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CLICK CHICK ARCHIVE - October '07 PICKS
10/31 - Happy Halloween: Remember to check out Google.com today, they always have a holiday themed image on the main page of the search engine.
Halloween e-Cards: American Greetings has a nice selection e-Cards to send to friends and co-workers.
Halloween History: Why do we trick or treat? Why do we wear masks on October 31. The National Geographic channel has got a history of Halloween and how costumes started. It all started with the Celts and the Druids. But I won't ruin the story for you, watch it for yourself...
One-Legged Salsa King: What's received nearly a million hits on YouTube? Video of the one-legged salsa dancer. He lost his leg when he was really young, but that doesn't stop him. He dances with a partner and one crutch. His dream is to come to the US and compete in a salsa contest here. Watch the video...
The other day Ned and Connie mentioned the football game that was one with a single play that consisted of 15 lateral passes. I've got It's something to see. Watch it here...
Dog Side of the Force: Of course, since it's Halloween, I'm sure you're looking for the pictures of dogs in costumes. I'm constantly getting those pictures of dogs in Halloween costumes in my email and I'm sure everyone has seen those. But here's something new, I've found video of two little dogs dressed as Princess Leia and Darth Vader and apparently they're not big on it. They obviously don't say much, but they sit there like good little boys and girls looking cute and peeved. Watch the video...
M.C. Don't Tase Me: OK, you know how that phrase "Don't Tase Me, Bro!" has made it into the lexicon. But now, someone has mixed it with a little MC Hammer tune and made a video. Watch the video mash up...
There's even a Britney Spears parody too. Watch the video...
KTAR.com Poll Results: We asked if you think the presence of David Beckham in L.A. has increased American interest in professional soccer. Only 14 percent of you said yes. That's not good news for pro soccer, is it?
10/30 - And from the You Tube files, 100 Movies, 100 Quotes and 100 Numbers: Basically, someone has put together a montage of film clips that count from 100 to 1. It's pretty neat, but pretty obvious that someone has a lot of time on his hands.
Carve the Pumpkin: OK, here's more Halloween fun. You can carve a pumpkin online. No need to get all the guts and seeds out and make a mess in the house. Just draw as many faces as you want - another classic Click Chick time waster.
Want to track your ancestry? There are two places you can go ancestry.com and genetree.org. Both sell DNA kits. You map out your family tree and contact others with similar DNA. Remember, DNA doesn't give all the details like why you're shorter than your little sister.
Before you break out your checkbook to help those affected by the California Wildfires or any other natural disaster - check out guidestar.org or foundationcenter.org. They let you research your chosen charity to make sure it's above board.
Darth Vader Is Alive... and well and living in Japan. The other breaking news, he can't dance. You ever notice why we never see Darth Vader dance in Star Wars? I have video of Darth and a Storm trooper dancing in public and let me tell you - it ain't pretty. But he does have taste in music -- he likes Motown. Who knew?
NBAonTNT and YouTube: Ask the Inside the NBA crew of EJ, Charles Barkley, and Kenny Smith a question in a video that could be answered on-air on Thursday. Do it now because registration ends soon. Click here for details...
10/29 - Funny Animal Tales: OK, this first Click Chick is going to the animals. You'll thank me during the holidays when your work day starts to drag on. And you'll definitely want to share these with your kids or colleagues. #1 -Mocha's First Broccoli: I give you video that will make your kids beg you for a hamster. Shoot, you might want to go get one for yourself when you watch Mocha eat his first piece of broccoli. It's so cute I couldn't stand it. Mocha is about the size of 4 grapes and is sitting in the palm of his owners hand munching away. It's toooooo cute. Watch Mocha eat...
#2 - The Kitty and the Toilet Paper: Then there's the tale of the Kitty and Toilet Paper. One little kitty decided it wanted to tear up a roll of toilet paper. Since it was still attached to the TP holder, it wasn't such an easy task. And boy what a mess. Watch the video...
#3 - Feed the Cat: Now, I have to thank listener Don Caley for sending me this the short film "Feed the Cat." If you've ever been in bed and suddenly hear the cat meowing over and over before the cat climbs on your bed to meow la
Then you've owned a cat. I guarantee you when you watch this short film, you'll recognize yourself and your cat. Let's just say, in this film, the cat will do practically anything to wake you up to feed them - even if that means violence. Funniest short film about a cat I've seen in awhile. Watch "Feed the Cat" 
Quisp Returns: Just for you boomers, Quisp is once again available to those of you who remember the cereal, thanks to the folks at Quaker.You can also get t-shirts and caps and more. Quisp official site... Watch a classic Quisp Commercial
Police Dashcam Controversy #123: Another police dashcam is getting some police attention. This time it's the PD in Independence, Missouri. Some cops forced a five months pregnant woman lay on her stomach in a traffic stop. Then later admitted on tape they needed to cover their behinds.
