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Amanda Peet; John Krasinski; and Bryan Ferry. PLUS:A Lucky Caller; Poetry from Gitmo; Regis and Kelly Butt In; Great Moments; Dave and Paul’s Reality Show; a Top Ten List; the Late Show Technical Maintenance Minute; and the Hose Cam.
“and now . . . . a man who’s been scaring teens straight for 20 years . . . . David Letterman!”
ACT 1
During the pre-show Q&A, a fellow from Orlando asked Dave what he got for Father’s Day. Dave replied “fishing boots.” And when Dave asked the guy from Orlando what he got, he replied what most men say: “I got . . . . ehhhhh . . . . .”
Hey, it’s summer and we got the hose cam. The local temps were in the 90s today so we set up the hose cam. Our P.O.V. is from the lamppost at the northwest corner of 53rd and Broadway, pointing north. Dave takes aim and fires at the unsuspecting passersby. And we have the P.A. microphone hooked up, as well. Dave bellows, “Go back to New Jersey. This is Mayor Bloomberg.”
We had some recent good news here at the LATE SHOW. Congratulations go out to our art designer Jason Kirschner and his wife Heather on the birth of their brand new twins. Welcome to the world, daughter Sydney and son Abraham, and congratulations to Jason and Heather. Dave sighs and wonders what it must be like to have twins. I’ll tell you. When those with a single are done with what needs to be done, parents of twins are only half done.
A publisher is releasing a book of poetry by prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, and from what Dave has heard so far, the poems are surprisingly moving. We sample a sample.
Over footage of Gitmo:
“In dreams I prance through daffodils
They’re like tiny precious infidels!
The sunshine warms my tortured body
Makes me feel young and fresh, makes me feel jihady.”
At the end of that, a very odd thing occurs. This morning’s episode of “Live! With Regis and Kelly” starts squeezing into our frame. We see Regis and Kelly chatting, squishing Dave to the far right of the screen. Hey, what’s going on? Dave yells at Regis as if he could hear. The imposition of the Regis show then slides out.
And now for something new . . . . let’s see how that went during rehearsal! We see Biff playing the part of Dave. It goes pretty much as you had just watched on the show, although Biff reads exactly how it was scripted. Dave tends to take his own course when it comes to reading his lines.
Suddenly, a siren is heard throughout the theater. Dave is elated. Dave: “You know what that siren means! Let’s go to the phone!” (Dave picks up the phone) “Hi, who’s this?” Caller: (excited) “Josh Wilkins from Edison, New Jersey.” Dave: “What’s the Phrase That Pays?” Caller: “The Late Show is the Place To Be For Hot Summer Fun!” Dave: “That’s right! You just won two tickets to see Rush at Jones Beach on July 2nd!” Caller: “Awesome, Dave. Thanks!” Dave: “Stay on the line, Josh, and one of our producers will take down your information.”
Good for Josh. Sounded like a nice kid.
And now let’s see how that went during rehearsal. Once again, Biff is playing Dave. He had gone over the allotted time for comedy rehearsal and the band was taking over the stage. If you listened closely, you would notice a few slight changes to Dave’s lines made just before the show.
GREAT MOMENTS IN PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES: We see FDR. We see JFK. We see Sue Hum in attendance at the JFK inauguration receiving a delivery of Domino Pizza. We see Bush say something about being remembered as a strategist.
