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Hey gang, the Quizzo Bowl true/false round is up in the online quizzes.

Hottie Bernadette Stanis is best known for playing Thelma in what TV show? (It was pointed out to me that she played Thelma on one episode of the Wayans Brothers. This is obviously not what she is best known for.)

Sometimes life is just so wonderful. Oh yeah, and vote in the new poll. I’m real interested to see what this group thinks.

Dan Rather, by far the most entertaining news anchor on tv (“If a frog had sidepockets, it would carry a gun”) is no longer hosting the news. I really can’t understand why more people weren’t watching CBS News. I mean, Brian Williams? Come on! As dull as toast. OK, so with Rather, you weren’t always sure if he were telling the truth, but that was the whole fun of it. He was like this crazed news anchor who said ridiculous things and threw in a little southern flair and what seemed to me to be genuine emotion. The other guys are just robots. I think guys who walk off the set, get beat up at the DNC, and try heroine are much more fascinating in the long run than people who just show up and do a job in a dry, monotonous tone (hello, Tom Brokaw.) Dan Rather was a lot of things, not all of them good, but he wasn’t plastic, like every dime a dozen news anchor you see today (especially here in Philly). I’d rather take the real human being, warts and all. Dan Rather will be missed. As many of you know, Rather was involved in an almost unbelievable amount of strange mix ups and fights. Here’s a collection. And below I have thrown in a few of my favorite Ratherisms.

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There was an article in today’s Inky about the upcoming smoking ban. And here’s an article in last months New York Times (don’t worry, you don’t need a subscription) about their smoking ban. And finally, a list of businesses hit hard by the smoking ban.