Friday Food For Thought
FFFT: List the names of 5 persons you can really count on in times of trouble or when you need help.

These cannot include the people:
1. who is your significant other / whom you're dating / whom you're sleeping with / have slept with
2. who lives out of your area (state, city, country, world?)
3. who are your imaginary friends
4. who are not people (meaning your cat or dog or other exotic pets)

These must be the people:
1. whom you can call in the middle of the night and
2. not expect anything back from you in return

Daily Trivia 3
I'll post yesterday answers when I get back from lunch. Here are the questions for today's trivia:

1. The capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. What does "D.C." stand for?


2. "Neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night" can keep these government workers from their job." Who are they?


3. What historical document turned the American colonies into the United States of America?

Yesterday's answers:

1. about 3,000 miles wide


2. the Constitution of the United States


3. Roots (in 1977, the book was made into the most successful miniseries in TV history.)

Let your beer do the talking
Having been an advertising major in college, I'm always on the look out for good ads, smart marketing campaigns, and general everything that's involved in the tactic of selling consumer goods.

And so I came across this: Molson Twin Label. The Molson Canadian and Canadian Light bottle have labels on them that say: "Guess Where My Tattoo Is"; "Wild In The Shower"; "I Just Want To Be Held"; "I'm Not Wearing Any Underwear;" and "You're Not My Type" !! There is a Flash piece that showcase this on their website www.molsontwinlabel.com.

Here's the article that appeared on Creativity.com (Oct 9, 2002). It's a subscription only site so I can't link to it, so I'll post it on the site:

-- Start Creativity.com's Article --
Molson, CP+B Give Beer Drinkers Something to Talk About
"We're honest about what beer is for," ACD Bill Wright says of Crispin Porter + Bogusky's new campaign for Molson. "It's for breaking the ice with people in bars." Figuring people can use all the help they can get, the campaign centers around repackaging the Canadian brew with "twin labels," one featuring the Molson logo, the other displaying one of 84 provocative -- and conversation provoking -- messages. As the tagline being promoted through print and television suggests, the twin labels allow you to: "Let your Molson do the talking."

"You go into bars and you see people holding bottles of beer, and they hold them like badges," Wright says. "We can't really compete with Budweiser and say all the things about people that it does, so we have to take a short cut." Messages currently being shipped on bottles of Molson include: "Guess Where My Tattoo Is"; "Wild In The Shower"; "I Just Want To Be Held"; "I'm Not Wearing Any Underwear;" and "You're Not My Type". More examples can be viewed at www.molsontwinlabel.com.

According to Wright, early anecdotal evidence suggests the campaign might be as catchy as it seems. Distributors in the Northeast report collecting fewer empty bottles than they sell as bar patrons take their favorite slogans home with them. "It's like a fortune cookie," he says. "You want to order one just to see what you'll get." The agency is already in a second round of label writing, with the total number of variations slated to hit 140. "All we're saying is that when you choose a beer, you say something about yourself," says Wright. "We want to let you say everything about yourself."
-- End Creativity.com's Article --

Daily Trivia 2
Here are the next batch of questions:

1. From West Coast to East Coast, is the United States about 3,000 or 30,000 miles wide?


2. What American document became the law of the land in 1788?


3. In what prizewinning book did Alex Haley trace his family all the way back to Africa?

Yesterday's answers:

1. Abraham Lincoln (in his Gettysburg Address of 1863)


2. Valley Forge (in Pennsylvania)


3. President John F. Kennedy (in his inaugural adress, 1961)

You people are smart!

Daily Trivia 1
Stumbled across a stack of Brain Quest America trivia cards in Susan's car the other day, flipped through and saw some pretty interesting questions, so here are my challenge to you readers: post your reply in the comments sections

1. Which U.S. President first spoke of a "government of the people, by the people, for the people"?


2. Name the valley where George Washington's army spent the long hard winter of 1777-78.


3. "Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country." Who said this?

Have fun!

Missing Child
A fellow stlblogger's friend's child has been reported missing. I'm helping to spread the word. Here are some details:
Name: Shawn Damian Hornbeck
Age: 11 (07/17/1991)
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Last Seen in Richwoods, MO wearing Blue Jeans and an Orange T-Shirt. He was riding a Lime Green 'Next' Mountain Bike.

He's been missing since 10/6/02, 1pm or so. If you have seen him, please contact the Washington County Sheriff's Department at 573-438-5478.

For more information, visit stltoday.com or Shawn's site site.

Björn Again, Bowling, Pizza, and a whole lot of laughters
T'was a good weekend. Met up with Susan, Suzanne and KC on saturday evening at The Pageant to go the to Björn Again (Abba) show. The opening act wasn't all that great, they didn't have whole lof of stage presence, the lead singer mumbled all the time, and I just got tired of rolling my eyes. But the crowd seemed to like them. Well, good for them.

The main gig Björn Again was awesome! They sounded so much like Abba, their voices, dance moves, etc. It was great. They have the crowd dancing and waving, I think all of us had a good time.

Sunday morning, I was up early (that would be 11am), and drove to the bowling alley to meet up with a bunch of stlbloggers. It was fun. Team Fantastico (Ben, Tempe, Drew, and Vince a.k.a. SugarDaddy) totally kicked ass. Joe was the most consistent of us all, though Joster did sneak one in there and was the highest scorer of the day for a single game played.

Couple of us headed out to the cheesecake factory after bowling but they were closed for training. C'mon, training on a sunday afternoon? Duh. So we ended up at California Pizza Kitchen. I love their pizza crust, it's probably the best gourmet pizza ever. The conversation went 'downhill' from there... I think we nearly gave the little old lady in her prim and proper pulled back hair bun a heart attack! Let's just say I learned a whole lot about our fellow bloggers. :)

Yesterday night was low-key, had a beer and watched the game at Culpeppers. Then it was bed time. I'm so not ready for the work week though. :p