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Spreading the news, part 1
Puppy Bowl Drinking Game
It’s that time of year again, and Animal Planet is running Puppy Bowl before, during, and after the game. There’s nothing like twelve hours of puppies and kittens romping around, tackling each other, and drinking water, to beat out the Super Bowl for viewers.
And yet, even though this event is up against one of the largest beer-guzzling events of the year, we were amazed to find zero indications of a Puppy Bowl Drinking Game.
So, we’ve started our own. Please feel free to help us revise it in the forum.
Puppy Bowl Drinking Game
Drink once…
- Any time the referee comes out onto the field. (Take a second drink if it’s for a cleanup issue.)
- Any time Harry Kalas (the announcer) mentions “Puppy Bowl”
- Any time they break for commercial
- Any time they go to a shot of Bowl Cam
- Any time they run an instant replay
Drink twice…
- Any time Harry Kalas makes a statement about the excitement level on the field and they immediately pan to a dog that’s laying down doing nothing.
- Any time a dog falls off a lawn chair during a tailgate party shot
- Any time a single dog sprawls across the field logo and is the only dog in the shot.
- For the Drive of the Hour
B.C. put on alert for huge quake
It’s not very often that one sees scientists come out of the woodwork and predict future events with time frames like “next week”, especially for massive earthquakes (up to magnitude 9) in populated areas. But scientists in British Columbia just warned the emergency centers there of a strong potential (in earthquake terms) for a huge quake off of Vancouver Island.
Obviously, anything that would kill anyone is bad, and a quake of the expected magnitude is Really Bad. Adding to that, I haven’t yet seen Vancouver yet and it’s on my short list of places to visit. But the detached, Pennsylvania-doesn’t-rumble observer in me is really curious to see if the science has gotten that good.
Mel Brooks’ The Critic
Mel Brooks’ The Critic was apparently one of his first movies. I think I might use that “it’s symbolic of junk” line :)
In one ear…
Books
When the hardest decision that you can conceive of at a given moment is the decision on whether to re-read Dandelion Wine, which you adore, or to re-read The Martian Chronicles, which you adore, while soaking in a hot bath and listening to random music off of iTunes until it’s time to go to bed with the man you adore, you are living a good life.
I am living a good life.