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2004 Most Popular Baby Names...

top three girls

Emma, Madison, and Emily...

top three boys...

Jacob, Aidan, and Ethan

i dont believe i have ever met a person named aidan or known any friends that named their kid that... maybe it is the name of the guy who put the list together... just a thought...

the full top ten

full aidan link..

A Little Bit of Advice

Everyone in America watched the first season of survivor, including members of the IRS. Therefore you would think the winner, Richard Hatch, would report his 1million dollar win, but then again yould be wrong...

Milkway and Mars: Jelous...

Nasa discovers Saturn's moon Titan has a "'creme brulee'-like surface." Vows next probe to come equiped with giant spoon.

Awww... Story Time

Nick Water's has no arms and cannot talk. and when nick was asked what he wanted for Christmas, he typed (with his feet), that he wanted oodles of Christmas cards. he since has recieved enough to keep georgia pacific in business for a long time. if you feel moved you can still even send one and support nick. as of now 128,546 cards have been sent and nick's card have even revealed mystery left unsolved...

"Nick also received a package from the Secret Service..., he has cards from the Wake Forest basketball team, the NBA's Orlando Magic, the University of Georgia, Miss Utah and Elvis, who confided to Nick he is still alive and in hiding."

any bc.com (fan or staff)artist willing to wish him our best?

I think I'm turning Japanese

If you've ever wanted to hear several random japanese people say your name very slowly an in a round robin syllabic sequence, do I have the site for you. If you type in your name into the box below, it will get the japanese characters for your name as well as the proper pronunciation.

Enjoy.

First name Last name http://www.japanese-name-translation.com

Video Clip : Ashlee Simpson get's booed at Orange Bowl

Because people have been talking about it, i've decided to post about it. Ashlee Simpson is probably the worst thing to happen to America in about 4 years. Her poor dad has decided that he will make all of America suffer by trying to push her bad performances on us whether we like it or not.

Previously, We covered Ashlee's beautiful tribute to Milli Vanilli on Saturday Night Live. Her father came to her rescue then saying that Ashlee had been sick and that it was ok for her to lipsync.

Now, At the Orange Bowl, Ashlee Simpson performed "La La", and the audience appropriately replied with a chorus of boos. I wonder how her dad will save Ashlee when she was booed off the stage, can't really attribute that to acid reflux.

Here's the video clip of the event. Format is Windows Media Player.

Matrix Pole Vault

From the makers of Matrix Ping Pong comes Matrix Pole Vault!

Our Papa's getting so old

Papa Johns is turning 21 years old. So to celebrate, they're giving away free pizzas. If you order 1 large specialty pizza, you'll get a second large 1 topping pizza for free. Considering it is his 21st birthday, would have enjoyed a large 6 pack of schlitz instead.

Link to the papa johns pizza deal.

Believable but unprovable

An interesting set of of responses to the question: "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?"

In my case, it's the fact that Bryant finds me overwhelmingly attractive.

Oh the Horror!

Thanks to Josh for this. He just got a gamecube yesterday and was browsing through the games and came across this. Find the Game that isn't like the others.

In case the link stops working, here's a screenshot courtesy of Hux. Click on the Thumbnail for the full view:

Small Oranges

Some people think bigger is better. Not this one, apparently.

And Happy New Year!

The future of our country or the Apple doesn't fall far from the tree

It's a good thing that the President's children aren't in line if something happens to the Pres.

I heard a story (from a reliable person) this weekend, about how one night at the WhiteHouse, the twins got drunk. Now that itself isn't the story, they do that alot. What they asked the Secret Service men, to do is the story. Suppossedly, they wanted to smoke (cigerates), but not having a lighter, they asked the Secret Service men around them if they had a lighter. None of them did. So the twins then asked if the Secret Service men could Shoot the cigerates, to light them.

Kinda makes you wonder.... I mean one of them did go to any "Ivy League" school......

Tasty Computing

It may not be functional, but this creation puts us one step closer to satisfying man's eternal hunger for combining luxuries. I can already imagine viewing BryantChoung.com in gumdrops.

Man 1, Bank 0

Here's a truly amusing read for you guys. Patrick Combs received a piece of junk mail that changed his life. The junk mail included a fake check that said that soon he would be cashing checks like these. The check was made out for $95,000 and to his name. As a joke, he cashed it. And then the check cleared.

Read on about the amusing tale of a man and his run in with banks, bank law, and fame.

Cartoon Skeletons

Cartoon characters follow laws of squash and scretch that seem to deny any possibility of an actual bone structure. But what if you could see their skeletons...?

Bubble Wrap

have time on your hands, then check this amusing sheet of bubble wrap out!!

It's been a long time coming...

Sorry I've been busy working, for once. So here's somethings that I've been meening to post.

Tacobell is getting a little horny in its new advertising campaign. In case you haven't been to the T'bell recently, they have been putting "witty" slogans on their hot sauce packets. Things like "Polly want a taco?" or "My other taco is a Chalupa" or "Use your stomach, nacho mind" have been seen on these little packets.

Well yesterday we got this one:

It's a not so good image, but what it says is: "Nice palm. I read a great deal of pleasure in your future."
Hmmmmmm I wonder how that could be taken.

I also went to the Melting Pot yesterday for dinner, great place good food. And interesting names for their deserts. Like this one that made me think of a gay Terps fan.

