I've had some incredible moments of stupidity before but this one was such a winner I actually told people about it. I just found it that funny.
In August 2009, I went into my local McDonald's in Marysville to grab a bite to eat and I just beat the crowd. It's always a great feeling when you just beat a crowd arriving.
As I am sitting down and I see a Chinese woman walking around wearing a shirt. On the shirt was the word "HOPE" however it was separated on two lines. The first line said "HO" and the second line said "PE."
It looked like this, except it was a short sleeve woman's shirt.
I saw the shirt and I thought her name was Ho Pe.
It took me about 10 seconds to realize the shirt said "HOPE."
Avery was dying to box someone. She is the youngest of the original six children before Dylan came along and she is constantly picked on by the older five. This would be her chance to pop someone in the face and she wouldn't get in trouble for it.
So Avery (red headgear) squared off against May (black headgear.) May has a much longer reach than Avery and is four years older, but a stiff breeze will break her skinny self in two.
May got the better of her this time, but when Avery is ten years older, she will likely kick all their asses at once as she unleashes her fists of fury after years of torment. They better start being nicer to her.
Avery versus Madison, Round 2
May got Avery in the face and then ran liked a scared little girl as Avery went after her.
A storm was approaching and that brought an end to the fights that night, almost. There was one last matchup before the night concluded, but there is no video of the incident.
Stacy and Scott had gone inside with the baby and a few minutes later, Chloe came in crying from boxing May. They could not understand what she was saying because she was crying so hard, so Stacy went outside to investigate.
May had called timeout at one point while they were punching and Chloe stopped and put her fists down. May then sucker punched Chloe in the face and it apparently stung quite a bit.
The lesson here - Never trust May when she says timeout.
After getting a scolding from Jenna and Stacy for the dirty tricks, the Saturday Night Fights came to a conclusion.
Fresh off getting her ass kicked by her older sister Jenna, Amanda (black headgear) faces off against Chloe (red headgear) next. Chloe is the youngest of the three sisters and Amanda realized the disadvantage of being a softy, because she was afraid she might hurt Chloe by hitting her. As a result, Chloe faired well against Amanda.
Madison refereed the match in her Hello Kitty tank top because her referee shirt was at the cleaners.
Chloe lets out a squeal when Amanda just touched gloves with her before the fight. Then she backs Amanda up.
A quick time out came from the helmet is too big for Chloe is immediately followed by Amanda trash talking and turning into a gut busting punch as Chloe yell, "Let's go!"
This strategy works as Amanda must be wondering if she bit off more than she could chew again!
The approaching car signals the end of Round 1.
Amanda versus Chloe, Round 2
Round 2 opens with Amanda popping Chloe in the face and then she makes the mistake of standing flat footed and Chloe pops her in the face the snaps her head to the right!
Scott and Stacy are busting out laughing as this all occurs.
Chloe gets some good shots in the rest of the way against the slightly bigger Amanda and handles herself well except for having to constantly adjust the helmet as it covers her eyes.
Amanda's birthday was approaching last year while I was in Florida for two Springsteen shows. Unfortunately I was in Tampa and missed this event, but I was laughing my ass off a the hotel after the show watching this online. It was when I returned to their house on Sunday I got to discuss "Boxing Night."
It all started when Stacy asked the other kids what they should get her while she was in town that weekend as a birthday gift. After careful thought and consideration, Calvin said, "Boxing gloves."
All the other kids agreed it was a perfect gift.
Scott had an old set of boxing gloves in the garage and occasionally the kids would get them down, but because they had only one set of gloves, one person had the right glove and the other had the left. With Amanda's birthday approaching, it was the perfect gift. This way two people could each have a set and they could actually box!
They live in a nice gated community in Florida and my sister decided the best venue for the Saturday night fights was out in front of the house where all the neighbors in the nice community could also watch (and they really did stop their cars to watch as they drove by.) You can take my sister out of Fern Creek, but you can't take Fern Creek out of my sister. I told her that the community will move the gate so their house is on the outside if they are not careful.
Amanda is the middle child of Scott's three girls. Jenna is the oldest and Chloe is the youngest. She is the most athletic of the three playing fast pitch softball, but Jenna was still bigger than her and Chloe was almost her size. And as the videos show, she's got a goofy sense of humor as she cracked several jokes while getting pummeled.
