#Cincinnati Enquirer

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Ohio State Politician slips in language to a bill at 1am so that the Bengals can save almost $10 million dollars in taxes

The Cincinnati Bengals are known to be run by one of the cheapest owners in the NFL, Mike Brown. In 1996, local leaders were not prepared to competently negotiate against the team of lawyers brought in by the Bengals. Everyone was shocked when they found out that the county had agreed to pay for “nearly all operating and capital improvement costs”. It gets worse though, as the county also agreed…

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Wow, this is fucking nefarious

(Incidentally cleveland.com's report on this is useless garbage. There's a controversy here!)

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The saying, 'Life is just one damn thing after another,' is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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(Photo 1) Meet The Monkees contest winner Karen McCabe and Peter Tork; photos by Ron Shuller for The Cincinnati Enquirer.

“Peter Tork, his blondish brown hair set off by a bright oranged [sic] striped velour shirt, joined the party. His outfit was completed by brown corduroy pants, one orange sock, and one white one, and brown leather moccasins. Peter seemed to be enjoying himself, but as he answered more and more questions, he began to tire. Peter, who is frequently referred to as the intellect of the group, suggested that ‘thoughtful’ might be a better term. ‘In life, experience is the only teacher. I mean, you don’t really know how it is to fall in love just by reading a book about it,’ he said.” - The Cincinnati Enquirer, January 7, 1967

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DELEGATES OF THE DAY - Purificacion Valera (Philippines 1952) and Edward Hogan (Malaysia 1950)

The Cincinnati Enquirer, July 6, 1956

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“The saying, ‘Life is just one damn thing after another,’ is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.”

The Cincinnati Enquirer

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Boston Massachusetts Florist: Joseph (Mike) Dempsey Obituary - The Cincinnati Enquirer

Boston Massachusetts Florist

Joseph (Mike) Dempsey Obituary - The Cincinnati Enquirer

by noreply@blogger.com (Loni Cardon) on Wednesday 22 February 2023 04:34 AM UTC-05

It is with great sadness and tremendous gratitude that the family of Joseph Michael Dempsey shares the news of his passing. Mike, a legend in his. Providence Providence RI Rhode Island February 21, 2023 at 09:04PM

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Taylor Swift || The Eras Tour || Cincinnati Night 1 (June 30, 2023)

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Brian Kelly

Physique: Average Build Height: 5′ 8″ (1.73 m)

Brian Keith Kelly (born October 25, 1961) is an American college football coach. He is the head football coach at Louisiana State University (LSU), a position he has held since the 2022 season. Kelly served as the head football coach at Grand Valley State University from 1991 to 2003, Central Michigan University from 2004 to 2006, the University of Cincinnati from 2006 to 2009, and the University of Notre Dame from 2010 to 2021.

He is boner inducingly cute. This is the kind of man I could spend hours with. Look at him, he is crying out for a good ass-pounding. Well, he would probably be a top, but you get what I'm trying to say.

A native of Everett, Mass., Kelly was a four-year letterwinner at linebacker and two-time team captain at Assumption College in Worcester, Mass. He graduated from Assumption in 1983 with a degree in political science.

Well of course he’s married, he and his wife Paqui have three adult children; Patrick, Grace and Kenzel. Wait… Word on the street is that Brian filed for divorce and then reconciled three days later. Is there a crack in the marriage where I can wedge open with my sweet ass and penis? Enquiring minds want to know.

Head Coaching Record Overall: 284–104–2 Bowls: 8–5 Tournaments: 11–4 (NCAA D-II playoffs), 0–2 (CFP)

Accomplishments, Honors and Championships 2 NCAA Division II (2002–2003) 3 MIFC (1992, 1997–1998) 3 GLIAC (2001–2003) 1 MAC (2006) 2 Big East (2008–2009) 1 SEC Western Division (2022)

Awards 2× AFCA Division II Coach of the Year (2002–2003) 2× AP College Football Coach of the Year (2012, 2018) Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year (2012) 3× Home Depot Coach of the Year Award (2009, 2012, 2018) SN Coach of the Year (2012) Walter Camp Coach of the Year (2012) Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award (2018) GLIAC Coach of the Year (2001) 3× Big East Coach of the Year (2007–2009) ACC Coach of the Year (2020)

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"Bob Kling makes a final touch to his Furby creation at the butter cow display at the Ohio State Fair in 2000. Kling is director of Sculpting for Hasbro."