Also I was watching football the other day and had to laugh when the Ref SHOCKED THE WORLD.

Been Busy Here's a quick update

I've been busy lately, haven't had much time to post stuff, nor have i found anything very interesting on the internet. There hasn't been anything postworthy until now, but i thought i'd wrap up a few other things in there too.

Ken Jennings What's a ho? video clip

While this clip is very funny, I don't see why they don't accept Ken's question. Since when do you hear people talkin about that nasty rake?

8 gigabyte Flash Memory Card

Don't know what to carry around with you on your flash memory drive? Why not everything? Weighing in at a hefty 8 gig, this memory stick will let you celebrate the entire collection of michael bolton, watch napoleon dynamite, sweep for spyware, or whatever your geeky heart likes to do pretty much anywhere anytime. I guess it's just a matter of time, before someone comes up with the brilliant idea of taking roaming profiles a step further onto Flash memory drives and makes roaming OS's. Wouldnt it be cool to just plug your flash drive into a keyboard, monitor and mouse and have your desktop? Linux open source crowd, anyone listening? VMWare people anyone listening?

HolidaysChristmas is coming
I for one can't believe christmas is already almost here. Now I have to think of what people should get me for Christmas. Although I might wish that people stop being idiots and let us sing Christmas carols, light Christmas trees, and wish each other Merry Christmas. Does it really offend people when a store puts up a religious icon in their shop like Santa? Seems like just about everything i do nowadays offends or hurts someone's feelings.

Present Ideas...

how to tell that special someone you care over Christmas buy them a giant microbe... my personal favorite is common cold followed by ebola... these are really nifty presents...

Every Post Can't be a Winner

i work out a lot and started on my second round of creatine this year today. my goal is to weigh 190 by Christmas. so i wondered if that would make me obese.

this nifty BMI (body mass index) caculator is the official way to know how many pounds you are from being obese.

currently my BMI is 29.0, only 1 BMI (or 8ish pounds) away from entering into the obese zone.

Tis the Season...

cost for a world class Christmas lights extravaganza: $150,000

[exhibit banned by neighbors]

cost to build 10 foot tall grinch statue: $2,500

cost to have that same statue point at the neighbors who banned your display and have the thing say "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.": Priceless

article with pics of the grinch statue

Happy Turkey Day!

The best thing about thanksgiving, ummm... the sales!!! the things that i dont like is i never seem to know where the good deals are.

this site, complies all/most of the deals being offered in Post-thanksgivingday sales, my favorite?

office max 200gb hd only 50 bucks

Detroiot

So the other day I was flying home from PVD (Providence) when I happened to see this flight going to the mythical land of Detroiot. I think it might be near Detroit, but I'm not really sure. Wonder if it left on time.

anyways I thought it was funny. Unlike this post.

Crime Doesn't Pay

Islamic Law states that thieves' hands should be cut off as punishment for their crimes. Apparently Thailand believes in a different sort of justice.

8.4 Million only buys double occupany?

how to party like a billionare. how to party like me.

For the Ladies

so in an effort not to be so male oriented i founds this.
its a quiz to tell which disney princess you are like, cus girls want to be princesses right?

btw im belle.

Trying to get Un-LOST

so i got hooked on ABC's LOST. its like suvivor/Lord of the Flies in sitcom form. sadly though i cant wait each week to find out whats going to happen so i found a site that tells what will happen on a number of crap shows like..

Charmed, Alias, ER, the OC, Joey, JAG, Gilmore Girls, Las Vegas, Smallville,

good LOST fansite.

Why I wouldn't mind going to China

Well it looks like its going to be another 4 years of fiscal iresponsibility, so I;m thinking of moving on out of this here county. Might go to someplace like China, cause they got some other good things going for them. Of course they aren't exactly a free culture...

Happy Halloween

Decided to dress up this year:

Post your favorite costumes in comments

Beaner Rocket

If you live in that Northern Virgina area and along 7 out to Leesburg around 9-9:20 in the morning, this is a car you might see along the way...

Ashlee's tribute to Milli Vanilli

For those of you who actually stayed up and watched all of Saturday Night Live last saturday, you were treated to some great comedy. Except it wasn't Will Ferrel or Horatio Sanz making everyone laugh, It was Ashlee Simpson.

Her first performance went as planned, she lip synced the song well. Apparently it went so well, that whoever was in the back room queing up the lip sync CD, decided to play it again. The problem here was that poor little Ashlee wasn't ready to lip sync her first song again. Not knowing what to do, she did a little jig and a hoe down while her song continued to play.

After that gaffe, she went on to say that's the problem with live performances. You just don't know what's going to happen. Now her Dad/Manager is coming to her defense saying that she was only lip syncing that night because of her acid reflux. Apparently it had made her stupid and her voice bad.

Step up to the Plate

Congratulations to the Red Sox. They've done the impossible and now they're headed off to the World Series.

During Game 3, they had these Mastercard commercial that shows Red Sox Fans telling how much they would give up for tickets to see the Red Sox in the World Series.

We had people giving up their first born, two months salary, their car, their COMPUTER.

Well now the Red sox are headed to the World series and I think its time for these people to step up. Here are some world series tickets on ebay.

Anyone want to give that guy 5600 for his first born so he can go to the World Series? Last time I checked you can't paypal children.

