To William Robert Julian Brasky!

I thought some of you might enjoy these quotes about the man best known as Bill Brasky:

The Quotable Brasky
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"Did you know Bill Brasky is the godfather of my son? He shows up at the church in his golf pants, caked in mud. Well, ol' Bill Brasky pushes the priest aside and says, 'I'll baptize that piece of calamari!' Then he pours Scotch all over my baby son and says, 'There! You're baptized!' The boy is blind to this day!"

"Did I ever tell you about the time Bill Brasky sold me into slavery? He puts me on a ship to Thailand, right? And I'm chained to a pipe. Meanwhile, ol' Brasky, he's back in the States siring three beautiful children with my wife!"

"Did I ever tell you about the time Bill Brasky showed up at my daughter's wedding? You know my daughter, she's a beautiful girl. Well, Brasky shows up and you know he's a big fella. Well, he's standing right between me and my daughter at the ceremony. He's got no right to be there, but he's drunk and he's Brasky! Well, long story short: the priest accidentally marries me and Brasky! We spend the weekend in the Poconos — he loved me like I've never been loved before!"

"You know how Brasky served three tours in 'Nam? Well, I'm in Corpus Christi on business a month ago, and I had this eight-foot tall Asian waiter which made me a little curious, so I asked him his name, and sure enough it's Ho Tran Brasky!"

"I went camping with Brasky, his wife, and his daughter Debbie! Debbie Brasky. She's 7-years-old, goes about 3'5", 55 pounds. So, I'm in the back of a pickup with Bill Brasky and a live deer! Well, Brasky, he grabs the deer by the antlers, looks at it and says, "I'm Bill Brasky! Say it!" Then he squeezes the deer in such a way that a sound comes out of its mouth - "Billbrasky!" It wasn't exactly it, but it was pretty good for a deer!"

"I once saw him eat a whole live chicken."

"Bill Brasky once gave me a videotape of him having sex with my wife, and it was the most beautiful damn thing I ever saw!"

"To Bill Brasky! A ten-foot-tall, two-ton son of a bitch who could eat a hammer and take a shotgun blast standing!"

3/16/1996
"Did I ever tell you about the time Bill Brasky forced me to wear a woman's bikini around the office? Brasky tears off my clothes and makes me wear this skimpy bikini. For the next three months I had to conduct my business wearing a woman's bathing suit. I would cry from shame and question my manhood daily. But at the end of the quarter, I'll be damned if my sales hadn't tripled."

"He'll eat a homeless person if you dare him."

"One time I asked Brasky to dress up like Santa for a Christmas party I was throwing for my children. Yeah, that's them, that's them. Well Brasky shows up as Santa, reaches into his bag and says, 'I've got goodies for you kids.' He proceeds to hand out scrap metal and cigarettes to them. Then he takes off his beard and says 'There is no Santa 'cause I ate him.'"

"He sheds his skin once a year."

"I once saw him scissor kick Angela Lansbury."

"Did I ever tell you about the time I went horseback riding with Brasky, but there weren't any horses around? Well, Brasky throws a saddle on my back and rides me around Wyoming for three days. Well wouldn't you know it my stamina increases with each day and I develop tremendous leg muscles. So anyway, Brasky decides to enter me in the Breeders Cup, right? Under the name Turkish Delight. And I'm running in second place, and I'm running and I break my ankle! They’re about to shoot me. Then someone from the crowd yells out, God bless him, 'Don't shoot him — he's a human.'"

"His favorite TV movie is The Boy in the Plastic Bubble starring John Travolta!

"You know he jumped off the Empire State Building this one time and he only sprained his ankle."

"Like an alligator, he can fully digest a turtle shell."

2/22/1997
"He had a four day heart attack! ...Yeah, a day for every chamber! ...When they did the autopsy, they said his heart was like a basketball filled with ricotta cheese! ...They found sixty dollars in change in his stomach!

"I remember one time Brasky took his family to Sea World... they were watching Shamu the whale when Brasky got splashed! So Brasky yells, 'I'm Bill Brasky and no one gets me wet!' So he climbs into the tank, grabs Shamu and throws the whale into the audience, splashes him and yells, 'How do you like it?!' And then damn if Brasky didn't step in there and finish the show!"

"You know, he would shoot whiskey into his neck with a syringe."

"He did all the make-up on the Planet of the Apes movies."

"He taught me how to love a woman - and how to scold a child."

"He had dandruff the size of mice!"

"Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky took me out to go get a drink with him? We go off lookin' for a bar and we can't find one. Finally, Brasky takes me into a vacant lot and says, Here we are!' Well, we sat there for a year and a half. Sure enough, someone constructed a bar around us! Well, the day they opened it, we ordered a shot, drank it and then burnt the place to the ground. Brasky yelled over the roar of the flames, 'Always leave things the way you found them!'"

