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Nine days to go in Kilted to Kick Cancer 2012, and our total stands at $10, 538.55. I'll post standings in the fundraising challenge Monday morning. The good folks at Knightlite Software have generously donated a selection of their products to support Kilted to Kick Cancer.   Here's what I'm prepared to do. We 're gonna call this the 20/25/25 ...

A week or so back, reader Ross challenged me to post a pic of myself in a Star Trek redshirt and my kilt. All, here you go, Ross: Now go hit that PCF donation link harder than Ike hit Tina. Get kilted!

Several of the kilted bloggers and readers raising money for Kilted To Kick Cancer have personally been touched by prostate cancer. Either they have had it, or a close relative has. It stands to reason; 1 in 6 men will develop prostate cancer in their lifetimes. 1 in 36 will die from it. And just this week, prostate cancer hit ...

Jay G. has thrown down the gauntlet. If he wins the KTKC fundraising challenge, he’ll shave off his soup strainer. As Jay puts it: Who else puts their mustache on the line??? I’m your huckleberry, Jay. But I’ll go you one better. If I win the KTKC fundraising challenge, I will shave off exactly half of my mustache. I’ll go ...

Nine days ago, reader Jen and reader C (Miss C? Mister C? Semi-omnipotent being, like Q from Star Trek TNG?) challenged me to lose weight, in return for which they’d each donate $1 for each pound lost before September 30, and an extra $5 for every 5 pounds lost. I weighed myself on the morning of September 11, and put ...

Okay folks, we're at the halfway point, and as of 1630 today, September 16, total funds raised stands at $6,805. Looks like we're not going to meet our lofty goal of $50,000, but if we hustle, we can certainly still beat last year's total! Standings in the fundraising challenge are as follows Totals are those donations raised between 00:01 CST ...

In the course of fundraising here for Kilted to Kick Cancer 2012, those competing to raise the most funds naturally get a little competitive. Challenges are made, gauntlets are thrown, people's mamas are insulted, side bets are made… … all in the name of friendly competition for a good cause, of course. Last year, Caleb Giddings pledged to wear a ...

Okay guys, we're 11 days into Kilted to Kick Cancer 2012, and I have the standings tallied through 15:30 CST on September 11. Thus far we've raised $4,220. Keep in mind the challenge rules that stated only donations made between 00:01 September 1 CST and 23:59 September 30 CST would count toward your fundraising totals. Some of you started raising ...

He was born in 1934 in Britton, OK. America was in the midst of the Great Depression at the time, and Oklahoma was suffering it's third year ravaged by drought. Summertime temperatures reached 117 degrees in Oklahoma that year, and so many crops failed and farms went bankrupt that we still talk of the Dust Bowl even today. He came ...

In a recent post, Ross challenged me thusly: "OK, Kelly… how much would it take for you to pose wearing your kilt… and a red shirt, complete with proper insignia (a la Star Trek TOS)?" I ordered one of these shirts from ThinkGeek, in expendable red, of course. Cost right at $36 with shipping. So Ross, I figure the bidding ...

You know you can support Kilted to Kick Cancer and get something for your donation, right? Buy yourself a KTKC tee shirt for $20, and all profits go to charity. Get yours at the Kilted to Kick Cancer store.

No doves this morning, as I got out there too late, but I'll try again in the morning. I'm braving chiggers on my testicles here, people. The least you could do is hit the donation links there on the sidebar. Get kilted!

We're one week into Kilted to Kick Cancer 2012, and the man I vanquished last year, Jay G. of the MArooned blog, is beating me handily this time around. To the tune of $1,050 dollars raised to $70 raised, to be exact. Now, I'm not gonna hector y'all for money. But I would like to score better than 70 freakin' ...

Y'all be sure to hit the donation links there on the sidebar. I don't mind Jay G. winning the fundraising challenge, but I don't want him running away with it, and right now he's beating me so badly it's embarrassing. Besides, a little competition just means we raise even more money for male-specific cancer research.

The latest in unbifurcated redneck fashion, the Realtree camo hiker's kilt from Kilt This: For those of you staring at my legs, there is also an ambulance in this photo.   The original plan was to spend opening day of dove season in this, but since I was working all weekend and my dove hunting spots were still sodden and ...