If you want to get your tickets from a more "legitimate" source. Here's information about the Ticket Sale going on today

One of these days...

One of these days John Kerry will learn how to Catch.

He should just run from the cameras whenever there's a ball around

Silly Pumpkins

In the spirit of the season. Thanks Chris.

Can't Wait

Looks Like Family Guy will return to Fox in March:

Here's the title list of upcoming Family Guy episodes:

#4ACX01 - North by North Quahog
#4ACX02 - Fast Times at Buddy Cianci High
#4ACX03 - Don't Make Me Over
#4ACX04 - Blind Ambition
#4ACX05 - Stewie B. Goode (Part I)
#4ACX06 - Bango Was His Name Oh (Part II)
#4ACX07 - Stu & Stewie's Excellent Adventure (Part III)
#4ACX08 - The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire
#4ACX09 - Petarded
#4ACX010 - Brian the Bachelor
#4ACX011 - 8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter
#4ACX012 - Breaking Out Is Hard to Do
#4ACX013 - Model Misbehavior

I can't wait.

Airplane Safety

I went home for the weekend on a flight on United Airlines. I've become accustomed to ignoring the preflight safety announcement, but this time I decided to pull out the placard in the seat pocket in front of me and follow along.

Perhaps United is following Southwest's footsteps in trying to make their safety announcements more amusing, or perhaps they just have bad artists that draw their laminated safety manuals. here are some of my favorites:

When Air masks fall, be sure to put your own damn mask on before assisting any small 30 year old dwarfs wearing moccassins around you.

In the Event of a water landing, remove your seat cushion, and go into the water. when the first seat cushion becomes wet and , go in and get another seat cushion, and proceed to take the exact same pose in the water, being careful not to disturb the waves at all.

If you are Jeff Foxworthy, or look like him from certain angles, we will need your muscle power in taking apart the plane. In the Event of a water landing look for a flotation device in the shape of a large red donut with a line through it.

In the event that the Pilot gets high and lands in a field. Make sure to get the hell out and use the hole that Jeff Foxworthy Made for you. Don't bother to take your hair curlers out. This is an emergency. Remember, Always Men and people with Deformed heads first, then women. We'll leave the children in the plane.

These Guys want to make voting machines

I went to the ATM yesterday because Chick-Fil-A told me I needed to exchange cold hard cash for their delectable chicken delicacies. So I walked up to the drive through ATM next door and everything went well. This was until I decided, even though I asked for 40 dollars, I didn't want all of it. Fortunately, This screen below reminded me to take all my money. Thank you Diebold. I can't wait till they make voting machines.

What does my Phone Number mean?

on this site you can enter any phone number and the site will tell you all the word combos your number makes. Therefore when someone asks for your number you can them a word to remember instead of a string of digits. This tool has helped me never to forget Noah's parent number yet sadly my cell phone number makes absolutely no words!

Absurdly Cute Eggs

Check out some dancing and singing eggs. I have to admit, some of the transfomation animations are pretty cool...

Are you lonesome tonight...

Everyone these days uses AIM. Although AOL seems to be dying, its free Instant Messenger Service seems to be the only thing going well for it. AIM is used to connect millions of people to make dirty jokes, awkward conversation, and to distract you from real work.

Now you can play a joke on your friends or on yourself if you're lonely, and have a computer program talk to them and have them send you the transcript of the conversation in an email.

You can choose between Stacey, Ashley, Jenny, Andy, Matt, or Steve. You can make them 15, 17, 18, 21, or 35. They can be from California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Texas, Washington, Arizona. Oh the possibilities.

Try it out here at the Chatting AIM Bot.

Joke Time

A cop is out on a friday night and he decides to check out the local "lovers lane"

He gets there about a quarter to midnight and there's only one car. As he looks in he sees a guy in the front seet reading the paper, and a HHHOOOTTTT girl in the back knitting.

"what the hell is this" he thinks, and watches for a few more minutes. Five minutes later theyre still there, the guy reading the paper and the girl knitting.

Finally he goes over and knocks on the window. The guy rolls it down, looks at the cop and says "is there a problem officer?"

"What the hell are you two doing?" the cop asks. "Well officer," the guy says, "Im reading and she's knitting."

"Listen wiseass," the cop says. "What's going on? How old are you two."

click on read more for the rest.

The guy says "well, I'm 23," then he checks his watch and says "and she'll be 18 in about 7 minutes."

mangled English

First off. Sorry about the last post I did that is no longer up.

Second off I've found some writings that are just bad enough to to be pretty much eligible for the bulwer-lytton fiction contest. (which is a contest for the worst first sentance of a novel). Anyways these were perported to be from high school english papers, but I can seem myself writing some of them.

The following are actual winning analogies in the "worst
analogies ever written in a high school essay" contest

The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.

McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty Bag filled with vegetable soup.

They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.

He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.

From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and "Jeopardy" comes on at 7pm instead of 7:30.

Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.

Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.

Bob was as perplexed as a hacker who means to access T:\flw.quid55328.com\aaakk/ch@ung but gets T:\flw.quidaaak/ch@ng by mistake.

The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be burried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man."

Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36pm traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19pm at a speed of 35 mph.

The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr. Pepper can.

John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

The thunder was ominous-sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.

