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Today is Tuesday, November 17th, 2009. Did anybody watch last night’s Monday Night Football game (Cleveland vs. Baltimore)…?

Good, me neither. I’m going to go ahead and forget it happened, and imagine the Sunday Night Football game (Colts comeback against the Patriots) was the Monday night game. The mistake by the lake has major problems with their football team. I’m really glad I missed the game.

Anyway, that was just the obligatory small talk I like to throw out there before I get to the meat and potatoes. I like to treat my posts like the Regis and Kelly show (minus the housewife audience). I’d tell you some light stories about my weekend, but all I did was move. It wasn’t too exciting. Although, I did tweet that I think Budget Rental Truck is now better than U-Haul (based on price, at least) and a U-Haul representative on Twitter responded within a couple of hours, stating, “Next time you need help, let us show you how U-Haul is the better choice.”

Now that’s good brand monitoring right there. But unless U-Haul starts offering me the same 20% discount that Budget does, I beg to differ. At least, for my moving purposes, I just need the extra cash.

Here are the links:

• 2012 easily won the weekend box office, taking home $65 million domestically. It will be interesting to see what it does this weekend, after everybody discovered they were lured by an awesome trailer to a horrible movie. (I haven’t seen it…but I did see The Day After Tomorrow, which was the worst movie in the history of movies, let alone apocalyptic movies.)
• Speaking of This Week’s Sign That The Apocalypse Is Upon Us (shouts out to Sports Illustrated, y’all), Boyz II Men is back with a new album. (OK, maybe that was a bit  harsh. I bought Colleyhighharmony and bumped it in elementary school like everybody else. “End Of The Road” is the number one 6th grade slow jam of all time. Of all time!)
• CNN: Dictionary word of the year: ‘Unfriend’
• South Park spoofs the upcoming James Cameron biopic sci-fi epic, Avatar, with “Dancing With Smurfs.”
• “YouTube Direct” plans to make it easier for “citizen journalists” to get exposure with online and TV news outlets.
• Philadelphia Eagles tight end Brent Celek has a little bit of captain in him, $10,000 was donated to charity, Captain Morgan received great brand recognition, and the NFL still stands for the “No Fun League.”
• Oxfam and 15 Ideas of Chicago want to spread a very special message this holiday season: You should give a sh*t.
• Miracle Whip vs. Stephen Colbert. Who you got?
• Verizon vs. AT&T. This is getting good.
• Me vs. Twitter. Crickets.
• In closing, a U.S. Marine urges us to fight terrorism by fighting extreme poverty… This probably should have been the first link. Matter of fact, here is the video:

Brian Laesch compiled this list of links for Eleventh Hour.

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