It's been a pretty eventful first couple of months here at the blog. Before we jump into 2009, let's look back on some key events of 2008 through the eyes of three, nay FOUR dudes.
There are some things in life that nobody enjoys doing, like shoveling for example. Everyone has their own approach when it comes to shoveling. You have some people who do it right away to prevent the snow from piling up. Then you have some people who put it off until the snow stops so they can clear it out all at once. And then you have those people who just wait for the sun to come out and melt it all away. But for some people, not one of these approaches are good enough.
New Bedford, MA is the proud home of one of these people. Yesterday, a very very unintelligent man set his triple-decker home on fire while trying to melt the ice on his porch by using a blowtorch. Yes, a blowtorch.
I'm not quite sure what could have possibly been going on in his head when he thought that this would be a good idea. I'm sure the tenants in the other two apartments would also like to know the same thing.
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To everyone reading this blog, and to our loyal follower, I am proud to introduce myself as the Fourth Dude on "Three Dudes Write a Blog." Since I am single-handedly nullifying the name of this blog, it is my goal to contribute material that will add value to 3DWaB (as I am also contractually obligated to do so) and keep you coming back for more.
I look forward to sharing all kinds of hilariousness and shenaniganry with you.
BIG DAY on the blog. We have our first follower (check out her blog here)! And, we've added another dude. It's a little confusing since there are technically four dudes now, but we're committed to the 3DWaB brand.
Yesterday in East Sandwich, MA, a raccoon crawled into and clogged a chimney, inadvertently killing a 62 year old man. Cause of death: Carbon Monoxide poisoning as the home silently filled with the poisonous gas.
Key take-away: the raccoon also died. So, if you are ever cornered by a raccoon in a dark alley, find some carbon monoxide quick!
Shout out to Sara for the tip.
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Nothing says "Merry Christmas" like a beheaded Kris Kringle cookie jar.
He pulls it off! 2 titles in 2 leagues!
For those keeping score at home, that's 3 championships in the last 4 leagues.
Scientists have recently made an argument to overturn anti-incest laws due to the possibility that we all have really hot cousins incest may not be as detrimental to the child as we had originally once thought. Even Einstein and Darwin married their cousins. Um, yeah.
Am I missing something here? One of the "hottest" toys this holiday season is the reincarnation of a 1970's doll that leaks!? I lived with a pug for a year that had some anal leaking problems, and I'll tell you - it's no fun game of dress up and pretend.
You can't make this shit up (although I guess she can...): "Be careful, just like real life, sometimes she can hold it until she gets to the 'potty' and sometimes she can't!" A warning on the back of the box even reads: "May stain some surfaces."
Live potty demo here
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"Tired of the same dull and boring Christmas Eve?" Come party it up with the Jews at the 22nd annual Matzo Ball.
So, guilty admission: I attended this freshman year of college, got hammered, and made out with some girl whose name I did not know. Disappointingly, no soup was served.
Sorry. I know that one word doesn't quite make up for the fact that you were probably scrubbing your cab clean for 4 hours this morning.
Perhaps you can take some solace in the fact that while the mozzarella and lobster ravioli was great on the way down, it wasn't nearly as enjoyable coming back up at 120 mph, around 1:00am. I also yacked a little this morning during an overzealous teeth brushing session.
I hope we tipped you well. Wait, did we even pay? Or did you just throw us the fuck out in the middle of the street? I cannot quite recall. However, in all fairness, I also question your motive of picking up a patron who was earlier attempting to use his balls to hail a cab. That little tidbit I found out this morning. Surely, my mother would be proud.
My eyes are bloodshot, my head is cloudy, yet somehow I am still at work today. 5:30 can't come sooner.
Ok, it's about time I posted this. As many of you know, I am a huge dork. However, I'm also a huge dork that loves gambling. Enter Fantasy Football.
Just about every season is the same. Everyone has a great draft, all the teams are optimistic, everyone has dreams of make-believe football glory. But as the season lingers on, hopes begin to fade, star players lose their shimmer, Terrell Owens goes batshit crazy. It happens.
This year has been a little different. I barely made the playoffs in both leagues (#3 out of 4 and #7 out of 8). I had no expectation of winning anything whatsoever. Then inexplicably, I won the 3 playoff games thus far and I'm in the fantasy championship in BOTH leagues. Has this ever happened to anyone else, going 2 for 2 in both leagues, not to mention back-to-back in one of them? I don't count it if you're in 9 leagues and you win two (get a job, buddy).
Two final games this weekend. Here goes nothing.
How's that for alliteration?
There was a serious bet made this weekend at a party hosted by one of the three dudes (but not by the blogger who refers to himself as 1 of 3 Dudes...it was hosted by Matt, no the Other Matt...Jesus, can we fix these blogger names already?).
Anyway, two friends of the blog have made a substantial wager on a 1-on-1, one-mile footrace. The loser will be forced to wear the following:
http://store.americanapparel.net/rsaoh400.html
http://store.americanapparel.net/rsasd400mw.html#i
Clearly, this is a high-stakes bet.