His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a drier without "Cling-Free."

He was as tall as a six-foot three-inch tree.

The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red crayola crayon.

Cock Soup

While frittering away the day at work, I came across these wonderful examples of engrish food.

Wonder if the soup Nazi ever said "No cock for you".


or


Does anybody else notice how small those cocks are?

How would you all like to taste my big milkly chocolet nuts?

After a nice day of work, there's nothing I like sitting down to then a butt bread sandwhich.

Sounds like an interesting porn story.

Do you think that mini-dickmans is jealous of Meurisse's big nuts?

"Please mommy can I have some more improved shit mix? Because the old shit mix tasted like... well shit."

Catapult

Ever want your own catapult? These models will likely serve you quite nicely. The mini version may be more appropriate for your kids.

The Campaigns Drag on.

Insert your own comments.

Vice Presidential Debates

A non-partisan and nonsensical comic strip about the recent vice presidential debates was recently posted at my favorite online comic: Achewood.

Nog Alert

Everyones favorite Christmas Drink Egg Nog is about ready to return once again and delight us with its mysterious ways. yet i wondered why only in winter? and why cant i enjoy nog all year round? some people dont really have an answer.

P.S. drinking a diet of Egg Nog i was able to put on the freshman 25 my first year in college.

The Impossibly Cool

Escher is known for his drawings of interesting, yet impossible creations (i.e. the never-ending waterfall). Through some creative tricks, though, these people have made actual physical objects of some Escher drawings.

Twinkie Fun

Fun Twinkie "Science" Projects. And, not to be left behind, the weird stuff that happens to gummy bears when you leave them in a liquid for too long.

Strippers Wanted

Three Jacksonville college students were recently repremanded for hosting a party during which women were encouraged to dance on the mens' newly installed stripper pole.

When questioned about the pole, one student replied that he didn't intend to use it, but just wanted to "say we had a stripper pole."

The best part about this article is how naive CNN appears when they state that the men have since replaced the pole with a "pingpong table."

Why do Knuckles Crack?

at bryantchoung.com we aim not only to annoy with songs about milk and cereal or fake news. we also like to teach a lil science too.

Ahhhhh!

Looks like everyones favorite child actor, Macaulay Culkin, has been busted on Oklahoma for possession of Marijuana and some prescription drugs he did not have a prescription for. For some reason i don't think it's claritin.

And his life was starting to look better. After a decade of doing who knows what, he finally made another movie after Richie Rich. Oh well.

I'm sure theres a take home message here, some lesson that can be learned, but I'm too lazy right now to figure it out.

You can view his drugged out mugshot here.

Dough a Deer, a Female Deer

this short flash movie has great animation and great sound and plus we all have days like this...

Good writing

Sometimes I wonder what happens to English majors after college - looks like this one ended up writing bra advertisements for Target. At least he's enthusiastic about his job (but maybe it's a she?)... I especially like the part about "extreme groping and other high-impact activities."

All Your Base are Belong to Us

this is an oldie but a goodie and a fun video to watch. for the history behind it click here.

Movie Review: Hero

i went a saw Hero today and thought id review it.

I went expecting a Kung Fu flick with a simple plot yet that isnt what i got. The movie was something like a chinese version of pulp fiction mixed with philosophy with some fighting scenes thrown in to mix it up.

the whole philosophical question being asked is: what is worth dying for? if this question slips out of the mind of the viewer the movie will seem long and boring. if proper focus is kept and all events are seen with this lens the movie is extremely rewarding and one of the best ive seen... sometimes it takes distance to evaluate a movie properly.

rating: 9.5 outta 10

Things Overheard at the Olympics

Here is a list of things overheard at the Olympics. This comes from our e-mail correspondent Adrienne,

1. Weightlifting commentator: "This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria. I saw her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing."
2. Dressage commentator: "This is really a lovely horse and I speak from personal experience since I once mounted her mother."
3. Paul Hamm, Gymnast: "I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father."
4. Boxing Analyst: "Sure there have been injuries, and even some deaths in boxing, but none of them really that serious."
5. Softball announcer: "If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again."
6. Basketball analyst: "He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn't like it. In fact you can see it all over their faces."
7. At the rowing medal ceremony: "Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the IOC president is hugging the cox of the British crew."
8. Soccer commentator: "Julian Dicks is everywhere. It's like they've got eleven Dicks on the field."
9. Tennis commentator: "One of the reasons Andy is playing so well is that, before the final round, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them...Oh my God, what have I just said?"

Gone in 30 seconds...

if you're like me sometimes you just dont have 2+ hours to sit down and watch a movie. thus i offer you a site where bunnies act out famous movies in 30 seconds...

It's my birthday

It's my birthday today, and i'm looking for freebies because it's my birthday. In Providence you could get discounts at Spiritus Fermenti, Get a free cookie at Meeting Street Cafe, and Get a free scoop of Ice cream at Ben and Jerry's.

I don't know of any good deals around here for your birthday, but I sleuthed around the web and found out that Hollywood Video has a free movie rental on your birthday. Although this doesn't mean much in Beloit, where every single movie rental is 1 dollars. I think we may or may not be the only city in the country that has this ridiculous deal.

If anyone else knows of a good birthday freebie, leave it in the comments.

