Tampa Bay Parent

Employees showed up to several Bennigan’s restaurant across the Tampa Bay area only to find out that their restaurant was shut-down. Not all Bennigans have closed –the one in Channelside is still operational. What really is sad is that these employees were not told that they were going to be out of a job until today. I am sure there are a few living from paycheck-to-paycheck and this really makse their personal finances even worse.

Other cities across the United States are also faced with the sudden closure of their local restaurants. Although we are told constantly that we are not in a recession it certainly does feel that it is the case.

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I cannot be the only one that thinks that the Green Bay Packers should let Brett Favre go and play somewhere else if they do not want him. Green Bay has already found a new man that they love, why not let Brett Favre find another team to love. He is not the only NFL player to retire and then come back to the game. He made a mistake and he realized he still has some playing time left in him and he wants to just go a little longer. There has to be a middle ground that can be reached.

I know that in many cases that there are teachers that retire after many years of service and then decide that they want to come back to teaching and then they do. There are many fields where people can retire and then decide they want to go back to work.

I know that one o f the possible teams that Brett may have been considering is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I don’t know if he would be a better match for the team than Jeff Garcia, and Jeff and a lot of other NFL quarterbacks probably are hoping he stays retired.

Maybe one thing that should keep Brett Favre restarting his NFL career is the Madden Curse. The Madden Curse has affected more players that we would care to name. After being the image on Madden game NFL players suffered career setbacks. All thought it was safe for Brett Favre to appear on the most recent Madden cover because he was a retired man. But as we know things might be changing.

Over the years parents have taken a lot of creative liberties in naming their children. One New Zealand court felt that the parents of one young girl went too far when they named her “Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii.” The child became a ward of the state and her name was legally changed. The little girl’s lawyer also said that the little girl was embarrassed by her former name.

I don’t know what exactly her parents were thinking when they actually named her, but apparently they were not think about this little girl’s future. Tula by itself would be nice and then giving her the nickname “Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii” would have been fun and cute, but to make it her legal name was too eccentric.