Dear readers, I'm asking if you would please do me a favor and help me launch my campaign to get the folks at Koo Koo Roo to address the issue I raised over part of the winning entry in their Name the Cluck contest.
I've devoted a few blog posts to it already. Basically, part of my entry in their contest was the same name as what they selected as the winning name. But they did not give me credit for it, and so far have refused to respond to three e-mail requests that stated my case.
Sooo.. I am asking you, my readers, whoever you may be, to help me out. I will also be putting this on my Facebook wall and asking friends to help as well but this is the first place you will see it.
I have set up a web site that states my case, in poem form. My goal is to get as many visitors as possible, and to get as many people to vote in the poll on that site as possible. If you/they think I am right or wrong, so be it but I would like to garner as much participation as possible.
Please go here and check it out, then ask all your friends to do the same - read and vote... I would really appreciate it if you did. The site:
www.RooseveltClucksworth.com
My sincere thank you to you all!
Monday, February 8, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Campaign
Whew, been so busy lately - no time to post any blog entries!
Be on the lookout for an announcement coming soon - I will be enlisting your help in a campaign to right the wrong I wrote about several days ago - about a certain contest in which my correspondence is apparently being snubbed.
So watch for my grass roots, free range, grain fed campaign to begin very soon!
Meanwhile, here's a joke someone told me the other day.
A farmer friend had always told me about a pig of his named Henrietta. From the very first day he saw the pig, he knew she was something special. He told me the first amazing incident:
"One day my daughter was playing in the backyard when somehow she got through the fence and ran into the street. Henrietta saw her, ran out to the street pronto, grabbed the girl and dragged her back to the sidewalk just as a car nearly hit her! She was safe and sound, just shaken up a bit. Henrietta saved her life!"
"Wow, that pig is really special," I said.
"That's not all," he told me. "One night when we were all asleep, a burglar broke into the house. He was gathering up all our valuables when Henrietta started squealing real loud. She managed to push open the door, tackled the burglar and kept him down on the ground until the police came."
"Really? Unbelievable!" I exclaimed.
"Believe it!" my farmer friend declared.
"Then there was the time the missus had something boiling on the stove and forgot all about it. The whole thing caught on fire. Henrietta got hold of the hose, turned on the water, carried it into the house in her mouth and sprayed the fire and put it out!."
"Totally amazing," I told him, shaking my head.
The next time I visited the farmer, I pulled up in the driveway and Henrietta came running out to meet me. Except she was dragging herself along with her two front legs because her back legs were missing.
"What happened to Henrietta?" I asked the farmer, very concerned.
"Well when you have a pig this special, you don't eat her all at one time."
Be on the lookout for an announcement coming soon - I will be enlisting your help in a campaign to right the wrong I wrote about several days ago - about a certain contest in which my correspondence is apparently being snubbed.
So watch for my grass roots, free range, grain fed campaign to begin very soon!
Meanwhile, here's a joke someone told me the other day.
A farmer friend had always told me about a pig of his named Henrietta. From the very first day he saw the pig, he knew she was something special. He told me the first amazing incident:
"One day my daughter was playing in the backyard when somehow she got through the fence and ran into the street. Henrietta saw her, ran out to the street pronto, grabbed the girl and dragged her back to the sidewalk just as a car nearly hit her! She was safe and sound, just shaken up a bit. Henrietta saved her life!"
"Wow, that pig is really special," I said.
"That's not all," he told me. "One night when we were all asleep, a burglar broke into the house. He was gathering up all our valuables when Henrietta started squealing real loud. She managed to push open the door, tackled the burglar and kept him down on the ground until the police came."
"Really? Unbelievable!" I exclaimed.
"Believe it!" my farmer friend declared.
"Then there was the time the missus had something boiling on the stove and forgot all about it. The whole thing caught on fire. Henrietta got hold of the hose, turned on the water, carried it into the house in her mouth and sprayed the fire and put it out!."
"Totally amazing," I told him, shaking my head.
The next time I visited the farmer, I pulled up in the driveway and Henrietta came running out to meet me. Except she was dragging herself along with her two front legs because her back legs were missing.
"What happened to Henrietta?" I asked the farmer, very concerned.
"Well when you have a pig this special, you don't eat her all at one time."
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Alumnus
Today I was looking at the postings on Facebook and came across an announcement that a couple of my FB buddies from high school had become friends with another alumnus. She used to be my chemistry lab partner in Mr. Soloff's class way back in the 11th grade.
I clicked on her name to look at her page and there she was. And I found out she's a Harvard Law School graduate and now has her own law practice.
I think that's great - I'm really happy for her. Back in chem class I would never have thought she would wind up being an attorney. She just didn't seem the type (forgive my stereotyping...). She was a really nice person and didn't really say too much. Through the years I've wondered what happened to her so it was nice to run across her on FB and find out that she has done very well for herself.
