Date Posted:22:02:46 05/23/06 Tue Author: Hillary Subject: Weekend Update In reply to:
Hillary
's message, "The first half" on 21:29:58 05/23/06 Tue
In general…PROOFREAD, people! It’s not Patrick’s job to make sure you can spell and/or articulate. As someone who’s had to perform live (on the radio, though) using scripts with misspellings and missing words, this is kind of a pet peeve. Call me anal retentive, but come on, we’re not in third grade anymore. Type stuff in Microsoft Word, it should help you catch these things.
-The Iranian parliament…
Ouch. Talk about black humor. Dunno what else I have to say about this one.
-This week in Albany…
It was funnier on a second read, but jokes go shot by shot on WU, and I don’t think this would work.
-Zoologists have released…
Eh, okay.
-A London woman…
???
-The Chinese government…
Meh…nope.
-Dick Cheney announced…
Come on! No.
-The FBI released…
Meh.
-President Bush’s approval rating…
? Come on, there was an easy connection here with his father’s all-time low of 29.
-Anderson Cooper
Eh…no.
Tangent: What’s really weird is that both Anderson Cooper and Keith Olbermann seem to have quite the teenage fangirl following. Makes me wonder if one exists for O’Reilly…*shudders*
-Sad news to report…
Why are we talking about Santa Claus in May?
-Britney Spears nearly dropped…
No.
-Hey folks, if you didn’t…
Okay, CSI…and I don’t know the rest. I’m not caught up on Will and Grace, is that one of them? Anyway, dunno about this one.
-Amy? Where did Amy go?
Hey, what are you talking about with Christopher Guest? What about Best In Show and Waiting For Guffman, etc.? Also, I see no purpose to “And scene!”
-In American Idol news…
Meh, okay, if only because it’s offensive. :)
-Mischa Barton’s character…
A little funny, but also a little too absurd, since Amy is a stick.
-This week another coal mine…
Don’t think so.
-This summer on NBC…
Heh. Not terribly clever, but funny nonetheless.
-A former Nazi scientist…
Hmm…don’t think so.
-CNN recently covered…
Don’t really see the connection here…
-Apple opened…
Good try, but didn’t really work.
-Office Gossip
Only one that really worked for me was the Maya Rudolph joke. The Horatio joke is really too mean, for all that I don’t like him.
-Finally tonight…
Not much of a joke here, but hey, it is pretty ironic.
