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Welcome to the web home of Terry Meiners, WHAS Radio's 9th Best Announcer
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Weekday afternoons from 3 to 7, The Terry Meiners Show parodies the famous, promotes the challenged, rewards the self-starters, and irritates the humorless.  It appears my sons Max (left) and Simon were marginally humorless posing for this media photo in 2005. Their current photos and bios are deeper down this page.   In a strained economy, some people are unable to provide enough food for their children when school is not in session. Help Dare to Care feed families that are struggling. Here's the video for the Hunger Walk, October 19th. Terry Meiners, the bad actor in the middle of the screen, is the Honorary Co-Chair of the run/walk. Please sign up here. FREE NOISE:
 Click Here to hear The Beasman go on a rant about media sensitivity to protect " Brock Pajamas." Click Here to hear our Bill Clinton impersonator remind voters that " The Clintons are black, too!" Click Here for Hillary's grating cackle. Click Here for our theme to the really groovy " Stuff White People Like" Web site
Dancing With the Studs: The Beasman dances with Terry on Jib Jab. Also appearing in the video is dead actor Patrick " Don't you know who I am?" O'Neal.
Mary George, surveying her Lebanista Kingdom from a helicopter on June 1, 2008.  NOSY BY NATURE Please read Terry's e-mail here.
 Click Terry for the cool video of the week, the real lyrics to a Creedence Clearwater classic. Find out what John Fogerty has been singing to you all these years. BONUS VIDEO: Darrell Griffith, aka Dr. Dunkenstein, bowls a strike under the pressure of live TV.  streaming video hereTERRY'S MANTRA: Walk more, eat less. Terry's Classic Clips from 84WHAS
Click Here to hear Bill Clinton explain that "We're black, too." Click Here The ex-wife's boyfriend loves living your life  Joe B after LSU victory: Greatest Week Ever? Frank & Mel extreme library makeover Rick Pitino on U of L's Las Vegas plans Police Squad interrogates Terry Pat Boone "Gay Alert!" updates Trubba Man protects Kragthorpe; loves Angelina Commonwealth Stadium new tourist attraction
Cats beat U of L in football thriller
Trubba Man racist state fair
Singing Carl church ladies John Boel relays complaint about racy TV women Who cares if it's over? 3-year-old Gracie keeps singing Christmas songs. Shirley Q chants "The 12 Days of Kwanzaa" and sings "Have Yourself a Happy Kwanzaa" Foster Brooks "12 Days of Christmas."
Bill Clinton running of the husbands
Patrick O'Neal american movie classics Wardrip Brothers bye bye you guys Clear Channel daycare Listener complaint "turd" Shirley Q endorses Terry's show Rev. Louis Coleman taser rap Rick Bartlett's "Louisville, KY" song Dave Armstrong thanks US Air for UPS' expansion Terry passes out in Blue Angels jet WCYA blown snow coverage Terry's #1 fan MY SON MAX Max is a Western Kentucky University senior and is now the station manager for his college station Revolution 91.7. Max was also chosen as Resident Advisor of the Year at WKU last year. MY SON SIMON
 How in the world did my baby grow taller than his dad? Simon Meiners is a sophomore majoring in Philosophy at the University of Louisville. The glasses and facial hair are new. A prolific writer, Simon frees his hands from the keyboard to work a few hours as a barista at Highland Coffee. MySpace.  Latest Louisville radio ratings here (June 10, 2008).  Click Here The Beasman ain't votin' for no Brock Pajamas black guy Click Here UK's loss to Marquette in the NCAA Tourney opener Click Here Suddenly Joe loves Georgetown Click Here Tricking God so Notre Dame can beat U of L U of L thumps UK in Rupp Arena Grover and Joe seek revenge after U of L beats UK Billy Clyde's practices vs. Adolph Rupp's UK gets a bowl game and U of L stays home 23rd consecutive loss to Tennessee football U of L basketball in Las Vegas Let's pretend UK actually beat South Carolina Can't wait to tease Larry after UK beats U of L Cats beat U of L in football thriller Commonwealth Stadium tourist attraction Cats football: Mission Accomplished  deprogramming his son-in-law golf is gay door-to-door jokes dan issel radio show great balloon race spring football new girl's coach billy g won't get local recruits bringing sexy back uk's whas priority status  Terry's perpetual lecture: LOVE YOUR LIFE. SAVOR EVERY SECOND.
