"He's learning from his mistakes!"

That joke was one my all-time favorites. If not in the top 5 all-time it has to be at least in the top 10. These old NES and SNES games provided some great jokes and moments. The 5-man scramble in RBI Baseball with Matt was our defining moment - I have never seen Matt laugh any harder, and I definitely have seen him laugh hard many times. Also, watching Matt play Gyruss (I remembered the name of the game!) every day until he got a job was the perfect way to start my senior year.


Here is some other great stuff:

• "The Devil is waiting", "Pubes", "Rush Courageously", and, of course, "The Wings are Yours" and the rest of the game description jokes.
• Watching Matt and Paul play RC Pro-Am.
• Bud and I's battles with each other in the regular Mario game on Mario 3 by "making them blue."
• Matt getting the chicken in Super Castlevania.
• Maintaining "Quo Status" with Paul in Bowser's Castle in Mario 3.
• Walter Payton's bionic line drive pass in Tecmo Bowl.
• Others?
  

(As an aside, I'm listening to the OU-OU game on online radio and the announcers just said they've been on the lookout for Ron Burgundy, being in San Diego. Thought you guys would like that.)

Anyhow, the reason I bring up all this classic gaming stuff is to give you a couple of links that might enable you to bring the sweet aroma of those jokes back in your life anytime you want. That is by using some good ol' emulators. D-load the emulator, unzip it in an "emulator" folder, d-load some "ROM"s of games, put them in the same folder, and then open the emulator program and pick the game. Good strong fun. Stay classy wieners.

NES Emulator(Jnes):
http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/nes/

SNES Emulator(Zsnes):
http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/snes/zsnes.html

NES Roms:
http://www.rom-world.com/dl.php?name=Nintendo

SNES Roms:
http://www.rom-world.com/dl.php?name=Super_Nintendo

Testing... 1, 2, 3...

Just wanted to infect the Oily Wiener Chronicles with a little obscure Husker news.

The Cult of Raymer

Do not look too long lest you get sucked in................

Upcoming Movies

Narnia is the big movie right now, but there are plenty of other good movies that are hitting there stride, just came out or are coming out. Brokeback Mountain, starring Jake G. and Bud Marr has been widely acclaimed, is nominated for a Golden Globe, and won some big award at Cannes. It is directed by Ang Lee and is based on a Proulx short story, about two gay cowboys who have a lifelong love and (try to) keep it under wraps . She hopes to do better - and will - with Mountain after a disappointing box office performance by The Murphing News. Additionally two good movies that bear relevance to the current situation with America and the Middle East are out - Syriana and Jarhead. I am going to see Syriana tomorrow - my first movie at the theater in ages. Also coming out is Spielberg's Munich in late December. It is about the search for the assassins at the Munich Olympics in ('72?). Kevin Baba, er, Eric Bana is in that - a fine actor, as the one who hunts down the killers and in doing so wrestles....with some things.....inside. Woody Allen is also coming out with a film that is getting much worship-speak and that is Match Point. It details Bud's other romance with Pete Sampras.

Crazy Skydiver Story

Did you guys hear about the skydiver who fell out of the sky, flat on her face, lived to tell about it and found out she was pregnant in the process? It happened in good 'ol Siloam Springs.

"Vienna Sausages, Faulkner, and Elvis"

Finally, I thought I should share this essay with the blog. The happy confluence of two of my great loves, oily weiners and southern literature and culture, is too tasty for me to keep to myself.

The article (by James Cobb, a University of Georgia history prof) mostly focuses on the great interest in southern history and culture in Europe. Similar to C. Vann Woodward's "The Burden of Southern History," Cobb suggests that many Europeans find it easier to relate to the tragedy, poverty, and defeat in southern history than the relative prosperity, accomplishment, and confidence of the North.

Cobb relates several great anecdotes. One of my favorites: "At Cambridge, a gentlemen asked if we used different U.S. history textbooks in the South. I explained that this was actually once the case, but not anymore, except that in our versions General Sherman burns down Cleveland, Ohio, and Willie Nelson is elected president." Apparently it took the Englishman a few minutes to get the joke.

But more relevant to this blog, Cobb tells about the time he was presenting his scholarly work in Vienna, Austria: "Having been raised right, I naturally took a second before my weighty presentation in Vienna to bestow an appropriate gift on my hosts—a can of Vienna sausage, which I was entirely confident they would find preferable to anything available locally. I was even kind enough to instruct them on the preferred pronunciation, at least in the minds of many Georgians, of 'Vi-eena' [rhyming with 'hyena']. As you might imagine, they were mighty impressed, with my sophisticated tastes in both music and food and with my sensitive effort to help them avoid any future embarrassment about the way they refer to their own city."

Nice. From what my dad tells me, in 1950s Northwest Arkansas they always referred to the canned meat as Vi-eena sausages too...

Labels

I know you'll appreciate this. The good folks at "findagrave.com" (another great site that always comes in handy for history projects) share a nice collection of vienna sausage labels that I'm sure you'll want to check out.

Mine eyes have seen the Glory

Who could have predicted that the Movement tracing its origins to the Great Oily Wiener Terror of 2000 (or was it 1999 already?) would someday boast its own blog? The very existence of this site is a testament to the power of friendship, love, and potted meat food products. It is my hope and prayer that the content of this blog may always prove worthy of the OWG's noble beginnings.

It Begins....