"Travelin' shotgun"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Today's _N.Y. Post_ features a front-page photo of Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spiers, and Paris Hilton smiling together in the back seat of a limousine. Those given to suspicion that the picture does not really illustrate the day's most significant news story should think again: the headline clearly states "BIMBO SUMMIT !"  And if that's not big news, I don't know what is.

  All this by way of context. Commenting on the photo, Fox's Steve Doocy exclaimed in his folksy way, "And they're travelin'  shotgun !"

  What's that mean ?  "Riding together,"  evidently. (I understand "riding shotgun"- sitting in the front passenger sea t- but it's nothing to get excited about.)

  A rapid Google search reveals [www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/archive/index.php/t-51280.html]:

            I was coming but Laz (won't lend me) the Supe (heehee) I was going to travel shotgun with Soo but think she may have other plans."

  JL



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