It just goes to show what you can do if you apply yourself.
Okay that's all for now.. I'm super busy and have some work work to do but I wanted to write the above short entry for today.
I clicked on her name to look at her page and there she was. And I found out she's a Harvard Law School graduate and now has her own law practice.
I think that's great - I'm really happy for her. Back in chem class I would never have thought she would wind up being an attorney. She just didn't seem the type (forgive my stereotyping...). She was a really nice person and didn't really say too much. Through the years I've wondered what happened to her so it was nice to run across her on FB and find out that she has done very well for herself.
It just goes to show what you can do if you apply yourself.
Okay that's all for now.. I'm super busy and have some work work to do but I wanted to write the above short entry for today.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Big Boy
Today I will turn from blogging about chickens, like in my last post, to burgers.
I found out that the Baja Fresh location in Pasadena at the corner of Del Mar and Lake Avenue is no longer a Baja Fresh but a... Bob's Big Boy! Oh my, I thought those had disappeared long ago.
I remember Bob's on La Cienega was our late-night rendezvous and hang out back in high school and early college days. We sure consumed a lot of their Big Boy burgers and fries even though the food was no better than mediocre. At least it wasn't too expensive. I think it was around $1.00 for their combo, including a side salad.
There's an incomplete web site you can look at; the food doesn't look very appetizing in the pictures (although yup, that is definitely the same hamburger from the old days.. gee maybe it is literally the same hamburger) and the menu only has breakfast items as of my writing this. Most of the links don't even work yet. Apparently Bob's is now a franchise opportunity. Maybe it always was, but I thought back in the day when there were lots of them around that it was a corporate venture. Oh well, what did I know - I was just a high school kid. It looks like now they're trying to make a comeback by offering new franchises.
If the food is the same, it seems they will have to rely on nostalgia to bring in customers because it sure isn't going to be the food that does it, haha..
Okay, now back to chicken -- if you haven't already voted in the previous blog post's poll, please take a moment to do so now. I still haven't gotten any response from the Koo Koo people and that don't seem right to me... They think they are roadrunner playing around with coyote or something. I hope I don't have to resort to going Crenshaw on them..
I found out that the Baja Fresh location in Pasadena at the corner of Del Mar and Lake Avenue is no longer a Baja Fresh but a... Bob's Big Boy! Oh my, I thought those had disappeared long ago.
I remember Bob's on La Cienega was our late-night rendezvous and hang out back in high school and early college days. We sure consumed a lot of their Big Boy burgers and fries even though the food was no better than mediocre. At least it wasn't too expensive. I think it was around $1.00 for their combo, including a side salad.
There's an incomplete web site you can look at; the food doesn't look very appetizing in the pictures (although yup, that is definitely the same hamburger from the old days.. gee maybe it is literally the same hamburger) and the menu only has breakfast items as of my writing this. Most of the links don't even work yet. Apparently Bob's is now a franchise opportunity. Maybe it always was, but I thought back in the day when there were lots of them around that it was a corporate venture. Oh well, what did I know - I was just a high school kid. It looks like now they're trying to make a comeback by offering new franchises.
If the food is the same, it seems they will have to rely on nostalgia to bring in customers because it sure isn't going to be the food that does it, haha..
Okay, now back to chicken -- if you haven't already voted in the previous blog post's poll, please take a moment to do so now. I still haven't gotten any response from the Koo Koo people and that don't seem right to me... They think they are roadrunner playing around with coyote or something. I hope I don't have to resort to going Crenshaw on them..
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Groundwork
All this past week I've been feeling under the weather but for the moment I feel okay so that's why I am writing something before more sinus misery sets in.
My sinuses have been really clogged and causing me headaches and hurting my eyes and gums and in general, causing all sorts of havoc. Yesterday I bought a remedy that I had recently seen on television - Sinus Buster. It sounded promising. I discovered that the key ingredient for this elixir is capsaicin, the compound that gives peppers their hot character. Indeed, squirting this into my nose and inhaling caused my nostrils to burn for a while, though it was tolerable. Unfortunately it didn't seem to work very well.
For whatever reason, right now the sinuses seem fine. I went for a walk this afternoon which seemed to be the best thing to clear them up.
Here's a few odds and ends for you:
First off, according to Eat This Not That, the saltiest dish in America is served at P.F. Chang's:
Second, when we got back to the car after having lunch today, the person next to us had parked their car so close to the passenger-side door that Julie couldn't get in so I had to back out the car for her. That reminded me of someone I know who related how that happened to him when he went to the bank, except it was his (driver's) side that was blocked when he returned to his car.
