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		<title>Seals Gang Up Over West Seattle Turf (and Surf)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Seazle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WEST SEATTLE, Washington, February 3, 2012 (WSFB) &#8211; To follow up on other &#8220;news media&#8217;s&#8221; scoop on this developing story, the West Seattle Funblog has learned that sea life violence is escalating on the peninsula, specifically around beach areas, and it&#8217;s not exactly in ways what one might think.
While authorities focus on hunters and miscreants [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_20898" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 276px"><a class="highslide" onclick="return vz.expand(this)" href="http://www.westseattlefunblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Seal-Shooting-Caught-on-Film.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-20898" title="Seal Shooting Caught on Film" src="http://www.westseattlefunblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Seal-Shooting-Caught-on-Film.jpg" alt="Seal Shooting Caught on Film" width="266" height="219" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Seal gon pop a cap off.</p></div>
<p>WEST SEATTLE, Washington, February 3, 2012 (WSFB) &#8211; To follow up on other &#8220;news media&#8217;s&#8221; <a href="http://westseattleblog.com/2012/02/followup-sea-lion-found-dead-in-west-seattle-was-shot-twice" target="_blank">scoop </a>on this developing story, the West Seattle Funblog has learned that sea life violence is escalating on the peninsula, specifically around beach areas, and it&#8217;s not exactly in ways what one might think.</p>
<p>While authorities focus on hunters and miscreants in their search for the perpetrator(s), our street intel has narrowed the focus of the seal deaths to <em>the seal community itself</em>.</p>
<p>The recent shooting of seals whose bodies have washed up upon our shores were retaliation for what is known in the aquatic world as &#8220;The Atka Mackerel Incident.&#8221;</p>
<p>The seal bodies have been positively identified as members of <em>The Mack Daddies Ocean Club</em>.</p>
<p>&#8220;In 2009, the <em>The Krill</em>, a West Seattle-based seal gang, violated sea law by infiltrating the Aleutian Islands to feast on the oil-rich Atka Mackerel,&#8221; said NOAA&#8217;s Kevin Johnson, Seal Gang Unit Commander. &#8220;These grounds were clearly the territory of <em>The Mack Daddies</em>, who are now paying back <em>The Krill</em> by feasting on their halibut, rockfish, and Dungeness Crab off the shores of West Seattle. This region is <em>Krill </em>territory, from the beaches all the way to the 7/11 at Admiral Junction. Thus, this has become a territorial blood war, with seals sporting guns. The dead seal has been positively identified as a member of <em>The Mack Daddies, </em><em>as noted by his blue bandanna</em>.&#8221;</p>
<p><em>Krill </em>seals can be seen briefly surfacing off the coast of West Seattle, sporting their red bandannas and Nines. And they&#8217;re making their way to shore to reinforce their turf.</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t feel safe partying on Alki anymore,&#8221; said Gertrude Butters. &#8220;I just can&#8217;t hang with <em>The Krill</em>. They smell like fish and pop caps off like its <em>Jacques Cousteau Day</em> in France. How can I have fun with all of this seal clubbing going on?&#8221;</p>
<div id="attachment_20911" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 144px"><a class="highslide" onclick="return vz.expand(this)" href="http://www.westseattlefunblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Seal-No-Comment.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-20911 " title="Seal No Comment" src="http://www.westseattlefunblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Seal-No-Comment.jpg" alt="Seal No Comment" width="134" height="160" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">&quot;No comment. But Krill, yo.&quot;</p></div>
<p>Asked for comment, pop music sensation Seal, had no comment.</p>
<p>&#8220;I have no comment,&#8221; he said, sporting what might be construed as a <em>Krill </em>bandanna.</p>
<p>&#8220;An oceanic blood war may be fun to watch,&#8221; said West Seattle Police Chief Keven Seazle, &#8220;but it&#8217;s no place for children. Please respect the ocean.  Take your kids home and don&#8217;t use plastic bags from Safeway, QFC, or 7/11.&#8221;</p>
<p><em>Security expert and Funblog Street Intel Expert <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mlescault" target="_blank">D.C.</a> contributed to the article.</em></p>
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		<title>Homeless Axed At Soup Kitchens</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Seazle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WEST SEATTLE, Washington, February 1, 2012 (WSFB) &#8211; If you pay attention to modern advertising, then you&#8217;ve probably heard that Axe Body Spray is all you need to get women to adore you.
Further, if you&#8217;ve run into a homeless person lately, you&#8217;ve probably noticed that homeless people can have a certain&#8230; fragrance.
