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[tmerton]

Happy Friday and k to all (even an appearance by Sum!).  Let us keep the House of Pizza in our thoughts and prayers.

I might just have to stop in at the House of Pizza for a slice on my way to the Red Carpet tonight.

Just try to be there when the police aren't.

[BDB]

I might just have to stop in at the House of Pizza for a slice on my way to the Red Carpet tonight.

As Mayor, you may want to show up and present the key to the MIACPP city to the happy couple. 

[TC]

Off to Madison for the weekend. Going to Hooters for the first time. I'm sure they will like me there.

[tmerton]

Off to Madison for the weekend. Going to Hooters for the first time. I'm sure they will like me there.

My favorite Hooters related story:



A Hooters waitress says a promised Toyota prize turned out to be a green subcompact -- Yoda.
PANAMA CITY, Fla. -- Oh, what a feeling. Toy Yoda!

A former Hooters waitress has sued the restaurant where she worked, saying she was promised a new Toyota for winning a beer sales contest.

Instead she won a new toy Yoda -- the little green Jedi master from Star Wars.

Jodee Berry, 26, then a waitress at the Hooters in Panama City Beach, won a contest to see who could sell the most beer in April.

Manager Jared Blair told waitresses that the contest was a regional promotion, according to the lawsuit, and that the top 10 waitresses from each restaurant would be entered in a drawing. The person whose name was drawn would win a "new Toyota automobile," the lawsuit says Blair told them.

In early May, Berry said, Blair told her she had won.

"I couldn't believe that out of all the girls who were entered, I was the winner," Berry said.

She was blindfolded and led to the restaurant parking lot. When the blindfold was removed, Berry wasn't looking at a new car, but a Yoda doll.

Berry said she looked beyond the $40 toy, hoping to see the car driving around the corner. Blair, she said, was inside the restaurant laughing. But she wasn't.

"A corporation can't lead their employees on like that," Berry said. "It's not good business ethics. They can't do that to people."

Berry quit the restaurant a week later.

She sued Gulf Coast Wings, owners of the restaurant, alleging breach of contract and fraudulent misrepresentation. She is seeking as compensation, the cost of a new Toyota -- the car.

Her lawyer, Stephen West of Pensacola, said he was also looking at false advertising statutes.

West said one other Hooters waitress verified Berry's story.

Berry said Blair knowingly misled them through the course of the contest by telling the employees he didn't know what kind of Toyota it would be -- whether a car, truck or van. The suit contends that he also told them the winner would be responsible for the tax on the new automobile.

West said those statements would go a long way toward defeating any defense argument that Berry misunderstood Blair.

The restaurant regularly had contests where management would come through with the promised prize, said Berry, who worked at Hooters for about a year before quitting.

Stuart Houston, a spokesman for the company, said it had not been served with the lawsuit yet and he would not comment.

[She later WON her case in court - after which the parties settled.]

[OzJohnnie]

Or a 100 grand.



(Idea borrowed from some joke file mailed around two or three years ago)

[wildcat11]

Based upon OB's marriage track record, I guess you can look at Ob's advise in one of two ways, expert or worthless. 

One, the word is advice, not advise.

Second, I was happily married for 10 years, 24 years total. Don't ask me which years, because it was 2 days here and 3 days there; it added up to 10 years. Anyway, I can say this: My time in Wed-lands lasted a whole lot longer than your time in Redlands.

OxyBob

HAHAHAHAHAHAH.  That has to be a zing classic.  HIYO!

[tmerton]

Someone should go check on things at the House of Pizza.  Did Fins stop by for his slice yet?

[Willy Wonka]

The weekend may be dead around here with fishing, weddings and golfing to be done...but I can't help but pass along this hilarious Ole info I stumbled across through a current player.

1. Deontae Hutchins didn't play against rival Carleton this year. I don't recall the exact timing, but I believe many attributed it to the injuries he battled through most of the year. Not true, according to my Ole friend.

Hutchins punched out RJ "That's how RJ does it" Jackson at a house party awhile back and was banned from Carleton's campus. Apparently, this included the football field.

Jackson, who was out cold after the punch, got his sweet revenge, however. He tracked down Hutchins' girlfriend's phone number and sent her multiple, um, suggestive text messages that may have included phrases like "a real man." The GF promptly showed Hutchins, who rounded up his entire Florida posse to make an angry run through Carleton's campus. Their Ole teammates got word of said plans and cooler heads prevailed — by separating the group through LONG drives around the city of Northfield. Who knew Malt-O-Meal had sedative powers?

It's almost a shame that the Oles have some good character people...cause that potential rumble sure would have spruced up the Goat rivalry!

2. One of the characters St. Olaf interviewed for its football position was some cat from Carthage College. Apparently, Greg Etter straight up told the hiring committee that Olaf's rigorous academic standards didn't allow him to recruit the athletes he needed to "run his system." I'm not going to make any dramatic conclusions about his statement, but I can confirm Carthage had numerous non-white players on its basketball team a few years back.

