GrayPumpkin wrote me a brief missive yesterday about an annoyance with TV newscasters:

I hate when news people talk to the weatherman like he has some power over the weather. “So when are going to bring us but better weather Bob?” or some such crap. That joke wasn’t funny the first time I heard it, and it hasn’t gotten any better.

I totally agree with the gourd…I would love to one day see a weatherman leap up, and in a brimstone-laced evangelical tone scream:

“COUNT THYSELF LUCKY THAT I DON’T SMITE YOUR FOUL TONGUE OUT WITH A BARRAGE OF THUNDER AND HAIL THAT WOULD GRIND YOUR PUNY BONES BACK INTO THE STONE AGES WHERE THAT FEEBLE ATTEMPT AT HUMOR WAS FIRST SPARKED! SILENCE, YOU BADLY-COIFFED TOADY TO THE NETWORKS…. OR A RAIN OF FIRE AND BLOOD WILL SURROUND ALL IN THIS FAIR CITY FOR YOUR HUBRIS!!!”

*MWAHHAHAAHAAAH*

*electrical effects*

*static*

But, that’s just me.