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Susan Sarandon; Rick Reilly; and Feist. PLUS:The Miss Teen USA pageant; Great Moments in Presidential Speeches; a Top Ten List; What We’ll Miss About Summer; and a Sculpture of Biff Made of Sand.
“ . . . and now, heavy-footed car jockey . . . . David Letterman!”
ACT 1:
During the monologue, a huge moth-like animal flew by Dave’s head. It was so big it had a black box.
The last time Susan Sarandon was on the show was in 2000. Dave thinks someone is lying to him. He can’t believe it’s been seven years. And neither can I. I checked my unofficial database and that’s what I came up with. Has it really been 7 years?
Out on 53rd Street we have a sand sculptor, Larry Hudson, who will create a bust of our friend Biff Henderson. Previous renderings of Biff:
- tattoo on kid’s leg
- ice sculpture
- legos
- dominoes
- cheese
- post-it notes
- bubble gum
- ketchup
- chalk on sidewalk.
Tonight, Larry will be using sand he brought up from Florida. Don’t know how he got that past airplane security.
Did you watch the Miss Teen USA pageant the other night? It took place in Pasadena Friday night and the winner was Miss Colorado. One of the runners-up ran into a tough question in the Q&A. Miss South Carolina:
“Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?” Miss South Carolina: “I personally believe, that U.S. Americans, are
unable to do so because, uh, some people out there, in our nation don't
have maps, and I believe that our education, like such as in South
Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like, such as . . . . and, I believe
that they should, our education over here, in the U.S. should
help the U.S., or should help South Africa, and should help the Iraq
and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our
future. For our children."
Ouch. Dave says he thinks she was coached pretty well to get in some key words and phrases, no matter what the question. Unfortunately, this question didn’t call for those words and phrases.
Paul loved it and so we watch Miss South Carolina’s answer once again. Ouch, again. Poor gal.
After reading her answer a few times, I think what she was trying to say was some of our schools here in the United States are in poor shape and are in desperate need of supplies, and compares these schools to the schools in South Africa and Iraq. Our schools need more money for supplies, like maps, and we should also help schools overseas in South Africa, Iraq, and Asia, so we could build our future.
Just think of all the school supplies that could have been purchased instead of putting money into a teenage beauty pageant.
GREAT MOMENTS IN PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES
We see FDR.
We see JFK.
We see Bush: “It’s uhh uhh it’s it’s uhh uhhh uhhh.”
ACT 2 WHAT WE’LL MISS ABOUT SUMMER – Dave was chatting with the staff today and sensed that everyone’s got the wistful feeling about summer ending. Dave thought he’d take a minute to let the folks offer up any thoughts they had about the end of summer.
1. CAMERAMAN, DAVE DORSETT?
DORSETT:: (with two beautiful women standing on each side) “I’m gonna miss my two summer interns.”
DAVE: “Dave, are those really your interns?”
DORSETT: “For fifty bucks, I call them whatever I want.”
2. PAUL?
Paul has something and prepares to sing a little ditty about the precious joys of summer that he’ll miss. But Paul is having trouble with the cue cards. The cue card guy has screwed up Paul’s cards and he’s not too happy. PAUL: “I’ve been doing this damn show for 25 years and for 25 years it’s been the same horse-‘joy.’ Good luck with the rest of your crap ass comedy piece!” Paul exits, and I don’t think he’s coming back.
3. HEAD CARPENTER, HAROLD LARKIN?
We see Harold bending down by the cue card alley doors. HAROLD: ‘I’m not in this piece, Dave; I’m just putting out more rat traps.”
4. (To band) YES, WHAT WILL YOU MISS ABOUT SUMMER?
A guy in the band responds: “I think what I’ll miss most is weekends at the shore, with the air getting that wonderful mellowness as the sun starts to set and the sound of the waves gently . . .”
DAVE interrupts: “Excuse me, wait a second. Who are you?”
The unknown gentleman gets the scary “uh oh” look in his eyes. He’s been discovered. He jumps out of the orchestra area and runs out the back of the house. Dave does a little Jackie Gleason, “And away we go!”
5. PAT FARMER?
We find Pat out on 53rd Street. PAT: “I always associate summer with the crack of the bat.”
Pat takes a bat and whacks a passerby in the nuts.
6. TECHNICAL MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR, GARY MINTZ GARY: (scratched and bloodied) “What am I going to miss? Operating my illegal dog-fighting ring.”