Lego my Lego

i cant believe people actually spend time building custom lego projects.

like a whole site of custom star wars legos
there are even how to guides and the monsters from movies
even a dope style pirate ship

and at some point when it turns from legos to full blown action figures a line of no return is crossed...

Work Life Vs. Prison

Another gem I collected in an office email. I'm on year 1 of life sentence.

Take the jump to the next page to get the entire list of comparisons between work and prison.

Just in case you ever got the two mixed up. This should make things a bit clearer.

IN PRISON.. You spend the majority of your time in an 8X10 cell.
AT WORK... you spend the majority of your time in a 6X8 cubicle.

IN PRISON...you get three meals a day.
AT WORK...you only get a break for one meal and you pay for it.

IN PRISON...you get time off for good behavior.
AT WORK...you get more work for good behavior.

IN PRISON...the guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you.
AT WORK...you must carry around a security card and open all the doors for yourself.

IN PRISON...you can watch TV and play games.
AT WORK...you get fired for watching TV and playing games.

IN PRISON...you get your own toilet.
AT WORK...you have to share with some idiot who pees on the seat.

IN PRISON...they allow your family and friends to visit.
AT WORK...you can't even speak to your family.

IN PRISON...the taxpayers pay all expenses with no work required.
AT WORK...you get to pay all the expenses to go to work and then they deduct taxes from your salary to pay for prisoners.

IN PRISON...you spend most of your life inside bars wanting to get out.
AT WORK...you spend most of your time wanting to get out and go inside bars.

IN PRISON...you must deal with sadistic wardens.
AT WORK...they are called managers.

And the Olympics are Boring

So tomorrow you will have a choice. You will get a chance to watch Male synchronized swimming, shot put, and speed walking, or a chance to watch a 2 hour marathon of The Family guy on Fox.

In a move to celebrate the return of the Family Guy to Fox in 2005, Fox is going to run two 2-hour marathon sessions this wednesday and the next. The two marathons will start at 8pm Eastern Standard Time. For those of you in Wisconsin, that's 7pm.

This is the first time Family guy has been on Fox in 3 years.

Here are some shorts from Fox's website to get you "in the mood". Albeit these aren't the best clips, but they insinuate something very beautiful.

The Chase
Crybaby
Jolly Farm Revue
Would you like to take a ride in my magical baloon?

hopefully none of our female readers need this product

in an effort to bring you hot new inventions, i give you this.....

Blow out your candles

Some displays of love can go too far. The story says a student tried to write "Happy Birthday" in Chinese for his girlfriend and lit it aflame to poor results. Not sure how long that phrase is in Chinese, but I bet the results would have been a lot worse if he'd done the whole thing out in English...

Bibles and Baseball

the Nashville Sounds minor league baseball franchise is mixing faith (Christianity) and America's past time. is the combo a good fit drawing more fans to the ballpark or is it merely a bad promotion reflecting badly on both the team and Christians?

one ESPN writer finds the connection distrubing. although from a strictly economic standpoint teams have all sorts of promotional nights my favorite being "9. Who Wants to Be a Turkish Millionaire?, The Nashua Pride used to give away a million Turkish lira (worth about $1.16) every night to fans who could answer questions of varying difficulty."

so with all the things minor league teams do is anything wrong with this?

Canadian Humour

Ah entering the workforce, sharing in joke emails being sent around the office. Life just doesn't get much better than this.

Here are a few excerpts from today:
Funny Canadian signs
Vancouver Dog sign
Eat more moose
Public Bar
Canadian Gas
sharp lookin sign
canadian ice

Ahaha...

Sound familiar?

Strange Florida

Has anyone noticed that a lot of weird stories end up coming from local6.com? Those weird Floridians... Here are some highlights from their slideshow: the world's smallest cat, the world's biggest bunny, another freaky woman with too many pets, and a a car crashed into a roof (check this one out for sure).

this chick is hardcore

this article on hangovers at msn starts thus:

"Q: Between work and family parties, I always wind up with hangovers. Is there a quickie remedy for recovering from drinking too much alcohol?"

first step in recovery, not drinking at work and who has family parties that leave them plastered? my only guess is soccer holigans.

Walk like an Egyptian

or if you can't walk like one at least you can talk like one with this fantastic hieroglypics generator...

Greetings from Europe

Hey guys, its me, everyone's 4th favorite staff writer at Bryantchoung.com I havent been able to bless you all with posts recently since I have been traveling across Europe. However at the request of Jesse, I though I would post a few of my travel stories and some pictures from my trip for anyone who is interested. If so, click the extended entry...

After a long and excruciating flight on Air India, I arrived in London, England.
One of the first things I attempted to do was sample some of the traditional faire, namely Fish and Chips. I looked around at some local pubs, and the prices seemed pretty reasonable, hovering around 6.95 pounds. However considering that the pound is worth approximately 2 American dollars, these were some pretty expensive fish. I settled with a pub called the “Brewmaster”, since I figured if I had the choice between having my beer brewed by a master and a non-master, well that’s not really a choice at all is it? Unfortunately Americans and Europeans have a different idea of what allows a beer to be ranked at Master status. You know that last half inch of beer left in your bottle of Miller High Life? The stuff that is all warm and un-carbonated? Well the English figured out how to brew beer so it’s all that way.
Despite the beer I was looking forward to fish meal. Well for those of you who have never been to Britain, and would like to sample a little of their culture I’ve got good news for you: the fish and chips there are the same as every fish and french-fry platter you have ever ordered at every Denny’s you have ever been to. There were only two differences between British and Denny’s fish. First – in England they don’t put up with naming their food stupid names. On the menu it clearly says “Fish, chips, and peas” instead of “Fishy squishy, fresh n’ deliciousy”. Secondly, in Britain you have the option of having your french fries with malt vinegar instead of ketchup. If anyone out there ever gets the chance to have your fries with vinegar, I suggest you pass.