He was basically laughed out of the room...but later hired by Concordia University (Wisconsin). I wonder if they got the memo about that statement...

[retagent]

flash - You don't have to go all the way to Madison to go to a Hooters, there's one in Janesville. I think that's only about 20 minutes away, and about 45 minutes closer to you.

[OzJohnnie]

Well, the Hawks dropped their first game of the season to the Bulldogs.  Got spanked.  Beaten like a red-headed step child.  Anyways...

[OzJohnnie]

The weekend may be dead around here with fishing, weddings and golfing to be done...but I can't help but pass along this hilarious Ole info I stumbled across through a current player.

1. Deontae Hutchins didn't play against rival Carleton this year. I don't recall the exact timing, but I believe many attributed it to the injuries he battled through most of the year. Not true, according to my Ole friend.

Hutchins punched out RJ "That's how RJ does it" Jackson at a house party awhile back and was banned from Carleton's campus. Apparently, this included the football field.

Jackson, who was out cold after the punch, got his sweet revenge, however. He tracked down Hutchins' girlfriend's phone number and sent her multiple, um, suggestive text messages that may have included phrases like "a real man." The GF promptly showed Hutchins, who rounded up his entire Florida posse to make an angry run through Carleton's campus. Their Ole teammates got word of said plans and cooler heads prevailed — by separating the group through LONG drives around the city of Northfield. Who knew Malt-O-Meal had sedative powers?

It's almost a shame that the Oles have some good character people...cause that potential rumble sure would have spruced up the Goat rivalry!

2. One of the characters St. Olaf interviewed for its football position was some cat from Carthage College. Apparently, Greg Etter straight up told the hiring committee that Olaf's rigorous academic standards didn't allow him to recruit the athletes he needed to "run his system." I'm not going to make any dramatic conclusions about his statement, but I can confirm Carthage had numerous non-white players on its basketball team a few years back.

He was basically laughed out of the room...but later hired by Concordia University (Wisconsin). I wonder if they got the memo about that statement...

Pt 1 was entertaining gossip.

Pt 2, however...  I can't think of one way to read your post in a positive light.  Are you trying to confirm Etter's poor taste and judgment, or your own?

[justadad]

The weekend may be dead around here with fishing, weddings and golfing to be done...but I can't help but pass along this hilarious Ole info I stumbled across through a current player.

1. Deontae Hutchins didn't play against rival Carleton this year. I don't recall the exact timing, but I believe many attributed it to the injuries he battled through most of the year. Not true, according to my Ole friend.

Hutchins punched out RJ "That's how RJ does it" Jackson at a house party awhile back and was banned from Carleton's campus. Apparently, this included the football field.

Jackson, who was out cold after the punch, got his sweet revenge, however. He tracked down Hutchins' girlfriend's phone number and sent her multiple, um, suggestive text messages that may have included phrases like "a real man." The GF promptly showed Hutchins, who rounded up his entire Florida posse to make an angry run through Carleton's campus. Their Ole teammates got word of said plans and cooler heads prevailed — by separating the group through LONG drives around the city of Northfield. Who knew Malt-O-Meal had sedative powers?

It's almost a shame that the Oles have some good character people...cause that potential rumble sure would have spruced up the Goat rivalry!

2. One of the characters St. Olaf interviewed for its football position was some cat from Carthage College. Apparently, Greg Etter straight up told the hiring committee that Olaf's rigorous academic standards didn't allow him to recruit the athletes he needed to "run his system." I'm not going to make any dramatic conclusions about his statement, but I can confirm Carthage had numerous non-white players on its basketball team a few years back.

He was basically laughed out of the room...but later hired by Concordia University (Wisconsin). I wonder if they got the memo about that statement...

Pt 1 was entertaining gossip.

Pt 2, however...  I can't think of one way to read your post in a positive light.  Are you trying to confirm Etter's poor taste and judgment, or your own?

Point 1 was spot on and much more entertaining during the football season.  The first question at the time was: did Carleton's coaches talk to the Carleton admin to try to do anything to get the best players on the field that afternoon? The second question was did Meidter and company run up the score because they did not?

Point 2 is just typical WW.

[janesvilleflash]

Hooters a bummer. All the girls were younger than my daughters. I think they need to start a Hooters senior, where all the girls are over 50. Maybe they could call it Geezers.

[Rugman]

Hooters a bummer. All the girls were younger than my daughters. I think they need to start a Hooters senior, where all the girls are over 50. Maybe they could call it Geezers.

They already have one of these.  Called Denny's.

[Ralph Turner]

Hooters a bummer. All the girls were younger than my daughters. I think they need to start a Hooters senior, where all the girls are over 50. Maybe they could call it Geezers.

No, Hoooooooooooooooooters.