I don't want your damn pizza.

I would like to take this break in the hectic-yet-relaxing finals week to tell you about the first time I was mentioned on TV.

About 3 years ago when Austin 3:16 and the WWF was hot, there was a local access show in the Pittsburgh area by the name of Pro Wrestling Review. It featured a bunch of Pittsburgh area pro wrestling columnists talking about current events and news of pro wrestling. Every week would feature a trivia contest and the winner would receive a free pizza from their local sponsor.

Dring one week, 3 of the 4 questions could be answered through research and the 4th was "which fruit was thrown at" during some match. Well an orange was the logical guess, so I went with that and sent the other ones in.

The following week, they run down the correct answers. All of them correct, even the orange one.

I won.

"This week's winner is Gary Ashley from Kittanning, PA"

Crazy how I won a trivia contest and a free pizza from a place I don't even know where in PA is at. While I was shocked over the win, I forgot about the tag at the end of my trivia answers: "Where the hell is Dravosburg?". Dravosburg was the location of the pizza place.

Brian Krasman of the McKeesport Daily News, after announcing me as the winner:

"Yeah, and Gary also writes 'Where the hell is Dravosburg?' Get a frickin map, moron."

Ironically, I search Mapquest after the show for Dravosburg.

At the same time I was both insulted and honored on local access TV. I'm not sure what means, but I think the 7 other people that were watching the show thought I was a douchebag.

The followup was that Krasman e-mailed me an apology that I accepted, the free pizza coupon was mailed to me, and a few months later the show shut down due to production costs.

maybe cause you gave out too much damn pizza.