OK and here is a picture I took in Geneva Switzerland. Its of the time when we were attacked by a giant skeleton at the Geneva Museum of Modern Art. Luckily there was a tour group of small children that the skeleton was able to feast on, allowing me to make my escape.

The Sun goes down on Michael

Looks like George Michael fans have lost their faith in George Michael. After Fans started posting negative comments about Michael looking old and fat and saying how bad his latest recordings were, he wrote a statement staying that he would shut down his discussion forums on his website.

He is quoted on his forum:
"I feel bad for those of you who have always been supportive, but I'm afraid I want nothing to do with the bitching that has evolved between some members, (many members), and perhaps unofficial sites will be a calmer affair."

What a little crybaby. He should take a lesson or two from Jesse.

It's time to move

Apparently we're living in the wrong country. Its time to move over to Hong Kong!

Does this look cool?

the answer is yes to me at least. one of the few movies i will go see this summer...

Hot Potato

Firefighters leave some potatos in the stove when they go out to fight a fire and when they come back their station is burnt down.

Iron Chef: I can't stop watching

its 2:14am in beloit wisconsin and of course im watching iron chef on food network. this show still memorizes me after several years. tonight they are cooking carp.... carp people and i still can't stop watching it. so in honor of this great tv show ive found some information and fansites about the show:

History
iron chef haiku
iron chef drinking game
foodnetwork.com has a copy of the drinking game on their site!!!
the music of iron chef
Iron Chef Breaking NEWS click on this one
own a piece of the show
a video game????

and now back to the show...

Strong Bad Emails and other neat stuff

ok im posting the obvious but to our non-computer-savy readers these might be new to them. homestarrunner is a great site with a lot of videos kinda like say veggietale but without all the christian overtones. personally i like the strongbad email videos and i hope you enjoy them as well....

my favorites

kids book
crazy cartoon
techno
teen girl squad

note there are secrets in the strong bad videos here is an almost complete list of them

Red Vs. Blue

this should be in the amusing at times catagory. at times this video series is funny at other times you wish it would end but either way its a good way to waste an hour or two. its a video series using characters from the halo games and it looks just like halo but with voice-overs. im sure all of our readers have already seen them all but i thought id post it anyways.

Note: the videos do contains some profanity......

Wow

I can't really think of another title for this one. the first private manned flight into space was completed today. and was funded by Paul Allen of microsoft. the flight went relatively well until one of the computers diplayed the blue screen of death. luckily the pilot made it home safe and in adittion to computers microsoft might dominate private space flight....

Worst Idea Ever!

even worse than the jump to conclusion mat are some of these....

MY IMAGINARY FRIEND and NEW ATITUDE

KLING TUT Travel Comfort Vest (looks rather like a straight jacket to me)

MAN GIRDLE

BEER CAN CHICKEN ROASTER (no kids its not a joke, actually this one might be a good idea, great late fathers day present)

FAMILY HAIR KIT (headgear just to trim your sideburns?)

Johnny-Light (this is scary a strange neon glow coming from the toliet good way to freak out some people!!!)

and im spent.....

We Got Shemales

well that title should help us to come up on google some more....

this guy who became a girl and married another girl tried to divorce his wife because in texas two woman cannot be married..... then the shemale tried to claim that he was a man and therefore wanted a regular divorce (confused yet?).... the conversation with the judge went like this:

"Are you a male or a female?" the judge asked.

"According to doctors," Carter replied, "both."

but here is what i dont get... to the best of my knowledge someone is male with an XY format and with all proper receptors working...

if someone is cleary born male without any of those hermathphrodite disorders shouldnt they always be male no matter what happens as long as they live?

like if i just wake up tomarrow and say to everyone, "im a female." does that make me one?

i say born a man stay a man, even if you do start to take drugs ,have an operation, or wear womans clothes!

A 2 hour tour

If you've got nothing to do why not head over to audition to be on the next reality show: Gilligans Island.

This reality show casting call is looking for people who will be the perfect "Gilligan, Skipper, Thurston or Lovey Howell, Ginger Grant, Mary Ann, or The Professor (just what was his name, anyway?)." They encourage you to fill out an application and come out to casting calls which are in currently announced in Boston, Kansas, and Florida.

The show will be based on situations from the real life T.V. show. The show is set to air on TBS. I think this show is doomed for disaster even before it sets sail.

Elder Bush trying to appear in X-games

The elder bush is skydiving to celebrate his 80th birthday. now you might think wow 80 i bet he will tandem jump but no.... the elder bush is a solo kinda guy.

the thing i like is that i dont see any democrat presidents cool enough to skydive at any age..... republican is the political party on the edge...

