This is not what I expected. Six weeks into this 16-week tournament, and even after my Ruck-specific team of “We Are Your Nemesis … Fear Us!” had a strong showing in Week 5, our team has only clawed its way up from 16th to 14th place among all trivia teams in all “Catch The Mania”…
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The Earrings
For weeks, I planned this vacation.ย A New York City holiday weekend with my girlfriend Nicole.ย Would we have time for this?ย Yes.ย Would we have time for that?ย Maybe.ย Can we get from Point A to Point B without hopping three subway cars?ย Possibly. And among all the plans that day was a trip…
Read MoreThe feel-good story that lied to you
Wow, there’s the story of someone who wrote a message on the tip line of a credit card slip.ย What is it?ย A message about how the diner won’t leave a tip because the waitress leads a lifestyle of which the customer doesnโt approve?ย Or is it a tip of over $5,000 as part of…
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K-Chuck Radio: Blame it on…
Have you had a rotten day? Are things just piling up and you feel like your head is about to explode like that one scene in Scanners? Well, don’t blame yourself. There’s others that can deserve the blame. And on this edition of K-Chuck Radio, we have some candidates for scapegoatism. JOHNNY JOHNSON AND THE…
Read MoreTopless woman chases gutless man through Kohl’s Department Store
I always wanted to write a headline like this. Okay… Let me introduce you to Jeremy Bradley.ย Bradley was at a Kohl’s Department Store in Kansas City, where he decided to do some “shopping” of his own.ย And by “shopping,” I mean that this gutless wonder sneaked into one of the changing rooms at Kohl’s,…
Read MoreJust in time for Christmas… it’s the Amish Mafia!!
Oh boy oh boy oh boy they’re back… this Tuesday night at 10 eastern. You can keep your Duck Dynasties and Honey Boo Boos… But Christmas just can’t be Christmas without Lebanon Levi King Stoltzfus bringing Esther Freeman Schmucker a goat… without Jolin Zimmerman, the moody Mennonite, showing that all he wants for Christmas is…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Blogs, December 5 2013: Ten Twelve for Thursday
I can’t resist doing this… I mean, the holidays are coming up…ย And normally I would do a “Ten for Thursday” blog post here.ย But today… I’m feeling frisky enough to do a “Twelve for Thursday.” And I’m going to sing about it.ย That’s right, folks, Chuck’s doing some karaoke to support the TU’s community…
Read MoreA conversation at the North Pole
Farther than any explorer has ever traveled into the arctic world … there stands a gigantic factory.ย Santa’s Workshop, as most people call it.ย It’s the largest employer in the Arctic Circle, and everyone, from the elves to the fairies to the winter animals, are getting ready for the big night – the night when…
Read More“The Littlest Angel” – the best holiday special ever!
Once upon a time (and by “time,” I mean the late 1960’s), there were televised Christmas specials that populated the big three television channels in our area – WRGB 6, WTEN 10 and WAST 13.ย We received the classics at that time – Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, A Charlie Brown Christmas –…
Read MoreWeek 5 of the 2013-14 “Catch the Mania” Trivia Tournament at the Ruck
I knew there was something wrong with this scoring. Follow along with me. Last week, my Nemesis team had an off night.ย No argument there, and as the team captain, I’ll take the lumps.ย We actually got knocked down from 10th place among all “Catch the Mania” teams around the Capital District to 16th place,…
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