection.
First, he lifted up the Michigan cap, replaced it and wrote down some notes.
Next, he lifted the Michigan State cap, replaced it and wrote down some more notes.
The officer then lifted the Ohio State cap, replaced it, then lifted it again, replaced it, lifted it a third time and replaced it one last time.
The Buckeye fan was getting upset at this and finally blurted out, ‘’What are you, a pervert or something? Why do you keep lifting and looking, lifting and looking?!'’
‘’Well,'’ said the officer, ‘’I'm just confused: Normally, when I look under an Ohio State hat, I find an asshole!'’
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As an apropos side note: About thirty years ago, when I lived in East Lansing (where Michigan State University and the Spartans football team is located) I’d keep seeing cars around town obviously driven by Michigan fans from Ann Arbor, with bumper stickers that read ‘’GO BLUE!'’ They were in blue and gold - the colors of the Michigan Wolverines team.
So . . . I had some special bumper stickers professionally made up and put one on each of our cars - as well as on those of the 56 employees we had at that time. The stickers were also blue and gold but read ‘’GO BLOW!'’
They became very popular and even since, the slogan is rather common in the ‘middle of the mitten’ - HA!
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