{"id":427,"date":"2006-08-24T23:21:17","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T03:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=427"},"modified":"2006-08-24T23:21:17","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T03:21:17","slug":"american-kicks-hungarian-bridge-naming-ass-canada-left-in-the-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"American Kicks Hungarian Bridge Naming Ass &#8230; Canada Left In The Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago Stephen Colbert asked his viewers to head over to a Hungarian website to name a bridge after him via an online vote that was being held.  At the same time, I asked my readers to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=401\">spread the word<\/a> and head on over to name it the Canada Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Well a week sure had some consequences.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hungary Bridge Vote Count\" id=\"image426\" src=\"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/hungaryhid.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I must point out that Canada hid (Canada Bridge) has 4 whole votes.  I also must point out at least we are ahead of the Gene Simmons hid which has 3 votes. (probably from Paul Stanley, Peter Criss and Ace Frehley  &#8230; errrr &#8230;.. maybe thats Eric Singer and Mark Thayer!!)<\/p>\n<p>Since the Colbert Nation started voting en masse, the website has forced registration and even with that, Colbert is handily ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, with over 17 Million votes, Colbert has received 7 million votes more than the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hungary#Demographics\">population of Hungary<\/a> (as of 2005 Census)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago Stephen Colbert asked his viewers to head over to a Hungarian website to name a bridge after him via an online vote that was being held. At the same time, I asked my readers to spread the word and head on over to name it the Canada Bridge. Well a week sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedia-screwedica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}