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Monday, April 11, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
And The Winner Is...
Romeo, oh Romeo! Here art thou Romeo!
Romeo, a native of South Africa, whose mother Linda is the author of the excellent food and wine blog known as The Squashed Tomato (that's a live link folks, be careful!), earned taken top honors in The LG Report's Second Annual Cutest Pet Contest.
LG has taken the liberty of rotating the original photo of heartthrob Romeo so that you can see him straight up, sorta. A nice bag of premium dog treats will soon by winging its way to Romeo's South African home from The LG Report's Corporate Headquarters.
LG and the entire staff here at The LG Report would like to thank all of the adorable entrants and their parents for submitting their photos to the contest. More than one person commented that all of the competitors were cute, and that they were all winners. Very true, very true. Hopefully you all enjoyed seeing the great pictures of all the cuties. We really did have a high-quality field this year.
LG closes out the contest with this bit of wisdom, taken from a sign hanging in his sister MIG's TV room: "Be the kind of person that your dog thinks you are." Amen.
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LG would like to give a hearty and heartfelt shout-out to his blogging friend Carol, author of the seriously entertaining Facing 50 With Humour.
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| We stole this photo of Carol from her blog. Hopefully, she doesn't mind. |
LG never visits Carol's blog without harvesting both laughs and knowledge. Based in the U.K., Carol offers some very amusing insights on life (marriage seems to be one of her specialties) and can certainly turn a phrase (more on that in a minute.)
Carol was kind enough to create a "blog button" for LG, which, LG believes, is something that you can copy and import to your own blog if you're so inclined (we know you're not, don't say it...) That's it over in the right hand column, featuring the picture of the relaxing dog.
Anyway, LG cannot thank Carol enough for her generosity and support and he strongly suggests that you stop by her blog if you haven't already, it's awesome. Oh, and about Carol's phraseology. When giving LG instructions on how to get the blog button set up, she finished with the phrase "And then Bob's your uncle." This, apparently, is what people say in the U.K. when they've finished giving instructions on how to do something (Google it if you don't believe.)
LG had never heard the phrase before and finds it fascinating. Hopefully, you do too.
So, once again, thanks to all of the pets and their parents for participating in the contest, and a very special thanks to Carol for creating The LG Report's blog button. LG isn't exactly sure, but he thinks that you can just place your cursor over the button and right click on "copy" and then....Bob's your uncle!! (You knew LG had to get that in there...)
Thanks for stopping by folks, hope to see you back again soon.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Final Four: Rip Offs Galore
LG recently attended the NCAA Basketball Tournament's Final Four in Houston. Rip-offs were abundant, starting with his flight. From soup to nuts, it was one big Rip-Off Fest.
Here's a sample of what LG is talking about:
Airline Travel: Airlines are now in the business of nickel-and-diming you at every turn, only they aren't really extracting nickles and dimes, more like fifties and hundreds. Changing a flight will lead to immediate bankruptcy for most passengers. Continental, when we encountered turbulence, tried to pass the hat to collect a "Thrill Ride Surcharge" for the pronounced jerking of the plane. If we were on an ocean liner, LG would've sworn that we were being hit with a Violent Torpedo of Truth.
Soft Drinks At The Arena: In Houston, when the locals saw how much a bottle of Diet Coke was going for at Reliant Stadium ($4.75 for a bottle costing 99 cents in a 7-11), they immediately bottled up all the oil wells and started drilling for Diet Coke. Seriously.
Parking: It cost $25 for the privilege of wedging your car into a tight spot at Reliant Stadium. Twenty-five freakin' dollars. For that price, they should name the lot after you, which they actually did in LG's case:
Tickets To The Game: LG is too embarrassed to tell you. He's not even sure why he typed this in the first place. Let's just move along and pretend we never saw this...
The View For A Basketball Game In A Football Stadium: A total and unadulterated rip-off. Here's the view that LG had:
That's the basketball court way off in the background. And that large boom on the left that held a TV camera continually swung into our sight lines to block what little view we had. Except we did have a perfect view of this guy:
Painted Man. He looks like a wacko...and in this case looks didn't deceive. But he never totally snapped by running onto the court to hug a player or set himself on fire or anything good along those lines. That was another rip-off in LG's book.
LG could go on, but he won't. You get the picture. If you wanna be ripped-off, head to the Final Four next year. Unless it's on someone else's dime, in which case, it's a great time!
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The deadline for voting in The LG Report's Cutest Pet Contest is fast approaching (Friday, April 8th at 5pm Eastern Time) so get your votes in now (you'll have to scroll down to that post and enter your vote in the Comments section. The rules are in the posting.)
Thanks much for stopping by, we hope to see you back here again soon.
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Here's a sample of what LG is talking about:
Airline Travel: Airlines are now in the business of nickel-and-diming you at every turn, only they aren't really extracting nickles and dimes, more like fifties and hundreds. Changing a flight will lead to immediate bankruptcy for most passengers. Continental, when we encountered turbulence, tried to pass the hat to collect a "Thrill Ride Surcharge" for the pronounced jerking of the plane. If we were on an ocean liner, LG would've sworn that we were being hit with a Violent Torpedo of Truth.
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Soft Drinks At The Arena: In Houston, when the locals saw how much a bottle of Diet Coke was going for at Reliant Stadium ($4.75 for a bottle costing 99 cents in a 7-11), they immediately bottled up all the oil wells and started drilling for Diet Coke. Seriously.
Parking: It cost $25 for the privilege of wedging your car into a tight spot at Reliant Stadium. Twenty-five freakin' dollars. For that price, they should name the lot after you, which they actually did in LG's case:
Tickets To The Game: LG is too embarrassed to tell you. He's not even sure why he typed this in the first place. Let's just move along and pretend we never saw this...
The View For A Basketball Game In A Football Stadium: A total and unadulterated rip-off. Here's the view that LG had:
That's the basketball court way off in the background. And that large boom on the left that held a TV camera continually swung into our sight lines to block what little view we had. Except we did have a perfect view of this guy:
Painted Man. He looks like a wacko...and in this case looks didn't deceive. But he never totally snapped by running onto the court to hug a player or set himself on fire or anything good along those lines. That was another rip-off in LG's book.
LG could go on, but he won't. You get the picture. If you wanna be ripped-off, head to the Final Four next year. Unless it's on someone else's dime, in which case, it's a great time!
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The deadline for voting in The LG Report's Cutest Pet Contest is fast approaching (Friday, April 8th at 5pm Eastern Time) so get your votes in now (you'll have to scroll down to that post and enter your vote in the Comments section. The rules are in the posting.)
Thanks much for stopping by, we hope to see you back here again soon.
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