Fox News, Fair and Misspelled - FAIL

We would like to thank the reader who passed along the OOOOOPS moment that you see in the picture on the left. Fox 5 News in Atlanta, Georgia aired the graphic to the left on the evening news today. It is not every day that a major news network in the state of Georgia has to spell Georgia correctly! Today, Fox 5 failed!

Of course, we at The Wannabe Guru were intrigued by how someone at a news network could misspell the word Georgia, one of the original 13 colonies. It made us ask a few questions. Where exactly is Georiga? Perhaps I should plug it into Mapquest and find out.


I plug Georiga into mapquest...and boom.... Greggs, GA....no I don't want Greggs, GA, I want Georiga, Georgia (as I guess it is in Georgia since the Atlanta Fox affiliate is broadcasting it)

Let's Google Georiga and see if I get any further:

Well....I guess they are taking graduates from the state of Georgia on a bus trip across Georiga! Sweet....I wonder if we get to ride in one of those big yellow cheese busses!


The lettrist was complaining about $1 billion dollars in aid for a road from Russia to Turkey, but he had to pick on the fact that the Engineers and Georiga Tech spell just as well as the Engineers at Georgia Tech.

Of course, with the record flood that Fox 5 reported in Georiga, it is nice to know that you can make a donation to the United Way of Northwest Georiga (or at least find them on their Facebook fanpage) Question....who do you send donations to for the flood victims in Northwest Georgia?
Perhaps the person at Fox 5 who typed in the graphic for the news went to school at the Georiga Christian Academy?

All I know is I hope that I didn't miss the North Georiga State fair this year, since it looks like it was a really good time last year!

Important French Fry Questions answered!

Below are a series of very important questions about the great All-American food the French (Freedom) Fry.



If you love french fries and vodka, is it wrong to worship a giant Mr. Potato Head?
According to the 10 Commandments: "You shall not make for yourself an idol" So, I wouldn't, but if you want to worship a plastic spud with interchangeable body parts, then more power to you, dude. I guess your name (diablo) says it all.



How do I make a soda can or french fry costume? When I first saw this, I was wondering why you were putting your fries in a costume, but reading on, you want to know how to make a costume made of french fries! Get a cheap yellow sweat suit, a glue gun, and about 16 lbs of french fries (what the average American consumes in a year in fries) and start gluing them on the suit. It could take a while, but I would work quickly before the costume spoils.



Would you still buy french fries if they started calling them fat fries? Yes as long as I can get my supersized-double-extra-large Diet Coke ready to wash 'em down!



Can my pregnant dog eat french fries? What a bitch of a question. Hmmmm. Let me think. (I hate answering a question with a question) Can your pregnant dog chew and swallow? If the answer is yes, then your dog, technically can eat french fries! What a relief that we got that one answered. Oh, wait you asked if it is ok for a pregnant dog to eat french fries. Probably, but I wouldn't advise making it a habit. They say that pregnant dogs may like pickles and ice cream though. What ever you do, please keep your dog away from the girl above's french fry costume.

Did Jefferson actually invent French Fries?

Did Thomas Jefferson actually invent French Fries...and a better question...will McDonald's mess them up? The news yesterday was that McDonald's was going to try to switch the type of potatoes that it uses to make their world famous french fries. So what are some important facts about french fries? McDonald's actually sells about 7% of all of the fries that are eaten in the United States.

So where did they come from, these french fries(Freedom Fries for you right-wingers)??? Who is to blame for the tasty, fat drenched treat that we dip in tomato ketchup that is making Americans fatter and fatter every day.

It turns out that Thomas Jefferson first served them in the White House during his Presidency of 1801-1809. Thank you Mr. President for starting the fat epidemic.

In England they are referred to as chips, and one early references to "Chips" is in Charles Dicken's 'Tale of Two Cities' (1859): "husky chips of potatoes, fried with some reluctant drops of oil."

These chips are referred to as ‘French fried potatoes’ was in 1894 in O. Henry’s ‘Rolling Stones’, “Our countries are great friends. We have given you Lafayette and French fried potatoes.”

Fat (and I guess skinny) Americans eat more than 16 pounds of french fries every year. This comes to over 2 million tons of starch fried in oil! People, try 16 lbs of apples, they are better for you.

and most importantly... Cookie Jarvis holds the record for most french fries eaten in 6 minutes at a whopping 4.46 lbs. Now that is a lot of fatty, carb. loaded goodness!