Today’s question on Ask Yahoo! is “If Hillary Clinton is elected president, what would we call Bill Clinton?” (correct punctuation added by yours truly).
My favorite part of the response (oh, for the record: “Mr. President,” since it’s a lifelong title) is the hypothetical “if Britney Spears were elected to the office (God help us), we’d all address Kevin Federline as “First Gentleman.”
Oh, please. If Britney were elected president, we’d all refer to K-Fed as “that stupid jackass married to the President.” Which, to be fair, is probably also what we’d call Bill if Hillary got the top job…
In other stupid celebrity news:
I read on Towleroad this morning (it’s like CNN, only with more camp) that Paramount is dumping Tom Cruise. I do enjoy these little diversions from serious business. Am I really supposed to feel sorry for an actor who made more money last year than I will over the cumulative total of my entire life? Sorry, not gonna do it.
It’s almost enough to make me worry about the outcome of the IAU’s deliberations over Pluto, which, according to yesterday’s New York Times are not going in favor of the 9th planet. Let’s all get out there and lobby our congressmen: if they don’t vote Pluto in, we are so going to boycott the Czech Republic (the IAU is meeting in Prague). Why, we’ll … we’ll … we’ll demand that people start calling them “freedom books” instead of “check books.” Yeah, that’s it… (OK, you tell me – what the hell could we possibly do to the Czech Republic?)
We’re number 1!
According to people who track these things (why?), the University of Texas at Austin is the number one party school in the country. I know it’s going to shock the hell out of you, but this little tidbit has failed to make the UT home page.
Our public affairs Person offered the lame excuse that this must have been due to the fact that there was a lot of partying that went on after UT won the Rose Bowl last year. In all honesty, I’m a bit surprised that we took the title over schools like, say, UC Santa Barbara and the University of Miami. Given that last year’s winner was the University of Wisconsin Madison, I gotta wonder what criteria they’re using, anyway.
However, an article in the Austin American-Statesman (online) is reporting that UT’s ranking (sports-wise, hopefully) has contributed to the high cost of tickets to the upcoming game with Ohio State. Some online outlets are asking $2,200 a ticket. They’re not cutting those of us who work for the University any slack, either. My parents have been asking me to get them tickets to the game for months – sorry, folks … doesn’t look like it’s going to happen.
And that’s the Stupid News Roundup for the day. Tomorrow: a recap of tonight’s Project Runway. Will Vincent finally get his? Please?