This isn&#8217;t a slight [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a class="highslide" onclick="return vz.expand(this)" href="http://www.westseattlefunblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/HOMELESS-AXE-SPRAY-.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-20858" title="HOMELESS AXE SPRAY" src="http://www.westseattlefunblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/HOMELESS-AXE-SPRAY-.jpg" alt="HOMELESS AXE SPRAY" width="261" height="229" /></a>WEST SEATTLE, Washington, February 1, 2012 (WSFB) &#8211; If you pay attention to modern advertising, then you&#8217;ve probably heard that Axe Body Spray is all you need to get women to adore you.</p>
<p>Further, if you&#8217;ve run into a homeless person lately, you&#8217;ve probably noticed that homeless people can have a certain&#8230; fragrance.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t a slight on the homeless or whatever got them to where they currently are. It&#8217;s just a fact of life. Life on the street can be unhygienic.</p>
<p>But no longer!</p>
<p>Unilever, the British/Dutch makers of Axe Body Spray, have made a sizeable donation to help America&#8217;s homeless in the form of a thousand cases of Axe Body Spray which is being distributed at soup kitchens across the country.</p>
<p>&#8220;The first part of not being homeless is not smelling homeless,&#8221; said Kevin Johnson, an overly fragrant douche nozzle representing Unilever. &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to nail an interview when you smell like street, alcohol, and soup. I should know. I got my job with Axe by using their product to mask my own scents of alcohol and soup.  Praise be to Jesus I wasn&#8217;t homeless or I would have smelled like street too.&#8221;</p>
<p>Representatives from the Campbell Soup Company released a statement regarding this issue:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We here at CSC admire the good intention behind Unilever&#8217;s &#8216;Axe The Homeless&#8217; campaign, but disagree that soup smells bad. We&#8217;d be more inclined to hire a homeless person if he smelled like Tomato Bisque than that shit that comes out of those Axe cans.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Gingrich Taps Floridian For VP</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Seazle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MIAMI, Florida, January 31, 2012, (WSFB) &#8211; As the Mitt Romney campaign revels in its smugness over its current poll standings in Florida, underdog GOP Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich isn&#8217;t pulling any punches.
Yesterday, with less than 24 hours remaining before the increasingly important Florida Primary, Gingrich named his running mate for Vice President&#8230;
Floridian, Casey Anthony.
Typically, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a class="highslide" onclick="return vz.expand(this)" href="http://www.westseattlefunblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/GOP-NEWT-ANTHONY.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-20811" title="GOP NEWT ANTHONY" src="http://www.westseattlefunblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/GOP-NEWT-ANTHONY.jpg" alt="GOP NEWT ANTHONY" width="289" height="185" /></a>MIAMI, Florida, January 31, 2012, (WSFB) &#8211; As the Mitt Romney campaign revels in its smugness over its current poll standings in Florida, underdog GOP Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich isn&#8217;t pulling any punches.</p>
<p>Yesterday, with less than 24 hours remaining before the increasingly important Florida Primary, Gingrich named his running mate for Vice President&#8230;</p>
<p>Floridian, Casey Anthony.</p>
<p>Typically, Presidential candidates wait until they&#8217;ve secured the party&#8217;s nomination before naming a running mate. But Gingrich is proving to be more rogue than his fellow Alaskan party member, Sarah Palin.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is a brilliant move,&#8221; said Palin, (R-Frigid Tits). &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to reach out to voters with a candidate who has children and government experience, such as the legal system. Ms. Anthony has both. Or at least one. And as a candidate for Vice President, she also has experience with Vice.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Romney campaign, which has spent more than $14 million in negative Gingrich ads in Florida leading up to the primary, made no sudden moves.</p>
<p>&#8220;Wow,&#8221; said Kevin Johnson, Chief Campaign Manager for Romney. &#8220;This is&#8230; well, I&#8217;m not sure how to say it. It&#8217;s&#8230; fucking MONEY, that&#8217;s what it is! Money we don&#8217;t have to spend on more negative ads! I think I&#8217;m taking the staff to Barbados for a week after Florida.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Damn, this is too easy.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>City Giving Viaduct Homeless The Axe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
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SEATTLE, Washington, January 30, 2012 (WSFB) – The City of Seattle began removing homeless people who are currently living below the Alaskan Way Viaduct at 8:00 this morning. This move is part of preparing the area for tunnel boring and is considered a matter of “public safety”.
