Hit and run... almost

We had an interesting experience this past Sunday. We were driving home from a church, the name of which escapes us, but we do know the pastor's name was Victor Vega(we never saw that spelled so if that is incorrect you can let us know, Aunt Kara). We had a good service there and the people seemed nice then we went to their house where they fed us. Sis. Vega made really good empanadas, on which Andrew pretty much stuffed himself. Then they proceeded to bring out some kind of beets, an unknown variation of what looked like potato salad, their oldey classic tomato and lettuce salad, something similar to cole slaw, and cucumbers. But never fear, non-herbivores, or carnivores if you prefer, they then brought out chorizo, which looked a little suspicious due to the fact that they were about a tenth of the circumference of all the other chorizo we've seen down here and beef that we never hear the name of. The meal was pretty decent, but the empanadas were the best part, to quote someon from Louis L'Amour, "All things considerd it was feast." The people there seemed to be very generous and they gave Andrew, Anthony and Austin shirts that are the national Argentin soccer jerseys(I just love writing in third person).After sitting around and watching the Sponslers and them yak at each other for a while and getting in a few swigs of mate we left. That was where the real exhileration of the trip came into play. Andrew attempted to stretch out in the back, unfortunately he wasn't very successful, but he did manage to fall asleep for a while(I tell you third person writing can really get confusing). We belive Dad and Austin and Sis. Sponsler had also nodded off.We were driving down a freeway in pretty heavy traffic when suddenly Andrew and everyone else asleep were jolted awake, no that "jolted" was not meant as a colorful verb but a realistic expression of what happened. Sitting bolt upright we looked back to see a man probably in his fifties and a woman grinnig like the couple of apes that they were. Yes dear reader,(you have to love those Wally McCdoogle quotes) they had rear ended us, in case you are a little foggy on what we mean by that, Tony, here it is this rather dull fellow(can't you tell we're trying to be nice hear) came as James from Monroe would say, zippin' along about 75 mile an hour, then swerved in between us and a bus and couldn't stop in time thus running into the back the car. In your sane American mind you are probably thinking okay no biggie Bro. Sponsler and this other guy who for the sake of clearity we shall call, Bernie get out of their cars examine the damage done, exchange phone numbers, insurance information and pleasantries then we go on merrily down the road. However, there is a fly in the ointment so to speak, something to do with that whole sane American thing and the fact that we are not in America but rather Argentina where you can't tell the drunk drivers from the sober ones, either that or they're all drunk. So grinnig all the way our dear Bernie drives off. But being the great champion of truth, justice and the American way that he is and he was tired and stressed, Bro. Sponsler brilliantly feigns exiting the freeway while our man Bernie thinks everything is just peachy, and then in a surprise move swerves over accelerates and gives chase to the Bernie, without seeing the little crash you might just think he was an average Argentine driver. He rolls down his window and begins to shout something at him as our cars pull to neck and neck. Mabye they were exchanging cheerful greetings and their mothers' maiden names but that wasn't the impression we got. Anyways after much yelling and arm/hand gesticulation Bernie here decides to pull over. He gets out of his car and walks back to talk with Bro. Sponsler. As it turned out, there was no damage done probably because Bernie was driving an old Fiat tin/plastic can. Here we were chanting "fight, fight, fight" and expecting them to come to blows any minute, and all they did was exchange a few words and get back in their cars. Why after all that big, bad, burly, balding Bernie simply gets in his car and he was walkin past our car he bids Sis. Sponsler a ,"Buenos tardes, Senora." Anyway that was pretty exciting for a while, and we really didn't cotton much to Bernie.