Exercise daily. Give others respect and love. Stay away from drugs and druggy friends. They’ll poison your dreams. ---------
RUN TO LIVE. LIVE TO RUN. TELL THE GRIM REAPER YOU'RE BUSY LIVING.
 THE BEST DAY OF THE YEAR: CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN SUNDAY The generous people of Kentucky and Indiana have collected over $128 million over 55 years for the WHAS Crusade for Children. The money pays for equipment, therapy, and medical care for children with special needs. The Crusade for Children is, per capita, the most astounding community-wide fundraiser in America. [photo: David Lutman, The Courier-Journal, June 8, 2008] Who gave how much? Here's the list. |
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Classic Terry: Links to Ron Clay & Terry Meiners on WLRS & WQMF in the 1980s
Terry Meiners worked for WKQQ-FM in Lexington from 1976-1980. After a brief stint running a convenience mart in Indianapolis, Terry returned to radio at WLRS-FM in Louisville.
After doing fill-in work for the regular cast, Terry was soon paired with an older, streetwise, gently jaded hippie named Ron Clay.
They were an instant smash hit. It only took a few months for the competition to steal them away for $5 more per week and all the Bryan Adams records they could steal.
Terry retells the story in this 2007 interview: LKYRadio.com
Ron & Terry's "Morning Sickness" show on WLRS moved to WQMF-FM in January 1983. After the LRS owners sued for breach of verbal contract, a Jefferson County circuit judge ruled that the pair could change stations but the name of the show and the sketches remained the intellectual property of WLRS.
It was the first and last time the word intellectual was ever associated with either Mr. Clay or Mr. Meiners.
"The Show With No Name" became a monstrous hit for 96-QMF until Terry's departure for WHAS Radio in June 1985.
Pictured above: Ron Clay & Terry Meiners at WLRS-FM in 1982. Sam Grandison was the doorman at the 800 Building where LRS-102 was located. Click the photo for an audio sample of "Morning Sickness" from 1982.
Here are the first 6 of 46 episodes of Beaver Bits that Ron & Terry produced for "The Show With No Name" on WQMF in 1983
(click the speaker to listen)
- Beaver Bit #1
- Beaver Bit #2
- Beaver Bit #3
- Beaver Bit #4
- Beaver Bit #5
- Beaver Bit #6
WQMF was originally called WQHI, using the nickname Hi95. Click the license plate for its history and audio.
Randy Davidson (above left) played the character Buzz Baxter from 1985 through 1996 on the Terry Meiners & Company show. Randy also imitated Joe B. Hall, Bill Clinton, Ronnie O'Bryan, Ralph Hacker, and Frank Hudson "The News Stud." Listen to audio clips here. Davidson's voice is heard today on various commercials.
OLD SCHOOL RECORDINGS: Here is a treasure trove of WHAS Radio facts and audio links, including the 1922 sign-on announcement, 1937 flood coverage, 1974 tornado coverage, plus airchecks of many legendary WHAS air personalities.
Photo: Nick Mills (1986)
Terry Meiners, WHAS Radio's 9th Best Announcer
After working for WLRS and WQMF from 1980 through May of 1985, Terry began hosting the afternoon show on 84WHAS. His first show aired on December 2, 1985, after he completed a six month non-competition sabbatical. Audio: Terry's show clips from March 24, 1986 Video: 84WHAS commercial from the 1990s
On his daily show, Terry interviews newsmakers, sports people, imaginary characters, and virtually any real person who walks in through the WHAS studio door.
