Friday, November 30, 2007

On the First Night of Hanukkah, My Chicken Gave to Me...


Before you go and start cutting up that Kosher chicken you got from Trader Joe's to make your chicken soup for the first night of Hanukkah, you better check those gizzards. You never know what you'll find. 655Jack

Bracelet Lost 28 Years Ago Found In Chicken
(WBZ) FAIRMONT, Minn It won't fit him anymore, but a Gloucester, Massachusetts man has his metal identity bracelet back after it was found inside a chicken gizzard in Fairmont, Minnesota.Aaron Giles, who is now 32, lost the bracelet in his grandfather's barn 28 years ago.Giles lived in Fairmont as a child and played hide-and-seek and other games with his brothers in the barn.He told the Fairmont Sentinel he thinks he lost the bracelet when he was 4 or 5 years old.The barn was dismantled a few years ago, and the materials were used to construct another barn in a town about 45 miles away. Giles thinks his bracelet was imbedded in the barn materials when they were moved.Workers at a meat store were cutting up chickens when they spotted the bracelet in a chicken gizzard recently. Giles told the paper the bracelet pieces are intact and the clasp still works.It had the street address and phone number of his childhood home engraved on the steel, along with his father’s name, Doug Giles. That allowed a worker to track him down.Giles says he expects the bracelet to stay in his family for many years to come."It's the strangest story that I have ever heard in the meat locker business," store owner Mark Olson told the Sentinel. "I've heard of livestock swallowing unusual objects, but this situation stands out."

Four Crazy Brits to Celebrate 8 Crazy Nights

It's that time of year again. Time to light the candles! It's also time to have a latke (kudos if you know how to work with hot oil; I find it scary), have some gelt (if anyone has the inside track on where to get some 75% cacao dark chocolate gelt, you could make a killing in the 18-49 demo!), have a dreidel (please, if Jews can write great Christmas songs like "White Christmas," why can't they write a decent song about something made out of clay?!). Or Hava Nagila! Let's all chant "OY!"

Happy Hanukkah to all!!
655 Jack

Monday, November 19, 2007

Is that you, Hanukkah Claus??


Turkey Day is just 3 days away and that means
the holidays will soon be upon us (they actually
started at the stroke of midnight after Labor Day)
Whether you worship the Western Wall, Jesus, Allah or the Almighty Dollah, it's time to celebrate! I'll try my best to post more often. Look for holiday musings, both past and present and some of my favorite links in the next few weeks.


Only 16 shopping days to Hannukkah and 35 shopping days to Christmas! Don't ask me when Kwanzaa is...


655Jack


Here's a great article from http://www.gadling.com/ as all of you contemplate your holiday travels. Make sure to think of the TSA this year in your holiday stocking; just make sure it's 3oz. or less.
JJ
Love the snow globe, but don't hand carry it on an airplane
by Jamie Rhein

While perusing the list of things not allowed as carry ons on airplanes, snow globes caught my eye. These are those items I usually associate with Christmas. Remember the one in "It's a Wonderful Life" -- the Jimmy Stewart classic holiday movie? The snow globe represented the main character's idlylic town--all cozy and snowy in winter. Even if you had that snow globe-- calling it an antique--a movie classic piece of memorabilia, TSA wouldn't blink and eye before snatching it up and selling it on Ebay.


Okay, I remember a snow globe at the end of "It's a Wonderful Life," but maybe I'm making this up and I just think I saw it. But, there was also a snow globe in "Citizen Kane" that crashed to the ground and broke at the end of the movie when the main character dies, right as he whispered, "Rosebud." Either one, doesn't matter. You can't take it on the plane.
See, the water in the snow globe might not be water at all--and heaven knows what those white flakes or glitter that swirls about when you shake the globes might be made of. Plastic, sure. How about EXPLOSIVE plastic? Just kidding, I have no idea.


I'm actually not faulting TSA for putting snow globes on the list. I never would have thought of their possible use as a terrorist weapon. Seems mean to me. Clever, sure, but definitely mean. Snow globes are magic. They are where you hold a world in your hand that you can alter by turning it upside down or shaking it. They are like the best memories of childhood--like pudding. You can take pudding on the plane, but just 3 ounces or less.
So if you happen to be traveling for the holidays and pick up a snow globe in some gift shop, just remember, wrap it in a towel or something, and put it in the middle of your suitcase--otherwise, maybe you can buy it back on Ebay like Neil suggests.