Michael Jordan is the best

To accurately vote on this poll one must understand what all greatness entails. Stats, are big part of being a great athelete, but Michael Jordan went beyond stats. He completely rejuvinated basketball at a time when people were quickly loosing interest. He had an aura of greatness with him. From his style of play to the way he made fans feel connected to the game, he was simply great. Uncle Eli has already posted his stats, the only legitimate argument against him being the greatest player of all time is that he doesn't hold the scoring record. Kobe was not included because he is currently playing, and we honestly aren't sure he should be included in this question. In my opinion the current greatest player is probably Lebron James. While I wasn't alive or at least not very aware during Jordan's days as a basketball player, his leagacy is still present. I'm not sure about there not being good players in the 90's, Jordan's team wasn't very good. Jordan had an amazing love for the game of basketball, in one game he had the flu and Scottie Pippen literally had to carry of the court but he still competed and dominated his opponents, in his tenure with the Wizards, he scord over 50 in one game and was selected to the All-Star team, two major accomplishments for anyone, but especially when you're over 40.Kobe does not have the flash and glamour Jordan did and Lebron does. While Kobe shoots turn-arounds and fade-aways, MJ and Lebron are making defenders look silly as they drive past them for dunks and lay-ins. You don't get the nickname of His Airness for nothing. MJ was a great clutch shooter, defender and ball distributer. You also can't forget his jaunt with the Chicago White Sox, while he wasn't exactly an awesome baseball player, he was just as good as some current professionals, which is remarkable. You never see professional atheletes change sports like he did and be decent at the second sport. The Jordan brand of apparell only serves to further show his greatness, no other player in any sport that I'm aware of has had as much success selling shoes and clothing as Jordan has. I doubt any player sells as much in a year during his career as Jordan does even though his career is finished. Kobe has won a total of one championship by himself, the others were with a center named Shaquiel O'neal on his team, who was completely dominating, Robert Horry who had an uncanny knack for hitting huge three-pointers, especially against the Blazers, Derek Fisher who was also an excellent three-point shooter as well as being very capable of running the Lakers' offense and others that created more than just a supporting cast, they created a team that would have been very succesful without Kobe. Another thing is Michael Jordan didn't whine every off-season about wanting to be traded or demanding that someone else on the team be traded. Michael Jordan is by far the best, and I don't think Kobe is in the top five, probably not in the top ten. I don't think Kobe is even the best current player. The reasons Kobe isn't on the poll is one he doesn't deserve to be and two he is currently playing, we may do a poll on the best current player later in which Kobe would be included. I won't deny the fact that I don't like Kobe Bryant, I rather strongly dislike him, but as you should be able to see there are legitimate reasons why Kobe is not on the poll.
-Andrew

The poll has been edited

Sorry to all of you who already voted, but we missed a name that must be thrown into this argument, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. You must consider the all time NBA leading scorer in this argument. Again please accept our humble apologies. If you voted before Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was an option you need to vote again.

A Friendly Reminder

We would like to take this opportunity to remind all of you to please leave a comment with your name, vote and reasons(optional). Your cooperation is greatly appreciated. The new poll is something that should prove interesting, and ,Loren Joseph, you had better not vote for Kobe or Magic Johnson. We will probably post something concercing our opinions later.

Ducks are Headed to the Rose Bowl

Ducks win! Ducks win! That was a very interesting game. The Ducks kept turning the ball over and the Beavers went up by nine in the second half but in the end the superior team won. LaMichael James completely outperformed Jacquizz Rodgers. Before anybody tries to dispute that make sure you saw the game stats. Jeremiah Masoli threw for over 200 yards, and rushed for 40 yards, pretty good stats, but not amazing. The thing that stands out to me is his ability to manage the offense and create his own plays on the fly. He seems to have a knack for coming up with big plays, as does James for that matter. The Oregon defense wasn't stifling but almost completely shut down the OSU running game, and Sean Canfield and his bunch weren't able to get the ball into the endzone enough. I think Mike Riley should have kicked a field goal on that fourth and fifteen play instead of trying to convert. Justin Kahut had not missed all night. I am anxiously awaiting the Oregon-Ohio State Rose Bowl game. I'm not sure about the Beavers, but the Ducks are loosing three or four starting seniors, Ed Dickson(TE), Blake Ferras(DT), WIll Tukuafu(DE) and T.J. Ward. John Boyett has already proven himself a capable replacement for T.J. Ward. Ed Dickson may leave a hole, but the O-line, Masoli, James and the recievers should all improve. Now there's a scary thought for opposing defensive coordinators. Their defense should also improve. On paper, the Ducks should be better next year, which could create another interesting Civil War matchup next year. I also find it refreshing that of all things USC isn't going to a BCS bowl game. It must have really been hard on the BCS not to put them in a BCS game. I don't know what happened to USC's palsy relations with them. Boy, roses really are quite aromatic.
-Andrew

