7/20/2007: Stephen Has Completed "Trick This!"

Well, when I started out, this seemed near impossible to do. I started out trying to do it off of the ground and then off a tee. I looked like a duck flailing as it was mauled by a wolverine. Then I tried hitting the ball off of the driving range mat, with a slight incline in it. I kept going under the ball and it would simply roll backwards. Then I put Tyson's wallet in front of it and tried that and eventually I got it to flop backwards just a few feet. But, overall, up to that point, it was a failure. Little did I know the kid in the video had actually stacked two balls on top of each other. This is exactly what the driving range owner suggested, so I did that and that worked fantastically. In fact, all 3 were higher than the kid's shot in the video. I didn't even think about him catching it in the video until after I just rewatched it. That wouldn't have been hard to do either, I just wasn't trying to. Anyways, check out the video.
Golf Trick (Medium: 3.97 MB)

7/14/2007: Marianne Completes "Print it!"

There is not a PaintShop on this computer but there is a paint. So this will probably take all day to download but that's an even trade because it took me all day to do this task. It's not that it was hard, I just don't know how to do a whole lot of stuff on this new computer yet. It's a pain and I did three pages which is a great feat (you have no idea how great) if it doesn't load...maybe I'll care by Tuesday.

7/4/2007: Stephen Has Completed "Slogan Slinger"

Ok, sorry for the late posting on this, however, I think it was worth the wait. While I think this was one of the harder tasks I've ever had to do, it turned out to probably be one of the best. I went into the local Ingles and looked for like 30 minutes for everything on the list, except for Calgon. I didn't even bother looking for it, as I have never even really heard of it. I just got a Sunkist and made up a slogan for it, which I think most should find quite amusing. Anyways, the checkout process was horribly embarrassing, but in the end it turned out for the best. I have recorded audio of the encounter. The sound is a bit muffled, as the recorder was in my pocket. You should be able to make out most of the slogans though. Here is the audio file:
Slogan Slinger (96 kbps)

Also, here are a few pics:

Outside Ingles

Rice Krispies & Frosted Flakes

Sunkist: It's F--king Sunkist.

7/2/2007: Stephen Has Completed "When I Was Your Age"

Here are the costs of some things in 1940:

Car: $800
Gasoline: 18 cents/gal
House: $6,550
Bread: 8 cents/loaf
Milk: 34 cents/gal
Postage Stamp: 3 cents
Stock Market: 131
Average Annual Salary: $1,900
Minimum Wage: 30 cents per hour
(Source)

That covers all the requirements except clothes.
Using interpolation from the other items, I estimate a shirt, pants, socks, and shoes would cost between $3 and $4.

6/25/2007: Stephen Has Completed "That's So Pizza"

Well, this was interesting. I had virtually no other human contact until I was called to come into Hickory today. Once I did, I was ready to let loose a barrage of sadistic, messed up stuff, and I did, but unfortunately my voice recorder batteries died. So I settled for a couple of recordings on the computer at work and then I spent an hour recording random crap on the computer once I got home. But I think you might enjoy it, perhaps as much as watching kayakers go over a waterfall and dumping 70 tons of jello mix into the water at the last second to cushion their fall, but not realizing that jello has to take a lot of time to set up and that you probably shouldn't have turned that sign backwards at the previous fork in the river, and getting that thrill of running from the cops through the wilderness for several years and combing ticks out of your beard with twigs. That kind of enjoyment.
Anyways, here is the audio:
That's So Pizza (1.45 MB)

6/19/2007: Stephen & Tyson Have Completed "Sportgy"

My goodness this was exceptionally time consuming. While we were able to successfully compete in 20 sports over the last 2 days, it took pretty much all of our free time. I just got all of the videos imported over the course of the last several hours. I hopefully can convert and edit them sometime before the end of the week and post it. The video should be pretty good! Here are the sports we chose:
Basketball
Baseball
Football
Soccer
Golf
Lacrosse
Tennis
Darts
Putt Putt
Billiards
Sprinting
Javelin Throw
Ultimate Frisbee
Kickball
Dodgeball
Skeeball
Air Hockey
The Caber Toss
Baseketball
Russian Roulette

Be on the lookout for the vid soon!