Who's Line?: If you're like the Click Chick, then you liked that show "Who's Line is it Anyway?" That was a pretty funny improv show and someone uploaded video of Richard Simmons appearance on the show. One word - Hilarious. Watch the segment...
10/26 - Halloween Awakening: Someone put together a little stop motion film together called Halloween Awakening. It's a pretty neat little stop-motion short film about a nice little pumpkin turning itself into a mighty fine jack'o'lantern and what happens when he creates another one that's bigger and badder than he is. The ending will surprise you. Watch the video...
Sen. Larry Craig Action Mask: Now, I'm going to a scary-okee party tomorrow and I was informed that I couldn't just show up in street clothes. I actually have to dress up in costume. Well, I haven't dressed in costume in ages and ages. But I think I've found the funniest costume that will only require me to get a paper bag. I'm going as Senator Larry Craig. All you have to do is downlaod the Sen. Larry Craig Paper bag mask. Print it out and glue or tape it to a brown paper bag and waahhh la! You have a costume. Do yourself a favor and leave it off when you use the restroom. Get the Sen. Larry Craig Mask...NASA Sightings: Want to to know what's up with the space shuttle and the International Space Station? NASA has a page on its site for Sightings. This little cool feature allows you to tell it where you will be in a certain place for a period of time, and it will give a list of stuff you can see from where you are.
Mooning Santa: Some has "threatened" to get me a mooning Santa. So, of course, I had to look him up. I found him on The Lighter Side Co's Web site. He comes in several editions. One with boxers and one with his bare bum. And he's on sale right now! They've got some other t-shirts and sweatshirts and cute stuff you can get personalized. Click here to see Mooning Santa...
Wal-Mart Complaint #567: And yet another reason why Wal-Mart gets a bad name. Someone special ordered a cake from the bakery at a certain Wal-Mart store. It was for a going away party. As you can see in the picture on the right, the message seems a little messed up. Read what happened to this cake...
The Click Chick doesn't know what to do. She got her undergrad at Cal and her grad degree at ASU. Tomorrow is the big game between the two and I don't know what colors I should wear. Email the Click Chick at webmaster@ktar.com if you have any suggestions.
Halloween-Online.com: Want Halloween fun for you and your family? Go to Halloween-Online. It's got tips on costumes, candy, smoke machines. Everything you could.
10/25 - The Happy Pumpkin: For a little fright, I found the Happy Pumpkin. Not for the weak at heart, but it will give your friends a good jolt at the office. It's only 18 seconds long but worth seeing people jump and the pumpkin wet his gourd. Read the story... 
JingleBlogScottsdale.com: The Scottsdale Convention & Visitors Bureau is holding a Holiday contest. Did the dog eat your holiday ham? Did Grandma burn the latkes? If so, tell them about it! Bloggers could win a holiday vacation (provided by the Boulders Resort) for six by posting a funny holiday story, as well as a picture or video link to the CVB's Web site. Ten will be chosen for online voting. You have until Nov. 15 to get them in. You're even encouraged to visit the blogs and ad comments to the stories. Call CPS!!!: I'm so shocked by what one Indianapolis mom did I can hardly believe it. Her baby girl was teething and she decided and old time remedy -- putting whiskey on the infant's gums to calm her down. But according to the police, when that didn't work she put whiskey in the baby's formula bottle. Watch what happened next...
Halloween DVD Treat: Every year my dear friend M.V. Moorhead - the former New Times movie critic - asks to borrow my copy of "Fat Albert's Halloween Special." Every year I say no. That is one of the three things in my 400 strong DVD collection that I don't loan out. So, I'm providing a link to amazon so you can all see it whenever you want. I actually do laugh at it. That special was made 30 years ago. By the way M.V., can I get my copy of "Blades of Glory" back? Buy Fat Albert's Halloween Special...Beware of Nude Sleepwalkers: I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen the headline myself. It reads: Staff Get Guide on Nude Sleepwalkers. Apparently, a study by Travelodge found they'd had more than 400 cases of nude sleepwalkers in the past year - almost all of them are men. Read the story...
10/24 - First Some Housekeeping: OK folks. How do free classifieds sound to you? We've got them on KTAR.com. Got a duck that needs a home? Need to get rid of a canoe? Looking for some brand new skis that someone's never used but wants to get rid of at a great price. Check out our free classifieds on KTAR.com.
Election 2008: Speaking of having something to sell, you should also check out our Election 2008 coverage on KTAR.com. Was that too cynical? There you can find the story of Mitt Romney confusing Barack Obama with Osama Bin Laden. There is a difference for those of you who didn't know.