ACT 2
Back from commercial, we see a LIVE shot of Dave and Paul sitting at a rectangular table. Across from them stand three young adults. It appears to be some sort of judging for a reality show. DAVE: “We are halfway through the competition. There are three of you now, but shortly there are only going to be two. Jared . . . .” JARED: “Yes?” DAVE: “What happened there? Last week you were on fire and this week, frankly, you didn’t deliver. I see enormous potential in you. I expected more.” JARED: (disappointed) “Yeah. I was afraid to put it all out there.” DAVE: “It’s do or die time.” JARED: “I gotcha.” PAUL: “Let me talk to Melanie. You looked scared, Melanie.” MELANIE: “This room makes me so nervous. When you want something so bad and you know you could lose it, it’s tough. I just know this can change one of our lives.” PAUL: “You had a rough week. Look, you can’t lose your cool. Whatever demons you’re dealing with . . . . deal with them.” MELANIE: “Right.” DAVE: “Dylan.” DYLAN: “Hi.” DAVE: “You have a great sense of now. Your creative spark is palpable. But sometimes you play it too safe. You have to let the real Dylan out. Can you articulate where you are in this competition?” DYLAN: “You know, I just have to be me. That’s all there is to it.” DAVE: (to all) “Well, one of you is not going on. . . . .”
(tense music swells; close up of each of the three competitors) DAVE: “. . . . . . . . I’m sorry, Jared.”
(Jared hangs his head. He’s out. Cut to a VT of Jared out in the hall by the elevator: “Look, I feel good about what I did in this competition, but things didn’t work out. But I’m not going to give up. Not going to let the dream die.” Jared exits the shot)
The End.
Back LIVE to the show. Dave returns to the desk and mutters a critique, “Oh, my God.”
TOP TEN: Surprising Facts About Dick Cheney 8. Sent Paris cigarettes and nylons while she was in stir. 5. Wrote pilot for ABC: “Let’s Torture Mick Jagger.”
ACT 3 AMANDA PEET: The charming Ms. Peet is quickly become a favorite around here. Amanda was blessed with a baby girl about 4 months ago and is a very proud mom. The birth didn’t do all that smoothly, though. Amanda comes from a family of doctors and physicians and she is known as a bit of a drama queen. She’s not proud of this reputation and was determined to be strong during the pregnancy. Two weeks prior to the due date, she felt pangs. She mentioned it to her husband who fluffed it off, believing it was simply Amanda being Amanda. Instead, he took some Benedryl and went to bed. Amanda was in pain the whole night and finally called the doctor in the morning. He had her come in. Hubby drives her to the doctor’s and the doctor gives a look-see. The doctor says she is dilating and needs to get to the hospital immediately. Amanda is now not too pleased with husband for not believing her the night before. They hurry to the parking lot . . . . but darling husband forgot where he parked the car. This only added to her ire. He begins to run all over the parking lot. She loses sight of him. In the meantime, she finds the car. She calls . . . screams his name. By now he is on a different level of the parking garage. He finally returns and they’re off to the hospital. All ended well. Dad is still traumatized.
You can see Amanda one more time Thursday night in the series finale of “Studio 60 on he Sunset Strip.” It was cancelled and the last remaining original episode will air Thursday.
ACT 4
It’s time for another installment of the “Late Show Technical Maintenance Minute.”
The scrim rises and we find 3 members of the Late Show Technical Maintenance crew, Gary, Steve, and Brad. GARY: “Some very exciting things are happening at the Late Show in the world of technical maintenance. We recently purchased a Zaxcom Deva 5 portable production hard disk recorder. That’s right, the recorder that has transformed the process of television audio recording forever. STEVE: “Well said, Gary. The Deva 5’s fault tolerant multi-disk recording capability and one hundred twenty-three decibel dynamic range analog to digital converters provide the highest audio quality of any field recorder.” BRAD: “Very impressive, Steve, but that’s not all. Roll number metadata can also be entered into the Deva using the Deva Mix-12 or an external PS2 keyboard.” GARY: “Wow, Brad. With this little guy, we now have all that is necessary to capture the highest quality sound for years to come. Amazing. That’s all the time we have for today. Remember, as we say in technical maintenance . . . . ALL: “It ain’t broke if we can fix it.”
The End. Curtain lowers.
