From the “who thought it would ever come to this” file:
A modest group of Packer faithful as well as local and national news crews gathered this gloomy Pre-Halloween October day at Tom, Dick & Harry’s Bar across from Lambeau Field to lay to rest the image of our once beloved Brett Favre.  The mock funeral ceremony included a procession of three hearses, one containing the body, one containing the ego and a third to act as a backup in case the deceased Favre comes back to life (waffles) and needs a ride back home. The whole tongue in cheek ceremony, intended to provide closure for some fans was organized by local Rock Station WAPL as a lighthearted roast of the Packer we knew as Brett Favre. The funeral included a purple velvet lined casket with a mannequin of Favre wearing Wrangler Jeans a purple #4 jersey and Vikings helmet. Mourning fans passed by to pay their last respects and fill the casket with now useless Favre memorabilia.  Mourner’s also wore black #4 arm bands which they received in exchange for donations that will go toward the Diana Favre Hope Foundation. Eulogies were delivered by Rick & Len followed by a musical tribute.

The showing will remain open to the public until game day November 1st 3:15pm at which time, according to Radio Host Len Nelson,  “Favre will be buried by the Packer’s Defensive Line”.

Favre returns to Green Bay one day after Halloween to lead the arch rival Minnesota Vikings in a showdown against his former team and heartbroken fans in what is shaping up to be a battle of historic proportions on the  Frozen Tundra.

For more, see the interview with Len Nelson on YouTube.

See images of the mock funeral festivities below…

related stories: Some Packer Fans Come to Bury Favre New York Times

Competition is a great thing and it’s what makes our country great, well sort of…
When competitors do nothing other that “parrot” other sites and mindlessly imitate sales copy, business models and products, they create bad competition, especially when their exaggerated claims just don’t hold water.
Case in point is one particular (bg) competitor of Barplan.com, a guy who started out selling only paper plans, who has now copied our complete membership based business model, private forum & gallery, sales copy, pricing and even tries to dilute or established image  by using  the very same flash image scroller we use on our front page. Another site (pi) operator once told me he’d NEVER sell easy to build plans, but now promotes his own knock off line of  our ” easy-to-build” plans. Another lame attempt at diluting our federally registered “Easy Home Bar Plan” mark.

It’s pathetic, but this is how lazy site operators work these days. They don’t create new ideas, they just wait for their competitor to come up with something new, then copy it using something called plagiarism, which is not only unscrupulous, it’s illegal, particularly when the copied material is used to make a personal profit.

The bad part for you is that whatever you buy from the copycat site is, 99% of the time, vastly inferior to the original work, so when you buy from them at the same price, you get much less than you’re being told.

So next time you’re comparing ANY websites, check the facts, look around a bit and maybe check Alexa’s Wayback Machine to see who’s the real deal and who’s the wannabe.

Beer drinkers have been around for centuries but modern day guzzlers have long forgotten the old world units of measure used in beer and wine making. The quarter barrel of beer today holds about 7.5 US gallons, but it’s earlier volume was equal to one “Firkin”, which is the old English  unit of measure for 1/4 of a barrel.  In the old days one barrel was about 32 to 36 US gallons depending upon if it was beer or ale, so a Firkin barrel would equal about 8 to 9 gallons, a bit more than half a gallon more than today’s volume.
What did they call a half barrel? it’s a “Kilderkin” of course! A Kilderkin is equal to two Firkins, you gettin’ this all? A barrel is just a barrel, but add half a barrel to a barrel and you get a “Hogshead” and the crazy names don’t stop there, if you have four and a half barrels now you’ve got a “Butt”! Finally, about 8 barrels (7 7/8ths) is known as a “Tun”.

So now when it’s party time, you’ll know how to roll out the Firkin Barrel!

I just talked to a buddy of mine out at Eagles Landing Campground in Sturgis SD today and the word is that the crowd is definitely down this year, at least for the opening day. Most assume that the slow economy has hit bikers hard enough to forgo their annual pilgrimage to the infamous biker rally for 2009.  More updates will be coming in as the week progresses, perhaps some bikers are just getting a late start. At Woody’s Buffalo Chip Campground, Tuesday night headliners include Cheech & Chong and Billy Squire for $65  and Wednesday features Aerosmith at $120/head. Ride hard, ride free!

Fire Safety Cigarettes:

Notice the FSC Label

Fire safety cigarettes are coming and may already be on your store shelves. It’s just one more way for the government to step in to interfere in our lives in a futile attempt to protect a small percentage of lazy, stupid people from burning themselves alive and the new FSC brand of cigarettes suck, literally!

What started in New York in 2004 and has now spread to at least 21 other states through advocates who have bypassed getting fire safe cigarette legislation passed through Congress, instead going directly to the states using the Coalition for Fire Safe Cigarettes. Now we can all drink heavily and pass out in bed with a lit cigarette and feel safe.

As on man interviewed said “People that smoke in bed should have been cleansed from the gene pool anyway, now we’ll have to put up with them”.  According to the CDC smoking will kill you too, but in today’s bright & cheery economy, I think many people smoke to cope with their newly discovered sub-standard life style in an attempt at a slow suicide to avoid having to work until they’re 90.

So what sucks about FSC cigarettes? YOU! You literally have to suck you ass off to get  a decent drag from the cigarette. Nobody told me about the FSC changeover, but already I was noticing something odd about my cigarettes. They tasted a bit different, probably due to the extra strips of (chemically treated?) paper added to extinguish the fire. So, unless you just hotbox a smoke, any time you take a break to talk or perhaps breathe, the cig immediately starts to go out, so when you take another drag, you have to huff & puff to get it started again. By the time I finished several smokes, my cheeks were getting sore from all the sucking. It’s enough to make you quit smoking altogether….which is perhaps their REAL goal.

I can think of better things for the state governments to interfere in;  how about cell phone usage in cars? I’m sure that kills many more people than dying in a house fire because of a lit cigarette. How about FSC candles and gas stoves that go out before your Spaghetti-O’s are warm? How about making dud bullets to give you a second chance when trying to commit suicide or shooting your neighbor? (BTW, I’m just joking about the last suggestion – suicide sucks)

What can you do about this sneaky new law? Click here to sign a petition to get it repealed, but be sure to leave a comment on your feelings about fire safety cigarettes.