DETAILS AT ELEVEN -- The Netherlands Legislature is considering a measure that would impose stiff fines on television meteorologists whose weather predictions miss the mark with financial penalties graduated according to the severity of the miss. The guidelines are technical and indecipherable to the average layman, but in a nutshell, if a guy predicts a major weather front approaching, it better look like it's attached to Lady Gaga coming in and JayLo leaving.
POST-OP -- In a less-positive medical note, Vern Traversie a Native American living on the Cheyenne River Reservation in Sioux Falls, South Dakota has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging that doctors performing open-heart surgery on him carved "KKK" on his chest before suturing him up. The charge was vigorously denied by his cardiologist at a hastily-called press conference. Unfortunately, just having emerged from the operating room, he was wearing a face mask with eye holes.
BUCKLE UP -- Barbara
Mandrell had everything Hope sought in a guest. She could sing and
dance, she had impeccable comic timing and — perhaps most important of
all – she was a good sport. She obviously held Hope in high regard but
could, at times, seem almost motherly toward him. She had been in a
tragic auto accident that had killed another occupant in her car and was
a firm believer in seat belts before they became mandatory. She would
refuse to ride in a limo with Hope until he buckled up. Over the years,
she played Hope's love interest in sketch-after-sketch -- as hillbilly
Cindy Lou who "loves sparkin' so much, she's on her third lip retread"
-- to Bonny Sue, girlfriend of "Crazy Nose" Hope, early NFL quarterback
-- to a lieutenant commander aboard the USS Lexington who's caught in a
torrid affair with an enlisted man -- Hope. It's no wonder she was a
Hope favorite.
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