Archive for August, 2008

July winner announced! Help needed!!!

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

As those faithful readers of the bbb know, in july our announced contest was for the best use of the name “Bill Budroe” on a blog posting. My attempt was to get my friend more recognition on the web. The results put us in a very difficult position. Of all the postings entering the contest the one we here at the bbb thought was best and most creative unfortunately misspelled Bill Budroe and Bill Budro! What should we do in a situation like that? Our goal is to get more web hits for bill – and this didn’t accomplish the goal, but it was so well done!

After many cups of coffee and a couple of long nights around the conference room at the bbb world headquarters we decided to go with our heart and recognize Chels182 as the winner of the July bbb contest. This of course causes us extra problems because we now need to prepare a bio of this Chels182 person, and frankly we don’t know much about her. For this contest winner – and hopefully for this contest winner only, we are asking for your help, loyal reader, does anyone know anything about this Chels182 person that we can publish?

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An Even Dozen

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

As of this morning I’m ahead in the bet by an even dozen. A few weeks back Mr. Baseball was ahead by the same margin. I hope it’s not a pendulum that is ready to swing back in his favor. Truthfully, i enjoy winning more than losing, that could be why I win most of the time! In Mr. Baseball’s defense, he has been on vacation in Colorado with his family for the last week and I doubt he has been able to pay as much attention to the bet. I don’t know if he has another vacation scheduled this season, but I’m sure hoping that he has.

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Dirty Politics

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

The first Tuesday in November can’t come soon enough. I love politics and i try to follow the issues and I have to admit that I get very upset when one of the candidates “hits below the belt.” I wonder if this is what the founder fathers envisioned when they put this government together 210 years ago?

I’m currently reading a book about the founding fathers in which a story about the election of 1800 is retold. I don’t remember reading this bit of interesting fact before, but it seems to fit into the current set of mud slinging we are seeing. Durning the election of 1800 one of Thomas Jefferson’s supporters who was the editor of a major newspaper in Pennsylvania published a false story. This story claimed that John Adams had imported a mistresses from France and one from Germany. The story also claimed that Adams sent the one from Germany back. In a private letter John Adams credited this story with his defeat in Pennsylvania, which also led to his defeat for reelection. His theory was that Pennsylvania voted against him because he lost the Germany vote because most of the Germans were upset that he would send the German mistress back and keep the French one.

I guess we’re not going to see anything new in this election/

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