Beware of Tiny Women With Axes: This is a story that could have a horrible ending - but it doesn't. Hafize Sahin is a 5-foot, 90 pound Long Island, NY woman who was manning the counter at the family convenience store when a would be robber comes in and points a gun at her head. She picked up an axe and pointed it at his head several times. That's when the would-be thief took off. Watch the story... I know you don't want to think about taxes right now. But now is the time to think about your taxes. Apparently most Americans have too much taken out of the paychecks each year. I've found Kiplinger's Easy-to-Use Tax Withholding Calculator that might be a helpful tool for you. *Note: The Click Chick is NOT responsible if you get audited.
Beautiful, But Deadly: Green Magazine - someone's personal blogspot.com blog lists the 10 most deadly but beautiful flowers. What it alleges and I don't know if it's true since I've got a brown thumb literally and figuratively is that Mums are used by gardeners to keep rabbits away and Wisteria can cause nausea.
RatemyDrawings.com: Are you artistic? Do you like to draw but you haven't seen the inside of a classroom in 20 years and don't have anyone to grade or appreciate your work? Try ratemydrawings.com. This website lets you draw online, watch people draw and share your creativity with others.
Robert Goulet: And say a prayer for Robert Goulet - he's one of the Click Chick's favorites. Loved when he made guest appearances on Mr. Belevedere. Here he is doing a commercial. Watch it here...
10/23 - California Fires: First of all, thanks to all of you who remembered my parents are in San Diego. To answer your questions, they had to be evacuated last night and they are safe. Just keep them and all those other folks in Southern California in your prayers.If you want to see just where in Southern California these fires are and the areas they cover from San Diego to way north of downtown LA, check out NASA's Earth Observatory and you can see the fires. The site has many other interesting things to look at - including typhoons, Earth's city lights, solar views and more. Trust me, you'll spend many minutes checking out some amazing stuff on this Big Blue Marble. Click here to see more fire images...
Evacuation Plan: That brings me to our KTAR.com Poll of the Day. Do you have an evacuation plan? Shameful to admit, but I don't have one.I got an email from my best friend in LA a short time ago and she told me I was the out of state contact for her two kids. I didn't even know you needed one of those but I thought - what a great idea. So with a few clicks of the mouse, I found the Red Cross Evacuation Plan. Do yourself and your family a favor and check it out.
The Mummy 3: Want to keep up on production of the third movie in Rob Cohen's The Mummy franchise? Just check out Rob Cohen's Web site. He's the brains behind the crowd the movies. The interesting thing is this one will not be set in North Africa. This one is set in China and the mummy will be Jet Li as a mummy emporer. Brendan Fraser returns - but Oscar winner Rachel Weisz doesn't. Maria Bello will play Evelyn this time. The movie's title - "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.'' The site has video of the movie shoot and the interviews the Mummy Stunt Team.
Rob Cohen's Official The Mummy Blog
Night of the Living Republicans or Democrats: The Click Chick is a zombie fighter. Jib Jab has a new video, two in fact. You can upload your image and be in one of the NOTLR or LOTLD videos you can be a zombie or a zombie fighter. You just upload your picture, do some adjustments and you too can be a Zombie featured in on of the videos. I went through this too fast and put my head on a man's body. But if you make a video of your own, you can add other images users have added. I've added the clickchick. So, stick me in your movies and send me the links if you do! Check out jibjab.com's latest...
10/22 - The newest item on the Click Chick's Holiday Gift Guide: A t-shirt from the Sioux City airport. The Sioux City Gateway Airport is selling shirt's with it's monicker "Fly SUX." Talk about turning lemons into lemonade. FlySUX.com
Improbable Celebrity Fistfights: Given Kid Rock's 12-hour incarceration for a fistfight at an Atlanta area Waffle House, I couldn't be more timely with this list. It's the 10 Most Improbable Celebrity Fist Fights. There's even video of one Jim Everett crossing the table and giving Jim Rome the what-for for calling him Chris Everett. Of course, you can tell by the video and Rome's lack of facial hair, the video was from some time ago. To me the weirdest fight was Axl Rose going after Tommy Hilfiger. 10 Most Improbable Celebrity Fistfights
Read about the Kid Rock fight...
Oops, I'm Sorry: Last week, I told you about the Nobel laureate who said he thought that blacks were not as intelligent as whites has changed his tune. James D Watson "unreservedly" apologized. He said he doesn't know why he said that because there's no scientific basis for his comments. Read about the apology...
It's OK, Indians Fans: A special message for my grandpa Frank Bass - condolences to you Cleveland fans. You got disappointed in the NBA finals and then by the Indians last night. If there's any bright spot, you beat the Yankees.
Model Down: If you missed it, there's video of a model on the runway falling through a hole in the floor. The hole was clearly visible, but apparently, she didn't think to look down. Watch the fall...
The Colbert Report: Stephen Colbert was on the Meet the Press Sunday. Of course, his initial segment was in character. But he was out of character on msnbc.com. He talks about how he puts his show together and how after 9/11 he discovered laughter chases fear away. Watch Colbert...