So his reaction was to completely cover the offending party's car windshield with saliva. He said he spit over the entire windshield, leaving not one untouched piece of glass, then drove off with the satisfaction that this person had gotten their just desserts.
Third: I blogged earlier in the week about the KooKooRoo contest to name their cartoon bird mascot, and how I felt my entry should also have been given a share of the prize. Rather than recount it again, please go back a few days to read the details.
On Monday I received a response from their corporate people. Here is the main part of the message:
We did have more than one winner awarded in our NameTheCluck Contest.
Our decision on selecting the winners was based on choosing those with "singular" names. We did not use "parts" of other nominations.
I sent my response to their response. I pointed out that the winning name was not singular but in fact a first and last name. The rules said nothing about the name having to be singular; my contention is that a reasonable person would be able to discern from my entry, "ClarkeBrisbaneClucksworth" that this was not one long name but in fact a first, middle and last name delimited by the capital letters. Since the winner consisted of more than one name, I felt it only fair that since my entry contained "Clucksworth" and "Roosevelt Clucksworth" was the winning name, I should be given my share of credit for my submission.
Also if you notice, in the e-mail response to me, the name of the contest is written as "NameTheCluck" with no spaces between words. It would seem to me no different than my contest entry of a first, middle and last name, right? Any reasonable person can see that NameTheCluck is not one word, it is three words.
Having heard nothing by Wednesday, I sent a followup message letting them know that so far I had heard not a peep, cluck or kookooroo yet and was wondering how they intended to resolve the matter.
As of right now, I have still heard nothing at all from them. The e-mail response from them was written by their Senior Brand Director, who cc'd their Senior VP of Operations. So I am not dealing with powerless staff people.
It is not really the prize that is the issue here, it is the matter of principle, as well as not receiving a response. Naturally they can disagree with my argument as to why I should not be considered a winner in the contest even though "Clucksworth" was part of my entry, but at least say something instead of being silent about it!
Now, what do you readers think? Do you think I have a valid case to be accorded credit for the winning name, or do you not agree? Please take a moment and vote:
Well, it depends on what sort of response (if any) I receive from their corporate office as well as what the poll results are but my brain isn't being idle right now. I'm contemplating the next step in this real-life Seinfeld episode! I'm not exactly sure what that will be, but let's just say the power of internet media is not to be underestimated. I do promise not to spit on any windshields, however.
My sinuses have been really clogged and causing me headaches and hurting my eyes and gums and in general, causing all sorts of havoc. Yesterday I bought a remedy that I had recently seen on television - Sinus Buster. It sounded promising. I discovered that the key ingredient for this elixir is capsaicin, the compound that gives peppers their hot character. Indeed, squirting this into my nose and inhaling caused my nostrils to burn for a while, though it was tolerable. Unfortunately it didn't seem to work very well.
For whatever reason, right now the sinuses seem fine. I went for a walk this afternoon which seemed to be the best thing to clear them up.
Here's a few odds and ends for you:
First off, according to Eat This Not That, the saltiest dish in America is served at P.F. Chang's:
Second, when we got back to the car after having lunch today, the person next to us had parked their car so close to the passenger-side door that Julie couldn't get in so I had to back out the car for her. That reminded me of someone I know who related how that happened to him when he went to the bank, except it was his (driver's) side that was blocked when he returned to his car.
So his reaction was to completely cover the offending party's car windshield with saliva. He said he spit over the entire windshield, leaving not one untouched piece of glass, then drove off with the satisfaction that this person had gotten their just desserts.
Third: I blogged earlier in the week about the KooKooRoo contest to name their cartoon bird mascot, and how I felt my entry should also have been given a share of the prize. Rather than recount it again, please go back a few days to read the details.
On Monday I received a response from their corporate people. Here is the main part of the message:
We did have more than one winner awarded in our NameTheCluck Contest.
Our decision on selecting the winners was based on choosing those with "singular" names. We did not use "parts" of other nominations.
I sent my response to their response. I pointed out that the winning name was not singular but in fact a first and last name. The rules said nothing about the name having to be singular; my contention is that a reasonable person would be able to discern from my entry, "ClarkeBrisbaneClucksworth" that this was not one long name but in fact a first, middle and last name delimited by the capital letters. Since the winner consisted of more than one name, I felt it only fair that since my entry contained "Clucksworth" and "Roosevelt Clucksworth" was the winning name, I should be given my share of credit for my submission.
Also if you notice, in the e-mail response to me, the name of the contest is written as "NameTheCluck" with no spaces between words. It would seem to me no different than my contest entry of a first, middle and last name, right? Any reasonable person can see that NameTheCluck is not one word, it is three words.
Having heard nothing by Wednesday, I sent a followup message letting them know that so far I had heard not a peep, cluck or kookooroo yet and was wondering how they intended to resolve the matter.
