Readers share their lowest moments
In the wake of Coeur d’Alene High’s Browniegate, Huckleberries asked online blog readers what was the dumbest thing they ever did. Response? “Allowing a senior student (at Sandpoint High) to reference a male body part in his speech endorsing me for Junior Class President” – UI soph Henry Johnston … “I got pregnant at 16 (however, being dumb has given me a son of high moral character with a 4th degree black belt working on his master)” – stebbijo of Bonner County, Idaho … And: “I started a food fight wherein I was the only participant (which is) like a public declaration of being mentally disturbed” – Dan Gookin of CdA. Me? As a senior, I coerced twin freshman brothers into stealing the German Club Christmas tree, gave it to a friend’s grandma, and then ranted in a Gridley (Calif.) High paper editorial about thieves who’d stoop so low. I’ve changed.
Browniegate
Not only did Browniegate make the national media, but it was all over the blogosphere, too. On her national blog, Michelle Malkin reacted this way to the Coeur d’Alene High teen who gave a semen-topped brownie to another student: “Blechhh.” A List of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago sees a lesson for kids in the crime: “Do your own baking.” Frank Villone/Now You Know: “I just have one question: was the 17-year-old perpetrator’s real name Duncan Hines by any chance?” … Meanwhile, The Angry Commentator installed a moving brownie on her site. Scroll down, click on it, and, voila, you get her brownie recipe … Also, you can find a retyped copy of the CPD Blue police report (with names changed to protect the innocent) at Huckleberries Online ( www.spokesmanreview.com/blogs/nhb).
Huckleberries hears …
That Duane Hagadone is still steamed about his failure to win approval for his memorial garden in downtown Coeur d’Alene – and holds Mayor Sandi Bloem responsible. (Translation: He’ll try to thwart the re-election bid of his ex-yachtmate this fall and bring the garden idea back afterward) … That attorney Scott Reed offered a tongue-in-cheek plan to resolve the bickering over Sanders Beach (Translation: Give East Lake Shore owners the beach they claim and then draw the lake down enough so residents can enjoy the sand below that mark) … That Coeur d’Alene Press reporter Tom Green is still looking for his front teeth – literally – after he nobly tried to break up a six-against-one fight on New Year’s Eve (Translation: When will the Press provide enough payola and bennies so hirelings can afford decent dental/health care?)
Huckleberries
The best line of the evening at Lake City High’s brilliant production of “Seussical” Saturday was delivered after the show while tickets were being drawn for 10 various prizes – by a bona fide star. After LCHS actors picked a ticket purchased by one of the Patanos twice in a row, a familiar voice singsonged from the audience, “One Patano, two Patano …” Yeah, it was Oscar winning actress Anna (Patty Duke) Pearce who summed up Blair Bybee’s play that night in a word: “wonderful” … You know you’re getting tired of the Man in Your House, sez Cathy Kooy/Kick Shoe Kooy, when “His grooming habits make you want to shave him with a buzz saw.” And: “You’d like to put a grenade in his mouth to stop the belching.” And “You buy a deadly snake and train it to sleep on his side of the bed” … Bob Salsbury/The Unbearable Bobness of Being provides mottos for Spokane Valley: “3 Potholes for Every Minivan,” “The Big Cantaloupe” and “More Than Garage Sales.”
Parting shot
Developers and real estate agents are ga-ga over that 80-second piece about up-and-coming Coeur d’Alene on ABC’s “View” Thursday – you know, the segment in which the narrator never visited the Lake City and mispronounced its name as “Coeur d’Lone.” Regular Coeur d’Loonians weren’t impressed. One told Huckleberries Online: “Hey, I’m glad she pronounced it wrong. Nobody will be able to find it on the map and will instead decide to move to Las Vegas or Detroit.”