"The Gift"

Wow, I was actually blogging at the start of this year?
Amazing.

Is this the return of Tuckers World?

Well I must be rusty cause for the life of me I cant get the website to let me copy and past my holiday!

So anyone that wants to read the gift click here.

2009 was quite a year. But more on that later.
Merry Christmas to everyone.

Jar-Jar Binks Music Video

"Jobs"

This is Obama's job plan for anyone who slept through his speech last night.
Transportation and warehousing: 98,000 jobs! I guess thats good for my industry. I dont understand where they are getting these Retail trade jobs, or really assume the transportation industry will boom, but ok.


Sandy Huffaker / APJump start on jobs
A substantial amount of money would be devoted to creating jobs, many of which would involve repairing the nation's infrastructure, including roads and bridges. Money also would be invested in alternative energy programs.
Obama administration officials estimate the following number of jobs will be created in 2010:
• Mining: 26,000 • Construction: 678,000 • Manufacturing: 408,000• Wholesale trade: 158,000 • Retail trade: 604,000• Information: 50,000• Financial activities: 214,000• Professional and business services: 345,000• Education and health services: 240,000• Leisure and hospitality: 499,000• Other services: 99,000• Utilities: 11,000• Transportation and warehousing: 98,000• Government total: 244,000• Total: 3,675,000

"Its BACCCCCCCCONNNNNNNNNN!"

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/food-talk/22102-bacon-explosion.html


nice......best superbowl dish ever?

"Burgers"

had no idea they had red robin in Mayslanding.

"HOT HOT HOT"

we just ordered wings from Shelians. An awesome, awesome bar. They have the hottest wings on the face of the planet. I only ate two and I feel like I could shoot fire. My face might melt off. My god.

"Man Crushing on Foppa"

Not only does Simon Gagne has a mancrush on Forsberg, but so does Homer. Thats the only reason I can think we would go after him again.

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"Nature of the Beast"

Who could have seen this happen. Danny Breire that supposed to be the guy who lead us to our first cup in forever. The Flyers have danced around the Cap issue all season, but now their "luck" has run out and no one is hurt. That is the only way the Flyers avoided the cap crunch all season.

Now their "luck" has ran out and Danny is stuck a phantom till someone is tossed off the bus.
Bottom line is SOMEONE has to go. IT wouldnt be Danny despite him outgrowing his use, now a 6 million dollar 3rd line center that doesnt play defense or play on the PK unit. No one can else can fit him under their cap either. I dont want to see Danny go, but I dont want to see anyone else go either.

If I had money on it I would say Randy Jones is out of here.

FROM tHE C-post today.

The imminent return of Briere could prompt the return to junior hockey for rookie defenseman Luca Sbisa and a demotion to the Phantoms for Darroll Powe and/or Claude Giroux. It could also require the Flyers trading any number of players, including forwards Scottie Upshall, Glen Metropolit, Randy Jones and Andrew Alberts.

"First Day"

I doubt I would sleep much if I was Barrack Huessin Obama tonight.

Here is what I would do.

1. Jump up and down on my White House Bed.
2. Take a peak at the red phone than walk away all scared hoping it never rings.
3. Lurk around looking for secret passages.
4. Have the cook make me steak and shrimp
5. lay out on the floor on my stomach with my feet in the air reading and spread out all the paperwork with the alien secrets and read them.
6. Call up a bunch of people I met in my life and tell them to kiss my a$$ im the president.
7. Help the Flyers with their Salary Cap problems.
8. Invite the Phillies to we could and have a game on the white horse lawn.
9. call up Megan Fox.

The Big Bang theory - Sheldon's superman theory

From season 1, the Nerds on CBS.
The debate how accurate a scene in Superman is. Also I wonder what order they watched the movies in. I would go this way.

Superman: the Movie
Superman II
Superman II: The donner cut
Superman Returns
Superman III
Superman IV: The quest for peace.

Superman Returns is really just a remake of Superman III with a new cast. The Superman II verisions back to back might be about much though. But thats how I would do it.

"coyotes!"

http://cbs3.com/local/coyote.wild.animal.2.906887.html

He must have came to lurk around the vacant shopping center, filled with skate boarders and shady looking characters lurking in the night.

