OK, I really don’t want you to have a Wyattastic day. Or maybe I do. I guess it depends on what the definition of “is” is. Wyattastic, for those of you not in the know, is a newly coined word. Here is the Urban Dictionary definition of Wyattastic:

1. When an episode of 24 turns out to have no action, just a bunch of filler. This usually occurs early in the season when useless subplots are being hashed out, as if anyone cares.

2. Based on the fact that when a certain contributor at a site called blogs4bauer participates in a liveblog of an episode of 24, the episode usually sucks…bad.
“Wow, tonight’s episode was Wyattastic!”

“Dana Walsh is a moron and this episode is so Wyattastic”
“Looks like we have another Wyattastic episode, unless Jack Bauer pulls another knife out of his belly”

The inspiration for this linguistic gem is blogs.4bauer.com contributor and Support Your Local Gunfighter blogger Wyatt Earp. He has a long and well documented history of liveblogging only the most sucktastic episodes of 24. However, sucktastic only takes you so far. Wyattastic episodes are several factors worse.

Of course the meaning of a word depends heavily on the context. In one instance you may be talking about how unbelievably bad something is: The President and Democrats are trying to shove the wyattastic health care bill down our throats. In another instance you may be using the milder definition that merely indicates something boring and uneventful: Things were so busy at work this week. I hope my weekend is wyattastic.

Your assignments for today:

1. Use Wyattastic in a sentence (in the comments).
2. If you’re a blogger, use Wyattastic in a blog post.

Time for me to wrap up this wyattastic post and get ready for a wyattastic day at work.

I guess I’m just a big kid, but I am so excited about Legoland coming to Florida.

A front-loading tractor was positioned Thursday morning outside the Magnolia Mansion at Cypress Gardens. It wasn’t there to move any dirt.

Instead, a driver tilted down the scoop and dumped 100,000 Lego bricks onto a stage. That was a mere down payment, with 39.9 million more to follow when Legoland Florida opens by the end of next year.

Cypress Gardens is nearly in my front yard, less than a 15 minute drive. If pushed, I could practically walk there. It was a destination for travelers long before the mouse moved in.

The possibility of 1000 local jobs is great news for the area, but I am excited about being so close to 40 million Legos.

[Merlin Entertainments Group CEO Nick] Varney said Legoland Florida will be larger than any of the company’s four existing Legoland parks – one in California and three in Europe. He said the park will eventually become Legoland Florida Resort and will contain at least one hotel.

Legoland Florida will follow the same model with a central “Miniland” exhibiting elaborate Lego models depicting scenes from the area. He said the company’s designers are already at work designing Lego constructions for the Winter Haven attraction.

The Legoland parks are geared toward children 2 to 12 years old – and, of course, their parents. Varney, calling Lego one of the world’s best-known brands, said the parks are unique among tourist attractions in presenting children the opportunity for “playful learning,” as opposed to passive entertainment at other theme parks.

The projected opening is October, 2011. I’ll be there.

Photo Credit: SCOTT WHEELER | The Ledger

Even without Tiger, it’s time for the PGA golf season to get under way. That means it’s time for Yahoo! Fantasy Golf to get under way. That means it’s time for you to join the BlogGolfers group and compete against other bloggers.

If you’re interested in joining the group just sign up for a team and join BlogGolfers with the password n0bama12. Do it soon, the first tournament is this weekend.

Hey Wyatt, how soon can we sign up for The League Too Tough to Tame?

UPDATE: Duh. I forgot, it’s group #5073

Santa Claus has always been on the cutting edge and it’s no different in the age of the internet. Gone are the days of mailing letters and schlepping to the mall. Amy-Mae Elliott has posted 5 Ways to Connect With Santa on the Web at Mashable.

Today’s kids have a wealth of online options for hooking up with the Claus.

We’ve scoured the ‘Net for the five best ways to connect with Father Christmas, from the iPhone version of a letter to Santa, to some sleigh-tracking GPS tools.

If you have kids (or are just a big kid yourself), we think you’ll enjoy sharing these holiday web treats.

My favorite is the NORAD Santa tracker, although the email from Santa was a big hit.

Have a great Christmas Eve.

It’s time for the

Nominations are going on now. Here’s the schedule:

Nominations Nov. 3, 2009 – Nov. 20, 2009
Finalists Announced December 28, 2009
Voting January 4, 2010 – January 11, 2009

bRight & Early is in the Best Large Blog category. I don’t know how. Go by and up my nomination by clicking on the plus sign in the comments below my nomination. It’s near the bottom of the comment section.

One more week for nominations. Get to it people!

I was surfing around the upper regions of the cable box (all these cable channels and all they show on Saturday morning is infomercials) waiting for College Game Day to come on and found a rerun of one of my old favorite shows — JAG.

I’d almost forgot why it was one of my favorite shows. Catherine Bell is smokin’!

It may be a long holiday weekend, but Rule 5 still applies. More reasons to salute below.

Social networking phenomenon “Twitter” is announcing that limits are going to be imposed on the number of “Tweets” it’s users will be able to send.

“Under our new policy there will be limits imposed on the number of tweets that can be sent.” the spokesman remarked.

A company release listed the following:

• No more than one tweet every five minutes.
• No more than 140 tweets in a 24 hour period.
• A monthly limit equal to five times the number of followers a user has obtained.

