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PHILADELPHIA - A 22-year-old from San Jose, Calif., won Wing Bowl on Friday by setting a new record at the annual chicken wing-eating contest. Joey Chestnut ate 173 wings to take the title and top prize, a 2006 Suzuki Grand Vitara. As usual, the 14th annual Wing Bowl was replete with thousands of beer-crazed fans, piles of saucy wings, dozens of scantily clad "Wingettes" — many of them strippers — and several sickened contestants. This year's version of the contest, sponsored by sports-talk station WIP-AM, included only competitors who had never before competed in Wing Bowl. Chestnut qualified for the...

SAN ANTONIO (Army News Service, Jan. 7, 2006) -- America's top high school athletes shared center stage with America's top Soldiers during the 2006 U.S. Army All-American Bowl high school all-star football game held in the Alamodome January 7th. East versus West players battled in front of a nationally televised audience and in front of 31,565 fans, the largest in the Army's six-year history of hosting the event. The East won the contest 27 – 16. During pre-game activities, 78 Soldiers, who were awarded either the Distinguished Service Medal, the Silver Star, the Bronze Star or the Purple Heart, were...

A frightening scene involving the Longview Hands on a Hardbody contest early Thursday morning. Police say a contestant killed himself in front of them at a local store. He was contestant number 4. Quiet, soft spoken and well liked. But shortly before the 6:00 a.m. break, 24-year-old Richard Vega of Tyler took his hands off the hardbody truck and began walking across the street to K-mart. "When I talked to Ricky this morning, he seemed fine. I said, 'How you doing?' He said, 'I had too much caffeine.' Next thing you know , three minutes before the horn blows he's...

Blogs for Bauer Challenge Sean Austin is joining the cast of 24. You have been challenged to either find "Rudy" a role or come up with a replacement. Deadline will be set as Tuesday (9/6). Check out the post for more details: Blogs for Bauer Challenge

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Army News Service, Aug. 18, 2005) – The youngest winner in the 60-year history of the All-Army Photography Contest captured her award-winning image with a $10 disposable camera. Ten-year-old Brittney Rankin won the civilian division’s monochrome people category of the 2004 All-Army Photography Contest with a photo titled “Shadow Friends.” During a Morale, Welfare and Recreation Summer Youth Photo Class at U.S. Army Garrison-Michigan at Selfridge, instructor Jim Wilkie passed a disposable camera around and each participant took five photographs. Rankin photographed the feet of classmates and their instructor who were reaching high into the air for the...

Radio station to pay $240K over slapping contest The Business Review (Albany) - 4:57 PM EDT Monday A radio station has settled with state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer for $240,000 for the "Smackfest" slapping contests the station held with female contestants in 2004 and 2005. Contestants could win up to $5,000 during the contests on WQHT Hot 97's in New York City, Spitzer said. The attorney general said the promotions cross the line of entertainment and became abusive. The settlement was the same size as the fine the station would have faced had it faced punishment from the state. Emmis,...

Air America is holding a contest "to come up with the most creative and/or funny bumper stickers to get the word out about Air America Radio." I'm sure The Radio Equalizer would have some clever entries for this...

I'm sure all too many of us have gotten disgusted with the idiotic antics of PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Well, with a little luck, it may be payback time. . . You see, driving home from grocery shopping yesterday, I heard an ad for Oscar Mayer's latest promotion: Win the Wienermobile for a Day: you just have to write an essay on how and where you'd use it. At this point, many of you are, no doubt, hearing a large-skulled lab mouse whisper into your ear: Are YOU pondering what **I'M** pondering ??? Yep. I am....

Spivey's Corner ready to holler SPIVEY'S CORNER, N.C. — For the 37th year, people from all over the world are converging on a small North Carolina town to hear a nearly lost art: hollerin'. About 3,000 people are expected for the contest today. The winner receives a trophy and the recognition of being the champion hollerer. The Annual National Hollerin' Contest raises funds for the town's all-volunteer fire department. But, equally important, it preserves what contest chairman Wayne Edwards calls a North Carolina "oddity." Edwards says hollerin' was Eastern North Carolina's first form of communication. He says people were identified...