JCVD - The Movie: The Click Chick has a shameful admission. She used to love Jean Claude Van Damme movies. Well, in France they've made a comedy about making a movie about Jean Claude Van Damme. There's 6 minutes of the movie online and it's a scene of the casting agents trying to find someone to play JCVD. The movie's name - JCVD. It's a funny clip, but it is in French. So you have to deal with subtitles. Watch the short clip...
10/18 - Backstreet Bird: Snowball is getting a lot of attention on YouTube. I'm not talking about The Simpson's cat. I'm talking about an 11-year-old cockatoo who loves The Backstreet Boys. Snowball sits on the back of a recliner and dances and chirps along as you heard there. The bird was given to a bird rescue shelter in Indiana a few months ago with a CD and instructions to watch his reaction. Watch the video...Dumb Nobel Winner: A DNA pioneer and a Nobel Prize winner's theory caused quite a ruckus over in England. James Watson, who helped unravel DNA, says black people are not as smart as white people. He says people who deal with black employees know this. Well, I must be pretty dumb for getting a job that pays me to surf the Internet all day to find crazy stories like that -- however some might call me a genius for that. Does that mean I still have to pay for my two masters degrees? It should be noted, this is the same man that said woman should have the right to abort their fetuses if they think the baby will be homosexual. Read the article here...
Snakerati's Top 40 Vampire Movies of All Time: OK, as you start ordering your Halloween flix from Netflix, I know what you're all wondering. What would the Click Chick watch? Well, as I've said before, I'm a big chicken. But I have found a list online of the top 70 vampire movies of all time. Let me put it this way, I wouldn't put a lot of faith in this list since Eddie Murphy's "Vampire in Brooklyn" made the cut. But 1922 Nosferatu - was appropriate put at #1. The gift I got for my last birthday - "The Satanic Rites of Dracula" starring Christopher Lee came in at #64. Just behind Blacula. Read the entire Snakerati list...Snakerati.com, which was a fountain of information, also had the latest info on the JJ Abrams' Star Trek movie. As you know the Click Chick has been regularly tracking the new Star Trek movie news. And apparently the role of Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy has been cast. He will be played by Karl Urban. Who's he? He was in two Lord of the Rings films and the recent box office disappointment Pathfinder -- at least it disappointed me. But I like Karl, so I've forgiven him for that. Read the latest on the new Star Trek...
10/17 - Talking Jesus: This is the gift that will keep on giving, I think. For your friends that need a blessing in their Christmas stocking, how about a Talking Jesus. Wal-Mart will be selling them in the toy aisles this holiday season along with Moses, the Virgin Mary, Esther, Goliath, Sampson, David and others. They're already on sale at Target. They'll be in the same aisle as Barbie and GI Joe at Wal-Mart. The Talking Jesus is only $14.97. FYI, it's made in China. Read the story... | See other faith-based toys at One2BelieveFive Cool Sites: According to the Today show, the following five Web sites will change your life:
Expertvillage.com - this site contains how to videos on how to fix anything or how to pass a drivers test.
Lemonade.com - let's you set up a virtual lemonade stand filled with products you'd recommend to friends. if you add the widget to your Facebook or MySpace page, then yo can get a small portion of the cost.
AskSunday.com - helps you find personal assistants
Fatsecret.com - helps you connect with others doing the same diet.
Kayak.com - a travel site with airfare, hotels, etc.
Why the Click Chick's page was left off is unknown to me.
Family Fun with the Tortoise: From the Yuma Sun, it's the story of the tortoise who wanted to get in the pool. That Web site allows you to load your own videos and someone added three clips of a family having backyard fun with their turtle. You know what always surprises me - how fast they actually can move. Watch the videos... Jimmy Justice: You ever heard of Jimmy Justice? Armed with only his video camera he exposes and confronts NYC public safety officers who park next to fire hydrants for non-emergency purposes - like a donut run. Watch the video...
Wal-Mart Too Scary?: Someone is mad at Wal-Mart. I know that's not breaking news. But one Texas mom says one certain Wal-Mart Halloween display was so scary, it gave her daughter nightmares. Big chicken that I am, I think the display probably would have scared me too. See the display and read the story... Birdseed Shoes: Design Klicks has the shoes for you bird lovers - they're made out of birdseed. You have to see them for yourself. See them here...
Bonus Link - Sofa King: Say that three times fast and see what happens. Well, SNL did it in one of their spoof commercials of furniture store owners who insist on doing their own commercials. It's funny stuff. Watch it here...
