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Filling the void Dan in Your PocketBy Rick Horowitz
What to do? What to do? Dan Rather is de-anchoring and it's the end of something glorious. And strange. And gloriously strange. And strangely glorious. You could say it's been as glorious as a Tiffany tiara on an eight-foot-tall debutante. You could say it's been as strange as Halloween dinner with the Addams Family's interior decorator. Actually, you couldn't say these things -- but Dan Rather could. In fact, they're pretty mild stuff compared to the picturesque (not to mention bizarre) wordplay Gunga Dan has been tossing into our living rooms over the years -- as mild, you might say, as Miss Mabel's sun tea on the front porch after the gully washer. You get the idea. But starting in March, you'll have to get the idea. You won't have Dan to do it for you; you'll have to be weirdly wordy all on your own! Relax: I'm here to get you started, to smooth the transition. Just mix-and-match to your heart's content, and before you know it, you'll be Ratherizing with the best of them. And we'll keep it as simple as "one from Column A and one from Column B" -- plus "one from Column C," of course. After all, it's Dan Rather -- nothing is ever that simple.
Column
A: As
big as... Column B: the
Jolly Green Giant... Column C: tap-dancing
at the American Legion convention. Posted 11/27/04.
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Rick Horowitz
