Double Talk Comes From Those Seeing Double

Thu., Sept. 9, 1999

D.F. Oliveria The Spokesman-Rev

Hey, Mr. & Mrs. Do As I Say, it’s hard to keep the kids off the sauce when you’re knocking them back as fast as the barkeeps can pour at UI/Wazzu tailgate parties and alum functions. A Bonner County parent was shocked by the amount of booze the adults guzzled during a recent UI orientation weekend. There were portable watering holes everywhere. Said she: “What kind of message does that send to the kids?” Ah, it tells them to party hardy. And, if they survive their college years, someday they can solemnly warn their kids, with brewski in hand, to stay away from alcohol.

Nervous legal nellies now covet appointment

Not a single wannabe challenged the five District Court judges who ran unopposed in North Idaho last November. Yet, legal beagles are trampling each other now in their bids to succeed retiring Magistrate Paul McCabe.

Twenty-seven have applied. Four from the prosecutor’s office alone. So bold in court, so timid elsewhere … A Hot Potatoes’ mini-review of this fall’s new TVidiot lineup (pick any 5 shows): 1. Garbage, 2. Junk, 3. Tripe, 4. P.U., and, for you piglatin speakers, 5. Rapcay … Hey, Washed-up State U. fans, there’s still room available aboard the Idaho Vandals bandwagon. (Buy now. The going-going-almost-gone seats could double in price by the time the Vandals invade Martin Stadium to extract their pound of flesh from the Couged) … Separated at Birth: Aryan Nations flounder Richard Butler and Jewish Defense League blowhard Irv Rubin?

I’m on the outside looking in, as usual

Gee, Congressman Helen Chenoweth sends out invitations to her 11,000 closest friends for her Oct. 2 merger with sagebrush rebel Wayne Hage. But none to this Potatohead. (P’haps I shouldn’t have called her a hypocrite last fall for jumping on Slick Willie’s serial dalliances). Helen hath no fury like a Chenoweth scorned … Overheard near River Park Square: Noting that a dress in a Nordstrom display cost $90 in 1974, a Gen-Xer said to her PigOut weekend buddy: “Ninety dollars was a lot of money way back then” … That 90-second cheer that went up after student Marian Lynn Ward offered a prayer before Santa Fe High’s football game last Friday was not a hip-hip-hurray for the American (un)Civil Liberties Union … Sweet Potatoes to the Spokane Indians for a division championship and another attendance record. Now, go and come back as a Triple-A ballclub … This edition of Hot Potatoes was brought to you by the Number 200,000 - or the boatload of George Washingtons Boy-C State reaped last weekend for playing David (without the slingshot) to UCLA’s Goliath.

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