ACT 5: “Are you ready to laugh? Well then, log on to the ‘Tony Mendez Show!’ Tune in for the all-new episode, ‘Tony Meets the Late Show Fan Club.’ Just go to www.cbs.com/lateshow. You’ll be glad you did. We’ll be right back”
Just a reminder . . . if you miss the Tony Mendez Show tonight, you have all week to catch it because he only does one show a week. Just one.
And where did Tony find that crew of gremlins? See? Acting isn’t so easy, is it?
ACT 6 JOHN KRASINSKI: He’s on The Office on NBC and he’s in the film, License To Wed which opens July 3rd. John is the youngest of 3 boys in the family from Newton, Massachusetts. Newton received one clap from the audience. Being the youngest can sometimes get you in trouble. You try to do what your older brothers do. For instance: skateboarding. John was convinced to try skateboarding on his stomach. This was fun . . . for awhile. But then his legs got tired and as he flew down the hill his knees dropped and were ripped up by the passing pavement.
His first acting job? Well, it may not have been his first but he once acted as if he could bartend at Blue Smoke restaurant in New York City when he was first starting out. The only drink he could make was a grapefruit juice and vodka. Didn’t matter what the customer asked for, he or she got a grapefruit juice and vodka. He didn’t pass the 5-day trial period. License To Wed – opens July 3rd. We see a clip of John having a catch with Robin Williams. Robin conks John in the nose with a baseball. It’s not what John had in mind.
ACT 7
BRYAN FERRY: From his CD of Dylan songs, “Dylanesque,” Bryan Ferry performed “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues”
And that was our show for Tuesday June 26, 2007.
*With the temperatures rising here in New York City, an “air advisory” was declared today. Most likely, this advisory did not come from Christine Todd Whitman.
*I was up early watching the morning news again.
The morning news . . . . up to 5:30 AM, it’s all serious. At 5:30, the clowns come in. Before 5:30, the news is treated like important business. After 5:30, it becomes a circus. Wake up early tomorrow and see what I mean.
* I really have to stop watching baseball on TV. It makes me so angry. Nobody sees the things I do. It’s the 3rd inning of the Yankee/Oriole game and the announcer has already screwed up twice . . . and I missed the first inning. And then a Yankee puts down a very nice bunt. The catcher fields it and is throws out the Yankee who dives head first into first base. The most interesting thing about this play was if the Yankee did not dive head first into first, the thrown ball would have hit him right in the back. He would have been safe. This was not addressed by the announcers, who were quick to plug some product immediately following the play. You can argue left and right about the benefits and consequences of sliding into first base, but when the thrown ball is coming from behind you, NEVER SLIDE! It could hit you. Sliding when the ball is coming from behind you only makes it easy on the catcher and first baseman. I know this and I haven’t played the game in years!
I mentioned this a while back; something I saw in the "USA Today."
New Hampshire: Concord – The state fined its own Transportation Department nearly $330,000 after employees, including supervisors, illegally dumped tons of lead paint chips, paint, and other contaminated debris. State officials say most of the dumping occurred at two department sites in Franklin. Transportation Commissioner Charles O’Leary said some employees already have been disciplined.
I wondered how this worked. The state of New Hampshire is fining itself? The Granite State takes $330,000 from the Transportation Department and does what with the money? Give it back? Can somebody explain? I know little about politics and finances, so when explaining, explain it like you’re talking to a 2nd grader.
Responses: B. Owen of Rochester, New York.
*“Each state department has a budget. The fine comes out of the Transportation Dept budget, so they won't have the money for their operations, overtime, new equipment, whatever. It will cut down on their resources after they pay it. The state probably does whatever they normally do with income from fines on illegal dumpers (not sure what that is - maybe goes into Environmental Services budget). It has to do with budgets and available money. (I used to work for the govt.) The Transportation Dept is supposed to obey the law just like everyone else.”
*My response: But . . . but . . . but . . . isn’t the Transportation Department part of the State? And isn’t . . . shouldn’t . . . . . every state department be run to the top of their ability for the least amount of money? Without that money, the Transportation Department will struggle to meet their responsibilities. So who will suffer from the fine? The public, that’s who.
