Monday, February 28, 2011
Celine does Phil......
...one of my favorite songs
...by one of my most un-favorite singers.
But I gotta hand it to her....
Phil would be proud.
Marty
Geneseo, IL
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
We have a Wiener......NOT!
Thankyou....thankyou....thankyou.I'm enjoying my Mickey D's breakfast...
Oatmeal with a Shamrock Shake!!
Nobody came up with good ol' # 11....Don Kessinger!!
--Started his MLB career with the Cubs and ended with the Sox.
(always better to go out on top)
--6 time All-Star.....all with the Cubs.
--Was a player/manager with the White Sox until he retired in 1979.
--currently owns his own Real Estate company in Oxford, MS.
http://www.kessingerrealestate.com/Team_Details.aspx?id=1
Marty
Cadillac, MI
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Trivia Tuesday!!
After a 70*+ weekend in Marion.....it's back to reality.I know now that baseball is just around the corner because I received my White Sox Season Tickets plan brochure.....not sure how I got on that mailing list?
I would purchase the "13-game Ozzie Plan"....
only if Ozzie promised to take those days off!
Also....
the Ozzie Plan gets me "specially priced parking"
& "inside access to team news"?????
Good Luck with that Jerry.
Back to business.....
first email to unobuckeroo@aol.com to correctly name the portly 2-time gold glover above.....
will win this week's GRAND PRIZE and TT Bragging Rights for the next 7 days.
Hints...
- Started his MLB career and ended it in the same city....15 years apart but on different teams.
- Attended the All-Star Game several times as a player.
- His son played in the big leagues for a time.
- Initially signed for $25k
- Was a MLB Manager.
- You can now buy a house from him....or his son.
Marty
Webberville, MI
Monday, February 21, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Another reason to vacation at the Dells this summer....
....I appreciate Wal*Mart a little bit more today.
Marty
Saturday, February 19, 2011
"Security to the SHOWER DEPT please!!"
My future "Cage Dancing" daughter......shows off her technique in the Menards Shower Dept.
I always try to shop a few aisles ahead of her when I can.....
(not my kid!)
Marty
Friday, February 18, 2011
We Have a Wiener!!!
Mz. Maggie Pollard...
she knows her Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Members!!
....or at least knows how to Google JSHoFM!
Mr. Steven Michael Stone
(I would have even accepted "Stone Pony")
from South Euclid, Ohio (drove through here last week)
was this week's winning answer!!
--graduated from Kent State in 1970 where Thurman Munson was his catcher.
--also excelled in ping-pong/volleyball and bowling while at Kent State
--was with the Sox twice...in '73 and again in '77
--spent '74-'76 north of Madison.
--"passed Ron Santo in the night"....
after being traded (with 3 others) for Ron in Dec '73
Marty
Marion, IL
65*
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Trivia Tuesday!!
So.....the snow has stopped....
the temps are rising...
and pitchers and catchers are reporting.
Spring is almost here.....but in the meantime....
First email to unobuckeroo@aol.com to correctly name the bushy haired righty above,
will win this week's GRAND PRIZE and TT Bragging Rights the next 7 days!!
Hints.....
- A Buckeye...
- Lasted 10 years ....over 1000 k's
- Ping-pong champ....
- A member of the Jewish International Sports Hall of Fame
- Has played on both sides of Madison...
- He and Ron Santo....passed in the night.
Marty
Twin Lakes, WI
Monday, February 14, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
I should have been an artist.....
....pretty cool....
you can almost smell the pot coming out of this video.
Marty
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
We Have a Wiener!!!
Well....
My First Lady....
was the first lady...
to know the First Lady!
(Say that 10x's fast)
Congrats to Maribeth McNally for having the
first of MANY correct answers to this week's TT....
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama ....
way to keep it in the family this week!
Michelle (above from her Sr. Prom)
who has obviously looked exactly the same since infancy....
was so smart, that she skipped the 2nd grade...
along with her brother.
Marty
Ferdinand, IN
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
CHA....CHA.....CHA......twofer!!
Chuckie P.....in his Chuckie T's.....
turning the BIG 48!
(thanks to my inside contacts at the P household....
I'm also set for next year!!)
Katie Lynn.......hits the big "ones"
......11.
(remember.....Dad never deletes "good" pictures!)
Marty
Uniontown, OH
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Trivia Tuesday!!
Ok.....the high arching lob of the proverbial 16" softball pitch has been launched...
your job is to knock it out of the park and to beat Maggie Pollard!
....and you know how I like my full names!!
First email to unobuckeroo@aol.com that correctly names the mystery child above....
will be this week's GRAND PRIZE WINNER and
have TT Bragging Rights for the next 7 days!!
Hints...
- Local girl who's Mom worked for Spiegel's.
- Pops was a City worker with the Water Dept.
- Too smart for 2nd Grade
- H.S Honor Roll all 4 years.
- She's 5'11"
- Excellent jump-roper
- likes the Dick Van Dyke Show
Marty
Buckley, MI
Monday, February 7, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Saturday, February 5, 2011
You know you're in Wisconsin.....
......when you're U of W-Whitewater Academic Advisor is named
Miss Marijuana Pepsi Sawyer!!!
.
You'd think that she would just call herself "Mary Jane"??
I can't make this shit up people!!
That must have been one hell of a party!
Go Packers!
.
Marty
Holiday City, OH
Friday, February 4, 2011
We Have a Wiener!!!
Obviously most of you were either prepping for this week's storm.....or stuck on Lake Shore Drive....because I had only ONE winning answer.
Thomas ETHELBERT Skilling III
....and Mz. Maggie Pollard was in with winning answer!!
CONGRATS!!......your GRAND PRIZE is on it's way!!
But wtf is an "Ethelbert"????
His dad and his grandfather had that as their middle names also!!
http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Ethelbert
Marty
Uniontown, OH
Thursday, February 3, 2011
CHA....CHA....CHA.... x's 49!!
Look who's one year away...
from the BIG 5-0!!
(Give Harry Caray his glasses back!)
Marty
"Holy" TOLEDO, OH
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Trivia Tuesday!!
Happy February people.......time for another weekly stumper......
take a break from the shoveling and let's go....
and remember....if you don't have to go out....don't!!
(what do they mean by that? ....would I just go "out" to go "out"??)
First email to unobuckeroo@aol.com to correctly name this dapper gentleman above will win this week's GRAND PRIZE and TT Bragging Rights for the next 7 days!!
Hints....
- Best middle name in all of TT history!
- Born in Aurora, IL
- Only 9 years older than me.....but I wouldn't have guessed it.
- His great-grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Ireland in the late 1800's.
- Highest paid in his profession.....in which he started at age 14.
- He is very popular....his younger brother....not so much!
Marty
Petoskey, MI
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