What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness?
Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Sunday, February 02, 2003
Alabama makes it into the Onion!
Alabama Governor Injured Imitating Pro Wrestling
MONTGOMERY, AL—Gov. Bob Riley broke his collarbone Monday while imitating a wrestling move he saw on TNN's WWE RAW. "[Secretary of State] Jim [Bennett] and I were just funning around," Riley said after his discharge from St. Mary's Hospital. "I tried to do The Undertaker's Last Ride powerbomb—not for real, just pretend—and I slipped." Monday's incident marked the state's worst wrestling-related gubernatorial injury since 1991, when then-Gov. Guy Hunt was paralyzed jumping off a friend's roof onto a backyard trampoline.