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Hufton was nice enough to post an article about beer pong throughout the course of, like, 13 comments. Here's his post script.

The preceding is from the NY Times. There are many good parts. Perhaps my favorite: "It's awesome," said Chris Shannon, 22, a senior at Drexel University here. "If you win, you win. If you lose, you drink. There's no negative." A close runner up: "And it does not promote binge drinking, she said, because official rules call for water to be used, not beer. The hope is that those on the sidelines enjoy a Bud." Ha ha ha ha ha!

-Hufton

Hello Jeremy,

I thought that those parts were funny as well. However, I think that the funniest part may have been the suggestion of the game called "Edward 40-Hands" in which "players tape 40-ounce malt liquor bottles to their hands". I found the mental image of many people with forties duct taped to their hands to be hilarious. Maybe it's just me.

-Brian

On Friday, I spent the day working for one of the companies that I'm interviewing with right now. I sat with the hiring manager at her desk while she explained some details about the job. She seems like a nice lady, but she is a little wacky at times. Take these moments for example:

Manager: Brian, this is Gina. Gina, this is Brian Adams.
Gina: Hi.
Me: Hi.
Manager: Isn't their a rock star named Brian Adams? Or Ryan Adams?
Gina: Yeah, both.
Manager: I knew there was a reason that was ringing a bell!
Me: (forced chuckling).
Manager: In fact, isn't that one of his songs -- "Ring a Bell"?
Gina: Uh, maybe.

This reminds me of the first time Jack told his mother about me. He was in first grade and told his mother that there was a boy in his class with "two first names" called "Brian Adams". Seeing that his mother was rightfully not amused by this, he decided to add an even more ridiculous fictional twist to the story, claiming that there was also a boy named "Adam Brians". In this more recent case, the identification of a well-known singer was not appreciated, so the need to add another ridiculous coincidence was found to be necessary (though, in both cases, failing again). Anyway, here's the next one:

Manager: Sometimes we do surveys that require sensitivity on behalf of the interviewers and the rest of the staff.
Me: Of course.
Manager: Just a few weeks ago, we did a survey dealing with ostomy patients. Are you familiar?
Me: Uh, I guess I'm really not.
Managaer: Sometimes, when people have an operation, they need to...
Me: (now remembering the term) Oh, yes --
Manager: ...have a bag attached for their pee or poop.

Wow. Those are two words I wouldn't have guessed to be spoken during this interview. In fact, if I had to guess which words were least likely to be spoken during my interview, I think "pee" and, particularly, "poop" would have outranked a spectacularly large number of words and phrases, including:

1. Mount Kilimanjaro
2. The Unabomber
3. Leiderhosen
4. Pop Tarts
5. Communist Manifesto
6. Oprah
7. Suppository
8. Glockenspiel
9. ALF
10. Transgender

Anyway, I'm continuing to play the waiting game with a few companies, which is driving me nuts. That reminds me of a joke:

This pirate walks into a bar with a big ship's wheel down his pants. The bartender says, "Excuse me, sir, but do you know you have a ship's wheel down the front of your pants?"
And the pirate says..."Aaargh, it's driving me nuts!"

I should stop going off on tangents like that. Either way, that's all I have for you today. Perhaps I'll be back tomorrow.
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