mad dog in the fog

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I’ve blogged before about how UCSB students love to celebrate their infrequent athletic accomplishments. It happened again last night. UCSB renewed their old college hoops rivalry with UNLV last night. The Gauchos actually won on a buzzer-beater. In true UCSB fashion, the fans reacted like they had just won the NCAA tournament and stormed the court. Roll the video…

Gary Vaynerchuk from Wine Library on Conan. Pretty funny.

Dramatic Chipmunk reminds me of that scene in Austin Powers where he’s playing blackjack and holds on 5 because he “also likes to live life dangerously”. Judge for yourself…

First, Dramatic Chipmunk – aka the best 5-second clip on the internet…


Next, Austin Powers…
If you’re impatient, fast-forward to the 0:43 mark.

Laughing Squid has details on the Spinal Tap reunion. “This one goes to eleven!”

Who knew that David Bowie could be so funny?

Continuing with the South Park Christmas theme, Cartman tries to sing ‘Oh Holy Night’…

Kids from South Park – Oh Holy Night

More South Park Christmas tunes here.

This was my first taste of South Park back in the day. Still hilarious after all these years. The dialogue is very NSFW so make sure you’re wearing headphones.

My alma mater UCSB doesn’t have a great history of success when it comes to sports. Sure, we do pretty well at diving, water polo, volleyball, and ultimate frisbee but it isn’t too often that we have something to celebrate. A couple of weeks ago the Gauchos soccer team upset UCLA and won the national championship. The Gauchos celebrated this rare national championship in a very unique way. They carried the goal out of Harder Stadium (the game wasn’t even played there; it was played in St. Louis), carried it across Isla Vista (half a mile???), threw the goal over the cliffs down to the beach, and finally, threw the goal into the ocean. The mob was singing O-le, O-le O-le O-le, GAUCHOS, GAUCHOS the whole time. All I can say is: Only in Isla Vista!

“This is what happens when your school never wins national championships.”

Over the cliff!

Into the ocean!

Today Starbucks withdrew their offer for free iced coffee. The offer was ridiculously generous:

“Stop by your neighborhood Starbucks Coffee between noon and 9 pm for a complimentary iced grande beverage. One Grande beverage per person per visit with this email. Please print and present this email to your Starbucks Barista…Expires September 30, 2006. Barista, please use discount code 113.”

That’s free iced coffee every day for over a month at any location. In San Francisco we have something like 300 Starbucks (OK, I exaggerate – it’s only 112), so I could have gotten an unlimited supply of iced coffees for the next month.

According to the article,

In a statement, Starbucks said the offer “has been redistributed beyond the original intent and modified beyond Starbucks’ control.”

That redistribution included me. The PDF coupon was emailed to just about everybody in my office and I expect that my office wasn’t the only one sending this thing around. For the record, I got my free iced coffee yesterday at my local Starbucks in San Francisco.

Definitely a candidate for the next edition of Business 2.0’s Dumbest Moments in Business.