Thursday, January 28, 2010

State Of The Union Address, Avatar & The Ultimate Vikings Fan

I tried to stay up to watch President OH-bama last night, but it was one of the longest speeches on record. Who knew that when he says, "I won't quit", he was talking about his State of the Union Address. At around 10:15, I had to pack it in. Besides I couldn't take any more of Nancy "Bele Lugosi" Pelosi jumping up every five seconds clapping like a trained seal. I was waiting for somebody to toss her a beach ball, so she could balance it on her nose while clapping.

Did you catch Harry Reid yawning? Every time the camera was on him, he was yawning. I don't blame him. I was doing the same thing.

The Irish bookmaker Paddy Power had offered a long list of bets you could make online, on the speech, including which clichés OH-bama would say. The phrase "health care reform" paid the least at 4-1, followed by "as I stand here today" and "defining moment" (12-1 each). "Let me be clear" was 14-1, and "We have to make hard choices" was 25-1. In addition to those, there were some real long shots, as well. For instance, "Let's get ready to rumble", was 250 - 1, and "life is like a box of chocolates" was also at 250 - 1.

I have my own personal long shot here......I would've bet a huge amount of money that at no time during his speech would he say, "I'm coo-coo for Coco Puffs!" Sure enough, he never said it. Or then again, maybe he did say it. He might have said it last. Who knows? Everybody was asleep by then.

James Cameron's "Avatar" has officially become the highest-grossing film worldwide ever, beating out the previous record set in 1997. That was another James Cameron film, "Titanic". The really good news is he can do a sequel to "Avatar", something he could never have done with "Titanic". Let's face it, once the big ship goes down, that's pretty much the end of the story. Not much chance of a sequel there.

As I promised this morning, I wanted to make sure I got this guy's picture up for you today. Emmett Pearson is a 79 year-old farmer from Red Wing, Minnesota. He has not shaved his beard since 1974, and he says he will not until the Vikings win a super bowl. He started growing the beard in '74 when the Vikings lost to the Steelers in the Super Bowl that year, and added he will NOT shave it off until the Vikings win the big game. Any chances of that happening this year were shot down Sunday, when the Vikings lost to the New Orleans Saints. Pearson has five children, three of whom have never seen him clean-shaven. His wife of 53 years was praying the Vikings would win this year, so that he would finally shave it off.

Ironically, with this beard he's been growing for 35 years, he now sort of looks like a Viking.

posted by Denny  # 5:43 PM

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