EDIT: Here is the video link!
Sportgy (Medium: 44.8 MB)

6/15/2007: Stephen Has Completed "Dream Vacation"

Ok this is a golf vacation primarily. So I will need a foursome. Ideally I could take my dad and brother, but knowing their time commitments with other stuff, they would never be able to take off for a vacation like this, though I don't think I would either. I would take Tyson, Braiden, and my cousin Nathan along.

Pregame: Edwin Watts Charlotte (June 30)
We start off by driving to Charlotte. We all buy our dream set of clubs and about 20 dozen golf balls each. I also must include gas in the cost.Estimated cost: $2500 per person for clubs/balls + $20 gas = $10020

First Stage: Kiawah Island Ocean Course (July 1-July 3)

Why not start off the trip with one of the hardest courses in the world? We will be purchasing this package: Villa Championship Summer Golf Packages
Starting from $323
Enjoy your stay in one of our spacious villas and play one round on the world renowned Ocean Course and two rounds at any of the resort’s other championship courses (based on a three night stay). Green fees, cart fees, range balls, daily breakfast and dinner at any resort restaurant that serves dinner, are also included.
Estimated Cost: $323 per person for golf + $40 gas = $1332

Stage 2: TPC @ Sawgrass (July 4-July 7)

Who can resist the chance at the island green? There are many packages with varying amenities, but I preferred this one, for the forecaddie experience.
THE PLAYERS Package
3 ROUNDS, 3 NIGHTS
From $886.00 /person
Book now and receive a FREE arrival round on Dye's Valley Course and a 1-hour lesson at the TOUR Academy TPC Sawgrass. (Tyson will need this badly before we continue any further ;P)
THE PLAYERS Package includes 3 nights accommodations at the Sawgrass Marriott Resort & Spa; Two rounds on THE PLAYERS Stadium course and one round on DYE'S Valley Course. Forecaddie experience included on Stadium round and seasonal on DYE's Valley Course.
After our free arrival round at the Valley Course, we will take a little trip to Disney World for some f--king awesome fireworks. Then we will head back and go Stadium, Valley, Stadium the final 3 days.
Estimated cost: $886 per person for golf + $112 per person for Disney + $80 gas = $4072

Stage 3: The Coves At Round Mountain (July 8)

How can we break with tradition? After finishing up on the 7th, we catch a jet home. I will pay some transient to drive my car back for me, part of the money now, most of the money later. We will be paying off the course's owner to have the course at our disposal and will be playing a twelve man captain's choice: Me, Tyson, Braiden, Nathan, Dad, Michael, John, Brandon W., Ray A., Brandon F., Mark P., and Scott M. We will all be in one group, it will take all day, and we will shoot better than 55 or suicide will be committed.
Estimated cost: $28 per person for golf + $5000 to buy the course out for the day + $340 per person for first class flight = $6696

Stage 4: The Pinehurst Experience (July 9-July 14)

Pinehurst? Why not? We will start with a drive down to Asheboro for Tot Hill Farm ($39 pp) followed by heading on down to Sanford for Tobacco Road ($59 pp). Days 2 and 3 would be Mid Pines and Pine Needles 2 times each ($270 pp). Days 4-6 would be Pinehurst #'s 4, 8, and 2 ($1235 pp). That package also comes with caddies, lessons, spa massages, etc. Altogether, a pretty expensive week!
Estimated cost: $6412 per person for golf + $80 gas = $6492

So just for the pregame and the first four stages the total cost is: $28,612

If I really had it my way, I would just keep on going until we hit about every course that I've ever wanted to play.
Bethpage Black, Blackwolf Run, Bandon Dunes, Couer D'Alene, Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill, Cypress Point, Poppy Hills, Spanish Bay, TPC @ Scottsdale, The Prince Course, Kapalua, Carnoustie, St. Andrews, etc. etc. Then it would be entirely likely that I'd never want to play golf again or not for a couple of days anyways. So, I think, for now, I'm just gonna stick with the shorter vacation. That would be awesome.

