11.01.10 Happy Monday!

Wow...it's November!  One more month and we're done with 2010.  This month we celebrate being Thankful, of course, along with Adoptions, Family Stories and Peanut Butter.

This month also raises awareness for AIDS, Diabetes, Alzheimer's, and Lung Cancer.  

Today, specifically, we celebrate authors, nutty pecans, and cooking for your pets.  Anyone actually cook up a special meal for their pet every night?  What is it you whip up/

PHONEBUZZ

How was your Halloween?

Ever notice there's always someone in the neighborhood that goes a little too far with the frightfest?  You know who I'm talking about... the couple that usually doesn't have kids, who spend the day making their house into some sort of demonic den.  What they accomplish is a really cool set up, that no kid wants to get near.  Who was that in your neighborhood?

Who had the best/worst trick or treat pumpkin fillers this year?  Anyone handing out toothbrushes?  Pennies?  Fruit?  

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Stop the Madness!
Whether you have kids or not, nobody can avoid buying a candle, coupon book, pop corn or magazine from a student trying to raise money for a school.  There's no doubt the school needs money, but there may be a better way to raise it, according to CBS MoneyWatch.com.   They have a list of what's worth it, and what's not for both the school and you.

Buyer Beware

  • Restaurant fundraisers where the restaurant will offer a percentage of the sale to the school between, let's say, 6p and 8p, on Wednesday night.  The low percentage means little for the school by the end of the night.  Usually not worth it.

  • Products like popcorn, wrapping paper, cookie dough, pasta or candles will earn a school half the sale.  So the school receives $11.50 for a $23 candle.  Why not just write the school a check for $23?  Plus, the companies selling the junk, I mean, products, will pull kids out of class for a special presentation detailing the prizes they can win if they're top sellers.  Who does this really benefit in the long run?  Maybe....the company selling the junk, I mean, products?

Fundraisers worth trying

  • Walkathons give kids exercise and 100% of the pledges go to the schools.

  • Advertising campaign where you approach businesses that would be interested in hanging a sign on the football field fence.  That brings in a quick $500 to $1,000 a sign.  

Bottom line
They say to approach the principal and say, 'There will be no more product sales to our children, and no more catalogs.'  Ask the school to make a solid case for the money and find a way to raise it.  What's the strangest fundraiser your school has ever had?  I'm not making this up when I tell you that one year my scout troop made us sell light bulbs.  Light bulbs.  You should've seen the excitement in my neighbor's eyes when I asked them to buy...light bulbs.
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CELEBRITY TWEETS

Lady Gaga celebrated Halloween in Ireland over the weekend biting the head off a Barbie doll while dressed in a PVC bikini and fishnets.  Just another day in Gagaland. 

Oh...she also caused a bit of a controversy posting this picture with the caption: "For Halloween I'm going to be...a little monster!!!! I love you all so much! Celebrate yourself!" 

Ron Howard is going to keep Vince Vaughn's controversial "gay electric car" joke in the movie "The Dilemma."  The joke was pulled from the ad campaign, but will stay in the movie because Howard says Vaughn's character "has a mouth that sometimes gets him into trouble...who can't relate to that?"  

There's a rumor that Disney's Demi Lovato has been diagnosed with asthma which triggered a Twitter community called #prayfordemi.  Some sympathize, some don't.  

Meanwhile Lovato did a "Miley Cyrus" and deleted her Twitter account with no warning over the weekend.  Earlier this month she told her followers she is tired of Twitter..."It's just really sad how addicted to social networking we are," she wrote.  

Giant buzz-kill of the day award goes to Mark Wahlberg who let his kids decorate pumpkins, but wouldn't let them have a drop of candy for Halloween.  

Denied -- Angelina Jolie is NOT pregnant.  Some claim to have seen a "telltale bump," but a member of her team reports that she's not expecting.  

Who are we as a people when we allow Snooki to get her own billboard in Las Vegas?  WHO ARE WE?  

Box Office:  That psychokiller Jigsaw was #1 this weekend!  "Saw 3D" made $24.2 million, which is $10 million more than the debut of last year's "Saw VI."  Will there be a "Saw 8"?  Top 10

CUTTIN' CAKE TODAY

  • Lyle Lovett (53)
  • Jenny McCarthy (38)
  • Bo Bice (American Idol -35)

BIRTHDAY QUIZ

Bo Bice is 35 today... in 2005, Bo placed second to (who) on American Idol???

ANSWER

Carrie Underwood!  Bo has gone on to record three studio albums.  Recently he won $50-grand for his charity after competing on the sydicated show "Don't Forget the Lyrics!"

PRIMETIME, BABY!

ABC: Dancing With the Stars (LIVE), Castle (NEW)
CBS: How I Met Your Mother (NEW), Rules of Engagement (NEW), Two and a Half Men (NEW), Mike and Molly (NEW), Hawaii Five-O (NEW)
NBC: Chuck (NEW), The Women of SNL (NEW)
FOX: Giants @ Rangers
CW: 90210 (NEW), Gossip Girl (NEW)

Gotta See This!

If your 10-year old boy is feeling blue today... this, and ONLY this, will make him laugh.  You're welcome. 

DID YOU KNOW

Toys and clothes top the holiday wish list this year.  A marketing research group predicts wool coats with ruffles, faux fur vests and long and chunky sweaters to be hot in the clothing category, while Iron Man 2, Best Friends Club Dolls and Squinkies will be must-have toys.  

Not sure what a Squinkie is?  Check out the commercial here 

WHO SAID IT?

"Pam, you look like roadkill…good luck."
-Wendy Williams on her talk show referring Pam Anderson who is posing for Playboy for a record 13th time.

JOKE OF THE DAY

A guy goes to a girl's house for the first time, and she shows him into the living room. She excuses herself to go to the kitchen to make them a few drinks, and as he's standing there alone, he notices a cute little vase on the mantel.

He picks it up, and as he's looking at it, she walks back in. He says "What's this?"

She says, "Oh, my father's ashes are in there."

He goes, "Geez...oooh....I..."

She says, "Yeah, he's too lazy to go to the kitchen to get an ashtray."

SURF THIS!

Need a quick getaway?  MapCrunch uses Google's Street View to take you around the world.  Either see a single shot, or see a slideshow.  Pretty cool.  http://www.mapcrunch.com/

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