Observations from Coney Island

What a view.. 100,00 people who shouldn't be in bikinis squeezed together in the heat on the boardwalk at Coney Island

I read recently that relative to the rest of the country New York city had some of the healthiest people. It was some list of the most obese cities in the US, not a list you want to end up on top of.. NY was in the bottom 10 of US cities., apparently they did not take into consideration the daily coney island battle of gluttony which puts Joey Chestnut and Kobayashi to shame.. Between the Fried Clams, Fried Shrimp, Fried Oreos and Fried Fries I was surprised nobody has come up with the idea of just frying up lard and selling it for $8. By the looks of it, there is an audience

I saw some woman pass out while standing in line to stuff at Nathans, probably the healthiest thing she did was pass out before she stuffed her face.

You just know that we are doomed when you can get a hot dog from a vending machine only 30 yards from Nathans. A vending maching? you gotta be kidding me.

Is it true they changed the rules for the HotDog competition to ensure an American will always hold the 12 minute record?

Talking about rules, when did the rule in Volleyball change that you can now score a point regardless if you are the team serving??? I can't understand changing a rule which seemed to work perfectly well when I learned it in 7th grade gym.

Talking to a 7th grade history teacher over the weekend, reinforced my belief that we are raising a country of pansies.. She says that a ton of the parents call her for a second text book so that their wimpy kids don't have to lug a heavy book home.. She also gets tons of parents calling to say that their kid should get a do-over for some quiz because they had a migraine. This is what we are getting ready for, Shoot me, there is no crying in baseball and there are no do-overs in life
But in a DVR world, we have made it to easy for everything..

Just realizes that Janie's got a Gun came out in 1989.... I was 14.. My son will never get music like that in his lifetime

My buddy The Bump just sent me a text that NBC played the old NBA on NBC theme song before the USA vs China basketball game.. Class.. But who notices these things.

Also heard that Alice Cooper and Randy Johnson opened a hot-dog stand called Randy Cooperstown together with the signature dog is called Randy Johnson Big Unit

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