GUY PLANS TO RUN ACROSS THE COUNTRY LIKE FORREST GUMP

A University of Michigan nuclear engineering graduate is planning a coast-to-coast run over 100 days that’s similar to the one by Tom Hanks’ character in the movie “Forrest Gump.” Barclay Oudersluys plans to start the 3,200-mile run he’s calling “Project Gump” on Saturday from California’s Santa Monica Pier en route to Marshall Point Lighthouse in Maine. Oudersluys says that “Forrest Gump” is his favorite movie. He also wants to raise $10,000 for the nonprofit Hall STEPS Foundation, which aims to fight global poverty. His route is set to take him through California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Oudersluys plans to begin law school at Berkeley in the fall.
* “Run, Barclay Oudersluys, run!” Doesn’t have the same ring.
* Well, it’s timely. I’ll give him that.
* He’s a nuclear engineering graduate? Then the movie he should be trying to re-enact is Hot Tub Time Machine.
* $10,000 to help fight global poverty? That just might be the extra bump we need.
* Get the $10,000 in pennies, then give every poor person on the globe one-fiftieth of one penny.
* “Here you go – don’t spend it all in one place!”
* The over/under is 10,000 for how many times someone will say, “Life is like a box of chocolates.”
* So one down and 9,999 to go.
* Does he have to play football at Alabama and ping pong against China? No, but he does have to buy a shrimp boat.
* It sounds like this guy was also dumped by someone named Jenny.