7. OUR ANNOUNCER, ALAN KALTER? ALAN: “What will I miss, DL? Fireworks.”
Turns to another camera. ALAN: “But ladies, there’s still time for one more fiery display. One more chance for you to be bathed in the red glare of my rocket. Just lie back on your blanket, look up to he heavens and ‘Ohhhh’ and ‘Ahhhh’ at the amazing spectacle. The earth will rumble as you feel the shock of my powerful M80.”
Alan puts his hand up to his ear. ALAN: “What’s that? You were always told not to get too close to fireworks? Well, you can wrap your fingers around this Roman candle. Relax, baby doll, it won’t be your fingers getting blown off. . . . .” DAVE interrupts: “All right, that’s enough, Alan.”
ACT 3 TOP TEN: Reasons Alberto Gonzales Resigned
SUSAN SARANDON - It’s her first time back in 7 years. Really? Susan looks at Dave and exclaims, “You got so big!!!”
Susan just took her son to college the day before and she flew here last night. On the plane, she and a fellow started up a conversation; not much of a conversation, but small idle talk. He asked what she was doing in L.A. Susan told him she just took her son to his college. The guy says, “Me, too.” What school? Same school. What are you going to be doing in New York? Susan says, “I’m on the Letterman show tomorrow.” The guy says, “Me too!” If I were Susan, I’d be calling for security. As it turned out, Susan and Rick Reilly, out next guest, were on the same plane from L.A. to New York. We had nothing to do with their offspring going to the same college.
Susan’s new film, Mr. Woodcock, opens September 14th and it sounds very funny. It also stars Billy Bob Thornton as a gym teacher from hell who tortures everyone he comes across.
My favorite high school gym teacher was “Box” James. 40 of us would be lined up in the gymnasium. He’d take a step out of his office and dropkick 5 basketballs, and then go back inside. We took it from there. And then there was another gym teacher, Jim Pollard, who actually tried to teach us the bounce pass. Everyone hated that, but I liked it, mostly because everyone hated it.
Susan asks about Harry, and Dave proudly reports that Harry is in the 50 percentile for his weight and the 80 percentile in height. He’s tall for his age, but his doctor says Harry is already fully grown. He won’t be growing any taller. Mr. Woodcock – opens September 17th.
ACT 4
Let’s see the final produce of Larry Hudson’s sand man. It’s Biff, in sand! Hopefully, no beach bully comes around and kicks it over.
ACT 5
It’s time for the ‘Tony Mendez Show Sneak Peek.’ Watch this Tuesday as Tony takes you behind the scenes at the 2007 LATE SHOW staff photo. Log on to www.cbs.com/Lateshow. It’s gonna be crazy! We’ll be right back.”
Hmmm, I just go an idea. You ever see the LATE SHOW promos where the guy excitedly announces and promotes the LATE SHOW and its lineup, and then at the end quickly adds, “ . . . then catch Craig!” I’m going to suggest that the big Tony Mendez plug end with a quick, “ . . . . then read the Wahoo Gazette.”
"The Tony Mendez Show" – the best thing on the LATE SHOW website for those who cannot read.
ACT 6 RICK REILLY: the senior writer for Sports Illustrated and the author of the very funny book, “Hate Mail from Cheerleaders.” The book is a collection of 100 columns from the past 7 years and was a New York Times Bestseller when it was released in May. He admits to getting hate mail all the time, but none created more hate mail than when he wrote that cheerleading is not a sport and is tired of seeing it on the sports channels. The hate mail came tumbling in. Hate mail from cheerleaders is different, though. A lot of them were like, “I hope you die!” with a little heart over the i.
My 11-year-old daughter plays basketball, soccer, softball, and is a cheerleader. Cheerleading holds more practice than any of them. I’ve been softly suggesting to my daughter that people should be cheering for her; she shouldn’t be cheering for others. But after one football game last year I realized the cheerleading team wasn’t cheering for anyone but for themselves. The football team lost 42-0. After the game, I heard one of the cheerleader parents say to her child, “You guys did great. It’s too bad the football team lost.” And three cheerleaders chimed in, “The team lost?” 42-0 and they didn’t know the football team lost.