"Running up the Score"

So before the Flyers/ Caps game last week, some of the caps players were gripping that the Flyers ran up the score on them in late December when they beat them 7-2.

I always D that.

This is the NHL, not pee-wee hockey. No such thing as hurt feelings in professional sports. Trust me the Flyers have been on the other end of a big beatings like that before and everyplayer on that team will be dealt another beating. These guys get paid millions of dollars. I would much rather see my team show boat it, than phone it in like they did last night.A game I spent a lot of money on. The flyers didnt feel like playing last night and it was an unsual awful game for a Flyer/Penguins matchup. So, when my team actually beats on another team. I feel like I get my moneys worth when they keep putting in goal after goal.

So, stop your complaining you millionaires. What do you want a team to do? Just launch the puck into the corners for the 2nd half of the game? If you dont want them to score, here is a novel idea. STOP THEM.

"DC"

So, Obama takes office next week.
They are expecting a bizillion people to flood the streets of DC. I even hear that Amtracks out of philly would be shut down. My work has to reroute deliveries left and right because of utter gridlock on the highways will result in trucks being late. I dont think people are blowing this out of porportion either. I know Camden schools are shutting down because the teachers pretty much said they arent going to show up to work(god bless teachers the only people that can boss their employers around) so they are just shutting down the entire school sytem for the day.

So there are tickets for this event. Most of them I would think would go to important people and people who helped Obama raise historic amounts of money for his campaign. I guess I can understand why people want to be there.

However, I think most people are just going to be stuck in horrific traffic staring at nothing. What is there to see? Some sort of Parade, but if you arent anywhere near Obama, whats the point? Its not like he will be tossing the tax refunds out like the Joker.
Traffic is bad enough down there, but its just going to be a bunch of people at the same place.

"Kids I remember back in old twenty o nine, when I got stuck in traffic and stared at someones tail lights all day!"

They say the will have giant tv screens all over with the coverage on it. I could just watch this on the news. Honestly I dont see how I would be interested in anymore than about 10 minute of people shaking his hand and him swearing in.

Good for the people that are going, but I dont know what the 2.5 million without tickets expect to see.

"BACK"

after a long lay off like Scrubs I am back! I have been gone because I am lazy, and because my computer at home is a POS and crashs a lot. Sometimes it works, others not so much. I am going to try to post on the weekends and during the week from here in the library near my work.

"The gift"

This has become a yearly thing for Tucker's World. To be honest I don't even recall how many years I have posted this. But people expect it now, and its kind of nice to have a yearly Christmas post. Just to answer the questions before they are asked, although its not a true story, its based on some events that happened when I was kid. Enjoy it, and happy holidays to everyone. Hope Santa hooked you up!


Some time around the first week of the year. I took a second look at one of our traditional Christmas decorations; it was a complete and total eyesore. It was a gift some old lady gave my mother 10 years ago for Christmas and I guess she felt obligated to put it on the tree each year. It was a gaudy looking knitted cat. It was one the most hideous things I have ever laid my eyes on.They say its thought that counts well it’s the thought that angers me when I see it every year.

That same Christmas like every year an epidemic spread through the grade school. This year it was in the form of Sega, the newest video game system. Over greasy square pizza, pale yellow peas, and flavorless mashed potatoes shaped like an ice cream scoop, I would hear all the kids discuss the latest video games. I would try my best to stay absent from the conversation. I wouldn’t know what to say when they would ask me if I had gotten past the castle board yet.


One day went I went home I sat my father down and tried to tell him how I would benefit from having a Sega game system of my very own. I told him it would give me better hand eye coordination and against the popular notion it made kids zombies, I told him it acutally made them think and make quick decisions. He went on and on about how when he was a kid he would just use his imagination to have fun, and how kids today are spoiled . I think that conversation is had all over America in every family at one point and time.


