Do You Know Who Owns Trader Joe’s?

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Do You Know Who Owns Trader Joe’s? – Freakonomics Blog – NYTimes.com.

an excerpt from Dysfunction Junction by permission – for a change. ~blm

The Fine Print
October 18th, 2008

I love that the truth about our creating our own reality is mainstream. That we are living in the life we are consistently manifesting through our thoughts, emotion, and actions. What I missed about “Build it and They Will Come” is the caveat that read:

“Before you build it, make sure you have a stable income, enough money in the bank to support you until “they come” and patience in the process to do whatever it takes along the way to the fulfillment of the dream.”

I’m not bitter about anything. I’m not worried that our dreams aren’t being manifested in some form even if it’s not in our current reality or may never make it to this plane while we’re in this present human form. Seriously, I’m not bitter.

Read on… Dysfunction Junction Blog.

I’ll admit that I don’t watch a lot of sports, don’t care much for boxing, wrestling and their derivatives as presented for TV audiences. I’ve never been a true fighter, mostly all bluff and nothing to back it up physically.  As a kid and young man I got the hell outta the way if a fight broke out in school or in a bar.

BUT – there is something about watching a fight that stirs a feeling deep inside me. Is it a male gene or hard-wiring? This video is an example of the most current form of fighting for entertainment that both repels and compels me to watch. ~blm

and a follow-up re-posted entirely from The Bachelor Guy:

You’re in a bar, watching some pumped up d-bag with a full-sleeve tattoos on both arms, calling out some pasty guy who is dancing around like an idiot.

Your money is probably on the jacked-up, tatted ‘roid-head, but according to Dr. Pearlman Hicks, he’s most likely going to be the one on the wrong end of that ass whooping.

Since 1985, Dr. Hicks has sat at ringside for over 300 fights as a California State Athletic Commission ringside doctor. And he’s developed an uncanny ability to pick the winner simply based on how the fighter looks – along with a system he believes will not only predict the winner of a boxing match (listening you degenerate gamblers?), but if you’re ever involved in a bar fight, may help you decide whether to fight or get your drunk ass out of there.

Here’s what the fight doctor looks for during a match… and what you should look out for in a bar:

1. In a boxing match always look at a boxer’s shoes.

2. In a boxing match, the more tattoos the fighter has the bigger his ass whipping is going to be.

3. In a boxing match the guy with the best physique is going to get his butt handed to him.

4. In a boxing match beware of the fighter who is prancing like a wounded bull in the ring.

5. In a boxing match the fighter that does not look his opponent in the eye is going to lose.

6. In a boxing match, the guy with the big belly, love handles and shortness of breath is going to tire out.

7. In a boxing match, one sign of a fighter with MMA training is a cauliflower ear. These guys are tough.

8. In a boxing match, when a boxer enters the ring with a large entourage he’s usually going to come out ahead.

9. In a boxing match, watch out for the short stocky guys.

10. There’s a saying in the street that goes like this: “Don’t be sellin’ woof (as in a dog barking) tickets that your ass can’t cash.”

In a bar fight, talk is cheap so look out for all the tips in 1-9. Then decide to hold your ground or run. There’s honor in surviving to fight another day.

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The original video and all of the material in this post is re-posted from The Bachelor Guy. Only my comments at the beginning of this post are mine. To read the complete explanation for each of the 10 tips, click on The Bachelor Guy.