Terry has also worked for WHAS-TV since 1985, starting with special events reports from the Kentucky Derby and Thunder Over Louisville. Meiners co-hosted Louisville's version of "PM Magazine" in 1987-88, then moved to WHAS-TV news as a weekly feature reporter. Since 1990, Meiners has provided at least one feature per week on the WHAS11 show "Good Morning Kentuckiana. During the college basketball season, Meiners co-hosts "Courtside With Rick Pitino" every Saturday and contributes halftime interviews during certain game telecasts. Pitino chose Meiners to host the show after taking the head coaching job at the University of Louisville in 2001.
Terry can talk to anyone because he has lived a life filled with constant interaction with others. Meiners hails from a family of fourteen children born to Mel and Norma Meiners, married June 19, 1949. They started making babies the next year and stayed with that hobby for the next twenty years.
THE INCREDIBLE MEINERS FAMILY
Everyone in Louisville knows at least one of Terry's family members. Here's the list with birth dates, spouse names, and the total number of children included so you can determine which Meiners you knew from your school:
Louis Melvin Meiners b. April 10, 1926; d. February 15, 2008
Norma Jean Reasor Meiners b. April 26, 1930; d. December 12, 2005
Louis M Meiners Jr. b. October 4, 1950 (Marie Neiderhelman) +4
Maureen Elaine Williams b. March 27, 1952 (Greg) +4
Denise Marie Russell b. July 3, 1953 +4
Tina Marie Meiners b. February 8, 1956 (Terry McCay) +2
Terry Allen Meiners b. January 22, 1957 +2
Timothy Joseph Meiners b. March 7, 1958 (Cindy Mattingly) +6
Christopher Thomas Meiners b. September 6, 1959 (Barbara Becht) +1
Colleen Marie Milburn b. September 3, 1960 (Danny) +6
Mary Michele Renbarger b. October 9, 1961 (Tony) +4
Gregory Wayne Meiners b. May 29, 1963 (Kim Thatch) +2
Lisa Marie Rohleder b. September 3, 1964 (Nick) +3
Lynn Marie Hesse b. August 7, 1965 (Bill) +6
Michael David Meiners b. March 16, 1967 (Angie Reynolds) +3
Mark Kevin Meiners b. April 26, 1969 (Tracy Kardols) +2
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MEET THE PRODUCER
Ian Vertrees has produced The Terry Meiners Show for the past 5 years. Ian is kind, affable, effective, thorough, and knows how to button up Terry's on-air mistakes.
Gotta love that.
Marji and Ian were married on May 19, 2007.
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WHAS legends:
Randy Atcher and Cactus Tom Brooks
T-Bar-V theme intro and closing song from a (circa) 1990 reunion show.
Randy Atcher: Happy Birthday
Randy Atcher: Savings Post
Randy Atcher: Goodnight
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A Tribute to Terry's Brother From Another Mother: Rev. Louis "Buster" Coleman
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The Holy Man Who Couldn't Spell
"HOOKED ON COLEMAN"
In the mid-1990s, the so-called Reverend Louis Coleman wrote a letter to the founder of Clear Channel Communications demanding that he fire "Terry Miner" and especially "Rush Limbo."
He didn't like the nature of our broadcasts and wanted us removed from 84WHAS. Mister Limbo and I continue to be employed in our same time slots.
In May 2001, I said that golfer Casey Martin's court victory allowing him to use a golf cart angered Coleman because it showed judicial bias in giving the white player a chance to use a vehicle to catch up to Tiger Woods. Coleman sent the fax reprinted below. Note that this time he misspelled my name as "Miener."
Now the celebrated local extortionist has written another poorly structured letter to the owner of WHAS Radio, misspelling both his first and last names!
This time he asks Lowry Mays to remove John Ziegler, whom he refers to as "Mr. john somebody." Coleman also alludes to me as one of WHAS Radio's "trained imitators (certified nut cases)."
Click on the images below and they'll expand to regular size. The lower left image is the fax from two years ago and the lower right image is the recent note. Read all the way through for at least 100 grammatical belly laughs.
 
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E-mail address where I'm likely to hit DELETE on you in a nanosecond
TERRY'S #1 ENGLISH LESSON
---How To Write Goodly---
1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.
