There is something so delightfully trashy about The New York Post. The gratuitous puns, the overt bias, the crazy pictures… Today I was skimming it and ran across the Weird But True section. The following two blurbs had me shaking with laughter during a prep period:
“Don’t ask 13-year-old Simon Grant to feel your pain - he can’t even feel his own. The youngster, from Heddon-on-the-Wall, England, has suffered from severe sensory dysfunction since he was an infant, and can feel no discomfort. ‘[One] time, he broke his jaw and just said, ‘Mummy, can I have soup - my teeth don’t fit,’ said his mother, Jan, 47.”
“Tens and thousands of ‘Nazi’ raccoons are alive and well in Germany - and teams of bounty hunters have been tired to take them out. The nocturnal critters were released into the German countryside in 1934 under the orders of Hermann Goering, who thought they’d ‘enrich’ the local wildlife. Boy, did he get it wrong - this year, the descendants of the originals have wiped out most of the nation’s wine harvest.”
Omigod! You can’t make up stuff this good. Well no one else but Bill Hoffmann, a journalist who probably takes himself too seriously, can.
Have you been told you would be doing the Saturday program? If so, are you not going home to Texas for Christmas? I was told that three of the sessions were right after Christmas on the 27th, 28th,and 29th.