10/16 - Porkchop Found: This cute little bulldog, Porkchop, disappeared. So his Texas family offered a $500 cash reward, but the dog didn't turn up. So, the owner offered up her customized 1996 Mustang that she just finished paying off. But now, she has no car. That sparked this morning's KTAR.com poll of the day. Would you give up your car if it meant getting a treasured family pet back? Watch the video...Granny's Got a Gun: I said it before last week about the granny who beat up a would be hold-up artist with a stack of magazines, and I'm saying it again: Leave senior citizens alone. They may surprise you. In this instance, granny's got a gun. In Mobile, Alabama, someone tried to break into 81-year-old Ethel Sanders home. She found him the back room. She had a gun. He was only wearing underwear. She shot him in the leg. Watch the story...
World's Weirdest Moths: Now, the Click Chick is very much into nature and I've found some amazing pictures of moths you won't believe. Neatorama.com has some pics of the world's weirdest moths you'll ever see and hear off. one looks and acts like a hummingbird, another looks as beautiful as a butterfly. I think some of them are actually quite beautiful. It's not for the easily squeamish.Since it's National Bosses Day, I thought I'd mention my boss and his blog. Yes, the PD's blog. As many of you have noticed, there have been a lot of changes here on FM News/Talk 92.3. And if you read our PD's blog - find out about the changes AND talk to the PD via the Internet courtesy a little wonderful invention by Nobel prize winner Al Gore. That's right, let your voice be heard. Especially the people who say I'm great and the ones who, uh, disagree, I guess. You can leave your comments too. But really, it's not about me. Read KTAR Programmer's Posts...
10/15 - Say Thanks to the Troops: OK, everyone. I'm sure you're all wondering how you can say thanks to our servicemen and women serving overseas. Well, at letsaythanks.com you can do just that free. The Web sites you to send free printed postcards to U.S. military personnel stationed overseas showing your support and appreciate for their service to the USA.
Candycritic.org: This site comes in handy just in time for Halloween. I know I've had to get a loan to finance all the candy I've bought for trick-or-treaters. But if you want to make sure you've got the best candy so they don't TP your house while you sleep soundly, then go to candycritic.org. This Web site reviews everything from the Snickers bar, Shush bar (the quietest bar in the world) to sanded candy drops - root beer flavor. I'm giving away Tootsie Rolls and Snickers so far. But I need more!
Another Beauty Queen Moment: OK, judging from this beauty pageant contestant's hair and outfit, this video comes from a long time ago in a county, far, far away where they obviously don't have trumpet lessons or dance lessons. If the trumpet playing doesn't make you laugh, her dance moves, as indicated by the picture on the right, will. Watch the video... Another Click Chick Certified Time Waster: I have a page full of time wasters you will thank me for during the holidays when business gets slow and you're bored out of your mind. I give you another one of my CC certified time wasters. If you go to miniclips.com, you will find a treasure trove of interesting Web sites of easy animated games. They're simple and don't require to much thought process. One suggestion - you may want to turn the sound down so the boss won't hear you.
Bonus Pic: Best wishes are in order for KTAR's own Pamela Hughes. One of my spies sneaked into her wedding Friday night when she tied the knot with Chris. I can say he's a nice fella and I believe he will take very good care of Larry Gaydos' former "news diva." As you can see, Gaydos' attempts to steal her away from the Chris were dashed and TMZ.com missed the chance to snap pictures of the nuptials, but one of our own staffers snapped this photo of the bride.
Tuition Inquiry: Interesting story on the old web. Colleges and universities raked in billions last year, but Congress is looking at their investing success and wondering if the wealthiest schools should spend more of their money to keep tuition down. For the record, Yale earned 28% increasing the school's endowment to $22.5 billion. Read the story...
10/12 - Star Trek Movie Update: Big news Star Trek fans or Trekkers as we're known. Now a lot of Trekkers freaked out when they found out at JJ Abrams would be directing the new Star Trek movie. It's supposed to be set when Captain Kirk is at the academy...before he was a captain. Well, the talk was Matt Damon might do the part. But apparently, Jason Bourne is occupied, so they're reportedly in talks to get actor Chris Pine to do the gig. I know, you say, who's he? He's the one on the right in the picture on the left. The Hulk - Eric Bana - a solid actor from Down Under I might add - will be the villian "Nero" Don't know if he's a Klingon or Nero the Emperor. Read the L.A. Times story and see the slideshow...Star Trek Theme: Added Bonus, someone knows how to play the Star Trek TNG theme on the accordian. Watch it here...
Ann Coulter's Controversial Comments, Pt. 376: Of course, she's the latest talking head that's once again caused controversy for her comments. She was interviewed by Donnie Deutsch on The Big Idea when he asked her if she thinks everyone in this country should become Christian. She said yes. And that includes Jews. "We just want the Jews to be perfected, as they say," said Coulter. See the Coulter-Deutsch interview...
The San Diego Zoo has a new chimpanzee. This will make you go, Ohhhh... The facial expressions are just so darn cute. They have video of the little guy (or girl) at feeding time and it was just too sweet. Watch the video...