4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
5. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat)
6. Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.
7. Be more or less specific.
8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary.
9. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
10. No sentence fragments.
11. Contractions aren't necessary and shouldn't be used.
12. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
13. Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.
14. One should NEVER generalize.
15. Comparisons are as bad as cliches
16. Don't use no double negatives.
17. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
18. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
19. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
20. The passive voice is to be ignored.
21. Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical words however should be enclosed in commas.
22. Never use a big word when a diminutive one would suffice.
23. Kill all exclamation points!!!
24. Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
25. Understatement is always the absolute best way to put forth earthshaking ideas.
26. Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its not needed.
27. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
28. If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times: Resist hyperbole; not one writer in a million can use it correctly.
29. Puns are for children, not groan readers.
30. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
31. Even IF a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
32. Who needs rhetorical questions?
33. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
34. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
Geek created by Norma & Mel Meiners. Portrait created by Dan Bulleit.
Wikipedia is often invaded by acerbic truth-twisters with venomous agendas. After reading inaccurate information written about me by unknown contributors, I wanted to publish my own Wikipedia listing for Terry Meiners. This is the text that should appear at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_meiners.
Terry Meiners is a radio personality appearing on WHAS (AM) in Louisville, Kentucky for the past 22 years. The Terry Meiners Show airs weekday afternoons from 3-7. Meiners is known for his opinions and satire of news, politics, sports, and local issues. His views are considered socially liberal (pro choice, pro gay marriage, pro Hillary) to fiscally conservative (reduce the size of government). His show doesn't rely heavily on monologues and listener calls, but rather comedy bits and guest interviews, interspersed with local news, weather, and traffic reports.
Meiners also has other popular radio skits that lampoon current and former Kentucky governors and members of Congress. Coining the term “Mayor for Life” for his friend Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson in a radio parody, Meiners has been an ardent supporter of the longtime local leader. The radio show also features impersonations of ESPN announcer Dick Vitale; Rev. Jesse Jackson, ABC announcer Keith Jackson, Regis Philbin, Rosie O’Donnell, various pop culture personalities from the day’s news, and a host of imaginary characters.
Several gifted voice impersonators have worked with Meiners over the years, including Jeff Ketterman, Randy Davidson, and Chuck Knipp (Shirley Q Liquor).
Meiners' show is easily the top rated afternoon talk show in the Louisville market, and usually ties or beats WAMZ, a local music station, in ratings.
Meiners has won 19 Best of Louisville Awards as selected by readers of Louisville Magazine. He has won several LEO Readers’ Choice Awards, been picked multiple times as Radio Personality of the Year in Kentucky Monthly Magazine, and has been nominated for the prestigious Marconi Award, broadcasting’s highest honor.
Before his move to WHAS in 1985, Meiners worked with Ron Clay as the co-host of “The Show With No Name,” a morning drive-time program on Louisville rock station WQMF-FM. The two were known in Louisville for edgy humor that wasn't to be found elsewhere at the time. Before that, Clay & Meiners hosted “Morning Sickness” for WLRS-FM from 1981-1983.
An avid exerciser, Meiners airs a daily radio segment to reward a listener who has done any form of exercise that day. Meiners preaches the benefits of exercise and healthy eating habits. His fitness campaign called “Walk more, eat less” encourages listeners to lose a pound every month, “and lose 4 more for the people who won’t exercise.”
Meiners estimates that principle will result in the net loss of a million pounds per month in the Louisville metropolitan area, a standard which should make it the fittest city in America within 5 years.
Meiners is also known throughout the area as a commercial pitchman, advertising numerous local companies, many of which are owned by his siblings.
In addition to the Pitino coach’s show, Meiners has appeared on WHAS-TV since 1985 as a feature reporter, interviewer, live commentator, and magazine show host. For the past 15 years, Meiners has appeared at different locations every Friday morning on Good Morning Kentuckiana, a news show which airs every weekday. Along with television news anchor Melissa Swan, Meiners hosts the WHAS Crusade for Children, the long-running annual local telethon benefiting children's charities.