What’s Rick think about Vick? Michael Vick was Rick Reilly’s favorite player . . . until the news of his involvement of dog-fighting came out. Now Vick is at the bottom of the list. The only person happy with Michael Vick is Barry Bonds. It took the bad talk about Barry out of the sports page.
Rick is also involved in a charity called, “Nothing But Net.” It came out of a column he worked on, and helps thousands of African kids by simply buying them nets to protect them against malaria. “Nothing But Net” has raised $6 million to date.
ACT 7 FEIST: From her new CD, “The Reminder,” Feist performed “1,2,3,4”. I liked it.
And that was ours how for Monday August 27, 2007.
I keep hearing that Michael Vick got in trouble for hanging with the wrong crowd. Maybe HE was the wrong crowd.
Did you watch the the Little League World Series this weekend? I go back and forth on the coverage of the games. I feel that the kids are being used to make a lot of money for other people, but then again, how cool is it that the Little Leaguers get to play in front of all those people and on TV? Anyway, I was watching off and on Sunday. I watched the Championship game for an inning or so and then went outside to cut the lawn. I came back in afterwards and the game was in extra innings. And then in the bottom of the 8th (Little League games are 6 innings), the kid from Georgia, Dalton Carriker, hits a game-winning home run. There can not be a greater feeling in the world than to hit an extra inning, game-winning, Little League World Series-winning home run. I’d rather do that than be Toronto Blue Jay Joe Carter when he hit his World Series winning home run against the Phillies way back when.
Congratulations, Warner Robins, Georgia and Dalton Carriker for being crowned Little League World Champion. My favorite Little Leaguer is still Cody Webster, though.
I remember watching the Little League World Series when I was a kid back when the Wide World of Sports only showed the final game. It was Gary, Indiana vs. Taiwan. Gary, Indiana had this kid, Lloyd McClendon, who hit a home run just about every time up. And I remember that Gary, Indiana lost that game, much to the disappointment to Lloyd McClendon. I made a note to remember the name: Lloyd McClendon. And then 15 years later, there’s Lloyd McClendon in major league baseball. He later went on to manage the Pittsburgh Pirates. That’s the way I remember it. Let’s see how well I did. Let’s Google.
Wikipedia: Lloyd Glenn McClendon (born January 11, 1959 in Gary, Indiana, USA) is the Hitting Coach for the Detroit Tigers, serving under Jim Leyland. McClendon is also a former Major League Baseball player and a former manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates In 1971, McClendon played in the Little League World Series for the Gary team, and earned the nickname "Legendary Lloyd" by homering in five consecutive at bats.
And while watching the World Series this weekend, I saw a graphic that the Gary, Indiana game I saw was in 1971, 36 years ago. Oy. What I didn’t realize was the final score was 9-3 in 9 innings. That sort of makes sense, since I remember the game as being close, but also a blowout. I never could explain that. Now I can, thanks to Google. You kids today don’t know how lucky you have it.
Tuesday on the Late Show: Dalton Carriker.
I have a new favorite show. It’s C-SPAN’s “Road to the White House”coverage of the candidates on the campaign trail. It’s not scripted at all. The camera simply follows the candidates around and we watch the town folk make the small talk with the presidential hopefuls. Yesterday’s airing of Republican candidate Ron Paul of Texas at Pete’s Gun and Tackle Shop and then to the Hollis Pharmacy & General Sore in New Hampshire was a hoot! Rep. Ron Paul was hanging out with the locals at the gun shop. Pete the owner was in his glory holding court with candidate Paul. And before that I watched Dennis Kucinich making the rounds in Concord, New Hampshire and in Iowa.
*And now, even more useless information from “The Ultimate Book of Useless Information” by Neil Botham & The Useless Information Society.
- a can of Spam is opened every 4 seconds
- The Pilgrims ate popcorn during the first Thanksgiving dinner
- the herring is the most widely eaten fish in the world
- the first commercially manufactured breakfast cereal was shredded wheat, made by Henry Perky in 1882.
- French Fries were invented in Belgium
And so ends another issue of the Wahoo Gazette, the world’s longest continuous-running blog on the internet . . . . oops, no it isn’t.
CAMEO MENTION OF A WAHOO READER
Great American and good friend to all who knew him, Tod Giles. R.I.P.
This concludes another installment of CAMEO MENTION OF A WAHOO READER.
Susan Sarandon; Rick Reilly; and Feist. PLUS:The Miss Teen USA pageant; Great Moments in Presidential Speeches; a Top Ten List; What We’ll Miss About Summer; and a Sculpture of Biff Made of Sand.
