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Thank you for calling International Department of Festivals, how may we help you?
Well, our little town doesn’t have any kind of an annual festival to attract tourists. We’d like to get in on the action, so I thought I’d check with you to see what’s available.
I’m afraid the pickings are kind of slim right now. A lot of the better festivals were claimed by other towns hundreds of years ago. We could maybe do a nice Scrambled Egg Festival. That might catch on, huh?
Scrambled Egg Festival? Gosh, that isn’t very sexy. I mean, it won’t attract the macho crowd, like the Running of the Bulls, or the binge drinkers, like the Running of the Bulls, or even the obnoxious dumbasses, like the Running of the Bulls…
Well, it sounds like maybe you should have thought of that before Pamplona did, Mr. Smarty-Pants!
Please, is there ANYTHING else we can have besides a Scrambled Egg Festival?
That depends. Are you open-minded about mixing different things to make a brand-new festival?
Yes! We are SO open minded! What do you have in mind?
I’ve got two words for you: Religion and comic book heroes. What would you think of a Spider-Man in the Holy Land Festival?
So, how much could we charge for these scrambled eggs anyway?
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Top and left: A man cooks scrambled eggs during celebrations of Cimburijada or “Festival of Scrambled Eggs”, in a city park near Bosna River, in the central Bosnian town of Zenica, March 21, 2011. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
Right: A man wearing a Spider-Man costume for the Jewish holiday of Purim is seen at the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem’s Old City, March 20, 2011. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
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So I guess we won’t have you writing press releases for the festival…
I like ‘em dry, Sly; but the cheese can be gooey, Louie.
Superheroes and cookies do sound like a good combination. Got milk?
Scrambled eggs are delicious. Scrambled eggs with sausage and cheese on a garlic bagel is the breakfast of champions!
And from the looks of it Spider-man has been indulging a bit himself. Yup Spider-man loves him some scrambled eggs!
And now, more OE news … Security Team Scrambled to Western Wall. Spider-Man on the scene. Breakfast vendors rioted this morning at the site of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Recently retired Spider-Man arrives and restores calm.
Sorry, it’s just a yolk!
I agree with Spin… when I saw that pic without reading the caption, I thought this was some mediterranean vegetable goulash kinda thing which needs to be eaten in a pita bread…
Then I saw what they were…
heck, I make better scrambled eggs!!!
BG is feeling hungry, a rarity
Oooo – so close with the Scrambled Egg Festival. If only they had gone a bit further and thought of, say, the Scotch Egg Festival, then druken hilarity could have ensued. Or the Egg on Your Face Festival, with many drunken games such as Egg the Politician, Egg Bowling, and the ever-popular Egg Chug-a-lugging.
Oh well, it’s too late now. I guess they’ll just have to look on the sunny side.
Really BG, I think you run this blog only so people can crack yokes.
I’m with Spin on the unattractive-looking “scrambled eggs.” I would not eat those. And I’ve choked down C-rations, K-rations, MCI-rations, and Hostess Twinkies!
Scrambled Puke in a Bucket Festival…no thanks.
I think maybe they are so open-minded their brains fell out.
I don’t think that’s the real Spidey – maybe it’s the Zohan, in disguise.
What everyone else said, as far as the “scrambled eggs.” Nasty. Give me donuts or give me death, but please don’t make me eat that stuff.
OK, just to combine the scrambled egg festival with the Running of the Bulls, try this one:
http://www.yudu.com/item/details/13867
My brother in law loved his! (once he stopped laughing!)
Sarabelle: I don’t think that’s a bucket….
@Doc, you’ve “choked” down Hostess Twinkies, as to imply consuming them was a negative experience for you? Wow, I think you are the first person I know to feel eating Twinkies is not an awesome way to shave time off one’s lifespan!
@Onedoor, “Super heros and cookies” reminds me of a food/super hero combination. Yes, that’s right, the one, the only…….Powdered Toast Man!
Okay sarabelle, suddenly spin isn’t at the bottom of my list for doing festival publicity. you are….
Looks like a vat of corn pudding to me. Has any place ever held a corn pudding festival? Maybe it’s time.
Yes Slick, Washington DC has a lovely corn pudding festival, but it is sadly overshadowed by that cherry blossom thing.
Never thought I’d say this, but those scrambled eggs make poutine look pretty good.
Spin – Maybe we should hold the Donut Festival at some nice central place, like the Nassau Coliseum. Maybe we could combine it with their Beer Festival!
@Nosmo: just can’t chug eggs or my floor would look a lot like the scrambled egg photo…
@slick: it doesn’t look like very good corn pudding, either. Wonder if thoses dudes ever eat the stuff they make.
Doughnut Festival!
I routinely drank raw eggs in college. I’d do that again before I ate the mess in the top pic.
Sure, play hard to get, Doc, but don’t come crying to me when the festival tickets are sold out…
They’re not really very scrambled, those eggs. What with being obviously white and yolk…
Blog Guy, if I can persuade my boss to let me try and make the world’s biggest pork pie; will you write an article on it?
I’ll have to think about it, Crow. I like to help loyal readers, but my position on those so-called “pies” is well known:
http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/20 11/01/07/great-pie-ma-you-pick-the-kidne ys-yourself/
@Spin, considering the Nassau Coliseum is home to the Islanders any event held there that’s not a hockey game is a step up so I think inebgreen’s idea is a good one.
Homer Simpson Festival a.k.a Goofy Face Doughnut Festival,
where you can drink all you want, eat all you want, and make any number of goofy faces you want!!!
Its a W-I-N-N-I-N-G!!!!
BG to Mgmt. Re the blog entry from @jclimacus
This appears to be a blatant infringement of copyright, do you think they can sueus?
Spin, I only thought that since BG has “book”ed him, he would want to make an appearance..
and if he gets anywhere near my stash, he is going away on a stretcher with a tases all over him…
@ARJTurgot2: “sueus”. Had to read it twice. Clever.
Spin, I would do that ONLY if he gets anywhere near my stash…
No, I like ‘em Crusty, Rusty! But seriously, I think they have the wrong focus… after looking at that thing, I think the contest could have been “Guess What This Substance Is”.
Possible answers that come to mind are…
toxic waste
candy corn hit by dynamite
my mind on drugs
my mind on a normal day
pre-cooked Chicken McNuggets
Earl, meet Ralph