The links you are ALL dying for. Some of you ladies and maybe a few gentleman are thinking about going as Elvira for Halloween. Well, one of our faithful listeners Bob Cripe, sent me the link for the official Elvira How to apply the Elvira Makeup tips page. There are instructions, arrows, color paletes, etc. I don't think it will work for me because there's not enough white powder in the world to make me look like Elvira. Elvira's Makeup Tips
10/11 - Borat Wannabe: When a Swedish TV comedy show turned up at a Staten Island, New York Republican councilman's office, he thought they were going to have serious questions for him. That is until the interviewer started asking racist questions about why African-American Barack Obama is allowed to run for president or if he'd heard about Hillary and an embarrassing incident with a cigar. Well, the politician quickly grew tired of it and proceeded to kick her out with a few choice expletives. Watch the incident here...
Politics Undressed: Coming soon to a newsstand near you. Radar magazine's politics issue features images of some of the candidates running for president nude. Of course, they didn't actually pose for those pictures, but the cover is a spoof of Vanity Fair's 2006 cover featuring some young actresses who appeared sans clothing with a very dressed male designer. Hillary, Obama and Guiliani made the cover with Rudy cooing in Hillary's ear - like that would happen. See the whole cover...Leave Old People Alone: Just because someone's 76 doesn't mean they'll let you have their money if you try to rob them. A store clerk of that age in Lone Pine, Pennsylvania said a woman in her 20s tried to rob the store at gunpoint. But she said she wasn't handing the money over. Instead, she picked up a stack of People magazines and hit the would-be thief upside the head. The thief then pulled a gun, and that's when granny picked up a stool and threatened her with that. Watch the story...
Poll Results: Interesting stats from our 92.3 KTAR.com Poll of the Day. We asked you listeners how you think the teacher shown in the YouTube video (10/10 Click Chick) doing a cheer in front of her class should be reprimanded, if at all. Well, 85 percent said no reprimand, 9 percent said suspend her with pay, 6 percent said fire her.
10/10 - WFHS Teacher Cheers in Class: I thought "Hummmm... What story could the Click Chick lead with this morning?" I decided that the YouTube video of that Williams Field teacher doing a cheer in class is old news. (Watch the video here if you missed it...) By the way, whoever posted it, you spelled Humanities wrong.
Larry Craig Meets the Village People: Then I thought the National Banana claymation video of Larry Craig getting arrested by the cop from the Village People in an airport bathroom had its funny moments. Click here if you want ot see for yourself...
Indiana Jones 4 Details . . . Sort Of: But I thought it's time to pander to one of my bosses. Her kids are geeked and giddy about the new Indiana Jones 4 movie. Now, they are running a very tight ship on not revealing the plot to some people. One guy was convicted of doing just that. But I found some very important details that will not land me in jail. George Lucas promises Indy 4 or Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will be as good as Raiders of the Lost Ark - aka Indy 1. So he says. They've got a lot ot make up for after the Tempe of Doom - which of course was the movie that prompted the PG-13 rating. Read the story for yourself...Beer Personality Test: With the big merger of Miller and Coors, maybe it's time you take the beer personality test put together by that Ivy League think tank - Blogthings. It's not hard. You just answer 5 multiple choice questions - and they'll let you know what you're beer personality is. I don't even like beer, but I took the test anyway and found out my beer personality is Guinness. That means I "know beer well and only drink the best." Well, that's obviously not scientifically accurate. But you can have fun take the test. There is no sampling.
Chow.com: I love food. My waistline proves it. And there's a ite all about food on the 'Net. It's called Chow.com and it has recipes, obviously, blogs about food, news about food and even instructional videos on how to cook stuff. I think I'm going to try the classic meatball sub after I do about 60 minutes of cardio.
Potato Chip Thief: Someone has been stealing potato chips from a convenience store. But the Click Chick and her deep cover investigative team set up a camera sting and discovered a seagull is the culprit. Watch the short video...
10/9 - Get Your Beer Tees: It's another edition of the Click Chick Holiday Gift Guide. Apparently Americans love to advertise their favorite brand of beer on their t-shirts. Well, you can get all kinds of tees for men and women at beertees.com. I think I'm going to get the Bass Ale t-shirt for my family for Christmas. None of us like the stuff at all, by the way. I think Patron has the best looking shirts.
Halloween Hangman: I got this spooky link from our own Jayme West. Remember how we played hangman in school and for fun. Well, there's now Halloween Hangman and this hangman is a skeleton. Oh, and this guy talks back when you guess the wrong letters. Play Halloween Hangman...