Additional policy changes include increasing the character count to 142 per update and the ability to purchase “Tweet Bills” that will allow users to post outside the new limits.

“Tweet Bills can be purchased for $4.01 for 100 tweets and can be used to override any of the new limits. The purchased tweets will roll over and never expire.”

While many Twitter users are upset with the new model, a few have had good things to say. One anonymous tweeter commented, “Maybe some of the people I follow will finally understand that I don’t want to hear what they’re having for breakfast.”

Opponents to the new policy contend that the limits fly in the face of the true purpose of Twitter. “I #hope the #company #leadership takes another look @ this #policy.” said one tweet. Another opined, “We need to #stopthemadness now. I won’t be able to afford enough #tweetbucks. Please RT.”

Of course most tweeters will just wish each other a “Happy April Fools Day.”

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Michelle Malkin points to a NRO article by Fred Schwarz

[T]hink of all the hours that must have gone into devising “Overseas Contingency Operation”! Since it’s the duty of every citizen to help our president in this time of crisis, The Tank presents the Obama-Matic (TM) Content-Free Euphemism Generator (patent pending), to simplify the critically important job of governmental obfuscation.

Well, I took the idea and automated the process.

bRight & Early is proud to present the Obamemism Generator.

Other words and phrases can be added. Please submit your suggestions in the comments.

For any of you who think that I have no style I am about to prove you wrong.

Me and Jackie

A friend posted this on his Facebook page. It is me and a very good friend Jackie going to either the prom or the Senior Dinner Dance. For those of you who weren’t even born when this picture was taken (1974), crushed blue velvet tuxes were very cool at the time. I just wish I could remember being that thin.

Jackie, it would be great to hear from you.

The rest of you may make snide comments now.

Perhaps you look like I do.

The Strange Damp Water Creature

I was amazed that The Hero Factory captured my physique so accurately.

h/t The Fancy Capped Shooter (aka Wyatt)

Forget going to the bathroom, eating, or sleeping. Be prepared to torture your neighbors, family, and co-workers. Your car better be gassed up and your cell phone fully charged, because today is Talk Like Jack Bauer Day.

Look, we don’t have much time. Here’s what you do:

At Home
When getting the kids up for school try yelling (even more than usual) and saying things like, “You WILL eat this eggo and drink your milk. I don’t care that you’re lactose intolerant.” Or, “You call this a science project? Where are the explosions, the destruction?” If there are more than two kids accuse one of them of being the mole.

Going to Work
Don’t talk, yell into your cell phone. Phrases like, “I need that information NOW!” and “Don’t worry about what I’m doing” are appropriate. If you car-pool just shout out, “get down!” at random. Getting to work should not take more than three minutes no matter how far away you are.

At Work
This is where it gets really fun. Tie a co-worker to a chair, the really annoying one with the squeak and the one flat wheel. Get a fresh piece of copy paper and inflict a paper cut. Tell them, “You’re probably thinking it’s just one paper cut. You’ve had them before and survived. But what if I give you a second one, and a third. What are you going to do then? I can do this for as long as it takes.”

When talking to the boss be polite, correct, and deferential, but do it with a sneer and tone that clearly indicates that you think they are an idiot and wrong on every issue. Wait, you probably are doing that one every day.

Back at Home
While the family is eating dinner, you look out the windows and shout, “They’ll be here any minute,” or “Where’s that chopper, dammit!” Later, get on the computer and say, “I need you to open a socket,” and “I need those plans NOW!” This is particularly effective if you don’t have a mic hooked up to your system.

Later tonight, when the Mrs. comes into the bedroom wearing her most seductive night gown and is looking at you like Edgar used to look at Dunkin Donuts, tell her, “I don’t have time. . .” Ah, what the hell. It’s quarter to twelve. That’s close enough. No sense in being stupid.

There are more things dropping on New Year’s Eve than the ball at Times Square in New York.

Website TripAdvisor (www.tripadvisor.com) has come up with a list of America’s top 10 quirkiest New Year’s Eve drops on advice of its editors and travelers. This list is not endorsed by Reuters.

“While New York City’s famous ball drop in Times Square is a spectacular sight, there are other uniquely wonderful ways Americans can ring in the New Year,” said TripAdvisor spokeswoman Michele Perry. “While they range from clever to wacky, it’s clear that New Year’s Eve is about celebrating traditions and enjoying the company of a crowd.”

What I found interesting was the smorgasbord of things being dropped around the country. You can find a 20-foot, 600-pound fiberglass walleye fish in Port Clinton, Ohio, an 18-foot sausage in Elmore, Ohio, a seven-and-a-half-foot edible bologna in Lebanon, Pa, a Gumbo Pot in New Orleans, a giant replica of a steamed red crab in Easton, Md, Cheese in Plymouth, Wisconson, and a three-foot tall, glowing pickle in Mount Olive, NC. If you want desert head to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania where they drop a 25-pound fiberglass illuminated Marshmallow Peep.

I’ve heard of some others not mentioned in the story. I believe Atlanta drops a giant peach and I’m sure that somewhere here in Florida someone drops a big orange. Know of any others? Let us know in the comments.

Or perhaps we can make some suggestions:
Philadelphia — A cheese steak, soft pretzel, or Tasty Cake™
Battle Creek, Michigan — A big bowl of breakfast cereal
Dallas — An effigy of Jerry Jones
Washington, DC — A huge sack of cash

Any others?