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October 31, 2006
Egads
I hadn't watched the Daily Show in a few weeks, but when I heard they were spending the whole week broadcasting from Columbus, I made a point to watch. It did not disappoint. The first few minutes were spent making fun of Ohio (and its plethora of Applebee's), but just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, it did.
Samantha Bee was interviewing Ohio Rep. Dan Stewart, and she asked him to say something interesting about Ohio. He had nothing, and then all of a sudden yells "O-H!" and then says some more about "The" Ohio State University.
Now I think one of my main complaints about living in Columbus was that it was Ohio State all day, every day. I could wake up in April and see something in the newspaper about the damn Buckeyes. So I was mildly perturbed to see a political figure unable to say anything nice about Columbus other than it's where the Buckeyes play. I mean, dammit, there are other things to do there besides watch the Buckeyes, talk about the Buckeyes, think about the Buckeyes, or bitch about Michigan. But you wouldn't know it, because everybody from Columbus is incapable of going 30 seconds without wanting to talk about Jim Tressel's sweater.
Anyway, that Applebee's thing was funny. Oh yes.
Posted by oz115 at October 31, 2006 09:40 AM