http://blogginginamerica.net Just another WorldBlogosphere.com blog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:28:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://blogginginamerica.net/286/pop-culture/breaking-news-a-piece-of-americana-was-destroyed-by-fire-today/ http://blogginginamerica.net/286/pop-culture/breaking-news-a-piece-of-americana-was-destroyed-by-fire-today/#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:09:36 +0000 wbgene http://blogginginamerica.net/?p=286 I am sad to report that a piece of Americana was destroyed by fire in Tulsa, Oklahoma today. The Admiral Twin Drive-In burned to the ground today in a huge blaze. Firefighters are still investigating the cause of the fire. It has been speculated that the electrical system may have been the cause. 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My the end [...]]]> http://blogginginamerica.net/256/news/economic-news/why-america-despises-the-banking-industry-time-for-a-rant/feed/ 0 http://blogginginamerica.net/253/weird-news/pulled-over-by-police-in-a-barbie-car/ http://blogginginamerica.net/253/weird-news/pulled-over-by-police-in-a-barbie-car/#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 05:33:10 +0000 wbgene http://blogginginamerica.net/?p=253 Paul Hutton of Essex, England had been working on a Barbie car with his son who was taking a car mechanics class. They had just finished putting some bigger tires on the car so Paul wanted to go show it off to his friend. So Paul squeezed himself into the pink Barbie mobile and drove [...]]]> http://blogginginamerica.net/253/weird-news/pulled-over-by-police-in-a-barbie-car/feed/ 0 http://blogginginamerica.net/249/television/my-thoughts-on-the-celebrity-apprentice-finale-may-23-2010/ http://blogginginamerica.net/249/television/my-thoughts-on-the-celebrity-apprentice-finale-may-23-2010/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 07:53:53 +0000 wbgene http://blogginginamerica.net/?p=249 The Celebrity Apprentice Finale I have always liked Bret Michaels and Holly Robinson Peete. On The Celebrity Apprentice however I didn’t like Holly. She came across as being mean. She always stayed TOO conservative, and it cost her most of the time. If it isn’t obvious by now I was pulling for Bret Micheals to [...]]]> http://blogginginamerica.net/249/television/my-thoughts-on-the-celebrity-apprentice-finale-may-23-2010/feed/ 1 http://blogginginamerica.net/245/television/my-thoughts-on-survivor-heroes-vs-villains-season-and-finale-spoiler-alert/ http://blogginginamerica.net/245/television/my-thoughts-on-survivor-heroes-vs-villains-season-and-finale-spoiler-alert/#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 06:57:38 +0000 wbgene http://blogginginamerica.net/?p=245 Once again, I won’t reveal the winner of the show until later in the post to assure you don’t accidentally see the winner before you watch. I was definitely an interesting season for Survivor. After 20 seasons of the show they still manage to keep it interesting. That in itself is very impressive. They also [...]]]> http://blogginginamerica.net/245/television/my-thoughts-on-survivor-heroes-vs-villains-season-and-finale-spoiler-alert/feed/ 1 http://blogginginamerica.net/240/television/my-thoughts-on-the-amazing-race-finale-spoiler-alert/ http://blogginginamerica.net/240/television/my-thoughts-on-the-amazing-race-finale-spoiler-alert/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 20:55:03 +0000 wbgene http://blogginginamerica.net/?p=240 Just in case you are like me and record stuff and some times don’t get around to watching it until a few days later… I will be revealing who won The Amazing Race last night later in this post. 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The Birth Control Pill turns 50 years old on May 9th… Yes, [...]]]> http://blogginginamerica.net/236/funny-stuff/the-definition-of-irony-guess-what-is-turning-50-this-weekend/feed/ 0 http://blogginginamerica.net/221/miscellaneous/what-my-wife-got-from-the-education-microgrant/ http://blogginginamerica.net/221/miscellaneous/what-my-wife-got-from-the-education-microgrant/#comments Sun, 06 Sep 2009 08:46:41 +0000 wbgene http://blogginginamerica.net/?p=221 I wanted to start this post by saying thank you to anyone I haven’t personally thanked. Either because you were just a friend or family member of someone I directly contacted about voting, or if you were someone we don’t know at all that just came across my post and took the time to go [...]]]> http://blogginginamerica.net/221/miscellaneous/what-my-wife-got-from-the-education-microgrant/feed/ 0 http://blogginginamerica.net/217/funny-stuff/is-your-computer-monitor-clean/ http://blogginginamerica.net/217/funny-stuff/is-your-computer-monitor-clean/#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:10:29 +0000 wbgene http://blogginginamerica.net/?p=217 It is a well known fact that most people don’t clean their computer monitor screens as often as they should. I have seen some monitors where you can even write in the dust with your finger like you might do on a car. Anyway, it is also know that it is even harder to clean [...]]]