Halloween costumes can have scary results
Use caution in choosing your Halloween costume this year – it might come back to haunt you. Four years ago, a North Idaho College student named Sue landed in the NIC Sentinel Chokecherries column for winning a Halloween costume contest at a CdA tavern. Her costume? Sue dressed as “Porno Space Defender saving the universe from virgins everywhere.” This, according to Editor Nick Bock, the current Chokecherries writer. Unfortunately, Sue’s now having trouble finding work. When prospective bosses run her name through Yahoo, the old Chokecherry is the second thing that comes up. Seems there’s not much market for a former Porno Space Defender.
Post Falls uncensored
Remember those anonymous kids who published an underground newspaper to air their gripes about Lake City High two years ago? Well, some anonymous Post Falls students are following in their footsteps. Only they’re doing their deed online. And there’s good stuff in Post Falls Uncensored, like funny quotes. Dunno who “Mr. Johnson” is, but he’s quoted in the online rag as saying: “for the daily quizzes that we take occasionally.” And: “I’m a big girl.” Articles include: “Trained Monkey Week, I Mean Homecoming.” PFU was started for those who don’t subscribe to the dominant “Christian, conservative, sports culture.” Relax. I once helped overthrow a college newspaper and look how I turned out.
Best of The Ronfather
First, you should know that ex-Kootenai County commish Ron Rankin was famous for his one-liners. And they were still flowing – even at his wake. Fondly, respectfully, family members recalled some of his best lines at English Funeral Home, including one from his wife of 55 years, Alice. Seems former Supreme Court Justice Linda Copple Trout once cornered Ron at the courthouse and challenged: “Ron, why haven’t you ever said anything nice about me?” Rankin thought she was too liberal. (Then, he thought that about most folks.) In less than a heartbeat, he responded, “Nice legs.”
Huckleberries
“In plenty does the/Good Lord make them,/Because He does not/Have to rake them” – The Bard of Sherman Avenue (“Autumn Leaves”) … Another sign that winter’s on the way: Snow has buried the upper reaches of Going-to-the-Sun Highway and closed the western route of Logan Pass in Glacier National Park. Alas … Overheard: A woman cowering beneath an eave out of the rain at Shopko Friday said to a friend: “At least you don’t have to shovel it” … Bumpersnicker (on a white Dodge RAM with Montana plates in Sandpoint): “I can’t go to work today, the voices say, ‘Stay home and clean the guns’ ” … Scanner traffic: A man called police to complain that a juvenile had thrown an egg at his car. When he got out of the car to confront the brat’s parents, he told the dispatcher, they sicced their dog on him. And it bit him. Like father, like son, like dog.
Parting shot
Wanna win an easy five bucks from a political junkie? Bet him that George W. easily swamped Al Gore in the popular vote in the Northwest. Or so suggests blogger Jim Miller. Weird Al may have won the top prizes – Washington and Oregon. But even insiders forget how badly he was slaughtered in conservative Idaho, by almost 200,000 votes, or 67 percent to 28 percent. Overall, in the Northwest, Dubya dumped Gore by 52,747 votes in the Northwest. And the scene’s likely to repeat itself this year.