“ . . . and now, heavy-footed car jockey . . . . David Letterman!”
ACT 1:
During the monologue, a huge moth-like animal flew by Dave’s head. It was so big it had a black box.
The last time Susan Sarandon was on the show was in 2000. Dave thinks someone is lying to him. He can’t believe it’s been seven years. And neither can I. I checked my unofficial database and that’s what I came up with. Has it really been 7 years?
Out on 53rd Street we have a sand sculptor, Larry Hudson, who will create a bust of our friend Biff Henderson. Previous renderings of Biff:
- tattoo on kid’s leg
- ice sculpture
- legos
- dominoes
- cheese
- post-it notes
- bubble gum
- ketchup
- chalk on sidewalk.
Tonight, Larry will be using sand he brought up from Florida. Don’t know how he got that past airplane security.
Did you watch the Miss Teen USA pageant the other night? It took place in Pasadena Friday night and the winner was Miss Colorado. One of the runners-up ran into a tough question in the Q&A. Miss South Carolina:
“Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?” Miss South Carolina: “I personally believe, that U.S. Americans, are
unable to do so because, uh, some people out there, in our nation don't
have maps, and I believe that our education, like such as in South
Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like, such as . . . . and, I believe
that they should, our education over here, in the U.S. should
help the U.S., or should help South Africa, and should help the Iraq
and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our
future. For our children."
Ouch. Dave says he thinks she was coached pretty well to get in some key words and phrases, no matter what the question. Unfortunately, this question didn’t call for those words and phrases.
Paul loved it and so we watch Miss South Carolina’s answer once again. Ouch, again. Poor gal.
After reading her answer a few times, I think what she was trying to say was some of our schools here in the United States are in poor shape and are in desperate need of supplies, and compares these schools to the schools in South Africa and Iraq. Our schools need more money for supplies, like maps, and we should also help schools overseas in South Africa, Iraq, and Asia, so we could build our future.
Just think of all the school supplies that could have been purchased instead of putting money into a teenage beauty pageant.
GREAT MOMENTS IN PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES
We see FDR.
We see JFK.
We see Bush: “It’s uhh uhh it’s it’s uhh uhhh uhhh.”
ACT 2 WHAT WE’LL MISS ABOUT SUMMER – Dave was chatting with the staff today and sensed that everyone’s got the wistful feeling about summer ending. Dave thought he’d take a minute to let the folks offer up any thoughts they had about the end of summer.
1. CAMERAMAN, DAVE DORSETT?
DORSETT:: (with two beautiful women standing on each side) “I’m gonna miss my two summer interns.”
DAVE: “Dave, are those really your interns?”
DORSETT: “For fifty bucks, I call them whatever I want.”
2. PAUL?
Paul has something and prepares to sing a little ditty about the precious joys of summer that he’ll miss. But Paul is having trouble with the cue cards. The cue card guy has screwed up Paul’s cards and he’s not too happy. PAUL: “I’ve been doing this damn show for 25 years and for 25 years it’s been the same horse-‘joy.’ Good luck with the rest of your crap ass comedy piece!” Paul exits, and I don’t think he’s coming back.
3. HEAD CARPENTER, HAROLD LARKIN?
We see Harold bending down by the cue card alley doors. HAROLD: ‘I’m not in this piece, Dave; I’m just putting out more rat traps.”
4. (To band) YES, WHAT WILL YOU MISS ABOUT SUMMER?
A guy in the band responds: “I think what I’ll miss most is weekends at the shore, with the air getting that wonderful mellowness as the sun starts to set and the sound of the waves gently . . .”
DAVE interrupts: “Excuse me, wait a second. Who are you?”
The unknown gentleman gets the scary “uh oh” look in his eyes. He’s been discovered. He jumps out of the orchestra area and runs out the back of the house. Dave does a little Jackie Gleason, “And away we go!”
5. PAT FARMER?
We find Pat out on 53rd Street. PAT: “I always associate summer with the crack of the bat.”
Pat takes a bat and whacks a passerby in the nuts.
6. TECHNICAL MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR, GARY MINTZ GARY: (scratched and bloodied) “What am I going to miss? Operating my illegal dog-fighting ring.”