Results of the Poll

We are quite pleased to announce that the Ducks won both polls. The who do you think will win the Civil War poll was won by the Ducks 16-4. The who do you want to win the Civil War poll was won by the Ducks 12-5. We are glad to see that the majority of you have recovered your logical faculties after the last poll:-] Speaking of the Civil War it happens tonight at the one and only Autzen Stadium. We're sure you all already know our opinions on this game. No way are you going to hear any of the it will be good for the state whoever wins junk on our blog. Rather it will be great if the Ducks win and life will go on merrily, but if the inferior Beavers win we will be moaning and crying for the next 12 days until we get home. Wait a minute, only 12 days until we get home, well by George, it seems like just yesterday we were saying 13 days until we get home and the day before that 14 days. Whew, how time flies! Back to the Civil War, we hear the Ducks are pulling out some of ye oldey retro jerseys, let us hope it has the same result as the retro garb did in the Cal game.
Go Ducks!

Yeah, that's not good

We found ourselves in the unfortunate pickle of needing a haircut. Bro. Sponsler took us down to his barber. Ughh our fine hairs of head, no wait, that would be heads of hairs will never be the same. The guy picked Austin to go first and used a #4 on his poor hair, apparently Argentine #4s are different than Amercian #4s. After doing himself proud by nearly balding poor Austin, yep he's six and balding, no we aren't exagerrating, why if he keeps up at this pace he'll be completely bald by his seventh birthday or his next Argentine haircut whichever comes first. Anyone else notice the similarities between this and a car warranty commercial? Then the big, bad, brown and balding barber, no doubt his name was Bocca(now that is vintage Wally McCdoogle right there) grabbed Andrew and started slashing undiscriminately at the head/hair. Then Anthony hair got thwacked by the little big man. After we came out you couldn't tell by looking whether a couple of crazy rodents decided to wear their teeth down on the oldey hair, or if a "barber" had cut our hair. Just in case you didn't know rodents' teeth never stop growing thus they must gnaw on things to keep their teeth from growing to the length that they can't eat. See how educational our blog can be? We ask you where would the world be today without rodents sniff sniff, heh we got all you Odyssey bluffs with that one didn't we? While we're not exactly sure what the position of global affairs would be, we're pretty sure that everyone's hair would be a lot safer, especially in Argentina. We do have to give the barber this, he was a hand with a pair of scissors and a pocket full of combs. Unfortunately, he wasn't too picky about getting both sides of the hair the same length, or even bothering with the front at all.

Sorry..

Sorry it's been so long since we posted, we're on our knees, begging you to no- er forgive us. We really will post something soon, perhaps tomorrow.

Suggestion Recieved

At the suggestion of our esteemed uncle Eli, we are adding a Who do you want to win the Civil War poll. Personally we aren't buying this whole close game thing, if the Ducks show up to play the Beavers don't have a chance. That being said in the event that the Ducks come out stale we definitely like the Ducks' chance with Masoli at the controls, and James there to break of 15 yard runs when they need it. Masoli has been proving to all doubters that he indeed can be a college quarterback, not a runningback Tod Mansfield. What he did in the Arizona game was extremely impressive. James also seems to perform in the clutch.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

We want to bid you all a happy and festive Thaksgiving. We also want to remind you, please don't drive and drink at the same time. You can drink all you want, just don't drive while drinking. Always remember to have a designated driver or perhaps give a taxi cab a jingle, since nobody wants to be a designated driver and miss out on all the fun. While you're at it, you could really get into the spirit of things and offer that jolly guy driving the taxi a drink. Why shame on you for drawing such conclusions, while we were simply talking about carbonated cider. Cheers!

New Louis L'Amour Trivia

Here is the next set of questions which will expire 11/30/09:
1. "It was a cinch, we had a pat hand."
"You still do ,Shanty, five of a kind right in the belly." Who spoke these words in which book?
2. "Draw when you will."
"Now there's the gent, draw when you will." Who spoke these words in which book?
3. He who __ first would __ __ Fill in the blanks.

Results of the Poll

Regis Blackgaard has won the poll by a final count of 10-3:-[ Thank you for participating. Sorry to all of you who don't care about sports, because our next poll is definitely sports related. As we have already stated numerous times (some of you still haven't complied) please leave a comment with your name and vote. One other thing, this new poll is not who you want to win, but who you honestly think has the better chance of winning.