"He once punched a hole in a cow just so he could see who was comin' up the road."

"He had nine children, all of 'em boys!"

"He sired a baseball team... An orchestra, if you count the bastards!"

"Did I ever tell you about the time I had breakfast with Brasky? Brasky drank a full glass of liquid LSD with his eggs. Then he slept for eight months straight. When he woke up, he rubbed his eyes and said, 'All in all, I prefer gin!'"

"They say Gene Roddenberry got the idea for Star Trek from Brasky talkin' in his sleep!"

"He once breast-fed an injured flamingo back to health."

"He used to jog around the block with a fridge on his back!"

"His poop is considered currency in Argentina!"

"He loved extension cords!"

"He hated Mexicans! ...And he was half Mexican! ...And he hated irony!"

"He grew a third arm and kept it in a vault!"

"Bill Brasky's foreskin is used to cover Yankee Stadium when it rains"

"He slept eight hours a night! Well, he was pretty normal when it came to that."

5/10/1997

"So anyways, Brasky would put on a white tie and tails and walk his pet cobra through the park on a leash. He named the cobra 'Beverly'. And he taught it how to fetch and dial a phone. But then one day, it bit the maid. So with tears in his eyes, Brasky had to shoot the maid."

"Brasky would use his own thigh as an anvil!!"

"It was the sight of Brasky’s naked body that drove Brian Wilson insane!“

"He showers in grain alcohol!"

"He uses the Shroud of Turin as a golf towel!"

"He killed Wolfman Jack with a trident!"

"He drives an ice cream truck covered in human skulls!"

"He makes every woman that sleeps with him refer to him as 'Bear Bryant'!"

"He once ate the Bible while water-skiing!"

"He once had sex with a cigarette machine!"

"Every kid on this field was fathered by Bill Brasky! Every one of 'em!"

12/12/1998
"He's a 10-foot-tall beast man, who showers in vodka, and feeds his baby Shrimp Scampi."

"He orchestrated the merger between UNICEF and Smith & Wesson."

"Brasky went public with his own buttocks and made $7 million."

"Did I ever tell you about the time Bill Brasky went hunting? Brasky decides he's
going to hunt down all four of the Banana Splits! He stalks and kills every one of them with a machete. They all begged for their lives, except Fleagle!"

"We once had a bachelor party for Brasky. He ate the entire cake before we could tell him there was a stripper in it."

"Brasky once hosted the Grammys, and gave every award to Corey Hart!"

"He has a toenail on the end of his penis!"

"Brasky got his wife pregnant and she gave birth to a delicious 16 oz. steak... The afterbirth was sauteed mushrooms!"

"Brasky's family crest is a picture of a barracuda eating Neil Armstrong!"

"Brasky ranked 18th in the AP College Football Poll."

"He breast-feeds John Madden!"

"Brasky named the group Sha-Na-Na! They did not want to be called that."

"If you drop a phonograph needle on Brasky's nipple, it plays the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds."

"They use Brasky's foreskin as a tarp when it rains at Yankee Stadium!"

"Brasky directed that commercial where the women play basketball in heels!"

"He wears a live rattlesnake as a condom!"

"All the Yes album covers are Brasky family photos."

"Darryl Dawkins has a summer home in Brasky's groin!"

"Brasky taught his son to drive by entering him into the Indy 500. The kid wrecked, and died. Brasky said, 'It would have happened sometime!'"

"Brasky's semen can form into a liquid human! ...Like the guys in Terminator 2!"

"Brasky still believes in Santa Claus! And he wants to put him in porno films."

"He thinks Iron Man is gay!"

"He framed Roger Rabbit!"

"He gave a hand job to a manta ray!"

"Brasky used to ride upon a steed, perchance to spy a lady."

"The character Johnny Appleseed was based on Brasky, except for the part about planting appleseeds and not raping men!"

"Did I ever tell about the time Brasky was in a production of The King and I? On
opening night, Brasky chloroformed the entire cast and slowly eats them in front of the audience for two hours! The production got pretty good reviews."

All transcripts courtesy Wikipedia

Window To The Soul

Time to jump on a new and exciting bandwagon of self-awareness, thanks to The Sportslady and Lady Crumpet.

No, this isn't some self help guru program or new age therapy session.

Instead, let's open Johari's Window and see what you think of me.

Enter my personal Window and tell me what best describes my personality. The overlaps and differences should make for a little bit of fun, and an interesting experiment for my psyche.

So, go ahead. Crack open my Johari's window.

