poorly conceived promotions

[rone]

Via Darren Rovell's ESPN.com Insider Weblog (subscriber only):

Bible Bobble: A year after their successful promotion of Moses, Samson and Noah bobbleheads, the Nashville Sounds are at it again. They'll be giving away bobbleheads of Queen Esther, John the Baptist and Daniel in the Lions' Den over the next couple weeks.

I wonder if the John the Baptist bobblehead's head will bobble off the doll with alarming ease, or if that requires the complementary Salome bobblehead.

Comments

[captain-nesky.livejournal.com]

You're a bobble head. They should make one out of you so that you can get your bobble credit.

[2wanda.livejournal.com]

Hehehe.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Waah, you're mean.

[omarius.livejournal.com]

And Salome comes with an accessory bobble platter!

[frosch.livejournal.com]

You missed the best part of this story: it's Purity Faith Night (http://www.nashvillesounds.com/schedule/Default.asp?scheduleId=618).

(Purity is the local premium dairy. The bobbleheads are sponsored by Monell's (http://www.monellsdining.citysearch.com/), an overblown, fancy-dress meat-and-three that also happens to be listed at PubCrawler.com (http://www.pubcrawler.com/Template/dsp_restaurant_zoom.cfm/flat/ID=251609).)

It's usually not so much fun living in the Protestant Rome. Every Monday morning I have to resist the temptation to go medieval on one or more of the various Bible study groups meeting at the Starbucks on my way to work. Sounds games are a pretty good time, though, if you can manage to avoid the Jesusoids.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

What the heck is a "meat-and-three"?

[frosch.livejournal.com]

"Meat and three" is a prix-fixe selection from the menu of a Southern neighborhood restaurant; you get your choice of the available meat entrees, along with three "sides", which are usually vegetables but often include macaroni-and-cheese, baked apples, and sometimes even banana pudding.

The restaurants themselves - in fact, any restaurant that specializes in Southern "home cooking" - are often called "meat-and-threes" by association. It's a fairly broad category that can include anything from a gas station with a kitchen (like the one at the bottom of the hill I live on) to a more conventional restaurant, but most of them are what would be described in other parts of the country as "greasy spoons".

I doubt that Monell's has the fixed-price menu, although I've never actually gotten around to going there.

[mrbalihai.livejournal.com]

Thanks for clarifying that. I thought it was British slang for a man with 3 testicles.