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Snooki. Hulk Hogan. Finger in Butt Crack: Important News Here. UPDATED!

1 Aug

August 1, 2010

A few things have come to my attention this last month but didn’t rate their own blogs.
Among them:

ONE: Jersey Shore star, no, lets make that Jersey Shore‘s featured sideshow attraction, “Snooki,” was arrested for being drunk and disorderly on a public beach:

I’m sorry, but “Snooki”? To me, “Snooki” is the nickname of a World War Two veteran who smokes stubby cigars and sits at the end of the bar until closing time. “Snooki” rode in a tank and still wears his helmet on Memorial Day. “Snooki” has a buzzcut and won’t drive a German car. This tan piglet doesn’t deserve to be called “Snooki,” much less than she deserves all the blog space I devoted on her. Moving on.

TWO: Finger in Butt Crack Sparks Knife Fight.

DALLAS – A Dallas woman touched her friend’s buttocks, sparking an assault and attempted stabbing, police said.

The alleged incident happened at an apartment in the 1700 block of Trade Winds Drive in the southern section of the city.

According to a police report, 22-year-old Laquita Mattox rubbed a finger along the victim’s butt crack, prompting her to clench her buttocks. The victim claimed the clenching caused the bed she was sitting on to break, angering Mattox.

A fight ensued in which Mattox repeatedly hit the victim before grabbing a butcher knife and threatening to kill her. According to the report, she said, “Are you ready to die?”

The alleged victim called police and the suspect fled, the report stated.

Officers found no visible injuries on the woman, who refused medical attention.

It was not immediately clear if police arrested Mattox.

Can you come up with a better headline? No. Freakin’. Way. You know it- if you saw this headline in your local paper you’d read the article. If the local news channel teased this story you’d sit through the commercials for it. And if you were me you’d be trying to fit “that’s a knife fight in my butt crack!” into your blog with minimal success.

THREE: Found on eBay- Hulk Hogan baseball glove.

Remember when you were a kid and your Dad took you out to play catch? Or maybe you recall your first game of catch with your son? Either way, baseball, the Great American Pastime, has inspired millions of youngsters with the love of their game, and everyone has their favorite player. Be it old timers like Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron, retired heroes like Keith Hernandez and Curt Schilling, or future Hall of Famers like Derek Jeter and Ken Griffey Jr., every generation has its own players to look up to.

So imagine the look of pride on Dad’s face when he goes out to play soft-toss and his son is wearing this:

Watchoo gonna do, when a line drive goes wild on you, Brutha?

To quote Shakespeare, by way of The Maltese Falcon, news like that, that’s “the stuff that dreams are made of.”

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For those of you who thought you’d see Hulk Hogan with a finger in Snooki’s butt crack (or vice versa), I present you this picture of Hulk Hogan and his daughter Brooke:

Never play "smell my finger" with the Hulkster.

Hulk Hogan, My Celebrity Pickle Shill

18 May

May 18, 2010

Many, many years back, in the 80’s, long before Photoshop (and before I had a computer either) my family sold pickles at a flea market.  Yep, just like you’re picturing, sour and half-sour pickles in big barrels, along with pickled tomatoes and something we called “pickle pops,” giant pickles on sticks.

Honestly, it was boring work for a young kid like me, and there wasn’t much money in it, which just made it that much worse. Business wasn’t so good, and we had time on our hands, so we would spend a lot of time trying to come up with funny signs to try to get some attention to our booth.

As I said, this was long before Photoshop came along and we did everything the old-fashioned way with markers, scissors, and tape.

I was a big wrestling fan and we had a copy of the WWE (then WWF) magazine lying around the booth. I cut out a full-page picture of Hulk Hogan and taped in his hand a picture of a jar of pickles I cut out of an ad. I stapled it to a piece of cardboard and leaned it against a jar on the shelf behind us. To make it look “official,” I even added the WWF and Ba-Tampte Pickle logos. Of course, no copyright infringement was intended, and with one look it was obvious the thing was a taped-up joke.

As you can probably guess, the picture was a hit. People could not walk by without stopping to ask us how we got it. The Hulkster and the WWF were at their height of popularity. Everyone had to see the picture. Despite the obvious phoniness of it, I still chuckled and said “he loves our pickles.” We even flirted with selling a “Hulk Hogan Pickle” but we had a feeling that Vince McMahon’s lawyers might not see the humor.

Eventually we folded up the pickle biz, but I held on to the picture. I can’t say I have a lot of fond pickle memories, but this picture brings them all back.

way before Photoshop

The Hulkster loved our pickles.