Sunday, August 1

BAGSAC

A former coworker of mine recently completed RAGBRAI XXXII, which reminded me of some old t-shirts my dad used to wear that said SAGBRAW on them. I had no clue what it meant (I was 8 years old), but I do remember assuming that it must be a dirty word, since it containted the word "bra." Not wanting to get my mouth washed out with soap, I never bothered to ask my dad what a SAGBRAW really was.

As I strapped on my trusty Rollerblades this morning to pick up a copy of the Sunday Chronicle, I decided that California should have an equivelant event to RAGBRAI and SAGBRAW. Since I don't currently own a bike, I conjured up the Bee's Annual Great Skate Across California, or BAGSAC. "Bee" is the name of the Sacramento (and Modesto) newspaper, equivelant to the Des Moines "Register" or the now defunct Milwuakee "Sentinel." It seemed like a funny acronym to me, so I figured this would be about as good of a place as any to share it with the world.

Buying the Sunday paper every week for $1.50 doesn't seem very cost effective, but I soon learned that it would cost us at least that much for Sunday only home delivery. A few |337 searches later, we were all signed up for the Fri/Sat/Sun Chronicle for a paltry 38 cents/week. Hopefully this Discounted Newspapers thing is for real and we actually get what we paid for...

Now Playing: Medeski, Martin & Wood - Friday Afternoon in the Universe

posted by Brad at 8/01/2004 03:28:00 PM | permalink | 1 comments

1 Comments:

• #1) I get the Star/Tribune discounted all the time. When my discounted rate is going to run out, I cancel. Usually within a week or two they are calling to offer me a discount again.
  
  #2) My dad used to wear a T-Shirt that said, "I snatch kisses and vice-versa". When I asked my dad what vice-versa meant, he told me I was too young to know. When I learned the meaning of the word in elementary school, I proudly announced to my dad that I now knew that his shirt meant "I snatch kisses and kisses snatch me." It wasn't until I was in my late 20's (aka a couple years ago) that the true meaning of the shirt hit me. I can't believe my dad wore that in public!!!!!

  By  Unknown, at 8/02/2004 9:45 AM