6/8/2007: Stephen Has Completed "Surprise! It's Your Birthday"

Sorry for the lateness. I am feeling a bit better now and I also won my h2h match, so woohoo! This was an interesting task, one that I took some liberties with. I don't know if it is exactly what you envisioned Marianne, as I put my own sick twist on it, but, anyways, I did this last night and have finished editing the video. Here it is:
Happy Birthday To Me (High: 15.9)
Happy Birthday To Me (Medium: 10.8)
Additionally, here is the Happy Birthday song in mp3 form:
Happy Birthday To Me (2.2 MB)

5/30/2007: Stephen Has Completed "Penny For Your Food"

Ok, this was a pretty crazy task. I put what I thought was $5.50 of pennies in a ziploc bag.


Then I went to New China restaurant in Morganton. Tyson met me there to help out. I ordered the Chicken Chow Mein. It came to $5.30


The cashier girl was as nice as she could be about it. Tyson and I started stacking pennies on the counter, while customers came and went. Somehow I badly miscounted when putting the pennies in my bag, as I was 14 cents short, so I pulled the classic run out to the car and grab more pennies. The pennies can be seen on the right side of the counter in this pic.


I don't know what she did with the pennies afterwards, cause she did not start picking them up before we left. Here's a better closeup shot of most of them.


Here's a shot of Tyson and I afterwards, as I held the empty ziploc bag and my take out order.


I also had a first. My fortune cookie was empty. What does that mean? :(


But that's not all. I have, for you, the uncut audio from the entire transaction. It is around 15 minutes long, so load it up and listen along while you are surfing the net.
Pennies For Your Food (6.7 MB)

5/26/2007: Marianne Has Completed "On Safari!"

It sure was an interesting day to say the least. If the people in my town don’t think I’m nuts than they’re nuts! I started off trying to observe people in regular places like gas stations and grocery stores but it didn’t work because people weren’t standing around long enough for me to capture them on film. I ended up filming at a park next to the zoo.
I dressed in my finest safari clothes and set off to watch an interesting mix of people. You can’t tell by the video but people stopped to watch at each location. You can hear them in the background and you can see me trying to get out of each location pretty fast, since I don’t know all the technicalities on stalking laws.
Filming five people was harder than I thought it would be. People move way too fast for me to be able to comment on their behaviors. In most pictures I just let their actions speak for themselves.
Here is the video:
On Safari! (High: 21.3 MB)
On Safari! (Low: 6.4 MB)

5/25/2007: Nathan Has Completed "You Wanna Trade?"

I started out the day wandering what in the world I was going to be able too start trading to people that they would actually want. I was going to start with the rubber band, but thought that if they wanted a rubber band they could just go get one. after thinking a little I thought what better thing to start with than a simple penny.

Then I traded that to a guy that had a pocket full of change for a nickel.





Then I went to a woman the vending machine a asked if she would trade the nickel for a dime. She thought what the heck, but she agreed.




Then I went to the back of the plant to a guy that I knew would love to have the dime to buy him a cup of coffee, so I traded him the dime for a quarter.




Then I went out and saw a lady with some Pop Tarts To Go, so i traded the quarter for one of her pop tarts.





Then I went to a guy that I knew loved to eat. I saw that he had a half empty bottle of Dasani drinking water, so I traded the water for the pop tart.




Then I thought I know a guy that recycles, so I will see what he would trade me. I went to him and he had a pen laying on his desk, so I told him that the bottle emptied could be his for the pen. Wouldn't you know it he jumped all over that trade.




So I ended up with a pen with like one hour left to work. I knew I had enough time for one more trade. I saw a guy working with a calculator and thought I wonder if he knows how to write out the things he is typing in. I went for the opportunity. I told him I would trade the nice looking pen for the calculator. Like a sucker I reeled him into the deal.


This is where I stand with one calculator. I know that I could have went bigger, but when you work in a place like I do you will take what you get.

I liked the task, but really didn't have the resources to go bigger, who knows I might take what I ended up with and go out and see what the world has to offer.

Thanks Todd for getting ME out of the rut of my daily routine at work.

