Brad\'s Bobeche Blog

As many of the remaining loyal readers of the bbb (or b3) know Mr. Shane Adams was determined to be the winner of the April Movie Trivia Contest. As part of that reward for winning we are featuring the following comprehensive biography.

Shane was born on December 23rd. We are not sure of the year but our best guess places the year in the late 1970’s. Although he could easily pass for someone born in 1980, we are pretty sure he was born in the 70’s because he is about the same age as my nephew Aaron and I think AJ was born in the 70’s maybe 76 or 77? Shane is the quintessential metro-sexual male (see photo below). We don’t really know what that means but we read it on his blog and think it might be true.

One of his many fine qualities is that he is ebulliently enthusiastic regarding life and the promises it presents. He rates most movies with 4 stars. He has a tattoo on one of his legs (could be the right, but if it’s not the right it’s the left for sure!). We think the tattoo may be one word like “courage” or “perseverance” or maybe it’s a drawing of a parrot pushing a shopping cart through Best Buy getting some cool stuff. (Actually the reason this biography is delayed is we were trying to get a glimpse of the tattoo so we could be perfectly accurate, but after my staff got a look it, there was a disagreement, so we decided to go to press without a final answer on this one small bit of information.)

Shane likes to wear hats (again, see photo); this might be part of the metro-sexual male thing. He also loves a good Chipolte Burrito. I guess it’s redundant to say a good Chipolte Burrito, because by definition all Chipolte Burritos are good, most are great. He is the creator of the Olathe Community of Christ webpage and is in charge of updating it.

Shane is married to the lovely and talented Alli. If she ever wins a monthly contest on the bbb we will feature her biography. Let me tell you this much, it will be a barnburner.
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Yes! We here at the bbb are proud to announce that the March contest is bigger and better than ever! Our winner could be awarded up to one million dollars. As always the decision of the triple b judges is final. The contest is simple; I’ve purchased a powerball ticket for tonight’s 200 million dollar drawing. If I win I will give one million dollars or one percent of my winnings – which ever is smallest to the reader who submits the best idea(s) for how I should spend my winnings. Entries will be judged on originality, creativity, imagination, inspiration, ingenuity, inventiveness, resourcefulness, honesty, practicality, spelling and vision. (the vision test will only be administered after I’ve won the money because I can’t afford to pay for it unless I win.)

I know that a small few of the bbb readers might be thinking, “you might not win.” Don’t be discourage, if my some bad twist of fate I don’t win tonight I will buy another powerball ticket this month and you will have the same opportunity.

As if winning one million dollars isn’t enough the reader who submits the best idea will also have their bio featured on the bbb and a short profile of how they plan to spend their one million dollars, assuming we win.

Good Luck.

As a side note, we here at the bbb believe we are the only blog that is offering a realistic chance for their readers to win one million dollars. Just consider this a small token of our respect for you the reader.

Also of interest might be an internal discussion we held here at the bbb: we asked ourselves “should we also award one million dollars to past monthly winners?” After a rather complete discussion of all the pros and cons we decided that it would be intellectually dishonest and not within the spirit of the bbb to award past winners the one million dollars. Instead we decided that we will make all past winners eligible to enter to win the March contest, I’m certain they will all feel much better about this than just having one million dollars handed to them.

We have also decided to award the first person to post an idea 3 dollars, assuming I win the powerball this month.

Good luck and good night.

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The February contest is over and we here at the bbb are proud to announce the winner. Not surprisingly the winner is both a baseball and poetry expert. The winner of our third monthly contest, and to date the most difficult of all the contest held here at the bbb is none other than the multi talented Laura Beckman. As if the prestige of winning the contest isn’t enough Laura will also have her biography featured in this post and be given the opportunity to be a guest columnist at brad’s bobeche blog.

Laura grew up near Powell Gardens, but as far as I know she doesn’t have a green thumb. I have seen here wearing gloves so she may be trying to hide the green thumb, I’m really not sure and this fact isn’t very important for the rest of the biographical post. If there is one most important thing you need to know about Laura, I’m not sure what it is, I’d guess it has to do with her husband Steve and son Reece. Also important is that the fact that all three of them are baseball fans (Bo Sox and Royals) and they are raising Reece as a left hander because the Royals always need left handed relief pitching. Laura has a brother who is in college and plays the guitar, and a sister who is very good at playing one of those fancy instruments that you see in a orchestra, it’s either a stringed instrument or a woodwind, I don’t remember, but I did hear her it play it a few times and she is very good. If I was forced to guess I’d go with oboe or piano, but we here at the triple be don’t guess. Her sister lives in Wisconsin. Laura plays the piano and sings and I think she majored in music, if fact I’m almost positive she did! She is also the owner of the local Kindermusic franchise and she has a standing offer that anytime she needs my help in teaching a class on banging pots together she can count on me. Her mother also plays the piano and I’ve seen Steve sing in the choir, although I’ve never heard him sign a solo so he might not be all that good of a singer; but that doesn’t matter, he is a baseball fan. I have no idea if her father has any musical talent, he looks like he might play the banjo, but again because of the rush to publish this post, I haven’t had time to do any fact checking. Now that we think about it a little more we remember that her father did sing at here wedding, without a banjo! I know this is all very confusing; Laura is a very complicated person. I can’t think of anything else real important about Laura, she has a dog (I think), but I can’t remember the dogs name so maybe she doesn’t have dog. – or maybe she just didn’t pick out a very good name. Maybe it wasn’t a dog but a pair of hamsters named black and white. (If anyone else has any good information on Laura please post it below, thanks.)

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Congratulations to Laura Beckman for correctly identifying Travis Johnson as the author of the poem!