Meiners has two sons from his first marriage, Maxwell and Simon.
Terry Meiners, Lachlan McLean, & Michael Clark all wear the same outfit to work on 8/22/07
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Terry's Not Completely True Bio
Terry Meiners was released from the Wayward Boys Home in the summer of 1985 and headed for the unemployment line next to the WHAS building in downtown Louisville. After learning that there were no jobs available for guys who can belch the alphabet, Terry moseyed over to WHAS and fell asleep under Wayne Perkey's toupee.
Perkey's massive head heated Terry's brain to a boiling point, so to avoid litigation, WHAS officials hired Terry as a urinal cake changer. Instead of a paycheck, Terry agreed to work for a pass key to the least popular vending machines.
After 21 years, Terry Meiners still changes the cakes daily. Oh yeah, and he also babbles incoherently between three and seven every afternoon on the electric radio.
Unless you're carrying Purell, don't ever shake his hand.
Terry's family life is bizarre. Both of his sons have run off to join cults that study ways to break up other cults. His dog ran off with the installer for Invisible Fence. His cat ran off because Terry kept using him as a replacement slipper.
To pay for his kids' cult fees, Terry works a second job at the fish market called "You've Awakened My Sole."
With everyone gone from the home, Terry now lives alone in a refrigerator box under the viaduct by U of L where tall trucks get stuck. He makes extra money after every trestle snatch by charging $10 to let the air out of the truck tires.
In his latest bit of public service, Terry works at an infirmary where he bathes lepers and then repeatedly gives them a hand.
click Moses for the Greatest Movie Scene EVER!
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VERBATIM e-mail from listeners + Ter's fave links
www.terrymeiners.com
www.thisnews.com
www.walkmoreeatless.com
www.terry2X.com
www.longknock.com
www.flightaware.com
www.gutlessweasel.com
Terry's My Space page:
Other Meiners businesses:
name of company: name of brother:
Meiners Electric Tim "Dutch"
Meiners Medical Chris
Buy Owner Mike
Advocate Tax Lou
VERBATIMListener e-mail printed exactly as received
Dear Terry, I read the letter that the religious kook wrote you. People like that make me sick. You have a fantastic sense of comedic timing & humor. Keep up the good work. A reformed ANYBODY will drive you crazy. (Reformed smoker, hooker, sinner, etc.) They will nag you to death to convert you! DON'T CHANGE A THING!!!!!!  Patrick
Terry, You are goofy but you also are known for your good English usage and grammar. I am 64 yrs old. I was the crazy kid in elementary school that thought diagramming sentences was fun. I hear a lot of media people saying "Sara Listener sent an email message to Joe and I." I was taught that Joe and I is subjective used for the subject of a sentence or phrase. Joe and me is objective and would be used as the object of a verb or preposition. Has this changed in recent years? Am I out of date? Kitty Strube
TM: Me and Lachlan McLean is ate up with good grammar and stuff. You and me is on the same page on that. Where is all the smart people at? Today's show was the most enjoyable show you've done in years. Your easy going conversation with Mike Armstrong (?) reminded me of listening to you and Ron Clay years ago. It was an easy going conversation with two guys trying to make each other laugh and succeeding in making ME laugh. Thanks for brightening my day.
Re: Anthem 5k race
I just wanted to say thank you! My husband just ran the Anthem 5K. I have been trying to motivate him to exercise for a while. Heart disease runs in his family and I worry about his health. He has been doing the marathon training and is going to run the triple crown. He says that you are what motivated him to exercise. He listens to you every day on the way home from work. It sounds like you say the same stuff I say about exercise ,but for some reason he doesn't listen to his wife. Who knew Terry Meiners a motivator! I thank you and my husband's heart thanks you. Sheri Middleton
I tried to stay with you when you streaked by me on Main Street coming home in the Anthem 5K. I too just turned the big 50 (1-2-57). Aging up to 50-54 was still an ego boost (finish of 24 of 269 in the age group; 22:44). But your 21+ run is just super. I'll say "hi" one Saturday at Heine Brothers - you may recognize me as Trevor's dad; Max and Trevor were on the
semi-famous Yankees championship tean in MRA machine pitch. Again, impressive result...