5/24/2007: Todd Has Completed "Photo Scavenger Hunt"

This task was fun!
(Click for larger images)
I started out the day searching for things to take pictures of. On my way to work, I came across this sign and thought it was kinda funny.
Really who do these people honestly think they are calling these kids "slow"!





The next thing that I found was the yellow car/truck. The first one I saw was a yellow hummer, I thought to myself "Sweet! A perfect opportunity!" But then the light changed before I could get the camera out and I missed it.
This car was driving around some time yesterday afternoon, so I settled for it:





There is a family in my neighborhood that let their kids ride around the streets in a golf cart. I was hoping they'd be out today when I was on the way home. As I came to the cul de sac where they lived, the kids were in the front yard and I quickly drove by and snapped a shot of the golf cart. The woman standing in the front door gave me a suspicious look, but nobody followed me home so I think I'm safe!





I had to go to Wal-Mart (and I can go to Wal-Mart since I'm not banned for life), so I figured that would be a great place to get alot of this done. I hope the security cameras don't flag me as suspicious!
On the way to Wal-Mart we made a stop at Little Caesar's. I told the guy what I was doing and asked if I could take a picture of just a pizza box. He looked at me funny and said "Uuhh, surrrre!" So here's a hot-n-ready in all its glory.





So we got to Wal-Mart and headed for the electronics. I knew I could find an Xbox 360 there since we only have a PS2 at home. Lookie what I found:





Next stop was the toy aisle where I came across these gems:



And idn't he soo cute?





Then we left wal-Mart and headed home. I found a home plate from a TBall set that we bought the kids a few years ago.





And last, but not least, this lucky rabbits foot was a christmas gift for my wife (from my son I should add) a few years ago. The school let them earn money to buy christmas gifts for their parents from the school gift shop. She got a lucky rabbits foot and I got a dinosaur fossil stuck in some kind of green goop.

Those were some of the best gifts we ever got, seriously!

5/22/2007: Stephen Has Completed "Bad British Accent"

Ello mates. Stephen here with me task. Well I spoke with me bad accent to a few diamond geezers around the office today, but it wasn't to eventful friends. You can check out a sound byte I recorded here, I did:
Stephen's Bad British Accent (715 KB)

5/18/2007: Stephen Has Completed "Handicap Concert"

This one turned out to not be all that difficult. After lunch with the gang from work, Allison accompanied me to a handicap spot in front of Steinmart and she filmed the video of me singing "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" (I had a karaoke CD of it). I did it in the original key and it was hard on my voice, but that was for the good since it projected well. While you don't see many people looking at me on the video, off to the viewer's left, there were about 8 people over the course of the song that stopped to listen, including one black guy who stood there for a large part of the song listening. I actually quite enjoyed doing this one. Here's the video:
Handicap Concert (High: 11.2 MB)

5/17/2007: Todd Has Completed "Star Wars Parody Song"

This is to the tune of "Pirates who don't do anything" by Veggietales!
Here is the song if you've never heard it.

Ok, now the change up:
Jedi who don't do anything

We are the Jedi Who Don't Do Anything
We just stay in the temple and lie around
And if you ask us to do anything
We'll just tell you, we don't do anything

Well, I've never been Yavin and I've never been to Endor
And I've never used a mind trick on Sullust or on Drall
And I've never been to Kamino and I've never been to Geonosis
And I've never been to Bespin in the fall

'Cause we're... {Refrain}

And I never did my training and I never use the force
And I never light my saber 'cause I never fight at all
And I've never walked on sand dunes and I've never owned a droid
And I've never been to Bespin in the fall

'Cause we're... {Refrain}

Well, I've never whacked a bantha and I'm not too good at nuna ball
And I've never thrown my blue milk up against the wall
And I've never kissed a gundark and I've never gotten mynocks
And I've never been to Bespin in the fall

{Refrain}

And I've never licked a binder and I've never sniffed a dewback
And I've never painted daisies on the back of General Tarful
And I've never bathed in bacta and I don't look good in leggings
And we've never been to Bespin in the fall

Thank you, Thank you very much!