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<p>SEATTLE, Washington, January 30, 2012 (WSFB) – The City of Seattle began removing homeless people who are currently living below the Alaskan Way Viaduct at 8:00 this morning. This move is part of preparing the area for tunnel boring and is considered a matter of “public safety”.</p>
<p>The City claims the operation will be organized and non-violent, though there has been no mention of where the homeless might go.</p>
<p>However, in a limited effort to help by the City, each displaced homeless person will receive a spritz of Axe Body Spray before they are sent on their way.</p>
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		<title>Rapper Vanilla Ice Opens White Center Restaurant</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WHITE CENTER, Washington, January 30, 2012 (WSFB) &#8211; Justin Bieber is clearly not the first white rapper. That title is commonly, though mistakenly, credited to Vanilla Ice. The real first white rapper was in fact Blondie&#8217;s Deborah Harry, as evidenced by 1981&#8217;s smash hit, &#8220;Rapture&#8221;.
But Harry is not the has-been opening a Vietnamese restaurant in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a class="highslide" onclick="return vz.expand(this)" href="http://www.westseattlefunblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/chicken-of-your-mother.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-13658" title="chicken of your mother" src="http://www.westseattlefunblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/chicken-of-your-mother.jpg" alt="chicken of your mother" width="252" height="176" /></a>WHITE CENTER, Washington, January 30, 2012 (WSFB) &#8211; Justin Bieber is clearly not the first white rapper. That title is commonly, though mistakenly, credited to Vanilla Ice. The real first white rapper was in fact Blondie&#8217;s Deborah Harry, as evidenced by 1981&#8217;s smash hit, &#8220;Rapture&#8221;.</p>
<p>But Harry is not the has-been opening a Vietnamese restaurant in White Center. That would be the artist born Robert Van Winkle, aka Vanilla Ice, and his new haute Vietnamese restaurant <em>Manok Ng Ina Mo, </em>which is <em>wide open </em>for business<em> </em>as of last week<em>.</em></p>
<p>&#8220;Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records,&#8221; said Van Winkle, &#8220;and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.&#8221;</p>
<p>Vanilla Ice was clearly in his 14th minute of fame by the time the controversy erupted in which he allegedly ripped off the Queen/David Bowie collaboration &#8220;Under Pressure&#8221; for the foundation of the <em>song</em> that launched his career, &#8220;Ice, Ice Baby&#8221;. But the success of that one song gave him the freedom to pursue other interests, such as Vietnamese cuisine.</p>
<p>&#8220;I made some great investments and I held on to my money,&#8221; said Van Winkle, &#8220;which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it&#8217;s not about finances. No matter what, it&#8217;s about keeping it real.&#8221;</p>
<p>Real tasty, that is.</p>
<p>Van Winkle is still cashing in on his Vanilla Ice fame though. New television and radio ads for <em>Manok Ng Ina Mo</em> are set to debut in December and feature Van Winkle in his douche-bag Ice attire.</p>
<p>&#8220;Yo yo, I gots the noodles, boyeee!&#8221; said Ice.</p>
<p>&#8220;Word. To my noodles. Yo.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Ferris Beuller 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WEST SEATTLE, Washington, January 25, 2012 (WSFB) &#8211; Traffic at the West Seattle Junction has been snarled of late. The intersection of California and Alaska is the new home of street performer Guiseppe Manning and his organ, which he grinds.
Manning, uncle of West Seattle Funblog intern Lothario Manning, was issued his street performers license last [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a class="highslide" onclick="return vz.expand(this)" href="http://www.westseattlefunblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Junction-Organ-Grinder.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-20755" title="Guiseppe Manning Getting His Organ Grinded" src="http://www.westseattlefunblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Junction-Organ-Grinder.jpg" alt="Guiseppe Manning Getting His Organ Grinded" width="251" height="235" /></a>WEST SEATTLE, Washington, January 25, 2012 (WSFB) &#8211; Traffic at the West Seattle Junction has been snarled of late. The intersection of California and Alaska is the new home of street performer Guiseppe Manning and his organ, which he grinds.</p>
<p>Manning, uncle of West Seattle Funblog intern <a href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Lothario-Manning/100002150492584" target="_blank">Lothario Manning</a>, was issued his street performers license last Friday and has been causing traffic issues ever since.</p>
<p>&#8220;When the light turns red and the ALL WALK sign lights up, that&#8217;s when the mayhem begins,&#8221; said Kevin Johnson, day clerk at Superb Supplementals. &#8220;He walks into the middle of the intersection and hangs 30 seconds of Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Katy Perry. The local business women just can&#8217;t resist his allure. Right then and there, they shake it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Manning is well within his rights to perform. After all, it says &#8220;street performances&#8221; right there on his license. And he clears the intersection before the lights turn green, thus not violating any city ordinances. Yet the dancing often continues after the music has stopped.</p>
<p>&#8220;Once the organ starts grinding, <em>my </em>organs start grinding,&#8221; said Olivia Mung, an account executive. &#8220;And when my organs start grinding, they grind for at least 45 seconds. There&#8217;s nothing I can do about that.&#8221;</p>
<p>When asked his thoughts on the traffic situation, Guiseppe, who speaks no English said, &#8220;<em>Gradice ballare! Lasci il suo ballo!</em>&#8221;</p>
<p>As translated by Lothario, &#8220;She issa like to dance. Let her she dance.&#8221;</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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WEST SEATTLE, Washington, January 23, 2012 (WSFB)
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<p>WEST SEATTLE, Washington, January 23, 2012 (WSFB)</p>
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		<title>&#8220;New Handshake&#8221; Ill-conceived</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WEST SEATTLE, Washington, January 23, 2012 (WSFB) &#8211; Earlier in our Funblogging career, the West Seattle Funblog issued a community service piece aimed at better hygiene during the current near-pandemic pandemonium surrounding H1N1 (Swine Flu) as well as other forms of nastiness associated with deteriorating weather.