How Could we Forget

We're sorry we forgot to post the answers, it appears as though we are falling down on our job. The correct answers are: 1.Jubal Sackett in the book Jubal Sackett( we are pretty sure that Jubal spoke these as Louis L'Amour does not often use a narrator, but rather the main character in that segment of the story, in this case Jubal, is describing the situation)2. a namless gambler to Logan Sackett in a dispute over a poker game and Mr.Liggett's horse, this just happens to be one of our many favorite lines, and it comes from the book Galloway which is definitely one of Louis's finer works and a must-listen to. 3. Gilcrest and Cap Rountree. We have decided that Loren and Uncle Eli have actually tied since Loren said he agreed that the first one was not a quote.

Results of Louis L'Amour Trivia

Loren Joe has won with 4 points, and Uncle Eli had 3 points. We just hope his comment about waiting for Loren's answers was in jest.

Another Marriage Seminar

Whew! we have survived another marriage seminar. So there we were at a small little church in a poorer area of Buenos Aires. We arrived after about an hour's drive and the pastor tells Bro. Sponsler to park in the grassy yard in front of the church, After about 10 tries at getting over the curb, and nearly getting stuck in the grass, which as it turns out was not grass at all but mud cleverly desguised as grass, he gave up and parked somewhere else. Okay, so everything was going pretty nicely so far, we even managed to creep past the lurking dogs outside the front door. Boy, we're really becoming quite adept at this kind of thing. We get in and sit down, and song service starts. Now mind you, this not your ordinary song service there is nary an instrument, save not one, not two, but THREE gee-tars (oh yes, and a couple stray tambourines). We can handle this, so far things were allright, we even had a ceiling fan. Then it happened, my mom spotted it first, then Anthony, and a while later I saw it. There not less than 8 feet away, it sat perched on the wall. We're talking this big guy belonged in the elephant section of the zoo. To partially quote Tell Sackett, "Mister if that wasn't half bear, it was half of something big." What was it you might ask, well you see there were conflicting reports. Some said it was a genuine tarantula, while others claimed it was only a field spider. This thing was beyond big. From our vantage point you could literally see its seperate body segments. Kristi, if that one spider could run you out of the bathroom, this big guy could run you out of the state. We're talking serious nightmare material here. We're standing as they sing and they sing and they sing some more, then they thrown in a couple testimonies and sing two or three more songs, and then there was offering. Meanwhile we are sitting there waiting for this beast to drop onto the heads of two of the three guitarists which were sitting almost directly below the tarantula/elephant. No way were we going to nod off in that service, yes sir, we were sitting bolt upright and paying attention like nothing you ever saw. Now before we go any farther you must understand, this church had cobwebs blanketing the ceiling and walls and had rather large gaps between the roof and the walls. According to our reasoning where there's one Texas-sized tarantula there at least two...DOZEN You can probably imagine somthing of what was going on, we were constantly glancing looking for this bad boy's friends, family and countrymen. It seemed as though our skin was crawling, no wait was that skin... There was no chance we were shutting our eyes in this service. Finally after what seemed like decades, Bro. Sponsler said something to the pastor about our visitor, to which he replied that he had seen it a while ago, but didn't want to disrupt the service. He then summoned a woman and told here something, she went to the back of the church and came back with a can of bugspray of some sort and two cups. Right about now we were seriously wanting to make a break for it, as several thoughts flashed through our heads. "What if she doesn't succesfully corral this monstrosity and it drops to the ground, its legs must be tiring, I can't believe she's going after that thing with a measley can of bugspray and two plastic cups, why that must be equivalent to trying to defend yourself from a maddened water buffalo with a plastic spoon." The woman sprayed it with the bugspray and a little later trapped it between the cup and the wall and somehow got the first cup inside the second cup trapping the tarantula/spider inside. You would think she would go ahead and kill the thing, but no, she proceeded to set it free outside the church. It continued to feel as though things were crawling on us all night. But, we survived, and lived to blog another day.
By the way those are some amazing and rather ingenious emoticons you created, Sis. Wiggins. We are wowed greatly.

I give up...

