Is Hooters Coming to a Golf Course Near You?

I suppose that if you believe men go to Hooters for the Buffalo wings, you might believe this. There’s a new caddy service ( www.CaddyChicks.com) that hires only young, attractive, scantily clad women to be golf caddies. Their mission statement claims that its main goals are to:

1. Give women that could not normally afford the high cost of entry or are too intimidated a glimpse of the game by being a caddy.

2. Provide training programs online and around the country at select golf facilities.

3. Bring back the dying profession of the caddy.

4. To provide a scholarship fund for our caddies wanting to become professional golf caddies.

Yeah, right. Give me a break. I can’t even concentrate on my putt when someone’s shadow is in my putting line. Having Charlie’s Angels watching is the last thing I need. Someone please send these girls back to Hooters or to the Dallas Cowgirls, but please, keep them off the golf course.

The Tiny Margin of Difference between Winning and Losing

Turn on your speakers and check out this video: http://www.walkthetalk.com/the212movie.php?refsource=vmlydia212

President Bush’s Tax return

Want to see the IRS From 1040 for George Bush, Dick Cheney, John Kerry, or Bill Clinton? Go to http://www.taxhistory.org/ and click on “Presidential Tax Returns”

I’m Not So Strange After All

I’d like to introduce you to my new friend Sarah Ferman, who is the administrative director of a behavioral medical group in Encino, California. As those of you who have been reading my newsletter for the past few years know, the way I was able to write three books in one year while on the speaking circuit every other week was to get up at 4:00 AM and start writing every morning. Turns out that there was something to this 4:00 am business after all. Sarah informed me that there are some biological reasons (don’t ask me to explain them though – way over my head) that the human brain works best at that exact hour of the day. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Now if we could just find some research to support my theory that my brain works best on a half dozen hot Krispy Kreme doughnuts.

How to Get $1000 an Hour Advice for $3.95

This is Internet celebrity Armand Morin, who spoke at the seminar Saturday. He’s one of the few people who makes over $10,000,000 a year on the Internet (yes, that’s ten million). In his presentation, he reminded everyone that even though he is a pioneer and legend in Internet marketing, he’s still a human and asked if people would like to know how to get his advice for $3.95 an hour. His answer, “Buy me a beer”. As I was leaving, I captured this causal shot of the only person out of 300 who understood the meaning of carpe diem. True to his word, Armand stayed and answered questions until 1:00 in the morning.

TV Bloopers with Glenn

While at Matt’s Internet seminar in Atlanta, Helene and Dave from New York City asked to interview me for a documentary they’re shooting on making the world a better place. The lobby outside was too noisy and the lighting was poor, so we went looking for a better location. Miraculously, within seconds, we found an empty, quiet room unlocked (this does not happen). The lighting wasn’t quite right, so I suggested that we see if Matt’s AV people in the big auditorium might have some poster board we could use to kick (reflect) some light from below. As soon as I said that, my dear friend Judtih (www.judithandjim.com), who was also going to be in the documentary with her husband Jim, reached behind the only piece of furniture in the room and pulled out two pieces of poster board (we were waiting for the theme to the Twilight Zone to start playing at this point). The next problem was that I was too tall, so I got on my knees while Jim and Judith, who’ve had extensive television experience, adjusted the poster boards. They still couldn’t get light on my eyes, so Jim said look up. Everything was now perfect, except for the fact that I could only look straight up and not at the producer. All of us were laughing so hard at this point that our noses were running, so I asked Dave capture this Kodak moment for my blog. What Helene didn’t tell any of us (smart producer) was that the video camera was running and captured all of it, so she got some outstanding blooper footage.

Please Put Away the Jack Daniels During the Interview

John in New York sends this story:

“I once had a gentlemen come in for an interview and told me he was nervous. I assured him that it was ok, it wasn’t going to hurt. He then pulled out a flask of what I assume was liquor of some kind and took a rather large nip, telling me that sometimes he just needs a little help to calm down. Needless to say, it was the shortest interview I’ve ever done.”

Interviewing Horror Stories

Here’s Another from one of our readers. “I interviewed a candidate for a receptionist position in my Human Resources Office. During the interview she had a large lifesaver mint in her mouth that we could see her moving around. When we asked her to tell us about a time she received poor customer service and what made it poor, she told us she ‘hated when someone was eating while they were speaking to you’ either over the phone or in person. She didn’t get the job. “

How to Get the Lowest Price on Everything You Buy

Got kids or grandkids asking for the newest, trendiest whatchmacallit, but don’t have a clue where to go to buy it or how much it should cost? Well, my rule of thumb is that if Wal-Mart doesn’t carry it, then you don’t need it. (As my redneck girlfriend Gretchen Wilson says, why pay an arm and a leg at Victoria’s Secret when you can buy the same thing at Wal-Mart for half price?) But just in case you’d like to price shop and compare (anything), here are three websites that will allow you to do that:
www.PriceGrabber.com
www.PriceScan.com
www.Froogle.com

Drop me a line through www.GlennShepard.com and let me know how this works for you.

Hey Chicken Little, The Sky Is Not Falling After All

The 2006 hurricane season ended quietly day before yesterday, except for leaving egg on the face of several weather forecasters who had predicted that 2005 was the beginning of a 10 year period of major storm events. Turns out that ‘06 was the first year there has been no category 4 or 5 hurricanes since 1997. And the moral of the story is (drum roll please)… Be careful who you listen to, especially those predicting doom and gloom. Junk science sells newspapers and it even put Dow Corning into bankruptcy with apparently inaccurate claims about the danger of silicone breast implants, but doesn’t do much else.