Get the Plunger!

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Is there a better feeling in the world than when the water goes down and the plunger has worked?

Just a thought-filled day.

Do you think the miner with the wife and the mistress would have liked to have stayed buried?

Did you hear about the Florida boy - 8 years old - who at his parents urging donated his pet turtle to the local aquarium because it was too big for his house?

The parents stood with the child as the turtle was released into the aquarium and then promptly eaten by an alligator as the kid watched.

The witnesses said they heard the shell being crunched. How does that kid forget that sound?

It's a teachable moment, I say...the parents can tell the kid that he can do the right thing, love with all of his heart, and then stand back and watch the destruction. "That's life, Junior, Get on with it."

More celebrity breakups this week and supposedly Brett Favre sent photos of his winky-dink to a reporter. Just goes to show you, money doesn't make you any smarter.

I picked every single division series match up right in the baseball playoffs...so let's go through it...

In early August I picked the 8 playoff teams correctly...

Before the playoffs started I told you who would win each division series...

Now we have Yankees-Rangers and Phillies-Giants.

Ready?

Get the plunger...

Yanks over Rangers in 5...maybe 6 if Burnett has to go.

Phillies over Giants, but it is going to take 7. There's a lot of pitching in the city by the bay.

Take it to the bank.

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