Where were you when the sewers exploded?

[Doug Harris]

If there's been anything said here in the past couple of days
re the pronunciation of _Appalachian_ by various pubic officials
and broadcasters, I've missed it.
I feel reasonably sure this is not a new topic for discussion;
perhaps that's why it hasn't been, here, in this instance.
dh

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>We do things better in Kentucky.

>In Louisville there was a mayor once who decided to go off to New Orleans with his
>girlfriend without telling anyone.

>Unfortunately, while he was out of town, a flammable chemical got dumped into the
>sewer system and that night exploded.  It was apparently quite an experience---an
>airline pilot over Cincinnati, 150 km away, reported seeing it, and incredibly nobody
>was killed.  But where was the Mayor?  After all, a full-time Mayor (or Governor) is
>like a police officer:  never off duty.

>I understand that Louisvillians were sensible and criticized the Mayor not for having
>an affair but for not telling anyone how to get hold of him.

>This incident inspired two local sayings (I believe both became bumper stickers):
>Where were you when the sewers exploded?
>It's eleven o'clock and do you know where your Mayor is?

>OT: something that hasn't entered the discussion yet about "hiking the Appalachian
>Trail":  South Carolina is one of the states where the Lieutenant Governor takes
>over as Acting Governor whenever the "real" Governor is outside the state.
>Therefore the Governor, by not letting anyone know where he was, was guilty of
>nonfeasance of public office since the State of South Carolina was left in limbo as to
>who was acting as Governor.  Perhaps deliberate malfeasance, since some reports
>have stated that he doesn't get along with his Lieutenant Governor.

>It is possible that "hiking the Appalachian Trail" was a deliberate invention on the
>part of some staffer to claim that the Governor was still in the State and therefore
>still acting as Governor, even though he was incommunicado.

>OT: Headline in today's Atlantic City Press, about Iran:  "Protesters Crushed But Still
>Fighting".  How about that for an oxymoron?

>   - Jim Landau

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