The Great Pumpkin: Once again the breaking news only the Click Chick will give you. I, only I, with my snap crack KTAR.com investigative Web team, have found the Great Pumpkin! An Oregon farmer has the biggest pumpkin on the West Coast. It weighed in at over 1,500 pounds. How do they get them so big? One Napa, California farmer says he hand pollinates it and covers it with blanket when the nights get cold. And now we know why Linus carried that blanket around in all the Peanuts comic strips and cartoons. He wanted to protect the Great Pumpkin from frost. By the way, the winner got $6 per pound. Watch the story...By the way Phoenix, Scottsdale and the Old Pueblo are joining the list of cities you can check out on Google's Street View. That allows you to look at detail of city streets with a 360 panoramic image.
10/8 - Elephant Sanctuary: Where do old elephants go when they retire? They go to an elephant retirement home in Tennessee. Who would have known? If you go to TappedIntoElephants.com, you can check out the 2,700 acre sanctuary where sick and aging circus and zoo elephants spend their golden years. They all have pictures on web too. I think Winkie is the cutest. She is 8'3", 7,600 pounds and loves potatoes and likes walks in the river bottom.
This is what one of my co-workers' daughter is getting for Christmas. Yes, it's another entry in the Click Chick's Rock Solid Joy Guaranteed* Kids Holiday Gift Guide. It's the Monopoly SpongeBob SquarePants edition. OK, so maybe I'm buying it for myself.
By the way, I found this on YouTube, SpongeBob sings Metallica. Watch the video...
Rock Art: If you're like the Click Chick, you like animated shorts. I found one this weekend called "Dupleggcated." It's the story of two rock brothers, one big, one little and it proves to be a lesson to big brothers not to mess with your younger brothers because it may come back to kick you in the knee. Watch the video...The Daily Buzz has some fun stuff on it's site blending news and comedy. One day, they decided to do "Ask A Beauty Queen" after the infamous Miss Teen South Carolina incident. They asked Miss Florida about math, thermodynamics and of course, world peace. But when they got to geography, well see the video for yourself...
10/5 - Performance Art Teacher: An art teacher is suing to get his job back after being fired for doing performance art wearing only a Grouch Marx mask and a "never should be worn out in public thong." Apparently said teacher likes to make art with his backside and other body parts. Watch the story...Someone in your family getting married? Need a band for your Bat Mitzvah? Well, have no fear the Click Chick is here. You want to try gigmasters.com, you'll find an online entertainment database for event planners or just any Tom, Dick or Harry that needs a band for their parties or corporate events. Everything from magicians to Elvis impersonators. Each act/entertainer has their own profile - however I can't vouch for when all the pictures were taken or how good they are.
Just for Mom: PhoenixMommies.com "offers a simple way to connect with local moms for friendship, support and fun." Basically it's an online community for moms to link up and share experiences, support, parenting tips and more. Sometimes they meet for events at parks for playtime.
Danny Partridge Has A Fight: Danny Bonuduce fights reality star during an awards show. The crowd was booing some guy who'd been in Survivor and Danny walks on stage and says something snotty and well, watch what happened next...
Nutrigrain: I Feel Great: Beware what happens to you if you eat a Nutrigrain bar boys. The guy in this commercial took one bite at work and this is what happened to him. Don't know if this commercial ever made the airways or if it's even real (seems like a comedy spoof to me), but it did make YouTube. Watch the video...
Turducken - KTAR's own Pamela Hughes mentioned how much weight you can gain eating traditional holiday foods. Well, she mentioned the Turducken. If you look in my Click Chick December archive, I have a link to where you can have a turducken shipped to you. I know that's what's on the menu at Casa de Bass for Thanksgiving. Mr. Bass doesn't want any, but Mrs. Bass and myself do. So, that's what's on the menu.
10/4 - Mom's Rhapsody: If you have kids, you might be able to identify with this. Anita Renfroe is a mom who's condensed everything a mom would say in 24 hours into 2 minutes sung to the William Tell Overture. Watch the video...
Or check out AnitaRenfroe.com
Best Magazine Covers Since 1960: OK, so what are the best magazine covers since 1960 YourCover has come up with their list and they include winners for Most Iconic Photo - that's Rolling Stone with John Lennon and Yoko Ono from 1981. Most Outrageous Cover went to Mad magazine (Don't look if you're a dog lover.). Best Photo Hoax went to TV Guide for it's 1989 edition with Oprah Winfrey's head on the cover spliced with Ann Margaret's body.
Now the Click Chick's Exclusive Gravel-Paul Political Report. Ron Paul has raised $5 million. Who knew he could raise that kind of money? Maybe he could give Ariz. Sen. John McCain some tips. Read more...
And lo and behold, Forbes did an article on Mike Gravel...this week. It's not old. I kid you not. Read the story...
10/3 - Hall of Fame or Shame: Results from yesterday's 92.3 KTAR.com Poll of the Day. Madonna is on the nominees' ballot for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Do you think she should be voted in? We asked that yesterday - Ned and Connie, were part of the 47 percent of the minority that said yes. While 53 percent of you agreed with me and said no.
