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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
I'm titling today's newsletter - I Just Don't Get It. I think it speaks for itself.
--I was watching Larry King Live last night, since I'm totally immersing myself in all things Michael Jackson. He had Lou Ferrigno on. Yes - the Incredible Hulk himself. He was training Michael for his upcoming tour. I would consider Lou Ferrigno a household name. But Larry King called him "Lou Ferragamo." Every single person who has ever been on television makes mistakes. Let me start with that. They came back from a commercial break, at which point King tried to correct himself. He corrected it to "Lou Ferragino" and finally threw his hands up (metaphorically) and said, "It's a weird name." Nice. Immediately after that, he called the BET Awards the "bet" awards - pronouncing it like the word that rhymes with wet. And I thought it was bad when I called myself someone else's name on the air once.
--I've never understood why our area's gigantic fireworks display - Riverfest - isn't on the Fourth of July. Crazy. I've also never understood celebrating the end of summer by setting off the plethora of pyrotechnics on Labor Day. But I'm not in charge, clearly.
--Denise and her husband are celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary tomorrow and she was asking us what she should get him. We looked up the "traditional" wedding gifts and found that 20 years is either china (traditional) or platinum (modern). Those aren't bad options. But some of them are terrible. For a fourth anniversary, custom dictates you give fruit or appliances. Nothing says "I love you" more than an automatic can opener. I sometimes think traditions show us how things have changed as much as they show us how things haven't.
--Just saw a commercial for a cat food that promises "hairball control." While I agree this is a nice selling point, I disagree with the ad's placement during breakfast time. Hairball, indeed. It was followed by a diarrhea medicine commercial. Nothing like that to make those Froot Loops more palatable.
My favorites from today's GMTS:
--Squirrelled Away: If a picture's worth a thousand words, then video of this escapade is worth roughly that of the gross national product. I'd love to explain why a woman being questioned by police kept a squirrel in her very tight and inappropriately small shirt, but I simply cannot. Just check it out.
--Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A girl in Spokane decided to stick her head between two stone pillars at an outdoor event and ended up really sticking. She got stuck and they called in fire crews. With all kinds of technology at their fingertips, they turned to plain old petroleum jelly to get her out. They rubbed it all over her head and out she popped.
--Good Luck: Marilyn Huffman, our 5 am director on Good Morning Tri-State, is leaving us after 15 1/2 years at this crazy hour. I don't know how she's done it. Today was her last day. She's been a huge part of all the changes we've made to better serve our viewers, and we wish her well and know the show won't be the same without her.
Tri-State Trivia question from today's GMTS:
What two kinds of foxes live in Ohio?
(answer below weather)
Today's distracting link:
In the wake of all the talk of Obama's approval rating starting huge, then dropping, here's a look at other Presidential approval ratings. Interesting that since 1945, the only President to end his term with higher approval than he started was President Clinton.
Tri-State Trivia answer from today's GMTS:
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Red and grey. We have red foxes here in Mt. Adams, and in fact they live in all 88 of Ohio's counties. And yes, Sickmiller came up with this question. I think he's becoming obsessed.