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Article From The Cincinnati Enquirer (newspapers.com transcript)

Date: August 13, 2000

Hasbro butters up the fair 

 How do you bring butter to life? Mix toy-makers with the dairy farmers during the Ohio State Fair. Eight Cincinnati toy sculptors from Hasbro went from designing action-figures to spending four days in a refrigerator sculpting butter. The local design team is behind this year's butter sculpture, the largest ever at the fair on display through Aug. in Columbus. Accompanying the annual cow and calf are depictions of Hasbro's Mr. Monopoly, pet Furby and a Tonka Truck.

The Hasbro designers approached the American Dairy Association (ADA) of the Mideast after their veteran butter sculptor of 36 years retired. The ADA Mideast liked the idea. There aren't a lot of skilled butter sculptors in the area to carry on the century-old tradition. "The dairy industry and Hasbro have a lot in common children," said Jenny Wilson, director of communications for Mideast ADA, who pointed out that the "milk mustache" ad campaign is aimed at children.

Some choice details, such as the folds of skin in the hind quarters, a big vein on the udder and the slope of the cow's back, 'were pain painstakingly patted into place. Contrary to popular opinion, butter is no easy medium. "It's slimy," said Mr. Kling "Butter responds a little bit like bad clay," he said. Although the team worked in a 45-degree walk-in cooler, they found that their body heat would still melt the butter that ran down their arms.

"At the end of the day we would shower and even then, we still smelled like butter," said Mr. Kling. However artfully successful the sculptures are, they'll last only as long as the fair. "They'll turn off the cooler and pressure wash the frames," said Mr. Kling, who said it would be too expensive to try to preserve the butter art in another medium.

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Marin Scotten at Salon:

Speaking at a Trump rally on Monday, Ohio state Sen. George Lang said the country might need a "civil war" if Republicans lose in November, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported. Lang, speaking alongside Vance at the latter's first solo rally since securing the Republican nomination, said the GOP ticket is are the "the last chance to save our country politically”.”  “I’m afraid if we lose this one, it’s going to take a civil war to save the country. And it will be saved, it’s the greatest experiment in the history of mankind,” Lang said.

Ohio State Sen. George Lang (R) spoke at the J.D. Vance rally yesterday to call for a “civil war” if the Trump/Vance ticket lost to Kamala Harris. Is he nuts or what?

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The absurdity of non-disclosure agreements, sports and taxpayer money

The San Antonio Spurs want a new arena. That isn’t new or shocking news. But if you want actual news on this subject? Good luck.  For the last year or so, the Spurs and city officials have kept every possible detail out of public view if it pertains to a new arena. No discussions. No interviews. Just silence. Now, will taxpayers end up paying quite a bit? Sure. But they won’t know about it until…

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Well Steve-O is a Bengals fan (at least for this season) and agrees with all of us that Joe is gifted in the looks dependent 😁

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cincinnati, ohio, 1984. 📷 mark treitel via the cincinnati enquirer

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Though Rare, Cincinnati Has Occasionally Reported Vampires Of One Type Or Another

Over our long history, Cincinnati has endured sea monsters, humanoid frogs, body-snatching ghouls and ghosts of every description. But very rarely vampires.

And yet, Cincinnati has not entirely escaped the undead. In 1867, the Cincinnati Enquirer related the ordeal of an unnamed young man who engaged a room “at one of our most respectable boarding houses.” Although the room appeared entirely satisfactory, the young man found himself growing weaker and more exhausted by the day.

“For some time he could not imagine the cause of the lassitude he felt every morning, but about a week ago he discovered a small puncture on his arm, from which it was evident that blood had been drawn, and every morning thereafter he found a new puncture upon some fleshy portion of his body. He was mystified as how these punctures were made, and what made them.”

The young man resolved to remain awake and vigilant to catch the blood-sucking entity in action but, in his weakened condition, he was unable to remain alert and inevitably fell into a troubled slumber, only to drift into consciousness the next morning with a fresh puncture and an increased level of fatigue. He enlisted a companion to sit up in his room in hopes of trapping the perpetrator, but his friend also surrendered to sleep. In the morning, both young men had fresh puncture wounds and the volunteer vehemently declined to spend another night in that room.

