April 03, 2008
Rutgers Holds Important Academic Event
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March 18, 2008
Media Just Like A Sad Puppy To Obama
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Obama and Hillary "Rodham" Clinton aren't just chilling in Philadelphia; they both have to go all over the state in order to get these people to vote for them and oh my God John McCain is going to be president, isn't he? Anyway, apparently while up in the Wilkes-Barre area, Barack Obama was mean to The Times Leader, the paper of record:
"Look, we’re not here to answer questions from The Times Leader all day," said Sean Smith, an Obama press official. "You will get releases as soon as they are available."
You take that, Times Leader! It is interesting that for once Hillary Clinton is the warm-'n'-fuzzy lovable, hug-able candidate and Barack Obama is Mr. Meanie. But Obama is the one the press is in favor of, according to conventional wisdom; even though he treats them like crap, they keep coming back like a dog. Aww, good boy.
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February 18, 2008
Super Mario Finally Defeated
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Last year, the Council on American-Islamic Relations wanted a little boy arrested and thrown in jail forever for calling the sister of one of the arrested a terrorist and punching her in the face. And now, the father and owner of the pizza shop says his life is ruined. It's the New York Post's fault, of course.
The demise of the pizza business began abruptly three days after Serdar was arrested, Muslim Tatar said. That's when an editorial cartoon in The New York Post showed two soldiers buying a pizza from a bearded, turban-wearing man with a gun. The pizza box says "Super Mario's Pizza," and inside, along with a pizza, are a bomb, stick of dynamite and hand grenade.
He also got a bunch of hate mail from idiots and lost a customer who said, "We didn't want to get involved with it." Now the shop is closed. Another victory over Islamic terrorism!
Dad of Fort Dix plot suspect says his life's in shambles [AP/Camden Courier-Post]
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April 04, 2007
Columbus Skyline Towers Over Philadelphia
In the last 2-3 weeks, coveted Best of Citysearch signs went up across town. (Citysearch is a Microsoft-owned bar, restaurant, nightlife et al guide, in case you don't use the Internet.)
And, uh, there's one little snag, as Phillyskyline.com's Brad Maule points out:
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Yep. Joe's Pizza of Philadelphia: The best of Columbus, Ohio.
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March 27, 2007
Scientists Finally Do Something To Help People
Scientists at the University of Maryland are developing a pizza they say can fight serious illnesses, such as heart disease and cancer.
Next up: Donuts that help you lose weight.
Scientists Claim Healthy Pizza Fights Diseases [NBC 10]
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November 17, 2006
Workers Trick Dim-Witted, Stamina-Impaired Robber
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It all started when the suspect went into the pizza shop, asked for a pizza, then demanded all the money in the cash register. The woman at the front, store manager Demetra Tsiakanikas, told him he's making a mistake. She then proceeded to tell him there was a cop in the back.
The man decided he believed her and ran out of the store. At this point, the juvenile robber was chased and caught after a few blocks by a pizza worker -- several of them chased him -- and then the police. But, hey, he almost got a full day's worth of pizza earnings without having to do any work for it! That should make him feel better for being outwitted and outran by a pizza parlor staff.
Pizzeria Workers Nab Would-Be Robber [CBS 3]
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October 26, 2006
Leftovers: You Say Upside-Down Pie, I Say Tomato Pie
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• Get the rid of a drug dealer without selling any drugs! Start your own business? No way! Just pick up a cheap car at Bristol's drug kingpin car auction, this Friday and Saturday. Bids as low as $20! (No, really.) [NBC 10]
• A study says that a bachelor's degree is worth about $23,000 a year. Sweet. Or, if you're a professional blogger, $23,000 less than that. [AP/CBS 3]
• A report out of New York City blames the free daily papers, including the esteemed Metro, for subway flooding. SEPTA hears this, comes up with a great idea for an excuse this winter. [N.Y. Sun]
• And, finally, Tara Reid is blaming her dating woes on her boob job. Yeah, I'm totally stealing that excuse. [NBC 10]
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August 24, 2006
'10!' Show Continues Pizza Party
For the past few weeks, we've been mystified by the mile-a-second, 25-guests-every-day 10! show, specifically its Papa John's pizza giveaway and its inability to set it up in any realistic fashion.
Today, it continues:
The end gets a little hard to see (especially on YouTube) with that breaking news update, so we took a screenshot the best part for youse.
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August 03, 2006
10! Show's Pizza Parade Continues
The 10! show on NBC 10 does a weekly promotion where they give someone a Papa John's pizza. Sometimes, people act really excited.
And, sometimes, they don't play the part quite as well:
July 21: And You Thought You Liked Pizza
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July 21, 2006
And You Thought You Liked Pizza
From the 10! show this morning:
I don't think I've ever seen anyone this excited about, uh, anything.
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April 26, 2006
Special Delivery!
There are no state laws against delivering pizza and dead bodies in the same vehicle.
