Day 'o turkey

Happy Thanksgiving
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It's turkey time again! Hey, did you know that the first Thanksgiving celebration lasted three years? True story. How sweet would that be to be off from work on holiday for three years? Anyway, enjoy your food, football and five-hour, post-feast nap -- I know I will.

And hey, be careful out there shopping tomorrow.

Newsfeed eating up lies

I heard a funny story this morning about a guy in Australia who took a "sick day," but got busted because his boss read his Facebook status: "Kyle Doyle is not going to work, f..k it i'm still trashed. SICKIE WOO!"


I laughed out loud when I heard it, thinking, "See? This is exactly what they told us in college about the professional backlash possible in putting dumb crap on social networking sites."(Thanks, Prof. Brown!)

An e-mail, presumably between Doyle and his boss, surfaced on the Internet shortly thereafter: The boss asks the 21-year-old AAPT worker for a medical certificate to prove he deserved the day off, and he writes back saying he did not need a medical certificate for one day's leave. The boss then discloses his proof behind the doubt, and Doyle says, "HAHAHA LMAO epic fail. No worries man."

This story is all over the damn Internet... but now it appears that the now-famous Kyle Doyle might have been framed! [DUN DUN DUN]

"Following an investigation into AAPT's email records, we can confirm the email exchange between two of our employees ... never occurred." -- statement from AAPT.

It appears that either someone set Doyle up--even his mother is vouching for him. Yeah, set up or he set this up to get his 15 minutes of fame, mmm? Either way, pretty comical.

As of this morning, Doyle's status reportedly read: "trying to hide :-/" and he had received at least 175 personal messages regarding the incident.

The Brady crunch

I had a good laugh at work today: There are four of us reporters that sit together--Anthony and I are often talking about the latest in sports, while Stef and Geoff like to scoff at our pitching matchup discussions and fantasy football gripes.

Amidst today's weekend wrapup discussion, Stef (who had never been to a professional sporting event until two weeks ago) says, "The only thing I care about in football is Tom Brady... because he's hot."

Well, I hate to break it to ya, Stef -- and New England fans -- but your golden boy's season is dunzo.

The team announced today that Brady, who suffered a left knee injury in the first quarter of yesterday's opener, will need surgery. The exact injury hasn't been disclosed yet, but all signs point to a torn ACL.

"It will all be OK. I’m excited to see what our team is made of … I still like our chances." - Tom Brady, in an e-mail to NBCSports.com.

Matt Cassel stepped in Sunday and guided the team to victory, and he will start Sunday versus New York Jets. A friend of mine last week told me he was stoked about the upcoming Favre v. Brady matchup he had tickets to, mmm...not so much.

Brady brought the team to three NFL titles since 2001 and led them to a perfect 18-0 record in the regular season last year before one GIANT loss in the greatest Super Bowl to ever have been played (I'm a bit biased).

The Patriots should take a page out of Ocho Cinco's English-to-Spanish book and say adios to the Bowl de Super.

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Sounds like excuses to me...

I feel like I make a post like this every two months or so, but I again will apologize for the severe lack of posting that has taken place since the month of June began. Obviously, I was on vacation for a week, which in turn allowed the week before to be "crunch time" and the week following to be "vacation withdrawal." Now that I'm settled back in at work and there appears to be no more Caribbean islands in my near future, I plan to be back in blogging form. That is all.

Update: Hot for teacher, err, waitress?

Updating a previous item:

Debra Lafave, the 27-year-old teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old boy in Nov. 2005, was found in violation of her probation in a Florida courtroom Thursday after having contact with minors, but the judge did not send her to jail.

Lafave was arrested after a 17-year-old female coworker claimed to have had one-on-one and group conversations with Lafave about "non-work related issues such as family problems, friends, high school, personal life, boyfriend issues and sexual issues."

She also had physical contact with the girl, but claimed that it was "innocent" hugging because the work staff was almost like family. Lafave also said that she did not speak about her personal life in the aforementioned conversations, but that the teenager was very forthright "in a group setting" about her sexual life.

Lafave was forced to quit her job at the restaurant and is now working at her mother's beauty salon, where hopefully no one under the age of 18 comes in, because the judge actually told the woman, "Please don't come back."

Dreams are the things confetti is made of

I always wondered who had the tedious job of sweeping up all that Time Square confetti on New Year's Day, but apparently they're dream makers.

This year, the wishes of people across the world will be printed on the bajillion pieces of confetti dumped on the crazies who visit Time Square tomorrow as part of a NYE Wishing Wall.

To have your wish printed, visit this Web site and fill out the form. Wishes will also be posted here. The wish-filled pieces of confetti will be mixed with plain confetti (is that an oxymoron), equalling more than 1 ton of crap falling on people's heads and onto the dirty streets.

I seriously could not think of a more worthless idea. Is anyone going to read this?? Oh wait, let me bend down and pick some wishes off the street. Or hey, you, there's a wish stuck in your hair, oh it's little Jimmy from Poughkeepsie.

And if you try to fill out the form to submit a wish, you get like, 10 characters to write your it. "I wish this year tha--" that's all you get. I wish for more space to write my damn wish!