It’s amazing how a topic can evolve around this place.

Ten Things I want to know about the Boar’s Head:

1) What are the most popular beers?
2) Do we have our own brew and what is it called?
3) Waiters or waitresses? Names?
4) Biggest tipper? Biggest tip?
5) Name of the BHT softball team?
6) Who is the Bowling team and their averages?
7) Most popular food dish?
8) Peanuts?
9) Special nights?
10) Why are the bathrooms so small?
Bonus) What was it before we moved in and is there any evidence left?

Each of Spunky’s famous breadsdicks come individually wrapped.

Commercial for Spunk-y’s (to be broadcast during Survivor Thailand to try to entice people to actually watch):

Interior, Italian Mamma’s kitchen. There is a broad-shouldered, big-gutted, Italian Man sitting at table in dimly lit kitchen. He is wearing a “wife-beater” style t-shirt, he has a big nose, and his hair is slicked back but a little mussed.
Behind him is Italian Mamma, wearing a stained apron and holding a pan which contains a Spunk-y’s “Frozen Specimen” pizza (available in your pharmacist’s freezer); the pie is minus one slice. The slice is on the Itallian man’s plate.
Mamma looks on expectantly as Italian man picks up slice, takes bite. Spunk-y’s special sauce runs down his chin as he chews.
He swallows, looks at Mamma.

Italian Man: “That’s-a good! Just-a like Papa used to make!”

Music (“Do That to Me One More Time” or “Oops! I Did it Again”) swells as Italian Mamma, extatic, bends over to hug Italian Man. As the two embrace, camera zooms in on Italian man’s face as he scarfs rest of pizza behind Mamma’s back.
Announcer, as picture fades: “Spunk-y’s: Just like Papa used to make. Pick some up today: large, extra large, or ‘Make me call you Uncle’ size.”

How about a picture of former President Clinton at Spunky’s?

Crabs and Spunky’s famous breadsdicks®

Check out our newest location, right next to the Salty Dog Inn.

Hand Made Spunk-y’s Pizza, it’s the best!

Spunky’s New Jingle (sung by George Michael and R. Kelly):

Tired of all those other guys?
Come to Spunky’s for a nice surprise!
Bring the fam and have a ball—
We’ll be shocked if you can eat it all!
So don’t just sit there, bored or sick:
Come to Spunky’s and have some

Quick Service!

Spunky’s—We make it fresh!

Spunky’s motto: “We got ya big sausage with cheese right here. Now where ya gonna put it?”

Sign in Spunky’s: Ask our waiters what else you can do with garlic butter.

BTW—There is a softball game scheduled Saturday between the Boar’s Head Tavern and the regulars at Spunkys.

What do you call the foam on a beer at Spunky’s?

Steve Earle’s new cd is reviewed in Weekly Standard, and it is a hoot to read the historical nonsense in the liner notes. Bart, can you get me an autographed copy?

Just finished watching “A Time To Kill.” What a great movie.

Wonder what the bread sticks look like at Spunky’s? (What do you really do with them?)

“I adore Spunky’s pizza!”

Bart: Let’s ask some of those Californians from San Francisco what they think of Spunky’s pizza.

“Excuse me, sir, what do think of the pizza?”

“It’s wonderful. What is that taste? I know I’ve had that taste in my mouth before.”

(Has anyone seen the movie “The Hollywood Knights”?)

At Spunky’s, we only use fresh, organic ingredients.

Those Guys just need some Spunky’s Pizza.

In case you miss my wacked coments from right field, you can always visit LibertyThink. Their headline today is ”. Should Gov. Davis call out National Guard to defend medical marijuana patients from federal agents? ” That should keep you going for a while.

I once got a pizza from a local shop that smelled like detergent. There were actually bits of laundry soap in the box. We don’t eat there any more.

There are a lot of good pizzarias in NJ. I’m biased toward one in particular, because the owner is a friend. We don’t get to eat there much because the layout isn’t “family friendly” (ever watch 4 kids eat?) We do Pizza Hut on occasion, and there’s a really nice place about a mile from our church that does their pizzas in a wood-burning oven. Yum.

I’m departing tomorrow for the Great White North for a few days. Probably won’t get to post much, unless it rains, in which case I probably will post too much.