Tim Mann
Vice President
J P Morgan Chase
Read the history of Navy ships named USS LOUISVILLE
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Terry's Roughshod Reality, Rants, and Rumors Blog
Thursday 07-03-2008 4:13pm ET
ON AIR NOW: LACHLAN, JEN KOBER, TERRY, & BRITTANY BERRY NOBEL, INDEED
 
Holocaust hero Irena Sendler was passed over for the Nobel Prize for the fellow you see pictured next to her. Alrighty then. Here's video on Irena's miraculously bold, benevolent work. DEATH BY TEXTING Losing a loved one is hard enough. Losing one because some nimrod was text messaging while driving is incomprehensible. Read here. A ROD + MADONNA = AN STD RESEARCHER'S ULTIMATE LAB PROJECT New York media outlets are abuzz with the apparently close relationship between Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez and pop tart Madonna. Both are married to other people who are, no doubt, re-upping their New York newspaper subscriptions. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMERICA. GET YOURSELF A SANDWICH. OR TWO. OR TWENTY TWO.
GLUTTONY RULES! Competitive eating world champ Joey JAWS Chestnut will defend his title this Friday against Japan's Takeru Kobayashi in the Nathan's Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest. CLOSED CAPTIONING FOR JOE COCKER'S CLASSIC WOODSTOCK CLIP
  YOU JUST KNEW IT WOULD HAPPEN; DR. DIVA MEETS HEF
Dr. Diva visited the Playboy Mansion over the weekend and met Hugh Hefner, who said he was too tired to make a pass at her. A TALE OF TWO FUNDRAISERS....
 WAVE 3 weather stud Kevin Harned (second from left) is surrounded by goddesses at the Cabo Wabo Hangar Party last Saturday night while at the very same time... 
...the Kentuckiana Police & Firefighters Summer Bash featured former "Leave it to Beaver" cast member Frank "Lumpy" Bank, seen here cozying up to Terry Meiners. Photo by Eddie Haskell, or else he would've been rubbing up on Terry's other hip. Good times. Winner: K-Ned FULL SPEED AHEAD: THE NEW LOUISVILLE CARDINALS ARENA GETS THE GREEN LIGHT The forthcoming Louisville Downtown Arena will be funded. Click here for a slideshow. Click Here to hear The Beasman complain about "Loserville's new House of Horrors." PROTOTYPE FOR THAT SUCKY SHOW "CAVEMAN" WHAS-TV reporter Mark Hebert goes undercover to catch thieves who steal the merchandise from the Hair Club For Men lobby.  Click The Falls City bottle to go to an obscure beer Web site. Type your first name onto the first line. Type your last name onto the second line. Click "Visualizer" at the bottom of the graphic. Enjoy the beer ad. HUMPY DUMPY: HEIDI FLEISS IS FLAT ON HER BACK, SO TO SPEAK
 Once celebrated brothel operator Heidi Fleiss is now broke, running a laundromat, living in a house full of parrots, and hoping a little publicity will help her get her groove back. ATTENTION U.S. AMERICANS! I PERSONALLY BELIEVE THAT SHE'S BACK!
