CCT – Designers, artists and other historically minded folks are invited to submit a design for the Truro Historical Society’s logo contest.  The society’s board members put out the call this week for designs for an official logo.

The designer of the winning logo will receive a prize of $250. The newly chosen official logo will be used to brand all Truro Historical Society merchandise including t-shirts and baseball caps.

Designs may be submitted electronically in either PDF or JPEG format to [email protected]. Designs may not exceed 8″x8″ in size. Designs must be emailed, mailed (Truro Historical Society, PO Box 486, Truro, MA 02666) or delivered to the Cobb Archive at 13 Truro Center Road in Truro by 3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 5, 2014.

Is this normal? Do towns usually just have an open invite for any Tom, Dick and Harry to design their logo? We were thinking of having a logo contest for The Real Cape but we didn’t want to be too bush league about it so I was thinking this is odd for a town. Then I realized something, there is a chance that not one graphic designer lives in Truro. So then I looked up the population of Truro.

2,087… TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHTY SEVEN! Holy shit.

I knew Truro was small, but I had no idea it was that small. 5 times the amount of people that live in Truro will visit this website today. Truro has the same population as Barnstable High School. So yeah, do you Truro. Will someone with some skills please help out our brethren to the north with a new logo? Maybe a P-Town artist can help them out. Remember, without the wrist there can’t be a fist.

P.S. Does anyone from Truro read this? If so I have a question, can you get a pizza delivered to your house? I just don’t think I could live without that option.

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WEST HARWICH – A Harwich man was arrested Sunday night after allegedly slashing the tires of a vehicle parked in an ex-girlfriend’s driveway. According to a Harwich police release, dispatchers at both the Harwich and Dennis Police Department received calls about a man slashing tires at a Division Street address Sunday.

This story is about a month old, but we have a good reason to bring it up now. The term “slashed tires” has always bugged the shit out of me. Nobody “slashes” tires. The very term conjures up these images of Zorro slashing a Z into the rubber with a broad sword. Unless that guy up there is a samurai there is no way he “slashed” anyone’s tires. The reality is he poked some holes in someone’s tires.

Poking is not just a much more accurate term here, it also conjures up a much more realistic visualization of the act.

“Slashing” someone’s tires is a total pussy move. Dealing with anger by sneaking around and stabbing inanimate objects does not deserve a word as bad ass as “slash”. I propose that from now on when some tool does this we make a note to describe them not as a “tire slasher”, but as a “tire poker”.

“I wouldn’t fuck with that guy, he might poke your tires”. See how well that works? If you say that sentence everyone knows you are talking about a chump. For that added oomph you can add the little poking with a stick motion with your hand and the Beeker frown to really emphasize the sarcasm.

P.S. If I got just one person to actually make the Beeker face and stick poking motion then my day has been worthwhile.

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Patch – Yarmouth Police report that the suspect in an armed robbery in Hyannis has been captured on Camp Street in West Yarmouth.

One source reports the armed robbery was of the Tedeschi’s at 696 Yarmouth Road in Hyannis, but that hasn’t been confirmed with police.

Forget about crab fisherman in Alaska, convenience store clerk on Cape Cod is officially the most dangerous job in the world. It seems like we have a new armed robbery in the news every day now. They all seem to get caught too, hasn’t anyone told these guys about how easy it is to get away with a bank robbery?

Anyway, we need to do something about this pretty soon or we’ll need to hire armed mercenaries from Halliburton to man our convenience store cash registers. We’ll be forced to go through TSA level screening and a colonoscopy just to get into 7-Eleven. I don’t know about you but I certainly don’t feel like getting the shocker every time I want some Ben and Jerry’s and a Slim Jim.

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The person who submitted this photo didn’t leave their name, just the caption. Thank you , whoever you are, I laughed for six minutes when I opened this file. Somebody put some serious time and effort into tying that license plate frame on there. If only they would put that much effort into not smoking crack.

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(HYANNIS) _ The former president of the Cape Cod Chapter of the Disabled American Veterans has been indicted for stealing $125,000 from the organization.

Attorney General Martha Coakely alleges Richard Trott, 62, of East Sandwich stole the money between 2009 and 2011.
Indictments were handed down on Friday by a Barnstable County Grand Jury.

Coakley says the alleged theft by Trott deprived disabled veterans and their families of thousands of dollars in needed help.
He’s accused of transferring DAV money to personal accounts – and setting up sham organizations to deceive donors.
The Cape chapter of the DAV was founded in 1932.

Great move by Richard Trott here. This is like stealing from drug dealers, it’s a victimless crime. Who cares about a guy stealing from disabled veterans? No way a grand jury indicts him for this. Everybody knows the Disabled American Veterans are the most overrated charity out there.

What the hell did those guys ever do to deserve that money any more than Richard Trott does? Boo Hoo, so you risked your life fighting terrorists halfway across the world in some shithole desert to make us all safer. Richard Trott went through the trouble of setting up sham organizations to deceive donors, the man deserves that money, he stole it fair and square.

P.S. It’s really just astonishing that there are people evil enough to steal from disabled veterans. This is next level evil stuff right here.

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Tony called in Insane today so for lunch we have a POV video of flights over The Vineyard. If you immediately know what POV stands for you should be ashamed of yourself. Enjoy the videos while you can because you will probably go blind soon.

Flying over Martha’s Vineyard. from Bill Brine on Vimeo.

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