No, no! It was so cool to talk to him and he was a really cool down to earth guy. Talking to him was cool. He was cool. Cool. Cool. Cool!
I forgot to mention our local news joke, Don “Hunker Down” Germaise. If we played drinking games during hurricanes and drank whenever we heard “hunker down” most of us would have died of alcohol poisoning during his reports. Everything he reports on is HUGE! And he has to YELL about it! And he hunches down (hunkers down?) his shoulders and looks in the camera and has to say his last words so meaningfully, sometimes he even POINTS! Because everything he reports on is HUGE! And requires extra EMPHASIS!
Sunny Lane? She’s more than just a stripper.
Or maybe someone was messing with the teleprompter and intentionally misspelled his name. 
Go ahead, steal my thunder. To this day, whenever anyone uses “hunker down” I think of him.
KnitWit, thanks for the info.
Eek. I had forgotten how bad that cut could be.
Well, to be fair, there ARE about three people on the planet who can pull this look off. Unfortunately, none of them live in Iowa. I’m convinced that there’s a conspiracy around here. Every other woman has that do.
News reporter finishing a sad story on a couple of elderly folks who drowned when their rowboat swamped in the middle of a lake: “It appears that Mr. Smith and Ms. Jones were acquaintances.”
Reporter near the White House: “And here comes President Clinton’s helicopter, making that traditional helicopter sound.”
I’m not sure if this was one of the local stations or one of the national broadcasts, but last night in introducing the newly released audiotapes of U.S. Air’s Capt. Sullenberger [sp?] and air traffic controllers pre-Hudson-River-splashdown, some idjit said something about the difficulty of landing the plane “in the middle of the world’s largest city”.
Come again? America’s largest, sure. But there’d have to be some serious Godzilla stomping around Tokyo before NYC’s population could begin to rival that city’s.
Our paper one fine day:
I like to ease into the heat–75 after six months of winter would really suck. But I know what you mean–the Burlington station had three reporters standing by to fill us in on the deep freeze. Um, yeah, it’s cold but then again, it’s December in northern VT.