This Is The Week That Was for 06/25/07
The Naked Truth
While Troopers in Baton Rouge, La. were diverting traffic around an accident one driver, Bryan Batulis Jr., didn’t stop. When a trooper stepped out to try to stop the errant pick-up Batulis sped up and hit him in the leg and, before the incident was over, he tried to hit two more officers.
Troopers finally shot out the right front tire but the pick-up traveled another six miles before crashing into a ditch, where, it was discovered, Batulis was driving in the nude!
Batulis was arrested on three counts of attempted first-degree murder of a police officer; two counts each of reckless driving and aggravated flight from an officer; and one count each of resisting arrest and driving while impaired by a drug. (That’s it? What about being naked in public?)
“I guess Ol’ Bryan wasn’t batting his stick-shift in public; that might have been illegal.”
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“A Rose By Any Other Name…”
No matter how you want to say a candidate’s name, it would be the same… unless you say it in Chinese.
The Boston election officials are in a quandary about the spelling of names in the districts that are predominantly Chinese and must be spelled with Chinese characters… some just do not translate, well, not exactly that is.
Many names have no Chinese characters so what has to be done use characters that closely match the sound of each syllable, which, in some cases, loses a little in the translation.
Mitt Romney, for instance, could be read as “Sticky Rice”. Fred Thompson, on the other hand, would be “Virtue Soup”! (No politician I know of!) How about “Oh Bus Horse”? Uh, I mean Barack Obama.
Boston’s Mayor Thomas Menino, was really a winner, he had three translations; “Sun Moon Rainbow Farmer”, Barbarian Mud No Mind Of His Own” or just “Imbecile”. (I would say the last one sounded pretty good.)
As if things weren’t bad enough, the ballots have to be in two different dialects, Mandarin and Cantonese.
“I wonder what the Chinese character is for ‘Oh Sh**!”
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Beer Belly Run Anyone?
Only in Wisconsin do beer and exercise mix. Several hundred people laced up Sunday morning for a two-mile charity race in which suds were the refresher of choice. Competitors in the 19th annual Beer Belly Two might not be considered athletes, but they know how to have a good time.
"My kids are running it, so hopefully they're already at the finish line and I'll see them in an hour or so," said racer Doug Burmeister. "You know, there's a lot of beer stops."
The race has raised more than $350,000 for local charities since its inception.
Beer Belly veteran Mike Marin said this is one workout he can really get into.
"This way the wife allows me to have a couple of beers because you're doing something," he said. "A little exercise, you kill two birds with one stone."
“Kind of gives a whole new meaning to the Beer Run.”
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And That Was The Week That Was For 06/25/07.
So ‘til the next time remember, “It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.”