I used to think that my parents and all the other parents would go to secret meetings at night or when all their kids were in school and discuss stuff like this. I pictured a man with a gavel leading the meeting and hammering home the idea of telling children why they are spoiled and to shove vegetables down their throats. One time I actually searched my mother’s purse for a pamphlet when they got home late the night before. That Christmas I was hoping for a miracle. I rushed down the steps that morning and studied each mystery. I did the shake test, the weight test and the hold them up to the sunlight test. As I tore, open each one my chances of getting the coveted Sega was getting slimmer and slimmer.


All kinds of flashes were going off from my mother’s camera capturing images of me, and my reactions to each present.Later that day my family and I went to my aunt and uncle’s for dinner. I was in a miserable mood the whole time. The only bright spot was that my cousin Robby who was about my age was there. And guess what he got for Christmas? Of course the very same Sega system. He told me he got it weeks before Christmas even came. Robby and I were always highly competitive. So while the sweet smell of the pending ham dinner dissipated through the air we settled down in front of the television. With all those weeks of practice, he had on me he humiliated me. I think he set a record for goals scored in a hockey game, shot my plane down about a dozen times, and beat me all over the wrestling ring. I went home feeling worse than I did when I realized I wasn’t getting the Sega.


On the ride home my father tried to reach out to me. But I just pushed him away. The image of my wrestler I was controlling laying on the floor after about 30 seconds was burning in my mind. I sat in fit of rage in the back seat as my parents were in the front. My father turned the radio down. He told me that maybe one day I would get one. But I didn’t hear it. I wanted to tell him how Robby’s parents weren’t any richer than we, that I was the only kid that didn’t have a Sega. But all that came out at the top of my tiny lungs was I HATE YOU! And instead of saying anything after that. I just repeated I HATE YOU! Because he was driving of course he had his back to me. But we passed a street light that light up the rear view window and I glimpse of his face. Suddenly I didn’t want to yell anymore. I did not apologize either, in fact no one said anything. The car just hummed along the rest of the ride.


About two months later I got a Sega for my birthday. It funny the minute I unwrapped the gift and realized what it was, I almost had to fake excitement. Sure I spend many a night in the glow of my television going to far off lands and winning championships, but I could never take those words back. At least in a video game you are blessed with more than one life. At the time I meant the words that came out of my mouth. I hated my father as much as I hate that stupid knit cat now. One time after coming home from a fishing trip with my father after many years of those words keeping me up at night, it figured it was time to apologize. However my mouth froze, I never did. I like to think that my father knew what I was thinking. Like I said they say it’s the thought that counts.I put the rest of the ornaments in a box, and I carried them basement. I placed them in a closet we hardly used. It was full of dust and mildew. I rested the box right on top of the Sega.

"un-rated"

So I netflixed Stepbrothers last night and as many movies these days I was given the choice bettween the verision in theaters or the "extended version".

The various verisions have really gotten out of hand with movies.

Before the reason for extended versisons of films were because the movie was beloved and the director cut stuff for time. Many people really took notice of this because deleted scenes in many movies would surface when they started airing on the networks. Back than people used a device called VCR to record stuff off tv. Many people (my family included) would tape movies that way. So,we had movies taped off of tv. They would be edited for content but many times they would Actually ADD scenes rather than delete them like they do now.

Films such as Back to the Future, Jaws, and the Naked Gun were shown with various of extra scenes. The Naked Gun had an insane amount of deleted stuff put back in, in order to bump up the running time shortened by scenes removed that wouldnt clear the network standards.

Now, they have Unrrated verisions which people always thing are dirtier. They aren't automatically. All it really means is the dudes that sit down and give a movie a rating G, PG, PG-13 or R before it goes to theaters, didnt watch a recut verision of the film. Sometimes it has stuff that would have bumped it up the ratings later. Other times it might just be an extended shot, some extra G rated stuff that was simply not in the presented cut of the film.

Now we also have movies on DVD with totally different endings than people that paid the $10 to see them in theaters. In fact I saw two verisions of 28 days later, that when I saw the sequel I couldnt remember what the REAL ENDING was. Sometimes these verisions have cool stuff that was cut (the older movies people love are hot sellers cause its new footage for beloved filmS) but sometimes its totally different ending. I saw so-so comedy with Zack Braff called The Ex (once titled FAsttrack) that had the one charcter a fraud in one verision and the other one legitmately handicapped.

