"--and Slim just left town"

[James A. Landau]

In a message dated 11/04/2001 12:24:51 AM Eastern Standard Time,
Bapopik at AOL.COM writes:

>  "Dan Rather" did all the ridiculous metaphors that we chronicled here
after
> election night 2000.
>     "Walter Cronkite had gonorrhea!"  "Rather" reported.

I have been told that the name "Cronkite" startles German speakers because in
German "cronkeit" (guess at the spelling) means "illness".