5/15/2007: Nathan Has Completed "Fountain of Youth"

I found that people in today's world don't believe all that they hear. I went to a park in Morganton that Stephen had mentioned, because all the fountains around here for this task could be thought of as trespassing. I went to the park and saw a lot of kids playing around in the water. I went right in with them and started walking around waiting for someone to ask me that golden question. I finally got one kid interested and he finally did it. I told him that I was 75 years old and this fountain was the so called "Fountain of Youth". he looked at me like I was crazy and ran off. Another guy you will see in the video said hey and again asked the golden question. I jumped on the train to lead him on. I told him the same and he laughed. I also told him that I was to marry my hott looking secretary in two weeks and he said "No Way". I had to add that this was a turn off for her, me being this young. He laughed and again I got a walk off look like I was crazy. In all I had fun with this task and I hope that the people of Morganton don't think I am crazy for what I did.

The video: "Fountain of Youth" (Medium: 3.4 MB)

5/14/07: Allison Has Completed "Greeting Card Pitch"

Well I had a lot of fun making the greeting cards. I did not have much fun with "pitching" the cards I made. At the office today I put together 3 very lovely holiday cards.

One for Christmas:

(click the thumbnails for big versions)

One for Valentine's Day:


And one for Father's Day, which you're all welcome to use in a few weeks:


Personally, I feel that these cards are masterful works of art. Hallmark Card Store does not agree. Brad was in town tonight and we made a special trip to the card store. I walked in and found the first clerk I saw and explained why I was there and showed her my cards. She laughed, thinking I was joking. After showing them to her manager she laughingly told me that a: they don't buy card ideas at their particular location (but that I was welcome to submit them online) and b: they thought that the copywright laws would probably prohibit them from using the cards. Oh well. I'm going to keep on trying though, I think I've got a real knack for this. I'll keep ya posted.

5/11/2007: Stephen Has Completed "Pee-Wee's Playhouse"

This actually turned out to be a somewhat difficult task. It was pretty darn embarrassing at moments, but you know what, it turned out alright in the end.
No one said "room" at home. I then stopped by work in Morganton and fixed some stuff. One person said it there, to which I let out a strained yelp, which I'm sure confused them. Before lunch, I came to work in Hickory, where Allison and our coworker Daniel were well prepared to let me have it. I'd say I had to scream (albeit restrained) about 20 times prior to lunch. I seriously don't know why no one ever asked about it. Anyways, I recorded two sound clips during that time span. The first is of Allison and I talking. Obviously, as you will be able to hear, it is staged. However, upon seeing Daniel walk in the room, I turned on the recorder and got the second clip, which is not staged. After that, we went to lunch at Jason's Deli. This was the prime moment of the task. After Daniel and Allison let our coworker Erica know what was going on, she proceeded to use the word "room" a bit more than normal. As I screamed and screamed, I exercised less and less restraint. The last one was just flat out loud. I heard it echo off the walls on the other side of the place. While I stared blankly at the table, avoiding all eye contact, my coworkers informed me that probably over half the people in the place were staring me down. I let out another one in the parking lot when I got a text message from Nathan that asked if we were "eating in the dining ROOM". The only one I refused all day was when I was sitting in a meeting with my main two bosses and looked out the door to see Daniel holding a big white sign with ROOM written on it in big black letters, though the task didn't actually say I had to do written ones... ;P
So, in the end, it wasn't THAT bad, but it was, at times, pretty intense.
Here are the two audio files:

Pee Wee Word of The Day #1 (483 KB)
Pee Wee Word of The Day #2 (592 KB)

5/10/07: Allison Has Completed "Office Olympics"

Well I had a lot of fun with this one. It was a trial getting people to help me out. Since I work in an office that's usually pretty slack, I thought everyone would jump at the chance to be a part of the office olympics. Unfortunately for me, today a lot of people were actually busy. Eventually I got John M, John K, and Chris to help me out by promising them fame and fortune. I lied about the fortune part, but maybe by appearing on Rutless.com they will achieve fame. Maybe not.

I broke it down into 3 events.

