11 Points Inbox-O-Rama, Number 5 (page 2)
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This list was published on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 10:00:00 AM under the category Misc.
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 10:00:00 AM - Single-page view
- Flipping houses. A great observation based off my 11 For Dummies Books That Are Actually For Dummies list...
Did anyone else notice that "Flipping Houses for Dummies" now comes bundled with "Loan Modification for Dummies?" Hilarious!
Well you've got to upsell! That's just as natural as if they paired "Vista For Dummies" with "Repairing The Computer You Threw Out The Window For Dummies".
--Anonymous (via Facebook)
Sam's internship at the "Jerry Springer" show. This week, the fine people at Cracked.com posted a link to an older list of mine, 11 Best Tranny Moments in Entertainment. In that list, I mention my three-month internship at the "Jerry Springer" show when I was in college back in 1999.
did you really spend three months in college interning at the "Jerry Springer Show"? If so, what was the most outrageous part?
Yes, I really did work at the "Jerry Springer" show. Sadly, it was during that transitional era between film cameras and digital cameras so I don't have any pictures from my time there. (I was never a big film camera guy.)
--Pikzeequeen (via Twitter)
I might do an 11 Points list just on the crazy stuff I saw and experienced there. But to start, when I think about my craziest experience, it was my first day. I had been there for less than 10 minutes when I got my first assignment: Run out to the Walgreens nearby to buy razors, so a man could shave his legs (which would be revealed to his wife when he told her he was secretly a cross dresser).
Second-weirdest? When a stripper from Kentucky pulled me into the bathroom in an effort to seduce me while, meanwhile, all of the Midwestern tourist women in said bathroom watched. (Needless to say, her attempt failed.) (Actually, I probably needed to say that.)- That ain't right. A new photo submitted as a follow-up to my 11 Accidentally Racist Product and Company Names list...
i was thinking of your unintentionally funny/racist lists, and just so you know, there is a bar in WI called Nig's Bar.
Yeah, might want to change that. When I was putting together the accidentally racist products list, this one just missed the cut...
--Adam (via Twitter)
Definitely along the same lines. Sometimes, even if your name has been around forever and you can cite tradition, it reaches the point of being so offensive you've got to change it.
On an unrelated note, I'm watching my beloved Cleveland Indians and I barely recognize any of the players. - Sam and the Sports Guy. In my new season of NFL picks, I'm using picks by ESPN.com's The Sports Guy as one of my 11 predictive methods. In that first set of picks, I wailed on the Sports Guy a bit. That brought this e-mail...
I read both your column and Bill Simmons column. I find you both tremendously entertaining...I even went as far as to tell my friend Randi, who introduced me to 11points.com, that I felt as if you were strongly influenced by The Sports Guy because you're writing styles are incredibly similar. I too am a Journalism major and find that it's easy to spot his avid readers because they tend to pick up his writing mannerisms..so imagine my surprise when I read that you actually hated him..a lot. What gives? Major fan of your column btw, keep up the amazing work!!
First of all, I think it's great that you ended it "love"!
Love, Kellen
The reason I go after The Sports Guy is professional jealousy, nothing more, nothing less. He basically won the blogger lottery -- he started early, his blog caught the right eyes, and he found his way into high-profile job at ESPN making six figures to write a column once or twice a week. It even got him a staff writing job at Jimmy Kimmel for a while. This all makes me seethingly jealous.
Oh, and, in general, I find Boston sports fans to be abrasive, boorish and entitled... I hate The Sports Guy's stance that watching football at home is more fun than watching at a stadium... and, most of all, I hate that he went on auto-pilot years ago and never tries any new ideas or even jokes. He's better than that.
So while I understand that people will inevitably compare the two of us, I like to think I'm working this hard to take the funny columnist thing to a different level. And I will do my best to never copy The Sports Guy. - I pranked him to death with a tire iron.
Sam, I've been reading all the inbox-o-ramas and I noticed that nothing was selected on your list about passed out people (here). I thought [this, and it's] pretty hilarious...
Yup, these are my readers.
Mix egg whites and pepper and rub it on your prank-ee's asshole. They will wake up the next day with a burning, slimy asshole and will think they had a gay escapade.
--Victor in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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