Much Love for Reagan

Come on kids lets put him on a ten dollar bill? or even better what about Mount Rushmore? What tribute is fitting of a man who destroyed communism, changed the world, and made being a republican cool? user who submits a photoshop reagan $10 dollar bill that is quality will recieve a free brycon..... noah judges quality........

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,122295,00.html

What's better than explosions?

So what's better than explosions? Implosions. Every year buildings need to be removed for bigger and better Super Wal-Marts to come in. When this happens, they bring in the demolition experts. Watching these giant buildings implode and tumble is pretty cool.

Why don't you head on over to implosionworld.com to read industry news, see photos, videos, and live tumblings.

S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G-B-E-E

Every year, there is the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Every year, this event is covered on TV and millions of American's get to watch the intense emotion and competition at this olympic event.

This year, the competition was so intense, that Akshay Buddiga passed out on stage. After coming to, he continued to correctly finish spelling his word. He later went on to lose first place, and become second place. Apparently he wasn't tough enough to beat David Tidmarsh.

David Tidmarsh won by correctly spelling autochthonous, in the 15th round. Cnn.com defines this word as indigenous. Which makes me wonder, if they're already a word for it, why make a more difficult word that is impossible to spell when you already have a word that has the same meaning. In the end Tidmarsh won 12,000 dollars. When asked what he wanted to do with the money he replied, "Get away from the damn dictionary, get out of the house for the first time in a year, and go Boozing. B-O-O-Z-I-N-G. Boozing.

Good Eats

So being just out of college I remember what an important part of life instant food was. I've lived off of the vast array of food products that can be freeze dried, and am curious as to why they can't freeze dry more. It's so simple, boil water add (stovetop | easyMac | ramen | minute rice ). And you've got yourself a meal.

For those of you who are tired of this just add water strategy, I've found this Ramen Recipe Repository Where you can find interesting ways to give your freeze dried food that home cooked touch. Because I've never tried any of these recipes don't hold me responsible of any of these recipes end up causing bodily harm. So don't throw a nasty injury claims style lawsuit at me. But somehow Ramen fettucine alfredo doesn't sound the safest.

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I'm off to Monaco

So I think I should take a trip to Monaco along with a big fat diamond detector. A race car with a 200,000 USD diamond crashed and the diamond was lost. It's out there somewhere.

First it was a dumb idea to put a 200,000 dollar diamond on the front of race car. That's just about the least secure place to put it. The second dumb idea was to put rookie Austrian Christian Klien behind the wheel. Klien had never driven at Monaco before.

Anyways, I figure it'll cost me 500 dollars for a plane ticket, And if I limit myself to 50 dollars a day, I can spend about 4000 days looking for 10 years and still make a profit.

My new dream Job

I think I found a new dream job. Being a patent clerk in Japan. From the sampling of inventions I see in this book, 101 unuseless japanese inventions , I can see why our friendly western neighbor is so efficient. They have a gadget or invention for just about everything.

It's such a different culture in Japan that I cannot even begin to understand some of their phenomena. Here's a few other morsels I've seen over the years:
- Engrish.com A great source of labels, signs, etc that show the abuse of our language. For a culture that loves English words, you'd think they'd get the usage right.
- Japanese Vending Machines Apparently you can get just about anything from these automata.
- Lost in Translation An entertaining look at a couple of bored lonely Americans finding fun and love in Japan.

Natural Selection

Here's news about a couple in Germany that has been married for 8 years. They have tried having a child, but have been largely unsuccessful. After visiting they were able to figure out the source of the problem. The couple wasn't having sex.

I can't imagine what they tried in attempts to produce a baby, but I can't believe of after 8 years of trying, they didn't figure it out.

Apparently the couple came from families that had extreme religious views and they just never learned about sex. Maybe this is God's way of saying that this couple is a few fries short of a happy meal, and that the world would be better off with them not having kids.

Napolean Dynamite

I have a sneaking suspicion that this new movie closely resembles Bryant's high school years.

Water Camaro

Ah Before the big server crash of aught four those loyal readers of my site will remember my love of amphibious vehicles. Ever since the day I first drove the Boston Duck on the Boston Duck Tour, it has been a lifelong dream of mine to one day own a fine automobile that will allow me to travel from state to state as easily as island to island. I've reported on:
The Terrawind: a Amphibious RV
The Wooden Ferrari: a floatingwooden rendition of a sports car
The Gibbs aquada high-speed amphibian

I now bring you the amphibious camaro. Featuring a Subaru WRX turbo engine, it can do over 100 on land, and 40 mph in the water. And apparently it'll attract a girl or two in a bikini pretty quick too.

Olsen Twins

The Olsen Twins, former child stars of Full House, received recognition today for their work in television in the form of a star on the Walk of Fame. I haven't really seen the duo do anything worthwhile since their roles on this show, and even then they just had to look cute. Maybe the Walk of Fame is lowering their standards--or maybe they, too, are waiting for the twins to reach age 18.

Calling All Readers

...Randy, Brett, that means you. The chainsaw-monkey from our amusing icon is moving on to bigger and better things. Please log on to Threadless.com and vote for my design. A free sign-up is required.

