... better duck the wild pi-i-itch

"N****s don't listen.... representin' is ill, man."   Nas

http://www.briggsdiamondsintherough.com/

   Notice Katelyn from Sagamore in the lower left hand corner of the website here . If she wins this contest, I guess Briggs and Stratton does her baseball field over for her. You can look up the rules if you want to, but I saw the pics of last month's winners (some rural pony league team) with one of those Happy Gilmore-sized checks for like 20,000 friggin' dollars. That's a nice fat plunk in a small town economy.

   In fact, if you live in a small enough town and owned the only landscaping business in the county... it would be in your best interests to rig this contest. The smaller the town, the more dear the prize.

   Probably not a lot of 8 year olds read Briggs and Stratton.com... making me think this was Daddy's idea. I wonder if her father is some kind of contractor? I can see a landscaper in Farmington, Minnesota maybe viewing this as an investment. I'd hate to see a Home Slice lose to unscrupulous stuff like that. Therefore, I think we should launch a pre-emptive cyber strike.

   Sure, some hick kid in Old Monroe, Missouri probably needs to win this contest more than a girl who just may be at her summer home. Ayup, that field in Wisconsin looks like it has a small lake in the middle of the infield. If vultures don't roost near that field in Houston, they probably should. This is one of those rare cases of Better Us Than Them.

   I personally have an email containing pasted text between a grandmother and someone who discusses the rigging of this contest with her while she's saying things like "the little girl wrote such a nice entry."  I'm referenced in name... "no finer fixer exists."

   Cute contests with kids are probably the wrong forum for the open election fixing I plan on introducing to this mix, but you can't turn down someone's grandma. The kids have more time left than Granny does.

   Anywho... let's make like Ted Kennedy and exert great influence towards making our back yards nicer. Let's make one of ours be the girl with the most cake. Vote early and often.