Didja see where Joey Chestnut won another Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest yesterday?
He does that a lot.
I won a hot dog eating contest at the Georgia National Fair in Perry some years back. But, since a ten-year-old came in second, I asked them to give him the prize. The knowledge that I was champion weenie eater kinda lost its charm in short order. And, a kid was happy with his prize, so it worked out.
Anyway, Joey Chestnut ended up eating 72 hot dogs and buns in ten minutes. That’s a new record. So, congratulations, I guess.
What about you, though? Do you have any contests that you’re proud of? Or ashamed of? Share, won’t you?

I am in the running to win a big contest for going the longest without commenting on an internet blog.
Oh, damn.
“Almost.”
— Hillary Clinton
You went to the nation of Georgia?
Do they even hot dog there?
Hot women? Absolutely.
Hot dogs? I’m skeptical.
Well those Ukraine girls really knock me out…
Well then…don’t tell them no lies and keep your hands to yourself.
In Georgia, hot dog eats you.
I won an all-you-can-eat Snow Crabs @ Red Lobster once. Woke up the next day with gout and a deformed left elbow. I’m right handed though and lived through it and became an Activist against eating contests unless its a vegetarian eating contest like collard greens or something.
I’m partly ashamed that I know who Joey Chestnut is, but also proud of Joey because I remember back when he’d keep coming in 2nd to this Japanese guy, whose name eludes me at the moment.
Takeru Kobayashi. There’s a Star Fleet test named after him, or something.
I guess Joey is setting another record today for longest time on the toilet.
Is that even his real name-Joey Chestnut? He sounds like a third-rate gunman on The Sopranos.