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Mr. Unlucky’s Almanack

Do the aphorisms and observations of Benjamin franklin and his Poor Richard still apply, or are we beyond hope and salvation?

Archive for August, 2007

…goes to whomever was responsible for creating the Pittsburgh Steelers’ first mascot named Steely McBean (pictured).
It gets worse in real life.  This idiot carries around a fake beam on his shoulder.
Give me a break!

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Flash back to 1998:  A smiling, beaming MLB Commissioner (or whatever he was at the time–head whore for the owners?) Bud Selig is ecstatic as steroid-ridden monsters Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa (who evidently did it all to get laid) were chasing the single-season home run record.  McGwire ends up with 70, Sosa 66–both "tainted" records.
Selig [...]

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Bored while attending an online faculty meeting, I flipped through my University of Southern California alumnae magazine.  Bored further, I checked the graduating class from the year of my master’s in journalism, 1981.
Two people were mentioned.  One person had accepted a position as a psychiatric social worker for the Los Angeles Unified School District (and [...]

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The Chicago Cubs are a sentimental favorite of baseball fans everywhere, but I have an extra incentive this year in rooting for the Cubs.
You see, the Milwaukee Brewers manager Ned Yost has to be the most arrogant person in sports, certainly on the nonplayer side and probably overall.
If the Brewers fall to last, I’ll be [...]

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