Some moms go wild over UI weekend

‘Girls Gone Wild” has nothing on some mothers who have gained infamy at the U-of-Idaho’s Mom’s Weekend. Such is the problem that the UI Argonaut advised Dear Old Mom Friday not to be “that mom” over the weekend. And what has “that mom” done in the past? Well, sez Argonaut Editor Abbey Lostrom, one has stripped at a party. Another got personal “with her son’s roommate on a pool table.” A third slept with her son’s best friend. Rumor has it that Moscow stores sell beaucoup beer and condoms on Mom’s Weekend. Scolded Lostrom: “…there is a difference between the cool mom who can beat everyone at (games) and the embarrassing mom who has to be carried home.” In other words, no “coo coo ca-choo, Mrs. Robinson.”

Blabbermouth

Why can’t Barbara Corcoran put a sock in it? When we last visited the New York real estate exec a month ago, she was on ABC’s “The View,” talking up Coeur d’Alene as the hottest U.S. “up and coming neighborhood.” Last Tuesday, she blabbed about us on FOX News Channel’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto.” Quote: “It’s like the sweetheart of the Northwest right now. The average house is $190,000 and what that $190,000 gets you is a great place. They have skiing in the winter and great swimming in the summer. And that area is going up through the roof. It’s a great area for young families … a good bargain and a beautiful place.” There goes the up-and-coming neighborhood.

We’re No. 6

According to GQ, WSU football fans rank No. 6 nationally. But Coug boosters shouldn’t boast. The mag was ranking the worst fans in the nation. Toss a few water bottles at the end of a poorly officiated 2002 Apple Cup overtime, and they’ll never let you forget it … “I talked with my mom about it over Mom’s Weekend,” WSU frosh Kensi Hamilton told The Daily Evergreen. “I told her I was thinking about it and she was supportive.” “It” is posing nude for a chance to be ogled in Playboy’s “Girls of the PAC-10” edition … Izzit me, or were those geese pictured in the Bonner County Daily Bee on Tuesday domestic rather than “Canada geese”? No black heads. No black necks. No Canada geese.

Poet’s Corner

“We need more cash/so do not fail/to send us yours/or go to jail” – The Bard of Sherman Avenue (“Tax Day”) … “Liberals and conservatives can’t get along!/Whether muffins or donuts, their song,/They food fight and cat fight/And chew on their hate spite./Can’t we force a truce with a Ding Dong?” – George Thomas (“EWU Republican Bake Sale”) … “A bird in hand is worth two in the bush, the possible exception being if you find yourself holding an angry red-tailed hawk and it’s about to claw or peck your eyes out then I’d suggest tossing it back in the bush” – Bob Salsbury/Random Shallow Thoughts.

Huckleberries

You know the review of your Bonsai Bistro isn’t going to be great when blogger Making Flippy Floppy applauds the absence of smell from the building’s previous incarnation as Dakotah Direct … We’re not surprised that Break Down the System, the Lake City High underground ezine, is unhappy about a biz group’s opposition to a proposed school district levy. After all, the Break Downers hate everything: United Nations, Pledge of Allegiance, the Bible, finals week, Fight for the Fish, vegans, etc. … Sure Sign of Spring: Kootenai County commish Gus Johnson is wearing shorts to work again.

Parting Shot

A funny thing happened to the Hauser Times when it arrived at the CdA office: It got trash-canned. Seems the post office tossed the newsletter because it doesn’t have a “Route 1.” Said angry Editor Frum Helen Back: “Maybe they looked and saw the ZIP code was 83854 and couldn’t find the ZIP code book to see they should send them to Post Falls.” The post office won’t pay for a reprinting, but it has agreed not to charge postage. No wonder many eschew snail mail.