Invite to the event below.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=43765386711
(CNN) -- Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich appeared in court Tuesday afternoon to hear federal corruption charges against him. He was released on $4,500 bail.
I think I'm willing to temporarily overlook federal corruption charges and the allegation that he snubbed a children's hospital's funding to give praise to a wonderful moniker that sounds like the noble offspring of Ivan Drago and a communist porn star.
Click on the image to enlarge. Some pretty good stuff in Santa's gmail.
Credit to Vince on this one
The concept revolves around a lonely calorie committing suicide. It takes balls for a megabrand to slap their logo on something like this.
Link via AdAge. Creative from BBDO Dusseldorf.
Somebody took the idea of scratch 'n sniff to a whole new level. Baby powder fresh scented cards except for the one "winner". A great concept, but kind of the most disgusting thing ever.
Q4, 8:33 left: Gotta hand it to the Steelers. This is starting to get ugly.
Q4, 2:44 left: Pick-nearly-six, and there's another TD. Ugh.
I'm thinking about calling beers "Tedy's," as in, Tedy Brewski's. Lame? Or witty? Lame, right?
Just stumbled across this hugely kickass tip from LifeHacker:
Use Google operators to find unprotected directories of audio files or files of type .mp3. As suggested by this Google Tutor & Advisor article, a Google search like this:
-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(wma|mp3) "Kleptones"Turns up several directory listings of Kleptones MP3's. Replace "Kleptones" with the artist, genre or keyword of your liking.
If you guys (and gals) have never been to LifeHacker, it's a great read. Check it out.
Where the hell did this phrase come from?
I had never heard it in my entire life until today, when I heard it THREE times. What the hell is going on? It's kinda weird how that happens - you go so long without hearing a word or phrase then suddenly it's everywhere.
It doesn't even make sense to me either. Driven snow? Call me crazy but I see "driven snow" every year by February. And it looks disgusting.
From a fellow blogger - poleriders.blogspot.com
The PoleRider Mission
Our mission is to raise awareness of the immense potential of pedal power and the imagination and to unite two great things that are even better together: bicycles and pole dancers! If you are driving, remember to look out for bicycles. One of them might be PoleRider!
About PoleRider
PoleRider is the first and only bicycle rickshaw powered mobile dance pole; a new invention that merges pole dancing and bicycles. PoleRider was engineered and built by three professional industrial designers to withstand immense leverage loads without failing. I strongly advise against trying to create a similar vehicle. Not only will you anger our patent attorney, you might hurt someone. Be patient; we are sketching ideas for a production PoleRider. This is just the beginning...
Thanks to Peeps for the heads up!
What's the healthiest city in America? It appears to be Burlington, Vermont.
Vermont's largest city is tops among U.S. metropolitan areas by having the largest proportion of people -- 92 percent -- who say they are in good or great health.
From CNN.com
So, I got one of the worst haircuts of my life two days ago, but I did choose to go to a Supercuts at 8:45pm on a Wednesday night. Does that nullify any right I have to complain? It was a sad scene. I have to think that's the worst shift to work and it totally was the D team of crazy locals.
Also, when you realize you're getting a bad haircut, is it better to somehow call it off half-way through or just let it happen? I'm debating just buzzing it off and making it winter hat friendly.
Wow, no posts this week.
We suck at blogging. Look for us to pick up steam soon...
ESPN.com is reporting that Adalius Thomas broke his forearm in the first half of yesterday's game, an injury that could end his season.
F%#&!!!
It's not enough that this defense features a weekly rotating secondary (seriously, when can I tryout?), but now it must do without its freak-of-nature linebacker.
In lighter news, it was a great week for Ellis' on the Pats:
Ellis Hobbs III: 1 INT, 3 solo tackles
BenJarvus Green-Ellis: 1 TD and 105 yards on 24 carries
Worst ads ever for Willow Creek Hearth and Leisure (hot tub manufacturer). Not only do these make me not want to buy a hot tub, they make me never want to get in a hot tub again.
From Wisegeek.com: "Asparagus, a green vegetable belonging to the lily family, has one notorious side effect for some diners who eat enough of it. Within a half-hour of asparagus consumption, some people notice their urine has acquired a very pungent odor, often compared to rotting cabbage, ammonia or rotten eggs. The effects of asparagus on urine are generally fleeting and harmless, but it's not necessarily the consumer's finest hour, bodily excretion-wise. The good news is that asparagus does not affect everyone. Studies conducted on the "asparagus urine" phenomenon (aren't you glad you didn't volunteer!) indicate that roughly 40 to 50 percent of those tested developed the distinctive odor. Surprisingly enough, there is also a segment of the population who cannot smell the sulphurous fumes of asparagus-laced urine. It is believed that both the generation of the odoriferous urine and the ability to smell it are based on genetics. Only those with a certain gene can break down the chemicals inside the asparagus into their smelly components, and only those with the proper gene can smell the results of that chemical breakdown." I always thought that everyone got asparagus pee after eating the veggie, but in college we came to the conclusion that our house was about 50/50. That being said, we were all able to smell the "odor." My question here is, for those who don't get the stink and can't smell the stink... does it exist in their world? Is that the new "if a tree that falls in the woods when nobody is around, does it make a noise" question? Obviously, I ate asparagus tonight.