*From Andrew Parkes of Albuquerque, New Mexico:
“Mike, concerning your question about the State of NH fining itself. What will happen is the Transportation dept will have the money removed from its budget so it will have less to spend for the remainder of the year. The money will be moved to whatever dept is responsible for monitoring such activities, here in NM it is the Environment dept., and most likely be used to help pay for cleanup of the sight.”
*This all makes sense to me if the Transportation Department is not a State agency. What will the Transportation Department not be able to do this year after paying the $330,000 fine? Is anybody getting fired? Is anybody not getting a raise? It sounds like it’s the public that’ll pay. And to make up for everything the Transportation Department cannot do this year due to the fine, they’ll need a $300,000 increase to their budget next year. And where oh where will they get that money from? New Hampshire isn’t fining the Transportation Department . . . they are fining the public.
This concludes another installment of “Politics and Finance: I Have No Idea What I’m Talking About.”
*And now, even more useless information from “The Ultimate Book of Useless Information” by Neil Botham & The Useless Information Society.
- owls are the only birds that can see the color blue
- a pelican can hold about 25 pounds of fish in its pouch
- no one knows why a duck’s quack doesn’t echo
- a whale’s penis is called a “dork”
And so ends another issue of the Wahoo Gazette, the world’s longest continuous-running blog on the internet . . . . I think.
CAMEO MENTION OF A WAHOO READER
1976 graduate of Ramapo Senior High School, from Fort Lee, New Jersey it’s Laurie Singer.
This concludes another installment of CAMEO MENTION OF A WAHOO READER
Amanda Peet; John Krasinski; and Bryan Ferry. PLUS:A Lucky Caller; Poetry from Gitmo; Regis and Kelly Butt In; Great Moments; Dave and Paul’s Reality Show; a Top Ten List; the Late Show Technical Maintenance Minute; and the Hose Cam.
“and now . . . . a man who’s been scaring teens straight for 20 years . . . . David Letterman!”
ACT 1
During the pre-show Q&A, a fellow from Orlando asked Dave what he got for Father’s Day. Dave replied “fishing boots.” And when Dave asked the guy from Orlando what he got, he replied what most men say: “I got . . . . ehhhhh . . . . .”
Hey, it’s summer and we got the hose cam. The local temps were in the 90s today so we set up the hose cam. Our P.O.V. is from the lamppost at the northwest corner of 53rd and Broadway, pointing north. Dave takes aim and fires at the unsuspecting passersby. And we have the P.A. microphone hooked up, as well. Dave bellows, “Go back to New Jersey. This is Mayor Bloomberg.”
We had some recent good news here at the LATE SHOW. Congratulations go out to our art designer Jason Kirschner and his wife Heather on the birth of their brand new twins. Welcome to the world, daughter Sydney and son Abraham, and congratulations to Jason and Heather. Dave sighs and wonders what it must be like to have twins. I’ll tell you. When those with a single are done with what needs to be done, parents of twins are only half done.
A publisher is releasing a book of poetry by prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, and from what Dave has heard so far, the poems are surprisingly moving. We sample a sample.
Over footage of Gitmo:
“In dreams I prance through daffodils
They’re like tiny precious infidels!
The sunshine warms my tortured body
Makes me feel young and fresh, makes me feel jihady.”
At the end of that, a very odd thing occurs. This morning’s episode of “Live! With Regis and Kelly” starts squeezing into our frame. We see Regis and Kelly chatting, squishing Dave to the far right of the screen. Hey, what’s going on? Dave yells at Regis as if he could hear. The imposition of the Regis show then slides out.
And now for something new . . . . let’s see how that went during rehearsal! We see Biff playing the part of Dave. It goes pretty much as you had just watched on the show, although Biff reads exactly how it was scripted. Dave tends to take his own course when it comes to reading his lines.