By this time, the young man’s appearance so distressed his friends that they implored him to take rooms in another establishment but he was so fixated on solving the mystery that he ignored their pleas and continued to weaken as every stratagem failed to produce any useful information. At last, on a night when he lay abed with a lamp burning brightly, the young man was roused by a stinging sensation on his arm. He immediately grabbed at that spot, but found nothing there and could see nothing in the room.

“The old superstition of vampires at once became fixed upon his mind, and he resolved to leave the house, which he did the next morning, repairing to another part of the city. Strange to say, since his change of quarters he has not been again visited by the midnight blood-sucker, and is fast regaining his health.”

According to the Enquirer, since the young man’s story became known, previous tenants of that same room had come forward with similar reports of nocturnal blood loss that they had suppressed out of embarrassment or fear. Despite this collection of anecdotes from respectable citizens, the newspaper declined to attribute these activities to ancient folklore:

“We have no faith whatever in the superstition regarding vampires, and are inclined to think that the blood-loving visitant was more of a material than a supernatural creature.”

Nonetheless, somebody in Cincinnati apparently believed in vampires in one form or another. Perhaps the most unusual classified advertisement in the city’s history appeared in the Enquirer on 23 December 1896. The personal item reads, in its entirety:

“Vampire – State price and where to be seen.”

Just a few days before that bizarre little squib appeared in the classified section, the Enquirer reported that famers in Northern Kentucky were organizing posses to track down the vampire that was killing their animals by draining their blood. Although the newspaper and the farmers called the perpetrator a vampire, most thought it was a lynx or a ferret. Whatever it was, it frightened its canine pursuers. According to the Enquirer [21 December 1896]:

“So far all efforts to track the strange animal down have proved futile. For several days farmers have been out hunting for it with guns and dogs. Its track was discovered in several places, and the dogs given the scent, but they invariably return with their tails between their legs and a frightened expression on their faces.”

The Cincinnati Gazette [9 September 1878] reported on a peculiar circumstance out in one of the rural areas outside the Queen City. It seems that a woman had just buried her third husband. All three of her spouses noticeably wasted away before they died and there was talk in the nearby hamlet that the widow must have employed some concoction to hasten their journey into eternity. The Gazette would have none of that.

“They who have observed much of the married life of their neighbors, with a philosophic spirit, will agree that the mere circumstance that three husbands dwindled away in succession should not be received as evidence that the wife administered any medicines to effect this defect; for this would be to undervalue the womanly accomplishments. There are not a few women, who, when single exercise the little amount of fascination which is required to take captive a man, but who, after the bridal glamour in worn off, have a vampire influence, under which their husbands shrivel up and go out in a lingering way which is called a mysterious dispensation of Providence.”

In other words, many women are natural-born vampires and the fact that their husbands wither away is a sign of divine mercy.

“Such a wife is a very vampire to the man. She needs no aid from drugs to take him off. Indeed, so various are these fascinations of wives under which men droop and drop out, that the successive departures of husbands of one woman, instead of being cause to suspect the use of artificial means, testify rather to the potency of her natural gifts.”

On 22 March 1879, the Enquirer published a long and rambling tale supposedly handed down from one William Wilson, postmaster of Yellow Springs, Ohio. Postmaster Wilson allegedly encountered a vampire some twenty years previously while passing through a village named Old Town on the road home from Xenia. Wilson described this vampire as prodigiously hairy and covered in patches of dried blood, while exhibiting super-human feats of strength, speed and agility. Despite these uncanny attributes, the Yellow Springs vampire comes across as more tendentiously moralistic than horrifying.

Also less horrifying than mysterious is the apparently very talented baseball team of nearby Falmouth, Kentucky. From at least 1878 to 1884 this team, who demolished all comers, was known as the Falmouth Vampires.

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This Day in Buster…January 1, 1960 The Cincinnati Enquirer runs an ad for “Once Upon A Mattress,” set to play at the Shubert from January 23rd. Buster Keaton is pictured here with John Bayles and Harold Lang.