7. OUR ANNOUNCER, ALAN KALTER? ALAN: “What will I miss, DL? Fireworks.”
Turns to another camera. ALAN: “But ladies, there’s still time for one more fiery display. One more chance for you to be bathed in the red glare of my rocket. Just lie back on your blanket, look up to he heavens and ‘Ohhhh’ and ‘Ahhhh’ at the amazing spectacle. The earth will rumble as you feel the shock of my powerful M80.”
Alan puts his hand up to his ear. ALAN: “What’s that? You were always told not to get too close to fireworks? Well, you can wrap your fingers around this Roman candle. Relax, baby doll, it won’t be your fingers getting blown off. . . . .” DAVE interrupts: “All right, that’s enough, Alan.”
ACT 3 TOP TEN: Reasons Alberto Gonzales Resigned
SUSAN SARANDON - It’s her first time back in 7 years. Really? Susan looks at Dave and exclaims, “You got so big!!!”
Susan just took her son to college the day before and she flew here last night. On the plane, she and a fellow started up a conversation; not much of a conversation, but small idle talk. He asked what she was doing in L.A. Susan told him she just took her son to his college. The guy says, “Me, too.” What school? Same school. What are you going to be doing in New York? Susan says, “I’m on the Letterman show tomorrow.” The guy says, “Me too!” If I were Susan, I’d be calling for security. As it turned out, Susan and Rick Reilly, out next guest, were on the same plane from L.A. to New York. We had nothing to do with their offspring going to the same college.
Susan’s new film, Mr. Woodcock, opens September 14th and it sounds very funny. It also stars Billy Bob Thornton as a gym teacher from hell who tortures everyone he comes across.
My favorite high school gym teacher was “Box” James. 40 of us would be lined up in the gymnasium. He’d take a step out of his office and dropkick 5 basketballs, and then go back inside. We took it from there. And then there was another gym teacher, Jim Pollard, who actually tried to teach us the bounce pass. Everyone hated that, but I liked it, mostly because everyone hated it.
Susan asks about Harry, and Dave proudly reports that Harry is in the 50 percentile for his weight and the 80 percentile in height. He’s tall for his age, but his doctor says Harry is already fully grown. He won’t be growing any taller. Mr. Woodcock – opens September 17th.
ACT 4
Let’s see the final produce of Larry Hudson’s sand man. It’s Biff, in sand! Hopefully, no beach bully comes around and kicks it over.
ACT 5
It’s time for the ‘Tony Mendez Show Sneak Peek.’ Watch this Tuesday as Tony takes you behind the scenes at the 2007 LATE SHOW staff photo. Log on to www.cbs.com/Lateshow. It’s gonna be crazy! We’ll be right back.”
Hmmm, I just go an idea. You ever see the LATE SHOW promos where the guy excitedly announces and promotes the LATE SHOW and its lineup, and then at the end quickly adds, “ . . . then catch Craig!” I’m going to suggest that the big Tony Mendez plug end with a quick, “ . . . . then read the Wahoo Gazette.”
"The Tony Mendez Show" – the best thing on the LATE SHOW website for those who cannot read.
ACT 6 RICK REILLY: the senior writer for Sports Illustrated and the author of the very funny book, “Hate Mail from Cheerleaders.” The book is a collection of 100 columns from the past 7 years and was a New York Times Bestseller when it was released in May. He admits to getting hate mail all the time, but none created more hate mail than when he wrote that cheerleading is not a sport and is tired of seeing it on the sports channels. The hate mail came tumbling in. Hate mail from cheerleaders is different, though. A lot of them were like, “I hope you die!” with a little heart over the i.
My 11-year-old daughter plays basketball, soccer, softball, and is a cheerleader. Cheerleading holds more practice than any of them. I’ve been softly suggesting to my daughter that people should be cheering for her; she shouldn’t be cheering for others. But after one football game last year I realized the cheerleading team wasn’t cheering for anyone but for themselves. The football team lost 42-0. After the game, I heard one of the cheerleader parents say to her child, “You guys did great. It’s too bad the football team lost.” And three cheerleaders chimed in, “The team lost?” 42-0 and they didn’t know the football team lost.
What’s Rick think about Vick? Michael Vick was Rick Reilly’s favorite player . . . until the news of his involvement of dog-fighting came out. Now Vick is at the bottom of the list. The only person happy with Michael Vick is Barry Bonds. It took the bad talk about Barry out of the sports page.
