Blog Two: And She Laughed and Laughed....

I saw something on television this morning that made me howl with laughter. It was even funnier than the man with the eyepatch on the Today program watching Barry Manilow singing on a ship.

On the local news feed this morning, the small five-minute news and weather update, our local newsgirl had to read an announcement. Now, I like our morning news girl, our local station's finally got it right, a cute girl who can pronounce the words, seems to actually know what she's saying, and has that added feature of a personality. And she sometimes wears glasses.

And so the announcement she had to read was that there was a "boil water" advisory for a local region in the viewing area. And this is what she had to say:

"The Health Department has announced a "boil water" advisory for Hoo Hoo Hollow Road today until 4pm. Repeat, if you live on Hoo Hoo Hollow Road, you're under a "boil water" advisory until 4pm today."

As the announcement was being read, there was a graphic with the news flashing across the screen so that we could not see newsgirl. But when the graphic was taken away and she was back on camera, well, you could see it all in her face.

She was starting to lose it.

She just couldn't contain her grin any longer and it surfaced as she was heading us back to the Today program. And as the picture faded out, she let out a cackle that will go down in the annals of TV history, for me, anyway.

And so I've giggled all day over it. And one day I'll set out in the podmobile to see if I can find Hoo Hoo Hollow Road. And maybe I'll return, and maybe I won't.

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