Suddenly, a siren is heard throughout the theater. Dave is elated. Dave: “You know what that siren means! Let’s go to the phone!” (Dave picks up the phone) “Hi, who’s this?” Caller: (excited) “Josh Wilkins from Edison, New Jersey.” Dave: “What’s the Phrase That Pays?” Caller: “The Late Show is the Place To Be For Hot Summer Fun!” Dave: “That’s right! You just won two tickets to see Rush at Jones Beach on July 2nd!” Caller: “Awesome, Dave. Thanks!” Dave: “Stay on the line, Josh, and one of our producers will take down your information.”
Good for Josh. Sounded like a nice kid.
And now let’s see how that went during rehearsal. Once again, Biff is playing Dave. He had gone over the allotted time for comedy rehearsal and the band was taking over the stage. If you listened closely, you would notice a few slight changes to Dave’s lines made just before the show.
GREAT MOMENTS IN PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES: We see FDR. We see JFK. We see Sue Hum in attendance at the JFK inauguration receiving a delivery of Domino Pizza. We see Bush say something about being remembered as a strategist.
ACT 2
Back from commercial, we see a LIVE shot of Dave and Paul sitting at a rectangular table. Across from them stand three young adults. It appears to be some sort of judging for a reality show. DAVE: “We are halfway through the competition. There are three of you now, but shortly there are only going to be two. Jared . . . .” JARED: “Yes?” DAVE: “What happened there? Last week you were on fire and this week, frankly, you didn’t deliver. I see enormous potential in you. I expected more.” JARED: (disappointed) “Yeah. I was afraid to put it all out there.” DAVE: “It’s do or die time.” JARED: “I gotcha.” PAUL: “Let me talk to Melanie. You looked scared, Melanie.” MELANIE: “This room makes me so nervous. When you want something so bad and you know you could lose it, it’s tough. I just know this can change one of our lives.” PAUL: “You had a rough week. Look, you can’t lose your cool. Whatever demons you’re dealing with . . . . deal with them.” MELANIE: “Right.” DAVE: “Dylan.” DYLAN: “Hi.” DAVE: “You have a great sense of now. Your creative spark is palpable. But sometimes you play it too safe. You have to let the real Dylan out. Can you articulate where you are in this competition?” DYLAN: “You know, I just have to be me. That’s all there is to it.” DAVE: (to all) “Well, one of you is not going on. . . . .”
(tense music swells; close up of each of the three competitors) DAVE: “. . . . . . . . I’m sorry, Jared.”
(Jared hangs his head. He’s out. Cut to a VT of Jared out in the hall by the elevator: “Look, I feel good about what I did in this competition, but things didn’t work out. But I’m not going to give up. Not going to let the dream die.” Jared exits the shot)
The End.
Back LIVE to the show. Dave returns to the desk and mutters a critique, “Oh, my God.”
TOP TEN: Surprising Facts About Dick Cheney 8. Sent Paris cigarettes and nylons while she was in stir. 5. Wrote pilot for ABC: “Let’s Torture Mick Jagger.”
ACT 3 AMANDA PEET: The charming Ms. Peet is quickly become a favorite around here. Amanda was blessed with a baby girl about 4 months ago and is a very proud mom. The birth didn’t do all that smoothly, though. Amanda comes from a family of doctors and physicians and she is known as a bit of a drama queen. She’s not proud of this reputation and was determined to be strong during the pregnancy. Two weeks prior to the due date, she felt pangs. She mentioned it to her husband who fluffed it off, believing it was simply Amanda being Amanda. Instead, he took some Benedryl and went to bed. Amanda was in pain the whole night and finally called the doctor in the morning. He had her come in. Hubby drives her to the doctor’s and the doctor gives a look-see. The doctor says she is dilating and needs to get to the hospital immediately. Amanda is now not too pleased with husband for not believing her the night before. They hurry to the parking lot . . . . but darling husband forgot where he parked the car. This only added to her ire. He begins to run all over the parking lot. She loses sight of him. In the meantime, she finds the car. She calls . . . screams his name. By now he is on a different level of the parking garage. He finally returns and they’re off to the hospital. All ended well. Dad is still traumatized.
