You may have heard of a duck named Buttercup who has been in the news recently. Buttercup was born with a deformed foot and was unable to walk properly. A copy of his sister’s foot was created using 3-D printing technology, and from that he was able to be fitted with a prosthetic foot and can now walk normally. On Wednesday morning at 10:30, Buttercup will visit the Peabody Hotel. He will be granted the highest honor to which any duck can aspire, the title of “Honorary Duck,” by Peabody Duckmaster Anthony Petrina.<\/p>\n
Grizzlies guard Tony Allen got married over the weekend. MemphiSport has some photos<\/a> of the wedding.<\/p>\n The Design Review Board meets today at 4 to consider the signage Bass Pro has proposed for the Pyramid. The signage has been toned down considerably from the company’s original proposal.<\/p>\n The Green Beetle will have its 2nd Anniversary Bash this Saturday, July 20. Happy hour from 5 to 7, and The Po Boys play at 9.<\/p>\n Last night at Blind Bear poker, I took advantage of an interesting little twist Jamie throws into the game – the Seven-Deuce prop bet. For several blind levels, if you win a hand with 7-2 as your hole cards, you get 5000 extra chips. Why 7-2? Because it’s the worst possible starting hand in Texas Hold’em (at a full table, that is; heads-up, 3-2 is the worst hand). I was dealt 7-2 at the 50\/100 blind level and figured I might as well see a flop with it. Flop came 9-7-2 and I went all-in. My hand held up through the turn and river, and in addition to the 5000 chip bonus, I got three callers and got all their chips too. I raked in over 25,000 in chips. It’s unusual to be sitting on top of 250 big blinds in a bar game!<\/p>\n That’ll do it for now. I’ll hit Pint Nite after work and get three more beers done toward my next plate at the Flying Saucer for $3 each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You may have heard of a duck named Buttercup who has been in the news recently. Buttercup was born with a deformed foot and was unable to walk properly. A copy of his sister’s foot was created using 3-D printing technology, and from that he was able to be fitted with a prosthetic foot and … Continue reading “Mon update: Buttercup to be named Honorary Duck, TA gets married, Bass pro signs, Green Beetle party and more”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14147"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14148,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14147\/revisions\/14148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}