Being that I'm in sunny Florida, the place could stand a nice gulf breeze.

Valentine's Return

"It's been such a long time
I think I should be going
Cause time doesn't wait for me
It keeps on going"
-"Long Time" by Boston

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!

In case you've joined us late (like me), here's what has been happening at the Cape lately...

Well the "retirement" lasted all of 3 weeks, except for some part time work.
Since January 23rd, I've been gainfully employed full time as a Production Specialist at WFTX, the Fox affiliate in Ft. Myers.

Some more good news, after working at the Fox station for about 2 weeks, I've already gotten a promotion!

I'm moving to the Promotions dept. with a new title, Promotions Coordinator/Producer at Fox 4 News.

Here's some other things on my mind since my last post...

I think Herm's a great hire for the Chiefs. This whole TO situation got me worried, though. I really don't see the Chiefs pulling the trigger on it.

Just so you know...the Crue was in town Saturday night to rock the Germain Arena. Had I still been in Columbus GA, the plan was to go and see the show with a friend of mine. Sorry, Matt!

It warrants mentioning that I remember going to see Van Halen back in high school with my friend Travis at Riverport, when a certain Vince Neil opened for Sammy and Eddie. Hey, Smiler, do you still have the Vince Neil wife beater that you bought...or did you burn it in effigy?

Another exciting happening...Pitchers and catchers report this week. Ft. Myers is the home of the Red Sox AND the Twins, so plenty of action around town for the next month and a half.

The Cards are only a couple hours across the state...so maybe I can make back there for a weekend game at Roger Dean Stadium...but I need someone to go with me. Any takers?

Sorry it's been so long since I've posted. I'm sure that things will get back to normal and I'll be posting more soon.

Well, KO and I are off to dinner and a hockey game for Valentine's Day. Nothing says I love you more than watching two Canadian guys beat each other's faces in with a LaBatt's, your sweetie, and your Reggie Dunlop Charlestown Chiefs sweater!


Old Time Hockey...like Eddie Shore....and Toe Blake...and Gordie!!

Kaos in the "Dollhouse"

Well, since I haven't heard back from Kaos after leaving a message a few days ago, I'll have to share this news regarding him with anyone and everyone visiting this site.

Don't worry it's not that embarrassing. In fact, if it were me in his predicament, I'd think it's pretty cool.

I was watching the Todd Solondz film "Welcome to the Dollhouse" the other night and about 5 minutes into the flick, I noticed something very familiar on the screen.

Early in the movie, the main character, a 12 year old girl named Dawn Wiener, is watching a Quiz Bowl on TV while having an argument with her little sister. As is cut back and forth between the Quiz Bowl program and the argument, there was a familiar voice moderating the TV program.

Then it happened.

It cuts back to the program and we get our first and fast glimpse of the mystery moderator. It's undeniable and confirms my suspicion.

There on the screen is a young Kaos, in suit and tie, holding court for a myriad of young bright students. Since we're both about the same age, I'm guessing he was a sophomore/junior in high school at the time, and the clip credits at the end confirmed all this for me geographically as well.

I couldn't believe it. I thought, "How cool is that?". I also wanted so badly to share this with him.

But, I couldn't reach him by cell. So, this will have to do. I hope it's alright, my airing of this potentially sensitive material.
If nothing else, you can at least add yourself to IMDB.com actor page:

Kaos' film credit: "Welcome to the Dollhouse" (1995)

Captions From The Cape

You wanted it....you got it.

And, if you didn't...you're getting it anyway...complete with Seacow Goodness!!

Here are some pictures from our short time in our new home.

Enjoy!!!

I'm starting with the coolest. This is the Federal Building in downtown Fort Myers. By day a old Greek columned structure. By night, the 10 foot tall steel luminarias around the building light it up to the beautiful site you see here. Imagine driving by that after a night on the town. Really cool.  

The Caloosahatchee Bridge...or one of the few that doesn't cost a buck to cross. Free Bridge...Yippee! 

The apartment...not the greatest, but at least there's a palm tree....that's gotta mean something. 

Zoe somewhere close to Tampa on the trip from hell moving to the Cape....enjoying the view with eyes wide shut. She spent 90% of the time just like that...what a sweetie! 

Here are some of the many manatees that we saw at the park. All of these manatees are in the wild, but they use Manatee Park because of the warm water generated by a neighboriing plant. KO and I saw about 30 to 40...really cool. Note the scars on the one in the middle from a close encounter with boats. 

Me and my buddy Manny at Manatee Park...Cool like Fonzie. 

A beautiful sunset at our new home. 

Ignore This Post

Irony.

Probably the most misused word in the English language...or are you just using it ironically?