You can see Amanda one more time Thursday night in the series finale of “Studio 60 on he Sunset Strip.” It was cancelled and the last remaining original episode will air Thursday.
ACT 4
It’s time for another installment of the “Late Show Technical Maintenance Minute.”
The scrim rises and we find 3 members of the Late Show Technical Maintenance crew, Gary, Steve, and Brad. GARY: “Some very exciting things are happening at the Late Show in the world of technical maintenance. We recently purchased a Zaxcom Deva 5 portable production hard disk recorder. That’s right, the recorder that has transformed the process of television audio recording forever. STEVE: “Well said, Gary. The Deva 5’s fault tolerant multi-disk recording capability and one hundred twenty-three decibel dynamic range analog to digital converters provide the highest audio quality of any field recorder.” BRAD: “Very impressive, Steve, but that’s not all. Roll number metadata can also be entered into the Deva using the Deva Mix-12 or an external PS2 keyboard.” GARY: “Wow, Brad. With this little guy, we now have all that is necessary to capture the highest quality sound for years to come. Amazing. That’s all the time we have for today. Remember, as we say in technical maintenance . . . . ALL: “It ain’t broke if we can fix it.”
The End. Curtain lowers.
ACT 5: “Are you ready to laugh? Well then, log on to the ‘Tony Mendez Show!’ Tune in for the all-new episode, ‘Tony Meets the Late Show Fan Club.’ Just go to www.cbs.com/lateshow. You’ll be glad you did. We’ll be right back”
Just a reminder . . . if you miss the Tony Mendez Show tonight, you have all week to catch it because he only does one show a week. Just one.
And where did Tony find that crew of gremlins? See? Acting isn’t so easy, is it?
ACT 6 JOHN KRASINSKI: He’s on The Office on NBC and he’s in the film, License To Wed which opens July 3rd. John is the youngest of 3 boys in the family from Newton, Massachusetts. Newton received one clap from the audience. Being the youngest can sometimes get you in trouble. You try to do what your older brothers do. For instance: skateboarding. John was convinced to try skateboarding on his stomach. This was fun . . . for awhile. But then his legs got tired and as he flew down the hill his knees dropped and were ripped up by the passing pavement.
His first acting job? Well, it may not have been his first but he once acted as if he could bartend at Blue Smoke restaurant in New York City when he was first starting out. The only drink he could make was a grapefruit juice and vodka. Didn’t matter what the customer asked for, he or she got a grapefruit juice and vodka. He didn’t pass the 5-day trial period. License To Wed – opens July 3rd. We see a clip of John having a catch with Robin Williams. Robin conks John in the nose with a baseball. It’s not what John had in mind.
ACT 7
BRYAN FERRY: From his CD of Dylan songs, “Dylanesque,” Bryan Ferry performed “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues”
And that was our show for Tuesday June 26, 2007.
*With the temperatures rising here in New York City, an “air advisory” was declared today. Most likely, this advisory did not come from Christine Todd Whitman.
*I was up early watching the morning news again.
The morning news . . . . up to 5:30 AM, it’s all serious. At 5:30, the clowns come in. Before 5:30, the news is treated like important business. After 5:30, it becomes a circus. Wake up early tomorrow and see what I mean.
* I really have to stop watching baseball on TV. It makes me so angry. Nobody sees the things I do. It’s the 3rd inning of the Yankee/Oriole game and the announcer has already screwed up twice . . . and I missed the first inning. And then a Yankee puts down a very nice bunt. The catcher fields it and is throws out the Yankee who dives head first into first base. The most interesting thing about this play was if the Yankee did not dive head first into first, the thrown ball would have hit him right in the back. He would have been safe. This was not addressed by the announcers, who were quick to plug some product immediately following the play. You can argue left and right about the benefits and consequences of sliding into first base, but when the thrown ball is coming from behind you, NEVER SLIDE! It could hit you. Sliding when the ball is coming from behind you only makes it easy on the catcher and first baseman. I know this and I haven’t played the game in years!
