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For May 7, 2003 "He knew how to treat a female-impersonator." - Vol. III No. VIII published every other Wednesday |
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Bear-O-Meter Provides Early Warning System For Tide Trustees
Using sensitive all-weather seismographic equipment at the gravesite, Board of Trustee agents can establish baselines for Bear-rolling during each different season (recruiting season, spring workouts, pro-am season, fall practice, regular season and bowl season) and then establish a system of alerts (Vandy yellow for 'All's Clear', LSU Purple for 'Potential Trouble', Florida Blue for 'Dangerous Rip-Tide' and Tennessee Orange for 'We're F***ed'.) that will let the Board know, in advance, what heinous goings on might besmirch the office of head football coach. "This isn't the first time we've used the equipment, but the board has never approved implementing it as a full-time warning system. The Price incident has apparently changed their minds," said Athletic Director Mal Moore. "Fact is, ever since we launched the search to replace Bill Curry, I've been out there [at Elmwood] on Sunday afternoons reading off the names of candidates and trying to get a read on who Bear was comfortable with. I'd trade sips of whisky as I went through the list, drinking one and pouring the other one into the ground. I'd swear after a while you could feel something. When I came back I brought a stethoscope, too, but I still couldn't get a firm idea. It was only after we fired Dubose that I got all this geological equipment and had it fine-tuned for grave-stirring that we started to get good information. I maintain to this day that the Bear hand-picked Dennis [Franchione] to lead the Tide...which makes it all the more bitter what the Aggies did to us." Moore paused to empty the bottle on his desk and then looked up. "Thank the good Lord we've got a direct line to Bryant now. We can put our troubles behind us and look forward to a great future for the program he worked so gol-danged hard to establish." Pre-Dawn Rumble Was Meth Lab Explosion
The underground wave shook people out of their beds as far away as Wetumpka, and LaGrange, Georgia. "Normally a meth lab explosion will register a 3.0 to 3.4 on the Richter scale," said Claypool. "But this one, with an epicenter about 10 miles Northwest of Fort Payne in the piney woods outside Mentone, and about 200 feet below the surrounding grade, sent readings up to 4.9 at some stations." This would tie the existing state record for meth lab explosions set in Decatur in 1991. Regulars at the Waffle House off Exit 209 outside Mentone were still shaken up on Tuesday morning. "My dog, Elvis, felt it coming first. He came and woke me up and I didn't know if it was the Martians or if Jesus was coming back in glory," recalled machine-operater Duane Culbertson. "I heard the rumblin' and felt the shakin' so I stumbled outside - got a cramp right here in my thigh I was movin' so fast - and saw that the chicken shed was all a-bustle. I dared not open the door, I know all them hens gone and laid scrambled eggs." Culbertson slapped his cramped thigh laughing at his joke and immediately winced and sat back at his counter-stool. County Sheriff Mason Grainger said that the former meth-lab, housed in an Airstream travel trailer, was apparently being leased by an unmarried couple at the time of the incident. He speculated that they probably triggered the sinkhole during a particularly rowdy lovemaking session. "And the soil was probably weakened by mutant nightcrawlers created by the spilled chemicals," continued Sheriff Grainger, "we've seen this sort of thing happen before. Serves them right, I say." Investigators say that not much is left of the meth-lab to examine. "We're not quite sure what happened to the lab after it exploded," said DEA agent Russ Bravin. Jason Hervey To Stay In Birmingham
As a spokesman for Healthsouth, Mr. Hervey could not have been better. He never used his fame as a child actor on ABC's "The Wonder Years" to gain favor with Birmingham citizens. Most people seemed to like Hervey just because he was so different from Mr. Scrushy. Hervey was clearly unqualified to be an executive with any other company, but he did a good job for Healthsouth. "I got laughed at by an executive in Hollywood when I suggested a show based on my life," said Hervey. "But Richard basically let me do just that. When I wanted to hide things in the digital hospital for patients to find, he thought it was a brilliant idea. He said we could track the stuff with the building's radio frequency id system." Hervey expects that his experience will help him out as he seeks another position with a major Birmingham corporation. "I think a company like Buffalo Rock could use me. Just the other day I drank some of their Ginger Ale too fast and it came out my nose."
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