Spunky’s has a “Fromunda Cheese” special on the weekends, I think.

EW. Was the name of that place “Spunky’s Pizza”? I bet they have big contingent of customers from the health food crowd, they like the high protein content in the Wednesday special, “an extra-large Spunky’s @$$ cheese and sausage”.

I HAD a favorite pizza place in Cleveland that served awesome deep dish, Chicago style pizza. Then one day an investigative reporter from a local television station acquired security camera footage of one of the managers and an employee doing the horizontal mambo on the prep counter. Brings a whole new meaning to the term “white” pizza, doesn’t it.

Gentleman: (The guy in the back, not the rest of you lowlife, beer drinkin’, theology discussing freaks)
I must start out by saying to Greg, you are correct, the score would have been different. U of L would have been able to score on those other two trips inside the 2 yard line. As a former Uof L student, all I have to say is L’ Yesss! Send that bunch of non graduating – 90% discounted athletic clothing wearing – Mercedes driving – semi-pro athlete having – Goofy oakley sunglass wearing – team back to wear they came from. My football season is complete. And God Bless Dave Ragone and the Brilliant Cleveland Brown Loving womb that bore him.

Pizza…you don’t want me in this discussion, as I am both THE most qualified expert in this joint and the biggest Pizza snob on the planet…ask Spencer, he knows. By the way MS, here’s a boulder just for you. you didn’t mention the Zah I made for your family way back in 1992. I’m hurt.

Hear that bell? That is the death knell for what little life I had: I just found out that I am picking up another class, which brings me to teaching 18 hours a week and grading 22 more papers than I already have to grade. The part-time prof who was teaching it had emergency surgery, or some other lame excuse, and I am the low full-time dude on the totum pole, after all the other p.t. people said they couldn’t do it. This is worse than the time when I was teaching ninth grade English and the loser-ly sophomore English teacher got fired for DUI in a school vehicle—that time my student load doubled over the weekend. Oh, and did I mention I will have to drive an hour to teach the class?
But you know what—I love this job. I still say I have worked a lot harder for a lot less money and for a far smaller sense of fulfillment, so I can’t complain. Just everyone please pray for me and my family for the next nine weeks—that’s two nights a week I will be gone from home.
Best pizza: I admit that I am a sucker for chain pizza. I loved Papa Johns for a long time, but as Mr. Beamer pointed out, it is easy to burn out on, which I did. The last few pizza excursions, I have thoroughly enjoyed the Domino’s here. I haven’t enjoyed theirs everywhere I go, but they make a good pie here. The best pizza in the world (at least speaking of chain pizza) is Pizza Hut, thin crust, pepperoni. There’s so much grease on that thing you could slick your hair back and do a Sha-Na-Na revival, but MAN is it good. Makes my toes curl. It’s so good, I would even go Michael’s route and add the mushrooms and sausage (mushrooms are good on any and everything, pretty much). Unfortunately, they have an excellent Pizza Hut lunch buffet here in Central City where I teach—that’s like putting a heroin addict in an “All You Can Shoot” den. “Please get a fresh needle everytime you return for more horse.”

Want proof that evolution is a religion and not a science? From CNN:

“Selman, who has a son in Cobb schools, sued the system because some middle and high school science textbooks include a disclaimer telling students that evolution is a theory and not a fact. He argued that the disclaimer was a step toward introducing religion in schools, which is unconstitutional.”

Putting in a disclaimer that evolution is still a theory, not a law, and therefore not proven fact somehow introduces religion. I will have to talk to my flying pig about that one.

Pizza: I used to love Papa John’s, but got burnt out. The best pizzas I have tried:

1. Ron’s white pizza, Colorado Springs, CO (Ron decided to move on and sell the business, so it bites now) – Excellent grilled garlic and virgin olive oil.
   
2. Mountain Mushroom’s Pike’s Peak, Colorado Springs, Colorado – a huge pizza with gobs of cheese. Have to eat it with a fork. Excellent flavor.
   