 Miss Teen South Carolina, who became famous for her inability to answer a question about maps, is back in the limelight. She joins several other Internet-famous personalities in the new Weezer video "Pork & Beans," which was not filmed in The Iraq. Find it on, like, you know, I personally believe, this, such as, uh, link right here. I personally believe here is the best Miss South Carolina parody video, such as, U.S. Americans, and, like, for the children. THE WALK OF SHAME SONG
 2008 TOTAL: $5,249,094 INCREDIBLE DOLLARS IN A ROUGH ECONOMY
The 55th WHAS Crusade for Children is now complete, and the total surpassed last year's count by about $80,000. In this flat economy, that says a lot about the generosity and benevolence of the people in Kentucky and Indiana. Thank you for raising $5,249,094. The top donors: Pleasure Ridge Park ($266k); The Archdiocese of Louisville ($215k); JCPS ($176k); Highview ($167k); and E.On/LG&E ($163k). [photos: David Lutman, The Courier-Journal]  Crusade co-host Melissa Swan holds a photo of a special needs child born last month to the family of a New Albany firefighter.  The Archdiocese of Louisville churches collected $215,000 for the 55th WHAS Crusade for Children. Pictured left to right, Fr. B.J. Breen (St. Margaret Mary), Terry Meiners, Archbishop Emeritus Thomas Kelly, and Fr. Joe Graffis (St. Edward). New Louisville Archbishop Joseph Kurtz was out of town and unable to attend the Crusade for Children. LIST: Who gave how much to the WHAS Crusade for Children? HILLARY HAVISHAM REFUSES TO LOSE
Click Hillary Rodham Panties-In-A-Wadum to see the classic clip "YOUNG HILLARY CLINTON" N.Y. TIMES: IT'S NOT EASY BEING LESS RICH
 The New York Times talked with hairdressers, art dealers, and jewelry brokers to learn how the super rich are coping with the downturn in the American economy. Keeping up with the Joneses was never so fascinating. VANITY FAIR: ANGELINA'S BATH WATER & BILL'S THIRST TO REMAIN RELEVANT  INK STAINED WENCH: This is sexy? Comeback Id: Writer Todd S. Purdom notes that Bill Clinton is the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral he attends. 
BILLY GILLISPIE GOES RECRUITING Chasing children hoopsters: The Courier-Journal investigates
 WHY I CAN NEVER RUN FOR PRESIDENT
DO THE JOHN McCAIN RAP
 Chris Matthews and his media colleagues shout "Maverick" at John The Cain. Video here. SNARE FROM THE AIR
Note to self: Do not run from the police, especially when they have a helicopter. And a dog...a very fast and aggressive dog.
ANOTHER MAGNIFICENT MINI
With only two miles remaining, Max Meiners was feeling strong at 3rd and Hill.  John George beat his little sister Mary George but the gap is narrowing.  Mary George with her two biggest fans, who waited patiently at 3rd and Hill Streets.  Mary George, Terry Meiners, and Deborah Keesee, Terry's ex-wfie and mother of Max and Simon Meiners.  Max and his girlfriend Laura (right end) greet his former nanny, Susan Sadlo Parr, and her three daughters. 14-year-old Emily Parr (left) ran her first mini. Others Meiners family finishers include Tim Meiners and his 15-year-old daughter Vera; Michelle Meiners Renbarger, and Kelly Kaiser, a Chicago attorney who is Terry's Goddaughter and neice. THIS YEAR'S TREND: BIKINI JEANS If the lady in your life is fretting about getting the right swimsuit, just wait until she sees this year's cool jeans. Let the snarky comments begin...
SNOW HILARIOUS
This dog loves snow more than Santa Claus. Click to watch him play in a massive Colorado snow. "I'VE GOT THAT GOING FOR ME"
 Click the Dalai Lama to take a personality test that will reveal the TRUE YOU. Very cool! TIL DEAF DO US PART
On Valentine's Day, the old guy asked his bride of 54 years, "You never get angry with me. How do you control your anger?" She replied, "I clean the toilet." "How does that help?" he wonders. She smiles and says, "I use your toothbrush."
Political Cartoons
Wednesday 06-11-2008 2:30pm ET
OBAMA FAN: "I GOT TO SMELL HIM, AND IT WAS AWESOME." This New York Times photo shows Obama fans in Rhode Island. The rock star status of the Illinois senator is reaching levels that will surpass the JFK lovefest of 1960. N.Y. Times article here. Meanwhile, the Louisville newspaper continues to excoriate Kentucky voters for giving Hillary Clinton an overwhelming victory, with 20% of voters claiming that race played a factor in their decision. ROSEMARY WATSON, THE BEST HILLARY CLINTON IMPERSONATOR IN THE WORLD
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