Redoubt had a nice little post about the irony of lottery in which he quotes some lyrics from the Alanis Morrisette song "Ironic", which isn't just that.

"Ironic...don't cha think?"

Let's ignore the word, shall we?
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i·ro·ny
n.
pl. i·ro·nies
1.
a. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
b. An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
c. A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect. See Synonyms at wit

2.
a. Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: “Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated” (Richard Kain).
b. An occurrence, result, or circumstance notable for such incongruity. See Usage Note at ironic.
Dramatic irony - irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.
(Author's note: every Law and Order)
Socratic irony - admission of your own ignorance and willingness to learn while exposing someone's inconsistencies by close questioning.
(Author's note: Letting another fool take the fall for you to learn)


This misuse has been a peeve of mine for awhile now. Hell, I'm not perfect. I sometimes misuse the word, too.

It's easy to do so...it's thrown about so much that it's been given different meaning.

As KO would say, "It isn't ironic...just a shitty coincidence".


I will admit that I do use the word as a barometer of one's English skills.

Sure, if someone uses it wrong around me, I'll probably shrug it off. Of course, if I do call you on it, it means I think you're capable of a little more than that....so it's a good thing to be ridiculed publicly.

So, what is the purpose of this post?

Nothing, really....or everything.

If you wish to discuss this further, don't comment me at the link below.

Frappr John

Call me a follower.

The SportsLady is frapping it up with her latest post, and after pushing in my pin on her site...I'm asking you to come join my Frappr Map!

The process is easy...many of you that I have an address from will get an email inviting you to indulge in the frappy goodness.

So, c'mon...Frap it up!

Name That Blog

If you haven't mosied on over to the SportsLady's blog in a few days, what are you waiting for?

New content to consume, and that's right, a contest!

KO lookin' for a new name for the blog...and she wants your help.

Head to her post here and leave your money moniker in the snide remarks.

Who knows? You may one day be telling the grandkids that you came up with the name for the Chica Deportes' Blog. (Right before you're sent by your familia to the looney bin.)

Buen Suerte, amigos!!

Patton Pending...

Submitted for your approval...

I've found this humorous interview with my favorite comedian Patton Oswalt that's sure to make you chortle with delight. Maybe even a guffaw will be in order upon ingestion.

Anyway, dig into the comedy goodness...

PattonOswalt.com

Herman's Head?

Is he? Isn't he?

Sadly, I get the feeling that the Herman Edwards talks between the Jets and the Chiefs is just beginning.

I've been a Chiefs fan for such a long time, so when it sounded like King Carl Peterson was closing a deal after 2 days, I knew something was up.

Carl's like that guys who after doing the research and checking the prices on purchasing a new TV....still holds out for less.

He'd be right at home at a yard sale.

The Snooze Leader

-Futurama's disembodied head could be reanimated (pun intended) and reattached to Fox ala "Hombre de Familia".
Somewhere, the kids at AdultSwim are quietly chuckling with their finger on the pulse of the geek masses...

- Katrina and the Waves are "Walking on Sell Outs"

-Here's your Fark caption:
"Theater chain executive describes cup holder mounted seats in cinema as 'the most important technological innovation since sound.'"

I can't remember the last time I saw a cup mounted seat in a movie, but those Star Wars special effects are so passe.

-And, Finally...
Have Belfast scientists discovered the secret of first liquid with holes?

Meanwhile, we're still awaiting a cure for cancer...

Greetings from the Cape

I'm baaaaaaaack.

The SportsLady and I finally got the computer up and running last night, so here's my first correspondence from the Sunshine State.

Also, I know you all missed my buddy the header at the top of the screen, so you'll be happy to know that it's back as well.

To recap what's been going down in the last few days:

Sunday: Cleaning and checking out some of our local shoppes.

Monday: Our first trip to Naples for their New Year Fine Arts Fest. So gorgeous...75 and sunny every day so far on the Gulf Coast.

Tuesday: Our first trip to Fort Myers Beach. Another picturesque day on the softest sand these feet hath ever touched. A little more cleaning.

Wednesday: KO back to work...I begin my search. Temps: 75 and sunny.

Brace yourself though for this bad news: Thanks to a dip in the jet stream, it's supposed to cool down to the unbearable frozen tundra-esque temperature of (Gasp!) 60 degrees this weekend.

Break out the parkas and grab your booties cause it's cooooolllllldddd out there!

Hope all is well and I trust you had a safe and happy holiday season.

Cheers from the Cape!!

Last Peachy Post

I'm outie, kids.

This time tomorrow, I'll be on the road to The Cape and The Land of Oranges.

Hope everyone has a Happy and Safe New Year!!

Don't be a stranger....you know I won't.