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<p>(Full disclosure: I worked my first real part-time job (meaning: not a paper-route) as a "cook" at KFC. $2.15/hour minimum-wage. Probably the worst job of my life. Certainly the lowest paying. I lasted six weeks, then didn't touch let-alone-eat the stuff for another 20 years.).</p>
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<p>I worked my first real part-time that turned into Full-time job at KFC, as a cook (woulda been in 1993-1995 I think) Was a shift supervisor too (salary of about $23k a year) helped them open the branch in Kaitaia, which was back when dole day was Thursday, and guess what day they opened it? Queues of cars hundreds of metres down the road, queues of people hundred metres as well, IIRC was $22,000 of KFC sold that day, a record opening day, proud day for Kaitaia!</p>
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<p>I hated the job (hours and messy) but was such a great group of people, made it bearable and man I have some cool memories, friends with some of the guys still (obviously none of us work there still) </p>
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<p>If he can do that by only failing 2 times out of 3 with a wooden bat, he'd get himself a $100-million dollar contract. Possibly double, or more.</p>
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<p>Jeeeeesussss!!!! Whatever you do DO NOT google Polish sword fight</p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="antipodean" data-cid="527800" data-time="1444780780"><p><strong><a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Jury-Aunt-who-sued-8-year-old-gets-zero-6568677.php">Jury rules against aunt who sued boy over hug</a></strong></p></blockquote>
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<p>she should sue whoever told her to sue her nephew for making her look like stupid fucking fluffybunny!</p>
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<p>What's the significance of what he did?</p>
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<div>Deadspin: Bizarre Play Derails ALDS Game 5; Blue Jays Fans Throw Trash Onto Field</div>
<div>ESPN: Blue Jays, Rangers play most insane seventh inning in playoff history</div>
<div>CBS Sports: That Rangers-Blue Jays 7th inning may be the craziest you'll ever see</div>
<div>SB Nation: Here's everything that happened in the historically bizarre 7th inning of the Blue Jays-Rangers Game 5</div>
<div>ESPN: Epic seventh inning was one for the ages</div>
<div>ESPN: Wild, improbable rally fuels Blue Jays' pennant chase</div>
<div>Grantland: Blue Jays Toss the Rangers Thanks to One of the Craziest Innings in MLB Playoff History</div>
<div>Deadspin: Jose Bautista's Righteous Bat Flip Is The Only Thing That Matters</div>
<div>Deadspin: Unsurprisingly, The Rangers Have Thoughts On Bat Flips</div>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://sportsworld.nbcsports.com/blue-jays-rangers-seventh-inning-jose-bautista-bat-flip-russell-martin-throw/'><span style="font-size:24px;"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">FLIPPING OUT</span></strong></span></a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="color:#000000;">There's too much hype in the world. But Joe Posnanski and Michael Schur explain why Rangers-Blue Jays Game 5 was a game NOBODY HAS EVER SEEN BEFORE.</span></span></p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote"><span style="font-size:14px;">Joe Posnanski: The craziest, silliest, weirdest, wildest, angriest, dumbest and funniest inning in the history of baseball began with a single by a guy named Rougned Odor.</span>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://twitter.com/StephenKing'><strong>Stephen King</strong> â€<span style="font-size:13px;"><span style="color:rgb(177,187,195);">@</span>StephenKing</span> </a> <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='' title="4:17 PM - 14 Oct 2015">16h16 hours ago</a></p>
<p style="font-size:26px;">I've seen some crazy baseball shit in my time, but nothing like the current Blue Jays-Rangers game. </p>
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<p>Dunno about Hooroo RT, but I'm still in ignorant bliss.</p>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">Brace yourself, baseball fans, and behold the inexorable rise of the bat flip.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">Self-expression has long been a fraught issue in Major League Baseball, where impassivity — the ability to “act like you have been there before†— often feels as highly regarded as power hitting and foot speed.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">Yet times change, and signs today indicate that the league stands poised to enter a golden age of celebratory antics. If so, bat flip buffs might one day look back upon the leagueâ€
s playoff games this week as a symbolic starting point. [...]</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">Jose Bautista of the Toronto Blue Jays performed what might have been <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>the most ostentatious bat flip in M.L.B. history</strong></span>. The moment came after Bautista smashed a late tiebreaking home run at the Rogers Centre. Bautista watched the ballâ€s flight, glared into the near distance <strong>like a professional wrestler, and then, in a burst of pugnacious swagger, hurled his bat sidearm deep into foul territory.</strong> [...]</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">For bat flip aficionados, the speed, trajectory and distance of a toss are crucial details. Midair rotations add to the visual splendor. Dramatic posturing and histrionic facial expressions elevate things to the next level. Bautistaâ€s had it all.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14px;">Until now, the subject of bat flips has generally left little room for a middle ground. People love them or hate them — <strong>there is an unmistakable generational divide</strong> — and they feel compelled to air their stance either way. [...]</span></div>
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<p>Reminds me of the old debate about Goldie celebrating scoring a try, instead of dourly running back to halfway.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14px;">I had no idea there were <strong>bat flip aficionados</strong> .</span></p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);">Throughout this season, the act of flipping bats after slugging a home run has become a bit of a hot-button issue. Baseball has all kinds of archaic unwritten code rules: thou shall not show up a pitcher is one commandment. But in what sacred text, exactly, are such fusty statutes written? In South Korea, for example, they just roll with it:</span><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/sports/baseball/bat-flipping-draws-shrugs-in-south-korea-but-scorn-in-america.html?_r=0'> flipping bats </a><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);">are a pastime in itself. “We laugh about it because we canâ€t imagine a player doing that in America,†<strong>Minnesota Twins outfielder Torii Hunter, a Korean </strong></span><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>bat flip aficionado</strong></span><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);">, </span><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/sports/baseball/bat-flipping-draws-shrugs-in-south-korea-but-scorn-in-america.html?_r=0'>told</a><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);"> the</span><em> New York Times.</em><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);"> “In America, it would be considered so disrespectful that the next time he came up to the plate, heâ€d get hit right in the neck, guaranteed.â€</span></span></span>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://time.com/4074336/jose-bautista-bat-flip-baseball/'>http://time.com/4074336/jose-bautista-bat-flip-baseball/</a></p>
