This just in!
I love watching comedy hour… also known as the local news.
Last night’s major story: at the Bellin Run (a large annual marathon-type thing, if you couldn’t tell that from the word “Run”), participants were asked to vote on which of the logos from previous Runs they preferred. The overwhelming majority of voters preferred the 1995 logo. The 1996 logo came in second.
Did they SHOW the 1995 or less desirable 1996 logo during this news story?
They did not.
However, they did close with banter in which the seasoned news anchor guy with plastic hair said, “And in five years, they’ll probably vote for this year’s logo… ha. ha. ha.”
This is the same local news that reported last year that there was “rioting in downtown Belgium tonight”. No, I was a little confused by this, as we do have a town near Green Bay called Belgium… population 342. I don’t think there’s a downtown in that town. That town is both uptown, crosstown and downtown. And the only rioting to be done in Belgium, Wisconsin is when Earl’s Tap runs out of Pabst Blue Ribbon. Thus, I can only conclude that they meant that the rioting was in Belgium the country. Which, as far as I know, has no town called Downtown. So I wrote them an email and asked if they realized that Belgium was a country and not a city. After two weeks, they replied that they informed their copywriter of this.
Awhile back, there was a fatal car/train accident in Downtown Green Bay (as opposed to downtown Wisconsin). The reporter closed the story with this pearl, “You never know with accidents like these. You might walk away without a scratch on you… or you could walk away DEAD.”
Um.
You’ve got to wonder if that would cause a limp of some sort. But I’d assume if you walked away dead from one accident, you’d definately get a special parking sticker for your car.
Tonight’s story: three teenagers went paddle-boating in the bay of Green Bay two days ago. Their paddleboat was found yesterday. The Coast Guard was sweeping the Bay, however they are believed dead and the search has been called off after 36 hours. Closing this story, the reporter stated “Obviously, this is a tragic end to these teens’ vacation.”
No. Not obvious at all to us. Thanks for pointing it out. Also, way to pimp the tourism aspect, dude.
But let’s keep it in perspective, shall we? If the world was going to end next week, the lead news story would be “Packer Season Cancelled! Mike Sherman unable be reached for comment. On the bright side of things, for all of you who’ve been waiting forty years for season tickets, thousands of passes became available.”