And why should there be? Who's going to... Oh, right. Okay, so a Philadelphia man (naturally) was fired from his pizza delivery job in Feasterville, Bucks County (naturally) because, when he wasn't delivering pizzas, he was delivering dead bodies.
He didn't tell his boss this, but he happened to be pulled over by a police officer for an expired inspection sticker. The cop noticed the trash and gurney in the back -- no, he wasn't delivering both pizza and bodies at the same time -- and asked him what he was doing:
Lower Southampton Officer Robert Freedman stopped the Buick for an expired inspection sticker about 3 p.m. Friday, while Bethel was in the middle of his third or fourth Domino's delivery. According to his report, Freedman ran a check of the vehicle and found out that Bethel was driving with a suspended license.
Noticing the gurney and a bag of trash and wet clothing in the same area in the front where the pizzas had been placed, Freedman questioned Bethel about the items, the report said.
Bethel said that when he wasn't delivering pizzas for Domino's, he was transporting bodies in the same vehicle, Freedman's report said.
Police impounded the Buick and left the pizzas and sodas alone.
Wait, it gets better. If being fired wasn't bad enough for William Bethel, he then gets made fun of by his mom at the end of the article:
Bethel's mom, Toni Kijak, who used to transport live people for her own limousine service, burst out laughing as she read the police report about her son.
“This whole thing is ludicrous,” she said. “You were wrong, Billy, driving a car with no inspection.”
“Go ahead, Mom, laugh it up,” he responded.
Bethel, of course, wants to be a mortician.
I give up. I can't write any jokes that can top this actual story. Well, okay, a reader sent in this one: What if he got the deliveries mixed up? Well, kids, let's just open our pizza and AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!
Double deliveries draw attention [Bucks County Courier Times]
Photo by B.J. Winslow Props, which rents this thing. Awesome.
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Quickies: Long Beautiful Hair
• Noted bald Phillymag editor Larry Platt and PW's own Steve Volk now have bald guy synergy! Yeah, yeah. Me and the city's long-haired female reporters talk about how many times -- 100, each side -- we should brush our hair every night all the time. [Daily News, fourth item]
• Phew. Just when you thought the Phillies might actually put together an honest-to-goodness winning streak, they go and lose, 7-6, last night. [AP/Yahoo!]
• The gas crisis finally hits home: Pizza places might start charging more for delivery. Ooh, now you've hit me where it hurts, oil companies! [Bucks County Courier Times]
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March 14, 2006
Blogicized: Afternoon delight
• A second publication has called the Daily News the city's afternoon paper, which is, of course, not true. What makes it funnier is that, currently, the Evening Bulletin comes out in the mornings too. (I got today's edition at 8:30-ish at a newsstand.) [Blinq]
• Ugg boots and the women that hate to love them, coming soon to a theater near you. [Phillyist]
• I can tell you how Will Bunch's Daily News madness bracket ends: "Liberal blogs" wins the national championship. [Attytood]
• And pal-of-D-Mac and quizzo maven Johnny Goodtimes asks, What's the best pizza in Philadelphia? Clearly, this is a very important issue, so please weigh in. [Johnny Goodtimes]
• How do the Eagles rebuild? Why, sign the tight end of the mighty Bengals, that's how! [For The Birds]
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February 08, 2006
Operation Extra Cheese
There's an ad for a pizza shop in this week's South Philly Review -- like PW, owned by Review Publishing -- that kind of caught my eye:
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That's on page 14. On page 15, accompanying this article, is this photo:
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So that's how everyone's getting those guns -- through illegal pizza topping deals! Someone alert the police!
Still: A buck off a gun. That's not a bad deal. Hey, where are my scissors...
Stealing a piece of the pie [South Philly Review]
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December 27, 2005
An army of one
A story in yesterday's Inquirer noted that the National Guard is now now advertising on pizza boxes and offering free iTunes downloads in order to attract new recruits. Previously, the National Guard was a pretty nice option for some people, but now with the chance of being sent off to war instead of some training ground, well, the numbers in the National Guard are dropping like President Bush's approval ratings.
I've seen the three free iTunes downloads if you sign up for info advertisement before, but the pizza box setup has eluded me so far. (At left is an image of a pizza shop in China, so our boys know what they're fighting against!) The Inky says the ad has a photo of a young (presumably attractive) woman, with a message saying that if you join the Guard, they'll pay you and help pay for college.
The boxes mainly are placed at mom-and-pop pizza joints in college towns, a strategic move due to the "well-established pizza-ingestion habit" of college kids, according to the Inquirer.
All well and good. They have pizza, iTunes and a NASCAR team. But what's next for the new frontier of Guard advertising? A Northwestern prof has an idea: "I'd like see an ad with somebody listening to Mozart and reading Milton or Shakespeare."
Next up: National Guard pogs!
Guard turns to pizza, iTunes for recruiting [Inky]
Sept. 29: Had I known there was a war going on...
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