For the first boxing match Amanda (black headgear) took a pounding just for the opportunity to hit her older sister Jenna (red headgear) with a couple good punches.
Scott refereed the boxing match between his daughters and Amanda is making jokes right off the bat. A pickup truck slowly passes by just 17 seconds into the video and I can only wonder what they were thinking. Jenna smacks the silly out of Amanda early on and Amanda still had not realized she bit off more than she could chew.
Amanda is a trip. Scott's yelling instructions to her and Amanda finally screams, "Shut up!" It can be difficult when sparring to follow someone's instructions. and she also got lucky that Jenna did not connect with the left at 1:33 in the video.
Jenna Versus Amanda, Round 2
In the second round, Amanda's talking trash, saying Jenna's going down!
As Scott starts the fight, she can't stop laughing because she knows Jenna's gonna smack her down again.
Jenna tags her at 1:31 bringing laughter from everyone.
The round concludes as a car approaches the boxing ring.
It was a typical conversation as we sat on the couch when we suddenly heard a loud thump on the floor in her bedroom. We looked at each other wide eyed and then a moment later Maddie was screaming bloody murder.
Stacy jumped up off the couch and ran in there and brought out the screaming 10 month old who had fallen off the bed when she rolled over.
"Shhhh!" she urged her as she tried to calm her.
She then looked up at me and said, "I can't believe she did that again."
"Star Trek" and the all the spin offs can be a very polarizing subject. People either seem to love it or hate it. I admit the cheesy special effect and overacting by William Shatner from the first series can be a turn off.
I began watching "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in college during it's third season. During season three through season five, it was probably some of the best written television despite being in the science fiction genre. It was not long before a group of us would plan the evening around it and watch it.
The next year, Rob, Chris, Jeff and Matt moved into a house that sat behind the Frisch's located at the corner of Brown and Stewart on the edge of the University of Dayton. I would walk down there and watch it with the guys every week. (Sadly, the house has long since been demolished.)
During the fourth season, the franchise announced there was going to be a new series called "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine."
The Episode
There is an episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" called "Cause and Effect." The Enterprise enters a time loop where they keep repeating events over and over similar to "Groundhog Day" which I believe actually came out two years later. The episode actually opens with the 45 second teaser showing the destruction of the Enterprise. It was thoroughly confusing to the viewer until it came back from commercial and you see the ship floating along only to be destroyed 12 minutes later in the same manner. Then it came back from commercial and repeated itself.
The Joke
One of the guys, Cort, had a class, so the guys were always taping it so he could come home and watch it after us. Either Chris or Matt told him the tape was sitting in the VCR, but then the following conversation took place.
Matt: "Did you know this was the last episode of the series?"
Cort: "Really?"
Matt: "Yeah. They have the new series, Deep Space Nine, coming out next year, so they are canceling it and tonight is the last episode of the series."
Cort: "Wow, I'm glad you taped it."
He turned on the TV and saw the opening.
Cort: "What the..."
Matt: "Oh my God! I forgot to rewind it!"
Cort went berserk thinking he saw the end of the episode and the guys could not stop laughing because he got more and more pissed the more everyone laughed!
And as much of a highlight that was, they also got to retell the story over and over to everyone who watched it elsewhere that night.
It was a great joke actually to play on a Star Trek fan.
In a move to try and refill the money taken from Social Security over the last several decades and prevent the inevitable bankruptcy of the retirement plan, the Unites States of America has announced they are selling the naming rights of our monuments.
YUM! foods spokesperson Dean Warner stood side by side with the President of the Unites States as the two closed a deal to rename "The Liberty Bell" to "The Taco Bell Liberty Bell."
"This is a huge opportunity for us to spread our brand name to people in America who may not have heard of Taco Bell."
"This is a wonderful opportunity for businesses to advertise as we follow the same business plan of many arenas and stadiums that sold their naming rights to raise revenue," said the President.
He added with a wink of an eye, "The next ceremony is going to be announced this evening, so I don't want to steal the thunder, but I think all Americans will be excited to see who bought the naming rights to the Jefferson McMorial."
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs answered questions after the ceremony, in particular, some of the corporations the White House is courting.
"We would love to be able to sell the naming rights to Mammoth Cave to Vagisil. It seems like a perfect fit to us. And the Grand Canyon, the biggest crack in the earth, we are hoping to talk Preparation H regarding naming rights."
