Hey guys and gals,

I just noticed that our former layout had some weird bugs to it so i’ve changed it to this one for now.

On a completely unrelated topic, it was a friend’s bday the other week so Samm and I made him a little video. It’s a compilation of quite a few inside jokes so it looks completely random to anyone who’s not in “the know”. Enjoy!

-Jay

So this is a new thing we’ve started. It’s basically some commentary on our bets. Enjoy!

About 2 months ago I went to Minneapolis with a few friends. We went to Boston Market for lunch and we were hungry. My friend told the manager this and he hooked us up with a great recommendation. My friend liked the manager so much that he gave him a nickname, “Clancey”, since we didn’t know his real name. As we ate we would make up stories about Clancey and if he’d be willing to manage a store in Winnipeg if we opened one up. After we finished up we found out his name was Maurice.

This story was the inspiration for this 10DB. I figured since we didn’t actually call Maurice by our nickname, Clancey, that I’d get Samm to cal the waitress “Clancey” while asking her a question.

Also on our trip to Madison we started doing our “2 Cent Commentary” podcasts. I’ll be posting those in the next few days as well as Samm’s bet for me.

-Jay

It’s my turn to update, but I’m feeling lazy. I wrote the final exam for my night class last night and so I think I’m entitled to a day to veg. Till next week!

-Jay

After the weak bets from both of us, I wanted to think of something original for the next bet. A couple days after the cake bet, Samm, myself, and a couple of our friends, Joe and Joe, booked a trip to Disney World in sunny Orlando, Florida. We dubbed the name of the trip as “The Floridays” and over the next few weeks you’ll be seeing bets from the trip as we tried to do one each day.

Anyway, back to this bet. There wasn’t really a time and place over the next couple months where I felt a 10DB would be appropriate until the day we left for Florida. As we waited in the Winnipeg Airport to board our plane, a song popped into my head. “I’m leaving on a jet plane, I don’t know when I’ll be back again”. I told Samm that I’m going to bet him to sing the verse and chorus of that song in the middle of the hall filled with vacationers, business people, and probably International Businessmen! HOWEVER, he made a LAME excuse about not knowing the words to the song… c’mon… I think he was just a bit stage-fright. So whatever, I told him that I would get him back later. As we arrived in Florida, we settled into our hotel and decided to go get some food. We passed a TGIFriday’s on the way to the resort and decided that it would be a good place to eat. After giving the waitress our orders, we were just chatting then out of nowhere another song popped into my head and then the idea of the next bet was born!

Sorry for being tardy on the bet this week.  I was actually going to post these bets last week but I had to re-think it a bit.  Samm and I weren’t sure if we wanted to post these weak-sauce bets.  I’ll explain the reasoning behind it.  One of our 10DB rules states that we can’t make bets that may cause or potentally cause the betee to get arrested.  Now this may seem pretty extreme but you never know how people are going to react nowadays.  So after a couple of these types of bets we figured that it’s probably a good idea to not make bets involving touching people, especially strangers.  Besides, the bets usually don’t end up how we envision it anyway, just like these ones…

j

Alright, I know… I’ve been a slacker.  I’m taking a class on Monday nights and by the time I get home I’m pretty wiped.  I usually just veg and forget about putting up a retro 10DB.  I would update when I get home from work today but I’ll be going out to watch the Jabbawockeez live!  I’ll try to upload something afterwards.

later!

j

Samm and I have talked about dressing up as Kevin Rose & Alex Albrecht, the hosts of the podcast diggnation, for about a week now. We wanted to do something that would catch the attention of the people that scan through the hundreds and maybe thousands of emails they get weekly. It had to be unique. I’m not sure if it’s a requirement but they seem to show pictures of fans wearing a Diggnation shirt. Since we didn’t have access to fighter jets or anything with a wow factor to take a picture with, we thought being them with an added Canadian twist (note the Cdn coloured shirts and Cdn beer, eh?) might do the trick. As we were coming up with ideas I kept one to myself… well not really… but he thought I was only kidding… hahah…..

If you know me, you probably know that I am a collector of Air Miles.  It’s a rewards program where you collect points and after so many points you can redeem them for a flight, an electronic gadget, gift cards, etc. A few days prior to the 10DB I went to my local Safeway to pick up an Air Miles deal. It was a Mix’n Match “Buy 5 General Mills products and receive 50 Air Miles” promo. So I picked up some granola bars, fruit snacks, and a couple of boxes of cereal. On the cereal box, General Mills was also having a promotion. They were giving away free movie admissions inside the box. But of course I forgot to read the fine print before making the bet. The rest is history. Enjoy!

It’s Tuesday, and you know what that means! 10DB Tuesday! In case you forgot we’ll be re-releasing our classic 10DBs each week, or at least we’ll try to release one each week.

So here’s this weeks installment 10DB.

It was a brisk Saturday morning and a great day to go Dragon boating. My work puts in a Dragon Boat team each year for the Annual Manitoba Dragon Boat Festival. It was my first time paddling and our first day of competition. Samm, as well as a few other friends, came to cheer me on that day. Little did he know what was in store for him just a couple hours later. My team raced and did alright, but racing wasn’t the highlight of the day for me. The races ended fairly early and it was just before noon so we decided to get something to eat. Having the competition at The Forks Market was great because it was close to many restaurants. We decided to go to The Original Pancake House. We ate, laughed and enjoyed each others company, good times were had by all. Oh, did I forget to mention the part about the 10DB? Well, you can watch what happened directly below. Again, sorry for the giddy laughter… I couldn’t contain myself.