And in other news

[den]

FOX had threatened to sue The Simpsons.

"Fox News's main beef was with the mock "news crawl" featured at the bottom of the screen during the debate, which Fox argued might confuse viewers. The crawl featured the following headlines:

"Do Democrats cause cancer? Find out at Foxnews.com. ... Rupert Murdoch: Terrific Dancer. ... Dow down 5000 points. ... Study: 92 percent of Democrats are gay. ... JFK posthumously joins Republican Party. ... Oil slicks found to keep seals young, supple. ... Dan Quayle: Awesome." "

And in other news...

Apparently the people who came to Australia with President Bush watched most of an episode of CNNNN, thinking it was the local version of CNN and not a satirical humour program.

The CNNNN newsbar for this week can be found here. I wonder if GWB's minders were confused.

Comments

P.T. Barnum

[ursuscal.livejournal.com]

P.T. Barnum once said: "There's a sucker born every minute." Unfortunately, both the victims of the Nigerian scams *and* our beloved (?) President's aides show this to be true...

Re: P.T. Barnum

[makovette.livejournal.com]

I wonder if some of those same presidential aides got that spam and... nahh, couldn't be, ya think???

;-)

CYa!
Mako

Re: P.T. Barnum

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

In this case the President's visit and the Nigerian Scam arrests ARE a coincidence! The NSW Police fraud squad have been working on this case for over four months. It's a good result after a lot of hard yakka by the cops.

Re: P.T. Barnum

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

I'm interpreting "yakka" as "tedious, painstaking work" based on the context. Is that accurate?

Re: P.T. Barnum

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

that's exactly what yakka is.

Re: P.T. Barnum

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

I want an aussie/english dicitonary

Re: P.T. Barnum

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

For translations?