2005 Membership Contest The 2005 membership contest will run from Memorial Day (May 30, 2005) thru Labor Day (September 5, 2005). The winner of the contest will be the member in good standing who brings in the most new members during the contest period. First prize in the contest will be the Eagle/Flag Statuette pictured below and a Certificate of Appreciation. Second prize will be a Portraits of Freedom t-shirt (when available) and a Certificate of Appreciation. Third prize will be a Certificate of Appreciation. Rules: 1. Contest is open to all voting members in good standing (as defined...

Okay, y'all. I don't post vanities but this one is a doozie. If you can help, great. If not, that's fine, too. And if this gets pulled, I understand.This young (15-year-old) Texas performer has a chance to make it huge, and bring real rootsy-feeling music to the masses.Maren Morris has been invited to compete in CountryThunder.com's Young Guns 4 competition, which has 40+ performers battling (through internet voting) for the opportunity to share the stage with folks like Darryl Worley, LeAnn Rimes, Sara Evans and Montgomery Gentry.Country Thunder is a huge 5-day fest in Wisconsin next month.I believe this young...

In summarizing the lives of the 25 finalists in the Discovery Channel's "Greatest American" contest, NBC's Matt Lauer on Sunday night labeled Bill Clinton as "brilliant" before trumpeting: "Under Clinton the economy boomed -- deficits turned into surplus -- and more than 22 million jobs were created. Along with the character flaws and the subpoenas came peace and prosperity." The brief segment did not feature any explicit criticisms of Clinton's presidency, but when it came to George W. Bush, whom Lauer described as "our tough-talking, language-mangling Commander-in-Chief who most Americans just want to hang our with," Discovery put on musician...

A Monmouth County NJ political "activist" was apparently trapped in a web of his own devising,after a near-slanderous website was put up. Tawdry details of "Democrat Disinformation" here.

Wednesday, March 2, 2005 1:37 p.m. EST Liberals Hold 'Name Coulter's Book' Contest A "Name Ann Coulter's Next Book" contest launched by campusprogress.org, a fledging liberal Web site and offshoot of the slightly crazed Center for American Progress, challenged students to come up with appropriate titles. According to the Web site, the rules for the contest were simple: The book title had to be the same format as Coulter’s books — a single word followed by an explanatory subtitle, as in Coulter's "Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism." According to the Washington Post's Reliable...

Who is the least responsive member of congress or Senator when it comes to responding to constituent letters? Does anyone have any concrete examples, such as scanned copies of letters you've received in response to questions or concerns? I think this would be a great contest. Anyone care to start?

Wanted to invite you Freepers to send in your pet pic and win money! The saga of my run-in with PetsMart is part of the following Blog post but you don't have to read it. But the details of submitting your pet pic are also IN THIS POST. Isn't it about time your pet made YOU some money?

Subject: Fw: "Dark and Stormy Night Contest" winners For you lovers of good writing, listed below are the 10 winners of this year's Bulwer-Lytton Contest, aka the "Dark and Stormy Night Contest" run by the English Department of San Jose State University, wherein one writes only the first line of a bad novel: 10. "As a scientist, Throckmorton knew that if he were ever to break wind in the echo chamber, he would never hear the end of it." 9. "Just beyond the Narrows, the river widens." 8. "With a curvaceous figure that Venus would have envied, a tanned, unblemished...

The Liberal Agenda by The Readers of The American Prospect We’re taking suggestions: What does liberalism stand for? Anybody who's ever had to raise money knows the meaning of the phrase "elevator pitch": You're in an elevator with a potential moneybags, and you have, say, seven floors to tell him why he should write you a check. Well, we all know the basic outline of conservatism's elevator pitch: "We believe in freedom and liberty, and we're for low taxes, less government, traditional values, and a strong national defense." But what is liberalism's? We at the Prospect have, among us, attended...

Caption The Captain The Navy is commissioning a Nuclear Attack Submarine and naming it after one of the worst presidents ever to reside in the White House. -- Caption or Photoshop this scene --