"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."

                --Archilochus

Glenn Reynolds:
"Heh."

Barack Obama:
"Impossible to transcend."

Albert A. Gore, Jr.:
"An incontinent brute."

Rev. Jeremiah Wright:
"God damn the Gentleman Farmer."

Friends of GF's Sons:
"Is that really your dad?"

Kickball Girl:
"Keeping 'em alive until 7:45."

Hired Hand:
"I think . . . we forgot the pheasant."




I'm an
Alcoholic Yeti
in the
TTLB Ecosystem



Friday, April 21, 2006

Opportunity Knocks

It is reported from London:
Britain's best-selling newspaper apologises to Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher for a story that claimed she had sex with men in a van outside her home.

The Sun tabloid acknowledged the article, which it ran last August, was "totally incorrect" and apologised to Hatcher "for the embarrassment caused."

In December, Hatcher, 41, accepted undisclosed libel damages from another tabloid, The Daily Sport, which had earlier made the same claims.

The Daily Sport agreed to pay "very substantial damages" and Hatcher's legal costs, print a front-page apology and promised not repeat the allegations.
Story HERE.

But, of course, we must observe that in both instances a great deal of publicity was generated, a great many newspapers were sold, and a great deal of money was made. Very possibly more -- all things considered -- than has been paid in damages.

Thus, G&S feels compelled to disclose that Teri Hatcher romped similarly in the Gentleman Farmer's garage, just behind the roto-tiller, and a bit to the left of the zero-turn mower. Upon leaving, she stole the hood ornament from GF's 1923 Maxwell, a desecration she seemed to find amusing. Really.

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