Know Your Place, Ladies: OK, ladies. Sometimes we need to be told our place, right? Like at a dinner party, when we hear talk of politics we should even vacate the room or talk about kitties or shopping. At that's what we're supposed to do according to a funny British parody, told in black and white no less. I had no idea that being educated woman leads to beard growth, ugliness and premature aging. The video explains everything...Get Your Kids A Kideo: OK, once again I have an entry for the Click Chick's Rock Solid Joy Guaranteed* Kids Holiday Gift Guide. I know that's a mouthful. For the kid who has everything - my niece, for example - I'm getting her a role in Dora the Explorer. How? Well, it won't cost me thousands to pay off a casting director. I'm going to Kideo. You send them a picture of your child or niece, put the child's image on an animated body and they insert it into a popular animation (Dora the Explorer, Spiderman, Arthur, CareBears, etc.), and put it on DVD. Makes a great birthday gift for a small child. Check out Kideo.com
Bad Click Chick. Awhile ago, I promised Chuck Norris news and I never gave it to you. So here it is. Remember, I introduced you to the Blendtec Will It Blend guy? He's the guy who blended an iPhone, you know the one that cost $600 not $400. Since Chuckles wasn't available, he blended Chuck Norris action figures. By the way, you can get the Will It Blend DVD. It comes with outtakes and behind the scenes footage. That's definitely a stocking stuffer if you ask me. Watch Chuck blend...
* The Click Chick can't really guarantee joy, but she can try and help facilitate it.
10/2- The Puppose: It's actually from the Web site FeeltheFlo. Yes, you can feel the flow with a puppose. Instead of putting your dog in a giant purse, you can put them in a puppose. It's a contraption that part baby carrier, part backpack that lets you carry your dog around - your small dog around I might add. They appear to be made out of yarn and knitted together. The Web site even has video where you can see the video in action...
(the video takes about minute to download)
Madonna in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame? She's on the ballot only with Chic, Afrika Bambaataa, John Mellencamp, the Beastie Boys, and Donna Summer. By the way, the late Billy Preston isn't in it. Iggy Pop isn't. Three Dog Night isn't. The Valley's own Alice Cooper isn't. Hall and Oates and Chicago aren't either. KISS isn't either. Uh, oh. I think our own KISS fiend KTAR reporter Jim Cross just fainted on that news. Roger Friedman of Fox News is advocating a boycott of Rolling Stone because he's not that excited about the Madonna nomination. I gotta say, like her early stuff, but I'd like to see Billy Preston get in. Remember, he was the 5th Beatle.
Bonus: You can also check out a list of rock 'n' rollers who aren't, but should or might be one day at www.futurerockhall.com
And that's our News 92.3 KTAR.com Poll of the Day: Should Madonna be voted in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame?
Do you like Hillary Clinton, there's the "Hillary in '08 I Am" parody for you, of course sung to the tune of "Henry the VII I Am." And for those of you the conservative side, there's an anti-Hillary parody. Watch both...
By the way, a little blast from the past. Did you know Ned Foster was on YouTube. Yes, he is. Someone uploaded the KTAR commercial that was made about 10 years ago. And our own Ned Foster looks pretty much the same. Watch the old KTAR commercial...
10/1 - Visit the Holy Land: Fresh from national service in the military - Israeli girls in bikinis are being used in Maxim ads to increase tourism to the region. Yes, it's paid for by the Israeli gov't. They want people to know there's more going on over there than conflict. Well, the ad campaign has created conflict and controversy. There's one ad showing a girl in a bikini strutting seductively in front of two and one of the guys says. And the tag line is - no wonder they call it the Holy Land. See the Sky News report...What They Stand For: Still haven't decided who you should vote for? Don't know if you're voting for Ron Paul or Mike Gravel. Have you soured on John McCain or think Hillary is over the Hill. Well, good old Detour Dan sent me a link to a Web site where they ask you specific questions on immigration, abortion, health care and some other topics. Once you answer the questions, they list all the candidates and how many points the get based on your beliefs. Find out what candidate shares your values...
Adam Samberg - who won an award with Justin Timberlake for their something in a box video now has a new video. This one is Adam and Mahmoud (as in Ahmadinejad) -- the SNL way. Yes, it's called "Iran So Far." It even features Adam Levine from Maroon 5. This video is PG. You will laugh when you see Mahmoud in a red dress lying over a piano like Michelle Pfeiffer in the Fabulous Baker Boys. Watch the video...
OK, for those of you who've dreamed of becoming a movie producer, here's your chance. You can bid on being a movie producer on eBay. The movie, Tom and for All Eternity has already been filmed. But they're looking for promotional financing. So, that would make you the money man if you win the bidding war. Uh, bidding starts at $49,000. And they're looking for 2 producers. See the eBay bid here..
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