#BoycottBudweiser and #TrumpBookReport

I had some fun with the trending hashtags #BoycottBudweiser and #TrumpBookReport on Twitter over the past few days. Here are my posts, ordered from the most popular to the least popular (all my tweets can be seen here - https://twitter.com/CraigRozniecki):

1) Trumpsters: "Liberals are such bigly snowflakes! By the way, let's #BoycottBudweiser, Starbucks, 'Hamilton,' Pepsi, Oreos, Netflix & facts!"
1,484 Likes, 613 Retweets

2) How'd your families get here?
Trumpsters: "Immigration"
Hear about Budweiser's immigrant-themed ad?
Trumpsters: "Yeah, #BoycottBudweiser!"
384 Likes, 145 Retweets

3) "Jesus rose in 3 days. I would have rose in 2, tops, believe me!"
#TrumpBookReport
184 Likes, 50 Retweets

4) "I don't want to brag, but my wife wrote this book: 'Michelle Obama: Speeches on Life, Love, and American Values'."
#TrumpBookReport
126 Likes, 21 Retweets

5) "This book has too many words! Stupid picture books!"
#TrumpBookReport
98 Likes, 33 Retweets

6) "I know books; I have the best books. Have I read any of them? No, but still..."
#TrumpBookReport
77 Likes, 22 Retweets

7) "Guns don't kill mockingbirds; people kill mockingbirds! Period!"
#TrumpBookReport
78 Likes, 20 Retweets

8) "What a stupid title! 'Dreams From My Father'? If it were me, I'd title it, 'Millions From My Father'!"
#TrumpBookReport
78 Likes, 15 Retweets

9) "I don't read books. They're stupid and against my religion - Ignoranceism."
#TrumpBookReport
45 Likes, 13 Retweets

10) "I used to like ham omelettes, like bigly, but then I read parts of 'Hamlet,' and it ruined them for me. Never again."
#TrumpBookReport
46 Likes, 11 Retweets

11) "There were some very bad and illegal words. We need to extreme spell-check these words & make books great again!"
#TrumpBookReport
38 Likes, 10 Retweets

12) "I got as far as the Table of Contents and fell asleep. Stupid, boring book, big league!"
#TrumpBookReport
32 Likes, 8 Retweets

12) "Throughout this report, I'm going to refer to the book as 'The Pussy In the Hat'."
#TrumpBookReport
35 Likes, 5 Retweets

14) "Just watch the movie! It's far more better than the book, which lacks the details of the movie! Fact!"
#TrumpBookReport
33 Likes, 5 Retweets

15) "This 'War & Peace' is so yuge, it's biglier than my hands, if you can believe that!"
#TrumpBookReport
30 Likes, 4 Retweets

15) "The dictionary may have a lot of words, but I have the best words, no question."
#TrumpBookReport
32 Likes, 2 Retweets

17) "This Cliff always writes the best notes, like, seriously!"
#TrumpBookReport
24 Likes, 7 Retweets

18) "'To be or not to be?' I say both: To be an a*shole and not to be well edumacated."
#TrumpBookReport
22 Likes, 8 Retweets

19) "This counts as a book, right? If so, it's the longest book I ever read. What's it called again, a high-coo?"
#TrumpBookReport
17 Likes, 3 Retweets

20) "So, about Dr. Seuss & books... I do not like them here or there, or anywhere. I do not like wordy books &, like, yeah."
#TrumpBookReport
15 Likes, 4 Retweets

21) "I couldn't get through it, for I built a yuge wall between my ears and am gonna make the world pay!"
#TrumpBookReport
15 Likes, 3 Retweets

21) "I walked on water once. Not too tough actually. That's what bathtubs were made for."
#TrumpBookReport
16 Likes, 2 Retweets

21) "Romeo & Juliet. Love. Dead. The end."
#TrumpBookReport
16 Likes, 2 Retweets

24) "This reminds me of a book I'm thinking about writing, called, 'Fifty Shades of Pussy-Grabbing'."
#TrumpBookReport
14 Likes, 3 Retweets

25) "So, 'Lord of the Flies'? Jeff Goldblum, right?"
#TrumpBookReport
12 Likes, 1 Retweet

Totals: 2,951 Likes, 1,009 Retweets (Averages of 118.0 Likes, 40.4 Retweets)

Boycotting jukeboxes because of TouchTunes

I love music and enjoy hitting the bar(s) over the weekend, so naturally, when the mood strikes me, I've never been coy about playing some songs on the jukebox. This past Thursday, a friend of mine turned 50, so several friends of her's, including myself, all met up to celebrate the occasion. At around 9:30, a friend of mine and I both chipped in $5 to play some songs on the jukebox. Four hours and 231 skips later, we gave up on hearing the songs we had selected, and went home knowing we had just wasted $5. This wasn't the first time such a thing had happened to me (and many others), and due to that, I'll be boycotting jukeboxes. Why? The scam known as TouchTunes. You see, here's how the plot typically breaks down. A person (or group of people) downloads the TouchTunes app on his/her phone, consumes one too many adult beverages, and due to this, has less care for spending extra money to hear the songs of their choosing right NOW. That's the thing with TouchTun...

Face guarding is legal in college football and the NFL

I just wanted to remind fans and announcers especially, that face guarding is legal in both college football and the NFL. It all comes down to contact. So long as a defender doesn't make contact with an intended receiver, he doesn't have to turn around to play the ball. I can't tell you how many times every week I hear announcers talk about face guarding being a penalty. It's not. I even heard one announcer yesterday state, "If the defender doesn't turn around and play the ball, the ref will call pass interference every time." That's simply not true. Courtesy of referee Bill LeMonnier, he says this with regard to the rule at the college level (answered on 8/12/13): "NCAA rules on pass interference require the face guarding to have contact to be a foul. No contact, no foul by NCAA rules." In the NFL rule book, this is written: "Actions that constitute defensive pass interference include but are not limited to: (a) Contact by a ...

A closer look at the Scramble With Friends power-ups

I am unashamed to admit that I'm a nerd. My idea of a good time is playing a word game like Boggle or Scrabble. Thankfully, I (and many others) can play such games via Facebook and/or my (our) cell phone(s). While it seems that cheating has become more commonplace in these games (Words With Friends in particular) than San Diego has had nice weather, I've yet to give in to that craze. One element present with the game Scramble With Friends (Boggle) not present in Words With Friends (Scrabble) are legal boosts called "power-ups," which cost a number of tokens from the 15 available. I've now tried all five power-ups, including the latest one which costs money. So, in case anyone's curious about playing the game or giving these power-ups a gander, here's a rundown of them all: Freeze - I think this is probably my favorite of all the power-ups. With the freeze, time stands still for a matter of seconds, which allows you more time to find words and improve...

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