Rick is also involved in a charity called, “Nothing But Net.” It came out of a column he worked on, and helps thousands of African kids by simply buying them nets to protect them against malaria. “Nothing But Net” has raised $6 million to date.
ACT 7 FEIST: From her new CD, “The Reminder,” Feist performed “1,2,3,4”. I liked it.
And that was ours how for Monday August 27, 2007.
I keep hearing that Michael Vick got in trouble for hanging with the wrong crowd. Maybe HE was the wrong crowd.
Did you watch the the Little League World Series this weekend? I go back and forth on the coverage of the games. I feel that the kids are being used to make a lot of money for other people, but then again, how cool is it that the Little Leaguers get to play in front of all those people and on TV? Anyway, I was watching off and on Sunday. I watched the Championship game for an inning or so and then went outside to cut the lawn. I came back in afterwards and the game was in extra innings. And then in the bottom of the 8th (Little League games are 6 innings), the kid from Georgia, Dalton Carriker, hits a game-winning home run. There can not be a greater feeling in the world than to hit an extra inning, game-winning, Little League World Series-winning home run. I’d rather do that than be Toronto Blue Jay Joe Carter when he hit his World Series winning home run against the Phillies way back when.
Congratulations, Warner Robins, Georgia and Dalton Carriker for being crowned Little League World Champion. My favorite Little Leaguer is still Cody Webster, though.
I remember watching the Little League World Series when I was a kid back when the Wide World of Sports only showed the final game. It was Gary, Indiana vs. Taiwan. Gary, Indiana had this kid, Lloyd McClendon, who hit a home run just about every time up. And I remember that Gary, Indiana lost that game, much to the disappointment to Lloyd McClendon. I made a note to remember the name: Lloyd McClendon. And then 15 years later, there’s Lloyd McClendon in major league baseball. He later went on to manage the Pittsburgh Pirates. That’s the way I remember it. Let’s see how well I did. Let’s Google.
Wikipedia: Lloyd Glenn McClendon (born January 11, 1959 in Gary, Indiana, USA) is the Hitting Coach for the Detroit Tigers, serving under Jim Leyland. McClendon is also a former Major League Baseball player and a former manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates In 1971, McClendon played in the Little League World Series for the Gary team, and earned the nickname "Legendary Lloyd" by homering in five consecutive at bats.
And while watching the World Series this weekend, I saw a graphic that the Gary, Indiana game I saw was in 1971, 36 years ago. Oy. What I didn’t realize was the final score was 9-3 in 9 innings. That sort of makes sense, since I remember the game as being close, but also a blowout. I never could explain that. Now I can, thanks to Google. You kids today don’t know how lucky you have it.
Tuesday on the Late Show: Dalton Carriker.
I have a new favorite show. It’s C-SPAN’s “Road to the White House”coverage of the candidates on the campaign trail. It’s not scripted at all. The camera simply follows the candidates around and we watch the town folk make the small talk with the presidential hopefuls. Yesterday’s airing of Republican candidate Ron Paul of Texas at Pete’s Gun and Tackle Shop and then to the Hollis Pharmacy & General Sore in New Hampshire was a hoot! Rep. Ron Paul was hanging out with the locals at the gun shop. Pete the owner was in his glory holding court with candidate Paul. And before that I watched Dennis Kucinich making the rounds in Concord, New Hampshire and in Iowa.
*And now, even more useless information from “The Ultimate Book of Useless Information” by Neil Botham & The Useless Information Society.
- a can of Spam is opened every 4 seconds
- The Pilgrims ate popcorn during the first Thanksgiving dinner
- the herring is the most widely eaten fish in the world
- the first commercially manufactured breakfast cereal was shredded wheat, made by Henry Perky in 1882.
- French Fries were invented in Belgium
And so ends another issue of the Wahoo Gazette, the world’s longest continuous-running blog on the internet . . . . oops, no it isn’t.
CAMEO MENTION OF A WAHOO READER
Great American and good friend to all who knew him, Tod Giles. R.I.P.
This concludes another installment of CAMEO MENTION OF A WAHOO READER.
ACT 1 • Show Open • Dave's Monologue Watch now • Miss Teen USA: What? • Great Moments in Presidential Speeches
ACT 2 • What We'll Miss About Summer
ACT 3 • Top Ten Reasons Alberto Gonzales Resigned Read now
