When asked why he fled when police attempted to pull him over, West Memphian Fate Patterson answered, Because I was naked. Of course, that s not entirely true. When Patterson was extracted from his vehicle he was wearing a jacket.
Okay, I ll be the first to admit. Sometimes we do some silly things here at the Flyer. Heckfire, the pesky Fly is certainly responsible for more than his fair share of the silliness. But when the CA, our mighty daily up and does something just plain odd (on purpose anyway) it s a little bit disconcerting. This past Sunday, not one, but two regular columnists burned a fair amount of column space by quoting familiar TV theme songs. Religion columnist David Walters, showed great restraint by quoting only the first verse of the Beverly Hillbillies theme, while Captain Comics quoted the theme to Wonder Woman in it s entirety.
But who can blame them? They re just good old boys, wouldn t change if they could, fightin the system like two modern day Robin Hoods.
Brim’s snack foods seems to really understand the snack needs of various ethnic groups. Their press release announcing new products aimed at Memphis burgeoning Latino population noted, Historically, pork rinds have been a favorite among the Latino community. It is not known whether or not Brims will develop a line fried chicken or watermelon based products aimed Memphis burgeoning African-American community.
A lovely letter from Bahama Breeze, the tropical-themed restaurant located in
the Destin-esque stretch of Germantown Parkway between Joe s Crab Shack and
that place with the cool go-cart races, reminded Fly on the Wall that
Thursday, February 22nd, is National Margarita Day.
These two questions came to mind: Does Hallmark make cards for this occasion?
and Does anyone have Jose Cuervo s home address?
Stan Franklin, a U of M professor and author of the book Artificial
Minds, is skeptical about recent research showing that a group of
computers created their own language and learned to hunt [computerized prey]
in packs. Franklin was quoted as saying, This kind of work was done in the
lab, in a controlled environment. He did not point out that films like
Blade Runner, Terminator, and Terminator II have taught us not
to teach computers to hunt in packs.
Brim’s snack foods, targeting the growing Latino population in Memphis and the Mid-South, will be offering a line of tried-and-true snack products with snappy Spanish logos. Products include pork rinds (Chicharrones) and cheese puffs (Dedi Queso). In its press release Brim’s noted that the Latino population in Memphis and the south is said to be high and getting higher. That is, of course, why they need the cheese puffs.
Due to its 50-percent ownership of the Mexican trucking company TranssMex,
Memphis-based M.S. Carriers should fare well if the U.S. ban against the use
of Mexican trucking companies is finally lifted. Citing safety issues, former
President Clinton imposed the ban which, in a recent ruling, was found to
violate NAFTA regulations. President Bush, on the other hand, has long been an
advocate of free cross-border trucking. This, of course, could not possibly
have anything to do with President Dubya s alleged cocaine habit.
The Campus School at the U of M is experimenting with same-sex classrooms for
5th-graders in order to determine whether or not such such an arrangement is
conducive to learning. Drawing conclusions from a number of essays on utopian
same-sex communities, Fly on the Wall would like to predict the results of
the Campus School s experiment. We believe that in all-male classrooms
students will have thousands of brief and meaningless encounters with
learning, while in all-female classrooms students will engage in long-term but
ultimately self-destructive relationships with only a handful of courses.
Dale Evans, wife of western superstar Roy Rogers and queen of the singing
cowgirls, who got her start in showbiz singing on the radio in Memphis, is
dead at 88. Unlike Rogers other life-long companion, his horse Trigger, Dale
will not be stuffed and mounted in the Roy Rogers Museum.
The Jonesboro Sun, known for breaking exciting news items like, no
more chicken fingers in school cafeterias, has scooped the Flyer
again. On Monday, February 12th the Sun ran a story with the headline,
Swedish Visitor Photographs Jonesboro Nuns.
Man, those Swedeners are some kind of crazy.