I find myself sadly staring into the computer screen as this realization comes to me, the realization that some people in this world are beyond logical reason:-) In their minds the ingredients for a good villain are, he has cat and I don't like cats, therefore he makes a good villain, or if you change the spelling of his name to "blackgaurd" it means "scoundrel, implying his intrinsic evilness". I decided to look up the word scoundrel and according to merriam-webster.com it means:
1 obselete: the kitchen servants of a household
2: a rude or unscrupulous person b: a person who uses foul or abusive language
While I didn't find scoundrel as a definition, I assume the commenter was reffering the second definition, hey 1 out of 3 ain't bad. Going to some more of your reasoning, for the argument that Blackgaard's laugh makes him appear evil, I say this, if it embelishes his evilness at all, it is only on a strictly juvenile level. In other words, if your eight then, yeah, his laugh sounds very evil. I do have to say I see the merit to Stan's reasoning that we haven't yet seen enough of Charles to rate him above Blackgaard. This is somewhat logical, and for that I thank Stan. I have come to conclusion after reading your comments that the true basis for most of your votes is, you either grew up during the Blackgaard era, or followed Odyssey more closely during his supremacy. I understand that sentiment is a strong force. Anyway I have decided to stop trying to convince you via our blog of Charles' superiority. I believe my past efforts in vain, but considering the fact that this is merely a poll on THE BLOG, I guess I am getting a little worked up and allowing my competitivness get the best of me. Whether you believe it or not I really do want to hear your opinions on our polls{:~)
-Andrew

The Poll Question

Loren seems to think the question somewhat ambiguous, and has requested we clearify it. In our opinion, the question really doesn't have anything to do with the actor, but if you think there is a drastic gulf between the two actors, then it may effect your vote. As far as Charles being stupid because he didn't kill Mitch, there are several things we will bring to your attention. Mitch was placed in the Witness Protection Program, because of fear that Novacom would kill him. For another thing Charles wasn't the head guy for Novacom, which means he couldn't just do whatever he thought was best. This would play very well into Charles killing the chairman to gain control, if they revive the Novacom saga. That would also put Charles even farther ahead of Blackgaard. He showed he would kill when Mitch's friend was run off the road and killed. Also, there's no way the Odyssey writers would kill dear Robert. Later, after Charles bribed Rudy Sutton to get him out of prison in the garbage truck, it was to his best interest to have Mitch and Rudy as hostages. You must remember if it weren't for that dinky little kick-the-tail-light-out-and-wave-you-hand-trick, Charles would have gotten to Mexico scot-free with two insurance policies. In our opinion yet another plus for Charles is the fact that he doesn't have that laugh, which totally negates any degree of coldness Blackgaard had achieved:-) Neither does Charles have an awful cat named Sasha. We could raise other points in favor of Charles, but we will abstain, since you're all probably tired of hearing our opinions.

Tsk,Tsk Must we Remind you Again

It appears that all of you Blackgaard supporters are running scared:) None of you are telling us who you are, can't say that we blame you. If we voted for Balckgaard, we would also want remain anonymous, since other than sentiment there are no valid arguments for him:~) It's fun trying out new smiley faces in the wee hours of the morning:^) Ooh what happened to that guy's nose, Zeke! Anyway, just an affable reminder, hey we're trying to nice here=(:~} (how do you like that guy's hair) boy it's past our bedtime, but it sure is fun tinkering with these smiley faces=):-}, no despite all appearances that is not two smiley faces on top of each other, the casual eyeballing might miss this, but a more meticulous examination will reveal, a smiley face wearing a hat, See? Pretty neat eh, would you like us to do it again, okay we'll spare you, mainly because we forgot how to make it. Somebody please tell us how many run-on sentences that was, it's too late for us to decipher it. Please pardon any misspellings, missing words and redundancies due to the lateness of the hour. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH( just in case you're wondering that was the world's longest yawn) we really ought to catch some shut-eye-), see even his eyes are drooping a little, why, great cow intestines, they've fallen of his face. : hey there they are!

Novacom Wins!!