I mentioned this a while back; something I saw in the "USA Today."
New Hampshire: Concord – The state fined its own Transportation Department nearly $330,000 after employees, including supervisors, illegally dumped tons of lead paint chips, paint, and other contaminated debris. State officials say most of the dumping occurred at two department sites in Franklin. Transportation Commissioner Charles O’Leary said some employees already have been disciplined.
I wondered how this worked. The state of New Hampshire is fining itself? The Granite State takes $330,000 from the Transportation Department and does what with the money? Give it back? Can somebody explain? I know little about politics and finances, so when explaining, explain it like you’re talking to a 2nd grader.
Responses: B. Owen of Rochester, New York.
*“Each state department has a budget. The fine comes out of the Transportation Dept budget, so they won't have the money for their operations, overtime, new equipment, whatever. It will cut down on their resources after they pay it. The state probably does whatever they normally do with income from fines on illegal dumpers (not sure what that is - maybe goes into Environmental Services budget). It has to do with budgets and available money. (I used to work for the govt.) The Transportation Dept is supposed to obey the law just like everyone else.”
*My response: But . . . but . . . but . . . isn’t the Transportation Department part of the State? And isn’t . . . shouldn’t . . . . . every state department be run to the top of their ability for the least amount of money? Without that money, the Transportation Department will struggle to meet their responsibilities. So who will suffer from the fine? The public, that’s who.
*From Andrew Parkes of Albuquerque, New Mexico:
“Mike, concerning your question about the State of NH fining itself. What will happen is the Transportation dept will have the money removed from its budget so it will have less to spend for the remainder of the year. The money will be moved to whatever dept is responsible for monitoring such activities, here in NM it is the Environment dept., and most likely be used to help pay for cleanup of the sight.”
*This all makes sense to me if the Transportation Department is not a State agency. What will the Transportation Department not be able to do this year after paying the $330,000 fine? Is anybody getting fired? Is anybody not getting a raise? It sounds like it’s the public that’ll pay. And to make up for everything the Transportation Department cannot do this year due to the fine, they’ll need a $300,000 increase to their budget next year. And where oh where will they get that money from? New Hampshire isn’t fining the Transportation Department . . . they are fining the public.
This concludes another installment of “Politics and Finance: I Have No Idea What I’m Talking About.”
*And now, even more useless information from “The Ultimate Book of Useless Information” by Neil Botham & The Useless Information Society.
- owls are the only birds that can see the color blue
- a pelican can hold about 25 pounds of fish in its pouch
- no one knows why a duck’s quack doesn’t echo
- a whale’s penis is called a “dork”
And so ends another issue of the Wahoo Gazette, the world’s longest continuous-running blog on the internet . . . . I think.
CAMEO MENTION OF A WAHOO READER
1976 graduate of Ramapo Senior High School, from Fort Lee, New Jersey it’s Laurie Singer.
This concludes another installment of CAMEO MENTION OF A WAHOO READER
ACT 1 • Show Open • Dave's Monologue Watch now • Hose Cam • Poetry From Gitmo • "Live with Regis and Kelly" Slide-In • Let's See How That Went in Rehearsal with Biff • Caller Wins Rush Tickets • Let's See How That Went in Rehearsal with Biff • Great Moments in Presidential Speeches
ACT 2 • Dave & Paul's Reality Show Watch now • Top Ten Surprising Facts About Dick Cheney Read now
ACT 3 • Amanda Peet
ACT 4 • Techinical Maintenance Minute
ACT 5 • "Tony Mendez Show" Promo
ACT 6 • John Krasinski
ACT 7 • Bryan Ferry performs "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" • Show Close
