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Name The Scooter Finalists

The voting for Name The Scooter has ended. I am happy to announce the top three names:

• Third Place: Bombay Sapphire [submitted by DutchBitch]
• Second Place: Chilly’s Filly [submitted by Beth]
• First Place: ScUtah [submitted by Penelope]

Congrats to the final three submitters: You win a Scooter Sunday t-shirt [I will contact each of you on how to claim your prize.

There were some great names submitted for this contest. Sorry to the males that entered. I guess the woman picked the names popular with the voters.

Now the hard part. Picking judges. I have picked one judge so far, but need two more. If your name was not picked as one of the top three names and you would like to be a judge AND you can be impartial in picking a name, let me know in the comments or send me an email. There’s a prize in it for you. Of course, all three judges have to pick a majority winner in order to pick the final name.

No Scooter Sunday Next Week

Here in the states it’s Memorial Day weekend. I will be taking the weekend off, which means no Scooter Sunday next week. I’ll be back on May 31st with an all new episode.

Contest # 1 Winners

About a month ago, I had a contest that had you pick your three favorite Snowy Sunday episodes. I bet some of you were thinking, “His blogging has been hit and miss lately and he forgot.” I did not forget and here are the list of winners:

• Kim from ilaxStudio.com
• Kevin from kapgar.com
• Kevin from kevinspencer.org

To those that won, I will be sending an email to you, asking for your mailing address so I can send your prize to you. If you’ve forgotten what the prize was, then you don’t deserve to win…. ha ha… just kidding. Seriously, it was a $10 iTunes gift card.

These were all randomly picked by myself, using one of those ziploc bags with all of the names of those that entered the contest printed on little strips of a paper, folded in triplicate. Thank you for watching my silly mug trudge through the cold and snow this last winter.

Free KFC on Oprah

On Monday’s Oprah show, she announced that she was paying for every family in America to get a free 2-piece meal of the new grilled chicken.

I’m not a big fan of chicken for many reasons [mostly due to the less-than-detailed cooking methods that most places use to make chicken], but I thought I would take an opportunity to get a freebie out of one of the wealthiest women on television.

I went over today around 11:45am, beating the lunch rush. While I was eating, the line formed quickly and ended up out of the door. I would guess there was at least 50 people there, both waiting and eating.

As for the chicken, it was ok. I thought it was less greasy than their other chicken. But I normally remove the skin before eating it. But it had a good flavor to it. I still enjoy their cole slaw and mashed potatoes. And the biscuit is ok if you add enough butter and honey to it. I also purchased a frosty glass of root beer [the KFC I went to is one of those combo restaurants with an A&W] to show my support for getting something for free.

Here’s the link to printing your own coupon: UnthinkKFC.com. If you missed out on that link, hit me up in the comments if you are interested in getting a coupon. I may be able to help you out.

Snowy Sunday The Winners List from Marty Mankins on Vimeo.

More YouTube Downsizing

As I mentioned in last week’s Snowy Sunday post, I will not be using YouTube as a location for any videos that contain Warner Music Group (WMG) artists. This week’s episode uses a clip of Red Hot Chili Pepper’s “Give It Away”, which prevents it from being uploaded to YouTube intact. I tried to find another song that would fit this week’s topic, but this one fit so well that I decided to stick with it. It’s a short clip used at the beginning and end of the episode.

BUT WAIT….

… I didn’t want to leave any YouTube users out of the loop on finding out if they won or not. So, in an effort to skirt around the greedy fuckers at Warner, I have “improvised” the clips used at the beginning and the end of the YouTube version for this week’s video. Sometimes, you have to do what you got to do. This will most likely NOT be a regular feature [sorry, I don't believe in inflicting torture on any human beings]. The Vimeo version contains the beginning and ending clips of the actual song.

Click here for the Snowy Sunday – The Winners List – YouTube Edition

I am writing a separate blog post that will go into more detail about this WMG/YouTube issue, which I will post sometime this week. I didn’t want to take away too much from the excitement of this week’s Snowy Sunday with an extended rant.

ATTENTION WINNERS

I will be contacting you via email this week, asking you for your mailing address, so I can send you your prize.

To All of My Readers

Thanks to all of you who visit here on Banal Leakage. You have read my posts, listened to my rants and watched my silly mug in the videos I post. I hope to keep providing more entertaining, informative and thought-provoking posts in the future, occasionally celebrating blogging milestones by giving away free stuff.