Our Hero....

If you have ever been to Columbia's Five Points area or even the Richland County Library you most likely have seen 'our hero'...Jerimiah. He is our 'homeless' friend who we sometime donate money, drinks or food too. His most famous quote is "Let me hold a dollar..." or "aaaahhhhhhhh" or will simply talk in tongues to you as you pass. He is the world record holder for attendance at 21st birthday parties and once when to the library for 3 years without reading a book (would be a record but I think Penny may have him beat here). I could go on and on about this great man in Columbia but I want you to check him out yourself. It seems he has learned something by going to the library and that is how to use myspace.com......

Check this out.....
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=51285980

Anyone have any good stories about 'our hero' that you want to share???

We would like to welcome the advice guy

So as my blog grows, my staff and I have decided to open a new forum to the blog. A question and answer type of blog (some would even call it a Dear Abbey) that allows you the fans to write in and ask questions. The Advice Guy will then research the question and give you some wise advice, might not be what you are looking for but it will at least be somewhat helpful. Questions like: “Why does cheap bourbon give me such a bad hangover the next day?” or how about “what is the best way to trick my girlfriend into having anal sex?” The Advice guy is here to answer all of your questions, so feel free to get this party started.

Anyone need a bumper sticker....

I recently came across this bumper sticker and after reading the other site....... thought it summed up all the recent news with the true "crazy dick."

USC Athletic Dept asks "Let me hold a dollar..."

I found the article in The State paper today about the likelihood of USC football tickets increasing to be interesting. I will be the first to say that we need better facilities on campus especially for our "other sports teams." But I find it hard to understand how for the last 5+ years we have set record numbers with gamecock club dues and have "sold out" nearly every game since 1998. Where has this money been going??? Not too mention every year since 1997 there has been a tuition increase (which a portion does go to the athletic dept).....Now do not get me wrong...I will be 'bending over' come June and signing up for season football tickets again and have already signed up for another year of half scholarship gamecock club dues (ouch!).......

My wish is that all this money going into the athletic program will produce three things for 2006-2007......

• USC basketball to win 25 games in 2007...('06 seems out of the question)
• USC football to win 9 games and make a run for the SEC East in '06-'07
• USC Baseball team (which is getting a new stadium in '07) to return to the NCAA tourney in Nebraska for 2006 and 2007

I feel none of this is too much to ask for as a investor and may I mention the staff of this blog does bleed garnet!

A new hot dog

And we would like to welcome Deuce to the family. Bailey doesn’t really know what to think of him but I am sure in a couple weeks they will be best friends.

New to the crew

As Editor and Chief of LOHD, I have been conducting a nation wide search for a couple new beat writers, and the winner of the Southeastern contest was Ritch (aka Flounder). As posted in the notes he came across a story that might be of interest to those Goat lovers out there.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Some Bowling Green, Ky., police officers found more than they bargained for after stopping by a Western Kentucky University fraternity party early Thursday.The officers discovered a live goat stuffed into a storage room of the Alpha Gamma Rho house with no food or water, standing in its own urine and feces, according to WBKO-TV in Bowling Green.The authorities cited 19-year-old Trenton Dakota Jackson with a second-degree count of cruelty to animals.Officials aren't sure why the goat was in the storage room and don't know how long the goat had been held captive. Some of the students told police the goat was going to be used in a hazing ritual.Brian Peyton, the president of Western's Alpha Gamma Rho chapter, said the goat was brought in as a prank, to make some pledges think they would have to have sex with it, WBKO reported. But Peyton told the TV station that the incident wasn’t related to hazing. He said that nobody actually was going to have sex with the goat, the TV station reported.The goat was sent to the Warren County Humane Society so it could be examined by a veterinarian.The fraternity has been ordered to stop all activities during an investigation. Alpha Gamma Rho has been cited for hazing three times since 1996.The executive director of Alpha Gamma Rho's national organization in Kansas City, Mo., said he's also suspended the fraternity chapter. The organization will send someone to the university to investigate the allegations and cooperate with university officials, director Philip Josephson said.

Hopefully PETA doesn’t get involved.

Love is in the air

Well after using Dev’s blog for my shameless self promotion of my blog, I figured I would bash him a little more with a true love story for the ages. Well it was a slow weekend in the off-season, and a Saturday if I remember correctly when we decided to drink a little bit. Well after gathering a group of people, we decided to visit a local pizza place for dinner and drinks. Well after a few cheap pitchers of crack-head beer, Dev decides to open a large can of worms by using an innocent word. Well the special word was awkward. When used in a sentence it would sound something like this. Bob, Vivian, Melanie awkward. Names have been changed for the privacy act of 1802. Not sure of the year but it sound good, I don’t have as large a staff as Dev, kind of a one man show around here. Well back to the story so Dev says one word and the looks of confusion, anger and for one male, petrified. After a few more hours of drinking, I left Dev at the bar to do more damage. I guess in a drunken stupor something awoke in Dev. And at 6:45 in the morning a loud bang at the door meant that Dev was home. Opening a unlocked door for a drunk Indian was a site that I will probably never see again. Dev was actually going thru remorse or his conscience had finally started working, 23 to late. But to make a sad story short, Dev ended up playing the greatest round of golf the next day. So I don’t think Karma has anything to do with it, almost a case of reverse Karma, start a huge fight, feel a little guilty and karma repays you with the best round of golf ever.


The couple is still together, Dev hasn’t had another run it with his conscience, so I guess the world is back in working order.

Valentines Day advertisement,

Well as I do every morning, I listen to 99x morning show and they do an advertisement for the Vermont teddy bears for valentines. Well the advertisement talks about an alternative to giving flowers and candy, give a teddy bear. Well they make there point that they are the hip thing to do. But the bear they are promoting is the redneck bear, “Georgia” and the advertisement says “ for the 17 year old mom in your life what is better then the Vermont teddy redneck bear”

quote of the weekend

Quote of the weekend comes from “Major league 2” since college baseball started for the Gamecocks this weekend. And with Valentines Day coming up here soon, I figured I would combine the two.

“Women, can’t live with out them, and they can’t pee standing up” Go figure - Rube Baker – back up catcher