Longshot: A contest to see who could shoot a rubberband the furthest down the hall. Each contestant stands behind a tape line on the carpet and shoots as far as he/she can. Whoever shoots the furthest wins the gold.

Basketball: A contest to see who could shoot the most paperballs (out of 10) into a wastebasket. Each contestant stands behind a tape line in the carpet and shoots all 10 paperballs at the wastebasket. Whoever gets the most out of 10 into the basket wins the gold.

Chair Spin: A contest to see who could spin the longest off of one kick on the floor or desk. A stopwatch is used to measure the time from kicking until the chair comes to a complete stop.

Overall, I suck. The boys killed me at office olympics.

In the Longshot, John M shot the furthest, getting the gold. Chris got the silver, and John K got the bronze.

(click on pics to see full size)

In the basketball, John M got 8 out of 10, winning the gold again. John K, Chris and I each got 3 out of 10. Since there was a three way tie, we each shot again and John K got 3 again, Chris got 4, taking the silver, and I got 2.


In the chair spin event, Chris slaughtered everyone with an outstanding 1 minute and 14 second spin, winning him the gold. John M took his only silver with 27.3 seconds. I actually took the bronze here with 25.3 seconds. John K showed his age (old) by only spinning a measely 22.6 seconds.


Overall, John M was the big winner with 2 gold and 1 silver.


Chris came in second with 2 silver and 1 gold.


John K brought 3rd place with 2 bronze.


I didn't place since all I could win was one measely bronze.


I still had fun though. Next year I plan to train a little longer.

5/9/2007: Stephen Has Completed "Van Gohn"

Ok, I did this one during my lunch break. I basically took a picture of myself on my cell phone, sent it to the computer, and then went photoshop crazy on it, Vincent Van Gogh style, until I had created a "digital painting". Once I was done, I was ready to sell it. Until today, I have never listed an item on ebay, so I had to go through the entire seller sign up process and then I had to create the auction listing for my "digital painting". I set it up as a 5 day auction. I figure, let's wait and see if it gets any press. I have two sets of links here, ones to the actual ebay pages and ones to local copies of the ebay pages stored on the rutless website (simply for backup purposes). Hope you enjoy! And please bid! ;P

Ebay Links:
The Actual Auction
Actual Search Result Showing The Auction

Backup Links:
The Auction
Search Result Showing The Auction
Search Result Showing The Auction Among Other Auctions

5/8/2007: Todd Has Completed "Old McDonald"

This being my first task and all, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I went into work with the full intention of getting a lot of laughs and a lot of strange looks. I got the day started on a pretty good note, but as the day progressed I found little time to get away to be an animal. When I was filming the first shot outside, I had told a few of the guys in the office what I was doing and when I started filming that part, they just happened to walk up and start harassing me. If you listen closely, you can hear them in the background “bocking” along with me. There were a few people off-camera that chuckled as they went by. In the shot with “guy in cube #39” (where I was making dog noises), he seemed like he was a little scared of me from that point on. He's a great guy, but I don't think he'll ever look at me the same again.

I had to leave from work and go straight to my son’s baseball game that’s where the last two shots were filmed. I had told the kids that we were going to make animal noises and they were so funny, I couldn’t help but include them in my submission.

All-in-all this was a fun task. Even though I don’t think I did it justice (didn't get to do an animal every hour), I do get extra points for adding in some cute kids, don’t I?!

Thanks Nathan for the laughs! Oh, and if you get a strange package at your door that smells of 3 year old pork rinds, I don't know anything about it. :)

Old McDonald Video (Medium: 2.9 Mb)

5/7/2007: Nathan Has Completed "Chalk Body Outlines"

This task was awesome to see how many different places in public that you can find to draw chalk people. I went with Stephen to find all different places to do this since we were together. He used his cell phone to take the shots, since I left my camera at home. The one on the tennis court was done and right after a couple of kids just played on the court without noticing it. The one on the railroad tracks got a lot of looks by people passing by, wandering what was going on. We had one old couple slow down to take a better look. I know that the other three will be seen at some point and will be asked who or what did them. The ones that I did were in places that tons of people and animals can see them. I wanted to see the looks on all the faces, but really didn't get to stick around since it was getting a little dark. I hope that the rest of the tasks will be this fun to do.
You can view the pictures here:

6/10/2006: Stephen And Seth Have Completed "Wal-Mart Games"

We went today about 3:00pm, right before Seth's work shift started at Wal-Mart. I was at a decided disavantage, as he already knows where most everything is in the store. We both chose twenty items and he finished putting mine back when I had about 9 items of his left. The items that I had to put up included aquarium solution, a grill, children's underware, a saturn shaped pillow, and so forth. Seth's items included a scooter, a folding chair, a desk clock, and a bunch more small items. Here are two photos of us holding the buggies of items that we had to replace:

Seth With The Items He Had To Put Up
Stephen With The Items He Had To Put Up

6/6/2006: Brad and Allison Have Completed "Racecar"

Brad came out to visit last night from Durham, and together we worked for about an hour coming up with 30 palindromes. Now, our words are mostly 3 letter words. This is just the way it is. We promise we didn't use the internet. We did, however, watch Golden Girls and pay attention to every word that was said to try and come up with these. Let me just tell you, those Golden Girls need to use more palindromes. Ah well.

Here's our glorious list: (and can I just add that there are an uncanny amount of naughty words that are palindromes?):
1. racecar
2. dad
3. mom
4. did
5. dud
6. bib
7. bob
8. tat
9. gag
10. tit
11. pup
12. mum
13. eve
14. tot
15. pop
16. noon
17. poop
18. toot
19. boob
20. ewe
21. peep
22. tut
23. wow
24. gig
25. madam
26. nun
27. deed
28. sees
29. level
30. eye

We had a few more, but upon closer inspection (i.e. looking in the dictionary), we realized they weren't really words!
So there ya go!

6/3/2006: Seth Has Completed "Use Heroin For Your First Time"

This goes to the tune of the Ducktales Theme Song

Life is a pain here in Morganton.
High fives, mustard, test drive
It's a rut blur
Might be buying Wendy’s
Or even hiding Cd’s
Rutless! Woo Hoo!
Everyday they're out there being
Rutless! Woo Hoo!
Tasks of daring, new, bad and good…
R-r-r Rut lurks behind you
There's the next task out to get you
What to do just get out and be
Rutless! Woo Hoo!
Everyday they're out there being
Rutless! Woo Hoo!
Tasks of daring, new, bad and good
Rutless! Woo Hoo!
Not pony tales, or cotton tales no
Rutless! Woo Hoo!

6/2/2006: Tyson Has Completed "Options"

Well, this task pretty much ended up sucking. I picked task #3. Which was to shake a can of Sundrop or Moutain Dew up for 20 minutes and open it in the passengers seat of my car. Stephen and I both thought that maybe 20 minutes was a bit too much. As in, maybe it would kill all the pressure in that extended period of time. It did just that. It was a big disappointment as far as the explosion went. We probably should have done it for about 3-5 minutes. Anyway, here is the video if you wanna check it out:
Shaken Can Option (Medium: 3.1 MB)

6/1/2006: Stephen Has Completed "Fake Black Eye"

Well, I got up this morning and read the task and went and fixed up the eye with some kind of eye shadow pen that mom had. It looked pretty darn good, but I noticed it wore away very easy. When I got to work, I noticed several strange looks from familiar people, but no one asked me about it. I even went to lunch with my brother, dad, and cousin and none of them mentioned it. It wasn't until after lunch that one person asked me, "What happened to your eye right there?" I used the elbowed playing basketball story as I mentioned in the acceptance. That was it. Some odd looks and one question. I repainted it when I got home for a quick photo session and I've posted the best photo below. Click on it to view the full size:

Stephen's Shiner

5/31/2006: Brandon Has Completed "Musically Declined"

Stephen came over and helped me out with this one. It was pretty late and I was about to just go to bed, but then he found just the right song to play along with, so it turned out ok. Here's the video, in two quality formats:
The Blew Danube Waltz (High: 14.6 MB)
The Blew Danube Waltz (Low: 4.4 MB)