Novacom has been voted the better the better saga by a final count of 8-6! Our next poll will be somewhat of a take-off of the last one. The question is which is the better Odyssian villain? Bennet Charles and Dr. Regis Blackgaard are the candidates. We have decided we must remind you guys to leave a comment with your name, vote and optionally why. We just want to say that this question includes the potential greatness of each candidate. The last poll did also. Now think on this, Bennet Charles is ,in our opinion, already much more sinister, but you may not agree. We ask how can you argue against his potential greatness, when Blackgaard has all the great potential of a spent bullet. Charles is so much colder and smoother than Blackgaard it's not even funny. This being said, we want to hear from you, honestly, if you want to vote for Blackgaard that is fine. We only ask that you have a logical defense for your vote.

New Louis L'Amour Trivia

Here is the next set of questions which will expire 11/24/09:
1."Further on lay a dead Spanish soldier, a handsome lad, now missing his scalp." Who spoke these words in which book?
2."I said, I am getting a bit tired of you" Who spoke these words to whom in which book?
3. "You ain't seen all of them, you ain't seen me."
"I hope I never do." What two people spoke these words in which book
Note: Please forgive any erroneous quotes, as some of these are strictly from memory. If you know something is worded differently, feel free to let us know.

Results of Louis L'Amour trivia

The winner is our Uncle Eli with thrice points, Loren was second with two points. Listed below are the answers:
1. Tom Lundy and Con Dury in Kiowa Trail
2. Barnabas Sackett in Sackett's Land
3. Jube Lane in Sackett's Land

Our Opinion on the Poll

In our opinion, the Novacom saga could prove to be better than Blackgaard. The reason being this, the chairman was never apprehended, therefore they could easily bring him back with an even better scheme. We have discussed this many times at church with some of you, and they could also bring back characters such as, Mitch, Jared, Lawrence, Bennet Charles, Monica, Bourland, Phillip Glausman, Cal, Tasha, Rodney, Jellyfish and Jimmy Barclay. Oh yes, you can't forget about Jason Israel:-) But it would be a good idea to bring Jason back as some kind of federal agent. We think that if you view both sagas as over, Blackgaard wins because his spans such a greater length of time. However, we don't see the Novacom saga as finished. It still has the potential to become far greater than the Blackgaard era. The chairman needs to get Charles out of prison, and it would be an interesting twist if Charles murdered the chairman for control. Bennet Charles is definitley Odyssey's best villain, he is colder than ice. We might be wrong, but as we remember it they never found Blackgaard's body and Jack Allen survived the explosion so why couldn't Blackgaard. It would be very interesting if he were to return as the chairman, especially if Charles kills the chairman. Also if Odyssey plans to survive, the best way would be to bring back the Novacom saga. Oh yes, Stan, we hope it's a Senior Citizens' banquet next time, but alas and alack, we have heard talk of another marriage seminar. We can only hope it's at the church that's six hours away because, only my dad and Bro. Sponsler are going to that church.

The Women's Conference

This last weekend, Friday,Saturday and Sunday, we were "privileged" to attend the National Ladies' Conference. It was surely an interesting experience. The first service was Friday evening, that day had been rather stormy and so the attendance was diminished due to the fact that some of the roads here cannot be navigated when it rains. We rented a car because we could not fit in the Sponslers' car with Bro. and Sis. Dean (the speakers for the conference). The first night Sis. Sponsler rode with the rest of my(Andrew) family, to make sure my dad knew how to get to the conference. This means I got to ride with with Bro. Sponsler and the Deans, normally this wouldn't have necessarily been a bad thing. However, due to horrendous traffic my family and Sis. Sponsler got there very late. There were five reserved seats for our family on the front row, since the rest of my family wasn't there I was seated on the front row amid hundreds, yea thousands of women, I felt rather conspicuous. Saturday was much warmer and sweatier, but during a good portion of the service I was cooled by the vociferously twirled kerchief of the woman next to me. The music was extremely loud, and due to the design and materials used for the building there was a perpetual echo. After 3-4 hours of this we, not being accustomed to the volume began to weary of it. Their song services seemed to be longer than ours, although it may have been because it was Spanish, and I think they know three beats down here, slow, fast and faster. It seemed that every song began with the song leader singing slowly,then the rest of the singers would join in, and the drummer would have a hayday. The piano player looked like a kid in a candy shop. There are more details, but I will save those for home. Anyway, it was a long weekend.

