POLICTIAL BANTERMinnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Colorado Gov. Bill Owens are having a “playful fight” about the design of their respective state commemorative quarters — each state gets to design the tails side of a 25-cent piece.”Would you ask [Pawlenty] what’s going on with his quarter?” Owens said. “That’s one ugly quarter” due to the “big mosquitoes on it.” Pawlenty countered that Colorado’s quarter had “some subliminal messaging … depicting Gov. Owens in the buff.” Owens replied that he was “surprised Tim Pawlenty could say the word ‘subliminal’.” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) …Typical two-bit politiciansFrom www.thisistrue.comNEWSROOM BANTERJames Gordon Bennett, a fussy editor at the New York Herald, had some strange newspaper rules. For example, he insisted that all his reporters use the word “night” instead of “evening” because “night is a more exact term.” Bennet was shown the error of his ways when a reporter filed a story about a party with a description of a society woman who “looked ravishing in a pink silk night gown.”THE DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICAThere are students who enroll at the Dunkin’ Donuts Training School and don’t pass.We bet those doughnut-eating cops could teach ’em a thing or two.NEVER THINK THAT A PERSON WHO SAYS “NO” TO YOU KNOWS IT ALLA Universal Studios executive turned down the chance to sign a young actor in 1959. The executive told the actor, “You have a chip on your tooth, your Adam’s apple sticks out too far and you talk too slow.The budding actor: Clint EastwoodRumors
- Next up in Falcon: Another Extreme Makeover: a group makeover of the human kind: All county commissioners will undergo brainwave makeovers, making them more responsive to the needs of their constituents.
- And more reality shows will follow in the next six months:
- Survivor I: A select group of diehard ranchers and Falcon long-time residents will try to survive in the Woodmen Hills subdivision for one month. The winner will receive $1 million and one year of free psychiatric care following their ordeal.
- Survivor II: A select group of suburbanites will try to survive for one month on 100 acres east of Calhan without cell phones, the Internet or reality television. The last survivor will win $1 million and the right to stay on the 100 acres.
- American Idol: Art Van Sant and Larry Lynch – foes in the Falcon incorporation efforts – will square off with individual renditions of the following song: “My County tis of Thee” and “My County tis of Me.”