There is a big difference though for a movie you already saw and never saw. Was the underrated verision of Stepbrothers any better? I have no idea I went with the original verision that I had also never seen. I figured that is the verision everyone saw. But now I hear the extended verision of the exteremly funny Forgetting Sarah Marshal was even Funnier, when I opted for theater verision.

What verision do most people go with when the netflix or are old fashion and rent the movie from a store given the opiton on a film you NEVER saw?

"Best Baseball Team in the History of All Baseball Teams?!"

So some one at work's husband is a big Yankees fan.
She told me he is all excited that they signed someone. Normally I would just tell her how terrible the Yankkes are and they are evil. Instead I simply said, ask him who the world champs are.

Kind of like Jays post on the crew blog last month. I find myself still a fan, but not really caring.

Of course everyone knows I am:
Flyers
PHillies
Eagles
Sixers (could care less)

So, at least I still have the anticpation of my #1 team winning in it all.

But as far as the PHils go, it makes me not want to even give anyone a hard time. I mean what is to get upset about? We did it. We won.

People are talking about who to sign.
I am like who cares we are the world champs!?!?
How could we get better. We are better than the entire world. If we dont win the word series this year we are just like every other baseball team that doesnt win back to back. Perfectly normal. I dont think I would even be that angry when we get eliminated.

I will be like, well we won last year. So big deal. That is my championship! I was at a good age for it. Still young enough to party all weekend and old enough to call it mine and have it mean more with all the seasons leading up to it.

I could care less about Chase being hurt to start the season. Dont care what pitchers we sign. I will be watching games again of course and plan on attending quite a few. Dont get me wrong I am still a fan. But, if things go wrong I will not be able to get mad. Its hard to explain. BUy them all out ? who cares ? we won already. I just dont see how I can even get mad all season long at this team. Happy when they win, but if they lose. Eh, whatever. Which is different than living and dying I did the last several seasons. I knew they would win the world series pretty early into the postseason last year.


I dont care if the Yankees sign Superman, who cares the Phils won!

Now lets get a Stanley Cup!

"Duke of Tampa"

So I just found out Duke will not return to NJ for the holidays. Jay thinks he will be back about as often as the Olympics.

We will have truely lost him to the sunshine state.

I plan on going down there in March to attend Spring TRaining for the WORLD CHAMPS---The Phillies.

While I am down there I plan to crack Duke on the Noggin and drag him back to the Garden State. That is the only way I am getting him back the colder weather.

I will leave a note to his future wife (or sender of Christmas cards) that Duke died on his way back to space.

"Best Wings in the History of All Wings?"

I will admit i got suckered.
The Pizza Place about 5 minutes got voted Best Wings in South JErsey by the Courier Post the last few months. I finally got around to trying them recently.

I am aware that these places stuff the ballots, because the new defunct Chicken Coop always got best wings and they were terrible. That place was best known for selling hard drugs. At least that was what the folklore was.

So, I was holding back my expectations a bit. But at I least expected wings.

You see Wings to me if they are "dry" are simply fried chicken. Many pizza places give you this when you order wings. I thought it might be different in this case, since I found actual wings near my office from both a deli (actually pretty good) and a pizza place (fairly good), so I thought people would not vote on fried chicken to be the BEST. THE BEST.


They sucked me with their order of more wings than one person should eat (their smallest order was 15) but I figured if they were good I wouldnt care.

I got them home and opened them up with my mouth watering. IT was simply just fried chicken wings with a side of hot sauce that you put them in. The sauce was nothing more than tabassco sauce.

These are not chicken wings, or are simply wings for people who dont like wings. Less messy, but they are not wings. To make matters worse it wasnt even good fried chicken. What a waste of money.

I want to put some sort of law in to effect that makes them not call wings like this wings. Crispy wings, fried chicken wings, are left over stuff from people that actually ordered fried chicken.

If you need me I will be walking down the streets of Pine Hill with a sign put around me that says BAD CHICKEN!
I will also be yelling NO CHICKEN! NO CHICKEN!

Flu Shots are stupid