A Reminder

We were really hoping this would prove unnecessary, but alas and alack, ( Ooh I believe that's another quote from our boy Wally) evidently we must remind you to leave your name and what you voted for concerning our poll. We think it could prove quite interesting to hear the arguments given on this poll's topic.

The Senior Quizzing Meeting

I was glad to hear you guys were having a meeting regarding quizzing last night. I wish could have been there, and hope you guys are studying hard.
-Andrew

Louis L'Amour Trivia

Here is the next set of questions, which will expire 11/20/09:

"Everbody's always talking about John Blake, what's he got four hands are somethin'?"
"He doesn't need four hands, take it from me." Who said this in which book?

There are uncommon men everywhere, so many that the common man is become uncommon. Who said this in which book?

You moved swiftly. It was beautiful, Barnabas, beautiful. Who spoke these words in which book?

We have hit the Twenty Mark

We are quite proud to announce that we have reached the milestone of having twenty followers. Hopefully we will hit at least thirty before we get home.

Results of the Louis L'Amour trivia

Loren Joe is the winner, he answered all the questions correctly and had 11 points. Meghan had 2 points. Sis. Baldwin sort of answered the first and third questions correctly, so we decided to give her half a point for those questions, which gives her a total of 1 point. You guys really should listen to more Louis L'Amour :-)

Results of our Poll

We are pleased to announce that strawberry is the winning flavor. As to where to post your name and what you voted for, just comment on any post. We stopped publishing new posts for every poll, because we thought that was getting a little monotonous.

No Cheating

So far Loren Joseph Brown the second has answered all the questions correctly, and Meghan has answered two correctly. There is to be no cheating on these questions. This means no one is allowed to read other peoples' answers before giving theirs. In the case that you do cheat you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law (which isn't very far). Bro. Stanley Gleason is a great example to us all, as evidenced by his comment in which expressed that the temptation of cheating by reading Loren's answers was present. However, he has read too many Wally McCdoogles such as, My Life as a Prickly Porcupine from Pluto ( try saying that seven times fast) sorry couldn't pass that one up when we're on the subject of the wowingly wonderfully witty Wally, there we go again. Combine this with his years of listening to Odysseys about cheating and he would not give in. Let's hope all of our followers have such wholesome literature and listening material as our dear Stan, but if that's not the case, and you read other things perhaps Lous L'Amour for example ( Oops! we're getting off subject are not we?) You may find your plump little pinkies flying across your keyboard copying Loren's answers, yes sir another good quote from our friend Wally. No wait two, ah we're losing count. If you don't know the answers that may be a good sign you aren't reading enough Louis L'Amour. Anyway, where were we, oh yes, asking you guys not to cheat. Is that another quote I see?

A New Feature of the Blog

We have decided to start a Louis L'Amour trivia game. We will post three questions, and you can leave a comment with your answers and your name, if you are interested. You will be rewarded one point for each correct answer. This set of questions will expire 11/15/09. The questions are:

1. "Don't do it I'll kill you."
"And if he don't I will." Who spoke these words in which book?

2. He never laid a ___ on a ___ unless to ___ it, and never ____ unless to ____, and he never ____ unless to ____. Fill in the blanks.

3. "Warms the cup. I do shy from coffee in a cold cup." Who spoke these words in what book?

M&M's WIN IN A LANDSLIDE

M&M's have won the poll quite decisively by a final count of 20-3. As it turns out Kissables aren't so kissable.

A Shout Out To Mr. Garret Pearson

Walphy dat you? Gwad to heaw you fownd ow bwog. Sorry to all of you who weren't with us in North Dakota when we stayed up until 4:00 A.M. and started our Walphy club. This may sound like a bunch of drunken babblings to you, but really it's just the result of a couple of rowdies staying up to late playing Kung Fu Panda a couple nights in a row.

Another Poll

Yes, we've added another poll this is on M&M's and Kissables. The candies reffered to in this poll are the milk chocolate kinds. We decided to go with a topic that was a little less heated, and candy coated this time. We really got a lot of response on our last poll, but it was all from the same handfull of people. If some of you want to continue the debate when we get home we will be more than happy to do so. We needn't remind you of our request that goes for all polls on THE BLOG. If some of you don't remember what this request is, leave a comment asking about it, and we will post it again.

