Sign you won’t see at Wrigley Field anytime soon but seen on a home in New Orleans:
This IS Next Year.
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Another sign seen in New Orleans – Happy Lombardi Gras.
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Figure skating is being tape delayed so long on NBC that the top skaters aren’t on the air until almost midnight. What does the network think this is, the World Series?
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While many Canadian celebrities appeared at the Olympic opening ceremony, a notable no-show was Celene Dion. Apparently the Canadian government thought it might be a violation of the Geneva Convention.
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Like many television viewers I was switching last night between the Olympics and the Bachelor. It got kind of confusing though, at one point I couldn’t tell if the Russian pairs skaters lost a medal or didn’t get a rose.
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The Fox show “24” shut temporarily down production when Kiefer Sutherland had surgery for a ruptured cyst near his kidney. The operation took place between 2:00pm and 3:00pm.
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Many of the newer Winter Olympic sports like snowboarding started out as alternative extreme sports for disaffected youth. Does this mean that some year in the not too distant future we can expect the Summer Olympics to include beer pong?
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Billionaire Meg Whitman denies reports that with her expensive campaign she is trying to “crown herself governor.” Besides, she says, in the U.S. we refer to it as a tiara.
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I’m confused. Sarah Palin is upset about a Family Guy episode featuring a girl with Down’s syndrome. But it’s a Fox show; I thought the rule was if Republicans make jokes about being disabled it’s acceptable satire.
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Sebastian Janikowski apparently will get a $16 million, four-year contract from the Oakland Raiders, which will be the highest for a kicker in NFL history. It’s an especially nice deal because with JaMarcus Russell at QB, Janikowski won’t have to kick a lot of extra points.
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Dan Quayle’s son, Ben, age 33, is running for a House seat in Arizona. He feels he has the expiriance to help clean up the lejislatire.
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Mystery writer Dick Francis died at the age of 89. The funeral has been scheduled for an obvious place, but at the last minute it will be changed to a surprising new time and location.
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While most Winter Olympic sports are beautifully and technically difficult, they can be boring to watch. Maybe the solution is to combine two at once. Curling and figure skating anyone? (Sort of an ice version of dodgeball.)
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