Misheard Lyrics

This happens to me all the time. I'll get the lyrics to songs wrong. This happens because either I don't hear the radio correctly or I hear someone else singing the song with the wrong lyrics. Here is a listing of many of the most common misheard lyrics and the correct lyrics. Last night I was trying to remember "blinded by the light" by Manfred Mann. And would you know it? They're listed as "Funniest misheard" and "most difficult to understand"

Elton John: "Idol Voters are Racist"

Elton John, who apparently forgot who won American Idol last season, has stated publicly that the American public is racist.

Entrepreneurial monks...

Looking for a new printer? Try LaserMonks, your one-stop shop for all your Ink-Toner-Fax-Copier Supplies. These actual monks, of the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank, located right here in Wisconsin, started their "business" in 2001. They use their profit to support themselves and other charities by selling printing and imaging supplies online at huge discounts. These monks are sure to use remanufactured products that are good for the environment, since good stewardship of natural resources has always been a priority for monks. So, if you want to save money, support prayer for the world, support charitable service to others, and be treated with genuine care, LaserMonks is the place to go for all your printing needs.

Monks who save you money on quality products, pray for the world, and help those in need - it's a win-win-win situation any way you look at it!

Drawbridge Jumping

In a story that harkens back to the likes of Speed or The Blues Brothers, a man in Massachusetts was driving across a drawbridge when it unexpectedly began to open in the middle. Making the split-second decision to speed up, the man's minivan cleared the gap. The van suffered serious damage, but the man and his children lived through the fiasco unharmed.

Foxtrot

Sometimes Foxtrot is so amusing I need to tell everybody to read it. Check out today's for example. Bill Amend has some of the geekiest humor going on today. And he's appreciated. Check out his homepage where Buffy (SMG) herself sent him a note of appreciation. I need to start getting that kind of attention from SMG.

Tron Guy to Appear in Stuff Magazine

According to his web journal, the now famous "Tron Guy" has taken an interview with Stuff Magazine, ensuring his spot among other recent Internet legends. Tron Guy claims that he has to do another photo shoot because the pictures that appear on his website are "too low resolution." Forgive me, but I am honestly frightened to see this leotard-clad gentleman at any higher a resolution.

Virtually Denied

At a San Francisco Giants game a couple nights back, there was a mid-game "singles night" competition. After hearing the responses to a few of the questions, Jordan, the bachelorette chose bachelor number two. When bachelor number two was given the choice between an all expenses paid date with Jordan or a playstation 2, he chose the playstation 2. The men in the audience cheered.

Sorry Jordan. Sorry Bailey.

Alcohol at College?

Alcohol was recently discovered at a prominent state university, prompting investigation into the prevelence of drinking on campus. In response, Jesse cringes, Noah makes fun of him and laughs, and Bryant and Joe smile amusingly. Edwin unavailable for comment.

OK, stupid post. But I though the posting on Fark.com summed it up quite well: "Alcohol bottles found at fraternity. In other news, water discovered in Pacific ocean."

Seventh Grade Hazing

We live in a sad day and age when teachers can force students to take ritalin, but they can't discipline them.

Darren Daughenbaugh, a 7th grade teacher was arrested and charged with false imprisonment after duct taping two of his students to desks to discipline him. Anyone else see nothing wrong here?

420

420: a number which inspires joy in long haired, tie-dye wearing hippies nationwide. Why? Somehow this otherwise innocent numeral has been associated with smoking marijuana. There are myriad explanations for this strange affiliation, but luckily Snopes can sort it all out for us.

In honor of April 20th (4/20), enjoy yourselves, hippies. Just don't steal my Cheetos.

Watch out we're taking over

Christian night clubs are the hottest thing, well the hotttest thing if you like clubs with no booze or nasty grinding.....

from the article:

""The quality [of Christian music] today is so much better," says Bud Cool, who's hoping to start a club in St. Louis. "You don't have to be a dork if you're a Christian.""

w00t w00t we are taking over... noah be nice in the comments...

thanks to matthew for the submission of the link...

Shop on the Computer in the Store

Sure we all thought self-checkout at walmarts and stop and shop's was kind of cool, but it sure was annoying how the average american wasn't intelligent enough to decipher how to purchase an apple. The most annoying part would be to see this dumbfounded user's poor attempt at troubleshooting in a wrestling match of man vs. computer. Soon we won't have to wait for these battles to finish before we can checkout. Stop and shops are now testing a system that puts these checkout computers into carts so that you can scan items as you walk up and down the aisles.

What's going on fancy pants?

So we here at bryantchoung.com cherish gizmo's, gadgets, and new inventions. Here is a new invention that doesnt quite fall into any category we've covered before. It's called Fan pants and it's for Sports Fans. I'd love to pick Larry D. Kuhuski's brain and find out the process that went into coming up with these pants. His site contains lots of detailed images. I wonder how long it's going to be before we see these covering nationwide.

Brought to you buy our Advertisers

Some of you may have noticed that the website now has ads to offset bandwidth costs. Part of this program is using Google adSense ads that are supposed to generate ads that are relevant to the content of the site. One of the ad's I've seen recently is the Dial-a-cheater service.

Partly out of curiosity, partly trying to generate revenue, I clicked on the ad. The link took me to Acme Telephonics. Here you will find Acme Dial-a-Alibi and Dial-a-Cheater. Both of these services are based upon the ability of this "acme" company to fake a callerID number. I'm not too sure about the legality or morality of something like this, but I thought it was an interesting abuse of technology nonetheless.

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