3. Dino’s Pepperoni Pizza, Tampa, FL (Dino’s unfortunately grew too fast and is now defunct)
   
4. Mama Teori’s Everything Pizza, Bellevue, TN with spicy sauce (Mama’s is also defunct, due to competition, but the choice of regular or spicy sauce was primo)
   
5. Beamer Homemade Pizza – when I have time to properly blanche the roma tomatos. I tend to make a mountain of pizza, as well.
   

We generally order Pizza Hut, thin crust, meat lovers now, as it is on the way home. I like Papa John’s occasionally, but it can be overkill real quick.

Mike and Michael: As a person who attended Florida State, it is a dark day for me (not really, as I do not take football ultra-serious). It was interesting watching a game taking place in a monsoon, however. If it would have been a dry day, I think the score would be different, but I will step back as you enjoy your day in the sun. Congrats to the team.

Here’s what you’ll turn into.

It’s a half day of classes, then 3+ hours being available to meet with families to talk about grades, then its a 9 day break. I have been in such pain with my hurt leg that the last few days at school have been miserable. If I could have been home with my leg up it would be better. I figure it will be another week before I feel human. On break we are going to eat with the Birchs, go see Four Feathers, going to see Rigney, going to eat homemade pie at a truck stop in Dale, Indiana, going to see our parents, getting my daughter’s senior portraits made, buying books and a couple of DVDs, eating too much and driving too much. When we return I am being put on the team that interviews students and families during the admissions process. The end of the Sunday afternoon nap, a Spencer non-negotiable my entire life. What will I turn into?

#5 Regular Pizza Hut Thin Crust Pepperoni, Suasage and Mushroom.
#4 Spencer Family Home Made Pepperoni, with crust from the bread machine and just the right amount of olive oil.
#3 Shirley’s Pizza, Owensboro, KY (Gone but not forgotten) Special spices in the sausage, all pizza covered in slabs of mozzarella.
#2 Impellizzeri’s Louisville. One piece. That’s it.
#1 Gino’s East Chicago. Voted best in the world. Deserved it. The Mecca of Pizza.

WOW!! First time in school history, the Cards football team beat a top 5 ranked opponent. What an upset.

Boys, I’m buying the Pappa John’s for everybody. Cards win! Cards win!

Is it the monsoon like rain?
Is it the fact that they’re playing on national television?
Could it be that their quaterback, Dave Ragone, is from Cleveland, Ohio?
Whatever the reason, U of L is playing No. 4 ranked Florida State tough. Just tied the score at 20, early in the 4th quarter.

Speaking of DVD Antichrist :::::::::::shudder::::::::::

My prof for my exegesis of Jeremiah class did about three days on prophecy and its role in the OT. If those clowns took prophecy seriously at all they would stone themselves. I may not be without sin, but when a clown says “Thus says the Lord” and hasn’t stood in the counsel of God, well, I’ll toss the first 100% Angus-approved boulder at him. And since I’m on Angus’ team I imagine that Angus has got a boulder to toss, too.

This never got posted and I’m not sure I can find a link, but did anyone read the story (it was on MSNBC.com yesterday) about the Christians who were executed by some Muslims (surprise!) in Pakistan. God bless ‘em. Just a few more to cry out “How long?!”

I’ve got a new article for IM, but I don’t have room on IM for it at this point: Stalking the DVD Antichrist: The end of worship as we know it…and we feel fine..

Re: The (Loon) Prophets—Paul Cain: “We need to try some diplomacy here before we do anything else.” And the past 11 years has been what?

“The better angels: Why Americans are still fighting over who was right and who was wrong in the Civil War”

Michael, did Monday teach you nothing? :-)

“You call a tree a tree, and you think nothing more of the word. But it was not a ‘tree’ until someone gave it that name. You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth. We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God.”—-J.R.R. Tolkien

HOLD THE PRESSES> The (Loon) PROPHETS are advising NO WAR WITH IRAQ!!!!! STOP NOW!

Now if Christian students want to do something in public schools. I will support this (as opposed to praying on your knees in the halls, etc.) This is what we did in the 70’s and it was plenty bold, but didn’t disturb anyone’s school day at all.

What kind of an evil mood am I in? READ THIS!!!!

Hmmmm. American Churches are wonderfully predictable.

Miss America is another bigoted Christian beauty pageant.