A New Update

Sorry it's been so long since we posted something (if you think this is bad you should see Meghan's blog). Since we last posted, we went to ,of all things, you guessed it a marriage seminar. It was pretty boring, and towards the end things started getting a bit out of hand. Sitting through three hours in which everything is Spanish, except the 20-30 minutes my dad spoke really starts to wear on a man. Add to this that the topic was marriage, or as they said so often in Spanish "matrimonio", and we were really feeling quite lost by the end. After this they served us a meal consisting of asado, chorizo and cold baby pig. I mean they really put on the hog for us. Yes, that was a pun, Loren Joseph.

The Results of the Poll

The result of the poll was that Jacquizz Rodgers won with 9 votes! Sorry it took me so long to post the results, but my dad was using the laptop. As far as us being biased, my cousins are as biased as they come. I'm pretty sure their votes would have been different if Rodgers played for the Ducks.

Count Down To Home

While Anderew's tastebuds are singing to him because of all the delightfull food he is eating,my tastebuds are throwing a fit on the floor crying and begging for mercy. (sorry I'm yelling) One thing that I do agree with Andrew on is the awfull empanadas with raisins. Anyway I decided to conduct a count down until I get home.

33 days to go!!! (sorry I'm yelling again) I know, very depresing.

-Anthony

The new poll

Like the last poll we would greatly appreciate it if you would leave a comment with your name and vote. Thank you very much. This goes for all polls.

Bible Quizzing

I'm just checking in on all of you back home to make sure you're all doing your quizzing like our dear coaches said in our handouts. Just because I'm not there does not mean you guys escape my pestering. Also if Brother Andy and Brother Tony, brethren of the bretherenhood (try saying that ten times fast) are out there remember,"Sir William Burke still likes candlelight dinners and walks on the beaches."

CHERRY WINS!!!

GO CRAZY CHERRY-LOVERS GO CRAZY!!! CHERRY WINS CHERRY WINS!!! Thanks to all who voted on our poll. A special thanks to all who voted for cherry, even though we still don't know who all of you are, hint hint.

Special Thanks to...

All of our followers who obey our direct orders to send a comment with your name and which flavor you voted for. As of now that would be Uncle Walt, Robert, Sis. Wiggins, Loren Joseph the second and Meghan. The rest of you are a lawless and unrully bunch.

The Poll

If you decide to weigh in on our poll question, please be so kind as to leave a comment with your name and which flavor you voted for. In the event we do not agree with your choice this will allow us to know who we need to harass:)

Food

Saturday night after the Bible School graduation and one other day (I don't remeber which one) we went to a restaurant called Emilia's. This restaurant is awesome, so if any of you ever go to Argentina you must go there. Their chorizo, proveleta, asado, chimichurri sauce and dulce de leche are culinary delights, that will make your tastebuds stand up and sing! This stuff ranks right up there with Old Chicago's ranch. Loren Joe told me I had to eat empanadas for him. Sis. Sponsler gave us some made by, I know not whom, but they had raisins and I don't know what else in them. They definitely weren't something I want to eat again. However, I hope I will get to try some other empanadas before we leave. There is also an exquisite ice cream shop called Via Flaminia, which is pretty close to our apartment, or whatever it's called. This place features a myriad of various and sundry flavors and rather gargantuan dipped cones, at least a foot high.
-Andrew

Travel Accommodations

The Sponsler's formerly owned a vehicle that would seat the seven of us just dandily. However, some thugs probably associated with the police stole their car. Some of these Argentines are professional thieves, these guys are real bruisers. Because of this, they now own a Nissan X-Trail which seats five persons, with space behind the back seat. As some of you sharper followers may have noticed there are seven persons that must fit in this car. You guessed it, that means two of us get the pleasure of squeezing ourselves into this space. The result is much discomfort and car sickness, as depicted below.



We hope all of you back home who didn't buy a Sheaves for Christ shirt feel really bad!

Thank you, Meghan

Meghan, thank you very much for the five bags of hardees. The first bag was great. You were right, so far I haven't seen any down here yet. Don't smile you might hurt yourself.

Ducks romp Trojans

Oregon beat USC 47-20 Saturday night. It was a complete blowout. The Ducks ran over The Trojans for 391 yards. We are anxious to see the new rankings. Happy Halloween Trojans! What now Tim?

THE BLOG

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