Thursday, December 18, 2003

This was supposed to be up for you to read the other day. No Idea what happened.

Let me first just explain for my newer readers the selection of person of the year is only to people in my immediate life. I will leave selecting public figures and the movers and shakers of the world up to Time Magazine. Perhaps I will agree or disagree with that. Sometime after Christmas I will also allow my readers to cast a vote for the story of the year, confined to friends and those in my little world.


****Tuckers World PERSON OF THE YEAR FOR 2003****

Mike Price. I have to admit I pretty much knew Price locked his one up early in the game. Although many will argue LIMA BEANZ since he got a lot more press time on this blog, but what Price went through this year certainly tops impregnating your girlfriend and prematurely starting a family.

The day that Price took as all to Starview (and for some reason treated us all) to announce his entering the Marines doesn’t seem all that long about, but it appears to be a life time ago. It was a time when all of my friends could get along and it was before bad blood had spilled between many of the members of the crew. Dan K ridiculed him and predicted Price being ousted from training camp. No one had any idea September 11th would come, and I remember thinking that the likelihood of him serving in a war during the next four years weren’t very good.

However Price did after sitting on his ass at Japan go to Iraq. He did go to war, and from what he has told us he was in the middle of heavy action. Many of us were a bit overwhelmed by his stories and I doubt his words could even do justice to the emotions and the actual test of human spirit that the transpired over there.

A kid I crew up with and became good friends with towards the end of High School with was out in the dessert being shot at as I slept in my nice warm bet last winter. I recall how continuously frustrating it was not having any idea where he was during the heavy combat. I recall the way I felt the day I saw the Shock and Awe on television. Making it a reality that my friend was putting his ass one the line, and I recall everyone’s fears that the US Soldiers would see more intense resistance this time around.

Price returned this summer to parades and free dinners. I forget at times where he has been because talking to him after not seeing him usually just like with most of my friends just picks up where it left off even if we don’t see each other for months. The first conversation I had with him when he was returning from war we just joked about Price’s love life which at the time as in the toilet. We laughed about some of our short comings which are fun for the crew to exaggerate. From broken condoms to a college educated man making peanuts in a job he hates they don’t cold a candle to the events Price went through. I don’t know if he feels different inside since his experience I can’t imagine he doesn’t. However on the surface he appears to be the same old Price. I am certainly not complaining because that is a quality you not only want but need in anyone in the armed forces for your country.

Prices hardships were rewarded seemingly this summer when he met his current girlfriend Ilene. Although he only has known her since July the last time I talked to him he appeared to be about as committed to her as he is his country. He drives 8 hours or so every week he can to spend a mere 48 hours or so with her. Price seems to be ready to close the book on his story of rocky relationships. This time he seems serious and without a doubt I am sure it will soon be proved. This is a year he will remember fondly for the rest of his life, and for all that he has done he is the Tuckers World Person of the Year.


Coming Soon: A film buff looks at Its A Wonderful Life and
How the Liberals a broad have sunk to a new low.

Wednesday, December 17, 2003

"Stop the Madness"

Okay I have to get some things off my chest here.

1 When old man winter is lurking about and the cold weather arrives why do people insist on making their homes or workplaces a flaming inferno? Department stores are the worse why do they think that everyone’s ideal room temperature is the same as my Grandmothers? Why do they feel the need to shoot extremely dry overpowering heat on the general public.

Heaters should make it so it isn’t cold in your home. Not make the place unbearably hot. Here is a hint if you have to either put your fan on or open a window to even out the temperature you might want to turn down the heat just a tad. I had a class at Rowan that the heat was set on 80 something and I almost died a few times.

2 In this area the Chicken Coop has a reputation of having the best wings around. The restaurant was always rumored to be place where you can buy crack. Maybe that seems odd, but the Angel Spa was really prostitution ring. The fact that people in Sterling always told me how good the coop was leads me to think that it was just the drugs that made it popular. I gave them a second chance recently the are maybe a C at best. All I have to say about their popularity is its got to be the crack!

3. I think the production crew for the Flyers games on Comcast Sportsnet is high most of the time. Each night they profile a player from the other team and provide a graphic with bulleted information about the player. Most of them are utterly retarded like telling the viewers at home that the player likes to score goals. Tonight they profiled a Calgary Flame and the first line said he had wheels like Mary Hart. I have no idea what this means and neither did any of the broadcasters. Coastsy went off one time because he had to stop in the middle of a point to read one of these graphics and it made no sense at all. Why not go over these before the game?


Here is another hint for the boys at Comcast Sportsnet when the broadcast team wants to illustrate a point it helps if the replay you show actually has something to do with the play they are mentioning. I mean I know they have a short time to get that up there, but its has been REALLY bad this year.

Tonight for example they wanted to see how a player got cut. The first replay had the mentioned players legs in the top left corner of the screen. They mentioned it was the wrong one. So they switched to Jeff Hackett making a save, and backed it up once or twice. Then they showed footage about 10 seconds after the incident had occurred. They have been bad of this all season, the broadcast team usually just gives up when seemingly unrelated footage sometimes from well over 10 minutes ago in the game is shown. The confusion often results in neglecting to cut away to live action. Maybe it is Box Car Hospador sabotaging the game after losing his job to Jonesy.

Monday, December 15, 2003

NOTE TO READERS:

First off sorry for making the movie post too long, but the great things about blogs is that you can always go back and read them. The Lima Beanz Interview has been post-poned. It has been very hard to set and interview up with Lima Beanz. But I will try to get one before New Years.

COMING THIS WEEK:

1st. Why It's a Wonderful Life is an important American film. (in the next few days)

2nd. Tucker's World will announce the man of the year (likely Thursday or Friday).

Tucker's World Man of the Year for 2002 was Ryan.


"ACE IN THE HOLE"

The ace card of the Iraq deck has been caught. I don't really have to sum up the events of today at least I hope not. Now that Saddam is caught what should we do with him?

Should we put him on trial for trying to kill Bush senior so many years ago? He was a sick mad man. Different culture or not he was a sick twisted man, and almost everything he did was wrong. Will the Iraqi people think he should be put to death? Do most of the American people? Should be a very interesting week in the papers to see what is said. This will be a day we will all remember for the rest of our lives. A Great Day.

Will it change the pending election? Who knows. So many questions. Will the liberals put a negative spin on this? I wouldn't be suprised.