After reading this, I have promptly decided to return my PS3.
I don't know what's funnier -- the post on Gizmodo or the stock image they used on the BBC site here.
I can picture an editor doing an image search under following tags: "sheer disappointment", "just think about baseball" and "it happens to everybody"
This is not a right-wing, anti-CNN post. I enjoyed their coverage last night (and the results), but I did want to share the following excerpt from someone much smarter than me about their "hologram" interviews:
CNN made waves on Tuesday night by incorporating three-dimensional holograms into its coverage of the U.S. election. The only problem was, they weren't really holograms.
"They were quite sophisticated, no doubt," said Hans Jürgen Kreuzer, a professor of theoretical physics at Dalhousie University and an expert on holography who watched the 3-D interviews. "But I immediately said to my wife that I don't think it has anything to do with holograms."
The CNN anchors were not really speaking to three-dimensional projected images, but rather empty space, Kreuzer said. The images were simply added to what viewers saw on their screens at home, in much the same way computer-generated special effects are added to movies.
Kreuzer said the images were tomograms, which are images that are captured from all sides, reconstructed by computers, then displayed on screen.
Holograms, on the other hand, are projected into space.
Boston.com - BREAKING NEWS
Massachusetts voted to decriminalize possession of an ounce of less of marijuana.
What?! That actually passed?
Who saw that one coming??
But seriously, I couldn't give less of a shit. I hate both of these candidates. If you have had the misfortune of turning on the radio or television in the Boston area at any point in the past two months, you've likely been bombarded with their attack ads. Pretty sweet since their running for New Hampshire Senate. The above ad is one of my personal favorites.
John Sununu, I hope you fall off a ladder.
Meanwhile Obama is projected to take Pennsylvania. Is that the dagger?
UPDATE: Shaheen wins!! (Still faking my excitement.)
Election Day is here! Woohoo! Get out and vote!
Several companies are offering sweet freebies if you vote, such as free coffee at Starbucks, free ice cream from Ben & Jerry's and free Krispy Kreme donuts.
Or, if that doesn't quite tickle your fancy, maybe you'd prefer a free tattoo removal or perhaps a free penis sleeve...you know in case you already have some hard miles on your existing penis sleeve.
For marketing geeks and lawyers: They can't actually tie the promotions to voting, it's super-illegal, so the promos are offered to everyone to, "celebrate the election."
Also, I'm not sure what the official policy is on political commentary over here at 3DWaB, but I'm gonna go ahead and endorse Barack Obama. The New York Times had a great article a couple weeks ago endorsing him. In case you missed it, catch it here.
National Geographic's 2008 Best Animal Wildlife photos. Look at the eyes in both of these shots. The macaque is my new desktop background.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/photogalleries/best-animal-wildlife-photos/
I’m a firm believer that a good sandwich can bring people together, regardless of political preferences, and two good sandwiches - well, the opportunities are endless.
That’s why I am choosing today to introduce the Sand-switch to 3-DWaB.
Sand-switching is when two people go halfsies on two delicious sandwiches and get the best of both bready worlds.
Some of our favorite combos:
- The Jessica Simpson: 1/2 tuna salad, 1/2 chicken salad
- Mo Parm, Mo Fowl: 1/2 eggplant parm, 1/2 chicken parm
- Sandwich Surf ‘n Turf: 1/2 tuna, 1/2 meatball
- The Rocky Ball-Boa: 1/2 spicy italian, 1/2 meatball
- American Idol (season 2): 1/2 reuben, 1/2 bAiken, Lettuce and Tomato
Do you have a sand-switch suggestion? We're looking to build the menu...
This photo was taken at my Halloween party last year. Days later, Robert Goulet peaced out. I can't help but feel a little bit responsible for that.
I propose the abbreviation for the blog is 3DWAB pronounced "THREE-DWAAB".
Look at how un-memorable October 30th was before 2008. Depending on how well this blog thing goes, we have a legitimate shot at being the most notable thing to ever happen on October 30th. It's already us vs. Orson Welles...
2008 Three Dudes Write a Blog is born
2001 Michael Jordan returns to the NBA with the Washington Wizards
1999 A fire in an illegal club in Inchon, South Korea, claims 55 lives
1990 Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein states that his country is preparing for war with the US
1975 With Spanish dictator Francisco Franco near death, Prince Juan Carlos assumes power
1961 The USSR tests a hydrogen bomb with an estimated force of nearly 60 megatons
1945 India joins the United Nations
1938 Orson Welles broadcasts a dramatization of War of the Worlds; panic ensues in US
1918 The Republic of Czechoslovakia is proclaimed
1912 US Vice President John Sherman dies in office
1611 King Charles IX of Sweden dies
http://www.golf.com/golf/tours_news/article/0,28136,1855840,00.html
This is all a big misunderstanding. Everybody knows that John Daly sleeps with his eyes open. Just like everybody knows that John Daly loves Hooters.
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