Well, we made Jay Leno's Headlines segment, in regards to the Chatham Rotary Club auctioning off a Hummer in support of the ecocentre. (You can click the link but last night's headlines aren't up on the site yet.) Kudos to whoever sent in the clipping. Jay opted to make fun of the double play on "hummer" rather than the oddity of using a gas guzzler to support the environment. There must have been mostly Republicans in the audience. You could almost hear 'em say, "Environmental jokes out-- cigars and interns are back in."
Of course, what's really going to get people's goat is that he actually said it was from Chatham, New Brunswick, and not Miramichi. NBC had better expect thousands of nasty emails from dutiful Miramichiers to come flooding in over this!
It's spread beyond Leno too. Here's a few more links to stories on the raffle:
News That Sounds Like a Joke, in News of the Wierd, The Anchorage Press.
Tree Hugging Hummer, in the Providence Journal (free registration. req'd)
"Huh?", in the Akron Beacon Journal (republished from Universal Press Wire Service).
"Unclear on the Concept", the Mercury News.
Chuck Shepherd's Column is also referencing this in the Gainesville Sun, BrocktonMass.com, The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Duluth News Tribune... I could Google this all day.
As far as international coverage goes, it still beats the serial killers and crab riots Miramichi is usually famous for.
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
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