> http://blogginginamerica.net/217/funny-stuff/is-your-computer-monitor-clean/feed/ 1 http://blogginginamerica.net/212/photography/help-my-wife-win-an-education-microgrant-from-dell-and-weareteachers/ http://blogginginamerica.net/212/photography/help-my-wife-win-an-education-microgrant-from-dell-and-weareteachers/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:18:21 +0000 wbgene http://blogginginamerica.net/?p=212 Click here to vote now. For those that do not know, my wife is a 4th grade teacher here in Oklahoma. She recently took a two day professional development workshop on “Digital Storytelling.” Digital storytelling is basically just what it sounds like. 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The company’s marketing VP Carol Carrozza said, “Pop culture proves that teens are more ready than ever to discuss the subject of sex.” She went on to say, “Recent reports showing one in [...]]]> http://blogginginamerica.net/133/weird-news/new-hannah-montana-glow-in-the-dark-condoms/feed/ 0 http://blogginginamerica.net/128/weird-news/proof-males-are-attracted-to-large-female-breasts-from-an-early-age/ http://blogginginamerica.net/128/weird-news/proof-males-are-attracted-to-large-female-breasts-from-an-early-age/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:57:18 +0000 wbgene http://blogginginamerica.net/?p=128 Proof Males are Attracted to Large Female Breasts from an Early Age A five year old Denton, Texas boy decided to go on his own little field trip while at an Imagination Station daycare center. Deborah Pugh, the daycare owner, claims the boy asked to go to the bathroom before he disappeared, and that the [...]]]> http://blogginginamerica.net/128/weird-news/proof-males-are-attracted-to-large-female-breasts-from-an-early-age/feed/ 0 http://blogginginamerica.net/123/weird-news/judge-allows-9-year-old-new-zealand-girl-to-change-name/ http://blogginginamerica.net/123/weird-news/judge-allows-9-year-old-new-zealand-girl-to-change-name/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:53:36 +0000 wbgene http://blogginginamerica.net/?p=123 Judge Allows 9 Year Old New Zealand Girl to Change Name We may have just found the worst legal name for a person EVER! In Wellington, New Zealand Judge Rob Murfitt is allowing a nine year old girl to change her name. He commented, “The court is profoundly conderned about the very poor judgement which [...]]]> http://blogginginamerica.net/123/weird-news/judge-allows-9-year-old-new-zealand-girl-to-change-name/feed/ 0 http://blogginginamerica.net/118/weird-news/touch-my-nose-do-i-even-have-one-of-those-officer/ http://blogginginamerica.net/118/weird-news/touch-my-nose-do-i-even-have-one-of-those-officer/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:46:35 +0000 wbgene http://blogginginamerica.net/?p=118 Touch My Nose? Do I Even Have One of Those, Officer? What’s the drunkest you have ever been? Wait, you probably don’t remember much from that night, do you? It wouldn’t matter; if you topped this story you would probably be dead right now. 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So far he has had Mr. Belding (Dennis Haskins), Lisa Turtle (Lark Vorhees), AC Slater (Mario Lopez), and most recently [...]]]> http://blogginginamerica.net/203/actors-actresses/sign-jimmy-fallons-petition-to-support-the-saved-by-the-bell-reunion/feed/ 0 http://blogginginamerica.net/198/actors-actresses/zach-morris-on-late-night-with-jimmy-fallon/ http://blogginginamerica.net/198/actors-actresses/zach-morris-on-late-night-with-jimmy-fallon/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:04:07 +0000 wbgene http://blogginginamerica.net/?p=198 That’s right Zach Morris, not Mark-Paul Gosselaar showed up for the Jimmy Fallon Show last night. It was a fun little segment which in the end had Zach agreeing to be part of the Saved By the Bell reunion that Fallon has been trying to organize. Preppy even got a call on his dinosaur of [...]]]> http://blogginginamerica.net/198/actors-actresses/zach-morris-on-late-night-with-jimmy-fallon/feed/ 1 http://blogginginamerica.net/182/actors-actresses/end-us-hunger-take-action-now/ http://blogginginamerica.net/182/actors-actresses/end-us-hunger-take-action-now/#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:47:01 +0000 wbgene http://blogginginamerica.net/?p=182 Well, twitter isn’t a total waste of time. While I have spent way too much time on there today while I should have been doing any number of other things – it turned into some time well spent. I am rather new to twitter, but am now following like 140 people already. Two of the [...]]]> http://blogginginamerica.net/182/actors-actresses/end-us-hunger-take-action-now/feed/ 0