&#8220;The Hygienic FistBump&#8221; taught our readers of the relative cleanliness of the knuckles [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a class="highslide" onclick="return vz.expand(this)" href="http://www.westseattlefunblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Fishhook-New-NWG-greeting.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-5062" title="Fishhook - New NWG greeting" src="http://www.westseattlefunblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Fishhook-New-NWG-greeting.jpg" alt="Fishhook - New NWG greeting" width="320" height="222" /></a>WEST SEATTLE, Washington, January 23, 2012 (WSFB) &#8211; Earlier in our Funblogging career, the West Seattle Funblog issued a community service piece aimed at better hygiene during the current near-pandemic pandemonium surrounding H1N1 (Swine Flu) as well as other forms of nastiness associated with deteriorating weather.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Hygienic FistBump&#8221; taught our readers of the relative cleanliness of the knuckles versus the filth of the palm of the hand. Did you listen?</p>
<p>Most of you did, with Hygienic FistBumps referenced as recently as last night at the Feedback Lounge. Others of you did not, as evidenced by the photo above.</p>
<p>Lars Hanssen and Igor Ringenstad have taken another approach. Said Hanssen, &#8220;We&#8217;re tired of  your mamsy-pamsy fist thingy.  I&#8217;m 74 years old goddammit and I just don&#8217;t do that. I&#8217;m not hip, but I&#8217;ve had hip-replacement surgery. I&#8217;m not going to punch another man in the hand.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;You punch me in the hand, Hanssen, and I&#8217;ll punch you square in the dick,&#8221; chimed in Ringenstad.</p>
<p>&#8220;You punch me in the dick, Iggy, and&#8230;.. oh shaddup! I&#8217;m talking to the nice funny blogger boy here.&#8221; Hanssen added, &#8220;You see, we&#8217;re Scandinavian and we love FISH. It&#8217;s in our history and our blood. We&#8217;re not afraid of these <em>scary </em>viruses and we want to demonstrate that <em>AND</em> pay tribute to our heritage. Hence, The Fishhook.&#8221;</p>
<p>Older West Seattleites can now be seen on street corners sticking fingers in each other&#8217;s mouths. Younger locals have thus far avoided this new greeting.</p>
<p>&#8220;Au contraire,&#8221; said Hanssen. &#8220;I was at The Shipwreck in Admiral just the other night. Two separate women in their late-forties were sitting at different tables by the wall eyeing several young men in their twenties by the bar. The younger men didn&#8217;t pay them much attention, so I guess they decided they&#8217;d introduce and entertain themselves. They were putting their fingers in each other mouths alright. And tongues, too! It was quite the show for the young lads, but I had to explain to them that the women were Fishhooking all wrong. But they just laughed and laughed, until we finally agreed to disagree.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Stop Sopapillas?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WEST SEATTLE, Washington, January 18, 2012 (WSFB) &#8211; Everyone is bringing their websites down today in an effort to stop sopapillas.  We will not support this movement as sopapillas are light, fluffy, and delicious with honey.
Our website will remain up and running in support of our Mexican neighbors.
Eat a sopapilla.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><a class="highslide" onclick="return vz.expand(this)" href="http://www.westseattlefunblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/sopapilla1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20697" title="sopapilla1" src="http://www.westseattlefunblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/sopapilla1.jpg" alt="sopapilla1" width="448" height="336" /></a>WEST SEATTLE, Washington, January 18, 2012 (WSFB) &#8211; Everyone is bringing their websites down today in an effort to stop sopapillas.  We will not support this movement as sopapillas are light, fluffy, and delicious with honey.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Our website will remain up and running in support of our Mexican neighbors.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Eat a sopapilla.</p>
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