The Real Story of the Real Bernie Brewer

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Holy Macaroni - was that a nice weekend or what. I have to think this was the best weather since October. Did everyone get your Christmas decorations down?

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DON'T EVEN get me started on this eye sore piece of crap - you have not seen the last of THIS photo.

This really shows how we want to get buisness into town doesn't it.

This screams:

WE CARE for our downtown.

I had a moment of brilliance as I remembered I have a PS3 which connects to the web. HEY - The Public Enemies trailer is on the web!!!

So DJ and I watched the trailer on our big screen and with our 7.1 surround sound system and the audio is outstanding(4 foot tall sub-woofer . . . I do like my base). So chalk up another 4 or 5 viewings of the trailer.

I think it is becoming like the Rocky Horror Picture Show - we know all the lines.

Dum dum dee dum dum dee dum dum dum.

Where's JOHNNY!!

The real question is - why is that guy putting pop corn in his ear.


Built in 1944 the Milwaukee 261 is a 4-8-4 locomotive and weights over 1 million pounds. Currently the 261' boilers are being overhauled which will take most of 2009. There is an excellent website about the 261 here.

It has come through Columbus many times in the past and once fixed will come again!

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Movies - Watchman - a resounding THUD as 2/3s of the audience dropped in it's 2nd week giving Watchman the 4th largest drop (behind Friday the 13th, Hellboy II and The Day the Earth Stood Still) from the #1 spot.

However there is a movie that is quietly doing something amazing. Liam Neeson's "Taken" is showing unbelievable strength dropping an unheard of 9% in it's 7th week. It's made a incredible $126 million (way more then they thought it would) and is now classified as a sleeper sensation. In the last two years there have been only two other movies to spend seven weeks in the top five. Batman Begins, and The Dark Knight.

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Went out for a drive yesterday and while we were in the worst part of the day for taking photos I had to stop and take this for my all season mill collection.

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We all know who Bernie Brewer is - that little dorky guy at Miller Park that slides down the slide into a giant beer mug (hmmmmm no beer mug??). But did you know the history behind those actions?

In 1970 the Milwaukee Brewers were rather new and having problems with attendance. So Milt Mason (69) said he would go into a little chalet on top of County Stadium and stay up there until the Brewers would get 40,000 in attendance for one game. He thought it would take a week or two.

Forty days later the Brewers hit 40,000. But wait it gets better.

Milt is so excited to get out of that blasted chalet (there were some pretty horrific storms I remember) that in his excitement he slid down a 30 foot rope severely burning his hands and legs before falling the last 15 feet and breaking a few dozen bones in his frail body.

Once his very lengthy recovery was complete the Brewers, as a gift, gave him a lifetime supply of beer which it seems he tried to drink in one day and he died of liver failure do to alcohol poisoning.

So the next time you see Bernie Brewer sliding DOWN into his beer . . . there is some truth in it.

Many stories say he died from a bad batch of beer but I have been doing a LOT of research on that and it's an urban legend. There is no way you can die from a bad batch of beer unless it was tampered with and I would think that there would have made the news of tampering, ESPECIALLY in Milwaukee.
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So DJ finally has her new phone. She has been researching phones for a long long long time and last month she was finally able to get a new phone and she had the perfect one picked out and went to the store to get it and was told. "SORRY, as of yesterday we no longer sell THAT one."

POOP!!!

So back to the drawing board. Two more weeks of researching and she found the next perfect phone, in fact it is rated the absolute BEST phone among the 13 to 18 age group. So good that one teenager said she would sell this phone to ANY stranger on the street.

So DJ got it and spent the night sim carding and playing and she went to bed will little cell phones dancing in her head.
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5:45AM comes and the room is alight FLASHES and COLORS and ALL SORTS OF RACKET with TUNES, BEEPS, WHISTLES and SHRIEKS and I'm awake thinking I'm in the middle of Las Vegas casino.

"Sorry, I guess I'll have to fix that" she says.

13 to 18 year old's probably don't use the alarm much.
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BTW - I'll be voting for Dave Bomkamp for Alderperson - I wrote to him and attached something I wrote (hopefully in the Columbus Journal this week but . . maybe not - it's really good) and asked his opinion and got a very positive response. So I'm going to reprint it later this week so we can hold his feet to the fire later this year when he wins.

Maybe even if he doesn't win just for fun.

no no - I would not do that!!

I'M IN CAMP WITH BOMKAMP
and I have matches.

Have a great Monday.

Rod