As of right now, I have still heard nothing at all from them. The e-mail response from them was written by their Senior Brand Director, who cc'd their Senior VP of Operations. So I am not dealing with powerless staff people.
It is not really the prize that is the issue here, it is the matter of principle, as well as not receiving a response. Naturally they can disagree with my argument as to why I should not be considered a winner in the contest even though "Clucksworth" was part of my entry, but at least say something instead of being silent about it!
Now, what do you readers think? Do you think I have a valid case to be accorded credit for the winning name, or do you not agree? Please take a moment and vote:
Well, it depends on what sort of response (if any) I receive from their corporate office as well as what the poll results are but my brain isn't being idle right now. I'm contemplating the next step in this real-life Seinfeld episode! I'm not exactly sure what that will be, but let's just say the power of internet media is not to be underestimated. I do promise not to spit on any windshields, however.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Levity
Back in elementary school I had this joke book. I don't remember the title, but I can picture the book - it was hardcover but had lost its jacket, and it was a deep blue color.
It had some of the most stupid, silly jokes I've ever read - sort of like Nancy and Sluggo but in print instead of cartoon form. I don't know why but I was thinking about that book on the way home from work today. Here's some jokes I remember (I can't remember them exactly but well enough):
Moe: Hi Joe!
Joe: Hi Moe! What are you doing these days?
Moe: I sell salt.
Joe: Me too!
Moe: Let's shake!
Girl 1: Hey honey child, how y'all doing?
Girl 2: Where'd you get that southern accent?
Girl 1: From drinking out of Dixie cups!
There were also a lot of jokes featuring old Pop Pennypacker but I can't remember them. I can only remember that name.
Then later on there was another joke book I used to read. This one was a lot thicker. Here is one I can remember from that one:
A man attended his first comedian group luncheon. As he sat there eating, people around the room would call out a number. After they did so, everyone laughed. The new guy observed this for a while and couldn't understand what was going on so he turned to the man next to him and asked for an explanation.
The man next to him said, "Oh, the guys here at this lunch are the world's greatest comedians. They've heard every joke in the book. They've heard them so many times that they just assign numbers to each joke. That way, instead of having to tell the whole thing they can just call out its number."
"Oh," said the new guy, nodding his head. Then he pointed to someone across the room who was still laughing uproariously even though the joke's number had been called out some time ago. "How come he's still laughing? Was it that funny?"
"Him? Oh, he probably never heard that one before."
It had some of the most stupid, silly jokes I've ever read - sort of like Nancy and Sluggo but in print instead of cartoon form. I don't know why but I was thinking about that book on the way home from work today. Here's some jokes I remember (I can't remember them exactly but well enough):
Moe: Hi Joe!
Joe: Hi Moe! What are you doing these days?
Moe: I sell salt.
Joe: Me too!
Moe: Let's shake!
Girl 1: Hey honey child, how y'all doing?
Girl 2: Where'd you get that southern accent?
Girl 1: From drinking out of Dixie cups!
There were also a lot of jokes featuring old Pop Pennypacker but I can't remember them. I can only remember that name.
Then later on there was another joke book I used to read. This one was a lot thicker. Here is one I can remember from that one:
A man attended his first comedian group luncheon. As he sat there eating, people around the room would call out a number. After they did so, everyone laughed. The new guy observed this for a while and couldn't understand what was going on so he turned to the man next to him and asked for an explanation.
The man next to him said, "Oh, the guys here at this lunch are the world's greatest comedians. They've heard every joke in the book. They've heard them so many times that they just assign numbers to each joke. That way, instead of having to tell the whole thing they can just call out its number."
"Oh," said the new guy, nodding his head. Then he pointed to someone across the room who was still laughing uproariously even though the joke's number had been called out some time ago. "How come he's still laughing? Was it that funny?"
"Him? Oh, he probably never heard that one before."
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Fa La La
The other night we were watching a DVD of Arcadia High School's Christmas program that someone let us borrow. It turned out very nice and, unlike so many other Christmas, er, "holiday" programs, many of the songs were actually about Christmas.
I did notice, however, that PC crept into the rendition of Deck the Halls. Instead of singing, "Don we now our gay apparel," they sang "Don we now our bright apparel." I was thinking, why even pick that song in the first place if you had to change the lyrics?
Here's three renditions for you.. the last one might provide some insight as to why the lyrics were changed..
I did notice, however, that PC crept into the rendition of Deck the Halls. Instead of singing, "Don we now our gay apparel," they sang "Don we now our bright apparel." I was thinking, why even pick that song in the first place if you had to change the lyrics?
Here's three renditions for you.. the last one might provide some insight as to why the lyrics were changed..
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